Monday, September 7, 2020

The puzzle remains unsolved

 She shook her head, trying to clear it and wake up fully. From somewhere there was a blast of RAP music from a stereo floating in the air. She has a sound sensitivity and feels so dizzy and a horrible excruciating, stabbing electric pain when listening to loud sound.


What a nightmare, she thought her life appears to be turning into.

“Feeling better?”, 


 If anyone asked, she always replied "good" with a smile on her face. But things have changed lately, and she doesn't say so. 



Standing in the balcony she hurled out curses steadily against the uncle,  aunt and the Didi singer who tried to swat her out of the way like a fly sitting on the wall can be easily swatted with a rolled-up magazine. 





They made a cunning plan to shove her out of the way so that without her the family doesn't insist upon that the inheritance belongs to the family because she was the Achilles heel and without her parents won't survive and they could easily take over the family estate. Her father didn't have sufficient money for her liver transplant when they hatched the wretched plan.


‘Money’ and ‘Power’ are the root causes in every act

of a felony, every crime, every treachery committed since time immemorial. Money, gold, holds allure because it gives power, a lavish lifestyle and many are ready to harm a life for its powerful charisma. Money tempts most people to wrongdoing. Crime is as old as humanity. Thus, it is since ancient times that brothers are

slaughtering brothers for the power of the throne and the wealth it brings along. Slaughtering, poisoning, strangling, asphyxiating, backstabbing, but achieving money and power and destroying every life in the way. Such is the queer nature of the human race. A son instead of being dutiful towards his parents desires the end of

the ailing, helpless parents and shoves them out of the way, a raving egomaniac parent drunk with the influence of wealth, affluence, power withholds what the offspring truly deserves, thus strangling the life out bit by bit.


Her father performed a bold act and everyone became concerned, heaving and gasping for air after a massive heart attack he approached everyone and everywhere. He was popular for his rare integrity and sterling qualities and his desire to help everyone. 


"Can I help?" Everyone replied save any relatives for whom he had dedicated his life.


The renowned magician who got the Merlin award in magic performed with his troupe to help a tragic incident yet the singer who came as a tenant and was nobody, when she was six years old but rose to heights living in their house eventually by creating an ultimate illusion outwitting her father unworldly enough to trust salt for sugar engaged in a battle to acquire the flat which rightly belongs to her who was desperately in need of money to fight malady that has hit out of the blue, where banknotes can only resuscitate. She never thought of performing a show and living in the same house we were suddenly strangers. 


She often gets a terrible recurring nightmare where something seems to be chasing her, with no storyline, whatsoever that has to do with fear, just a terrible overwhelming feeling would almost certainly engulf her. She doesn't grieve her situation of unremitting misery nor does she fear the coexistence of multiple rare diseases and pain.



The tragic incident of her father's death, made her face shocking poverty but she survived where, not only did she have money for food the next day, but also overcame MDR- TB and its expensive treatment along with two sessions of radiation therapies (in the brain for leptomeningeal hemangioblastomas) which went on for six weeks, one cyberknife and not forgetting the kidney cancer. All her life-saving surgeries and treatments and diagnosis happened at the nick of time. I’ve had numerous surgeries, not dismissing from mind thyroidectomy which led to HypoPara (hypocalcaemia due to low parathyroid hormone level). 


But she knows, In every field of life, you enjoy the results of your work or suffer the results and you cannot escape it. This is your karma. You suffer or enjoy the results of your activities from time immemorial, but you can change the results of your karma and this change depends on the way you react. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. What she's suffering is the karma of her past lives, it depends on her reaction towards her sufferings, how she is going to cope, get along, manage.

It is said that what goes around, comes around which is a perfect description of Karma. No one can ever be spared by karma, that's the law of nature, there can never be an imbalance in the laws of karma and that's like the laws of physics.



The scriptures say


  • Do your duty, but do not concern yourself with the results.


  • The fruits of your actions are not for your enjoyment.


  • Even while working, give up the pride of doership.


  • Do not be attached to inaction.

Karma is defined as the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. This relates to the judgment of God in scripture and the tenant of Christianity that we ultimately reap what we have sown.


The Bible talks a lot about reaping and sowing. In each of these instances, as well as all the other references to reaping and sowing, the act of receiving the rewards of your actions takes place in this life. It is a present-day activity, and the references make it clear that the fruit you reap will be commensurate with the actions you have performed. In addition, the sowing you perform in this life will affect your reward or punishment in the afterlife.

You get one shot at life and living it according to God’s plan, and that is it.

James 3:18

18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

Job 4:8

8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.

Matthew 25:46

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Matthew 26:52

52 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Galatians 6:7

7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.


However, she knew that old crone living a greedy, evil life who never thought about the six years old kid she got to know after being a neighbour who even spent time in her room chatting with her while she was getting ready for her shows. 


Today she was startled to find that the hag has got the Padmasree -- the highest citizen award but is still carrying on with the court case for the property. She is performing to celebrate the life and dream of a patient to encourage people to become stem cell donors, on the other hand, trampling a rare disease patient for the past twelve years under her heels. What sort of a Divine Justice is this?







Government officials loll in front of her power the origin of which is by depriving her and making a drastic attempt to push her off the cliff. Nobody did anything about it.













1 comment:

  1. Tragic, very tragic story.Am speechless. Karma always comes around if that can be a solace!

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