The Truth

Sunahu Sadhak Pyare - Part 11

धर्मान्न प्रमदितव्यम्॥
तैत्तिरीययोपनिषद्

dharmānna pramaditavyam॥
taittirīyayopaniṣad

Do not refrain from your duties. Shri Krishna says to Arjun.

अहं त्वां सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुच: ||
गीता 18.66

ahaṃ tvāṃ sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śuca: ||
gītā 18.66

Don’t worry, “I will absolve you from all your sins.” The result of sinful actions is hellish abodes and the result of virtuous actions is celestial abodes, both of which result in bondage. So, even if one is absolved of their sins, virtues will still remain, causing the soul to suffer the bondage of celestial abodes (Heaven). So, Shri Krishna said that He will free Arjun from the results of all his sins meaning both unrighteous (“paap”) and righteous (“punya”) deeds.

सुकृत दुष्कृते ...
वेद

sukṛta duṣkṛte ...
veda

Using a single word, “sin,” Shri Krishna covered both sins and virtues. He told Arjun, “I will liberate you from the results of all your actions – sinful and virtuous, as you can attain freedom, only when all your actions are burnt. Thus, in Vedas both virtues and sins are referred to as sin. Loving God and His Saints is neither a good nor a bad action. It is considered a divine action and does not result in any karmic bondage. Since eternity, we have considered ourselves to be the body and have thus been attached to the relatives of this body - father, mother, brother, sister etc. All our relatives are material beings i.e. they are under the bondage of Maya. Constant remembrance of material beings, belongings or objects, further engrosses our mind in material thoughts, thereby contaminating it further. To cleanse the mind, it is important to focus our thoughts on pure personalities. Only God and God realized saints are pure personalities, untouched by the vices of Maya. They are the controllers and governors of Maya. Maya cannot overpower them.

आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोका: पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन |
मामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते ||
गीता 1.16

ābrahmabhuvanāllokā: punarāvartino'rjuna |
māmupetya tu kaunteya punarjanma na vidyate ||
gītā 1.16

All planets from earth to the abode of Brahma (creator) are material and temporary. Attachment to any person or object on these planets, will engage you deeper in material bondage. Being turned away from God since eternity, we have considered ourselves to be the body and have thus committed the mistake of attaching our mind to material beings and objects, thereby committing innumerable sins.

मर्त्य सुख अरु स्वर्ग सुख सब, है विनश्वर प्यारे ।

martya sukha aru svarga sukha saba, hai vinaśvara pyāre ।

Everything is this world is temporary and transient. We have been the king of heaven millions of times. We have taken birth as animals, birds, insects and humans innumerable times. Even in the human form, in different lifetimes, we have been rich and poor, ugly and beautiful, illiterate and a genius. However, we have never attained pure, ever increasing happiness at any time. Instead, the worldly happiness that we experience diminishes with time. Initially we experience a lot of joy, which slowly diminishes and finally vanishes. For instance, many people come to visit and see a newly-wed bride. Yet they never come back to see her again, as they are not attached to her. Even the attachment between the husband and wife keeps fluctuating every day, because the love of worldly people increases and decreases based on the fulfillment of their desires. If we have little hope that someone will help us, our attachment to that person will diminish while if we are truly hopeful that someone will help us, our attachment to that person increases.

This is a true and bare picture of the nature of the entire world. And it is no different in all the lokas from the earth to the most luxurious of the material abodes (abode of creator Brahma) and every abode in between.