Science of Reincarnation Toll of Karma

Author(s): B Sriniketan Bhandari
Publisher: B Sriniketan Bhandari

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The Science of Reincarnation,
The Toll of Karma
a perfect judgment? If human laws are perfect and free from partiality one might expect the same punishment for a soldier who kills another soldier in an enemy's country. The same punishment should be for a person who kills another person or animals or any living form of life. Instead of having the same punishment we have different punishments or no punishment at all. Instead a soldier becomes a hero and is welcomed by the whole country although no one looks at how many lives have been taken by this person.
Whether it is a person, an animal, plant or any life form, if life is taken it should be considered as "killing" and there should be no reward for this. A killing is a killing no matter if it involves human, animal or any known or unknown life form. But human laws do not have the same judgment because they are made to protect their own interests and may have no feelings or respect for other life forms.
Consider this example in some other context. Soldiers from a powerful army go to the land of their enemies. Their mission is to destroy their enemies by use of weapons containing toxic chemicals, radioactive materials, biological materials and similar destructive materials. This is all done in the name of humanity. This is a very vague term because
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