Why do we worship God when we know Karma ‘s effect can not be changed ?

[prasad1]

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Sravna..i have a question.
What is the possible reason for this?
Why are animals attracted to some people?
Birds( especially crows), cats and dogs just tend to follow some people and become very friendly with them?
Any idea?

Food. Stop feeding them, they will ditch you in a minute. Survival is the strongest urge for all living things. All other emotions in animals are created by human beings.

 

[GNANA SUNYAM]

worshiping anything is just faith. There is no guarantee of the results.
Even Krishna says
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।
अहं त्वा सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ॥ १८-६६॥

sarvadharmān parityajya māmekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vraja
ahaṃ tvā sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ 18-66

Abandoning all DHARMAS, (of the body, mind, and intellect), take refuge in Me alone; I will liberate thee from all sins; grieve not.

If you have faith, you may believe it, no one can prove or disprove it.
That is how religions and conpersons (someone who use dishonest or illegal methods to trick people into giving them money) survive. It is purely hope, greed, and gullibility.

I believe (Faith) in a higher power we may call it God, Allah, or Brahman, like in Sikhism. I do not expect anything from that God. So my visits to the Temples, Mosques, Churches, and Gurudwara are of a social and cultural nature. I do not do transactions with or beg in places of worship.

"Sarvadharman parithyajya...." is the Law of Grace. Compare and contrast this with the Law of Karma.

Law of Grace apparently overrides, supercedes, annuls the consequences, repurcussions of karma.

'Sarvadharman parityajya..." interprets "abandon all dharmas..". Sounds self-contradictory, conflicting, apparently merits disputing, debating.

Chinmayananda, at the end of a long lecture on this verse, concludes by saying, 'shedding your ego'.

The abrahamic faith puts it in a different verbatim, 'deny yourself...'.

In my humble opinion, seeking the truth, the brahman, does not begin from us. The journey is not ours but of His, of the brahman, of the one and only true almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient one.

It is not 'I' who seeks the Truth. It is He who is Truth Himself seeking me. It is not 'I' who finds the Truth. It is He who is Truth Himself finding me, the lost soul. I am lost and mired in this world, in this illusion, in the flesh. It is He who is Truth Himself who searches for me and finds me. It is all about Him and not about me. It is He who is Truth Himself who sets me free from the untruth, from darkness, from bondage and leads me to the Truth, to the True Light, to freedom from bondage.

It is not some 'ism' or 'ity' that sets me free. 'ism's and 'ity's only create war and division. Pushes men only to darkness, pride, arrogance, conceit, selfishness. They have miserably failed. They have no vision or mission towards eternity. They are confined. None of them are Universal.

It is not my karma. It is all His Grace. All credit goes only to Him.

I don't deserve His Grace yet He is gracious upon me. That is Grace.

My karma, my righteousness is of nil value before His Grace.

In all circumstance thank Him. Keep doing good karma and leave the reward to Him. He knows how to reward, when to reward, whom to reward etc.

 

[GNANA SUNYAM]

Quoting from abrahamic faith:

I was hungry, you fed me.
I was naked, you clothed me.
I was in prison, you visited me.
I was a stranger, you invited me.
.......
Whenever you did all this to the least of your brethren, you did it unto Me.