Good and evil, happiness and misery, merit and sin depend on one's actions.  As is the action, so is the result.  It is easy to indulge in sinful deeds, but it is very difficult to bear the bad results they yield.  Therefore, use your sense of discrimination, before performing an action. The upanishads say, "Thasmai Namah Karmane" (Salutations to the action).  This means you should perform your actions, giving up the sense of ego, so that it becomes sacred.  Then, such actions will bring you good name and will also contribute to the welfare of the world.

 Divine Discourse, April 14, 2001.

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