(Dec 13,2013 ) Spiritual Message for the Day –As You Sow, So You Reap by Swami Chidananda

As You Sow, So You Reap

Divine Life Society Publication: The Eye Of The Hurricane by Swami Chidananda

The law of Karma says that you can reap any harvest that you wish, provided you sow the desired seeds. This wonderful law is the very soul of love and justice, of grace and justice. It says: “Nothing that you ever deserve will be denied. Bring into being the correct cause, the effect is bound to follow—as shadow follows substance. There is no power in this universe that can hold back from you what is yours, what you have worked for. If the whole world raises itself against you, it will be powerless to deprive you of that bounty you have access to”. It is upon this law that Yoga is based. It is upon this great law that the science of divine experience, divine perfection, the science of illumination, the science of liberation is based. Your entire life is the ultimate outcome of what you have thought, aspired for, and worked for. Desire should be followed by exertion which makes you deserving. Therefore the greatest blessedness inherited by the human being is this great law; the law of cause and effect, the law of action and its sure and certain and guaranteed reaction. You are the master of your destiny. The key to your future lies in your hands and in no one else’s hands.

But there is a great misunderstanding, a very great blindness, a colossal ignorance about this great law. It has always been considered—and I could never understand how—it has always been considered as something terrible, something which even lays God open to the charge of being unjust and heartless and callous; because, somehow the law of Karma is always associated with suffering, with pain. It is not at all so. Nowhere in any classical scripture is it said that the law of Karma makes you suffer. The law of Karma states simply that you get what you merit.

The law of Karma is the Divine manifesting Its grace upon Its creation so as to throw open the doors to divine perfection and liberation. Man on earth is a creature of bliss, a child of joy, and if he inherits sorrow and suffering, weeping and wailing, it is not because he was meant to do it. On the contrary, His plan for each and every one of us is bliss indescribable, illumined wisdom, total perfection, a state of everlasting life where death has no meaning and no place—where death itself meets its death. That is the plan of the Divine for each and every one of you, but you must live in this awareness, you must live in this consciousness of the central purpose of Your existence here, in this consciousness of your divine origin. Whereas, we, always live in the consciousness of our earthly origin, our physical origin.

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As You Sow, So You Reap:  The Eye Of The Hurricane by Swami Chidananda
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