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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 83108" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><u><strong>Karmas and Preordained Destiny</strong></u></span></p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><strong>The inscription inscribed upon one's forehead is eternal and imperishable; it cannot be avoided by avoidance.</strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span>[/FONT]</strong><span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'"> inhclu msqik lyKu iliKAw so tlY n tlwDw ] </span><span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'"><span style="color: green">(1101-5, mwrU, mÚ 5)</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">The basic sikh philosophy about Karma can be summed up by quoting the following lines.</span> No one can erase the record of one's actions or put simply the Past actions cannot be erased.[/FONT][/FONT]</strong></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">ikrqu n koeI mytxhwrw ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(1052-14, mwrU, mÚ 3)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">ikrqu pieAw nh mytY koie ] <span style="color: green">(154-1, gauVI, mÚ 1)</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Bani admits that the past Karmas of man are responsible for the meeting with the lord or the realization of the essence of the things.The present life is also the outcome of our earlier Karmas or purab karmas whose account could not be settled. Karma as per sikh philosophy will deem to include the thoughts and deeds both. By His Command, and through your past actions, you came into the world; walk forever according to His Will. </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"> </p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">hukim sMjogI AwieAw clu sdw rjweI ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(421-18, Awsw, mÚ 1)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><strong><span style="color: blue">The taking of birth in the Human garb is also as per the Karmas of past.</span></strong></span><strong> Wherever the beings and creatures are, they are born according to the karma of their past actions.[/FONT]<span style="color: blue"> When the seed of the karma of past actions sprouted we meet the Lord.[/FONT]</span></strong>[/FONT]</p> <p style="text-align: center"> </p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">jIA jMq jhw jhw lgu krm ky bis jwie ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(486-8, Awsw, Bgq rivdws jI)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'"><span style="color: blue">pUrb krm AMkur jb pRgty ByitE purKu risk bYrwgI ] </span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(204-7, gauVI, mÚ 5)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>The past actions may be of immediate past or the actions committed in earlier lives. These actions cannot be erased. Of course, these can be erased with the Grace of Lord. God should be powerful enough to do this. Man suffers. He seeks to escape suffering, but he does this by following the worldly way of pursuing the path of ego, wealth, power and worldly knowledge. Engrossed in worldly pleasures he feels no interest in the divine light that lies within him. He is bewitched by the beauty of earthly things and gets entangled in them. He does not search for the Truth, the realisation of which could make him eternal, holy and blissful, ending all his sufferings. So absorbing and deluding are the worldly pleasures that they leave man with no time to think of higher aspirations. They detract him from his age long quest to unveil the hidden Reality within. Guru Ji says </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>" Madmen, you remain sleep ! Intoxicated with the pleasure of worldliness and love for your family, you waste your life in fleeting delights."</strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">The second part of the sikh philosophy of the Karmas can again be summed by quoting the following line that states that; As they plant, so shall they harvest. </span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"> </p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">jYsw bIjih qYsw Kwsw ]3] (176-9, gauVI guAwryrI, mÚ 5)</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>No one can erase the karmas. Shiva, the destroyer of countless sins, the Lord and Master of the three worlds, wandered from sacred shrine to sacred shrine; he never found an end to them.And yet, he could not erase the karma of cutting off Brahma's head. </strong></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Similarly,</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong> Hanuman burnt the fortress of Sri Lanka, uprooted the garden of Raawan, and brought healing herbs for the wounds of Lachhman, pleasing Lord Raamaa; and yet, because of his karma, he could not be rid of his loin-cloth.</strong></span></span> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">krm kir kCautI mPItis rI ]5] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(695-8, DnwsrI, Bgq iqRlocn jI)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">The inter-twined concept is pre-ordained destiny. The destiny of everyman is authored and inscripted by the Lord on the forehead of the being. The various worldly pleasures are the direct result of the pre-ordained destiny and the Karmas forms the basis of this destiny.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Pleasure and pain, liberation and reincarnation, O Nanak, come according to one's pre-ordained destiny.</span></strong>[/FONT]</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">sUK dUK mukiq join nwnk iliKE lyK ]1] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(253-12, gauVI, mÚ 5)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><strong>There is direct evidence in the bani that the present life shall be affected by the previous karmas as well as the destiny would be authored as per those as wells. Only your actions shall go with you; the consequences of your actions cannot be erased. The tuk that explains this concept is as follows:</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">nwnk kmwxw sMig juilAw nh jwie ikrqu imtwieAw ]1] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(460-1, Awsw, mÚ 5)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Thus the actions committed in this life that could not meet the consequences or could not be rewarded in the present life shall be settled in the coming life. It shall be correct to presume that the results of the actions that have not been settled in the present life shall be accounted for in the coming lives of the jiva. Jiva is responsible for the actions committed earlier. It can be argued that what ever HE desires happens. But He is also likely to reward us for all that we have done. Whatever pleases Him, He does; no one can erase His actions. </span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">jo iqsu BwvY soeI krsI ikrqu n myitAw jweI ]5] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(504-14, gUjrI, mÚ 1)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">There has to be some systematic law for this. The law of karma cannot be better explained by the following line that is self speaking. whatever one does in this world, determines what he shall receive in the world hereafter.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">nwnk eyQY kmwvY so imlY AgY pwey jwie ]1] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(556-2, ibhwgVw, mÚ 3)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><strong>If everything is as per our actions ;the basic question that comes to an intelligent mins is as to how the first Karmas of the jiva were formed. Guru sahibaan have not indulged into this kind of argument and left this theoretical discussion for the human being. But Guru is all powerful, as he should be, to grant forgiveness and take away the reactions of particular karmas.There would , ofcourse, be conditions attached to it.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">jgjIvnu dwqw krim ibDwqw Awpy bKsy soeI ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(570-11, vfhMsu, mÚ 3)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">The concept of pre-ordained destiny is re-inforced by some other tuks in Bani as well. Upon each and every head, the True Lord writes their destiny of pain and pleasure, according to their past actions. He bestows pain and pleasure, according to the deeds done; the record of these deeds stays with the soul. He does those deeds which the Creator Lord causes him to do; he can attempt no other actions.</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong> The Life of the World, the Great Giver, the Architect of karma - He Himself grants forgiveness.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">sir isir scVY iliKAw duKu suKu purib vIcwrovw ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(581-8, vfhMsu, mÚ 1)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">duKu suKu dIAw jyhw kIAw so inbhY jIA nwly ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(581-9, vfhMsu, mÚ 1)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">jyhy krm krwey krqw dUjI kwr n Bwly ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(581-9, vfhMsu, mÚ 1)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">We should, therefore, not presume that there is free will element, if there is some divergence in the present actions and the past karmas it can only be through HIS grace only and when He is pleased. Infact, the mortals do all actions as per the pre-ordained destiny only. Nothing can change the eternal law. The mortal does those deeds, and those alone, which You ordained by destiny. But that being, whom the Lord has blessed with His Mercy from the very beginning, does perfect deeds, and accumulates good karma.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">so so krm krq hY pRwxI jYsI qum iliK pweI ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(610-15, soriT, mÚ 5)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">ik®pw kry ijsu AwpxI Duir pUrw krmu kryie ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(959-6, rwmklI, mÚ 5)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><strong>Integrating the concept of absence of free will and the Karmas I shall sum up with the help of the following line</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Gurbaniwebthick'">ien@ kY ikCu hwiQ nhI khw krih ieih bpuVy ien@ kw vwihAw kCu n vsweI ] <span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiHeavy'">(859-8, goNf, mÚ 4)</span></span></span></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Nothing is in their hands; what can these poor creatures do? By their actions, nothing can be done.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Regards to all,</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Subject to editing. </span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 83108, member: 5290"] [FONT=Book Antiqua][U][B]Karmas and Preordained Destiny[/B][/U][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick][COLOR=green][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][B]The inscription inscribed upon one's forehead is eternal and imperishable; it cannot be avoided by avoidance.[/B][/FONT] [B][FONT=Book Antiqua] [/FONT][/FONT][/B][FONT=Gurbaniwebthick] inhclu msqik lyKu iliKAw so tlY n tlwDw ] [/FONT][FONT=Gurbaniwebthick][COLOR=green](1101-5, mwrU, mÚ 5)[/COLOR][/FONT] [B][FONT=Book Antiqua] The basic sikh philosophy about Karma can be summed up by quoting the following lines.[/FONT] No one can erase the record of one's actions or put simply the Past actions cannot be erased.[/FONT][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]ikrqu n koeI mytxhwrw ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](1052-14, mwrU, mÚ 3)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]ikrqu pieAw nh mytY koie ] [COLOR=green](154-1, gauVI, mÚ 1)[/COLOR][/FONT] [CENTER][B][FONT=Book Antiqua]Bani admits that the past Karmas of man are responsible for the meeting with the lord or the realization of the essence of the things.The present life is also the outcome of our earlier Karmas or purab karmas whose account could not be settled. Karma as per sikh philosophy will deem to include the thoughts and deeds both. By His Command, and through your past actions, you came into the world; walk forever according to His Will. [/FONT][/B] [/CENTER] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]hukim sMjogI AwieAw clu sdw rjweI ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](421-18, Awsw, mÚ 1)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][B][COLOR=blue]The taking of birth in the Human garb is also as per the Karmas of past.[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][B][COLOR=blue][/COLOR] Wherever the beings and creatures are, they are born according to the karma of their past actions.[/FONT][COLOR=blue] When the seed of the karma of past actions sprouted we meet the Lord.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][/FONT] [/CENTER] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]jIA jMq jhw jhw lgu krm ky bis jwie ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](486-8, Awsw, Bgq rivdws jI)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick][COLOR=blue]pUrb krm AMkur jb pRgty ByitE purKu risk bYrwgI ] [/COLOR][COLOR=blue][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](204-7, gauVI, mÚ 5)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][B]The past actions may be of immediate past or the actions committed in earlier lives. These actions cannot be erased. Of course, these can be erased with the Grace of Lord. God should be powerful enough to do this. Man suffers. He seeks to escape suffering, but he does this by following the worldly way of pursuing the path of ego, wealth, power and worldly knowledge. Engrossed in worldly pleasures he feels no interest in the divine light that lies within him. He is bewitched by the beauty of earthly things and gets entangled in them. He does not search for the Truth, the realisation of which could make him eternal, holy and blissful, ending all his sufferings. So absorbing and deluding are the worldly pleasures that they leave man with no time to think of higher aspirations. They detract him from his age long quest to unveil the hidden Reality within. Guru Ji says [/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Book Antiqua] [/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][B]" Madmen, you remain sleep ! Intoxicated with the pleasure of worldliness and love for your family, you waste your life in fleeting delights."[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][B][FONT=Book Antiqua]The second part of the sikh philosophy of the Karmas can again be summed by quoting the following line that states that; As they plant, so shall they harvest. [/FONT][/B][/SIZE] [/CENTER] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]jYsw bIjih qYsw Kwsw ]3] (176-9, gauVI guAwryrI, mÚ 5)[/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][B]No one can erase the karmas. Shiva, the destroyer of countless sins, the Lord and Master of the three worlds, wandered from sacred shrine to sacred shrine; he never found an end to them.And yet, he could not erase the karma of cutting off Brahma's head. [/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][B]Similarly,[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][B] Hanuman burnt the fortress of Sri Lanka, uprooted the garden of Raawan, and brought healing herbs for the wounds of Lachhman, pleasing Lord Raamaa; and yet, because of his karma, he could not be rid of his loin-cloth.[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick] krm kir kCautI mPItis rI ]5] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](695-8, DnwsrI, Bgq iqRlocn jI)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [B][FONT=Book Antiqua]The inter-twined concept is pre-ordained destiny. The destiny of everyman is authored and inscripted by the Lord on the forehead of the being. The various worldly pleasures are the direct result of the pre-ordained destiny and the Karmas forms the basis of this destiny.[/FONT][/B][B][FONT=Book Antiqua]Pleasure and pain, liberation and reincarnation, O Nanak, come according to one's pre-ordained destiny.[/FONT][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]sUK dUK mukiq join nwnk iliKE lyK ]1] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](253-12, gauVI, mÚ 5)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][B]There is direct evidence in the bani that the present life shall be affected by the previous karmas as well as the destiny would be authored as per those as wells. Only your actions shall go with you; the consequences of your actions cannot be erased. The tuk that explains this concept is as follows:[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]nwnk kmwxw sMig juilAw nh jwie ikrqu imtwieAw ]1] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](460-1, Awsw, mÚ 5)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [SIZE=3][B][FONT=Book Antiqua]Thus the actions committed in this life that could not meet the consequences or could not be rewarded in the present life shall be settled in the coming life. It shall be correct to presume that the results of the actions that have not been settled in the present life shall be accounted for in the coming lives of the jiva. Jiva is responsible for the actions committed earlier. It can be argued that what ever HE desires happens. But He is also likely to reward us for all that we have done. Whatever pleases Him, He does; no one can erase His actions. [/FONT][/B][/SIZE] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]jo iqsu BwvY soeI krsI ikrqu n myitAw jweI ]5] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](504-14, gUjrI, mÚ 1)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [B][FONT=Book Antiqua]There has to be some systematic law for this. The law of karma cannot be better explained by the following line that is self speaking. whatever one does in this world, determines what he shall receive in the world hereafter.[/FONT][/B] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]nwnk eyQY kmwvY so imlY AgY pwey jwie ]1] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](556-2, ibhwgVw, mÚ 3)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][B]If everything is as per our actions ;the basic question that comes to an intelligent mins is as to how the first Karmas of the jiva were formed. Guru sahibaan have not indulged into this kind of argument and left this theoretical discussion for the human being. But Guru is all powerful, as he should be, to grant forgiveness and take away the reactions of particular karmas.There would , ofcourse, be conditions attached to it.[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]jgjIvnu dwqw krim ibDwqw Awpy bKsy soeI ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](570-11, vfhMsu, mÚ 3)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [SIZE=3][B][FONT=Book Antiqua]The concept of pre-ordained destiny is re-inforced by some other tuks in Bani as well. Upon each and every head, the True Lord writes their destiny of pain and pleasure, according to their past actions. He bestows pain and pleasure, according to the deeds done; the record of these deeds stays with the soul. He does those deeds which the Creator Lord causes him to do; he can attempt no other actions.[/FONT][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=3][B] The Life of the World, the Great Giver, the Architect of karma - He Himself grants forgiveness.[/B][/SIZE] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]sir isir scVY iliKAw duKu suKu purib vIcwrovw ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](581-8, vfhMsu, mÚ 1)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]duKu suKu dIAw jyhw kIAw so inbhY jIA nwly ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](581-9, vfhMsu, mÚ 1)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]jyhy krm krwey krqw dUjI kwr n Bwly ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](581-9, vfhMsu, mÚ 1)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [B][FONT=Book Antiqua]We should, therefore, not presume that there is free will element, if there is some divergence in the present actions and the past karmas it can only be through HIS grace only and when He is pleased. Infact, the mortals do all actions as per the pre-ordained destiny only. Nothing can change the eternal law. The mortal does those deeds, and those alone, which You ordained by destiny. But that being, whom the Lord has blessed with His Mercy from the very beginning, does perfect deeds, and accumulates good karma.[/FONT][/B] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]so so krm krq hY pRwxI jYsI qum iliK pweI ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](610-15, soriT, mÚ 5)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]ik®pw kry ijsu AwpxI Duir pUrw krmu kryie ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](959-6, rwmklI, mÚ 5)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][B]Integrating the concept of absence of free will and the Karmas I shall sum up with the help of the following line[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Gurbaniwebthick]ien@ kY ikCu hwiQ nhI khw krih ieih bpuVy ien@ kw vwihAw kCu n vsweI ] [COLOR=green][FONT=AnmolLipiHeavy](859-8, goNf, mÚ 4)[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [B][FONT=Book Antiqua] Nothing is in their hands; what can these poor creatures do? By their actions, nothing can be done. Regards to all, Subject to editing. 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