Karma

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> 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.

 

-Personally I tried to find this quote on Folio, but was unsuccessful.

 

>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.

 

-(Was the film 'The Mission'?)

To my understanding, the jivas of animals are either ones which have

gradually worked their way up from the lower species of life (the majority),

or, ones that were 'sinful' humans and even the odd demigod.

 

Animals as a rule do not gain or receive karma, but if a cow is slaughtered,

could it have been a human slaughterer in a previous life? I guess its a

complex karmic cycle at the end of the day and I don't think there's any way

of tracing each jiva.

 

> 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?

 

 

-It may potentially be that person's karma, but if a ksatriya (or any varna

for that matter) ignores someone in distress when one they are in a 'easy'

position to help, then they will surely get bad karma for that.

 

If the victim is 'saved' by you, then you are getting good karma for

yourself. If you give the person Krishna consciousness, then you are

reducing all karma for both of you.

 

That is my understanding, at least. COMPLEX EH?

 

 

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