Constant natural meditation, like the steady flow of ghee or a stream of water, is better than intermittent o contemplation.

The fruits of action are transient. Action causes one to fall into the ocean of further action. It obstructs the goal.

This post carries a deep meaning. Mostly, Karma-yoga has meaning: performing work without desiring any type of fruit. Shankaracharya, in his words in the Bhagavad Gita (Shankaracharya’s comments on the Gita), describes his ideas that by Karma you can not get liberation. It will cleanse your sins, and after purification of your mind you will be able to abide in the Self by Sammadhi.by Dhayana.(meditation). By non-object meditation, you will be able to find the experience of bliss. Ordinary people think everything is Karma-yoga.

But there is one thing to understand: some saints even start to teach karma-yoga, as S. describe it, that they do for the rest of the people. So if a janni does it after enlightenment, the purpose is only to help an ordinary human. Maharishi’s statement of Maharishi is very clear: the fruits of action are transient. Action causes one to fall into the ocean of further action. It obstructs the goal. Shankaracharya defines this subject briefly in his Shancrybash.

The fruits of action are transient. Action causes one to fall into the ocean of further action. It obstructs the goal.

Comments: This is very simple. For example, if I am doing any action, there will be a demand to be rich; my son should be an officer; if it is fulfilled, I will be happy, but other problems will come; ,he would not do according to my will something like this.I can not be satisfied; then I will want another thing. This chain of karmas will go on, and what was my destination of Self-realisation will be missed. It obstructs the goal. We see that action causes one to fall into the ocean of further action.

Action dedicated to God, done without desire, purifies the mind. It aids liberation.

Comments: According to Bhagavad Gita, this type of action, where there is no personal desire and doing without wanting any fruit, is called Karma-yoga. Because our Kamna and Vasnas are our blueprint, which our mind goes after death, it gives a new body. But if there is no seed of vassnas then where will it grow in the next life? So the Maharishi is telling us that this type of Karma helps us purify our mind, and in such a mind the Self can be illuminated, as a clean mirror helps us see our face. Then meditation will be easy. Buddha also suggested removing our Kammnas and Vassnas. he suggested that these are our enemies.

Total problem for meditation is that we doesn’t do observation of the whole. We only observe a part. For example I am angry and I want to control my anger. I star to observe my mind. anger is a part of the whole. Then it becomes a problem due to gape between me and anger. But If I am doing observation the whole of mind then there will be no anger. This is the truth which has to be understand. You are observing whole mind or you are observing only one part.

Note: these ideas I have read from a J. Krishnamurti book.

Verse 1: The results of action flow according to the law of the creator. Is Karma, action, God? It is insentient.

It is very simple: the karmas we have to pay for are such that good karmas have good fruit and bad karmas have bad fruit in our lives. Even of previous lives, we have to pay the results.

Verse 2: The fruits of are transient . Action causes one to fall into the ocean of further action. It obstructs the goal.

Comments: Shankrachary also described it very well in His Shankra Bhasha that, by Karma of every type, such as charity, feeding the people, so many types of good karma, liberation is not possible. Only meditation can liberate you. By good karma, you will go to higher loks, such as heaven.

Verse 16: When the mind turns away from the objects, it beholds its source, consciousness. This is self-abidance.

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This is the whole thing to understand. We call it untermukha (inwardness). When we look upon the mind, it loses its existence. What remains as residue is consciousness, or Self or bliss. It is a straight path. When our thought process is slow, we will find this. This is Self-abiding. This is such a divine gift that we can not explain it. The Scriptures only point their fingers towards this. But as J.K.used to say, the word is not the thing, or description is not that thing. For example, if I start to explain a table and use so many words of any language, it is not a table. The practice of meditation can help; only by observation can we understand it. As St Kabir said, A deaf man who can not speak ate sugar, and if we ask him the taste,he will never explain.” It is a matter of experience, not of description.

These words are from Maharishi Ramana. Because we see a variegated world, a single source with unlimited power must be accepted. The seer, the seen, the screen on which it is projected, the light, are all only he, the one.

Comments: It is the drishti (vision) of a Saint who has achieved unity with all. For him, seer, seen, the screen on which it is projected, and light are one. This vision comes after deep meditation.