Jain Society Greater Atlanta 2008 11 Pratistha

Author(s): Jain Center of Greater Atlanta
Publisher: USA Jain Center Greater Atlanta

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role this nama karma plays, brings some into lime light and Here usually people come to a conclusion, "Though our the rest stays in dark. Many inventions in this world stays effort doesn't count in our life majorly our fortune (good stacked up in the files, as no one could really understand the karma) govern us, but ultimately the karmas are the end depth of the research. Few in this world are credited for their products of our efforts. Hence the fortune and effort is all hard work. Here the game is played by the Good Nama karma. one." They are usually messed up as one but are two. Here Good name and fame is the first criteria of Good fortune. we dwell a misconception. To get rid of this error, lets ana
lyze effort. 2. Gotra Karma - Gotra karma brings in good status. One has a princely or royal birth. There is usual human notion The purushartha is related with our Antaraya karma. Antathat fortunate are those who are born in the royal family. raya karma is the karma concerned with energy. The more This fortune is because of Gotra karma. The royal birth is our antaraya karma is depleted, so intense shall be our a great privilege, and brings him dignity. He does not work diligence and hard work. The effort demands energy, and for it literally. He has it. This family or community is the energy flows with the depleting of the antaraya karma. The second criteria of Good fortune.
antaraya karma is like the waste product stuck up in a pipe
hampering the flow of the content in the pipe. It obstructs 3. The third karma is Vedaniya karma - this good the energy like the cloud obstructs the energy from the vedaniya brings in pleasurable feeling. The word happiness sun. As the clouds are discarded away or are made thinner, is totally defined based on the physical pleasures. You are the sun energy reaches more profoundly. born in US with all the facilities of AC, comfort, Robot to cook and clean and more. All comfort and luxury is This is also seen in our lives, man may be less fortunate credited to the Auspicious Vedaniya karma. One has a but hard work brings in success for him, on the contrary healthy body, this is again a gift of Vedaniya karma. Well a man with good fortune does not go farther in life for this is the third criteria of good fortune too.
the lack of hard work. Many great men started from the
scratch and became president or scientist or millionaire. 4. The fourth criteria of Good fortune is longevity of age. They were not born with a silver spoon. The invention of The age rendering karma is one who decides your age. All light was after 999 failures. The effort one keeps doing want to live, no one wants to die. One aspires for a long opened the doors of success. The karma working behind age. This is bestowed by the Age rendering karma. The this is Antaraya karma. The less intense it is, the more hard God of death asked a newly dead millionaire, What would working the person shall be. You ask for, if a wish is granted to You? He said, "My wish would be, I could breathe for a longer time.' Craving Thus the fortune and self exertion are two different games for life stayed with the Millionaire even after death. Well with two different regulation and controllers. One is conthough name, money, and health are of prime concern, age trolled by the good Aghati karma while the other is promiis no less desired for.
nently governed by the Antaraya karma. The first is a game
of rendering physical and abstract achievements. While the The Good name, Good family status, Good health and comfort other opens the doors of self exertion and hard work. It acand finally a long age, these are the basic four fortunes for us. centuates "work is worship". The prior is a fruit of past while All these are related with our four Aghati karma.
the later is the fruit of present in the present or future.
Fortune
Self Effort
Fruition of Aghati - Auspicious Karma
Depletion of Antaraya Karma. It is one of the Ghati Karma
A State of Fruition
A state of Kshayopasham or Kshaya (partial depletion or
complete deleted state) of Antaraya Karma
Renders physical and abstract results (name, fame, status, health, pleasure and longevity)
Opens Doors to Self Effort, Diligence
One enjoys the result of past good karmas
Accumulates good or bad karmas (good or bad fortune)
based on the action being good or bad