KARMA

KARMA

What is Karma? This is a complicated question for my calibre. Moreover i can not assess 

myself whether i can do justice to my explanation but still I shall try to keep myself 

explicit on my views on the subject. I am using the words'Introverts' and 'Extroverts' in a 

slightly different sense.I would like to catigorise the people who are contemplative as 

'Introverts' who follow jnaana yoga where as the extroverts are inclined to action, we can 

catigorise them as 'actives' and hence they take the path of 'karma yoga.' I take the help 

of 'Bhagavadgeeta' to express myself. 

We are now concerned with the actives. These actives have many vasanaas i.e. desires 

as they are active the come across so many things and get attached or detached on 

account of their impulses. Life consists of three main activities:

1. Receipt of stimuli from the world.

2. Reaction of stimuli from within.

3. Response back to the world.

In a nut shell it is like a chemical reaction. The combination gives a new product which 

may be useful or may be useless.These are based on three prime qualities or 

'Gunas' which are 1) Satwa 2) Rajas and 3) Tamas. We start from Tamas. It is the state of 

ignorance and inertia.The Tamasik will be indolent, indifferent and indisposed to activity. 

Rajas is the state of passion,desire and agitation.He evinces his interest and attention 

mostly on the acquisition and enjoyment of worldly objects. Satwa is the state of 

equanimous,serene and poised thoughts. His mind never strays from the Supreme Truth.

But it is very very rare to come across a person with a single guna but he will be an 

admixture of all the three qualities or gunas in its own proportions. and hence we find 

infinite number of people with infinite number of qualities. If one quality is in greater 

proportion it absorbs the remaining two and dominates the person concerned.

यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेर्जुन

कर्मेन्द्रियैः कर्मयोगमसक्ताःस विशिष्यते

యస్త్వింద్రియాణి మనసా నియంయారభతేర్జున

కర్మెన్ద్రియైః కర్మయోగామసక్తాఃస విశిష్యతే

But he who restraining the senses by the mind O Arjuna, engages his organs of action in 

the yoga of action without any attachment and he excels.

Sita's father maharaja Janaka is the fittest example of this kind of human being. Hence 

he is called a great 'Karmayogi' and was respected as 'Janaka Maharshi.'

These are the 7 principle points that I have read about ‘KARMA’...

1. One can not be without action, even for a second.

2. One should not make inaction one‘s goal.

3. Certain actions are obligatory, therefore we cannot escape them.

4. One should not desire the fruits (or the consequences) of one‘s actions.

5. One should not be attached to the action itself.

6. One should not consider oneself as being the author of the action.

7. Any action, regardless of its nature, will not enchain its performer, if it is done in this 

way.

శుభం భూయాత్ (Shubham Bhuyath)