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Lanka before he could rescue Sita. Had Ram not done the effort, Sita would never have been rescued from the clutches of Ravana.
There is oil in the sesame. However, that oil can be extracted only with the effort of crushing the sesame. A frail creeper climbs along a tree trunk and grows big. That is also through purushartha.
Even practical life highlighting the importance of purushartha says, 'Little drops of water make a mighty ocean' and 'Little pebbles together raise a mighty wall'. Without purushartha once cannot earn wealth, knowledge, happiness, fame or success. Therefore, purushartha is essential for everything that you do.
When all these five causative elements get together, a work is done. Something does not happen because of any one element. Of course, it is possible that of the five, one element becomes important and the other less so, but there never can be an absence of other elements altogether.
Upadhyaya Sri Vinay-vijayji has said -
ए पांचे समुदाय मळ्या विण, कोई न सीझे काज .
For example, cloth can be made from cotton yarn. That is its 'original disposition'. Only when the time is ripe for the yarn to be converted into cloth, does the weaving take place. There may be several reels of yarn in the warehouse. Of those, only the ones whose 'time' has ripened get to come out and are processed into cloth. Further, the cloth gets completed only if the thread has it in its 'destiny'. Otherwise, for some reason it remains incomplete. The machine might develop a snag. If some reels of yarn do not have it in their destiny, they will never get processed into cloth. The weaver needs to perform a 'tremendous effort'. If, in spite of all inputs being ready, there is no effort, then the cloth is not woven. Further, after the cloth is ready there has to be the 'karma' of the person who will enjoy it. If karma is missing,
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