Guest guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Dear learned devotees and group members (brothers and sisters) I have this doubt ,and after careful thought I `m still clueless. Many times I had suffered some earthly difficulties. The cause is not known . In this life I had never thought of harming anyone, though I had been wronged by others several times. I reconsciled myself with the age old faith of PRARABDHA KARMA or the result of my wrongs in previous birth(s). In other words I am being punished by God who does not tell me why He is punishing me. This is unfair in my opinion. For example in Islam it is " eye for an eye " and one is not told to wait till next birth. Even if the punishment is cruel the person knows why he is punished. Does not it mean Hinduism is more cruel in penalty? Serious question. Thanks in advance for answers. ijswamy I J SWAMY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Swamy... I will try.... If possible please forget about Karma and start looking into yourself... What is the earthly difficulty??? It is a reflection of our own desires and attachments....Which have to be understood and trascended in any case... The next time your mind suffers or body suffers.... Detatch yourself from the body / mind and watch yourself.... deeply...Go into the suffering 100%, then you will understand the lesson that GOd wants you to learn. It is the association with our thoughts, action and body that acually causes the illusion of sufering... The moment you understand this... there is no Suffering.... No thoughts...no action....for YOU.... although till the body is alive all these will continue...but the conciousness will be just the witness.... This is liberation.. jeevan mukthi... " freed while living " Love Bala... On 9/18/07, J.SWAMY IRAGAVARAPU <jiragavarapu wrote: > > Dear learned devotees and group members (brothers and sisters) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Thank you sir, Sri Balachander. In 1994 I underwent Coronary bipass surgery with no suffering at all. I take Insulin injections twice daily again with no suffering. Now I am looking for an ideal match for my son who is a software design engineer in Microsoft. Not getting one too soon is causing my " suffering " Your answer is about excellent. yours sincerely(or truly? ) ijswamy Balachander Govindaraghavan <balachand wrote: Swamy... I will try.... If possible please forget about Karma and start looking into yourself... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 , " J.SWAMY IRAGAVARAPU " <jiragavarapu wrote: > > Dear learned devotees and group members (brothers and sisters) > I have this doubt ,and after careful thought I `m still clueless. > Many times I had suffered some earthly difficulties. The cause is not known . In this life I had never thought of harming anyone, though I had been wronged by others several times. > I reconsciled myself with the age old faith of PRARABDHA KARMA or the result of my wrongs in previous birth(s). > In other words I am being punished by God who does not tell me why He is punishing me. > This is unfair in my opinion. > > For example in Islam it is " eye for an eye " and one is not told to wait till next birth. Even if the punishment is cruel the person knows why he is punished. > Does not it mean Hinduism is more cruel in penalty? Serious question. > Thanks in advance for answers. My dear IJSwamyji, This question is very important and each one thinks this sometime or the other. Karma is not so simple an equation that can be solved easily. If Karma was so simple that if we do bad, we will get bad and if we do good, we will get good....then long back humanity would have understood this trick and everyone would be following good karma..and there would be no chaos. First let us talk of memory. If we do not remember our past (of this birth of last birth)...it is no excuse for getting away from results. I do not remember if i was ever in my mother's womb... so shuld i say i never was ? If a drunkard, kills a person in the state of intoxication, and is caught by police who have strong evidences against him....and he pledges I dont remember if i killed that person... and he is right too.. he actually does not remember. But will he escape the punishment ? Second more important thing is why should we take our sufferings as a punishment ? If iron could think.. he would wonder what is the problem with this blacksmith ? He puts me into the fire...burn my body and then beats me with a hammmer and when i am abt to die...he puts me in cold water and gives me pleasure... but again he re-do the thing... the iron does not remember if he did bad to him or his family. But the iron is not aware that the Blacksmith is changing an ugly looking iron piece into a magnificient tool... and will continue hammering it, till it gets correct shape...so he is actually changing a one pence iron into a 100 dollar tool !!! For the time being we can forget Karma and its fruits and pains...that is for an ignorant man. A Sadhaka has to surrender himself to the Supreme like iron piece and happily accept what ever is required to make him a tool (Divine). Pains and sufferings will then become game...of hide and seek with god Love Aum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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