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It is common knowledge that the Mahaswami (Late) Chandrasekhara Saraswati of Kanchipuram Shankara Mutt would explain complex matters in simple terms. Once he explained the karma theory to a foreigner. Read on...
When his turn came for darshan of Mahaswami, the foreigner wanted clarification on some of his doubts on Hinduism.
He pleaded to Mahaswami:
“Swamiji, I understand most of your concepts and value them. But I am not able to understand this karma theory: (i.e) same soul taking various births, papa, punya being carried forward to the next births … . Can you please enlighten me on this aspect? Because, most religions say that we get the reward for what we do in this birth only. If we are honest, God is pleased and blesses us with benefits and if we are dishonest, we get punished by Him in this birth itself".
At this point, Mahaswami asked him if he could do a favour by collecting some statistical information within Kancheepuram using his vehicle. The guest readily agreed, at the same time wondering why his question was not answered spontaneously.
Mahaswami said, ‘Please go around the maternity centres within Kancheepuram and collect the data of children born in the last 2 days– child’ s gender, health condition, parents name, economic status, educational qualification, time of birth etc.
Within a day, he was back with all the statistics in front of Mahaswami. There were 15 children born in 10 hospitals of which 8 were female and 7 male. Three had malnutrition defects, 2 were the first children of rich parents and were born in luxury hospitals while 4 were children of labourers who already had few children.
Mahaswami now looked at the statistics and asked:
"Do you think any of these children have been honest / dishonest within 2 days of their birth? Probably they could not even recognize their own mother. So, they have neither earned papa or punya in this birth. According to your concept, all these children should be living exactly identical life! Then why asome are ill, some are healthy, some are born to rich parents, some to poor parents.....? Remember all these children are born on the same day, same place with same longitude and latitude. Their horoscopes will be almost identical. So, you can’t blame their horoscope for the differences in their status!
The gentleman was dumb-founded!
Mahaswami said "It is here that the concept of previous birth comes! All these children have taken their present birth according to their Karma and the resultant papa, punya which they have accumulated in their previous births."
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