I was taught to believe, as the picture of life painted by my mother as I was exposed to the lessons in life, that when we do 'good things', we will be rewarded in due time. Somewhere somehow our good deeds will be returned, directly or indirectly. Then I discovered that you do 'good things' because it is the only humane thing to do. Later came the talk of karma and its nuances of how 'evil' actions, like Newton's Law, has a correspondingly counter re-action which may affect your descendants. Now, these people tell me that every person is an island. Everyone is responsible for his own actions or inactions and his 'soul' has to answer for it in this life or the next, in this realm or another.
The question that has been bogging of late is whether, in the material world, we are answerable to the follies and wrongdoings of our parents? It popped up when the children of now-deposed ex-PM Najib who made repeated pleas in the media of their ignoramus state of the dealings involving their father.
Are offsprings and forbearers just linked intrinsically for the infusion of beneficial DNA, cancelling of unsuitable traits and the continuity of species? If every individual is a stand-alone product, why is that the progenitors slog their life away for the wellbeing of their kids? That their descendants have a better life than theirs. The parents literally work their asses down till it the fibres of their soul run thin. Their search for wealth and comfort for their kinfolks never stops despite knowing that their sojourn on Earth is finite and a short one at that.
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Yajna - a sacrificial ritual to invoke Gods for salutations,
the offering and cajoling them for personal gains. It is said to
have the capability to ensure the well-being of our descendants
as well as to correct our past mistakes, at a higher realm.
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Logically if the descendants benefitted from the loot of their elders, they should be punished as well. Shouldn't the lavishness of life alert the children that something is not right? But then, people are becoming so creative in hiding their ill-gotten spoils that proving ownership becomes a Herculean task in mumbo-jumbo imbroglio of red tape.
So you are going to leave judgement to the pleasure of the Divine Forces? In the ethereal world, however, nobody knows what rules are actually followed if there are any, rules or the ethereal. Is it pure chance or the result of the dice-throwing games of the celestial bodies?
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