Vedic Wisdom - Papa and Punya

Vedic Wisdom

Papa and Punya

According to the cosmic law every being born in this world is ordained with certain duties and enjoyments.

God has created sufficient resources for keeping everyone happy with their share of full enjoyment. This he has done because otherwise there will be no motivation for the beings to live and evolve.

At the same time he does not permit overindulgence on external pleasures alone, because then the mind evolution does not happen and therefore his objective is defeated.

That is why he has made his cosmic laws in a balanced way. He has provided for ‘all your needs but not for your greed’

Therefore in his kingdom, you can enjoy anything and in fact everything, as long as you don’t infringe upon the other beings life.

And you are expected to contribute your share for the evolution by experiencing things in a rightful way and these experiences of yours are the inputs you give to the God for an orderly evolution.

We must understand that God is the most scientific and logical person, and therefore he has worked out his systematic mechanism to achieve his grand evolution, using these inputs.

So if you keep on just fulfilling your ordained duty, life after life (of course enjoying all the permitted pleasures) you can realize the God as you progress and God is perfectly happy with that. That is why Lord Krishna says ‘Just do your duty and leave the rest to me’.

But if the beings become greedy, lusty, egoistic and lay its hand on other’s share; or harm or hurt other beings; or cause agonies and pains to other beings (by thoughts, words or deeds); or deny other beings their rightful share or prevent them from discharging their ordained duties by causing physical or mental harm, then you violate the laws of nature and create a cause and effect karmic syndrome, and the reprisal process starts.

Then you get into the karmic bond and miss out the pure bliss for which you came here and instead you start suffering. This act of violating the nature’s law is called ‘Papa’ leading to the cycle of painful life.

If you give up some of your rights for the sake of other beings (which is called sacrifice) or make your fellow beings to feel more happy and pleasant by your thoughts, words and deeds or if you help them to perform their duties or make them enjoy their rights in a better way, then you are contributing to the God’s objective of an orderly evolution by more than what is expected of you and this is called ‘Punya’

As a result you get rewarded with better living circumstances in this birth as well as in the births to come.

Misconceptions:

Due to wrong , incomplete , unscientific and defective understanding of the cosmic truths certain misconceptions have crept in into the concept of God realization and the routes to achieve it. Though the proponents of such myths claim that it is meant only for human emancipation, these misconceptions have done more harm than good for the purpose of God realization and human upliftment. Therefore it has become very necessary to clarify and remove these wrong notions so that real progress is possible in the journey to ‘eternal bliss’.

This article is a snippet from the Book Vedic Wisdom, Authored by Pandit Sri Rama Sharma. Vedic Wisdom is available online at www.giri.in and across Giri Trading Agency Private Limited, A chain of Speciality Stores dealing in all kinds of products needed in Indian Culture and Tradition.