Karma or Bhagya: What is more powerful?

One of the biggest dilemnas that many humans have is the doubt of what is bigger - luck or hard work.

Today I want to talk about the same.

The truth is that karma itself gives birth to good or bad luck. If you are living a good life since birth, it means your bhagya is good. But the bhagya only formed when you did the appropriate karma in your previous life.

There is popular saying that when luck is not in favor nothing will happen no matter how much you try. But it is a partial truth. This is because even though it is true that our bad luck will create obstacles and make success look almost impossible. But it is not true that it actually becomes impossible.

If our present bhagya itself is created because of our karmas, then how can attempting any new karma be useless. We as humans are given free will by god. We can get every single thing that we want, be what we want, and do what we want. We can achieve even those things that are not in our luck. 

The only reason why we don't get success in every task and get every desired thing is lack of knowledge. That alone is the only determinant factor that stops you from getting what you want.

Bhagya are of 2 types: Bhagya and Saubhagya.

Bhagya means luck and is nothing but the fruit of our karma. It can be good or bad. It is said that it is already written - and this belief is true.

Whereas, saubhagya is divine. saubhagya doesn't mean luck. Saubhagya is what is given by god themselves. It is a pure, godly energy. 

Bhagya means having a good house, happy family, money, etc. from your birth.

But saubhagya is only received by the blessings of god. Things happening the way one wants things to be, the state of feeling mentally and emotionally abundant, getting things in the same way as you had wanted them to be, presence of intense spiritual energy in the body, the spiritual energy that is developed during purascharan days, tapabal, the development of prana shakti, love, auspicious events - all of these are parts/subparts of saubhagya. It is not the same as luck or fortune.

In other words, bhagya is born from our karmas. Saubhagya is born from divya kripa.

Now, it is true that bhagya is already written and our bad and good events are already written. But that doesn't mean that your karma doesn't have importance. As I said before, bhagya is born from our karmas. If we want more sadbhagya, we only need to do more good karmas.

We as humans are born with a certain set of bhagya. It is because of our bhagya that we are born in a poor or rich family. It is bhagya that causes incurable diseases to some and gives a healthy body and long life to others. When going out for work, it is what gives the comfort of a car to some and the pain of walking on feet to some. While walking if your shoes get torn and you have to walk with that uncomfortableness, that is your bhagya. Whether you live in a naturally good place with clean air or in house that is in an industrial area or next to gutter full of polluted air, that is also bhagya. It is bhagya which controls what kind of husband/wife - whether good or bad that you will marry. It is bhagya which decides whether you will sleep on a clean, well-built bed, or sleep on a shabby, half-broken, having torn bedsheets and unleveled mattress causing back pain to you. It is bhagya, which either gives all the comforts to someone even after having less money. At the other end, it is bhagya, which, even though you may have a lot of money, but will still not let you live a life with any kind of comforts. 

Thus, bhagya is indeed very powerful. But it is also true that it is not impossible to remove durbhagya. In fact, it is very easy. The only way to cut through all the bad luck is getting knowledge and doing work.

Many people who were born in extreme poverty got freed from it, only because they were constantly learning and cutting through their difficulties by doing the right work.

One thing which you as sadhak should know is that your bad karma is a result of you doing something bad to someone in previous lives. That is why, if someone comes and creates obstacles in opening your first business, then it means that in your past life you too had obstructed someone from starting it. 

When you stop being dependent on luck and work hard, life will become harder. Because you are trying to cut through all the bad karmas in one go and recreate a new life. But the more you face these difficulties, the sooner you are going to nullify every bad deed. 

Even though a lot of people try to do it, they fail in it. The reason is, that hard work alone cannot do anything. Knowledge and hard work both are important. That is why, you must continually work hard, while constantly gaining knowledge side-by-side.

Every area of our life has something to be learned about and something to work hard on. You just have to find it.

If you are unable to focus on studies, you should study and analyze what are the things that are acting as distractions, and then work on removing them and start focusing.

You as a sadhak, should never be afraid of obstacles. In fact, you should be welcoming obstacles. Because as I mentioned in my previous article, every obstacle comes in our life to teach something. 

Observe and recall every difficult situation in your life. It happened, either because of a lack of knowledge about something or because of not doing the right karma/work. 

In other words, every single obstacle brings with it a window of opportunity to grow and learn. 

So, the more you work hard, the more in the face of bad karmas you will come, the more these bad karmas come in your life, the more you will face obstacles. The more obstacles you face, the more you will get opportunities to grow and learn. 

The size of the difficulty will determine the proportionate growth in your knowledge. Small difficulties will bring smaller, incremental growth in you. Whereas bigger difficulties will bigger scale improvements in you.

And with every single learning, you will develop awareness and next time, those problems will stop bothering you because you'd already know a solution.

Unfortunately, the knowledge of something is not engrained unless one experiences pain for it. Even though you can prepare for certain things in advance, but the knowledge will not be engrained until you experience pain or do some struggle for it.

Sin removal mantras can remove sins or bad karmas, but that will not remove the upcoming difficulties caused due to lack of knowledge. Even a child can do sin removal sadhana and burn all his sins, but when he starts his business and he faces difficulties, it is not caused due to his sins. Sin removal sadhanas will remove your sins, but the responsibility of getting vidya is still yours.

Getting freed from sins v/s getting what is lacking - these are 2 different things.

But surely do sin removal sadhanas. Otherwise, we as humans carry so many sins that they will become badhak in your spiritual and worldly progress and you will never be able to get freed from this cycle of birth and death. Doing sin removal sadhanas will remove the sins and the intense pain caused due to those karmas. After that, whatever difficulty you face will be fixed as soon as accept the learning from it and do the right work. The difficulties will be very short-lived.

You are born with a fixed bhagya fal. But it is not permanent. It can be changed.

In terms of worldly life, the best way to get what you want is to first give.

One of the biggest rules of Lakshmi upasna is that whatever a sadhak wants, he must first give it, either fully or some part of it. Otherwise, he cannot get that thing in return.

Making money is not a sin. But being greedy for it is a sin. It doesn't matter what the thing is, one of the fastest ways to get it is to give it to someone 'needy' first. If you are needy for money, give some to another person who is needy for money. And that way, it will come to you speedily.

If you are needing help, give your help to someone else in life and help will come to you.

For the bigger things in life, god has ruled the items for donation.

For example, to get long health, donate medicines or black sesame seeds. To get a good wife, donate a bed. To get a house, donate a cow or feed brahmins.

Nothing is more powerful than daan. In Kali yuga, Daan is param dharma. Darshan is more powerful than being nastik, doing aarti is more powerful than just darshan, playing ghanta is more powerful than just aarti, offering flowers is more powerful than playing ghanta and lighting diyas, doing pradakshina is more powerful than offering flowers, chanting mantras/stotras is more powerful than pradakshina, vrat is more powerful than mantras or stotras, feeding cows as powerful as doing vrat, but daan is more powerful than even feeding cows.

Donating even 1.25kg of rice gives more punya than what would have been achieved by months of japa. With an intense speed, daan burns every sign of poverty, every sin, every negative thought, and fills your life with abundance.

If you want something instantly or in the least amount of time, it is through daan.

Sometimes, even what mantras or vrat cannot give, can be gained with daan. And it doesn't apply to just what is mentioned in shastras. 

Even by giving other things, you can get what you want. Because daan works on law of karma.

If you want a job and haven't been able to find one, give a job another needy person first, and you will see that in very less time you will get the job of your dreams. If you want love, spread your internal love and kindness and give it to every single person you meet. And you will soon find the love that your heart is looking for.

Even though mantras and stotras do have power, the speed and stability achieved by giving is unsurpassable because it is based on law of karma.

Whatever you want, give it first and it will come to you.