He is an important person of the village. The main road
passes through in front of his house. He doesn’t like the sound of speeding
vehicles, so using his power and money, he got two high bumps made a little far
from the house on either side. No white paint was applied on them. It caused
inconvenience to so many people on two wheelers, cars and loaded trucks,
especially at night. The owner of the house was in a position to get this done
for his comfort. Do we consider it a serious matter?
It is interesting to see how karma comes back. Strictly
speaking, what karmic debt may be there for such an innocuous act? Nothing of
significance, right? That is what we think when we consider our karmas. But the
fact is that we never get to see the whole picture.
One night, a farmer’s daughter was passing through that road
at night on her two wheeler. The sudden high bump was unexpected and she fell
down and lost one front tooth. This girl was engaged to be married after a
month and because she lost her front tooth, the marriage was cancelled by the
boy’s parents.
The girl was heart broken and went into depression, as was
her family. Tears were shed in that house every day. They managed to get her a
fixed artificial tooth and another boy came forward to marry her, but demanded
a high dowry. The parents wanted so much to conduct their daughter’s marriage.
The father agreed to give the dowry as he was expecting a good crop from his
field that year.
It so happened that there was no rain that year, the crop
failed and the father had to take a huge loan to conduct the marriage. Because
of that, the girl’s brother, who dreamt of becoming an engineer, couldn’t
continue his studies. Seeing a bleak future in front of him, a month after his
sister’s marriage, he committed suicide. This plunged his parents into a life
time of sorrow and depression.
The act of getting the bump made in front of the house
devastated a family. No idea how many other families were affected. In the
Universe, action and reaction are always equal and opposite. Nobody escapes the
karmic debts and connections.
Time moved on… another life time, different roles. The
influential villager was again a man of power. He had a happy family of a
loving wife and a brilliant son. This boy was the reincarnation of the boy who
had committed suicide. In this life, he became an engineer. On the day of his
graduation, he had a big celebration with his friends. While riding back home,
he met with an accident and fell unconscious.
He was taken to the hospital, and kept on the ventilator. He
never regained consciousness and after five months, decision was made to take
him off the ventilator and his body was cremated.
The parents plunged into an abyss of sadness and depression.
The father was at a loss to understand why this happened to him. He was a
religious and helpful man. A son dying in his youth is the worst thing that can
happen to any parent.
The father decided to get a past life regression done and
that is when he saw that in a previous life how he got the road bump
constructed and that action devastated a family. The boy who committed suicide
in that life was born as his son now. He fulfilled his dream of becoming an
engineer. He also made his father spend all the money they had lost in the
previous life, for his upbringing, education, and hospital expense. Then he just left, throwing
his father into the same sadness and depression that he and his family suffered
in the previous life because of his present father’s action.
When we do things in life (karma), we see it in a different
light. We never get to see the full picture of how our karma is creating
ripples. So when the pay back comes, we are thrown off guard. We lament, ‘Why
me? I have never done any thing bad to anybody. I am always helping others. God
is cruel. We are puppets in the hands of destiny.’
This is far from the truth. God is not sitting up there to
mete out punishments. Whatever we experience is all a return of our karmic
debts. Now, this return may take one year, a few years, one life time or many life times. By the time we have no clue of our deeds, and to add to that,
we don’t get to see the full picture.
We have to remember two things. One is to do anything with
total awareness and after thinking deeply. Second is to face any unpleasant
situation that comes in life with strength, calmness and a balanced mental
attitude.
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