Posted on: 10 Dec 2020
[Kanika Mankotia asked: If an innocent woman is unjustly troubled and harmed by jealous insecure women who are literally on an ego trip to put her (the genuine devotee of God) down because their own māyā makes them think she, the devotee, is a liar or is an arrogant person when, in fact, the person is innocent and earnest. What must the person do with all that junk and abuse that has robbed her of her human dignity at the demonic egoist mind-sets of plotting, planning, scheming and manipulative women who have no faith in God but claim to have and know it all. Should one not even write, express and channel out one’s rage? Or simply keep quiet like a saintly puppet, especially when one realises that others were on an ego trip, out to belittle and put others down to gain importance and a sense of superiority? How does ignoring such pathetic behaviour help dharma? Should the devotee pray to God to be avenged? Why must one act like nothing happened? Is that healthy for mental health? To pretend to be a false sage and forgive such people when in truth they were enjoying harming an innocent person? Where is dharma? Would such people be given a free license if they are not given a divine challan by the devotee through an earnest call to the divine avenger? Gratitude. Namaste.]
Swāmi replied: The omniscient God knows everything and will take the proper action in proper time because God is omnipotent unlike us. But you think of the possibility of the same behaviour exhibited by you to some innocent person in your life or the possibility of your behaviour towards the same sinful women who might have been innocent in their previous births. If one of these two cases is true, God will not punish them because your pain is the punishment given by God to you. If neither of the above two cases is true, God will punish them very severely in proper time. God gives some time to the sinner to reform and if the sinner is not reformed, the sinner will receive 100 times more punishment. But, in any case, you are expected to live without thinking of revenge. If you boil with revenge, while punishing the sinners, God will also punish you for your vengeful thoughts. If you remain patient under all circumstances, you will be compensated with some suitable reward, indicating His grace on you.
It is your choice to get a reward from God by keeping your patience or get another punishment for your unnecessary vengeful thoughts. Draupadī was insulted by the Kauravas, but Draupadī had also insulted the Kauravas orally. Even then, the insult caused by the Kauravas to Draupadī was extremely severe and hence, Kṛṣṇa decided to punish the Kauravas with death. Draupadī should have been patient, without vengeful thoughts. But Draupadī was always boiling with revenge and hence, Draupadī was also punished, in that all her sons were killed. Even though the entire kingdom was given to the Pāṇḍavas by Kṛṣṇa, no son of Draupadī remained to become the king of that entire kingdom won in the war.