This was the
last of his karma coming back. He thanked the pebble and continued walking. In your childhood you might have experienced sprain or trauma.
Your mother might have said, a graha has been
cut.
This is a similar situation as of Budhas toe. The
concept of karma deposit and then burning out has gone deep in our psyche.
Sometimes these word are uttered without even understanding
the details of the incident.
This virtual account of karma that we all carry from life
to life is what Hindus have called Samskara.
It is worth focusing a bit more here. How did we learn
about the significance of Samskara?
Why did we not focus on the body? Why did we spend
thousands of years of our total energy on apparently virtual things? |