Ahindu life- poison tree how do the past actions of srimati affect surja’s actions? srimati’s reckless and immoral behavior has tainted surja mukhi’s family name, which causes shame in the family. throughout the story, surja is actively searching for a way to regain her social status. srimati abandons her son who is then taken in by surja’s father and later by surja, who cares for him like a brother. this leads surja to leap at the chance to marry tara to a respectable young woman. using wealth from her lover, srimati gives surja money to open a village school with tara as the master so he will have an income. because she is a beautiful but immoral woman srimati poisoned the house of surja mukhi’s family and has caused struggle and despair to fall upon them.