Justice and fairness are the most significant qualities of the divine. Then how would there not be divine justice? Yet, we see so many people suffering due to inequalities and exploitation. It seems that there is no divine justice. The exploiters are enjoying, and the exploited are suffering. People are killing others in the name of their beliefs. Millions were killed because one person believed that his race was superior and that the people belonging to the other race needed to be killed. Countries from Europe made many countries their colonies to exploit their resources. On the surface, the world appears to be full of injustice.
However, we need to ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves. Why would a country become a slave if the people of that country are evolved? Unless the people of the country sell their nation for their selfish interests, is it possible for any outsider to rule that country? Why do people dare to sell their nation? Isn't it because their parents could not tell them convincingly that the pleasure of money and power is temporary? If the parents condition the minds of their kids with the beliefs that the purpose of life is to have a comfortable life with more money and power, why would they shy away from cheating their country for the sake of money and power? That is what some people did when the British were searching for such traitors. When generations fail to inculcate the value of courage and selfless love for their country in their kids, countries get enslaved as per the divine justice.
We close our eyes to reality, conveniently thinking that we will not be affected by the same. We choose to become silent spectators when bosses target an innocent employee. The poor, innocent employee is working for the benefit of the organization, and the selfish boss targets the weak for his personal interest, and we decide to stay conveniently silent. Then the boss realizes the weakness of his subordinates and becomes more brutal. Slowly and gradually, he exploits everybody, and that's divine justice. We allow the evil to grow by becoming a silent spectator to that. Everybody supplies blood to the devil by convenient silence. When we do not stand for better systems, we end up getting worse.
At the level of an individual, it may appear to be a gross injustice. However, we may need to look at it from two different perspectives. First, we need to analyse the nature of suffering. Suffering takes place due to our fixation. If somebody gets fixated on comforts, be they are poor or rich, they are going to suffer equally. The poor may have the target of a lakh of rupees, and the rich may have the target of a billion, but both are going to suffer equally when they get fixated on the target. There is enough for everybody's needs, but not enough for anybody's greed. Rather than focusing on the targets, if we focus on the process, we end up building strength. As Swami Vivekananda says, "Strength is Life." Strong people do not care about the outcomes. Bhagat Singh and Mahatma Gandhi did not calculate the outcome of their efforts. They had the strength in their character and therefore inspired generations after generations. People do not get inspired by them because they were rich and powerful. Rather, people get inspired by them because they had the courage and conviction in their character and lived life with freedom and courage. Did Bhagat Singh suffer? Of Course, yes. He suffered, but he chose his suffering. He chose to suffer with freedom rather than suffer with slavery. The exercise of that choice is available to each one of us. But we choose to live longer with slavery because we are fixated on the comforts.
There has always been a battle between the devas and the danavas. Sometimes, devas rule, and sometimes, danavas. According to divine justice, why don't the devas rule forever? Why do Danavas exist in nature at all? It is because devas embody divine qualities, such as freedom and justice, while the danavas embody Tamas—the absence of these qualities. Life constantly evolves from Tamas. The soil that comprises excreta gives life to a seed that grows into a plant. Excreta must evolve into a plant, signifying the evolution of devas from danavas. We must constantly evolve, aspiring for the qualities of the divine like freedom, love, compassion, justice, and awareness. The more we embrace these qualities, the more we evolve; otherwise, we will be doomed to ignorance. Opportunities to grow are available everywhere, and people have embraced freedom, love, and compassion even in the darkest of times. The more people in a society silently condone injustice and exploitation, the faster society will doom itself. Regardless of our efforts to shift the blame onto the divine, the reality is that we choose our own sufferings or bliss.
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