Saktaah karmani avidvaanso yathaa kurvanti Bhaarat kuryaad vidvaans tathaa saktaashchikir suralok sangraham na buddhi buddhi 1) Intellect. Intelligence. 2) One of the four antah-karans, with the functions of consolidating thoughts, making decisions and resolutions, forming beliefs, or discriminating. It possesses the knowledge of all objects and is also the reason for the specific knowledge which all of the indriyas possess. Its inherent features are doubts, belief, sleep and memory. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → In the above shlokas, it is shown how knowledgeable people should perform karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Yathaa kurvanti, just as ignorant people and attached people act to fulfill their own selfish desires, so too should one who wishes to be free from vasanas act, by giving up their own selfish desires. Give up your own selfish desires. If there is no self-interest, no one will run. If you go to the market at 11 o'clock, then you have to reach by 9 o'clock, you just have to reach. If someone feels in a katha that they must arrive before 7:30, they should arrive. And in case you are late, and you went at 10 o'clock, half the auction is over, then what do you feel in your mind? A little bit was left today. If someone feels that only a little bit of the katha was left, Sakta vidvaans, vidvaans sakta karmani avidvaanso yathaa kurvanti, just as those people do, so should this person do. God says not to be loose at all. Kuryaat vidvaan tathaa sakta chikira suralok sangraham. To do good for others and to do good for oneself, one should do this. Na buddhi buddhi 1) Intellect. Intelligence. 2) One of the four antah-karans, with the functions of consolidating thoughts, making decisions and resolutions, forming beliefs, or discriminating. It possesses the knowledge of all objects and is also the reason for the specific knowledge which all of the indriyas possess. Its inherent features are doubts, belief, sleep and memory. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Small and big, all are equal. Everyone has to follow God's command. Joshayat sarva karmaani vidvaan yukta samaacharan. By practicing and giving advice to everyone, joshayat, to connect them, to connect them by practicing. Everyone practices themselves and connects everyone. So, if someone has a job or a business, they don't tolerate any slackness at all. And if they have to tolerate it in any circumstances, they feel a lot of regret, a lot of regret that today's loss was heavy, today's loss was heavy. Such regret is felt a lot. But in this path, no one will feel regret. We don't feel it, so how can you? We often say, that here, the mumukshus who pass 12th grade, whether they are science students or college gold medalists, do they get gold medals without effort? But when they come here, they don't do what they used to do before. Those who score 90 percentile and above in 12th grade exams, when they come here, they don't even score 50 percentile, not even 50. If they score 50, it's considered average, good. But they don't even score that. Who knows, God said that. That's why God had to give advice. Swami, so what is the reason for this? What is the reason for this? Because they get food for free. You have to earn your food, then what happens in that? Saints and haribhaktas, haribhaktas do not feel regret in this, and in the worldly life, the same principle applies to haribhaktas that there is little food in this. Do they get food here, like, 'Oh, you came late today, so no food today'? Is it like that? It's not like that. And there, if the food stops, then one has to run. Here, they don't run. Here, God has made arrangements for us. For us, He has made complete arrangements. And if you want to make arrangements, but is food the basis for this for you? Food is not the basis for this, so things go slow here. There is no need to rush much. We will go now, what's the problem with him? Swami will still do the mangalacharan like this, and will stumble for a while. First, Swami stumbles at the beginning, then the katha progresses. That Swami, if one wants to go deeper, there is still no mumukshuta, no intense desire to attain God. Where is it still called an intense desire? It is said that the desire is less. The desire for God is not as great as the desire for money or the desire for worldly things. That's what it means. No desire means it goes on as it is, but the other doesn't go on. It's not just one thing. Katha is not just one thing. Puja, God-related mala, bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → if this is not there, it will work. But if it's a worldly thing, it won't work if it's not there. If your son doesn't do any work, you scold him like this. You just sit there, doing nothing. So, it doesn't work in that. And in this, everything goes on. God doesn't say anything. In the end, when all the accounts are there, then that's a different matter. Those humans who have complete faith in the shastras, the shastra system, and the auspicious karmas prescribed by the shastras, and who have full belief that the fruit of shastra-prescribed karmas is definitely received, those who are neither complete philosophers nor evil-doers, they know the Atma-tattva tattva An element. That which is produced from Mãyã. There are twenty-four tattvas that have evolved from Mãyã: the five gnãn-indriyas, the five karma-indriyas, the five prãns, and the four antah-karans. Tap to open in glossary → Sakta karmani, those who know nothing and live a completely animal-like life, He did not call them. Those who understand something and have faith and astikta that if we do something here in this world, we will get some fruit in the next world, and we do a little, but it is said to advise the lazy people, not those who do nothing at all. A devotee was telling us, that those former kings, they all had this, that all kings were like that, that if they didn't do it, they didn't do it, but if they do it, why don't they do it? They should be punished. Those who don't do it, that's understandable that they don't do it, they don't have anyone to make them do it. But if they do it, why don't they do it? So here, God says to all such people, 'Why don't those who do it, do it?' Sakta karmani avidvaanso yathaa kurvanti Bhaarat. So, karmani saktaah avidvaans yathaa kurvanti, just as they do. So, whom did God call karmani sakta and avidvaans here? Those who understand something. God doesn't even talk about those who don't understand. That now we have become great and we have done a lot, so now if we don't do it, it's fine. But those who know that we have to go to God's abode, and yet they are engaged in this world, and it's not happening as much here. Those humans who have complete faith in the shastras, the shastra system, and the auspicious karmas prescribed by the shastras, and who have full belief that the fruit of shastra-prescribed karmas is definitely received, they cannot make such an excuse that we cannot do it. It does happen, and they also do everything. Those who are neither complete philosophers nor evil-doers. So here, God said, 'Sakta karmani avidvaanso yathaa kurvanti Bhaarat.' They know the Atma-tattva tattva An element. That which is produced from Mãyã. There are twenty-four tattvas that have evolved from Mãyã: the five gnãn-indriyas, the five karma-indriyas, the five prãns, and the four antah-karans. Tap to open in glossary → God says that a knowledgeable person should do it like that, and its means have not been grasped in their heart. So much can be done, and we have the power, so why don't I do it? Therefore, the words 'karmani saktaah' are used. Whom did God call 'sakta karmani avidvaans'? Sakta karmani, those who know nothing and live a completely animal-like life, He did not call them. Those who understand something and have faith and astikta that if we do something here in this world, we will get some fruit in the next world, and we do a little, but it is said to advise the lazy people, not those who do nothing at all. A devotee was telling us that those former kings, they all had this. That all kings were like that, that if they didn't do it, they didn't do it, but if they do it, why don't they do it? They should be punished. Those who don't do it, that's understandable that they don't do it, they don't have anyone to make them do it. But if they do it, why don't they do it? So here, God says to all such people, 'Why don't those who do it, do it?' Sakta karmani avidvaanso yathaa kurvanti Bhaarat. So, karmani saktaah avidvaans yathaa kurvanti, just as they do. So, whom did God call karmani sakta and avidvaans? Those who understand something. God doesn't even talk about those who don't understand. But those who know that we have to go to God's abode, and yet they are engaged in this world. It's not happening as much here, it's not happening as much in God's path, but it's happening in the other path. So, they need to take advice. They cannot make such an excuse that we cannot do it. It does happen, and they also do everything. As much as is done in the worldly path, that much is not done by us in God's path. So, God said here, 'Sakta karmani avidvaanso yathaa kurvanti Bhaarat.' 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