This question and answer series will help to clear your inner-soul confusion on all matters that are demanding your spiritual attention. Spiritual teacher and Healer Ms Veena Minocha will endeavour to clear the 'fog within' by answering all questions sent to her atveenaminocha@hotmail.com
I often wonder whether it is a crime when a person has been killed accidentally. For example, if a person steps in front of a speeding car, and dies, does this act constitute a sin, or negative karma for the driver? The driver had no intention of killing anyone, and he could have been a good and virtuous man in his life. Should the law punish him, and even more importantly, would he have to face the consequences of an act, which was really not his own deliberate karma?
Savitri Ramani from Mumbai
Veena Minocha answers: Dear Savitri, this is a most important question that would arise in the heart of a driver who committed this act with no mal-intention towards the deceased, whom he did not even know. A lot of guilt is attached to such accidental deaths, and the driver often wonders whether it was really his own fault, through his carelessness, or whether this act was predestined in some way, to upset his life and put him in jail.
If we remember that the main milestones of our life have been presented to us in the form of a blueprint when we are born, then the answer becomes easily comprehensible.
{{/usCountry}}If we remember that the main milestones of our life have been presented to us in the form of a blueprint when we are born, then the answer becomes easily comprehensible.
{{/usCountry}}Firstly, when we charted out this blueprint of the events, which were to take place, we contracted with all the concerned persons to do so. So, even if the driver had not known the deceased at all in this life, there was some connection between the two, which caused this accident.
The deceased wished to die at that moment, and the killer contracted, at the astral level, to help him die this horrible death. This could have been done to bring anguish to the families of both, so that they could learn the wisdom of compassion to the deceased's family, or else it could be because the killer wished to experience a jail sentence, to compensate for his past karma.
Even if he has led a virtuous life now, this could be a punishment he had chosen, to keep the company of all the criminals in jail, so that he could teach them certain lessons, which he would never otherwise have been able to do. For example, when a well-known surgeon was convicted of his wife's murder, he went on to heal all those in jail with diseased eyes.
Another young man, in jail for accidentally killing pedestrians, spent all his time helping a number of prisoners to write out petitions, which helped them get out of jail. All these acts of compassion had been contracted between them, before birth, and brought into physical reality at the appropriate time.
Coming to the question of punishment, we realize that this could either be an expiation of previous birth's karma, or could also be something, which the human would learn from in his next life.
The 'gift' that comes out of this sort of experience is a pointer to the choice made by the persons who have suffered.