Karthik's musings

Mumbai blasts and the Law of Karma

I'm currently reading the book Aghora: At the left hand of God. This is of course the first in the series of three books that Robert Svoboda wrote on his Aghori Guru.

There was this striking paragraph in the section on Aghoris in which Swami Vimalananda says:

Do you have any idea how many murders occur every minute on the face of the globe. How many raes, how many robberies, lootings, tortures and other heinous crimes? And how many times each second people are cheated, misled, duped, and made fools of? When you try to put it all into perspective, it's all too much; it will frighten you, when you think of the tremendous load of karmas. Once you have Jnana, and you know the consequences of each action, you will be so scared of karma you will think a thousand times before doing anything at all; do deep will be your fear.

But you must go beyond this fear and realize that it is all part of the whole, all moving according to Nature's sublime plan. Every murder, every cruelty has its significance. You must love everything taking place in the Samsara. That doesn't mean you should go out and murder, but you will realize that even murder is just part of the play of the Three Gunas, all due to the Law of Karma, and therefore a part of Nature.

After reading this, I'm wodering how to interpret it in the context of the Mumbai blasts. Probably it means that more than hot pursuit, zero tolerance, etc, we are better-off increasing our quotient of our good Karma. Trust the Universe to deliver us from this terror.

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