Doubts on the judiciary system (Karma) of Krishna – Explanation!
A devotee whose name was hidden by me asked like this:
I am very much confused about the judiciary system (karma) of Krishna. (1) In Mahabharata, he told the common man to do his duty and not focus on the result, but a common man is hardly aware of the goodness or badness of the work he is doing. so when and how his work will be evaluated and whether reward or punishment shall be given and when and how much? [2] many great personalities describe about results of our past life and present life. as they say we are enjoying our past life’s outcome and designing our future life’s shape and contents thru present life activities. again we are not aware of our future life so why to bother about an unforeseen future life and why not to design to beautify the rest of our present life? [3] if god decides each and every small happenings , then who we are to plan and execute every small small piece of work especially when the results are pre-written ?
REPLY:
(1)
How can we say that a common man does not know which is good or bad act? That is why, there are scriptures written by great sages. Bhagavad Gita is there all the time for reference.
If a man is fortunate to avoid karma and get purified, he will look for Bhagavad Gita. If he does not care it, that means, he is willingly involving in bad karma.
(Will the beggars’ karma come to us if we help the beggars? READ HERE!)
In the life of every man, he will get the advices from his parents, teachers, or some other elders.
If a man is humble and faithful, he will follow them. If he is adamant, he will involve in bad karma on his own will and hence he has to face the reactions.
Usually, as said by Krishna in Gita, one should perform the duties that are assigned to him naturally. By doing so, he will not violate the karma rules.
Karma will come down when you accept whatever happens for you naturally. Only when we oppose the karma rules, we add karma.
So, fortunate people will evaluate and accept the correct advices of every single person and escape from sins. So, no need to say that a man is ignorant and hence he is committing mistakes.
If he does not seek and follow such easily available good advices, it is his fault. Not that of Krishna, or the Judiciary system (Karma) of Krishna.
(If divorce is fixed by karma, what is the use of seeing horoscopes? READ HERE!)
(2)
You say that we are not aware of our future life and hence we need not bother about rules and hence we can enjoy the present life atleast.
Ha Ha… Only because you thought like this in your past births, you are suffering in this birth. If you concentrate ONLY in your enjoyments though you need to violate the rules, then, your next birth will be miserable with the pains in magnified quantum.
So, do not think that we can not predict our future life. We can predict by analyzing our present actions.
For eg:
(i) If a person is spoiling many girls in this birth, he can assume that he will take next birth as a girl and will be spoiled by many men.
(ii) If a person is cheating the funds of many and bringing them to streets, then, he can predict his next birth as a borrower who will not be able to repay his debts and hence will be caught by the police or government authorities.
(Why we face double punishments in hell and next birth through karma? READ HERE!)
(iii) If a man is always going behind the girls without thinking of any other productive things, he will take birth as a dog and enjoy many dogs.
So, everyone can predict his next birth by analyzing his present activities. So, to avoid a bad next birth, be honest and straightforward in this birth.
(3)
Though the results are prewritten, Lord has also given some restricted freedom (Freewill) to us to decide our future course of actions. We can use that freewill to avoid committing further sins and involving in the actions without expecting the fruits out of them. Only the reactions of our past karma can not be changed. But, adding new karma can be avoided using the freewill given to us by Lord.
Hope you are clear about the judiciary system (Karma) of Krishna.
(Why double rewards in heavens and next birth for Good karma? READ HERE!)