11 Jun 2021
[Śrī Ganesh asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ swāmiji, I am working in a manufacturing unit and I watch a shift at night at least twice a week. Most of my seniors at work believe that it is harmful for our health to be awake at night and do work. So they share the responsibility between two people and each takes rest for a specified time. This is against the code of conduct for employees within the company. Should the employees take rest while watching a shift? I am asking this to You because You have said many times that without perfection in Pravṛtti, no one can attain Nivṛtti. What employees and many times I do is against the trust of the employer. But we think it affects our health. What should I do? At Your divine feet, Ganesh V]
Swāmi Replied:- Are you sure that your employer is as justified as Dharmarāja and as true as Hariścandra? Justice must be done to a justified person only. Doing justice to an unjust person is also a sin. Droṇa thought to do justice to Duryodhana by fighting on his side because he has taken salary from Duryodhana for his livelihood. Such sincerity was not appreciated by God and Droṇa was punished in the war through a very cruel death. Your employer is a businessman trying to earn endless wealth. Is it not his duty to protect the health of the employees? In fact, he himself should have done this arrangement in the view of basic human consideration. Before discussing about the trust of the employer, you shall also discuss about the justified nature of the employer. Droṇa was justified in his angle that he should pay back the justified service to his employer, Duryodhana. But, he was not justified in the view of deity of justice or the author of the ethical constitution called God. Justice should not be limited to the limited rules of simple ethics. Justice is the outcoming divine nectar of the churning of the ocean of ethics with the help of the hill like logic. The incarnation has to develop a careful balanced decision about Its practical programme basing on various parameters surrounding from all directions and such decision again varies from one devotee to the other based on his/her state of the progress and the state of psychology fixed by the ratio of the three qualities.
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