Its all about the Account!!!

When I was a small kid, I heard this story a few times. Still I'm only beginning to understand the full meaning of this story.

There was this princess who was very beautiful. And there was a prince who was equally handsome, brave, smart and an eligible bachelor in all aspects.
The princess got married to this prince and they were both very excired about their new relationship.
The first night of the marriage was beautiful, but things were about to change... change really bad!!!
On the very first morning of their marriage, the princess got up early. She got up even before sunrise.
As she got up, she saw the princess sleeping, he looked so good even when asleep. Next to the prince's pillow was a long sword which he always kept with himself. This sword was studded with diamonds and gems and looked so beautiful that the princess wanted to touch it... lift it in her hands.
She leaned over the prince and picked up the sword. As the sword was very heavy, she could not handle the weight and it fell from her hands... exactly on the prince's neck. As it fell, it severed the prince's head killing him instantly. There was blood all over the place.
The princess did not know how to handle the situation and started screaming in panic.
Immediately all the guards came running in and saw the prince dead and the princess in panic. They asked her what happened.
Obviously the princess cannot say that she killed her own husband otherwise she will surely be executed. So she bluffed and said that a thief killed the prince and ran away. To convince the guards, she pointed outside the window towards the direction where the thief ran.
The guards immediately ran in the pointed direction to catch the thief who killed the prince. When they reached the place indicated by princess, they found a temple where a priest was doing his morning prayers. They caught that priest and brought him to the king's court.
The princess was called in to identify the thief; to save her own skin, she lied that the priest was the thief. The king did not listen to any of the priest's pleas and wanted to execute him right away. Being a religious person, the king couldn't kill the priest, so he ordered that the priest's hands be cut off and he should be sent away from the kingdom.
Here was a priest, who was doing his morning prayers, and now has been kicked out of his kingdom with no apparent mistake of his. What went wrong???
Lets see the story further...
Now this priest was going from door to door asking for money, food and shelter and nobody was giving him any help. As he was crossing one house, he heard a man praying inside the house, immediately he went to the entrance of that house and started abusing god. He started saying bad words to god and even started saying the prayer using exact opposite words to show disrespect to god.
This house was occupied by a wise man. The wise man came out and asked him... "What great tragedy has happened to you that you are so angry with god? "How could someone ever use bad words for God?"
The priest told his complete tragic story to the wise man and at the end of the story asked him "I always prayed to god, never hurt anyone, then why did bad happen to me?"
The wise man had a power that he could see the past, present and the future. He used that power to see if he could find an answer.
He told the priest one more story which goes as follows:
"There was once a hunter who went for hunting. He found a very beautiful deer and wanted to hunt her, so he started chasing her. The deer ran deep into the jungle and crossed one man's hut. As the hunter crossed the hut, he asked this man about the dear. The man was praying that time and did not speak, but pointed his hands in the direction where the dear went. The hunter went in that direction, found the dear, killer her and took her head as a trophy."
Back to present tense:
The wise man told the priest - This deer was reborn as the princess. The hunter was reborn as a prince and the man who showed the direction was reborn as the priest. That explained a lot of things to the priest. He had used his hands to direct the hunter so he lost his hands. The hunter cut deer's head, so the dear was reborn as the princess and the hunter as the prince who lost his life in the hands of the princess.
The story goes on but lets stop here and think for a few minutes...

Aren't there times when we do everything right but still things go wrong???
Aren't there times when bad happens to us and we ask the question... why me? i've never done wrong to anybody, then why me?
Correct, you have not done any wrong to anyone... atleast not knowingly... atleast not in this life. But there is some sort of a higher intelligence... some higher force... Chitragupta... St. Peters... whatever you call it... and that force is keeping an account of everyone of us.
Looks like all the good deeds are deposits and all the "not so good" deeds are withdrawals. Whenever, the withdrawals are more than the deposits, we have to pay.
Going by that, what we are going through today is a result of whatever we have done somewhere in the past. That is why, there are some wrong people who keep growing and only good keeps happening to them... they must be having some past balance.
Then there are those dukhi (eternally unhappy) category ones, whatever good they do, only bad keeps happening to them.
So... It really boils down to the fact that my today is a result of what I did yesterday.

"Then Gulshan, If everything is a result of the past, then why should we do anything good today, because, whatever we do, what has been decided only will happen... so what's the point of being good???"

My dear, if my today is a result of my yesterday... then on the same logic, my tomorrow will be a result of what i do today.
So... If I want a good tomorrow, I have to helplessly be good today...

hhmmm... looks like I have figured out how this account thing works... and it looks pretty simple. You dont have to be a chartered accountant to understand this... really!!!!!!!!!!