Dear Devotees,
Nivrutta Ravi wants to understand the operation of
the Law of Karma and God's role in it.
Across centuries, philosophers have
discussed this question thread-bare and reached no conclusion that is
acceptable to all in the manner of a scientific statement proved by repeatable
experiments. Those who have the bhagyam of implicit trust in the existence of a
compassionate and just God lead their lives accepting all happenings,
bitter or sweet, with equanimity. Bhagavad Gita calls them
stitha-prgnyas. Those who need explanations/justifications get confused
reviewing hundreds of theories in favour or against the fundamental belief about
the existence of a God who is compassionate, omnipotent and omnipresent.
As I grow old, I have slowly realised the futility
of this search due to the incapability and undependability of my limited
intellect to resolve the issue. Ultimately, I tend to agree with
the statement of British author CEM Joad who analysed the dilemma in more than
100 pages and stated, after reaching a dead-end:
".... the
conclusions of the intellect deny that the orthodox God of the religious
hypothesis - omnipotent and benevolent, could have been the creator of the
world; and deny it precisely
because of the fact of evil. But if
the intellect denies what the heart demands, what then? ...perhaps the deadlock is a
sign of, perhaps it is even a punishment for, intellectual arrogance..."
Call it
blind-faith, call it the wisdom of Ages, I would now like to choose to place
trust in the dictates of the heart rather than my over-valued intelligence and
trust in God without question like the infant child in its
mother. But then, one has to go through life's rough journey and experience
its failures to reach this simple conclusion without further questioning. I
truly envy the child that has learned instinctively to trust, the moment it is
born.
We have to
empty this cup of our mind stuffed with the miscellaneous knowledge that has
been collected, so that we can receive certain simple truths about our
relationship with the One who gave us life and placed us in this world. Lao Tsu
called this the 'Law of the reversed effort' and said:
"To know the Truth, one must get rid of knowledge" Ramana Maharishi: (Upadesa Saram -27) gnyaana varjitaa agnyaana-heena chit Alan Watts, a great scholar and believer in Eastern philosophy has said: "What religion calls the vision of God is found in giving
up By the same law of reversed effort, Paradoxical as it may seem, krishnaswamy
m k
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 05:04:15 -0700
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From: Nivrutta Ravi <nivrutta_r@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Is Your Karma Good or Bad Respected elders, I came acros this article forwarded by a friend. I hope you enjoy this article. I have included my query at the end of this article. Hope you clarify my naive question . Is Your karma Good or Bad Yahoo! Groups Links
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