GOD AND LAW OF

KARMA

Lord and his laws are perfect and complete:

The Éçopaniñad states that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is "perfect and complete." Part of the
Lord's complete arrangement for this material world is his process of creation, maintenance, and
destruction. Every living being in this material world has a fixed schedule of six changes: birth,
growth, maintenance, the production of by-products, diminution, and destruction. This is the law of
material nature. A flower is born as a bud. It grows, remains fresh for two or three days, produces a
seed, gradually withers, and then is finished. You cannot stop this by your so-called material science.
To try to do so is avidyä, ignorance.
Sometimes people foolishly think that by scientific advancement man will become immortal. This is
nonsense. You cannot stop the material laws. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gétä (7.14) Lord Kåñëa says
that the material energy is duratyayä, impossible to overcome by material means.
Material nature consists of three modes, or guëas: sattva-guëa, rajo-guëa, and tamo-guëa, or the modes
of goodness, passion, and ignorance. Another meaning of guëa is "rope." Rope is made by twisting
fiber in a threefold process. First the fiber is twisted in three small strands, then three of them are
twisted together, then again three of those are twisted together. In this way the rope becomes very
strong. Similarly, the three modes of nature—goodness, passion, and ignorance— are mixed, after
which they produce some by-product. Then they are mixed again, and then again. Thus they are
"twisted together" innumerable times.

Pa- Varga and Apa-varga :

In this way the material energy binds you more and more. By your own efforts you cannot get out of
this bondage, which is known as pavarga. Pa-varga is the fifth set of letters in the Sanskrit Devanägaré
alphabet. It contains the letters pa, pha, ba, bha, and ma. Pa stands for pariçrama, "hard labor." Every
living entity in this world is struggling very hard to maintain himself and survive. This is called the
hard struggle for existence. Pha stands for phena, "foam." When a horse works very hard, foam comes
out of its mouth. Similarly, when we are tired from working very hard, our tongue may become dry
and some foam forms in our mouth. Everyone is working very hard for sense gratification—so much
so that foam is coming from their mouth. Ba represents bandha, "bondage." In spite of all our efforts,
we remain bound up by the ropes of the material modes of nature. Bha stands for bhaya, "fear." In
material life, one is always in a blazing fire of fear, since no one knows what will happen next. And
ma represents måtyu, "death." All our hopes and plans for happiness and security in this world are
ended by death.
So, God consciousness nullifies this pavarga process. In other words, by taking to God consciousness
one attains apavarga, where there is no hard struggle for existence and no material bondage, fear, or
death. Pavarga symptomizes this material world, but when you add the prefix "a" to pavarga, that
means it is nullified. Our God consciousness is the path of apavarga.
How to save ourself from soul-killing civilization :
Unfortunately, people do not know of these things, and therefore they are wasting their lives. This
modern civilization is a soul-killing civilization; people are killing themselves because they do not
know what real life is. They are simply living like animals. The animal does not know what life is, so
he simply works under the laws of nature, undergoing gradual evolution. But when you get this human
form of life, you have a responsibility to live in a different way. Here is a chance for you to become
God conscious and solve all problems. But if you don't—if you continue to act like animals—you will
again have to enter the cycle of birth and death and transmigrate through 8,400,000 species of life. It
will take many, many millions of years to come back to the human form of life. For example, the
sunshine you are seeing now you will not see again until after twenty-four hours. Everything in nature
moves in a cycle. So if you lose this opportunity of elevating yourself, then again you must enter the
cycle of transmigration. Nature's law is very strong.
It is important to take to God consciousness immediately, because we do not know how much time is
left before death. When your time in this body expires, no one can stop your death. The arrangement
of material nature is so strong. You cannot say, "Let me remain." Actually, people sometimes request
like that. So before death comes, one should be very careful to become realized in God consciousness.
You should realize God consciousness very quickly. Before your next death comes, you must finish
your business. That is intelligence. Otherwise you will suffer defeat.
The Éçopaniñad states that whatever emanates from the complete whole—the Supreme Lord—is also
complete in itself. Therefore if you want to take advantage of your life and become God conscious,
there is complete facility. But you have to come to the point of taking up the practice. God
consciousness is not theoretical; it is practical. All experiments have already been performed. So, as
indicated in the Éçopaniñad, there is a complete facility for the small complete units—ourselves—to
realize the supreme complete, Kåñëa. We are complete units, but we are small. For example, in a big
machine there is a small screw, and the perfection of that small screw is to be fitted in its proper place.
Then it has value. But if it becomes unscrewed from the machine and falls down on the floor, it has
no value. Similarly, we are perfect as long as we are attached to Kåñëa; otherwise we are useless.
To realize the complete means to realize what our relationship with the complete is. And all forms of
incompleteness are experienced only on account of incomplete knowledge of the complete. We are
thinking, "I am equal to God. I am God." This is incomplete knowledge. But if you know, "I am part
and parcel of God, and therefore I am equal to God in quality," that is complete knowledge. The human
form of life is a chance to revive the complete manifestation of the consciousness of the living being.
You can revive this complete consciousness by the process of God consciousness. But if you don't
take advantage of this complete facility, you are killing yourself, committing suicide. As it is said in
the Éçopaniñad, "The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the
worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance. " So don't be the killer of your soul. Utilize the
complete facility of your human life to become God conscious. That is your only business.

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