The Role of God in Your Karma and Destiny: An Eye-Opening video by Swami Mukundananda
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In the game of cricket, the players descend, the balls are bowled and the batsmen are free to play their strokes, the Umpire does not interfere, he only keeps giving decisions, so the umpire says, it's crossed the boundary, four runs, six if it's over the boundary, he's out etc.
Now if somebody says how partial the umpire is, this person crossed a 100, he made a century and this person was given out on zero, how terribly unfair, but the people will say that the umpire was totally unbiased, he was only giving decisions on the runs that the players were making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=2 2 similarly God is like the umpire, the referee, He gives you the ability to act, He notes your actions and then He gives the results in accordance with those actions, so in this verse Shri Krishna is saying, Arjun, I am not the cause of your suffering, I am the cause in the sense that I am giving you the results but like a judge, it was your actions that caused those results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=50 3 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 Sloka 14 Translation by Swami Mukundananda, “The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the modes of material nature”. https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/5/14/ Neither the sense of doership nor the nature of actions comes from God, nor does He create the fruits of actions ; all this is enacted by the modes of material nature gunas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=91 4 so the sense of doership, and the actions, none of these are coming from Me, they are all coming from the modes of material nature, so people often ask this question that why has God made us suffer in this world, it is all His fault, so the answer is that He is not making us suffer in this world, He has created us with free will, now free will means that we have the choice to choose as we wish, but why has God given us this free will ? because without free will, there is no scope for love, a machine cannot love, a machine doesn't have choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=147 5 now you ask this microphone that Swami ji comes so close to you, so do you love Swami ji or not ? microphone says, I have no choice, whether he comes close or goes far, so without any free will, a machine is unable to love, this love requires the freedom to choose and God has bestowed that freedom to us along with a huge amount of choice, so There are so many allurements (आकर्षण, लालच, या प्रलोभन) of Maya and at the same time there is the bliss of God and this creates the choices, so people ask, why did God make Maya so attractive -so much so that we very often get into problems (because of maya attractions) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=213 6 If somebody gets addicted to cigarettes, now supposing God had not allowed cigarettes to be invented that would be one wise lesson in the world, supposing God had not allowed there to be any opium as one of the 8.4 million species (as plants like opium are also one of the living units counted among 84 lakh species), then there would be no addiction because of it, so God is creating all these choices and we are getting stuck because of it, well the reason is that God is giving us the opportunity to make a choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=267 7 somebody asked Raman Maharishi, why did God create evil ? Raman Maharishi said to thicken the plot, He made the plot really thick means to now get out of it, you will have to strongly exert your free will. If you have halka phulka prem (i.e., no true love) for God, it will not do, you will have to have really solid prem (love) and then God will test you, okay, now do you choose this or you choose Me ? I choose You ,okay, now I double the Allurements, now do you choose this or do you choose Me ? I choose You, all right I'm increasing the allurements 100 fold, now do you choose this or do you choose Me ? we say, look, we treat our children so kindly that we protect them, keep them in the comfort zone, but God throws us out of the comfort zone, what kind of father is God ? God says, look, when you treat your children with kid gloves, they grow up into babies, I want my children the souls to grow up as full-fledged souls in Super Consciousness - so for that they have to pass through all these tests and allurements, it may be a long process it may take many lifetimes but at the end, there will be really something and God has faith that all of us will reach there one day, He has faith that His university of Hard Knocks, the universe this world, is the University of Hard Knocks, this university will purify all the souls and slowly they will all manifest that inner glory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=304 8 so God has given us the allurements, He has given us the scope to make mistakes but He has given us the Free Will that we mature and we realize this is all bogus, then we can choose Him and find eternal beatitude (परम सुख, परमानंद, मोक्ष, परमगति) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=414 9 we can say that I am not the doer, this body is doing, I'm supposed to think that I'm not the doer, then why am I getting entangled in the karmas as it is the body that is doing karmas, if so Bhagawan, You should be bearing the consequences, not me, because You are the doer. Shri Krishna says, you are not the body but the body and mind, they are given to you under your control and hence you become responsible for your body and mind and their karmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=438 10 there's a story in the Srimad Bhagavatam of the charioteer, he was driving a king to the war and the king was going to fight the war and get the glory of victory and enhance his kingdom and one animal came under the wheels and died, so the charioteer said, oh King, the karma of killing this animal is yours, the king said, sorry, you are the charioteer, you will bear the karma of killing this animal, the charioteer said ask Yamraj, Yamraj came there and they asked that who will bear the karma of killing this animal, Yamraj said look, oh king, you were going to fight for for your glory, if you had won the kingdom would be yours, now in the process, this animal is getting killed that karma also goes to your account https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=481 11 likewise the chariot we have of our body mind and intellect and we are the charioteer, (our soul) sitting inside, we are responsible as the (controller) passenger, so that is why the karmas they accrue to our account, and the sense of ego also God has given us, now whether we reduce it or we increase it, is all in our hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=550 12 God says I do the work of an umpire like a referee in the game, so in the game of cricket, there are 11 players from this side and 11 from that side and there are the umpires who come down, so the umpires keep giving decisions, one leg bye, four runs, sixer, he's out, so the umpires only give decisions, everybody is free to play their own game, now somebody says, you gave me out and you gave him four runs, the umpire says it's all dependent upon how you play, I am just giving the judgment, if somebody doesn't know cricket and they come there on the third day of the game of a test match & says that this player has got 90 runs on the board and these players are already out and the play is already just starting what kind of injustice is the umpire doing ? so that question will be asked by the spectator who doesn't know the test match was played one day previously as well and one day prior to that as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=579 13 likewise we people also ask the question, why is there injustice from God, this person is born in a billionaire's house and this person is born in such a poor condition, so God says that this play happened in the past life & in the life before & in the life before & in the life before, it is all continuing you may have forgotten but I remember and I give the fruits, so those fruits come in various forms, if you practiced a lot of music in your last life, then in this life those sanskars come so naturally that with a little bit of practice you're just able to move ahead and that's why you feel such a difference in people's musical abilities, one person just picks the harmonium and is already going and the others practice day and night, still can't do it, those are the sanskars, i.e., their own karmas that are coming as the fruits, now those fruits could be good or bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=670 14 Dhritrashtra asked a question to Shri Krishna after the Mahabharat was over, his hundred sons had died and Yudishthar was so kind that he kept his uncle Dhritrashtra in his palace despite all the enmity that Dhritrashtra had practiced, so Dhritrashtra asked Sri Krishna that what karmas did I do in that In front of my eyes, a hundred of my sons passed away, now even if one child passes away, it's such a big grief and now hundred children passed away, imagine the kind of grief for Dhritrashtra, Shri Krishna said, yes Dhritrashtra, in this life you did not do anything so bad, what about the past life ? Dhritrashtra said in past life also I didn't do any such thing, he could remember his past three lives, so Shri Krishna said the past one nothing, previous to the past one not in that either, before that also Dhritrashtra said nothing, Shri Krishna said you have an account of three lives but I have an account of all your lives, it is based on that sanchit karmas that I am giving you the fruits of your actions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=750 15 so remember that God is just the judge, the umpire in the game, you are free to make your runs now, if you are a good player, you play well but if you're a bad player, you play badly but the important point is don't blame God for it, why is God favorable to this person and unfavorable to another, God says, look, from my side I am completely equitable, little gopi will get the seat that even Shankar ji did not in the Maharaas, why, because the little Gopi an ordinary village woman, she learned to love so selflessly and so perfectly that God became a servant, so bhagavan says I am willing to become the servant of My devotees, what bhagya (fortune) can you not make if you put in sufficient efforts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=838 16 that is why the urdu poet Allama Iqbal's words need to be written in gold "Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqdeer se pehle Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai." "खुदी को कर बुलंद इतना, कि हर तकदीर से पहले खुदा बंदे से खुद पूछे, बता तेरी रजा क्या है।" you increase your efforts to such an extent that God asks you, what kind of destiny do you want My child ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZrB0gHy5s&t=906 Transcript Intro 0:02 you know the game of Cricket the players 0:06 descend the balls are bowled and the 0:09 batsmen are free to play their strokes 0:12 The Umpire does not interfere he only 0:15 keeps giving 0:17 decisions so the Umpire says it's crossed 0:20 the boundary four 0:21 runs six it's over the boundary he's out 0:26 now if somebody says how partial the umpire 0:30 is this person crossed a 100 he made a 0:34 century and this person was given out on 0:38 zero how terribly unfair people will say 0:41 the umpire was totally unbiased he was 0:45 only giving decisions on the runs that 0:48 the players were 0:50 making similarly God is like the Umpire 0:54 the referee he gives you the ability to 0:57 act he notes your actions and then he 1:00 gives the results in accordance with 1:03 those actions so in this verse Sri 1:05 Krishna is saying Arjun I am not the 1:10 cause of your suffering I am the cause 1:13 in the sense I giving you the results 1:16 but like a judge it was your actions 1:19 that caused those 1:21 results bhagavat Gita chapter 5 verse 1:25 chanting is followed by translation and 1:28 commentary by Swami 1:31 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 Sloka 14 Translation by Swami Mukundananda 1:58 neither the sense of 2:02 doership nor the nature of actions comes 2:07 from 2:08 God nor does he create the fruits of 2:13 actions all this is enacted by the modes 2:17 of material nature 2:21 Bhagavad Gita Commentary by Swami Mukundananda 2:25 gunas 2:27 so the sense of doership 2:32 the actions none of these are coming 2:36 from 2:42 me they are all coming from the modes of 2:45 material nature so people often ask this 2:50 question that why has God made us suffer 2:54 in this world it is all his 2:57 fault so the answer comes here that he 3:01 is not making us suffer in this world he 3:04 has created us with free 3:07 will now free will means that we have 3:10 the choice to choose as we 3:15 wish 3:19 like why has God given us this free will 3:24 because without free will there is no 3:26 scope for 3:28 love a machine 3:30 cannot love a machine doesn't have 3:33 choice now you ask this 3:37 microphone that Swami ji he comes so close 3:41 to you do you love Swami ji or not 3:44 microphone says I have no choice whether 3:47 he comes close goes far so without any 3:51 free will a machine is unable to 3:54 love this love requires the freedom to 3:59 choose 4:00 and God has bestowed that freedom to us 4:04 along with a huge amount of choice so 4:09 there's so many allurements of 4:13 Maya and at the same time there is the 4:15 Bliss of God and this creates the 4:19 Choices, why did God make Maya so 4:24 attractive people ask you know we get 4:27 into problems the cigarettes somebody 4:30 gets addicted now supposing God had not 4:33 allowed cigarettes to be invented that 4:36 would be one wise lesson in The World 4:38 supposing God had not allowed there to 4:41 be any opium as one of the 8.4 million 4:44 species then there would be 4:47 no addiction because of it so God is 4:51 creating all these choices and we are 4:53 getting stuck because of 4:56 it well the reason is God is giving 5:01 us the opportunity to 5:04 choose somebody asked Raman Maharishi 5:07 why did God create 5:10 evil ? Raman Maharishi said to thicken the 5:14 plot he made the plot really thick means 5:18 to now get out of it you will have to 5:22 strongly exert your free will if you 5:25 have halka phulka prem for God it will not 5:28 do you will have to have really solid 5:32 prem and then God will test you okay 5:35 Now do you choose this or you choose 5:38 me I choose you okay now I double the 5:41 allurements now do you choose this or do 5:44 you choose me I choose you all right I'm 5:48 increasing the allurements 100 fold now do 5:52 you choose this or do you choose me we 5:55 say look we treat our children so kindly 5:59 we protect them keep them in the comfort 6:01 zone and God throws us out of the 6:04 comfort zone what kind of father is he 6:07 God says look when you treat your 6:09 children with kid gloves they grow up 6:11 into 6:13 babies I want my children the souls to 6:16 grow up as full-fledged souls in Super 6:21 Consciousness so for that they have to 6:24 pass through all these tests and 6:27 allurements it may be a long process it 6:30 may take many lifetimes but at the end 6:33 there will be really something and he 6:36 has faith that all of us will reach 6:38 there one day he has faith that his 6:42 university of Hard Knocks the universe 6:45 this world is the University of Hard 6:48 Knocks this University will purify all 6:51 the souls and slowly they will all 6:54 manifest that inner Glory so he has 6:58 given us the allurements he has 7:02 given us the scope to make mistakes but 7:06 he has given us the Free Will that we 7:09 mature and we 7:11 realize this is all bogus then we can 7:15 choose him and find Eternal 7:18 beatitude we can say that I am not the 7:22 doer this body is doing I'm supposed to 7:26 think I'm not the doer I'm not the doer 7:29 I'm not the 7:30 doer then why am I getting entangled in 7:33 the karmas that the body is doing then 7:36 bhagawan you should be bearing the 7:38 consequences not me because you are the 7:41 doer Sri Krishna says you are not the 7:45 body but the body and mind they are 7:49 given to you under your 7:52 control and hence you become 7:56 responsible for your body and mind and 8:00 their 8:01 karmas just like one there's a story in 8:05 the bhagwatam of The Charioteer here he was 8:09 driving a king to the 8:11 war and the 8:13 King was going to fight the war and get 8:18 the glory of Victory and enhance his 8:22 kingdom and one animal came under the 8:25 wheels and 8:27 died so the Charioteer said oh King the 8:31 karma of killing this animal is 8:35 yours the king said sorry you are the 8:39 Charioteer you will bear the karma of 8:42 killing this 8:44 animal the Charioteer said ask 8:47 Yamraj, Yamraj came there and they asked that 8:51 who will bear the karma of killing this 8:54 animal Yamraj said look oh King you were 8:58 going to fight for For Your Glory if you 9:01 had won the kingdom would be yours now 9:04 in the process this animal is getting 9:07 killed that Karma also goes to your 9:10 account likewise like The Chariot we 9:14 have our body mind and intellect and we 9:17 are the Charioteer inside we are the 9:20 responsible the 9:21 passengers so that is why the karmas 9:26 they accrue to our account 9:30 and the sense of ego also God has given 9:34 us now whether we reduce it we increase 9:37 it is all in our 9:39 hands God says I do the work of an 9:45 Umpire like a referee in the 9:48 game so in the game of 9:51 cricket there are 11 players from this 9:54 side and 11 from this 9:56 side and there are the Umpires who come 10:00 down so the Umpires keep giving 10:04 decisions one leg 10:07 bye four runs sixer he's 10:13 out so the Umpires only give decisions 10:17 everybody is free to play their own 10:20 game now somebody says you gave me out 10:24 and you gave him four runs the Umpire 10:27 says it's all depended on how you play I 10:30 Am just giving the 10:32 Judgment if somebody doesn't know 10:34 cricket and they come there on the third 10:39 day of the game of a test 10:42 match & say this player has got 90 runs 10:46 on the 10:47 board and these players are already out 10:51 and the play is already just starting 10:54 what kind of Injustice is the Umpire 10:58 doing 11:00 so that question will be asked by The 11:02 Spectator who doesn't know the Test 11:04 match was played one day previously as 11:07 well and one day prior to that as 11:10 well likewise we people also ask the 11:14 question why is there injustice 11:17 from God this person is born in a 11:19 Billionaire's house and this person is 11:21 born in such a poor 11:24 condition so God says that this play 11:28 happened in the past life in the life 11:31 before in the life before in the life 11:33 before it is all continuing you may have 11:36 forgotten but I remember and I give the 11:40 fruits so those fruits come in various 11:44 forms if you practiced a lot of music in 11:49 your last 11:51 life in this life those sanskars come 11:54 so naturally with a little bit of practice 11:57 you're just able to move ahead right and 12:00 that's why you feel such a difference in 12:03 people's musical abilities one person 12:05 just picks the harmonium and is already 12:07 going and the others practice day and 12:10 night still can't do 12:12 it those are the sanskars their own karmas 12:16 that are coming as the 12:19 fruits now those fruits could be good or 12:23 Bad God says I am the 12:26 judge I am not partial 12:30 Dhritrashtra asked a question to Shri 12:34 Krishna after the Mahabharat was over 12:37 his hundred Sons had 12:40 died and yudishthar was so kind that he kept 12:45 his uncle Dhritrashtra in his Palace 12:48 despite all the enemity that Dhritrashtra 12:51 had 12:53 practiced so Dhritrashtra asked Sri 12:57 Krishna that what karmas did I do in 13:02 front of my eyes a hundred of my sons 13:05 passed 13:06 away, if one child passes away 13:09 it's such a big grief and hundred 13:12 children pass away imagine the kind of 13:15 grief 13:17 For Dhritrashtra Sri Krishna said yes Dhritrashtra in 13:21 this life you did not do anything so bad 13:25 what about the past 13:27 life the Dhritrashtra said in past life also 13:30 I didn't do any such thing he could 13:32 remember three lives so Shri Krishna 13:35 said the past one nothing the past one 13:39 not in that either before 13:43 that said also Dhritrashtra said nothing, Shri Krishna said you 13:47 have an account of three lives I have an 13:50 account of all your lives it is based on 13:54 that sanchit Karma that I am giving you 13:58 the fruits of your actions so 14:01 remember God is just the judge the 14:05 umpire in the game you are free to make 14:09 your runs now if you are a good player 14:13 you play well if you're a bad player you 14:16 play badly but the important point is 14:20 don't blame God for 14:22 it why is God favorable to this person 14:25 and unfavorable God says look from my 14:28 side I am completely Equitable little 14:32 gopi will get the seat that even Shankar 14:35 ji did not in the 14:39 maharas why because the little Gopi an 14:43 ordinary Village woman she learned to 14:47 love so selflessly and so perfectly that 14:51 God became a servant so bhagavan says I 14:55 am willing to become the servant of my 14:57 devotees what 14:59 Bhagya can you not make if you put in 15:04 sufficient 15:06 efforts that is why the urdu poet Allama Iqbal's 15:10 words need to be written in 15:24 Gold “"Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai." you increase your efforts to such 15:28 an extent 15:29 that God asks you what kind of Destiny 15:32 do you want my child
