Jailer

Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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His parents found him a suitable bride and got him married to her. A year passed by without any incident, but then her true inner disposition surfaced. She was so quarrelsome that she used to erupt in anger at the slightest provocation. The husband tip toed around her giving her little cause to fight. He would think several times before doing or saying anything, dreading its outcome. Yet the wife would find the smallest excuse to start a quarrel. The husband's life became unbearable. He lamented his fate and wondered why others' wives were so loving and peaceful and his own wife so discordant? What had he done to deserve such a belligerent wife?
Only one out of fifteen animals has a harness on its neck. This is not the fault of the harness. It is the animal's fault. In the same way, whose fault is it for getting a contentious wife? It is indeed the fault of the husband. A man married to such a wife should understand that he must have been an undisciplined person in his past life, who was totally out of control. This is nature's way to restrain this person by giving him such a wife in this life. Karmasatta deprived him of all his dreams of a happy life.
One might have a wife with an eccentric, doubting nature or may be a husband with an angry disposition who is home all day and does not do much with his time. Married life may be unhappy and insufferable for any one of the above reasons, but instead of blaming each other, one should accept the fact that it is one's past karma for which he or she is being punished by Karmasatta. By doing so, one can remain calm and avoid feeling animosity or aversion towards the other and save oneself
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