Dharma and Karma
Your dharma never leaves
you
Your karma never forgives you
As you sow So
shall you reap
After Kurukshetra war,
Dhritrarashtra asked Krishna,
“I had 100 sons.
All of
them were killed.
Why?
Krishna replied,
“50
lifetimes ago,
You were a hunter.
While hunting,
You
tried to shoot a male bird.
It flew away.
In anger,
You
ruthlessly slaughtered the 100 baby birds in the nest.
Father-bird had to watch in helpless agony.
Because you caused
that father-bird the pain of seeing the death of his 100 children,
You too had to bear the pain of your 100 sons dying.
Dhritarastra
said,
“Ok
But why did I have to wait for fifty
lifetimes?”
Krishna answered, “You were accumulating
'
Punya*' during the last
fifty lifetimes to get 100 sons -
Because that requires a lot of Punya .
Then you got the
reaction for the 'Paap' (sin) that you have done fifty lifetimes
ago.”
Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (4.17) "Gahana
Karmano Gatih"
The way in which action and reaction works
is very complex.
God knows best which reaction has to be given
at what time in what condition.
Therefore, some reaction may
come in this lifetime,
Some in the next and Some in a distant
future lifetime.
There is a saying,
“The mills of
God grind slow;
but,
They grind exceedingly fine.”
So, every single action will be accounted for, sooner or later.
Srimad
Bhagavatam gives example:
If
we have a cowshed with 1000 calves and
If we leave a mother cow
there,
She will easily find out where her calf is among those
thousands.
She has this Mystical Ability.
Similarly,
our karma will find us among the millions on this planet. There may
be thousands going on the road but only one meets with an accident.
It is not by chance, it’s by Karma.
Thus, the Law
of Karma works exceedingly fine
it may be 'Slow to Act',
but No one can Escape
------------- Hari Om -------------
