Justice in the Cycle of Karma

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

God created all the souls and has the attitude of father towards His children. The father sometimes may have partiality in showing the love equally to his children. But God is always having infinite love for all the souls in equal manner. Even the punishments in the hell are meant for transformation of the souls from lower level to the higher level. God always tries to help the soul even if a trace of possibility exists in the cycle of the deeds. One soul need not recommend about the other soul to God to show the grace. If somebody recommends to his father regarding the welfare of his brother, how foolish it looks! No soul should recommend to the God about other soul for protection or for showing the grace. If any soul recommends like that it is only insulting the infinite love of God. It is only the climax of the ignorance and the emotional love on the other soul, which lacks even the basic analysis of spiritual knowledge.

Never criticize anyone in the world. If you do not like to praise somebody, keep silent. If you scold somebody and suppose God is hidden in that person, it will lead to immediate punishment. Worship of God and insulting God will have immediate results in this world because both are powerful (Atyutkataih Papapunyaih…). The help and insult to the colleague souls will have results in the upper world in heaven and hell. But, the service and insult to God in human form and devotees will have immediate results here itself. Generally, it is very difficult to identify God in human form, who will try to hide Himself by looking like an ordinary person or sometimes looking like even a negative person. God in human form acts according to the role taken on the stage of the world. The role is according to the divine program drawn by God Himself. The role generally does not contain the supernatural behavior, which will create problems of free mixing of God with the souls. The role consists of mainly normal behavior and sometimes sub-normal behavior to test the devotees or to drive away the undeserving devotees who will try to exploit God. In such case, there is every possibility of misunderstanding God as a normal human being or sometimes as a bad human being. If you neglect God assuming Him as a normal human being, there is nothing wrong in it and you will not be in loss even though you may not have the benefit. But, if you insult Him assuming a bad fellow, that is the greatest sin and will have immediate negative effect. Since we cannot trace out God easily, it is better not to criticize even a bad fellow. Leave him to his fate. Who are you to criticize anybody? You have lot of bad points shown by your bulky thumb, when you point out others with your lean finger. The constitution of God running the divine cycle of deeds will take care of everything in the world. Why do you unnecessarily take the risk of insulting the hidden God?

In the sacrifice, Dharma Raja wanted to worship some eligible person in the beginning. Bhishma told that Lord Krishna is the best. But, Shishupala started scolding Krishna unnecessarily and got punished. He was furious towards Krishna for taking away the bride (Rukmini) fixed for him. The fixation was against the will of Rukmini and Shishupala knows this. Rukmini sent a secret message to Krishna that if Krishna does not turn, she will commit suicide. Life is the most important item to be protected according to justice (Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah…). There was no trace of injustice on the side of Krishna in this event. The mother of Shishupala prayed Krishna to save her son. The Lord prolonged for some time and the punishment was given. Shishupala is the gatekeeper of the Lord and that was the last birth to reach God after the curse and he was very anxious to reach the Lord. His mother does not know all this background and her recommendation to the Lord was against the welfare of Shishupala. If you take the case of Abhimanyu, the Lord got him killed even though he was His beloved relative. People misunderstand this and may think that Krishna is very cruel. Abhimanyu is the incarnation of a demon in disguise. The Lord knows the internal background. The doctor knows the internal system and operates the patient for head-ache. The ordinary observers think that the head-ache can be cured easily by applying some ointment. But, the doctor only knows the reality through the scanning. Therefore, all the actions of God are correct and justified. You should not mistake God for any trace of cruelty. Even if there is a trace of possibility, God will act even before you recommend. He is the Father of all the souls and you are only a brother. The love of father is far superior to the love of brother. Moreover, you misunderstand His action of punishment as revenge. The action of God is only for the welfare of the soul and not for revenge. When Krishna killed Shishupala, his soul in the form of a light merged in Krishna. It means the gatekeeper has reached the abode of God after three births as enemy. You misunderstand Krishna as cruel for punishing him just for some abuses. But, you do not know the background that Shishupala was His gatekeeper and was very anxious to reach God. Since your knowledge about a soul is just limited to the present birth only, your conclusions are always wrong regarding God.

Fruit of Divine Service

When you serve God, you expect a clear expression of the grace of God and this is not good. Suppose you are given a cash award of one lakh rupees for your service, you will spend it lavishly and suffer after sometime. If you do not expect the cash award, that amount is invested in the bank of God and you are constantly getting one thousand rupees as interest in every month. Your principle is safe and will be spent by God whenever there is an emergent need. When you do not expect any clear fruit from God, God implements this system. In this system, the result of your service is not clear because there is no emergency. But, if you do not aspire for any trace of fruit from God even in the deeper plane of your heart, the system is completely different, in which there is no account like between the father and his son. Without any account, the father will naturally spend for the requirement. When Draupadi tore a piece of cloth from her sari for the sake of bleeding wound of Krishna, there is no account in this bond because Draupadi never aspired for even a trace of fruit in return. She did not even recollect this incident when Dussaasana dragged her sari in the court.

Do not link your service to any fruit from God. Link the fruits to your own actions. Sometimes the actions fail and unexpected negative results appear. People think that a good deed has given a bad result and a bad deed has given a good result. Based on this, people doubt the existence of the divine system of cycle of deeds. Every action has its corresponding result after sometime. The time gap may be even after this life. Some actions give results at once. If you put finger in the fire, it will burn immediately. But, generally the actions are enquired by the divine system under the supervision of the God and the result of the action may be after the sometime in this life or may be even after this life. The time gap is a decision of the judge and not yourself. You might have done some good deed and its result may be received after ten days on a particular day at 10.30 am. You might have done a bad deed on that day at 10.29 am and its result will be received at a particular time after some days. Now the observers think that the good result at 10.30 am is the effect of the bad deed done at the 10.29 am. The observers criticize the divine system of God. This cycle of deeds is a very complicated multi-dimensional network system with so many parameters of time and place correlated with each other (Gahanaa Karmano Gathih… Gita). The superimpositions and coincidence of some actions and some other fruits mislead you to understand the intricate system. Except God, nobody can analyze this system of network. The deep analysis of all the parameters is impossible for a human brain. Therefore, never criticize the administration of God and unnecessarily earn the sin.

Generally, one worships God through practical devotion (service) in order to avoid the negative results. Such attitude is a failure to achieve the real love and permanent grace of God. You must learn to enjoy the negative results also like hot dishes in the meal. In fact, due to the divine knowledge attained by the grace of God, try to find out more benefit in the negative result so that at least the negative result can be enjoyed equally with the positive result. Whenever, you start to do a work, you pray for the blessings of the Lord to get victory and benefit. The defeat and loss are never expected even in the mind. The elders always bless you to succeed and get the profit. They will never bless you to enjoy even the negative result, if attained. They feel inauspicious even to utter the possibility of negative result even as the next alternative. But, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna in the Gita ‘If you die in the war, you will enjoy the heavenly pleasures and if you win, you will enjoy the pleasures on this earth’ (Hatovaa Prapsyase Svargam… Gita). The Lord is giving blessings with the negative result in the beginning and the positive result is mentioned as the next alternative only. The Lord is showing more happiness in the negative result than the positive result because the heavenly pleasures are more superior to the pleasures on the earth. It is just like saying that if you are defeated in a work, you will get a treat in the five-star hotel and if you win, you will get a treat in ordinary hotel. The Lord says that He is giving the analytical faculty to laugh at results of the deeds (Buddhyaa Yukto… Gita). The ignorant fellow may laugh at the statement of Krishna, but a scholar will laugh at the ignorance in analyzing the welfare in the positive and negative results. Actually, the negative result giving you misery is for your welfare only to become near to God. The positive result is for your loss by which you are far from God. The punishment purifies you from all bad effects and the boon will pollute you with ego and ignorance. You must have faith in God that He is always doing everything for your welfare only. In such case, you are never upset in the life and hence, there is no need of linking your devotion to the favor from God. You are mistaking the favor of God as His anger and the anger of God as His favor. The divine knowledge, which is harsh to you, is always in your welfare and Sadguru, who gives such divine knowledge, is the human form of God. Majority likes the sweet, which harms in long run and welcomes the knowledge preached by the preachers, who are the human forms of Satan.

In the lower level, the divine knowledge is also sweet but such divine knowledge is only a sugar-coated bitter medicine. The knowledge of the messengers of Satan is totally sugar, which is sweet causing the diabetes. The lower divine knowledge is like a sugar-coated bitter medicine to cure the disease and such sugar coating is needed for the children. An adult eating sweets is different from a child, which is given a sugar coated medicinal pill. The ignorance of the adult cannot be excused like the ignorance of the child. Therefore, the beginners in the spiritual path are excused for their ignorance and God favors them by certain boons appearing as if violating the cycle of deeds. In fact, it is not violation and it is only an adjustment without any violation hoping for the growth of the soul in the spiritual line. But, the soul should not sit in this level only and in course of time should progress and respect the rigid cycle of deeds without any aspiration of fruit from God. When Rama turned the stone into Ahalya, a lower devotee will think that Rama did a miracle and favored Ahalya by canceling the curse. But, the higher-level devotees will see the same incident in another angle. The same sage Gautama, who gave the curse limited his curse till that day only. Therefore, when the duration of punishment is over, Ahalya came back into her original state and in this incident, there is no violation of the cycle of deeds that gives the punishment and also fixes the duration of punishment. In fact, Rama followed the divine administration strictly because the curse has to end through Him only. Thus, the lower level devotees take God as capable as well as violating the divine administration if He likes. But, the higher-level devotees take even the violation as a part of the divine administration itself.

1. If God charges a soul as a human incarnation, will the same single soul present in all human beings become God?

[Shri Surya asked: One person is telling that the soul is only one and therefore, if God charges a soul as human incarnation, the single soul present in all the human beings should become God.]

Swami replied: The soul is one, in the sense of its basic form as inert energy, which is the material of this entire Universe. In that sense, the soul is inert energy and the soul is never taken in that basic sense. The soul is taken as pure awareness, which is the special work form of inert energy. In such case, the souls are many even though you may argue that every soul is pure awareness only. In this sense, the soul is limited to the human body and the awareness is absent in the gap existing between human bodies. The awareness is absent even in some parts of the body like hair and nails. The awareness is discontinuous. Suppose you have taken the lump of iron, which consists of atoms of iron having the same matter and atomic structure. We say that there are many iron atoms in the lump of iron because there is gap between the atoms. You cannot say that the entire lump is one single atom of iron. You cannot say that the entire lump of iron is only one single item, which is inert energy because the matter present in all the atoms is only basic energy. The space between atoms can be also considered as subtle form of energy and thus, the entire lump of iron is a single homogeneous lump of inert energy only. The word atom stands for a particle of the matter and not energy. Similarly, the soul is fixed in the sense of pure awareness and therefore, a single unit of homogeneous soul consisting of all the human beings cannot be achieved, which is against to the practical experience (Anubhava Pramanam). In the above example, the matter and the atomic structure are common in all the atoms. But in the case of souls, only the awareness is common but not the qualities, which are different structures of awareness. When God charges the soul like Krishna, He charged only the awareness in the body of Krishna and not the basic form of inert energy of the soul so that He can charge the entire Universe, which is only different forms of the basic inert energy. If this is accepted, the entertainment of God from the Universe is violated because the scene of entertainment is always different from the seer. The single homogeneous awareness in all the human beings is in qualitative sense but not in the sense of quantitative continuity. The gold is one and the same in two different jewels. Since gold is one and the same, if one jewel is purchased, the other jewel must have been purchased by you without paying the cost of the other jewel, if your concept is true. You must know that the gold is same qualitatively in both the jewels but there is no quantitative continuity of gold in both the jewels.

2. Will the use of medicines result in a violation of the cycle of deeds?

[Shri Anil asked: A person asked about the violation of the theory of punishment of the result of a sin in the form of illness in view of the medicines, yoga etc.]

Swami replied: The theory is not violated because the cure by medicines etc., is not universal in every case. In some cases, the cure fails. In some other cases, the cure happens and in such cases, the duration of punishment was up to that time only. Unless the fixed duration finishes, the medicines etc., will not work. Moreover, the punishment of sin can be converted from one form to the other. This is present even in the world as you see ‘Thousand rupees fine or six months prison’. Apart from this, there is possibility of postponement of punishment with accumulated interest to the later part of this life or to hell or to the next life in case re-birth is accepted. All these facilities are used by God when you pray God to avoid the punishment. In the case of the servant, who serves God without the aspiration of any fruit in return, God can transfer the punishments of his sins on to Him and this is the main aim of human incarnation as you can see in the crucifixion of Jesus.

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