Can Prarabdh Be Experienced Generation After Generation?

Shri Hit Radha Keli Kunj, Vrindavan - an intimate conversation with Pujya Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj. Sadhaks ask questions about their life and sadhana, and Maharaj Ji provides answers to them.

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Savita Ji, Radhe-Radhe, Maharaj Ji. Maharaj Ji, can someone's prarabdh be so powerful that generation after generation experiences its fruit? No, that's not how it is. One has to experience it oneself, not generation after generation. For example, if the father committed sinful deeds and the suffering from a past birth is also bound to the son, then when he becomes the son of such a father, he will have to suffer the consequences of that behavior his entire life.

The father had taken loans. The father was a criminal. The father had committed many types of misconduct. So that son will have to suffer sorrow his whole life. The property will be seized by society, because he is the son of the one who did such things, isn't he?

So throughout his life, these karma impressions that are attached to that soul from before - that one becomes a son, comes, and becomes a father. So from generation to generation - it's not like one person commits sin and then generation after generation keeps experiencing it.

We are doing good deeds, but still we're receiving nothing but suffering up till now. Yes. So if you do good deeds today but did bad deeds before, who will experience those bad deeds? In the previous birth you did bad deeds - that is previous earning. Your current earning is good - let's say you're doing good deeds. But you committed bad deeds before, in a past life. So won't you have to experience them? You must definitely experience them. The karma that must be experienced will certainly be experienced.

So you will definitely have to experience it. Today you're doing good deeds, but if bad deeds from our past remain, we have to suffer the punishment for those. So you must definitely experience it - you must experience what must be experienced.

Shrey Mishra Ji from Kanpur. Shri Harivansh Maharaj Ji. Maharaj Ji, you want to ask - if someone takes God's name, what you mean is - will they attain God?

No, no, certainly not. What is against the law is a punishable crime, so one must experience the suffering of that crime. Nowhere in our scriptures or in Indian law is there approval for suicide. There is no approval. If you are caught attempting suicide, you will be punished. You cannot do it. It exists even in our Indian law. And in divine law, if you commit suicide, you will attain the state of bhoot-pret (spirits). You will attain a fallen state, not a good state. Otherwise everyone would chant the name and jump into the river. That's not how it is.

That's not how it is. You will attain a fallen state. You will not attain a good state. Like if someone chants the name while committing sin, they will attain hell. They will not attain that good state. Just like the name brings salvation at the final moment, but if you misuse it, you will have a downfall. You will attain a ghost-like state. There will be great degradation for you.

One should never do this. Suicide is very condemnable. Yes, one who commits suicide will never attain salvation. They will wander for eons and eons. That's why one should never commit suicide.

This is the greatest crime. For every problem, there is a solution. But not every problem's solution is suicide - like you will kill yourself. That's not how it is. If you do it, you will attain a fallen state.

Why? How did this thought come into your mind? At the final moment, if God's name comes to remembrance. There's a big difference between the final moment of the soul and the final moment in this context. Our final time comes naturally. Like when our life is leaving us, we say Radha and our life departs. Then you will attain God. But deliberately taking one's life is not the final moment.

That soul will then receive punishment, will you not? You are committing a crime. You said that the name is like a burning substance - that it will burn, will burn. And you said Radha's name is what saves. Yes, it saves - but not against the law, right? Like poison - if a doctor gives it carefully it works to treat diseases. But if you just eat it, you'll die, won't you? So you shouldn't use it wrongly. No wrong use. This would be a wrong use.

You will receive punishment for this. Like we, brother, will chant Radha and then commit suicide. If we chant Radha and then do it - this will cause your downfall. You will meet a bad fate. If our life naturally leaves us and then we chant Radha Radha, then our salvation will happen. It's not like that. It's not like that. Do not misuse.

One should not misuse a good thing. This is against the law.

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