{"id":71036,"date":"2025-01-13T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=71036"},"modified":"2025-01-11T07:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:06:55","slug":"attaining-the-highest-result-through-virtuous-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/attaining-the-highest-result-through-virtuous-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Attaining the Highest Result Through Virtuous Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/a>The intrinsic nature of karma: all other virtuous activities are completely material. The goal is transcendental<\/span><\/h2>\n

Karma-svarupa: anya subha-karma jadamaya. Upeya vastu cinmaya<\/span><\/p>\n

Materially minded people who take refuge in mundane objects and situations practice sadhana only to mitigate fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

O Hari, You are second to none! Your feet guarantee fearlessness. Only with Your feet can one cross the ocean of birth and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Materially minded people have created many ways to reach Your feet, but they are all mundane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Domestic fire sacrifices[1]<\/a>, public welfare activities[2]<\/a>, long-term fire sacrifices[3]<\/a>, pious activities, bathing in holy rivers, one-day fire sacrifices[4]<\/a>, charitable giving, yoga, varnasrama-dharma, going on pilgrimage to holy places, observing vows, worshiping the Pitris, meditating, gathering knowledge, activities related to the Devas, performing austerities, atonement etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

They take shelter of all these material things and try to attain the nature of their goal by performing virtuous activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, by following these processes, they reach their goal. But by rejecting other methods, they reach perfection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please hear the goal of the Jiva, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, who bestows complete bliss and all perfection.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a>Attaining the highest result through virtuous actions<\/span><\/h2>\n

Subha-karma upaya<\/span><\/p>\n

Material objects and situations are not filled with bliss. They are all part of a trick for the Jiva to achieve perfection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, all virtuous activities are a way to achieve the goal. That goal exists as the highest perfection in the form of prema.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>With these methods there is a delay in achieving perfection<\/span><\/h2>\n

Tahate upeya prapti vilamba-siddha<\/span><\/p>\n

With all these auspicious activities, the attainment of perfection is delayed because there is distance between the method and the goal[5]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Ista.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Purta.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Yajna.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Homa.<\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> If the goal is prema and the means to achieve it are virtuous actions, then it will take a long time to achieve it, because there is a notable qualitative difference between the two.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cHarinama Cintamani (English)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The intrinsic nature of karma: all other virtuous activities are completely material. The goal is transcendental Karma-svarupa: anya subha-karma jadamaya. Upeya vastu cinmaya Materially minded people who take refuge in mundane objects and situations practice sadhana … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":68214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-71036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-harinama-cintamani-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 13:27:05","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\/71036","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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}