Circumstances don't come without reason, they come as teachers and they wish to
teach us. If we wish to attract good circumstances start by developing good
thoughts but then there is something that breaks our faith in this paradigm
and what is that? When we see bad things happening to good people it goes against
our sense of justice. You see there are three things in contention that we can
consider one is justice second is injustice and third is Grace. Nyaya, Un-nyaya and
Kripa. What is justice? Consider for example a worker who sloged in the
factory all month long, at the end of the month the factory owner gave him his
salary. This is what you deserve here is what you get, this is justice.
What is injustice? The worker he put in his efforts and then the factory owner
at the end of the month said you know on the fifteenth of the month you came late
by one hour, instead of coming at 9:00 a.m. you came at 10:00 here I am going
to subtract half your salary go! This is Un-nyaya or injustice
and the third is grace, Kripa. The worker says, Saheb I have to get my
daughter married I need so much of money can you please give it to me the bank
will not give me a loan. The factory manager says okay, I'm
gifting so much and I am giving so much as loan which I will deduct from your
salary on a monthly basis. This is Grace or Kripa. The judicial system of the
world is involved with ensuring that there is a justice. Justice is important
to ensure that people stay away from crime because when bad things draw bad
consequences others become discouraged from doing it. It's a very simple
principle, about 30 years ago management consultancy book had come out called the
one minute manager some of you may have read it. It taught how to manage in one
minute. It says when you get a subordinate first of all help the subordinate
understand what is good behavior, clarify the goals, this is what you're supposed
to do this is the output I want, this is how you should behave. Let him or her
define the goals of good behavior in half a page simple and easy
then someday catch that subordinate doing well and give a one-minute praising for
one minute you re-confirm
that behavior. Oh so wonderful you are doing well and I am very pleased. You
confirm the good behavior and later on someday if you catch your subordinate
doing badly you give a one-minute scolding only one minute scolding.
Sometimes parents they start giving half day long scoldings then that doesn't..
is not productive. Just let the subordinate know that this
is bad behavior. When you repeatedly administer this one minute praising one
minute scolding one minute praising one minute scolding it will fashion behavior
Why? Because everybody's behavior gets molded by consequences, pleasure and pain
pain can fashion even the behavior of animals. There's a story of Akbar and
Birbal. The Mughal emperor Akbar and his wise minister Birbal. So Akbar said
Birbal is there anybody in my kingdom who can train a goat to desist from
eating green succulent fresh grass?
Birbal said huzoor it's not a problem give me one month's time. Akbar said
all right. Birbal went and purchased a goat. Now he
would put the green grass before the goats nose and every time the goat would
go for it Birbal would take a stick and whack it on its mouth. When the goat kept
on receiving the whacks one after the other
after the other, even the little goats brain understood that it's not worth it
Forget it, it's too painful. After one month of such training Birbal took the goat to
the Emperor. The goat in one hand the stick in the other he said my goat has
become a vairagi- it's become detached from grass, you try it out it will not
eat. Akbar said really, he said come on bring the most tasteful grass in my garden
the servants brought it. Akbar himself put it before the goat, the goat looked
at the grass it looked at Birbal's stick. Birbal, he shook his stick the
goat understood you know I'll get a whack, forget it it pulled back. Even the
goats behavior had got fashioned by consequences. Parents tell me Swamiji you
know my child is so unruly how to train my child. I said look I don't have any
experience but I'll tell you this one minute manager the same principle
applies. You have to teach children with consequences some parents stay away from
those consequences and what happens, spare the rod and spoil the child.
Kripaluji Maharaj, you know he grew up in a village so his relatives were all simple
villagers so he would say that when their children would not study what would he
do? They would bring the children my child doesn't study
Maharaji would not adopt the one minute manager, he would take the child and lock
the child up. Now after 24 hours the child is saying
Chacha take me out take me out. Maharaji would let him remain there, until he decides
that no it's too painful not to study then he would say all right come out. In
other words any behavior can be fashioned with consequences and that is
why we have the judicial system of any country in place, because when justice is
fair, justice is timely and justice is firm, it reduces crime. Once in Orissa the
SDTM sub-divisional judicial magistrate used to come and attend my lecture and
then he became a friend he would meet me etc he said Swamiji I am totally
incorrigible. I don't take any bribes. Ever since I moved into this district
the crime rate has fallen because people have understood you cannot get away and
when you get away what happens, take a look at the pirates of Somalia, any ship
passing by the Suez Canal going close to Somalia gets looted because it's a
broken country the rule of law doesn't exist so people say never mind do what
you like there will be no consequences.
In the court of God also
the principle of justice hold. God has the law of karma if you do good things good things
should happen to you, if you do bad then bad things should happen to you. God is
also the judge, in fact worldly judges have limitations they depend upon
witnesses they depend upon evidence either of these could be misleading
the judge doesn't know what the convict is
thinking and even if the judge had that yogic siddhi and could know the mind of
the convict he will know what the convict is thinking today, he doesn't
know what the convict thought five years ago at the time of the crime but in the
case of God he is all-knowing he doesn't need any witnesses, plus the worldly
judge can make mistakes in interpreting laws. Because laws have different
interpretations and that is how advocates make their money because cases
get reappeared at higher and higher levels. You know this judge
misinterpreted. In the case of God he is the one who created the law he doesn't
need any lawyers, he doesn't need any police, he is the witness, he is the
police and he is the judge hence from God we can expect perfect justice!