Quotes | Jyotish Sarathi

येन केन यथा यद् यद् यथोक्तं कर्म सुमित्रम्। तत् तदेकत्र भुङ्क्ते नित्यं विहितात्मात्मना॥

Whatever karma a person has done in his past lives, he has to suffer its consequences, himself alone.

— Valmiki Ramayana

स्वकर्मफलनिषेधं विधानपरिरक्षितम्। भूतानामनयं काल: सम्मन्तादपकर्षति॥

One's karmas are like treasures which are safeguarded according to the laws of scriptures. In right time, Time draws the karma-doers towards itself.

— Valmiki Ramayana

अनेच्छमानानि यथा पुष्पाणि च फलानि च। स्व काले नातिवर्तन्ते तथा कर्म पुरा कृतम्॥

Just as fruits and flowers grow without any inspiration so too karmas done in past lives cannot transgress the limits of Time when their fruits must manifest.

— Valmiki Ramayana

सम्मानस्वामानाभ्यां लाभालाभौ क्षयोदयौ। प्रवृत्ता विनिवर्तन्ते विधानान्ते यथेच्छया॥

Honour and dishonour, gains and losses, rise and fall all these are the results of the karmas of past lives, stage by stage. After they are enjoyed or suffered, they are exhausted.

— Valmiki Ramayana

आत्मना विहितं दुःखं स्वात्मना विहितं सुखम्। गर्भाशयमुपीयाय भुङ्क्ते वेदविधिक्रियाम्॥

Unhappiness is the result of one's own karmas of past lives and so is happiness. The moment a person enters the womb of the mother, he begins to experience the results of the karmas of his past lives.

— Valmiki Ramayana

बालो युवा वा वृद्धो वा करोति शुभाशुभम्। तस्यास्तस्यैव भुङ्क्ते जन्मनि जन्मनि॥

Be he a child or an old man, whatever karma he has done in certain conditions, he has to suffer or enjoy them in identical conditions in lives to come.

— Valmiki Ramayana

कश्च दैवेन सौमित्रे योद्धुमुत्सहते पुमान् । यस्य नु ग्रहणं किंचित् कर्मणोऽन्यन्न दृश्यते ।।

When we get the results of our own karmas in the shape of happiness or unhappiness, we then become aware of Destiny. Who can fight Destiny

— Valmiki Ramayana

सुखदुःखे भयक्रोधौ लाभालाभौ भवाभवौ। यस्य किंचित् तथाभूतं ननु दैवस्य कर्म तत् ।।

Happiness and unhappiness, fear and anger, gain and loss, origin (creation) and destruction and similar happenings are the quirks of Destiny.

— Valmiki Ramayana

ऋषयोऽप्युग्रतपसो दैवेनाभिप्रचोदिताः । उत्सृज्य नियमांस्तीव्रान् भ्रश्यन्ते काममन्युभिः ।।

Even great spiritual practitioners give up their spiritual practices when their Destiny so will it. And actuated by lust and anger and impelled by Destiny they fall from great ideals

— Valmiki Ramayana

असंकल्पितमेवेह यदकस्मात् प्रवर्तते । निवर्त्यारब्धमारम्भैर्ननु दैवस्य कर्म तत् ।।

That which happens suddenly and cannot be prevented even through efforts but creates a new and inscrutable situation is the work of Destiny.

— Valmiki Ramayana

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् । विविधाश्च पृथक्‍चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम् ॥ १४ ॥

Interpreted in modern terms, say, in the language of management, there are, in the implementation of any plan or project, five components: a plan of action is the first one; a plan manager the second one; intruments of action the third one; the act of implementation the fourth one. But the final outcome of these is either success or failure because it is dependent on the fifth factor which is 'destiny'.

— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 14

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥

You have the right to work only, but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 47