Unraveling Karma: An Introduction
It happened.
On a certain day, Shankaran Pillai purchased a boat- a forty-foot ultra-luxurious yacht-for ten million dollars. He decided to take his new Puerto Rican bride out on the ocean for a romantic cruise.
On the wrecked.
way,
misfortune struck. The yacht hit a rock and was
As the brand-new boat sank into the ocean, Shankaran Pillai and his wife managed to extricate themselves. They swam for their lives and finally made their way to the shores of a nearby islet a sandy sliver of land floating in the middle of nowhere, completely devoid of vegetation.
Shankaran Pillai and his wife had a few tins of canned food. They knew these would last them only a couple of days. They were in a fix.
Unperturbed, Shankaran Pillai settled down in a yogic