15 Oct 2013
[Mr. Guna Darshana from Indonesia asked “When will God destroy injustice by stopping the people who find entertainment in gambling, cock-fights and so on?” Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
The creation created by God always consists of pairs of opposite items like day and night, summer and winter, justice and injustice etc. If one of the pair is absent, the other loses its significance and does not exist. The very existence of any item of the pair depends on the relative existence of the other. If the injustice is removed, where is the need of effort to avoid the injustice and support the justice? In absence of these pairs, the souls become mostly inactive and slowly become inert. Inertia is not the theme of the creation. Activity is the basis of the creation. If you remove the concept of failure in the examination, there will be no activity and effort in studies and the concept of merit vanishes and the process of rewarding disappears in the absence of defect and punishment. When the injustice is totally absent, the relative justice does not exist and establishment of justice by God also disappears. In the absence of injustice, justice may exist but you will not call it as justice since the word justice arises only with reference to the relative injustice. In such case, not only the souls but also God becomes inactive.
This creation is created by God for entertainment through constant engagement. For the transfer of current, both positive and negative poles are equally important. The very foundation of the creation gets cracked if these pairs do not exist. Even the necessity of knowledge disappears in absence of ignorance, which leads to the absence of Human incarnations of God, which come to preach the knowledge. Therefore, the process of suppression of injustice followed by establishment of justice is continuous so that the life of the creation exists. In the Gita, it is told that whenever the injustice comes up suppressing the justice, God incarnates (Yadaa yadaahi...). This means that the injustice is only suppressed by God and not really destroyed. The villain in a cinema appears to be killed by the hero but the villain is not really killed. The same villain appears as villain in the next cinema. Similarly, whenever God kills a demon, such killing is apparent only since the individual soul in the body of the demon is not killed and takes birth as demon again. This concept was preached to Arjuna by Krishna in killing the devilish fore-fathers of Arjuna.
Your question becomes valid if the injustice is uncontrollable. Again, the foundation of the creation is cracked if only negative exists continuously and the scope of appearance of positive is not seen. Therefore, you need not fear about the continuous existence of one of these pairs. The alternative motion of ups and downs of these two items in a pair is the essence of this dynamic creation like the blades of a moving wheel. Whenever a demon becomes active disturbing the society, the sages always were patient spectators because the sages are scholars knowing the dynamic nature of the creation. They know that when the sin of the demon ripens, God will incarnate to punish the demon. Their patience is the result of their knowledge. Only ignorant human beings were undergoing tension over the disturbance. Similarly, the life cycle of every human being is also constituted by the moving pleasant and unpleasant events in alternate fashion. A realised soul also watches these events patiently without any tension and such a person is called as ‘Sthitha Prajna’ in the Gita.
A devotee asked Me: “Swami! Recently, I did not get any messages from You? What is the reason?”.
I replied “My messages are always answers to the questions. Therefore, the reason is that the questions are not coming to Me. The Gita is also a group of answers given by Krishna to a group of questions put by Arjuna. The Gita is not a spontaneous speech given by Krishna without the enquiry from Arjuna. Therefore, both Krishna and Arjuna are the authors of the Gita. Question is as important as the answer. Both these form the two items of the pair called knowledge.”
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