We are born human.So doing karma is a must.We have to perform karmas through our karmendriyas and jnanendriyas.All these are attached to another organ mind.Above mind there is another component ie intellect.As long as your mind is under the controle of buddhi(intellect), you perform good karmas and you get punya creditted.But if the mind is dragged by sensory organs and it is not in the control of buddhi,you start doing evil deeds there by you get papa(-ve score)in your balance sheet .So you are the master of your future.So the 11 horses tied to the arjunas chariot are the one mentioned above.Sarathi is sri krishna (intellect)and arjuna is parthiva shareera.So the karma performed by arjuna is dharma because he was led by the great intellect krishna

"example when you are walking so many ants are died . when you are riding the bike , may not be your intention you are disturbing some other person ."

Karma is about awareness, understanding, clarity, and ultimately about losing interest in the battles waged within. For most, these are hard won 'lessons' that must be played out experientially.

It's not about right/wrong, good/evil, harming ants or disturbing people, and it certainly isn't about balance sheets and credits. Nature is murderous in her spontaneous functioning, wontonly and gloriously destructive, as well as creative, in her expression. Supporting the infinite variations of expression and movement is what she does and insuring no harm ever come to any of her creatures is obviously not the focus. Birth and death are parts of the same movement and one is no more a problem to be solved than the other.

If you were to experience the need to harm, this comes from ignorance, and clarity is needed, not to keep you from harming, but to dissolve the ignorance.

Karma is ultimately an interest in the world of illusion, and this can mean fear, anger, jealousy and greed, or it can mean the need to be righteous and make yourself a better person and help yourself and others find happiness in the world of duality. All of it comes from ignorance and this is what karma refers to.

Karma is more simple than what we have loaded on this concept. If you get back to the origin - if you read carefully the Hindu scriptures, the Buddhist sutras, as well as texts from other traditions that relate to that concept using other names, you find the same metaphysical truth which you can verify in direct personal experience (e.g. Vipassana meditation) -

Karma is the conditioning of the body-mind machine, the sanskaras, the imprints. It is the personal "If - then - else" programing.

The Karma is what we refer to as the person and it is what incarnates. Buddhists and secular people say there is no soul beyond it, Hindus and other traditions say that there is a soul behind that.

What influences most the Karma (i.e. creates new conditioning imprints and/or strengthen existing ones) is our habitual unconscious reactions which are the conditioning in action. When you are present and aware and thus do not react automatically based on your conditioning, the certain conditioning imprint is eliminated.

When certain levels of conditioning imprints are eliminated, one may experience satory and other parapsychological but temporal states. Most people get stuck in this stage believing that they are enlightened.

Therefore, when you step on an ant unintentionally and automatically reactions of guilt arise, then your Karma is strengthen. If you are aware and act consciously in a non-conflictual manner (e.g. love to the ant but being aware that you didn't do it intentionally and so you couldn't do otherwise etc.) then your Karma is weakened. If you don't care then Karma is not affected - Yes, I know - this is not fair but reality doe not function according to moral and social rules.

So it is not doing or not doing but whether you do unconsciously out of automatic reaction pattern or you do consciously acting (and not reacting) from presence.

It is important to emphasis that this mechanism is not just a body-mind physical-psychological one but has metaphysical aspects, for example, we absorb conditioning patterns from people and other entities that are close to us physically or mentally at a certain point, energies and halos carry sanskaras, and more.

You do not need to believe that the machine is working this way. You can verify it. Certain meditation techniques of awareness open for you the engine hood so that you can experience and see by yourself how the engine actually works. The most potent one for this purpose to the best of my knowledge and experience is Vipassana.

Just Awaken and be in total awareness & establish in Sakshi bhava.
Only Awakening is solution and nothing else.
OM

the above has answers..so u want qn or giving ans fools are we who reply...
Bharat matha ki jai.

From here, karma is self-imposed in a sense... is all due to one's attachments. It isn't even required to stay alive, obviously, so our lack of acceptance of 'what is' constitutes our karma. In order to be free of it, to 'let go' of what binds us is necessary, in an acceptance of 'things as they are'.

One cannot change the course of events, in my view this is the wrong direction to be thinking. Rather, to be accepting of the events. The "I" that feels to be in control of things is karma.

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The problem is not karma or reincarnation but our identification with them, the personification we do to them, association with the "I", which does not exist.

There is karma if you wish to call it so which is simply the cause-and-effect scenario from the perspective of a person. But actually when we say the word Karma or hear the word, there is some magnified connotation that is associated with the word. We do not refer to the simple dry meaning of the word anymore but to some frightening knife held on the neck of the "I". But how something can be a threatening knife if the "I" does not exist as an autonomous independent inherent entity?

Therefore, my suggestion is that instead of inquiring what to do or not to do with Karma, to inquire who is it that inquires.

Awareness -

not being aware is lighter then doing something while being aware, less awareness is less responsibility. But, and there is a but - there is also the aspect of negligence which is the worst. If you are aware of not being aware and are comfortable with that in order not to have responsibility - than you are to be held responsible for all your actions, even if you were not aware of them.

Intention -

A knife. A surgeon is using this knife to operate on a patient and he saves the patient's life.

Later a burglar enters the hospital, he grabs the very same knife, runs to administration offices to rob the hospital's money, he stubs the officer and wounds him mortally and runs away with the money.

Both of them used the very same knife to make the very same act. The only difference was the inner intention, the purpose, the volition.

At a time as we having been is the result of our past works(karamas,duties etc.) which the deeds we have performed with the record in our chitta in previous lives.Main thing is the recording of our karmaqs in our chitta which is a just-like cd,tape,which becomes itself seed(beej)which are also called SANSKARAS in our scriptures and it hides in chitta just to remain potentially in dormant state during the thousands and thousands births,except that of time when it gets appropriate situations to sprout in order to which it becomes gigantic tree and this gigantic tree is called "result of our karamas" Chitta is a part of our Kundalini shakti(PRIMORDIAL ENERGY).This kundalini system remains with us forever through out all the births and chitta may be said as our balance carrying authenticated computerized programmes in two types in the phenomena of nature.These 2 types of SANSKARAS determines our future births and what have to be gotten by us as the results in those births(lives).These 2 types are 2 aspects of karamas done by us, said as-----positive and negative----. positive give us pleasure,enjoyment and all other things towards which our minds hanker.Opposite to it is negative aspect which gives us pain,displeasure,mental dissatisfaction and agony, along-with blow when we want something.Our births and results of our deeds are mixture of these 2.
now your question----if something good is done then along with it something bad automatically,itself unwanted is also done.OK.Please,don't repent on this unwanted happening but attitude of detachment and renunciation should be cultivated,developed as well as adopted.As far as concerning your question to ephemeral world it has no value because of it being unspeakable on worldly surface as per the sociology,public administration,economics and physics etc.but at such level positive thinking + scientific outlook is necessitated to thwart the problem created by your this question.If your question is to be brooded beyond ephemeral phenomena then it has spiritual value.when the karama as seed is recorded in chitta then we are bound to get its results,otherwise not.To avoid this recording we should do our duty as we ourselves having been machine in the custody of GOD(in the hands of GOD).Machine bears no fruits of work which work is done by the machine but owner of the machine(GOD) bears the fruits of works which is worked by machine--------actually it is called surrendered to GOD.These comments are based on yoga darshan,gita and vedanta and such answers are available as most beautifully decorated flowers in the book called "THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA"
Remain in thoughtless awareness (nirvichar samadhi) when carrying your duties without attachment but it is very advanced state of yogis.It(samadhi) is the 8th stage of yoga and below this there are another 7 states as--YAM,NIYAM,AASSAN,PRANAYAM,PRATYAHAR,DHARANA,DHYAN AND 8TH IS SAMADHI.SAHAJ YOGA STARTS FROM THE NIRVICHAR SAMADHI ESTABLISHED BY SRIMATAJI NIRMALADEVIJI.
Above this there are other higher stages of samadhis and somebody may be established in STHITAPRAGYA; AND THE STATE IN WHICH ALL THE ANSWERS ARE GOT TO ALL QUESTIONS AND REMAINS NO ANY QUESTION WITHOUT-PROPER-RESPONSE.REACHING THAT STATE EACH AND EVERY THING BECOMES KNOWN---AND QUESTION WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANTLY RUNS IN UPANISHADS IS----WHAT IS THAT BY KNOWING WHICH EVERYTHING IS KNOWN???-------IS FULLY ANSWERED IN THOSE HIGHER STATES OF SAMADHI TO THE QUESTIONERS/INDIVIDUALS.AND YOGIS GO BEYOND THE STATES OF QUESTIONS-ANSWERS,THAT IS NON-DUALITY(ADVAITAAVTHA).THERE IS NONE EXCEPT ONE.

Intellectually speaking...since I am still identified with my mind and my ego, and live in past and future:

That quote "Surrender me I ll get out of all your karma" makes sense to me.

But first, I know about New York. I have read about it, heared about it. But have never been there. Never experienced it. I just know it's there. I feel it in my bones that New York is real and is really there, even if I have not experienced it. My faith is that strong. lol.

That said, lest I be accused of pretense to enlightenment,
let's disect that quote, with some definitions:

I assume "Krishna" is the speaker? If so, let's go with that.

Krisha: Represents Pure Consciousness. Being. The "I AM THAT I AM." The "Ream of Pure Potentiality". Universal Mind beyond polarity. The mind is only a small part of this "Pure Consciousness", this "Being" that, you really are. Only, you don't realize it, you think you are your mind.

Mind is polar. Relative, you understand high in relation to low. Etc. Mind also lives in the past and the future. BEING is PRESENT. IS AM. I AM. NOW.

I agree with Nancy, that when mind dwells on the previous moment in which you stepped on an ant, and felt (pastence) about it, and carry that emotional baggae from the past into your present state, and feel guilty now, when the guilty causing event is already in the past, not now..then well...those guily feelings will give you an ulcer.

Karma.

If you live each moment anew, fresh, clean slate, not loaded down with baggage from the previosu momoment, neither mentally in your thoughts, nor in your physiology, then...you don't get an uncer from having stepped on the ant.

SUPPOSEDLY: Being fully "Present" is a portal that can take you ever more deeply into "BEING", that higher dimension of consciouss other than the polar mind, and it's accumulated baggage from teh past.

So, Krishna representing that state of Pure and HIgher Consciousness, outside of time, means that if you let go of identificaiton with mind and time and baggage, then ...no more ulcers.

Somethign like that.