Posted on: 22 Aug 2018
Shri Anil asked:- Swami! What is the reason for this flood calamity in Kerala?
Swami replied:- Everybody will say a reason convenient and applicable to his liking. A father of a student may say that since his son is not given admission in the school, which is the highest injustice, it is responsible for this calamity! Hence, we shall go deep in the knowledge leaving all personal likes and dislikes to find out the actual and ultimate truth.
If an individual does a sin harming another individual, the sinner will be personally punished by the unimaginable God in unimaginable way even if the sinner escapes punishment through his intelligence, corruption and power. Simultaneously, the affected party will be compensated by God. This is the divine rule, if the sinner harmed the other person freshly. If this case is different in the sense that the other person harmed the sinner in the previous birth and the sinner is retorting the other person with the help of the divine arrangement of God, God keeps silent in such case. Observing such cases, some people shout saying that the sin is victorious in this Kali age! Lack of identification of zero potency of self to know the background in the previous birth, will mislead the people regarding the divine administration. Either you shall have fundamental unshakeable faith in God or you shall have the potency of omniscience to know all the past present and future of the souls.
Whenever such mass punishment takes place, logically it means the sin done by the entire mass of public is punished. The sin has nothing to do with any religion and hence, religious colour need not be exposed in such basic clear issues. Conservatives will naturally show the reason to be coloured with their religion. In this punishment, all castes, genders and all religions are punished due to common sin done irrespective of caste, gender and religion. Now, imagine what is such common sin done by all people? 90 percent of the public is doing that common sin. Of course, 10 percent of the public not doing such common sin is also punished along with the 90 percent. What is the logical justice in such 100 percent punishment? The logical justice is to bring the common punishment of 90 percent to be mixed with the punishment of 10 percent public and to be executed as a common punishment. There may be qualitative difference in two different sins, but, there can be one single qualitative and quantitative punishment. Two sinners, doing different sins, are given the same punishment of imprisonment in the same jail for the same period. In this way, common punishment to different types of sins is quite possible in the divine administration.
As I have already pointed out in several messages, earthquakes are mainly coming for killing living beings with awareness wandering on the earth. This is the anger of God through the mother-earth. Similarly, the anger of God through the father-ocean for killing living beings with awareness wandering in the lakes, rivers and oceans is expressed through floods and cyclones. Don’t give ignorant statements like vegetable food will not be sufficient for all living beings if non-vegetarian food is avoided. Remember that God is omnipotent and the limits of His creation are not even imagined by us so far! Ethical scriptures clearly shout saying that violence towards non-harming good natured living beings is the climax of injustice (Ahimsaa paramo dharmah).