The Burden Beneath the Bodhi Tree - BRIAN GUY

Autor: BRIAN GUY

Editorial: BRIAN GUY

Año: 06/10/2026

ISBN: 9798182868402

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 162 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9798182868402

Vikram Mercer has spent years believing that suffering can be carried, transferred, and transformed. To him, karma is not an abstract idea but a living force-a network of invisible consequences binding people to their choices. With his unusual ability to perceive these karmic burdens, Vikram has come to see himself as a vessel capable of taking another person?s suffering into his own body.
But when a ten-year-old boy named Beckett Hayes is condemned for a crime he did not commit, Vikram?s belief in his own purpose drives him toward a dangerous choice.
Beckett has been accused of causing the destruction of Grayson Lockwood?s granary, yet Vikram discovers that the true guilt belongs to Lockwood himself. Desperate to protect the innocent child, Vikram severs the merchant?s karmic burden and draws it into his own body. The consequence is devastating. His health begins to fail, his body becomes overwhelmed by the burden, and the invisible debt threatens to destroy him.
Seeking a way to survive long enough to save Beckett, Vikram returns to the High Bell Monastery and seeks the guidance of Abbot Emerson Blackwell, the teacher who once instructed him in the mysteries of the Great Loom. Vikram expects the abbot to help him carry the burden even further-to sacrifice himself in Beckett?s place.
Instead, Emerson forces him to confront a deeper and more painful question: Is his desire to suffer for others truly compassion, or is it another form of escape?
With the help of Eliza Thornton and the evidence she provides, Vikram begins to understand that justice cannot be achieved by simply absorbing another person?s consequences. Sacrifice may look noble, but it can also become an evasion-a way to avoid confronting the physical world, its institutions, its corruption, and the responsibility of those who created the injustice.
As Vikram struggles between mystical belief and human responsibility, he must decide what kind of burden he is truly willing to carry. Saving Beckett will not require him to become a martyr. It will require him to stand as a witness, speak the truth, and force the people responsible for the injustice to face their own choices.
The Burden Beneath the Bodhi Tree is a philosophical and spiritual novel about karma, guilt, justice, compassion, redemption, and the dangerous temptation to believe that suffering alone can make the world right. It explores the difference between self-sacrifice and genuine courage, asking whether true spiritual awakening comes from carrying everyone?s pain-or from learning when to let others carry the consequences of their own actions.
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