Jailer

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

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tabs on who will recover the amount? I definitely want to have a free meal and why should I have it alone? I will bring my wife and kids here too”. He went home and told his wife, “Do not cook our meal at home tonight. I am taking everyone to a restaurant where you can eat to your heart's content. I will not stop you, as we do not have to pay for our meal.” The moment they were done with the meal, a bill of two thousand rupees was handed to the Sardarji. The Sardarji was dumb-struck. With a mixed feeling of shock and surprise, he went to the Manager and asked him, “The board outside says that the bill payment will be collected from the sixth generation, then why am I being charged?” “This bill is not for the food you ate, you are being charged for the sixth generation before you, who had eaten here and left the bill for you to pay.”
We should remember that impoverishment, defeat, insult that we undergo in this life are mostly a payment due by us for deeds done by us in our previous births. The fruits of whatever good or bad we do in this life will be reaped in the coming births. Therefore if you don't commit sin or an evil deed, you will not be punished in the next life. However, for crimes committed in previous births, would you not be punished now and here? What sin had Lord Mahavir committed in his last birth? Who had he been wicked with? On the contrary, he was compassionate towards even those persons who had given him terrible afflictions and yet how many hardships had he to bear! Why?
“This is because the Lord's karmas were heavy." “The Lord's karmas were heavy and ours are light?”
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