Punishment for stealing another's wife.

[Guest guest]

Hare Krsna!

 

I am sorry for interrupting that way, I have never posted any comments here,

mostly I was just reading the conference. I am not answering the question, I

just want to add some coment.

 

> Here is a dilema: on the one hand, someone who steals anothers wife may be

> killed without incurring sinful reaction, and on the other hand, it is an

> offense to kill a devotee. What, according to guru-sadhu-shastra, should

> be the proper punishment for a devotee who steals another devotee's wife?

 

This sounds like a very serious thing to kill someone. I think we should

first define what means to steal someone's wife. If by stealing you mean

illicit affair than I am not quite sure that's the proper understanding of

the meaning from the sastra. Stealing means to took someone's wife by force,

if the force has not been applied that the other party (the wife herself)

was not inocent also.

 

If we recall from Ramayana we can see that Sita didn't wanted to go with

Ravana and he kidnapped her, so the duty of a Husband (in this case

Ramacandra) was to kill Ravana.

 

tomi.