14 Dec 2021
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, In one of Your message it was mentioned that children were bitter enemies in the previous birth and has now taken birth as our children. In previous birth we scolded God for not punishing them and now we are praying to God to protect them! Swami is this case always universal to every human being?, i.e., enemies becoming children? It is also mentioned in Ashtavakra Gita that the mother of a son become the wife of the son in the next birth. How to correlate these two? Kindly elaborate. At Your Lotus Feet-anil]
Swami Replied:- The verse states that the domestic animals, wife, children and house are associated with the soul as per the bondage of loan (Ṛṇānubandharūpeṇa, paśu patnī sutālayāḥ). This is universal saying and in this the word ‘enemy’ has no reference. But, in a specific case, the enemy may be born as issue and give lifelong suffering. This verse does not contradict the verse of Ashtaavakra in anyway. The essence of the verse of Ashtaavakra is that all the worldly bonds are temporary and unreal in all the three times like the cinema shooting bonds. As an example, mother in one birth becoming wife in another birth is told. The essence of these two bonds can be generalized to all the worldly bonds. A cinema shooting bond between actors acting in the roles is temporary before and after shooting. In fact, on careful analysis, it proves that the bond, which does not exist in the previous birth and in the future birth is temporary in this birth, which means it does not exist even in this birth.
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