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The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts - Landor

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?

A Thought for Today-252:

An inspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. - R.L.Stevenson

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A Thought for Today-251:

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.

- Dryden

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Diwali Greetings!

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Suri

Eyecatchers-140:

U.S. coroners were reporting a sharp increase in the number of unclaimed bodies due to the recession.

-- Margaret Cordi
HARPER'S WEEKLY
October 13, 2009

Grateful thanks to Harper's Weekly and Margaret Cordi.

S and T Watch-57:

Astronomers discovered the largest ring in the solar system, a colossal circle of debris around Saturn caused by the planet's moon Phoebe having been hit by wayward space rocks.

-- Margaret Cordi
HARPER'S WEEKLY
October 13, 2009

Grateful thanks to Harper's Weekly and Margaret Cordi.

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A Thought for Today-250:

Evil is wrought by want of Thought
As well as want of Heart.

- Thomas Hood

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A Thought for Today-249:

Even the ordinary man has some unique talent hidden in him. All he has to do is to identify it, find a way to manifest it and utilize it properly and fully, his life will become more rewarding and he will find fulfillment in this life. Then he becomes a real gift to mankind.

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A Thought for Today-248:

Joy is not in things, but in us - Charles Morgan

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A Thought for Today-247:

The life that is lived without a purpose is rudderless, drifting through the years. It was not so that man was intended to live. A purpose is as necessary to the individual as life itself. - Abraham Lincoln

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