"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Unselfish Karma

Srimad Bhagavatam

See how ingredients like ghee, which cause disease in men when taken by themselves, do not do so when they are medicated with curative herbs. So also even though karma is a cause of bondage, for man preoccupied with it (through the generation of new tendencies), the same karma when dedicated to the Lord, becomes a potent power to destroy all tendencies and takes him Godward. 

Whatever work man performs in dedication to, and for the pleasure of, the Supreme Lord, such karma goes to generate knowledge (jnAna) combined with bhakti (devotion). 

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