It is the best question ever asked to me.
Society has many kinds of people. There are many good people, bad people.
And worst people. The society is full of them.
But this is a rare question to be asked that somebody wants to do something good and one of his close friends or close family or close relative prevents the person...
Not to do good thing. I remember when I was on my spiritual path, in the very first year somebody wanted to donate for the poor people just to feed them.
Maybe 5,000 rupees. And one of his friends came forward and he told him, "Can I say to you something?"
And I heard those words. "How much are you giving for this cause?"
He said, "5,000." "Is it your daughter's wedding you're giving 5,000?" he answered.
"Give like 1,000." The other person cannot give, but he wants to prevent it." And when a person is prevented by doing good stuff, by doing any good cause...
By anyone, consequences are very bad. A person collects the Antaraya Karma. It is called Antaraya.
Now people wonder why they don't get what they want. Many people ask this question too, why they don't get what they want.
Why their wishes cannot be fulfilled. Because they have collected antaraya karma.
It's prevention from the good cause. It is the consequence of antaraya karma.
Antaraya means now everything seems to be okay, that if a businessman, he's supposed to get this business. Maybe millions of dollars business.
And deal is almost done. And when it is the ending part, just signing it, the deal, something goes wrong.
And it slips, million dollars, from the person's hand. Over and over again.
Every time he makes a deal it slips from his hand.
The deal. Because person has a lot of antaraya karma.
Maybe a person didn't do in this life anything. He's not preventing anybody to do any good thing in this life.
But maybe he prevented people in his previous life. And that's why their business, their deal, never goes right.
It always slips. It seems like he's getting everything, he's getting everything. He will be getting everything, but it slips.
People sometimes do unknowingly. They don't get very strong antaraya karma.
Antaraya means like now something in between. You cannot get it what you're supposed to get.
And the person who is doing knowingly. If somebody wants to give like any institution who's doing social work, suppose having an education center...
Suppose having for the orphanage. Suppose they are opening any hospital for the poor people.
And somebody knowingly blocks the person. "Why are you giving to them 100,000 dollars?"
And person is preventing knowingly. That person knows that person is going to collect bad karma.
But still doing it, that person never gets success in his or her life.
Never. Now, if they have that strong antaraya karma already, they never get success and they stay on that state, they will suffer whole of their life.
Is there any way to finish those karma? Yes.
There is a way.
There is a way that if a person becomes humble first, never criticizes other, never thinks bad of other people.
And whatever he thinks, he thinks that he's the one who is bad. Just criticism of your own criticism will prevent from the antaraya karma.
If it is very strong, the people, they don't get deal, they don't get success in the life, they have very strong antaraya karma, they collected this karma.
And this karma will make them suffer whole of their life unless they learn now. They begin to change themselves by humbleness. By having compassion on the other people or compassion for the whole Earth.
Not to mess them up, not to create more mess. So it might, they have a chance, little bit, to finish that antaraya karma.