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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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shackles are smashed out. If you want a million of rupees and when you actually get them you need not work as you desire them no more. A pot being filled up, no further efforts are essential when the same pot is full of water. You have to make no more efforts. The surplus water would over flow. Thus devote yourself to religious practices till Karmas are smashed out.
Perhaps we may not succeed in smashing them out fully in this life, still we can loosen their shackles at least. Such Karmas with loose-shackles bear lesser intensity of bitterness of rewards, but the strong ones do bear very bitter rewards. A tree with roots cut off cannot survive long. Karmas with shackles loosened also do not exist any longer.
A man if does not perceive a pit in his front, would certainly fall in it without any vigilance observed. In the same way, if we do not become vigilent despite perceiving "Karmas” we are bound to enjoy the bitter rewards therefrom.
Some say, "we ardently desire to practise religious rites and we cannot do so owing to many obstructions." But strong will can certainly make one practise them.
