When we ask; how to get free ourselves from our fate, prarabdha and karma, we’ve already taken the crucial wrong first step. By assuming that the barren woman has a son, and he has a certain fate expectation or an independent existence in the first place. Ans that we are that son.

The barren woman cannot have a child, but it seems that she does because we’ve grown to believe in this thesis. The son is the ego, the separate self we take as granted. And this “self” has its own fate and life which we are now trying to understand. Serious discussions have been made during centuries and it seems no-one has a full understanding or clear picture of the meaning of our life or destiny as human beings. It brings us constant worries and trouble and we search for answers from various books on spirituality and from teachers from distant lands. So much trouble and confusion fill our daily lives and there seems to be no way out of this.

What was our first step again? It was assuming that a barren woman has a son. The question should arise, “who am I?” if there is no son in the first place? What is this “I” that we take to be real and who has a particular prarabdha?

And how to get rid of all the karma we have collected during so many lives? Can we ever consume all that load? The answer is that we have to doubt our whole being as a separate individual and find out who we really are. Otherwise, there will be no end to the circle of so-called births and deaths. We have to find out the dreamer of our dreams and not connect ourselves to one character in the movie. This is the riddle of the son of the barren woman. To be continued…