Hare Krsna,
This is to introduce to you a true story of one of our friends who was a gynaecologist .He was somewhat a supporter of our krsna Consciousness activities and was very helpful to our movement.
As the word gynecologist implies, he was involved in taking care of child birth and women’s pregnancy.He was very much proficient in his area of work and as a result was a very much sought after doctor. As he was also running a maternity home this naturally made much money for him. He had a very big house and a family of wife and two children. His successful material accomplishment would certainly be a reason for everyone to envy. He had all that he had ever dreamt of having; successful business, beautiful wife and adorable children, material opulence etc.
However we did not know that his main source of income was actually by performing abortions. At times he would have to deal with as much as five to ten cases a day! He was very busy with this kind of Sinful activities.
We were very appalled and horrified upon hearing this; it is said in the Bhagavata,
sri-bhagavan uvaca
karmana daiva-netrena
jantur dehopapattaye
striyah pravista udaram
pumso retah-kanasrayah SB 3.31.1
The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body.
It is clearly seen here that the soul or the living entity is a living being and it is made to enter into the mother’s body through union of the father. It is not that the foetus is some flesh with no life, it is another living entity and life starts from the moment of inception until it grows fully into a baby. Unintelligent people are of the opinion that the fetus is some flesh with no life symptoms. Here the word, retah-kanasrayah, is very significant because it indicates that it is not the semen of the man that creates life within the womb of a woman; rather, the living entity, the soul, takes shelter in a particle of semen and is then pushed into the womb of a woman. Then the body develops. There is no possibility of creating a living entity without the presence of the soul simply by sexual intercourse. The materialistic theory that there is no soul and that a child is born simply by material combination of the sperm and ovum is not very feasible. It is unacceptable.
To abort a fetus while in the womb of the mother is tantamount to murder of a living entity and it carries the same penalty.
So, according to the scriptures, the result would be that this man who had been indulging in abortion, will be put into as many wombs as the number of babies that he killed life after life. And in every womb he is killed in the same way as he did for all the fetuses. So much so that it will be rather impossible for him for hundreds of lifetimes to see light. He'll remain in the womb and will be killed. Many do not know the nature's law. One cannot violate the nature's law. You can violate the state law. Suppose you kill somebody, you can escape by trick. But you cannot escape laws of nature. As many times you have killed, so many times you have to be killed within the womb. This is nature's law. (Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk -- August 30, 1973, London)
Naturally out of great compassion and concern for him we tried to educate and warn him of the dire consequences that he is implicating himself in but it fell on deaf ears. He was justifying his actions by saying that he was merely doing a service plus he had invested huge amounts on those costly medical equipment and he wanted to earn everything back. So money was his only concern. Despite our numerous attempts of appeal to him to seriously consider the bad karma that he was getting into, he was unrelenting, he remained adamant.
Soon the reactions of karma started working on him. One day his wife caught him red handed having an affair with one of his nurses; she was utterly shocked and very hurt and could not believe what she had witnessed and therefore decided to end her life. She bought herself some petrol and set herself ablaze in the toilet of her house. Within minutes she burnt herself to death; it was very shocking for all friends and relatives to hear of her sudden suicide. The doctor on the other hand was not too perturbed and was still not remorseful of his action over the death of his wife. He carried on his business as usual.
This time he had some bigger enterprising plans of moving his maternity home to a larger building. He managed to build a new five storey building with all amenities to carry out his business in a much sophisticated and complex manner. For the greed for money, he was not the least concerned about any sort of reaction and for him justification was the means.
In order of making more money he even considered renting of some portion of his building. He was only thinking of maximizing his financial returns more and more.
cintam aparimeyam ca
pralayantam upasritah
kamopabhoga-parama
etavad iti niscitah
asa-pasa-satair baddhah
kama-krodha-parayanah
ihante kama-bhogartham
anyayenartha-sancayan
They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification.
Bg 16.11, Bg 16.12, Bg 16.11-12
This the mentality of the demonic person he is the least concern in anything else save and except his sense gratification. It is also stated in the Bhagavad gita.
evam pravartitam cakram
nanuvartayatiha yah
aghayur indriyaramo
mogham partha sa jivati
My dear Arjuna, one who does not follow in human life the cycle of sacrifice thus established by the Vedas certainly leads a life full of sin. Living only for the satisfaction of the senses, such a person lives in vain. Bg 3.16
The word Aghar ayur means a life of sin and this doctor was surely a very good example of it and little did he know that the result of his karma was sure to catch up with him quickly. While showing his building to some purported prospective clients, he actually ended up getting murdered by them in one of the toilets of the very same building of his. He was murdered in a very brutal manner with the murderers slicing open his belly and spilling out his intestines. SO with the end of his life, his never ending money-making dreams also came to an end. His young children were orphaned, his beautiful wife died and his huge palace has become haunted.
What a price to pay for indulging in nefarious ghastly works that brings ruination to oneself not only for this life but to the countless number that the sinful souls had to go through.
There is a popular saying that crime does not pay but karma too does not pay if one is not careful of not redeeming one’s life of all sinful reaction then it is only going to be bringing bad news.
The only personality that can possible remove all our sinful reaction is Lord Krsna as he says
sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
moksayisyami ma sucah
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear. Bg 18.66
This is the assurance that Lord Krsna has bestowed onto us we need only to surrender and the all merciful Lord would definitely safe us.
Although this particular doctor too was familiar with the essences of the teaching but he was heavily punished because it is said that one should not commit sinful activities on the strength of the holy name. Just like some would go to a church to confess and then soon after is found again back to doing the same sinful thing this kind of behavior is of no use as it is comparable to an elephant taking its bath as soon as it reaches the shore it dust itself again with dirt. One should be careful in transgressing the scriptural tenets as it is said
yah sastra-vidhim utsrjya
vartate kama-karatah
na sa siddhim avapnoti
na sukham na param gatim
He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination. Bg 16.23
We do hope that this true story would inspire many in us as to not follow this path as undertaken by this ignorant and sinful doctor who, with all his so called modern education, has ended up in a very pathetic way, only lord krsna can tell for sure how bad he is suffering.
Please chant Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama
Rama Hare Hare. And be happy.
