Oppose Injustice or Leave It to God?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri PVNM Sharma asked:- Swami! Sometimes You tell that it is better to leave everything to God and sometimes You tell that we shall fight against the injustice as a part of God’s work. Can You please clarify our confusion?]

Swami replied:- The ultimate truth of highest level of spiritual knowledge is that God will certainly address every bit of action in this world in His own way and not in our hurry burry way. Before punishing anybody for the sin done, God gives sometime as opportunity for reformation. If the sinner is reformed, all punishments of such similar type of sins get cancelled by the grace of God. If this happens, He will compensate your loss in a large way. You don’t get any compensation if your enemy is punished. If you keep patience, with full confidence in God, God will reward you with very big compensation for your excellent patience and marvelous confidence in Him, whether your enemy is reformed or punished or leftover without punishment even if not reformed. Sometimes, your enemy is leftover without punishment even if he/she is not reformed because it is the case of retort, which means that you have harmed him/her in past (or in past birth) and the present damage caused to you by him/her is retorted in this way. If your enemy damaged you for the first time, your enemy will be given a chance of reformation and if not reformed will be punished suitably by God. Punishment is also a path for temporary reformation. If you are aspiring for the punishment of your enemy, it means that you are wishing for his/her welfare only immediately through temporary reformation at least! With this background, you can pray God to punish your enemy, if decided unjust through proper analysis. You shall not pray God to punish your enemy with the attitude of revenge, in which case you will be also punished like Draupadi, who always prayed Krishna to destroy Kauravas for the sake of her revenge. Anyway, Krishna decided already to punish Kauravas even if Draupadi did not pray because it is a black mark on His divine administration if Kauravas are not punished. All the five sons of Draupadi were killed because of her deep attitude of revenge!

The sages have followed this procedure as explained above and hence, are considered to be most sacred in the humanity. They have the power of knowing the whole bio-data of any soul through their divine vision. They need not depend on God like us, who do not have such power of vision. Hence, we leave everything to God since we don’t know whether the case is fresh or retort. But, the sages immediately know whether the case is fresh or not. Hence, they give curse to the sinner if the case is fresh. This means that they are doing the entire duty of God as divine service. We can’t do such divine service since we lack the power of vision as well as the power of curse. But, a human being can also find whether the case is fresh or not through observation. If God punished the sinner, it means that the case is fresh and the sinner did not get reformation during the time given by God. If the sinner is not punished by God even though the enemy is not reformed, we can conclude that it is retort-case. You must have some patience and continuous observation of the case of your enemy. Anyway, if the sinner is punished, we need not punish the sinner again because one crime can’t have two punishments as per the divine law. Moreover, either God or a sage is omniscient and hence, gives the punishment suitable to the extent of the sin. If we punish (if we are capable to punish the enemy) and by chance even if the enemy happens to be a fresh case, we may slip in giving the punishment exactly suitable to the extent of sin. Moreover, our analysis of the case certainly goes in wrong way if the case is our personal case. Generally, we don’t involve in other cases and skip away feeling our involvement as unnecessary wastage of time. In fact, we shall skip away from our personal cases (leaving to God) in which there is lot of probability of going wrong due to self biased analysis. We shall involve in other cases in which there is lot of probability of going in right direction due to lack of selfishness. We shall not leave other cases to God because if we are involved in other cases, we are trying to do the service to God in supporting justice and destroying injustice. You may have sufficient strength in protection of justice and punishment of sin, but, you may not have sufficient strength in doing analysis to find out justice and injustice. In such case, you must take the help of a Sadguru or guru for analysis. If you are capable of analysis, you shall take the help of a fellow strong in protection of justice and in punishment of injustice. If you are capable of both, you can do both, but, it is better to take the help of a second person in order to avoid any possible error.

Arjuna came to fight against Kauravas because his share of kingdom was denied by them. This is a personal case of Arjuna. If Kauravas themselves came to war, there is no confusion in fight. But, good people like Bhishma and Drona came to fight the war supporting Kauravas. Moreover, both were his preachers from childhood and hence, must be more capable in analysis. Hence, the confusion came to Arjuna, who proposed to leave the war. Arjuna took the help of Sadguru, God Krishna, in the analysis of this case. God Krishna analyzed wonderfully and answered all the questions of Arjuna. Bhishma and Drona may be great in all aspects, but, in this context both were wrong in supporting unjust Kauravas. Hence, the main work is to do analysis and find the truth, after which further procedure takes very very little time. Even if more time is taken in the procedure also, there is no loss except that some more time may be taken, but, sure the justice is protected and the injustice is condemned in the end. A human being shall follow correct means in order to get good ends. Only a human incarnation is capable of getting good ends through wrong means also. The human being shall not exploit the concept of human incarnation in punishing the enemy.

Let us take the two cases of Sugriiva and God Rama. Sugriiva was thrown away by Vaali, who misunderstood his brother Sugriiva and Sugriiva is unable to control Vaali and hence, ran away. Since this is personal case of Sugriiva, he might have done wrong analysis influenced by selfishness. When Sugriiva told his case to God Rama, Rama decided that justice is on the side of Sugriiva and injustice is on the side of Vaali. God Rama is human incarnation and hence, is perfect Sadguru. If one is incapable of punishing the sinner in personal case, he should first analyze his own case with the help of Sadguru and find out justice. Then, the incapable victim shall wait for the action of God to punish the genuine sinner. This is one context in which I told the concept that one shall leave to God for the punishment of sinner. This concept strictly belongs to this context. Now, take the case of Rama, who is capable of analyzing the justice and injustice in His as well as others’ cases. The case of Sugriiva is other case for Rama and the case of Ravana is personal case. In the former case, Rama decided Vaali as sinner and punished him. Since Rama is God, He is capable of analysis as well as capability to punish sin. Vaali blamed Rama that He killed him since Sugriiva promised to help Rama in His personal case and thus, attributed influence of selfishness in His judgment. But, it is totally false and God Rama does not require any help from anybody. He involved Himself in the case of Sugriiva immediately and killed Vaali. He is omniscient to know the justice without any partiality and omnipotent to punish anybody in this creation. If one is like Rama capable of analysis to find out justice without partiality and also capable of punishing the sinner, one can react immediately whether the case is personal like that of Raavana or other case like that of Sugriiva. This concept of immediate involvement in personal case or other case is related to this specific context. Hence, concept and context are the most important obverse and reverse sides of the coin, called action for the sake of establishment of justice and destruction of injustice. You shall not apply one concept to the other context.

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