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sridatta1
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| Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: Between duty and God which is more important? |
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Between duty and God which is more important?
This depends on your stage in the spiritual path. There is nothing to decide here. An ordinary human being will do the worldly duties only. Even if you advice to leave such duties, he will not leave because he cannot leave. For Sankara even though His mother asked him to do worldly duties, He left them and dedicated Himself to God only. Therefore, the soul does according to its spiritual state and inherent interest. Finally the interest decides the selection. Therefore you cannot have universal selection. |
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AhimsaJack
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
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Location: New york state
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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I agree it depends on your faith (shrada), and on which Guna is currently dominant. A Satvic person will turn to God. A Rajasic person will perform his earthly duty. A Tamasic person will do nothing, or what physically pleases him at the moment.
Of course If one is in a proper relationship with God and lies his life as a prayer(karma yoga) then his duty will be for God and the question becomes irrelevant.
Om Tat Sat
OM shanti, shanti shanti
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Bhakta Omer
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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There is a tale about this yogi who renounced his life and went to the woods to practice the penance of yoga. He reached a very high spiritual stage. One day he was walking through the forest as he saw a strange vision: A hole spread open in the ground, a few people are hanging tight to a piece of rope over it, a mouse is nibbling on the rope until there is only one string left. "Who are you?" he asked them. And they answered: "We are your ancestors, that rope is the family linage, that mouse is time and the one remaining string is you!"
Neglecting our duties toward family and society and to completely renounce life, that is not our philosophy. Ours is Karma-Yoga: taking our worldly duties and transforming them into spiritual things. Turning our food into Prasad. Turning our home into a temple and our family life into an ashram. |
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Bhakta Omer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Thank you.
I should state that it's not entirely mine. I read that story in a book by Satra-Narayan das. |
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judas
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| The Lord and the Diety are NON-DIFFERENT ! This is obvious. |
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