Prarabdha karma

The grahastha who doesn't think I am a grahastha is a better sannyasi than the sannyasi who thinks I am a sannyasi.

So what needs to be renounced is not the outward life, it is the identification with whatever role we play in this world, in accordance with Prarabdha, we shouldn't identify with that.

So whether we're sannyasi or we are even the great sages like Janaka who were kings, Krishna himself was a king, Rama was a king, so it's not these outward things that have a bondage, it's the identification, thinking, I am a king, I am a beggar, thinking I am this or that, that is the problem.

But before Bhagavan fell into that trap of identifying himself as I am this or I am that, Arunachala pulled him to itself, fixed him permanently in his state.

Can we choose who our parents will be? We can't.

For us, Prarabdha has brought this about.

It's not a voluntarily chosen body.

Whereas in the case of Bhagavan, Bhagavan chooses to assume the required type of body so that when adharma flourishes or when the adharma increases and dharma declines.

When he says, Bhagavan says he attains me, it means he has understood me and him to be one.

So Jeevan Mukti is once attaining this Jnana.

So this person has complete contentment and until his Prarabdha lasts, he will have this Jeevan Mukti.

And then when the time of death happens, Videha Mukti, what happens is Prarabdha Karma gets over.

But something happens.

For that seeker, the Prarabdha takes over.

He or she dies.

What will happen to them? It's a beautiful question because this is again very important question.

It is called in spiritual literature as Utkat Karma.

So while the Prarabdha and the Sanchit can be managed, Utkat is only the divine grace can do it.

There is a whole conversation of the mother on this.

She says it is, she doesn't use the word utkat.

But in the Shastra,

it is saying that when the Prarabdha Karma or the purpose with

which this body has come into existence for executing certain activities, both as enjoyment, suffering

and contribution.

All that is

what is included in the Prarabdha Karma.

And the prarabdha karma as the terminology itself is suggesting, aarabdha means what has been begun.

To

Y-

But isn't ego also limiting us in thinking, worrying about our prarabdha karma and all of that? The law of karma is wonderful to, to have as a, you know, this, this system of punishment and reward, et cetera.

To, for us maybe-

It, it is not-

That doesn't mean that we don't have the freedom to want otherwise and to try otherwise.

But we have no f- freedom to achieve anything otherwise because what is destined to happen will happen.

So, um, prarabdha, the destiny, what has been allotted by God, determines what we are to experience.

Our freedom of will and freedom of action determines what we want to experience and what we try to experience.

Then it will...

This is prarabdha karma.

We will dis- discuss all these things after.

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