{"id":57909,"date":"2020-09-24T18:19:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=57909"},"modified":"2023-09-24T18:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:38:42","slug":"bhagavad-gita-4-12-ka%e1%b9%85k%e1%b9%a3anta%e1%b8%a5-karma%e1%b9%87a%e1%b9%81-siddhi%e1%b9%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/bhagavad-gita-4-12-ka%e1%b9%85k%e1%b9%a3anta%e1%b8%a5-karma%e1%b9%87a%e1%b9%81-siddhi%e1%b9%81\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad-gita 4.12 – k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63anta\u1e25 karma\u1e47\u0101\u1e41 siddhi\u1e41"},"content":{"rendered":"
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k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63anta\u1e25 karma\u1e47\u0101\u1e41 siddhi\u1e41
\nyajanta iha devat\u0101\u1e25
\nk\u1e63ipra\u1e41 hi m\u0101nu\u1e63e loke
\nsiddhir bhavati karma-j\u0101<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63anta\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 desiring; karma\u1e47\u0101m<\/em><\/a> \u2014 of fruitive activities; siddhim<\/em><\/a> \u2014 perfection; yajante<\/em><\/a> \u2014 they worship by sacrifices; iha<\/em><\/a> \u2014 in the material world; devat\u0101\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 the demigods; k\u1e63ipram<\/em><\/a> \u2014 very quickly; hi<\/em><\/a> \u2014 certainly; m\u0101nu\u1e63e<\/em><\/a> \u2014 in human society; loke<\/em><\/a> \u2014 within this world; siddhi\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 success; bhavati<\/em><\/a> \u2014 comes; karma<\/em><\/a>–j\u0101<\/em><\/a> \u2014 from fruitive work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Men in this world desire success in fruitive activities, and therefore they worship the demigods. Quickly, of course, men get results from fruitive work in this world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There is a great misconception about the gods or demigods of this material world, and men of less intelligence, although passing as great scholars, take these demigods to be various forms of the Supreme Lord. Actually, the demigods are not different forms of God, but they are God\u2019s different parts and parcels. God is one, and the parts and parcels are many. The Vedas<\/em> say, nityo nity\u0101n\u0101m:<\/em> God is one. \u012a\u015bvara\u1e25 parama\u1e25 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u1e25.<\/em> The Supreme God is one \u2013 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a \u2013 and the demigods are delegated with powers to manage this material world. These demigods are all living entities (nity\u0101n\u0101m<\/em>) with different grades of material power. They cannot be equal to the Supreme God \u2013 N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Anyone who thinks that God and the demigods are on the same level is called an atheist, or p\u0101\u1e63a\u1e47\u1e0d\u012b.<\/em> Even the great demigods like Brahm\u0101 and \u015aiva cannot be compared to the Supreme Lord. In fact, the Lord is worshiped by demigods such as Brahm\u0101 and \u015aiva (\u015biva-viri\u00f1ci-nutam<\/em>). Yet curiously enough there are many human leaders who are worshiped by foolish men under the misunderstanding of anthropomorphism or zoomorphism. Iha devat\u0101\u1e25<\/em> denotes a powerful man or demigod of this material world. But N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not belong to this world. He is above, or transcendental to, material creation. Even \u015ar\u012bp\u0101da \u015aa\u1e45kar\u0101c\u0101rya, the leader of the impersonalists, maintains that N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, is beyond this material creation. However, foolish people (h\u1e5bta-j\u00f1\u0101na<\/em>) worship the demigods because they want immediate results. They get the results, but do not know that results so obtained are temporary and are meant for less intelligent persons. The intelligent person is in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, and he has no need to worship the paltry demigods for some immediate, temporary benefit. The demigods of this material world, as well as their worshipers, will vanish with the annihilation of this material world. The boons of the demigods are material and temporary. Both the material worlds and their inhabitants, including the demigods and their worshipers, are bubbles in the cosmic ocean. In this world, however, human society is mad after temporary things such as the material opulence of possessing land, family and enjoyable paraphernalia. To achieve such temporary things, people worship the demigods or powerful men in human society. If a man gets some ministership in the government by worshiping a political leader, he considers that he has achieved a great boon. All of them are therefore kowtowing to the so-called leaders or \u201cbig guns\u201d in order to achieve temporary boons, and they indeed achieve such things. Such foolish men are not interested in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness for the permanent solution to the hardships of material existence. They are all after sense enjoyment, and to get a little facility for sense enjoyment they are attracted to worshiping empowered living entities known as demigods. This verse indicates that people are rarely interested in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. They are mostly interested in material enjoyment, and therefore they worship some powerful living entity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u00a0 \u0915\u093e\u0919\u094d\u0915\u094d\u0937\u0928\u094d\u0924\u0903 \u0915\u0930\u094d\u092e\u0923\u093e\u0902 \u0938\u093f\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093f\u0902 \u092f\u091c\u0928\u094d\u0924 \u0907\u0939 \u0926\u0947\u0935\u0924\u093e \u0964 \u0915\u094d\u0937\u093f\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0902 \u0939\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0928\u0941\u0937\u0947 \u0932\u094b\u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093f\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093f\u0930\u094d\u092d\u0935\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0930\u094d\u092e\u091c\u093e \u0965 \u0967\u0968 \u0965 \u00a0 k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63anta\u1e25 karma\u1e47\u0101\u1e41 siddhi\u1e41 yajanta iha devat\u0101\u1e25 k\u1e63ipra\u1e41 hi m\u0101nu\u1e63e loke siddhir bhavati karma-j\u0101   k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63anta\u1e25 \u2014 desiring; … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 20:46:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}