Fate and Karma of my Son - Special Pujas to Appease the Gods
“…We have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place – Is 28:15 (NIV)”
My entire family could not stand this news and were deeply affected by it. It was beyond anybody’s control to pacify my wife. She could not take it at all. She was all tears and was crying all the time without taking any food. A young and healthy man of 28 years going to USA laughing and jumping in June and within three months – we cannot even think of him to be in ICU, requiring a major head surgery to save his life. Why…Why? How could it happen to him? Why has it happened to my son? What sin have I committed for this to befall on my son? I could not bear it. Is it the envy of some neighbours? Or is it their eye casting? Or is it some witchcraft done by someone? Oh God, please answer my prayers, I cried. What wrong have I done to earn this for my son? What can be the cause of this fateful blow on my son? I cried and prayed. With no answer to any of my questions, I took the horoscope of my son and went to many astrologers, fortune tellers, palmists and to the Vaitheeswaran temple to have a look at my son’s palm leaf horoscope. Wherever I went I was told that my son’s birth stars and planets are not in favourable positions, his time is bad, it is in his fate and karma etc. Every one was able to tell correctly whatever has happened in my son’s life so far. When it came to his present condition, they were hesitant to tell the fact, a few swallowed the words, one or two indirectly pointed out the end of my son’s life.
I looked deep into his horoscope through many astrologers, but none of them could give me an encouraging word regarding my son’s future or life. They said that even the Almighty God cannot and will not change the Prarartha karma, Sanjitha karma and the Ahamya karma (Wills of God). One has to undergo the sufferings of these karmas. To reduce its adverse effect and to please and appease the planets and birth stars, some one suggested to do special pujas with milk abhishegam (ordination of deity with milk) for Lord Siva Linga for 40 days, some one else advised to do Ganapathy Homam, another one a Navagraha Puja (Prayers for nine planets) and a Homam (holy fire), yet another – a vada mala (garland of hot doughnuts) for Lord Anjaneya (Monkey disciple of Lord Rama) and a hundred other suggestions like this. My wife rushed up with tears to do every thing suggested to us with the hope that the God and planets may be pleased with at least some of these worship, puja and offerings and that our son may come out of this trauma unscathed and totally healed. It was the tearful feeling and hope of a mother who had carried him in her womb for ten months to see him healed.