WHY DOESN'T GOD PUNISH?
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From the thoughts of my Father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992)
A Great Spiritual Luminary of His time.
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This is a question which has been raised in the mind of many a person and it is also a question which has created many atheists in the world.
When people see so many things going wrong in the world and they see no Divine Retribution, or the Wrath of God, or the Punishment of God fall upon the wrong-doers, they turn to atheism.
Yet there are the ones who are deeply religious and believe in Hell as the place where the wrong-doers go to, albeit after death, by which time they may have done many more wrongs.
And yet others who believe in the Law of Karma which simply states:
"You shall reap what you sow."
This means if you have disobeyed the laws of God you are born again in a sub-human species, and may also suffer a stint in hell.
Or else you may be hit by the Law of Karma in this birth itself, and find every rise turn into a fall, in fact everything going wrong in life, including dreadful diseases that make your life miserable.
HOWEVER THE FACT IS THAT IF GOD WERE TO PUNISH THE WRONG-DOERS IMMEDIATELY, HE WOULD BE REVEALING HIMSELF TO THEM!!
AND THAT IS TOO GREAT A REWARD TO BE GIVEN TO THEM!
A person who KNOWS that he has been punished by God for his wrong action, immediately, feels the presence of God in the punishment meted out to him, and thus becomes a firm believer in God!
And belief in God is a Gift of God rarely given even to believers!
THE STONE AND THE HEIGHT
Another way of looking at this question is to see a stone hurled in the sky, The greater the force with which you hurl the stone the higher up it will rise and the longer the time that it will take to come back. But the greater the height to which the stone rises, the greater the impact with which it falls and the greater the punishment that it metes out to the person who hurled it upwards.
"Ha!" says the person committing wrongs,"I have been committing sins and nothing has happened to me. There is no God!"
But the greater the enormity of the sin that a person commits, the greater the amount of time that it takes to get back to him, but when it does, it hits him with an impact which is shattering.
Or you may think of a person rising higher and higher in life committing greater and greater wrongs. Is the devil rewarding him for going against God?
It is like a man climbing a mountain. The higher up that he climbs the greater does he think he has become -- but then, one day, he slips and falls, and the greater height that he falls from, the greater the hurt!
And the Devil who was goading him on, claps his hand with glee, and says:
"Ha ha! You thought you were rising higher and higher in life, but I made you commit the sins so that I could see you fall!
Remember the devil is no one's friend!"
The Law of Cause an Effect, Action and Reaction, in Physics, says much the same thing.
You shall reap what you sow they say,
And every cause must bring its sure effect,
Good--good, and bad -- bad,
And no one escapes the Law!
Be not ignorant of the laws of karma!
If thou sow flowers thou shall reap flowers,
And if thou sow thorns thou shall reap thorns in return.
BUT STILL, GOD IN ALL HIS MERCY, HAS LEFT A WAY OUT FOR THE SINNER. IF HE REPENTS GENUINELY AND SINCERELY FOR HIS SINS, THEN HIS TEARS WIPE OUT HIS SINS AND HE IS FORGIVEN BY GOD.
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From the thoughts of my Father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992)
A Great Spiritual Luminary of His time.
====================================================
This is a question which has been raised in the mind of many a person and it is also a question which has created many atheists in the world.
When people see so many things going wrong in the world and they see no Divine Retribution, or the Wrath of God, or the Punishment of God fall upon the wrong-doers, they turn to atheism.
Yet there are the ones who are deeply religious and believe in Hell as the place where the wrong-doers go to, albeit after death, by which time they may have done many more wrongs.
And yet others who believe in the Law of Karma which simply states:
"You shall reap what you sow."
This means if you have disobeyed the laws of God you are born again in a sub-human species, and may also suffer a stint in hell.
Or else you may be hit by the Law of Karma in this birth itself, and find every rise turn into a fall, in fact everything going wrong in life, including dreadful diseases that make your life miserable.
HOWEVER THE FACT IS THAT IF GOD WERE TO PUNISH THE WRONG-DOERS IMMEDIATELY, HE WOULD BE REVEALING HIMSELF TO THEM!!
AND THAT IS TOO GREAT A REWARD TO BE GIVEN TO THEM!
A person who KNOWS that he has been punished by God for his wrong action, immediately, feels the presence of God in the punishment meted out to him, and thus becomes a firm believer in God!
And belief in God is a Gift of God rarely given even to believers!
THE STONE AND THE HEIGHT
Another way of looking at this question is to see a stone hurled in the sky, The greater the force with which you hurl the stone the higher up it will rise and the longer the time that it will take to come back. But the greater the height to which the stone rises, the greater the impact with which it falls and the greater the punishment that it metes out to the person who hurled it upwards.
"Ha!" says the person committing wrongs,"I have been committing sins and nothing has happened to me. There is no God!"
But the greater the enormity of the sin that a person commits, the greater the amount of time that it takes to get back to him, but when it does, it hits him with an impact which is shattering.
Or you may think of a person rising higher and higher in life committing greater and greater wrongs. Is the devil rewarding him for going against God?
It is like a man climbing a mountain. The higher up that he climbs the greater does he think he has become -- but then, one day, he slips and falls, and the greater height that he falls from, the greater the hurt!
And the Devil who was goading him on, claps his hand with glee, and says:
"Ha ha! You thought you were rising higher and higher in life, but I made you commit the sins so that I could see you fall!
Remember the devil is no one's friend!"
The Law of Cause an Effect, Action and Reaction, in Physics, says much the same thing.
You shall reap what you sow they say,
And every cause must bring its sure effect,
Good--good, and bad -- bad,
And no one escapes the Law!
Be not ignorant of the laws of karma!
If thou sow flowers thou shall reap flowers,
And if thou sow thorns thou shall reap thorns in return.
BUT STILL, GOD IN ALL HIS MERCY, HAS LEFT A WAY OUT FOR THE SINNER. IF HE REPENTS GENUINELY AND SINCERELY FOR HIS SINS, THEN HIS TEARS WIPE OUT HIS SINS AND HE IS FORGIVEN BY GOD.
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