Originally posted by divegeester
"what goes around comes around" and "you reap what you sow" are common philosophies widely accepted from a temporal viewpoint; proposing to someone borne with a disability that they have been deliberately designed that way due to some undisclosed wrongdoing in a previous existence is insulting beyond belief.
My nephew is autistic to the point of not ...[text shortened]... time care all his life - what you you suggest I say to my sister when she is asking why...?
First of all, I will have to give you the short answer, because to explain fully would take twenty pages.
Karma works both ways, first theres the afflicted person, then theres the person who has to be the care giver, and both situations are about karma from last life and past lives.
When one is not on the transcendental platform of living the spiritual life, everything that person does, whether positive or negative, is creating their next body.
Because the person has not the desire for leaving this material world, all their actions, words and thoughts, are preparing them for their next birth.
If your sisters karma was such, that she had to experience the difficulties or even the personal growth that comes from care giving to a family member, then the nephew would have to come into being, to facilitate that situation.
Persons who have raised their consciousness, above the bodily conception of life, and are endeavouring on the spiritual path, do not suffer as others, because they are aware that the body is ultimately just dust in the wind.
The nephew, is living out a birth situation, that he has created for himself, and to figure out what actually took place in the past, is impossible to know.
But before you say, whats the use of having such a birth, if one doesnt know why, i will say this...
In a society where everyone is aware of Karma, and how it works, then people in general, are very carefull what the speak, what they think, and what they do, and they also practice the spiritual principle of purification of mind body and soul.
Seeing a person in a wheel chair with an affliction, is a cold reminder to everyone, that karma is alive and well, but before saying thats insensative, they also are aware, that the afflicted body is only temporary, and that the real person (the soul) is untouched by that affliction.
Your sister has been born, and has died millions of times, and so has the nephew, so in the scope of things,..... so to shall this pass.
What to say to your sister, is not an easy thing, if she is not aware of karma, reincarnation and the factual position of the soul within the temporary material body, so for your sister to be Ok with her situation, then she would have to raise her self above it, and understand it from the perspective that i have given.
I do hope this short answer has helped some way.