[Advaita-l] Is Human Endeavour far stronger than Sanchit Karma (Collected Ones) or Prarabdha

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

द्वौ हुडाविव युध्येते पुरुषार्थौ समासमौ ।
प्राक्तनश्चैहिकश्चैव शाम्यत्यत्राल्पवीर्यवान् ॥ ५ ॥

*dvau huḍāviva yudhyete puruṣārthau samāsamau* |
*prāktanaścaihikaścaiva śāmyatyatrālpavīryavān* || 5 |

The two 'free wills' (ie one being the free will bring exerted now and the
second being prArabdha which is the second 'free will' since it too was
created by our free will exerted in the past or past lives) contend with
each other like two head-butting rams of unequal strength, where in the
mightier ram overcomes the other. (Paraphrased)


A verse from the yoga vAshiShTha often quoted by Sri Yellamraju Srinivas
Rao garu, a stalwart Vedantic acharya who discoursed on shAnkara vedAnta in
Telugu.


Om

Raghav



 prasad via Advaita-l, <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste.


> Sincere Question:
> 1. It is said that there is no excuse for mistakes we make. We have to pay
> the price for each and every act we perform here ; that may be good or
> evil. We are just all the manifestations of all karma done by.
>
> 2. Or can we say that Human Endeavour is far stronger than Sanchit Karma
> (Collected Ones) or Prarabdh? Through Human endeavor we can lessen our past
> collected karma or may eradicate (root out) these past deeds from scratch
> and get liberated.
>
> Which out of two is more powerful and stronger ...   The Luck (Prarabdh) or
> the Human endeavor?
> As my understanding says that human endeavor is far stronger than all luck
> or past karmas.
>
> Please do enlighten me correctly on this...
>
> Regards.
> Abhishek
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards.
> *Abhishek Prasad*
> *8210256689*
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