In this ancient story from the book “Threads of Fate Determine Human Life” by Roselis von Sass, we witness how a single wrong choice can affect many future incarnations.

Mandra, a beautiful girl from a merchant village, experienced recurring dreams featuring a seductive dance performed by a half-naked female dancer. Despite receiving a clear, intuitive warning, Mandra decided to pursue her fantasy of learning and performing this dance. With assistance from Zafran the Seer, who similarly ignored his inner voice’s warnings and succumbed to temptation driven by passion and desire, they created a performance for the villagers and traveling merchants.

Barely clothed, Mandra’s dance aroused intense feelings and desires in the audience—a phenomenon previously unknown. Her performance fundamentally altered how people viewed women’s bodies, replacing reverence for purity with physical body worship. When her father returned from his journey and discovered what had transpired, he banished her in shame. Devastated, Mandra fled blindly through a stone field where a fatal snake bite ended her life. In her final moments, she gained the painful insight of what she had truly lost—she had silenced her spirit’s voice and yielded to temptation.

The story illustrates the Law of Karma in action—not as punishment, but as the natural consequence of our choices, manifesting either in our current lifetime or in future incarnations. Throughout their subsequent lifetimes, both Mandra and Zafran received numerous opportunities to rectify their karma, yet they repeatedly allowed intellectual reasoning and emotional desires to overpower their spirit.

This tale teaches us that by ignoring our spirit’s guiding voice and making wrong choices, we may bind ourselves to cycles of suffering until we finally choose to heed our spiritual intuition, which will always guide us to the right path. Only then can we break the cycle of poor choices and correct our karma.