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Brahma Yajna: Want to know where Chithragupth stores your Karma? 

Sometimes, we all experience emotions and outcomes that we didn’t anticipate. When this happens, we often look back to understand the cause. While we may make sense of some experiences, others remain a mystery. The most profound mystery is this: we don’t know why we are born into a specific body, gender, family, or with a particular level of intelligence. Were any of these in our control? No. And many other outcomes are beyond our control as well. Most of these seem predetermined and vedic literature refers to them as karma. 

Isn’t life a bit dull when everything seems pre-determined? 

Not really. Life becomes exciting when we understand its deeper purpose. By aligning our actions with this purpose and streamlining our efforts toward it, we can prevent the mismatch between expectations and outcomes. Life can become more peaceful if we choose to walk this path. If we don’t, we’ll continue adding to the weight of our karmic records, which will only drive the outcomes in our lives. This makes life more chaotic, instead of liberating us from it. 

Can we access these records and destroy them? 

Where are they stored, and who keeps them? Is it a hard disk, google drive, cloud server kind of technology? 

It is said that Chithragupth stores the records of our actions in a special and unique ‘database’—the human body itself. Before the body disintegrates, these records are encapsulated into the sukshma sarira, or the micro-body, which the soul always carries with it through every birth. This micro-body has certain storehouses, such as the senses, manas (mind), and buddhi (intellect), where karma is stored. However, access to these storehouses is restricted and is permitted only for God. 

Can you share more details on that path, so we don’t get trapped in karma? 

The path is Yajna! Yajna isn’t only a ritual performed by priests with sacred fire and offerings. Every activity in our daily life can be transformed into a yajna when we submit the outcomes of each activity to the divine—God. When we recognize that it is God who gives us the opportunities to perform these activities, we align ourselves with a higher purpose. This is how we can love our lives and make them productive toward the ultimate cause, by the grace of God. In doing so, our karmic records are naturally destroyed—without making their destruction the goal. 

How do I perform this yajna? 

Brahma Yajna is the yajna performed as an offering to the supreme power, Bramha—Lord Srimannarayana. Let’s delve deeper into the significance of this yajna and apply that understanding in our daily lives. 

By doing so, we need not enter the cycle of srusti-pralaya (creation and dissolution), which God repeats to give us opportunities to transcend karma and enjoy liberation, ultimately experiencing eternal bliss. When one surrenders to the supreme and leads life as a Yajna under the guidance of a guru, one need not worry about the records in the register maintained by Chithragupth. 

Ever cheerful, ceaselessly active, unmindful of His bodily comforts but always concerned about others welfare, Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji radiates hope and joy wherever He goes. HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji, India’s enlightened spiritual and humanitarian leader, incessantly strives hard to promote world peace and harmony through propagation of Vedic wisdom, spiritual practices, religious tolerance, non-violence, joy of sharing, and mutual respect for all living beings. 

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Scientific Relevance of Vedas in Modern Society

Let’s begin with an example — of you. Are you a student, a teacher, a doctor, a scientist, a fashion designer, a video editor, a home maker or any other professional? As a homemaker, you are structuring your home and setting some principles such that it brings certain order. As a student, you are organizing your homework or preparing for exams in a structured manner.

Similarly, in all other professions, there is a sense of order and structure.

This order implies that there is someone or something behind it, someone who has established this structure, right?

We can relate to the goals of the homemaker, student, or any other professional. But how do we know what God’s intentions are with creation and His goals for the entire universe? Wouldn’t it be wise to understand His vision and mission so we can align with it? By doing so, we make it simpler for both sides — ourselves and the Lord. Otherwise, we are in a strange position, aren’t we? Like a person who lives in a house but does not follow the rules of the house — causing chaos to the rest of the people in the house and to the home owner.

There is a grand manual to help us with the understanding of why, how, what, when, etc — the Vedas. As Sri Krushna says in the Bhagavad Gita

If you understand the vastness of Vedic knowledge, with which the entire universe is created, you can try to imagine the immense power of the Vedas. Now, do we still need to discuss the scientific relevance of the Vedas in modern society?

Here are a couple of examples to help us understand the scope of knowledge Vedas have. These examples will not only demonstrate its relevance but will also show that the Vedas are the foundation of all knowledge.

Anatomy

In the 9th century, there were some attempts to dissect a body to understand its functioning. However, these efforts faced resistance from both kings and society, and the studies didn’t progress. Later, in the 17th century, the medical fraternity made progress in studying human anatomy.

Topography

To understand the topography of a location, we need technology that captures images from above at sufficient heights to measure angles, distances, and other aspects. This technology was only developed in the 1950s with the advent of rocket science.

Thus, let us not limit our thought around scientific relevance of Vedas in Modern society. Understand the scope and breadth of Vedas and we will never need to question it’s relevance in any specific aspect or for any specific type of society or culture.

Ever cheerful, ceaselessly active, unmindful of His bodily comforts but always concerned about others welfare, Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji radiates hope and joy where ever He goes. HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji, India’s enlightened spiritual and humanitarian leader, incessantly strives hard to promote world peace and harmony through propagation of Vedic wisdom, spiritual practices, religious tolerance, non-violence, joy of sharing, and mutual respect for all living beings.

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