Jailer

Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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know will be increased if he opposes, as he must consider the giver of pain as a jailer?
Solution: Ignorance is not an excuse. A person who does not consider the pain giver as a jailer and therefore thinks him to be wicked will surely be punished. In the same way, a person, who retaliates cannot escape a punishment accorded by Karmasatta just because he is ignorant about it.
Wherever we see someone being punished, like a father hitting a child or an animal with a wooden yoke around its neck, we start assuming the crime that they might have committed. However is it fair on our part not to imagine our own wrong doing when we are punished? Whatever we do not like but yet have to undergo, is definitely a punishment and if there is a punishment, there has to be a corresponding crime. If it is so, there also has to be some authority or a court of nature who dispenses punishments, otherwise, there would be total mayhem and absence of law and order. There would be theft, plundering, violence and killing all around. If there is a court appointed by nature, there also has to be a jailer to carry out the order of the punishment. If we do not even bother to know and understand the above, that in itself becomes a crime. Hence ignorance is not an excuse.
One thing is established that whether one has the knowledge about the court of Karmasatta or not, the person inflicting afflictions is the jailer, nothing more, nothing less and that a jailer is never cruel. It is possible that a jailer of the worldly court may give you eleven blows instead of ten but a jailer of the court of Karmasatta