Especially for those who get demotivated thinking -everything is predestined, should read this thread 🧵
Sanchit Karma
It is total karma which you've accumulated till last birth.
You accumulate karma because of "antahkarn or conscience"
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Prarabdha Karma, also called bhagya.
It is some portion of sanchit karma which is fixed for a particular birth.
"Like you're taking some portion of money out of your bank account for a particular trip"
It completely ends with the end of life in that birth.
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Kriyamaan karma
It is the same which you're doing now, also called Purush-artha.
Aagmi karma
What you're creating for the future births in present and this will add up in Sanchit Karma. In which birth what will become Prarabdha is enigmatic.
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Human is not effected by Prarabdha only. If it is, then mundane or desh-kaal will not apply. It applies actually.
Prarabdha gets destroyed after giving the results, but impregnates the impression (संस्कार) on an ignorant human.
Whereas Purush-artha has the ability to create.
"So with effort or present actions you can suppress any Prarabdha"
The only condition is present actions should be prominent and stronger than Prarabdha.
Prarabdha can be negative or positive.
When a positive Prarabdha is getting support from a similar kriyamaan then it is great.
"In astrology, yoga of 9th and 10th lords gives rise to the greatest Raj yoga"
And similar Prarabdha is not getting support then you're destroying goodness with present karma.
Similarly, a negative Prarabdha getting support from similar kriyamaan karma leads to more destruction.
And a negative Prarabdha, getting unsupported and suppressed by present actions leads to reduction of negativity.
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It sounds easy to suppress a Prarabdha through present actions. But it is the most difficult thing in the world.
Remember Prarabdha makes an impression on the mind even after destroying. So, those who live only in the present are very good examples of not getting impressed.
Even sleeping is karma. It starts with life and ends with death.
An astrologer or spiritual guru can guide you how to use kriyamaan karma to suppress negative Prarabdha and support positive elements of it.
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Remember: Prarabdha is fixed. It can be suppressed or faced with strong courage.
There is strength in Prarabdha as well. A very strong Prarabdha can't be suppressed to an effective state but you can definitely stop it from making an impression on you which create similar again.
1/ I have encountered many such people because of my work. Jyotish demands this from anyone who takes it up seriously.
An astrologer has to do research on every kind of human being present in the world.
The saint, the criminal, the addict, the drunkard, the monk, the housewife, the politician, the scientists or engineer.
If you do not do this research, you will never understand them, and without understanding them you can never learn Jyotish properly.
Actually the moment you start learning Jyotish, you also start learning a lot about life itself. That is the real gift of this vedanga.
And in this study, one personality has come in front of me again & again.
People who present themselves very well in the society.
Running big NGOs, funding hospitals, helping disabled kids, doing all kinds of charity. Most of them are also quite successful & rich on the outside.
But in the dark hours, when nobody is watching, they are struggling with something. Some vasana that has been sitting there for years & just does not leave. Kama, alcohol, some habit they themselves know is wrong.
I want to write about this personality today. Shastra has said a lot about him. Thread 🧵
2/ First thing to understand. Not every such man is the same.
Through my work I have seen at least 3 different types, and Shastra also treats them differently.
The first type is a man driven by his vasana.
In that moment he enjoys it fully. But once the wave passes, his viveka returns & he says to himself, this was wrong, I should not have done it. Like a knowledgeable man who gets angry, does something in that anger, and after the anger cools down he realises his mistake.
He is not fully fallen. His conscience is alive, only it wakes up a little late.
The 2nd type never realises anything. He does what he does and feels nothing after it. No guilt, no return of viveka. He simply lives it as normal life.
The 3rd type is the true hypocrite. He knows very well what he is doing. He enjoys it privately on full purpose.
And he uses his social service almost like a ledger, giving on one side to balance the taking on the other side. He is not divided at all. He is very calculated inside.
This thread is mostly about the first man, because he is the one who still has a door open.
3/ The clearest voice of this condition in our whole history is Duryodhana.
Standing in front of Krishna he speaks with a honesty which even good men rarely manage.
जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्तिर्जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः।
त्वया हृषीकेश हृदि स्थितेन यथा नियुक्तोऽस्मि तथा करोमि॥
I know dharma, but I do not have strength to walk on it. I know adharma, but I do not have strength to leave it.
O Hrishikesha, you are seated in my heart, and as you set me, so I act.
Look at the last line carefully. He is not only confessing. He is also shifting the blame on the one seated inside.
Some force is making me do it, what can I do. Keep this line in mind, because Krishna is going to answer it directly.
Dwelling on sense objects creates attachment. Attachment breeds desire. Desire produces anger. Anger leads to delusion. Delusion destroys memory. Memory loss kills the buddhi. And when buddhi is gone, the person is finished.
Krishna gave this sequence thousands of years ago. Today we are watching it play out on a civilizational scale.
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The मनः (manas), our processing instrument, was designed to handle a finite amount of sensory input.
The sounds of your village, the faces of your family, the rhythm of seasons. That is what the human mind evolved with for millennia.
Now, in a single hour of scrolling, the mind processes hundreds of faces, stories, outrage triggers, comparison traps, and desire hooks. Reels.
Notifications. Dating apps. News cycles. Dopamine hit after dopamine hit.
The mind has no off switch for this. It was never given one.
And when the mind is drowning in stimulation, it cannot pass clean information to the बुद्धि (buddhi). विवेक (viveka), the ability to discriminate between right and wrong, real and unreal, goes dark.
Not because the person is evil. But because the instrument that perceives dharma has been overwhelmed into dysfunction.
2/ Not every marriage is meant for pleasure. Sometimes marriage brings drama. Sometimes trauma. Sometimes a karmic chapter you never signed up for.
And whether one is single or married, life does not hand out happiness based on marital status.
3/ I have seen many people who remain single, not by choice, but because their old parents need them, or a sibling depends on them. Their dharma kept them at home.
Were they less worthy of joy? No. They simply chose duty over joy.
1/Modern India is producing a new species of couple:- DINK. Double Income, No Kids.
Big house. Foreign trips. No "burden."
What they don't realise: they are silently accumulating one of the heaviest karmic debts known to Sanatana Dharma:- Pitra Rinn.
A thread. 🧵
→ Deva Rinn: debt to the gods, cleared through worship.
→ Rishi Rinn: debt to the seers, cleared through study.
→ Pitra Rinn: debt to the ancestors, cleared through continuing the lineage.
The 3rd one cannot be paid in money.
3/Why does Pitra Rinn even exist?
You did not arrive on this earth by accident.
An unbroken chain of ancestors: thousands of them - chose to continue the lineage so that one day your soul could take human birth.
Your body is their gift. Your buddhi is their inheritance.
"Hinduism has no rules, belief is optional" line is a 20th-century invention.
The actual texts say the opposite. A few references for those who care to check:
1. Sandhyavandanam is Nitya Karma, not optional.
Manusmriti 2.101 prescribes morning and evening sandhya with Gayatri japa.
Manusmriti 2.103 goes further: one who does not perform both sandhyas is to be excluded from all dvija-karma (sarva-dvija-karmabhyo bahiṣkāryaḥ).
Yajnavalkya Smriti 1.24–25 says the same. Taittiriya Aranyaka instructs ahar-ahaḥ sandhyām upāsīta, worship the sandhya day after day.
2. Dharmashastra divides karma into three categories:
Nitya (daily obligatory), Naimittika (occasional obligatory), Kamya (optional, desire-based).
Failure of nitya karma produces pratyavaya, the sin of omission.
Sandhyavandanam, agnihotra, deva-puja sit in the nitya bucket. The shastra does not leave this to mood.
In 1884, Narendranath’s (Swami Vivekananda) father passed away suddenly.
The family fell into deep financial trouble. Debts, pressure, and no income.
As the eldest son, Narendranath tried hard to find work, but nothing came through.
Some days he lied to his mother, saying he had eaten at a friend’s home.
He did this only so she and his younger brothers could have a little more food.
In this helpless state, he went to his guru, Sri Ramakrishna, and asked him to pray to God to save his family from poverty.