Redefinewisdom

People think that suffering comes as a result of sin or because of divine anger, but this is not completely true. Sin is also a reason for suffering. This is right, but it is not right that all sorrows come due to sins. Many times it happens that a person becomes unhappy because of his destiny. Prarabdha includes all those deeds by which we have caused pain to someone in our previous birth. The second reason is action. These are the reasons whose consequences a person often has to suffer simultaneously or in this very birth. The third and most important reason for this is that when God has to take pity on any living being and take him under His shelter and take him on the path of welfare, then to free him from the bondage of life and bad tendencies, such painful opportunities are created, whose stumbling blocks are After eating, man should understand his mistake and become his true devotee.

Even bad people are unhappy; the same things happen to them that happen to good people. Good people may appear sad on the outside but are strong from within. Bear sorrows with patience. Do not panic all at once. The consequences of wrongdoing done in this world do not happen at the same time, just as by serving a cow one does not get milk immediately, but one has to wait for it to be ready to give milk. Then gradually, by surrounding the doer, his misdeeds cut off his very roots, that is, destroy his happiness. The consequences of wrongdoing are also not immediate, but gradually it stops the happiness of the wrongdoer and cuts off the roots of happiness. After this, only the unrighteous person suffers sorrow. That is, the work done by the doer never goes unfruitful. If that fruit is not obtained in him, then it is obtained in his sons, that is, in his children, or in his grandsons and their children too. But it can never happen that the work done by the doer becomes fruitless. If not completely, then at least to a small extent, sometimes the family experiences so much pain that they become ready to die together by making a suicide pact. In another way also we suffer from our children, when they are useless. In this, the child does not suffer any problem, but we suffer a lot.

The meaning of suffering the consequences of karma in sons and grandchildren is that sometimes our children are handicapped, or mentally underdeveloped, or suffer from some weakness or sorrow. Their suffering is caused by their actions. However, their association with us makes us partakers of their sorrow. In fact, the results of our own actions are appearing before us in the form of their parts. Similarly, when they do not utilize their qualities properly, that sorrow is also the result of our bad deeds, which they are receiving. Man should not think that the story has ended here due to his unrighteous destiny. The sorrows of his family members can also engulf him, and thus he and his family can be destroyed. The fates of family members are interconnected. Even in the world we see that when a father is accused, a little dirt is also put on the son, and when a daughter is insulted, the mother is also accused. Similarly, they also share their joy and pain. So, while the action of one person is reflected back to him and not to others, yet that result also arises in the form of parts of his family members. Sometimes this form of result is even more painful.

The allure of worldly attachment, affection and lust is so tempting that it cannot be forsaken by mere desire. A faint thought comes that a thing like life should be used for some good work, but in the next moment such tempting circumstances come to the fore due to which that thought gets blurred and the person comes back to where he was. . To come out of this kind of mud, God shakes his devotee with great force to wake up the sleeping person. This shock itself seems like sorrow to us. Heart-wrenching events like serious illness, death of loved ones, insult or betrayal by trusted friends occur so that a person gets shaken by their tremendous blow and becomes alert and gives up his attachment to this world. God gives trouble to His devotees so that they can understand who are His true devotees.

Even though one does not invite sorrows, sorrows still come uninvited. Before attaining God, every living being suffers from the disorders of Maya like Panchaklesha, Tritapa etc. These sorrows come due to many reasons. In Sanskrit these sorrows are also called klesha. Devotion burns away these troubles. Devotion begins with devotion. The moment one starts doing devotion with devotion, devotion starts destroying the sufferings and this process ends with God-realization. In each of our previous human births, we had performed kriyaman karmas, the results of which were accumulated. Remain accumulated in the form of karma. Some of those accumulated karmas are destined to be enjoyed by the Lord in the present birth. This is called Prarabdha Karma. As a result of past sinful actions, the soul is born in a family where sinful actions are prevalent, hence, from childhood itself, it sees and performs those sinful actions, which leads to greater suffering in the future. Thus it becomes a vicious cycle.

Sadna was born in a butcher family, hence he did not hesitate at all in killing animals. Meat was his main diet. One day, fortunately, this divine voice of a saint came to his ears, that “To attain eternal happiness, before eating food, first offer it to Shri Krishna and only then take the prasad.” This thing touched his heart and from that very day he started offering bhog. Since he did not know any other food other than meat, he used to offer meat to Shri Krishna every day. But God does not offer food items. Their food is love and only love. He accepts only that which is filled with love in the food offered. So Shri Krishna was moved by Sadna’s sincere devotion and love. This proves that due to his destiny he was born in an environment where violence against helpless animals was a daily occurrence. But Sadna’s devotion cut him off the troubles caused by destiny and made him reach the category of a God-realized saint. Sins committed due to personal interest are sins born out of destiny. As if the living being had committed such sins in his previous birth due to which he was born in a lower caste. But due to falling into bad company in this birth, he may develop a tendency to commit sinful acts. One does not have to suffer the punishment for such sins in this life, they will have to bear the consequences in many future lives. Devotion also destroys these sins. Just as the germination power of a seed gets lost after being roasted in the fire, in the same way the ability of the mind purified by devotion to form material desires also ends. That is, devotion destroys forever the tendencies of the “lust-filled mind”, the seed of sin. Devotion to God is the only thing that frees us from all sins. Everyone has to suffer sins but if we can do devotion then maybe some work can be done.