Karma means Action,
We tend to belief that Good Action lead to Good result and Bad Karma leads to bad result; however this not necessarily True.
It is the INTENSION behind the Action that leads to the result.
However doing Vedic Ritual, without DEVOTION, 100% correct in accourdance to Vedas, leads to The Heavenly Planet, which Temporary and under the control of Maya.
After the amount Good Deeds in Heaven finished, you fall right down to Earth to start over the Cycle Of Birth and Death again. So What Have You Gain? NOTHING.
Then What should we Have Done Instead? We Should Take that same Good Action or Vedic Ritual and ADD DEVOTION or LOVE to it and it becomes KARMA YOGA, Which Leads to GOD REALIZATION.
Karma Yoga means Action plus Devotion.
Doing your Work and Thinking Of God at same time is Karma Yoga, this leads to God Realization.
In our lives we meet people who are very fine-kind hearted, peaceful, full of joy and light. Firstly, the way we treat our consciousness affects everything about our lives. Gita: 'The mind alone is the cause of liberation and bondage'.
Buddha: - 'As you think, so you will become'.
Bible: 'As you sow, so shall you reap'.
Thinking is what creates consciousness every thought influences our present as well as our future. The very bodies we occupy at present we thought into being - their shape, health, beauty, sex...and the bodies of our future will also be shaped by thought. Consider the atmosphere: we know that it carries many frequencies being broadcast from television and radio stations all over the world. If we apply the proper conductor like a TV or radio set and tune it appropriately, we can get evidence of the signal.
Now think of thought. Think of the power of thought! Now think of the inner world. Therefore we must bring attention to the inner world of the mind so we can awaken to it's potential, it's power -and also to be alerted to it's danger.
Be careful of your Words for they become your Action.
Be careful of your Action for they become your Habit.
Be careful of your Habit for they become your Character.
Be careful of your Character for they become your Destiny.
And we also meet people who inspire fear within us, who we would choose to avoid at all costs because we are wary of their character. We feel that we would come to great harm in their company.
What is the difference between these people? It is the quality of their consciousness, nothing more.
Accourding Shri Maharaj Ji, my Guru, states that our whole outlook on life, our present state of well being, the future events that will occur everything depends on how we manage our consciousness in the present.
Secondly, he was alluding to the fact that just as we know not to put our hand in the fire (because of the pain it will cause) similarly, we need to have that kind of clarity in our understanding with regards to managing our consciousness. We need to know that it can cause great harm if ill treated, or bring great joy if managed properly.
There is such a broad spectrum of consciousness manifest in humans - from decidedly violent, evil orientated people, to those of light and love. Most of us fall between these two extremes, and we have the potential to move in either direction.
In whichever direction we move, we must learn to acknowledge the fact that it was by our own choice and accept the consequences accordingly.
Again and again people take credit for the good things in their lives but blaming whatever and whomever they can when something goes wrong.
'Oh no, look what has happened! I don't deserve this!' Or 'It's your entire fault. You did this to me!' And so on.
We must learn to take responsibility - and the first step towards this is to understand that nothing happens by chance that everything is governed by consciousness.
Therefore we need to understand what makes consciousness and learn the science of how it affects our lives.
In fact, there is no thought that does not have consequence and affect our lives at some time in our future, near or far.
Every living individual is at all times, giving off mental impulses, permeating the atmosphere with thought vibrations.
Some people have the ability to tune into these thoughts, commonly known as telepathy. In fact, the more perceptive a person is, the more that person can 'tune' into a person's personality and come to know a lot about them.
At all times we are broadcasting to the world ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, anger, frustration... and the world in turn, is being influenced by them. Look around you, the very chair you sit on, or the bridge on which you walk, or the plane in which you fly all of these things originated first from thought and eventually came into being. There is nothing that occurs without the power of thought behind it - every creation stems from the power of consciousness.
Consider the health of your consciousness - does it bring you joy or sorrow?
The experience of anxiety, elation, frustration, jealousy, greed, anger, joy is all subject to how you think. Your very existence depends entirely upon the way in which you think.
Until we awaken, we will continue to live our lives carelessly, thinking without awareness, and therefore blaming circumstances or others for our failures.
We will continue to be like a leaf in the wind, moving about helplessly, caught in the grip of ignorance.
It is time to wake up,
to understand that the thought is the sculptor of life and the sooner we understand this the better off we will be.