Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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current bad deeds and we are perplexed to see this. Similarly, doing good does not make a miracle overnight, it gives you an assurance 'Achhe din aane wale hai'.
As you sow, so you reap. No one is an exception in the Universal & Uninfluenced Karma governance! Not just what you plan or perform in present counts, your past deeds count too. That's why at times you are rewarded a miraculous escape 'cos of some one's bad planning targeting you and sometimes you are caught because of your bad planning in spite of targeting someone else.
instantly. Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned. "Ordinarily"Dr Mills continued, "A person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, it is still defined as committing suicide." That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide in his hand.
When karma favours everything is fine and when karma does not favour, its like a curse with a curve. An exciting episode reported in Associated Press might clear the theory. 23rd March 1994... The medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound on the head.
Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a tenstorey building intending to commit suicide.
In the room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated. was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was upset when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus. When charged with murder. the old man said that he thought the shotgun was unloaded. It was a long standing habit to threaten his wife with an unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, if the gun had been
He left a note to
the effect indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him
PERFECTING YOUTH