Kamma is Inescapable
Yasodhara
for the renunciant’s life.
One day,
knowing that the Buddha and his disciples would be entering the city for
almsfood, the Icing got drunk, and the wine in his veins made him brave enough
to go and block the Buddha’s way. He would not let the Buddha pass, saying that
he, the king, could not make way for someone younger than he was. Not
protesting, the Buddha and his disciples turned back. King Suppahuddha then
ordered one of his men to spy on the Buddha and report back to him whatever the
Buddha said.
Once back at their monastery, the Buddha said to Ananda, “The king has
created bad kamma by blocking the way of the Buddha and soon he will have to
pay for it.”
This was reported to the king who became determined to prove that the Buddha didn’t know what
he was talking about. He commanded all of his attendants and guards to be extra
vigilant in protecting him, while he himself would take special precautions.
The news of the king’s increased efforts to protect himself from harm
reached the monastery where the Buddha was staying. The Buddha said that it didn’t
matter whether the king lived in a tower, in the sky, in an ocean, or in a cave,
because he couldn’t escape the result of his kamma. Nobody could.
Several
days after the road incident, the king was sitting in his room when he heard
his favorite horse neighing and kicking about wildly. He became so worried that
he immediately went to see what the matter was, forgetting what the Buddha had
predicted for him. As he rushed out of his room, he tripped and fell down some
stairs and died. When he was reborn, he was reborn in hell. So no matter how
hard he tried, the foolish king was unable to escape the effects of his evil
kamma. That is how the law of kamma works.
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