When you ask people why they worship a god, almost all of them would answer saying that they worship their god because they believe he would fulfill their desires. This is the concept of god for 99.99% of the devotees. This is the reason why all the trains and buses going to Tirupati and Shiridi are always full. Does god really fulfill the wishes of people merely because they go to a temple or merely because they worship him? Do we really see that happening? I do not think so. If that were the case, there would be no misery in this world. Every one will have everything that he or she desires.
We have seen (in the earlier thoughts) how every Karma must necessarily get you a result. Good Karmas get you good results and bad Karmas get you bad results. There are two types of results; one is seen (Drashta) and the other is unseen (Adrashta). The unseen results, according to Vedanta, do not occur immediately. They get accounted as Punyam and Paapam in the account of every individual. The result of Punyam is a comfortable life and the result of Paapam is discomfort and misery. These results of Punyam and Paapam occur, either late in this life, or in a subsequent life.
Punyam is like money in the bank; you can buy anything you wish with it. It is like the “Airoplan”, in which the “Air Miles” can be converted into air tickets etc.
When you petition the god for something, he fulfills your wish, only if you have sufficient Punyam in your account to be converted into what you desired from him – otherwise, no. No body gets anything free in this world; no one ever gets anything in this world unless he deserves it. The lord does not distribute largesse. God does not rule this world illogically. On the other hand, his justice is very precisely weighed out before he dispenses it.
If that is so, then, how do we account for the bad guys having a lot of money (like for instance, the mafia leader Dawood Ibrahim) and enjoying life, while the good guys having no money and generally having a bad time in life? Is this god’s justice? There is a fallacy here, which requires to be explained in the light of the above referred theory from Vedanta.
Today, a person may be a crook, but in his previous Janma, he did certain good things and accumulated sufficient Punyam – because of which, he is having a good life now. For his present crooked actions, he is going to pay most certainly – but later. The fallacy lies in our wrongly correlating his present good life with his present evil actions. There is a time lag between what he gets today and what he gets for his today’s actions. This is what we call in electrical engineering as the phase difference. His present good life is a result – of his past actions. His present evil actions will result in a wretched life for him - later.
There can never be a god’s law, which gives good results for evil actions. If that is the case, why would people be good at all? Imagine a world in which all people are bad. Is such a world sustainable, ever?
The next thought is “About rebirth”
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