Sunday 20 May 2012--Nicely Doing One's Duty Makes Him a Karma Yogi?--and--Is Krishna an Imagination of the Mind?

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Nicely Doing One's Duty Makes Him a Karma Yogi?
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It is a common misconception, especially in India, that if one executes his material duties very nicely he is a karma yogi and will thus derive great spiritual benefit from his activities. This misconception shows how much people have misunderstood the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita. Karma yoga means that one does his duty and offers the fruit of his work to Krishna. One who keeps the fruits of his work for himself and his family is a karmi, not a karmi yogi. He will have to take karmic reactions for all of his activities by taking birth again here in this material world. On the other hand, he who engages the fruits of his activities in the service of Krishna is a karma yogi. He is free from all karmic reactions and will not take birth again here in this material world. He will attain the supreme perfection of going back to home, back to Godhead  upon leaving his present material body.



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Bhagavad-gita Lecture--18 May 2012--Sofia, Bulgaria

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Question: Is Krishna an Imagination of the Mind?


Dear Gurudeva,
Namaste.

I would like to humbly ask the following question: Imagination of mind is always perishable. Is Krishna a reality or imagination of mind?

Janardan M.


Answer: Only a Delusional Mind Could Think So


Krishna states in the Bhagavad-gita that the mind is one of His eight separated energies. Therefore it is only because of Krishna that your mind exists in the first place. Therefore only a madman, a lunatic, could think that Krishna is not real, that He is nothing more than mental imagination. Such delusional thinking is compared to a man who is sitting on a tree branch and sawing that branch off from the tree. The foolish man does not realize that by his sawing he will fall down and seriously injure himself. In other words when your mind denies Krishna His existence you are cutting off your mind's source of energy and causing it to thus become diseased.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

 
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