The “Karma Theory” is rather strange. One goes through umpteen stories embedded in “Puranas” which correlate rebirths to good or bad deeds done earlier. Take for example, the case of Indradyumna. He was the King of Pandya. Not an also ran, but a heavy-weight in kings. Once Agastya Muni visited him when the King was busy in the royal toilet, a royal pond to be precise. Agastya waited for a while and cursed the King for breaching the protocol. The time-delay in spreading the red-carpet for whatever reason is unpardonable. The King becomes an elephant. Luckily each curse incorporates a “winding-up clause” which exonerates the wrong doer if he/she undertakes the “jail term” with understanding and restraint. He/she gets back the freedom. Somewhere around this time, a Gandharva named beautifully as “Who-Who” was voyeuristically moving around at the bath-places of young women. Apsaras may be. Who-who was a hard core voyeur, no doubt. He was asking for a curse and he got it. He turns into a crocodile. It so happens that the elephant is caught by the crocodile when the tusker stepped into the river. A fiery battle follows with the elephant loosing. Faced by sudden death, he prays Mahavishnu who does appear and kills the crocodile. It’s a win-win situation now. The elephant as well as the crocodile are saved. Both the King and the Gandharva attain Moksha. The Karma ends and there is no more births. It is interesting to watch the killing scenes depicted in the murals. The divine killer is holding a deadly looking weapon and pressing it into service too, but observe his/her eyes. They are (invariably) filled with Love. Absolutely no trace of anger or hatred anywhere in sight.Violence can also become spiritual, who knows!I saw the mural “Gajendramoksham” at the “Krishnapuram Palace”, the abode of Kayamkulam Kings.
They were bachelors. The king has got a designer bath-pool inside the palace living area. The pool has a long walk-way on one side, a corridor like structure where murals are painted on the closed side. The other side is open. The King takes bath every morning and climbs the steps to the changing room. As he emerges from the pool, the sun rising, the mural Gajendra Moksham arrests his attention. It’s a psychological device, CPA perhaps, to keep his mind steady and serene. Applying the technique to modern times, luckily a cheap substitute is available. As you are aware, (even) Mallu painters sell for more than a crore. Commissioning a mural is out of question. There is a way-out, still. Any number of photographs are available in the print media. They appear at frequent intervals with alarming regularity. Yeah, I’m talking about the photographs of suffering like the Sree Lankan Tamils fleeing for life,
the Palastinian children killed in Israeli bombing, stunningly beautiful Kashmiri girls killed by militants lying in state, the fragile and undernourished Adivasis made to stand erect at gun-point by the police, the sickly Somalian baby being attacked by an eagle………….The images are endless.Fix these pictures on the wall near to your dressing area. They have the power to work on you without consent. By the time you are leaving for office, your mind would be so detached that no distracting thought would ever enter at least for eight hours. In fact, you will be in a state of delicate sadness! However, its an ideal platform for any kind of operating environment!Try it, for a change.
wwr,
Pradeep