Ramana Maharshi answers to question Why do few children die so young?

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18-9-45 Afternoon

 

A group of Bengalis have come. One of them has recently lost a child. He put

the question to Bhagavan, " Why did that child die so young? Is it his karma

or our karma that we should have this grief? "

 

Bhagavan: The prarabdha which the child had to work out in this life was

over and so it passed away. So we may call it the child's karma. So far as

you are concerned, it is open to you not to grieve over it, but to remain

calm and unaffected by it, being convinced that the child was not yours but

always only God's, that God gave and God took away. And in this connection

Bhagavan took out the Yoga Vasishta in English to refer to the story of

Punya and Pavana. Strange to say, when he casually opened the book, it

actually opened at the story he had in mind. And from the book he asked me

to read out the portion where Punya advises his brother Pavana not to grieve

foolishly over the death of their parents, pointing out that Pavana had had

innumerable births in the past, in each one of which he had a number of

relations and that exactly as he is not mourning for the death of all those

relations now, he should not now mourn for the death of their father either.

 

The visitor asked, " When a person dies while yet a child and another lives

long, which of them is the greater sinner? "

 

B: I cannot say.

 

I told the visitor that the data he had given could not by themselves enable

anyone to judge which was the greater sinner.

 

Visitor: If a person lives long, he has greater chances of perfecting steps

to reach realisation.

 

B: The person dying young may soon be reborn and have in that life better

chances of striving towards realisation than the other person living long in

this life.

 

A visitor asked, " When it is said that we must renounce all activities, is

it meant that we should reduce our activities as much as possible? "

 

B: By giving up activities is meant giving up attachment to activities or

the fruits thereof, giving up the notion `I am the doer'. The activities for

going through which this body has come, will have to be gone through. There

is no question of giving up such activities, whatever one may or may not

like.

 

Source: Day By Day With Bhagavan

 

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