After I downloaded Devdutt Pattanaiks my Gita in kindle , inspired by pandit Madhava Turumellas fb live video , the daughter wanted me to tell her a story form what ever I was reading
I handed her the kindle and made her read the following story
The complexity of karma is demonstrated in the following Telugu folk tale based on the Mahabharata: a little girl was drinking milk from a pot when Karna’s chariot rolled past. Startled, she dropped the pot. The pot broke and the earth soaked up the milk. The girl began to cry. Karna saw this, stopped the chariot and decided to get the milk back for the little girl. He took the moist earth in his hand and squeezed out the milk in the pot, much to the girl’s astonishment and delight. Everyone praised the great warrior.
Thus, Karna’s action yielded an expected output. But the outcome was unpredictable. The earth was furious that Karna had squeezed milk out of her. She swore that one day she would take her revenge. So on the battlefield of Kuru-kshetra, she grabbed hold of Karna’s chariot wheel, squeezing it as hard as he had squeezed her , forcing him to alight and pull the wheel free. And while he was thus distracted, with his back to the enemy, he was shot dead. His blood fell on the ground and the earth soaked it all up. Karna’s action thus had two reactions, an immediate one and a subsequent one. The immediate one was perceivable. The subsequent one was not. The latter reaction created the circumstances of Karna’s death.
Arjuna, you have control over your action alone, not the fruits of your action. So do not be drawn to expectation, or inaction.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 47..
She read it twice , the complexity of karma theory cannot be solved in a go .
We read some more stories and discussed krishna as the book is all about krishna's teachings
She shared An interesting observation
Maa krishna and jesus had long hair were born at midnight in mysteriously similar circumstances , both were shepherds both of them died in similar circumstances . We tried to connect the dots by exploring some relevant stories online and unlock the theory of their birth and death by doing some research
The story about death of krishna beautifully brings out the very important fact that, even for the Ruler of the Universe, the laws of Karma remain the same.
https://kshetrapuranas.wordpress.com/…/the-death-of-krishn…/
And in the case of jesus Christ
The violence may not always be seen in the body, but it decimates the heart, spirit, mind, character and emotions of people just the same. The beating and scourging of Jesus Christ before crucifixion describes the violent nature of the death he met to redeem our sins
http://www.vatican.va/…/ccc_…/archive/catechism/p122a4p2.htm
they lived , died like ordinary men... I could see some sense in her inference
She . Amma May be they are brothers or father and son?
I : but they were born at different times
She : may be it is a double role like in movies or a reincarnation or spirit brothers
I :what is this new spirit brothers
She : extra ordinary men with same mission descended on to the earth for the same purpose at different times in similar circumstances (bad weather) and died violent deaths as ordinary men...can be called spirit brothers.
I : hmm intresting, we can write a nice comparative fiction based on facts ..like our indigenous amish tripati, Ashwin sanghi does , or share the idea with Dan Brown and later on it be made into a high decibe action packed Hollywood movie
I wish some intellectual takes up these topics on linking gods and their missions , and depict them as 1 United force without any bias towards any one group irrespective of whom they follow or believe in....
All the world needs now in the name of fiction is to show the unity amongst the heavenly powers, to restore harmony on the earth. Instead of using ones creative cells to demean others religion it will be a big service to the mankind if one can deploy their creative thoughts and skills to show the gods as brothers in arms .
I handed her the kindle and made her read the following story
The complexity of karma is demonstrated in the following Telugu folk tale based on the Mahabharata: a little girl was drinking milk from a pot when Karna’s chariot rolled past. Startled, she dropped the pot. The pot broke and the earth soaked up the milk. The girl began to cry. Karna saw this, stopped the chariot and decided to get the milk back for the little girl. He took the moist earth in his hand and squeezed out the milk in the pot, much to the girl’s astonishment and delight. Everyone praised the great warrior.
Thus, Karna’s action yielded an expected output. But the outcome was unpredictable. The earth was furious that Karna had squeezed milk out of her. She swore that one day she would take her revenge. So on the battlefield of Kuru-kshetra, she grabbed hold of Karna’s chariot wheel, squeezing it as hard as he had squeezed her , forcing him to alight and pull the wheel free. And while he was thus distracted, with his back to the enemy, he was shot dead. His blood fell on the ground and the earth soaked it all up. Karna’s action thus had two reactions, an immediate one and a subsequent one. The immediate one was perceivable. The subsequent one was not. The latter reaction created the circumstances of Karna’s death.
Arjuna, you have control over your action alone, not the fruits of your action. So do not be drawn to expectation, or inaction.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 47..
She read it twice , the complexity of karma theory cannot be solved in a go .
We read some more stories and discussed krishna as the book is all about krishna's teachings
She shared An interesting observation
Maa krishna and jesus had long hair were born at midnight in mysteriously similar circumstances , both were shepherds both of them died in similar circumstances . We tried to connect the dots by exploring some relevant stories online and unlock the theory of their birth and death by doing some research
The story about death of krishna beautifully brings out the very important fact that, even for the Ruler of the Universe, the laws of Karma remain the same.
https://kshetrapuranas.wordpress.com/…/the-death-of-krishn…/
And in the case of jesus Christ
The violence may not always be seen in the body, but it decimates the heart, spirit, mind, character and emotions of people just the same. The beating and scourging of Jesus Christ before crucifixion describes the violent nature of the death he met to redeem our sins
http://www.vatican.va/…/ccc_…/archive/catechism/p122a4p2.htm
they lived , died like ordinary men... I could see some sense in her inference
She . Amma May be they are brothers or father and son?
I : but they were born at different times
She : may be it is a double role like in movies or a reincarnation or spirit brothers
I :what is this new spirit brothers
She : extra ordinary men with same mission descended on to the earth for the same purpose at different times in similar circumstances (bad weather) and died violent deaths as ordinary men...can be called spirit brothers.
I : hmm intresting, we can write a nice comparative fiction based on facts ..like our indigenous amish tripati, Ashwin sanghi does , or share the idea with Dan Brown and later on it be made into a high decibe action packed Hollywood movie
I wish some intellectual takes up these topics on linking gods and their missions , and depict them as 1 United force without any bias towards any one group irrespective of whom they follow or believe in....
All the world needs now in the name of fiction is to show the unity amongst the heavenly powers, to restore harmony on the earth. Instead of using ones creative cells to demean others religion it will be a big service to the mankind if one can deploy their creative thoughts and skills to show the gods as brothers in arms .
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