Query:
According to sacred Bhagavad Gita and Bhagwat Purana all our deeds and actions
and even thoughts are governed by Almighty! Does it mean nothing is in our hands.
What type of Puja should we be doing everyday!
Vijay
Kumar:
The sacred
Bhagavad Gita can never be understood by mere reading. Traveling the path of truthfulness
alone... one can infer the Wisdom contained in Bhagavad Gita. The Wisdom of Bhagavad
Gita is much beyond the catch of senses. Only when one rises above the mundane
affairs of life... practices absolute celibacy for a minimum period of 12 years...
does the concept of Bhagavad Gita become clear to us.
The
complete gist of life contained in Bhagavad Gita is best understood the moment
our Kundalini awakens fully. The fully awakening of the Kundalini is made possible
by practicing absolute celibacy for a minimum period of 12 years. It is the full
awakening of the Kundalini that leads one to opening of the thousand petalled
Lotus (the Shahastra Pushpa) existing behind the centre of the forehead in our
brain.
Normal
human beings utilize their brain 1% percent. Albert Einstein... the famous physicist
used his brain 4%. Rest lies dormant unused. The knower of Bhagavad Gita uses
ones brain hundred percent... one practically becomes omniscient... the knower
of all! In the whole Cosmos it is the sacred Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita that suffices
the cosmic journey of life!
Apart
from the sacred Bhagavad Gita... one need not refer anything else. And what does
the theory of karma mean in Bhagavad Gita. As per the sacred Bhagavad Gita every
human being has a total of 1.1 million manifestations for reaching the stage of
enlightenment (kaivalya jnana). This approximately equals to 12.1 million earthly
years.
Out of
12.1 million years of earthly travel... what value of single life span of 70 to
80 years! The prime reason why Bhagavad Gita says the destiny of human beings
is practically fixed. It is not one amongst billions... it is one in many billions
and that too in a hundred years span gains enlightenment. Such people merit taking
destiny in their hands!
For
the commoner... it is very difficult to exercise restraint in day-to-day affairs
of life! We simply flow with time... totally impaled by the control of senses...
human beings more or less behave like animals! To practices absolute celibacy
is almost out of question. Sage Vishwamitra failed in practicing absolute celibacy...
what to say of the common man!
A
true seeker of spirituality depending upon ones will power can take charge of
destiny in its entirety. When 11 years of age I wanted to see and meet God. At
13 years of age my desired turned into firm conviction... come whatever may in
this very life I shall come face-to-face with God Almighty. In whatever phase
of life I may had been... I ultimately controlled my own destiny.
Most
human beings on Mother Earth are not that fortunate! God Almighty has been kind
to me. Every human being has been endowed by God Almighty with that special power
of discrimination that distinguishes us from animals! Mounted with this power
of discrimination every human being can control ones destiny!
Every
human being is the master of ones karma. As we think so shall we be. We only reap
what we sow... Nothing more or less! Every human being is the ultimate controller
and master of ones karma. None can interfere in the working of one... not even
God Almighty! God Almighty always acts as a Dhrista (onlooker)... never interfering
with the creation of his.
As
to the puja... prayers that one must offer to God... I would simply say none!
We not need go to temples, churches or mosques for offering our prayers to God.
God is everywhere. If we ask anything of God in our prayers... we must remain
prepared to offer something in return. One who does not need anything in life...
need not offer any prayer!
Throughout
my life I have desisted going to Jain temples on one or other to text. Finding
the essence of God within me as my soul atman... the need for me to go to a temple
never arose. If I were to offer my prayers to God, I would ask God Almighty to
give me purity of thought! That was the end of it. As a true seeker of spirituality
traveling the path of absolute truthfulness is most essential... above everything
else!
I have observed
people ritually offering prayers to God for not one but many years... result absolutely
nil! They were only asking God for favor... never desiring to offer Almighty anything
in return! They never understood the gist of cosmic life. In the cosmic system
God Almighty never offers free lunches.
Everything
in the cosmic system is run by the doctrine of karma. Our karma is governing in
all affairs of life! If we indulge in positive karma all the time and earn Punya
karma in return... where is the cause for offering further prayers to God! Ritually
offering a pray to God means nothing! God Almighty only accepts those prayers
which are without preconditions... such prayers in the domain of human beings
are rarely to be found!
Furthermore
I would like to clarify one point which is important for ladies. In the history
of mankind only two ladies have gained enlightenment until now. They were Gargi
and Maitreyi in whose memory the Gargi and the Maitreyi College in New Delhi,
the capital of India stand testimony! It was destined by God Almighty that ladies
do not gain enlightenment. Why so? This has been made aptly clear by me in many
essays on my websites particularly on Moha (attachment).
The
path is difficult but not impossible! We must be absolutely clear about our goal
of life! Only then one succeeds in life. Most human beings do not carry a goal
in life. Their life is like a rudderless boat going round and round in the ocean.
Having a goal in life is journey half covered. The moment I firmly decided upon
a goal in life... I made it!
More
Bhagavad Gita related links...
May
God bless all!
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Full text of query:
I am reading Gita and Bhagwat Puran, and according to that all our deeds and actions
and even thoughts are governed by the Almighty! That means nothing is in our hands.
Can
you also guide me what type of Puja one should be doing everyday!
