Karma done with a lot of effort is bahulayasam. A person who does this type of karma will make elaborate arrangements and make it known that he is doing a great karma. He goes out to advertise the show. He publishes the ritual irrespective of the phalam but gets inflated by the opnions others express of him. Sahankarena is karma done with ahankara. This is in contrast with a jnani who does action without any sense of doership, anahankara. Suppose there is a well-informed person, a srotriya who has the knowledge of Vedas and a lot of other good qualities, memory of versus so on so forth also but not atma jnanam, then he would still be motivated by sahankarena. A jnani is one who is humble, naturally because the more knowledge he has, the more he realizes how much is not known. Relatively, we say he is free from ahankara, by which we mean free from a certain pride, the feeling that “I am a great ritualist…etc”. Sahamkarena is not a healthy self-image but arrogance, a type of vaidika pride or the religious snobbishness or secular sahankara. These are rajasam karma. Hara Hara Mahadeva
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:41:26 +0000
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