Karma

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Dear Prabhus,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

I seem to remember reading once (but can't find it), where Srila Prabhupada

said when bad things happen to people it is not always, karma, but it is

because the material world is a dangerous place. I saw a film recently, a

true story of the Jesuits in Paraguay, (I think), converting the Guarani

Indians, but the Portugese has other plans, and ultimately destroyed the

mission and slaughtered the women and children, men also slaughter animals,

it can't always be the karma of a previously born human, can it?, who knows.

 

I find it hard sometimes to come to terms with certain events, am I just

sentimental in the bodily concept of life. Lord Krsna tells us not to

lament for the living or the dead, and chastised Arjuna for his "weakness

of heart", yet Srila Prabhupada states a few times in the last purports of

the first chapter of BG, that because of Arjuna being a soft hearted

devotee of the Lord, he felt the so called "compassion", so surely I must

feel compassion for such seemingly unnecessary suffering of the body of the

living entity, how do I tell a person that their daughter was captured by

paedophiles, raped and murdered, that it was her/his karma, if it happened

to my daughter/son, I would struggle to just see it as that, (hands up with

kids who wouldn't).

 

Ksatriyas for example had as part of their duty to protect the innocent?

Why bother, isn't it just that persons karma to be hurt or killed? As a

young devotee I would sometimes hear all the Jews were killed by Hilter's

regime because of what the Jews did to Jesus Christ? How to understand

karma then, are they the same people taking birth then at a later date, or

is it because Hilter was crazy? Can I, if I murder somebody say it's just

there karma, and I am not responsible. I could go on, and the reason I have

put this text on here, instead of just writing to one Swami or another, is

to start a debate. (Ramakanta, if it is the wrong forum, then maybe we need

to have a Philospohical forum again?)

 

 

Your servant,

 

 

 

Ananta Purusottama das .