The importance of Shradh

[Guest guest]

I was reading somewhere that the diff between humans and animals is we

know both our parents, and by performing Shraadh we have control of

our destiny, while animals dont.

 

Science says we have millions of those genes, but only few are useful,

others are dormant. Our texts(and even the Bible) says that we are

affected by 7 generations of our ancestors. Practically also angry

people have angry children, greedy have greedy etc. By performing Puja

for them we can remove their negative influences.

 

Say your father was a very angry person. Since you share his genes,

they will negatively influence you, even after his death, and your

children for 7 generations. Now say you perform puja for him. The good

effect of the puja will be he will cool down, and nature will be happy

and gove him birth in some womb like Tiger where he can satisfy his

anger and violence.

 

As soon as this happens, his influence on you is removed, which means

that if you too were an angry person, you will also lose some of your

anger. You are responsible for yor own action, but if you have a lot

of negative influences, it will be hard for you to make spiritual

progress.

 

So by performing Shraadh you are not only helping your relatives, you

are helping yourself. So a person who doesnt perform Shraadh is worse

than an animal.

[Guest guest]

But shanracer, this means that with all those negative influences of

our ancestors, we will never make progress.....

[Guest guest]

True, but remember getting Enlightenement is a very difficult job, not

for everyone. You have to carry not only your own Karma, but(some)

influence of Parents, ancestors, city, country, even planet Earth.

 

For example, we are cutting down trees and killing animals. Everyone

who enjoys the benefits of this has to share some Karma too.

 

Thats why very few people make it!

[Guest guest]

> True, but remember getting Enlightenement is a very difficult job, not

> for everyone. You have to carry not only your own Karma, but(some)

> influence of Parents, ancestors, city, country, even planet Earth.

 

Shanracer, how can one carry influence/Karma of the country?

[Guest guest]

> Shanracer, how can one carry influence/Karma of the country?

 

You carry the Karma of your country/culture/society. For example, the

Israelites, when they escaped from Egypt, slaughtered all the local

tribes in the gulf. For this, they had to wait till 20th century, but

finally they too were slaughtered by Hitler.

 

The Catholic Church burnt 1000s of innocent people. The result: the

Powerful church Empire(which was once all of Italy, with some France

and Germany)now is just a small city, and the Pope, once as powerful

as an King, now has to go around apologising to people for past mistakes.

 

Westerners exploited India and stole our money. Now those same Western

countries are sending their jobs to India, and firing their own

people. The westerners are angry, but they have to pay back all the

money they stole from us. Based on this alone, we can guess that India

has a good future, as we havent recieved a fraction of the wealth that

was stolen.