26 Apr 2014
[Shri Ramanathan asked: “Why the injustice in the society is not suppressed completely in spite of our hectic efforts?” Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
The administration of this world is the subject of God. God is well versed in His subject. The subject of the human being is to attain the grace of God. Of course, it is the duty of every human being to oppose the injustice and support justice in the society so that God is pleased with such attitude even though such assistance in His work is not required by God from any human being. If you are trying to destroy the injustice and protect the justice, you are in the line of the function of God. Hence, your such effort is always for the pleasure of God. Hence, you should never retire from this activity as long as you are alive. Even if you do not put such effort, do not think that injustice will prevail over the justice. Anyway, God interferes and destroys the injustice and protects the justice since this is the subject of God. If you are putting up this practical effort continuously, God is pleased with your mentality even though such effort is not practically required. Lord Krishna told Arjuna that He will destroy all the bad Kauravas even if Arjuna withdraws from the war. Actually, the force in Arjuna’s fight was Krishna alone. This was proved when Arjuna failed to fight even with ordinary hunters after Krishna left this earth.
However, sometimes, inspite of your hectic effort, the injustice prevails over justice. In such case, you get discouraged due to lack of sharp analysis of the theory of deeds (Karma chakra). Whenever there is conflict between justice and injustice, there may be two possibilities: 1) it is a fresh situation of injustice trying to beat the justice. Eg. Kauravas, the incarnations of demons, are insulting Pandavas, the angels. Arjuna tried his best through fight to destroy the injustice. The Lord helped him and Arjuna succeeded. Your efforts also will succeed in this type of case with the help of God. 2) This situation is special and your effort to control the injustice fails. Eg. before the birth of Krishna, seven kids delivered by His mother were killed by Kamsa and all the efforts put by the parents of Krishna failed to stop that cruel act. Here, God did not help them in their effort because the kids killed were angels born on this earth for few hours only due to some divine curse, who got salvation after their death. Therefore, you should not be perturbed when you fail to control the injustice in some case since the background of the previous birth is not known to you as per the Gita (Natvam vettha…). X may be beating Y based on the divine punishment since in the previous birth X was beaten by Y. Hence, you should not be discouraged in such special cases and should continue your effort to fight against the injustice and protect the justice so that God is pleased with you for your attitude. You have no capability of differentiating the above two types of cases and hence, you should fight against injustice in every case observed by you. If you fail in a case, treat that as second type mentioned above and do not get discouraged at all for your failure.
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