Euthanasia: Meddling with Cosmic Justice
Ignorantia juris non excusat - Ignorance of law is no excuse.
The
legal principle applies to not only man-made laws of the world but also mother
of laws – The Cosmic Law of Universe, the Divine Law of Nature or simply called the
Law of Karma.
In
forming laws of a country, the law makers become unwilful violators of Cosmic Law by ruling on innocent’s exit from the world by making Euthanasia
legal. Those whose duty is to make laws or to enforce laws for the well being
of humanity act as instruments of karmic law. Hence, it is of utmost importance
that discretion is exercised “cautiously” and “wisely” by the Parliamentarians
in making laws such as Euthanasia. Wisely I say, because they are representatives of people of a democratic nation obliged to protect the lives of people they represent; and cautiously for they become
an “accomplice” of crime – a Spiritual crime by simply allowing “life-saver” doctors to take away life of the diseased.
According
to the cosmic law, all waves of life emerge from and merge into the Infinite
Ocean. Some last longer than others, but they all have to express the Infinite
variously and fully. Natural death comes when each object, each human being,
has done his full share in expressing the silent Infinite. Until the soul has
completely worked out the effects of egoistic prenatal and postnatal actions,
and has found liberation, one should not deliberately seek exit from the bodily
house; he would still have to come back to finish the karma he left undone. The
prodigal soul is jailed in flesh, and must work out his term. Physical pain, as
in long-continued disease, and mental suffering are sometimes worse than death,
which brings cessation of physical pain. Oft-dreaded death is a natural change
of the body, a deep sleep earned after a long term of activity in the office of
life.
Death
by suicide or assisted suicide by lethal injection, however, is a spiritual
crime, because it involves the quitting of the duties or the tests of life. The
person who commits suicide or assisted suicide is denied the privilege of peace
that attends the rightly won pension of death. He who deserts this earth as a
coward cannot be granted the pension of rest.
The Law of Karma or action is scientific, being rooted in the law of causation; it
has also a philosophic, moral and practical side. Karma exists for a man so
that he may learn from its workings the wisdom of returning from multiplicity
to unity. Transgression of karmic law delays man in his spiritual evolution.
The doctrine of karma gives faith in the justice and wisdom of God’s laws
working in the lives of man. The various grades of latent health or ill health,
or good or bad tendencies that people have can only be satisfactorily explained
by looking back into the records of their former lives.
Even
if justice does not seem to prevail, the karmic law will not fail to balance
the scale. The karmic law – that you reap in this life what you sowed in past
lives – is a just law. It is the karmic law which explains the seeming
injustices that occur from the very birth of human life.
And therefore we see lady of justice holding balance scale - the true significance of
unseen cosmic justice.
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