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murder. Is it not true that you did not commit this crime?”
“Yes, your honour! That is absolutely true. I am unquestionably innocent in this case.”
“Then why were you adjudged a criminal by the court? Why did you say things that would prove you to be the murderer? How did your life imprisonment convert to death by hanging? Can you throw some light on this?”
With tears in his eyes, the prisoner replied, “Your honour! At the last moments of my life, I do not want to lie, nor do I want to hide my sin. Many years ago, I had committed a murder but I was declared innocent. I feel, I am now being punished for my earlier crime”. The Judge's faith in the idiom was reaffirmed.
This is a fact. We may think ourselves to be innocent in the present but if there is a punishment, there ought to have been a corresponding crime committed either in the present or the past. There cannot be a punishment without a crime and if that punishment is for our crime, then the person executing the punishment has to be the jailer. If he is the jailer, one cannot consider him to be wicked nor can one take revenge on him.
Question: “Like us, even the opposite person would not be punished without a crime. If we slap him, don't we also become the jailer? When the jailer gives lashes with a whip, he is not punished. Similarly, we also won't be punished. Right?”
Answer: On the day after the marriage, the bride went back to her parent's house because she was offended. The parents asked her the reason. Even the groom could not find any reason for her behaviour. The people from the
