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Beyond Doubt
Acharya Padmasagarsuri
Like the Sethji we want all these free of cost but we have to bear in mind that without working hard and putting some effort none, can achieve anything be it material or spiritual. Punya is earned only by good deeds and evil deeds lead to the accumulation demands-viz. of Papa or sin. When 'Punya' and 'Papa' bear fruit we are subjected to favourable and unfavourable situations in life respectively. Happiness and misery also are the resultant of previous deeds. Auspicious and unauspicious planets have nothing to do with our lives:
“कर्मणो हि प्रधानत्वम्, किं कुर्वन्ति शुभा ग्रहाः वसिष्ठदत्तलग्नोऽपि, रामः प्रव्रजितो वने ॥”
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Only Karma is the ruling factor of our life. However auspicious the stars may be they cannot change our fate. Vasishta Rishi had fixed the most auspicious time for the coronation of Sri Rama, but Sri Rama owing to his previous Karmas had to retire to the forest for fourteen years. Even Sri Rama had to experience the fruit of his Karmas, what to then say of ordinary people, Adi Sankara Charya too believed in the Karma theory and said:
“स्वयं कर्मकरोत्यात्मा, स्वयं तत्फलमश्रु
स्वयं भ्रमति संसारे, स्वयं तस्माद्विमुच्यते ।।”
i.e. The soul binds itself with Karma and it is the soul itself which enjoys the fruit of it. The soul is the one which ensnares itself to the world and is caught in the meshes of births and deaths and and it is the every soul which liberates itself ultimately from the world.
Four children of same parents possess different behaviours and thoughts and their conduct too are different. The cause for all these differences is the different deeds they performed in their previous births. There is no concord between what man thinks and what he does. Every individual desires to be completely independent and the
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| SR No. | 525310 |
| Book Title | Shrutsagar 2016 05 Volume 02 12 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hiren K Doshi |
| Publisher | Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba |
| Publication Year | 2016 |
| Total Pages | 36 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Shrutsagar, & India |
| File Size | 4 MB |