ACTION, INTENTION AND LIFE

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ACTION AND INTENTION

To decide whether an act is good or bad, both action and intention should be considered. Of the two, the intention is important.

1. An Act with good intention and good action is always good.

2. An Act with good intention but with bad action is also good.

Eg. You find a scorpion near a lady. You pull her away to save her from the scorpion. Pulling the lady is bad action but the intention to save her is good. So the act is good.

3. An Act with bad intention but with good action is bad.

Eg. You have a soiled currency. No one is accepting it. You give it to a blind beggar.  Giving money to the beggar is a good action but the intention to give away the soiled note is bad intention. Hence the act is bad.

4. An Act with bad intention and bad action is always bad.

LIFE

To lead a good life, we must first get rid of evil thoughts in our mind, speech, and conduct. We must be continuously engaged in developing good thoughts and doing good deeds prescribed by the Sastras.

A sanyasi was asked how he overcomes the promptings of lust [kaama]. He replied that whenever kaama knocked at his mind's door, it found him so busy that it went away on its own accord.

An idle mind is the devil's workshop. If we are always busy with good deeds, evil thoughts will not come near us. 

In the very process of doing good deeds, evil automatically vanishes from our mind. Doing good-deeds keeps us constantly thinking of God and thereby we earn His grace all the time.