According to past 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 → It can be good or it can be weak. Among those, which is our good inclination? One that works in this satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → If one grasps that inclination and moves forward, then it becomes his ang. Others cannot help much in selecting one's own ang. After the ang is selected, others can help. To progress it further. But the selection has to be made by us. Which is our greater inclination? Only we know that best, no one else knows. In the long run, others might find out. Even if they find out, often they cannot say much about it. To die with other inclinations is very dangerous. In that, how do you or I know whether it will turn out right or wrong? And if it turns out wrong, one might lose satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → So, instead of someone else twisting us, if we twist ourselves and attach to God, then there is nothing like it. In this core competency, can we make two divisions: one related to God, like meditation, chanting, singing kirtans, and the other worldly? Like knowing computers, knowing accounting. In both cases, one has to make it an ang. Which other? Worldly, like that. Even worldly skills become an ang; in this satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → If it is worldly, like your computer skill, that is worldly. So, we use the computer today in Maharaj's mission, in Maharaj's seva, in the organization's seva. So, that becomes an ang. But from within, for that competency, we must feel that we want to use it only in God's seva. We want to use it only to please God. Then that ang itself becomes his instrument. Arjun did not go to learn something new to perform sadhana for God; he had to use what he had already learned. And he had great love for God, so when God told him to do this, he did it. Even then, he was not agreeing to anything initially. Then God made him say 'meen' (agree). Who said 'meen'? To God. To God. What 'meen' did he say? 'Yathechchhasitatha kuru' (Do as you wish). 'Yathechchham kuru'. Now do as you see fit. God says, "I say 'meen'." So then Arjun felt, "It is not good if God says 'meen', let me say 'meen' myself." So Arjun said, "Karishye vachanam (I will do as you say). Now I will not do as I wish, I will do as you say." So, there is a bit of this problem in core competency; if one does not say 'meen' himself, God will say, "Now you say, go, do whatever you please." If we go to tell someone, they say, "No, I don't like that, I like this." If we say, "Your inclination is this." Then they say, "I don't like this, I like that." But if he decides that, in God's seva. One who is very fortunate, gets hold of his own ang. God says so in the Gita. 'Sukhinah kshatriyah partha labhante yuddhamidrisham' This happens only if one is very fortunate. 'Dharmyaddhi yuddhachchreyo'nyat kshatriyasya na vidyate' That a fortunate Kshatriya Kshatriya Person of power and courage, traditionally responsible for the formation and enforcement of law within society, as well as its safety. Rulers and warriors of society. The second of the four varnas (castes) of the ancient Indian social system. Tap to open in glossary → gets to use his Kshatriya Kshatriya Person of power and courage, traditionally responsible for the formation and enforcement of law within society, as well as its safety. Rulers and warriors of society. The second of the four varnas (castes) of the ancient Indian social system. Tap to open in glossary → it comes naturally only to the fortunate, though everyone has it. Everyone has a core competency. There is no one without it; even if one is a fool, his foolishness is also a competency, isn't it? So even a fool has a competency. He has a passion. But selecting it, and in God's work, to contribute something, they cannot do that, and the reason they cannot do that is because of their past, some karmas that obstruct them so much. So they do not let it happen. Even if they are good, they do not let it happen. When Shastriji Maharaj was there, to Swami, suppose Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → But then they were not ready to take up Swami's work, were they? They did not have a passion for it. Their passion had gone elsewhere. So, passion must also be there, passion must develop, both God's passion and our passion must meet somewhere. If they match, then his ang matches. Otherwise, it does not match. So his question was that one is related to bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → both, so I answered that both work. Keep the one related to bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → And keep the worldly one as well. For the worldly one, transfer its use and utilize it. And the other one comes into use directly. Meditation, this, that, 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 → And if there is some worldly virtue, then use that worldly virtue also for this benefit, both. Both can be used. So should we count them as two angs, or are they both just one? It is considered as one. It is considered as one. What is the meaning of ang? That God's passion and our passion, moderating our passion a bit and joining it with God's passion. God's goal and our goal, God's mission and our mission, God's core competency, we cannot compare with that, but applying our core competency in God's mission. Whether it is worldly, or religious. That is called an ang. If I don't know anything and then I go to help God, in that field. Then God also won't enjoy it much, thinking, "He is spoiling it, it's better if he sits aside, I will do it myself." So, if one has competency and goes to offer that to God, then God becomes very pleased. Thinking, "Good, he will do it more easily than me." So, if there is no competency, and one tries to apply it for God. Then he also won't enjoy it because he will get tired; without competency, one gets tired. It is not his passion. It is not his core competency. So that person does not get tired of doing it. In what does a person not feel tired? In what he has interest. In what he has interest, he does not feel tired. So, no matter how much God makes him do it, he does not get tired. No problem, on the contrary, he becomes that much more pleased. Even if God makes him do more of it, he is pleased. God did exactly that with Arjun. "Fight with this one, fight with this one, fight with this one." "You have to kill everyone, you have to grind the whole container of grain." So he had the competency to grind, so he said, "No problem, we will grind it." "Give me some time." "I will grind it alone." So there is a devotee, he has interest and passion in meditation. And he also knows computers. So through the computer, he performs God's seva, so which should be considered his ang in that? I am telling you, that is called worldly. The meaning of ang is, that mere passion is not the ang. Ang, passion alone is not called ang. The use of passion to help God, that is considered the ang. Otherwise, everyone has already separated their own angs and are sitting. What does ang mean? A kind of habit. Where there is passion, a habit is formed. So if many other bad habits are formed and they don't go away, that is not called ang, that is called a bad habit. But if there is such a passion, and that passion can be used in some way in God's mission, in God's seva, then select it, saying, "This is my ang." If it is not used in that, even if the skill is of the highest quality. An absolute master skill. One that could be recorded in the Guinness Book. But if it is not used for God, then even if that passion is there, congratulations to him, but it is not called ang. The meaning of ang is that it must be useful for one's own liberation. It must be useful in God's mission, it must be useful in God's seva. Only then is it counted as an ang, and it must be good, not awkward. So a person has many such things. Selecting from those, that itself is difficult, isn't it? Just as attaining God is difficult, selecting the ang is equally difficult. And if the ang is selected properly, then attaining God becomes easy. So one has to select his own ang. If nothing is understood, then create a new one. If you don't have that ID, what do you do? Make a new one. Make a new one and it's done, "Now this is my ID," and that's it. Suppose we don't have an ID in the computer. Then what to do? "I don't have an ID." Then you lose all the benefits of email and other things. So they say, "Make a new one, we don't want to lose the benefits." We make a new ID. From today, this is our new ang. And the one he selects, how will he do it? It will be according to his passion. From within, his past karmas inspire and push him to do exactly that, don't they? Since they are pushing, it means it is already lying within him. If he selects it himself. What if someone else does? Then that is not passion. If others say, "This is your ang," then he won't have passion for it. Because that person's karmas push him, that person's karmas don't push this person. And then it can be moderated. "I have great interest in this, so how do I use this work for God?" Then they say, "Brother, you do this much," improvement. Then apply it to God, and it will happen. 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