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Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)

 

Man has to reap the result of his deeds

 

CHENNAI, MARCH 26. No one can escape from reaping the result of

his deeds, either good or bad, because the operation of Karma in

human lives is unfailing. The propensity for doing certain

actions gets ingrained firmly in the human psyche and hence it is

important to analyse the consequences of one's actions before

doing them.

 

There is no guarantee about when the result of one's deeds will

fructify and it may even necessitate another birth to work them

out. So a spiritual aspirant must be always alert about the

repercussions of his actions. By adhering to the path of

righteousness and surrendering the fruit of his actions to God,

it is possible to be liberated from the shackles of Karma.

 

This truth has been reiterated by Dasaratha when he suffered from

a deed he had committed in his youth which resulted in the

unfortunate incidents leading to the banishment of Rama to the

forest on the eve of His coronation, which ultimately led to his

death as he was unable to bear the pangs of separation from Him.

Six days after Rama left Ayodhya, he remembered the unfortunate

incident in his life when Kausalya lost control of herself after

Sumantra returned from the forest leaving Rama, Sita and

Lakshmana there, and questioned him as to what Rama had done to

deserve such difficulties.

 

In his discourse, Sri M. R. Nagasubramaniam said that even a

righteous person was liable to commit mistakes when overcome with

emotion and hence it was necessary to keep one's emotions in

check. Kausalya's words added fuel to fire as the king was

already tormented by Rama's exile to the forest. Dasaratha

recounted to her the incident when he was cursed to die due to

the pangs of separation from his son by a sage when he killed his

son who was filling water in a pitcher from the river, Sarayu.

Mistaking the gurgling sound for an elephant drinking water, he

discharged an arrow while hunting recognising the invisible

source by the sound, in which art he was an expert.

 

The king lamented, ``A doer surely reaps the fruit of his own

deeds corresponding to the nature, good or evil, of that which he

does. He who does not reckon, while undertaking actions, the

relative importance of their fruits as well as the advantages and

disadvantages accruing from them is surely dubbed as a fool.''

 

Dasaratha was wedded to Dharma and regretted the moment he found

out that the arrow he had discharged had killed a hermit boy. He

apologised to the boy's blind parents but that could only

mitigate the curse to a certain extent and he who was fortunate

to sire the Lord as his son, could not behold Him in his last

moments.

 

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