Monday 17 March 2014

CAN PRARABHDA KARMA BE ALTERED ?

QUESTION --

CAN PRARABHDA KARMA BE ALTERED ?

IN SRI PADA VALLABHA (SECOND INCARNATION 
OF DATTATREYA) CHARITHRE IT IS STATED THAT
HE HAS CHANGED PRARABHDA KARMA OF SOME
PEOPLE DURING HIS LIFE TIME.



SRI SHANKARACHARYA

As per Shankaracharya  a person becomes Jeevanmuktha 
when result of all his Papa karmas of Prarabhda are 
exhausted & only result of Punya karmas are remaining,so 
that even if he is not performing any karmas his body is 
sustained till the end of his life span, which is when all his 
Prarabhda karmas are exhausted.

When a person becomes Jeevanmuktha, he sees GOD in all, 
his actions are without any Selfish motive & offered to GOD, 
so they do not produce any Papa or Punya. Such a person 
also must have achieved MANO-NASHA. In this state he 
neither suffers nor enjoys fruits of Prarabhda Karma.Please 
note that he is in Athmananda all the time. However others
 who see him think that he is suffering bodily or mentally due
to Prarabhda Karma. Even Agami karma & Sanchitha Karma 
are  nullified for such a person. He is liberated & he has no re-
birth. 

SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA

Saints like Ramakrishna looked as if suffering due to throat 
cancer and Ramana suffered elbow cancer, leg joint pain 
resulted in limping like movement of his legs.

When a devotee asked a question on this subject of
Prarabhda Karma his answer was as follows --

Question: Is it posssible to overcome, even while the 
body exists, the Prarabdha Karma which is said to 
last till the end of the body?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Yes. If the agent, upon whom 
the Karma depends, namely the ego, which has come 
into existence between the body and the Self, merges 
in its source and loses its form, how can the Karma, 
which depends upon it, survive? When there is no ‘I’ 
there is no Karma.

BHAGWAN RAMANA MAHARSHI

SWAMI NITHYANANDA

Even Nithyananda suffered in childhood(Kamale Roga & 
his care taker mother gave him crow's meat to eat & applied 
crow's blood on the body). Three days before death he was 
on bed due to ill health. When a person suffers due to 
Prarabhda Karma, prarabhda of those who are related or 
shishyas also are linked to it. The saint may not be affected, 
but shishyas are affected.

GURU Avadhutha of Sakarayapattana

My GURU Avadhutha of Sakarayapattana had Diabetes, he 
got blisters under the feet by standing on tar road in sunshine 
for long period & it took two months to heal. Even though
he had super natural powers he did not use them to cure 
such problems.

Some saints I have heard when they get fever, they transfer it 
to their danda which starts shaking. They finish their bath,
pooja & then take back the fever from danda, not to avoid 
Prarabhda Karma


If a person falls sick or catches a disease, he goes to a doctor 
takes medicine & he gets cured, doctor has not altered his 
prarabhda. Getting cured also is part of Prarabhda.

If a person commits suicide we have  heard people say, he 
has cut short his life intentionally ie he has meddled with his 
Prarabhda resulting in 'Gora Papa' giving rise to many more 
births.However committing suicide was in his Prarabhda.

Sri Shridhara Swamy of Varadapura near Sagar,used to tell 
by Divine wisdom, whenever he used to suffer, he used to 
tell the exact reason of the Papa he committed in his 
previous birth which has given rise to the present suffering !! 

Even the Palm leaf predictions of Nadi Shastra indicates the 
previous birth Papa which resulted in a suffering in this birth.
It also gives remedies to that Papa by doing good deeds 
like Anna Dana to twelve people sometimes to Twenty one 
people, along with Sahasranama,abhisheka,naivedya,
archana,dana of cloth, to various Gods in different Temples 
& dakshina of money  to archaka or Nadi-reader etc

Swami Yogananda(autobiography of a Yogi fame) has also 
told Prarabhda can be altered by praying to GOD four times 
more ! However this contradicts Sri Shankaracharya's & 
Ramana Maharshi's view on this subject.

Please don't go by one statement, apply it in general & find 
out the validity of it.Can you bring Sri Pada Vallbha now to 
eliminate your Prarabhda ?.Think whether other saints were 
able to do the same & then raise your doubt.Saints are 
against altering Prarabhda Karma.If altered, subsequent 
births may take place,to experience the altered Prarabhda 
Karma.Saints aim is to attain liberation in this birth,resulting 
in no rebirth. 

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