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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Random Thoughts-32: "Crime and Punishment"

I have found morning walks energizing, enthusing, enlightening, stimulating, thought-provoking and a lot more things.

The other day I was performing my morning walk. Two middle-aged women were ahead of me. Though I was doing 'japa' mentally, I could not avoid their conversation entering my ears.

One of them was obviously a government employee. She was narrating of her tale of woe in getting some payment due to her from the government. She was harassed, made to run hither and thither. The villain, a clerk, would not prepare/pass her bill unless he is 'paid'. To make her pay, he was indulging in so many dilatory tactics. She became miserable and ultimately, after several months of suffering, paid him and got her payment. All along she had been mentally cursing him. It seems that fellow passed away within a month after that. She was gloating: "My curse was not wasted".

How simple it all looks! Crime-Curse-Punishment. A very simple linear equation! If it were so, there would be less crime, less corruption, less evil. Unfortunately, the dispensation of justice is more complicated, sometimes mind-boggling. Courts, lawyers, witnesses who do somersaults, police personnel, endless adjournments and a lot of other factors enter the arena to make it so. I recall a saying my dad used to mention: "Justice delayed is justice denied." If that is right, then you will have come to the painful conclusion that there is no justice in this world.

The divine dispensation of justice is even more complicated and would probably drive everyone crazy. We hear about good people suffering for their past deeds, unknown deeds they probably committed in some previous birth. Oh God! Does it mean that justice cannot meted out in one's single lifetime? Does it mean carry forward of your bad 'karma' to several births?

No wonder evil thrives in the world!


By comparison, our courts look better!


What do you say?


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