and i'd like to ask jay love karma i don't want the theoretical question i want the practical
question and practical answer it's a very blunt question but i have to give a blunt answer as well
you see there are two approaches you can adopt one is to do business with god you see we are
gujarati sindh we have problem you know it's inbuilt in us we like to do commerce even with
the idea of spirituality so we say oh lord i do this for you now what are you giving me back
this is the wrong attitude you give for the sake of giving
whatever comes let it come and you see this note that because we have done something bad
or evil that something happens bad to us don't there's a very over simplistic interpretation of
law of karma you see this is the world when you look around there's so many good people
struggling suffering who can't even have a clean glass of water to drink and they are suffering and
dying all around the world what have they done wrong you know somebody say oh well you know
this little child born in the sub-sahara desert you know because they are so uneducated let
them they deserve to die what is the poor little child done that he deserves to die without water
so you see never give simplistic interpretation to your religion when you try and use this kind
of simplistic answers you really do tremendous harm to your religion or your understanding of
your religion your religion never gave you this over simplistic interpretation he simply said law
of karma is simply this look we all have to live with it we can't avoid it it simply says objects
and events are strongly interconnected when you do certain things some other things from outside also
kind of interact and then we produce certain results there is if you like a link between
objects and events that we see all around us everything seems to be connected with everything
else in a very intricate a very intricate manner not in a simplistic manner millions of courses had
to combine together for me to sit here and talk to you so it's not that simple that i
can so this is why i'm talking to you millions of things had to conspire together to produce
this result this is the law of cause and effect means complexity is not a simplistic idea but
causation is at the heart of this reality in fact everything that science talks about is nothing but
exploring causation how about objects and events linked can you find some kind of regularity here
probably you say low that can give some kind of if you like a handle on it that's what science is all
about so whatever when we talk about religion or science we are really in a way trying to grapple
with the law of cause and effect and we recognize the complexity is hidden in complexification
so so many millions of things come to combine together conspire is the right word together
and produce one effect you can't give a simply saying that i must have done something bad in my
past life i must have taken somebody else's eye out so my eyes taken out this year this is very
over simplistic things add up sometimes they end up in a very nasty way they push us in the corner
the only thing the law of karma tells you is this he says look
things will conspire against you you can lose your eyesight you know you can have family problems
and we know much see much more serious problem than even losing your eyesight people dying
you know we have cases we are suffering struggling to deliver what have we done wrong that we suffer
from this you know disease which is going to take our lives what do we do the answer is
this my friend you roll up your sleeves and come fighting take it head on things are going to come
against you'll be pushed in a corner never become a fatalist never so i must have done something
bad in my past life she's catching up don't do that vivekanan would be really annoyed with this
no roll up your sleeves and say things conspire against me good for them let them come
i'm in charge of my destiny and even if i have to fight whole of this nature i will fight nature
because this is how you express the spirit the spirit is not in conformity with external forces
saying okay i play dead you can you know hit me he said i'll fight back we harness spirit external
if you like harness force is external and harness force is internal and feel like keep them both
under control and reveal our divinity this is the definition of religion from sami vivekananda
so do not let things kind of pull you down come fighting and never blame yourself or others why
things conspire things millions of things add up for one result to take place and i did not
have any control on most of this so why should i take the blame just be open the only thing
law of karma teaches us which we have forgotten is this come fighting whatever the circumstances
do not blame anybody or yourself do not even be indifferent to your own suffering
or the become more crucially indifferent to the suffering of others you see in modern india this
message i am repeating almost in every episode let it be repeated until it becomes ingrained in
the hindu hindu hindu society the hindus have forgotten the second dimension of the law of
karma which says if you see an issue in front of you that needs to be sorted out suppose you see
people suffering struggling poverty and you turn your back saying oh they deserve it law of karma
you are going to get whacked the law of karma says if you see an issue in front of you and you do not
take steps then that is bad law of karma you're really not understood it's going to come and
bite you so you need to immediately address the issue not only what you do is going to catch up
with you what you fail to do is going to come and catch up with you too we all know that don't we
we forget to check our oil and water in our car and we go for a long drive and we soon find out
it's going to catch up and bite us on the back side so this is what we are saying
look whenever i talk about swami vivekananda one thing that will come out is this he is a
he's a messenger of stuff of strength he's the hanuman of modern age and i tell hindu youth
look i like you to sing hanuman chalisa keep doing it i don't mind i love hanuman but grow up you've
got a modern hero you like the ancient one it's good very good you've got a more than one the only
difference is no tail this time but this one will catch your attention and give you a real direction
you know you know in the three things bala buddhi brahmacharya is what vivacana stands for and this
is the source of strength you invoke these three in your life take on the challenges head on
do not be do not be a wimp stand up and take on the challenges of this life
and you see how it transforms your life as well as the life of others
you