3 Tools to Achieve Economic Independence

The 3 Tools to Achieve Economic Independence

The question is- We say that the divine works through an individual and we also say that doing one’s karma is one’s own responsibility, then where does the divine will and our doer ship start and end.

Om Swami says that when one person comes into another person’s life which results in them not liking the things starting to happen in their life, as they have no control over it, then it is their prarabdh karma. Whenever we step into someone’s life, it is that person’s prarabdh and new karma is born. Whenever one does something as they want to do it, then they are creating new karma. Om Swami says that results of prarabdh karma need not always be from previous lifetimes. Sometimes one can get the result in the same lifetime and it all depends on what kind of actions they did. He says, whatever is in our hands, the responsibility for that too remains only with us and we cannot say that it is divine will. If a person has done an action then that action has been done by that person alone. The blame cannot be shifted to someone else saying that they had influenced them. For one’s thought is their own and only they themselves own it. The more one’s thinking progresses the better will their actions be. For its one’s thought which influences all actions ultimately.

Listen to the full discourse to get a proper insight into this beautiful topic.

Timeline:
00:00 Start
01:31 A beautiful story giving insight into what is karma
04:27 Is prarabdh karma from previous lifetimes only
05:10 What is free will
05:50 Will the divine want a person to be in pain

Thumbnail, Intro and outro animation: Sushree Svadha Om
Piano music: Adi Sharma

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Are You Responsible For Your Karma Part 1 - [Hindi]

Friday morning, 23rd July 2021. If someone had ever suggested to me to make a dawn recording at this location on a 'normal' Friday morning, I would have exclaimed: "Seriously, are you joking?". This place is so close to the city that a 'normal' Friday morning (and especially so during Winter, with its long nights and short days) would have meant, if exceedingly lucky, something like 70% heavy traffic noise and 30% dawn chorus (including not only birds but an array of various mammals as well).

But here we were, three days into a strict Covid-19 Delta lockdown... Of course, one gets curious. How much difference? After all, from the 'Nature' point of view, as opposed to the 'Human' point of view, it seems fair to say that what is 'normal' is what happens when the 'Human' is not around. In a lockdown situation, 'Human' is still very much around, but rather heavily circumscribed, for his/her own good. And this happens, also, to be beneficial to 'Nature'. So, what might that mean, in terms of 'acoustic ecology'? Well, as it turns out, it means 'a heaven of a lot'.

This excerpt from a much longer recording commences from 06:34, i.e., from mid-Winter's early twilight through to sunrise and after. (The longer recording begins several hours before first light.) Yes, there is some sporadic 'essential' traffic noise to be heard; mainly, as one would expect, in the lower frequencies; and the low-frequency rumble of the occasional 'essential' jet landing at or taking off from the local city airport. But, from this field recordist's perspective, Nature definitely owns this 'Delta' dawn. The overwhelming noise of mechanised humanity has been radically subdued by ... a microscopic virus. Of course, one feels great empathy and sympathy for humanity (after all, one is  human). But the Paradox naturally arises in one's mind, and one naturally reflects and meditates upon it...

If 'Humanity' is, as humans tend to allege, the 'pinnacle of all Nature', why is it that Nature, which utterly grounds and supports all of 'Humanity' and all of its entrepreneurial endeavours, is treated by 'Humanity' as some kind of expendable and disposable raw material, or as rubbish? Isn't it so poetically ironic that 'Humanity' is ultimately quieted not by discussions of 'ecological ethics', not by 'philosophy' - which, as Socrates once said, was born of a sense of 'wonder' at the kosmos - but by a self-concern for survival in the face of a virus that it cannot even perceive with its own natural perceptual senses? But is it really the individual's personal body and life that is of most concern here? Or is it not, rather, the current socio-political economy that is most at risk? Changing this global political economy and its behaviours is clearly not as easy as trying to change the individual body and its behaviours.

This leads to the thought, the question, the problem: What is good for human economy is not necessarily good for natural ecology, and what is good for natural ecology is not necessarily good for human economy. And so, what is to be done?

Such are some traces of the inner reflections and meditations of a field recordist, sitting damp and cold through the night, first light, and dawn, listening in sublimely grateful joy to Nature's 'beautifully musical' voicing of so many 'beautiful' voices... They are simply uttering their existence. They do not conceive of themselves as 'beautiful'. But their intrinsic 'beauty' and 'value', their intrinsic 'music', may be, and arguably should be, best understood from the perspective of a certain 'ecological aesthetics'... 

Best listened to with (good) headphones (with a flat frequency response).

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people, which is now a Conservation Park.

2021.07.23 A Covid-19 Delta Lockdown Dawn. Winter.

Namo Amitabha Buddha

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Two questions have been answered by Om Swami in this discourse.
The first question asked was- Ma Janaki has been given different versions in different languages and in scriptures like Ram charit Manas and in some other scriptures too. What is the real truth about the birth of Goddess Sita?
Om Swami says that Ma Janaki was king Janak’s daughter. He further says that there are two ways of seeing things. Either we believe that the scriptures are true or we think that it is fictional. In both Ramayana and Mahabharata the person who played an important role was found in a box. In Ramayana Janaki Ma was found in a box while king Janak was tilling the land. In Mahabharata Karna was floated away by his mother in a box. Without both of them the battle that took place may not have happened he says. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata were written in metre form so that memorising was easy. But still passing it on in the oral form could have resulted in minor errors. So it is difficult to say if Ma Janaki was found in a box in the ground, but nevertheless Ma Janaki was none other than the universal mother he says.
Om Swami says that for him everyone who was connected to Shri Ram in any way was only shri Ram - the people who were killed by him and those who were with him. All of them are worthy of worship and this is the sentiment that gives him great happiness.
The second question asked was- If Om Swami could shed some light on the term biological father Vs spiritual father.
Om Swami says that just like a biological father will want their children to do well and do good, similarly a spiritual father wishes the same. Though the sentiments are the same, it’s a different kind of relationship. The difference is that a spiritual father takes on a disciple’s karma by seeing if it can be distributed over lifetimes or can be taken care of at one go so that the person attains liberation. This right to take on the karma has been given by the lineage, the rishis, and our scriptures says Om Swami.

Listen to the full discourse to understand this beautiful topic.

Timeline:
00:00 Start
02:40 What are the two ways of looking at the Ramayana and Mahabharata?
04:30 How did the sutas pass their knowledge of the scriptures?
07:00 What is difference in the relationship with one’s guru when one is initiated?
08:15 Does the guru take a disciple’s karma?

Intro and outro animation: Sushree Svadha Om
Piano music: Adi Sharma

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