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Thursday, 22 April 2010
As You Sow So Shall You Reap!!
DNA, 4th April, 2010
H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you cannot understand whether justice has been done or not, you need to
look beyond your limited framework
In life, you may find that sometimes people who are doing wrong are enjoying
instead of being punished, while those who are doing right, are suffering.
In this situation, your mind might question - where is God? Why is he
supporting the wicked? What is he doing when the one doing good deeds is
facing trouble?
Such a question arises when you see an event in a limited framework. No good
action will yield a bad result. Or, no bad action will yield a good result.
This is the law of Karma.
As you sow, so shall you reap. If you have sown a mango seed, a mango tree
will grow, but along with the mango tree, some thorny bushes may come up. It
is not the mango seed that brings up the thorny bush - the thorny bush comes
because of the seeds present in the manure brought from somewhere else. Your
mango seed will bring mango fruit, in due time.
In the same manner, though someone may have sown a thorny bush, some
groundnut or moong sprouts may grow amidst it, because those seeds were
already present before you sowed the thorny bush.
When you cannot understand whether there is justice or not, you have to look
beyond the limited framework. This could be the reason why Jain philosophy
does not even accept the judge. They simply say the whole world is governed
by the law of cause and effect - they call it the Law. Law appears to be
impersonal, like a rule, or like a principle in nature, but when law assumes
a personality, a persona, then one calls it God.
So from this perspective, there cannot be injustice; and if there appears to
be an injustice, there are people who are bringing justice - this is also
part of the law. For example, if someone gets a disease, there is someone
else who has the cure for it. If the person with the cure knows that
somebody is suffering, it is his dharma to bring them relief. The awareness
of dharma also has a role to play.
Karma is always dynamic, in the sense that there is perception and there is
action. Whenever you see a bad karma or someone suffering, you need to help
them. That is your dharma. If you do not follow your dharma, then you incur
bad karma for not having done it. There is someone else who needs to put you
back on track - to set you right is their dharma.
Karma and dharma go hand in hand. The world is not a linear mathematics. It
is a complex mathematics.
See God as a movie director, rather than as a judge. He has no ill-feeling
for the villain and no special favour for the hero. Each one is playing the
role designed by the director. If the director wants to make the movie a
tragedy, he will punish the hero. If he wants a happy ending, he will make
the hero win over the villain. In either case the director is happy and
doing justice to the movie.
In the end, both the villain and the hero are rewarded. That is why, in the
Puranas, every villain who dies also goes to heaven. After so many years,
when the Pandavas reached heaven, they found Duryodhana already sitting
there happily.
Our perception of suffering, of good and bad, will always be relative. God
does not come within the purview of relativity. He is the absolute reality -
Sarva Sakshi - a witness to all that is.
Sri Sri
Jai Gurudev
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