Prof. Anil Kumar: Swami! How does your Grace affect our destiny and our prarabdha, past karma?

Bhagavan: God’s Grace and God’s Will can change anything. God is Love. His Infinite Compassion makes Him change your prarabdha karma or the karmic effects of your past lives. A devotee can arrest God in the jail of his heart. In this world, there is nothing that you can’t achieve with devotion. God’s Grace can cancel all your karmic effects or the evil effects of your past life. Nothing untoward can happen to you.

A small example. You see many medicines kept for sale in a medical shop. On each of the medicines you find the date of manufacture and of expiry. The medicine will not act with efficiency beyond the date of expiry. It becomes just useless. What God does is exactly the same thing. He simply stamps on the medicine bottle the date of expiry canceling your prarabdha karma, the suffering you are going through in this life. Right then, your suffering ends. This is how Swami, out of His sheer Grace and Compassion, gives you relief.

Source: ‘Satyopanisad’ by Prof. Anil Kumar Kamaraju