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Karmas and Birth

 

 

(From Garuda Purana)

 

The murderer of a Brahmin is born as a consumptive, the killer of a cow becomes hump backed and imbecile, the murderer of a virgin becomes leprous.

 

The slayer of a woman and the destroyer of embryos becomes a savage full of diseases; who commits illicit intercourse becomes eunuch, who goes with his teacher¢s wife is born diseased-skinned.

 

The eater of flesh becomes very red; the drinker of intoxicants is born with discoloured teeth; the Brahmin, who, on account of greed, eats what should not be eaten, becomes big-bellied.

 

He who eats sweet foods without giving to others, becomes swollen-necked; who gives impure food at a Sraaddha Ceremony is born a spotted leper.

 

The man, who, through pride, insults his teacher, becomes an epileptic; who despises the Vedas and the holy scriptures becomes jaundiced.

 

Who bears false witness becomes dumb; who takes meal separately from company-row becomes one-eyed; one who upsets a marriage-match becomes lipless; who steals a book is born blind.

 

Who strikes a cow or a Brahmin with his foot is born lame and deformed; who speaks lies becomes a stammerer; who listens to lies becomes deaf.

 

A poisoner becomes insane; an incendiary becomes bald; who sells flesh becomes the most unfortunate and unlucky; who eats flesh of other beings becomes diseased.

 

Who steals jewels is born in a low caste; who steals gold gets diseased nails; who steals any metal becomes poverty-stricken.

 

Who steals food becomes a rat; who steals grains becomes a locust who steals water becomes a Chataka bird; who steals poison becomes a scorpion.

 

Who steals vegetables and leaves becomes a peacock; who steals perfumes becomes a musk-rat; who steals honey becomes a gad-fly; who steals flesh becomes a vulture; who steals salt becomes an ant.

 

Who steals betel, fruits and flowers becomes a forest-monkey; who steals shoes, grass and cotton is born in sheep¢s womb.

 

Who lives by violence, who robs caravans on the road, and who is fond of hunting becomes a goat in a butcher¢s house.

 

Who dies by drinking poison becomes a black serpent on a mountain; whose nature is unrestrained becomes an elephant in a desolate forest.

 

Those twice-born ones who do not make offerings to the Great Lord and who eat all sorts of foods without hesitation and consideration, become wild tigers in a desolate forest.

 

The Brahmin who does not recite the Gayatri, who does not meditate at twilight, who is inwardly wicked while outwardly pious, becomes a crane.

 

The Brahmin who officiates for one who is unfit to perform sacrifices becomes a village-dog, and by too many sacrifices becomes an ass; by eating without the thought of God he becomes a crow.

 

The twice-born who does not impart learning to the deserving becomes a bull; the pupil who does not serve his teacher becomes an animal, an ass or a crow.

 

Who threatens and spits at his teacher, or browbeats a Brahmin, is born as a great dreadful fiend in a waterless wilderness.

 

Who does not give to a twice-born according to his promises, becomes a jackal; who is not hospitable to the good becomes a howling fire-faced devil.

 

Who deceives a friend becomes a mountain-vulture; who cheats in selling becomes an owl; who speaks ill of caste and religious order is born a pigeon in a wood.

 

Who destroys hope and who destroys affection, who, through dislike, abandons his wife, becomes a ruddy goose for a long time.

 

Who hates mother, father and teacher, who quarrels with sister and brother, is destroyed when being in embryo in the womb, even for a thousand births.

 

The woman who abuses her mother-in-law and father-in-law and causes constant quarrels, becomes a leech; she who scolds her husband becomes a louse.

 

Who, abandoning her own husband, runs after another man, becomes a flying fox, a house-lizard or a kind of female serpent.

 

He who cuts off his lineage by embracing a woman of his own family, having become a hyena and a porcupine, is born from the womb of a bear.

 

The lustful man who goes with a female ascetic becomes a desert fiend: who consorts with an immature girl becomes a huge snake in a wood.

 

Who covets his teacher¢s wife becomes a chameleon; who tries to go with the king¢s wife becomes badly corrupt in character; who goes with his friend¢s wife becomes a donkey.Regards yogeshwari.R