There are so many chain letters that are forwarded during a day, but have any one of us ever given a thought to how accurate, how truthful and for what extent these things are related to life. Some talk about great miracles that happen, some just say that when we forward we will be getting this much of money from bill gates, n some say before this day the person whom you love will get to know that you love them and they will kiss you. We have gone through all these letters, but this one it is different. I don’t promise when you forward this you will get anything, no reward not that your dream person gonna come and kiss you or anything. But I would say this chain letter or my initial forwarding has nothing but the truth about life. From the power of this truth, I pray and wish that all of you, my dear once be healthy, happy and could be enlightened with truth about the snasara. One of my closest friends inquired me “Machang what is the fairness of life if a person can’t change destiny” I was thinking die hard how could I explain this to him, I could have told easily that life is never fair we have to face this rather than a simple ambiguous answer like that I kindled my inner wisdom to provide him a better answer. I said we cannot change destiny, if destiny is changeable then we would not be thinking of karma. Actually destiny is what is predetermined. And so far on this planet earth I have never seeing a person or never any one depicted that they changed their destiny no matter how we strive for. Striving just put us on the place where destiny wants us to be in much quicker time. For an example I would quote Angulimalas incident where he was predicted to be a murderer on whatever the circumstance and whatever the social injustice or reasons he could not prevent by becoming a murderer. He had to become and then only became a monk. And even if you take bill gates he could not become a lawyer because he was not destined to be a lawyer. It is noteworthy that every incident that happens in our life is destined by our karma, in spite for the Niyamas that is explained in Buddhism. This is not to say that being discourage and lazy and not working on achieving goals would lead you in destiny because according to the chittha niyama, uthu niyama , dhamma niyama a person’s full attempt can sometimes lead to little deviations from destiny but then that is recognized as their destiny. We should also know that mans goals has a limit and capacity. However much we try there is no person on planet earth who have achieved all of his goals, visions in life thus, it should be understood that is what you call the destiny. Thus life is not what you can achieve it is about what you get. If anyone challenging this status quo I would give the hardest 100 tasks in this world and ask him to accomplish all those 100 tasks within a limited time period because this body that we bear now has a limited period of time for existence. That is where once destiny comes into play. This is to say that however much we try our kamma has its own results for us. And then we should no kamma niyama is the most powerful out of all the niyamas. N things that happens to us all though not all of them, a significant part is based on karma. So that is what we call destiny. With all these explanations on karma one would argue, is there anything truly called karma in this world? When a person does good things, will he get rewarded? When the person does bad things will he get reattributed? If this karma is working on this world, then how come sinners have all the comfort of life?? The answer is, that is how we see their life as, but the truth is that they are much as equal to animals because they lead a life of suspicion and fear!! They fear that they will lose their wealth next moment they fear about their consequences!!!So that they lead a life equal to animals. Because all animals do same things that humans do except for merits they eat, mate, fear and sleep. It is the human who is capable of doing a merit could get pleased of doing that. So the thing tha draws a clear line between animals and humans are their merits. It is said in Buddhism that it is very rarely that we get a life of a human and we have limited time to accumulate karma? So why aren’t we making the best use of it? Why aren’t we seeking the reality of life? Why are we getting hanged over material things that are uncertain and why are we reluctant to accept that uncertainty? I know all of us can’t go become priest or monks in temple that is not because we can’t, we haven’t accumulated enough strengths from our karma to achieve that status. We can’t bear the kaha sivra on us coz of our karma. But as lay mans cant we at least minimize our sins. Just imagine for a day how many sins we do by accumulating irshaya, krodha, vaira, n kama, state of mind, so to counter how many merits we do?? The answer would be a negligible amount. That is why I asked you even if we can’t do lot of merits at least isn’t it important to minimize the sins. Is nt it important to stick to pancil as laymen to minimize the faults or sins. We as normal human beings can’t lead sin free life because of incapability in our minds. Each moment this mind captures some or other thought of moha, devesha, loba state. But we can definitely decrease the amount of sins we do by sticking in to some sila. I am not lord Buddha to give u examples of timely and attractive realistic examples that would change your life in moments. But as a person who is attempting to follow his good path free from sins, I would say at any stage of time people will recall what they do. If they have done well for humanity or merits they will be out of fear it will strengthen their belief on not happening a bad to their life. When I Visited one of our lecturers at apiit being a Christian on religion said “I haven’t ever done wrong for students. What I Did was teaching other peoples students then I know no bad will happen to me” on delivery of her baby, and showed the pure tears of a mother. This showed that karma plays a vital role in our life. Whatever the religion we belongs to, And its effects could be at any important situation of our life. Be it bad or be it good on us!!! Karama one cannot avoid its consequences. It is the most powerful so be fearful to do wrong in life. I don’t know how to confirm you, whether there is life after death or not. I don’t know what is exactly happening to this body, neither I know about any heaven, but if in case there is life after death, or a heaven, it is not a waste to do correct things and charity or merits in our this lifetime, rather than to accumulate whole set of sins all throughout life. If you can’t accumulate charity or merits, be sure at least you stay out from sins. This is a kind request for the sake of friendship we share. Start your each day by thinking “Buddhan saranam gacchami”. And start acting today on merits coz time we have here is limited. “APPAMADO AMTHAPADAN PAMADO MACCHUNO PADAN”
“May all my Friends be healthy from these true words, Happy from these true words, and may they realize the truth of life and be sin free”
If you have any doubts about article, or any clarification needed, Please don’t hesitate to contact me on clarifications”.
Randika De Silva,
Yours Ever Loving Friend.
“SABBA DANAM DHAMMA DANAM JINATHI”
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