Dharma is something one must spend a lifetime achieving whereas karma changes from moment to moment. Your dharma influences the type of karma that you actions will bring about. Difference Between Dharma and Karma. Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects. MLA 8 Kumar, Manisha. Dharmas are the road signs, we try to follow to keep the traffic flow smooth and not chaotic. The problem is these are laws forced externally. Not that these are bad but in reality no one can keep the law all the time.
The internal law or the Karma without the fruit of action, better defined as LOVE is the one that really matters. Translation: Your right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let not the fruit-of-action be not your motive, nor let your attachment be to be inaction.
This verse appears to be the core message of entire Bhagwad Geeta. The verse is broken into two parts. Not to be attached Sangha to inaction. Inaction could be construed as sin.
The verse says we have the right to the action and it is certain. There is full freedom in all our actions. I have no string attached. There is no binding or condition. Whatever the work I do, I do have full right or freedom. It is left to me how I act or perform in my daily life. This kind of freedom contradicts most of our misunderstanding that God controls every action we do.
We have been told there is an external theistic God sitting up in the sky controlling each and every of our daily actions. God is thought as the highest authority and a supreme micromanager.
We have been told by many religious people that we are just puppets. Then our actions would be just mechanical or robotic with no individual conscience. I do believe all creation is sustained by God draws its existence from God.
If God controls everything we do, then it also implies that God also determines the outcome of all things. Then what is the point of exerting any effort?
Que sera, Que sera what will be, will be. Why practice, workout, or exert any effort? Human responsibility seems to disappear if everything we do is ultimately predetermined before we were born. Geeta at least on a surface level does not say what kind of action we are supposed to do. BG does neither clearly qualify nor quantify the actions. It does not preach about the moral codes, dogmas, rituals etc. The author of the BG realizes that good and bad are grey and these are not absolutes.
For example, one may consider killing an animal for food is bad but for some that may be the only source of food. One may view Mahabarata as a Dharmic war. A deeper level of understanding will reveal these paradoxes. Why freedom in action is so much stressed here? As mentioned earlier, actions cannot be mere mechanical or robotic. Geeta does not want me to be just a puppet.
Only free mind can discover new things. I can grow only in full freedom. All vibrations cease when one is tied up. There is no fear in freedom.
Only in freedom we will not be afraid and we dare to take RISK. Most importantly Love does not exist without full freedom. We already have it and we need to find it on our own. In a way God is freedom. Freedom is often curtailed by the society, by culture, by parents, by tradition, by a Guru or a spiritual or a holy or God man. Once we become conditioned by these external influences we seldom seek to get liberated. We strongly get held by the beliefs we have been told. Without freedom there is no clarity.
Without freedom one cannot find the truth. Without free mind we remain in bondage, confined to the boundaries and we very much resist thinking out of the box. Without freedom one cannot LOVE any one. Without freedom one becomes fearful. In fear one gets angry or gets mad at others. In fear one fights with other religions, condemns, compares and criticizes. A terrorist commits a crime in his own fear and he does not know what freedom is. Terrorism may sound very bold act. Paradoxically it is committed because of threat or fear and not recognizing the freedom at all.
Having said all about this wonderful unlimited freedom, we find it hard to think that this very freedom also allows bad things in addition to good ones. It appears to me the bad actions are the risk of having full freedom. I may argue the risk is well worth it. Actions not based on the fruit do not see the difference between the good and evil. There will be no such thing as Dharma and adharma in a literal sense. Let us look at this verse in another way.
Do your work but do not expect the result of it. Do not expect to control the outcome. One does not have a control or choice on the level of success or failure that may result from that action that is initiated. There is no guarantee as to the result of an action! Now let us think seriously. Superficially these statements do not really make any sense here. There is no logic here. Despite all the freedom in the work, we simply do not have a claim on the fruit of the work. I can spend my entire life learning, studying, training etc to perform an action but the reward I expect may not come at all.
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Some are born with fire element constitution, prone to action. Some are born with water element, prone to emotions. The karma with the body is already there, male, female, strong, weak. Then you have the karma of the family, the relatives, people that you live with in your early life. You might be supported or not supported.
You have karma of having money or not having money no matter what you do. In relationships and in work, in gains, or losses, at home or in society, in your creative intelligence or in your emotions, you would have to observe the plays of karmas and find your Atman Self through it.
In life, we always have free choice even though these choices are limited. It is said that the present life and its circumstances is the result of past lives thoughts and actions. What happens today is already predetermined even though we do not know from when and and how things will manifest. However, this is not a fatalistic view.
In the contrary, we remember that challenges in this life are opportunities for growth and for success in the future. We might have freedom will but we need to think well about our choices so that what we do leads us to peace and happiness and not to suffering.
When we are acting out of past habits and are powerless to change our character and attitudes, we are actually bound and not free. Yoga teaches us Self effort to control the mind and realize the True Self and be conscious and wise about our choices, thus eventually free us from the tendency to produce the same mistakes. Life is not only challenges but there will be some good things happening and some bad. Life is a combination of both good and bad karma. There will be favorable conditions according to what we wish and desire and there will be the unfavorable conditions that we have to struggle with.
Keep even mind in all conditions, in fact, good or bad karma is just karma. In reality there is no good or bad. There is no good life, no bad life, no superior life, no lucky life, no unlucky life. It is just specifically your life and then you have to learn from it in order for you to be free from all karmas.
Life is a series of pluses and minuses. You have to see the condition from the inside, to understand the plus and minus in the karmic bank balance of your life, not from the outside. From the inside means from your level of consciousness. Your journey is the journey of Self Realization, towards absolute consciousness of Oneness. In this journey, you can record your debts as the things that you yet have to learn, and credits as the things you have learned.
Anything that helps us bring awareness will give us credit; Follow dharmic rules of conduct is accumulating credits. Any action that will make us wake up is credit. Debits adding - : anything the makes us become more ignorant will give us debt. Any action that will make us become thicker in our ego separation and illusion is debt. The balance of pluses and minuses shows your progress and the accumulation of pluses can bring about a total payment of all debts i.
It means experiencing the difficulties and slowly learning who the Self is and who it is not. For example, regarding relationship karma, you have to go through the different flavors or aspects of these relationships in order for you to learn the real lesson of Pure Unconditional Love that is your Self.
You would be selfless. You would learn Self Love that also includes the other. Is suffering a must when you are learning from karmas? Suffering is subjective and is related to your reaction towards your karmas, therefore it will be there as an incentive for you to learn. Sometimes you want to escape from suffering and not learn, for example you would escape in addiction, in disease, in self pity and in blaming. Then you are not learning your karmic lessons and you are diving deeper in the same way of seeing yourself and others.
However, life is a school and there is some kind of progress even though different situations seem to be very different, but there is progress. Karmas are being understood slowly. You change roles so you will learn. You suffer, so you will learn. Alleviation of karma means that you will refine your ideas about how you think about things. You will become selfless and detached, and you would turn karma to dharma.
You would take a distance and will not to take yourself too seriously, be detached and remember that the True Self is the Self and nothing can touch it, hurt it or taking anything away from it.
You will keep your peace of mind. You will forgive and offer everything up in karma Yoga. In the present time, when you are aware, you can do something about alleviating your karma.
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