By Narayan Prasad Mishra
By curiosity, inquisitiveness, and research, the genius among human beings has discovered and invented many things in this world – automobiles to aeroplanes, the telephone, iPhone, iPad, computers, video call system, television to magic google search, various types of medical equipment to much many equipment, machinery, and goods, etc. There is no limit to it. Most of them are magical. If we go back to the history of some decades ago, that was impossible even to think..If we had talked about all these things at that time, most people would not have believed in them. Now we all are seeing, enjoying, and using them. Even though most of us do not understand the mystery of all these discoveries and inventions. We still think they are mysterious. The secret is always beyond our thoughts and knowledge. But the genius among us is showing us they are the product of their studies, knowledge, experience, research experiment., Though we think that is a mystery, it is not a mystery for those who understand it. Anyway, the world is changing every day due to the thinking of genesis people. It seems there is no limit to knowing the mystery of the world.
We all know when we are born, we have to die, sooner or later. We see the lengthiest life of human beings is a little more than 100 years. Most of the people are dying under the age of 100. Among them, we see most are dying between 70 – 80 years. That is the general pattern of death of human beings we see in the world. Though genesis has discovered much mystery in the world, the mystery of life and death is still a mystery for all of us. We do not know from where we come and where we are going after our death. We see something said about life and death in different religious scriptures – Beda, Upanishads, and Gita of the Hindus, the Bible of Christians, and many others. But those seem all like assumptions that are not easy to understand and accept.
As for the mystery of life and death, there are some mysteries about previous life (Purbajanma) and rebirth, life after your death (Punarjanma). The Hindus believe in the past and future life, which we do not see. According to Gita, the teachings of Lord Krishna, the soul never dies, but only your body parts. It was with you in your previous life before you were born here, the same soul is with us in our present life, and it will be with you after your death in your new life. You are bound to birth and death. Life never ends until the full attainment with the perfection of all the good qualities equal to God and Goddesses.
Similarly, the scripture talks about the portion of your past deeds (past Karma), which is called Prabdha in Hindi. It is said that the good and bad works of your previous life (past life) are interlinked with your present life. According to it, the good and bad works done in your earlier life accompany your current life. Your present body, the present life, has to take responsibility for your past deeds (past Karma). Accordingly, you get rewards and punishment based on it. The scriptures believe that good and bad works in your present life will go together with you to your future life. It means your present deeds will accompany you to your future life, the life after your death. You will be rewarded and punished in the same way in the future. This talk of mystery is still a mystery for us.
We all know no one has seen the previous life. In the same way, no one would have experienced the future life. This is just like God, heaven, and hell. These all seem assumptions, which is very difficult to understand and accept. These are all for us the mystery. But as we cannot understand and accept, we cannot just deny and reject it if we think of scientific discovery and inventions. Science and research had discovered many things which we considered a mystery some time ago. The genius has proved many things that were not mysteries, about what we thought puzzles because of our ignorance. We should think, one day, the genius among us will be able to find out about the mystery of human life and death.
We talk about God, the omnipotent, omnipresent. We talk about righteousness. We talk about our past deeds. We talk about bad karma and good karma. We give importance to truth and good karma. We read in our scriptures that truth always wins over evils. But in reality, we see the right people are more suffered in this world than the bad ones. – honest, sincere, kind, benevolent, loving. We also see terrible things are happening to good people. On the other hand, the corrupt, crooked, wicked, dishonest people have the upper hand anywhere globally, with some exceptions. This is mostly true in our country in all its aspects – government and politics, administration, education, health, industry, business, and commerce, police or military, judiciary, etc., are more corrupt, wicked, and crooked than the good, kind, sincere, honest, and benevolent with some exception somewhere. We see more good people are suffering than the bad ones in our country. It was before also. It is now more. I doubt it will not be in the future. Even within the political parties or within one single party, the most wicked one becomes the hero. It should not have happened if God, omnipresent, and omnipotent has the power to see it and control it. From this point, the wrong people of today could have done good karma in their past life. So, they are rewarded now for their good karma. On the other hand, today’s good people could have done bad karma in their previous life because of that, and they are suffering here now. This logic of past life is not easy to understand and accept. It is more difficult to understand and get that our bad, corrupt people of today must have accompanied more good karma of the previous life; thus, they are in the right positions and have the upper hand. Looking at the past and looking at the future would not do any good for the present. Anything seen would have more value to understand and to make it understandable to all. So, we should have a complaint and humble petition to our God that he should have a robust code of the reward and punishment for the human beings based on the deeds – lousy work and good work, not done in the past or the future, but based on the acts of the present, today. Then only, people will be automatically in order of discipline, honesty, righteousness. Then only we can have a benevolent society, free of nepotism and exploitation. Then only we can have a joyful Nepal. Then only we can have a peaceful world.
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