Battle of PravRtti and nivRtti

PravRtti and nivRtti battle for sAdhakas. The outgoing mind is due to pravRtti, while the inward turning mind is due to nivRtti. Balancing external interactions, and bringing sAdhanA into external world is needed. Recall the great shAmbhavi mudrA in HYP where the eyes are open but the gaze is turned inward.

Also ajapa japa, or the Eternal japa of praNava. This is always going on. One just has to tune into it. From koham (who am I) leading to soham (I am That).

Brahman satyam jaganmithyA. The world is false, only Brahman is the Truth. The gRhasthi holds tight.

Running away from the world depends on prArabdha but RamaNa was fixed not wavering once he got there. SrI rAmakRShNa gives the example of the wife who told her husband who wanted to leave home and take sannyAsa to instead  stay and do sAdhanA at home. Change can be more difficult. Current situation will eventually be found to be most suitable, in fact, perfect.

SannyAsa Ashrama has its pluses and minuses and in Kali Yuga there are challenges to being a parivrAjaka (peripatetic monk). Nevertheless the sharIra yAtrA or journey of the body has to be enacted. There are no real bhikshus left. Orders and organizations have their own institutionalized ignorance and generate more attachment. GRhasthi who does without the feeling of "aham karomi" or "I do"  is greater than sannyAsi who says aham tyajAmi, or "I renounce". The difference is in the former there was no aham or "I" feeling. So become an ati Ashrami- one who is beyond the Ashrama dharma.

Beware of the viper of obligation that the TripurA Rahasya warns about. What is dharma after all? Svadharma precedes both Vedic and vyavahArika (empirical) dharma. There are three types of karma: sancita (stored up), prarabdha (having commenced) and AgAmi or KriyamANa (to come). Of these only that karma which is to come can be affected. Heyam duhkham anAgatam. Only sorrow that is yet to come can be avoided.

Prarabdha does not exist for jnAni. But does for ajnAni due to identification with body and ego. Doing sAttvic karma rapidly bears good fruit. Recall the BG where it says that in the world of men  fruits come quickly (prANA flows faster then in the six higher worlds).

Karma in one birth vs one thought. This thought made pure helps. Everything is a succession of thoughts. 

Still some long term karma can cause trouble. Recall the story of Harishchandra.