Fruits of Karmas

All living beings in this world experience individually the fruits of their past karmas and wander in different exigencies according to their deeds. Nobody can escape the results of their acauired karmas.

Bondage of Karma

Bondage is not due to materials but it is due to attachment and aversions.

Auspicious and Inauspicious Karmas

Auspicious karmas bring beneficial results and evil karmas bring in harmful results.

Degree of Attachment

Karmic bondage is low, medium or intense in direct proportion to the degree of attachment.

Noose of Karmas

Those people who accumulate wealth through various singul deeds fall into the noose of karmas. They subject themselves to the resentment of others, eventually leaving all wealth here go to hell.

Detached Soul

A soul with attachment binds the karmas and a soul free from attachment becomes liberated from karmas.

Rise and Fall

Violence, untruth, theft, carnal desire, possessiveness, anger, conceit, deceit, greed, attachment, aversion, engaging in quarrels, character assassination, backbiting, liking for sensual pleasures and dislike for self-restraint, malevolent criticism, indulging in deceptive activities and wrong faith are the eighteen types of sins which cause the soul to fall down into bondage. The soul which remains away from these sins rises high and achieves emanciption.

Impermanence of Life

Just as a hawk pounces upon the partridge and makes it bereft of life, so also when the life span of a person comes to an end, death snatches him from life. Young and old, even the child in the womb, are not spared by death.

Pleasures are Transient

Time is fleeting and nights are ticking by. The worldly pleasures are not permanent. Just as the birds abandon the tree when it becomes barren, so also pleasures desert a person who becomes incompetent.

Ephemeral

All the senses, beauty, health, youth, vigour, magnificence, fortune and elegance—these are not eternal but ephemeral like a rainbow.

Solitary

When in distress, a person has to experience his miseries all alone. After death he goes to the next life all alone. Hence the wise do not consider anyone worth taking shelter under.

Unsatisfactory

If the entire universe together with all its wealth is given to you, still it can neither satisfy your craving nor will it be able to protect you.

Helpessness

At the cessation of life, death grabs one’s life, as the lion at one scoop takes away a deer. Mother or father or relatives—none can come to one’s rescue at this hour.

None to Protect

An ignorant person believes that wealth, possessions and relatives are his protectors. He says, `they belong to me and i belong to them’. But they are neither his protectors nor shelter.

Temporal

One should reflect thus : “One day I have to abandon all the wealth and property, land and estates, gold and ornaments, wife and children, relatives and friends and even my own body.”