Raja-Vidya: The King of Knowledge, Chapter 7

“And when you have thus learned the truth, you will know that all living beings are but parts of Me—and that they are in Me, and are Mine.”

“Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge, you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries.”

“As a blazing fire burns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all the reactions to material activities.” (Bg. 4.35–37)

The fire of knowledge is ignited by the spiritual master, and when it is ablaze, all the reactions to our works are turned to ashes. The reactions to our work, or our karma, are the cause for our bondage. There are good works and bad works, and in this verse the word sarva-karmani indicates both.

For one who wants to be liberated from this material bondage, the reactions of both good works and bad works are detrimental. In this material world we are attached to performing good works if we are situated in the modes of goodness. If we are in the modes of passion and ignorance, however, we do bad work in passion and ignorance.

But for those who are going to be Krishna conscious, there is no need of good work or bad work. By good work we may get a good birth in an aristocratic or wealthy family, and by bad work we may take birth even in the animal kingdom or in degraded human families, but in any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for Krishna consciousness is striving for liberation from the bondage of transmigration.

What is the advantage of being born in a wealthy or aristocratic family if one does not get rid of his material miseries? Whether we enjoy the reactions of good work or suffer the reactions of bad, we have to take on the material body and thereby undergo the material miseries. Full Chapter

Comments

  1. Pamho agtacbsp,to know the own real identity is a science through karana guno sangasya one can know this science by associate daily with spiritual things the own personality can become manifested and one can understand that everyone and everything is property of the supreme personality of godhead sri krsna bhagavat then all the sinful reactions get destroyed by this perfect realization in vijnana maya.the association is the base of any future form therefore by keeping the sat sanga with sri sri guru and gauranga we sure to get a better destination just keeping chanting without caring for prajalpa anartha kama krodha lobha…. agtacbsp ys haribol

  2. Hare krsna , susukam kartum avyavyam joyful performed is the nature of bhakti yoga said Sri krsna but as we can see a dead body is attracted by another dead body therefore the king of knowledge can’t take place where there are dead and dirty things,jnatva na punar mohan one don’t fell in illusion again when one get rid of dead things, actually we are living in a dead society of uncivilised biped who took over the only way of salvation by misleading innocent people in accepting dead things as eternal, before to be dead one have to surpass unlimited obstacles trapped in the mental slavery of the bodily concept of life one have to face so many uncomfortable situations then come the last beat up and people said this was my life but the king of knowledge can change all this troublesome journey by starting new life with srila prabhupada alive and all the parampara is not dead thing and there are not dirty things that’s the raja vidya king of knowledge agtacbsp ys haribol

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