By the late 1980s, Dr. Baba Steve Bedi had achieved professional success — but unknowingly drifted away from the emotional lives of his own children, particularly his youngest daughter, born on June 12, 1988.

He assumed — like many parents do — that providing comfort is enough, even without emotional presence. But life had other plans. As she grew older, she began experiencing severe panic attacks during her final year of high school — unable to even walk into her classroom. Eventually, she had to continue her education from home.

Dr. Bedi now sees this not as coincidence — but karma returning through the next generation.

He calls it karmaphala — the unseen result of past actions that reappear not always in our life, but sometimes in our children’s.

Later, during her first year of college, his daughter gave birth to a premature baby boy — outside of marriage. The family hid it from him at first, fearing his reaction. But when he finally learned the truth — he did not react with anger, but with love.

He simply said —
“A new life is always a blessing.”

His daughter was shocked. She expected judgement — she received acceptance.

And in that moment — he saw the greatest truth of karma:

It is not the past that defines us — it is the awareness with which we respond to the present.

Karma is not punishment — it is education.
It is not delayed justice — it is mirrored consequence.
And above all —
it repeats — until we learn.

“As you sow, so shall you reap.”
— Not as a warning, but as eternal reminder.