Planning for Life

Hi Folks!

How are you and how is Life?

Hope you all are good.

While contemplating on the third post after Death and LifeafterDeath, an unexpected Death in close family caught up with me.

In December last year, I went for a 10-day Vipassana course after 2 and 1/2 years.

Back to being aware and equanimous in the present moment. It was a very calming, very grounding experience, as usual.

Then it was put to test.  

A couple of days later, my younger brother got admitted for a valve replacement. All tests were okay, nothing to worry about.

We waved cheerily, he gave the thumbs-up sign smilingly and we said we would be there when he came out to the general ward after 3 days in ICU.

But the operation failed.

And he died on the table.

To say it was a shock would be an understatement.  

His wife had died seven years ago and there was just one child, a daughter, my niece, in mid-twenties.

I brought her to stay with me. I'd lost a brother but gained a daughter.

After the previous Death and in Life After Death, we sit back and contemplate which bad karmas do we wish to neutralize and good ones to enhance.

One plans one's life goals before taking birth, makes arrangements with those in our soul-group with whom we have karmic debts and credits to resolve and that's how our - and their life majorly unfolds.

The life that each one of us are leading is not the result of one single past karma. 

The father and the mother, each of the siblings, close, loving  relatives and those who are nasty, distant ones, friends who are close, the competitors and enemies, teachers, bosses and colleagues and the staff under us - there is a karmic knot with each one.

It does not make any difference whether we believe in it or not. Many times, out of ignorance, disbelief or ego, we are indifferent and keep tying new knots of karma.

There are certain people who have realized through past life regression sessions that they have repeatedly been stuck in mediocre lifetimes or with undermining partners because they have not taken the courage they were meant to change the situation.

Many just carry on being tremendously unhappy inside because they believe that karma is a hard line chiselled on stone which cannot be erased. 

Free Will which is the other side of the coin of karma is something many are unaware of.

Or do not attach much importance to.

It is taking responsibility of one's own thoughts and life. 

For example, your past karma may have landed you with an abusive spouse.

You are at liberty to use your free will and take a firm stand.

 If that doesn't work, leave. 

 However, many find it easier to carry on being 'poor-me' energy-stealers and along the way,  creating new bad karma with their children or parents or friends.

 When someone dies, the lessons start for the others. 

 Mostly, it is accepting the new reality and acknowledging that one has to get out of the  debilitating shock, sorrow and helplessness, rigidity and anger.

That life, the world is carrying on as usual and it is okay to move on along with the good memories, gratitude and and a willingness to open up to sunshine.

Take death in your stride. 

Accept, acknowledge and move forward.