United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) said, "If you work cooperatively, you'll get more strength." Since we are fighting an inconceivably tremendous uphill battle against the ignorance of this age of Kali, it is imperative that we all work together co-operatively in order to have sufficient strength to carry out our duty of delivering the world from suffering and illusion. United we stand, divided we fall. Those who obey Srila Prabhupada's instruction will be successful, and those who disobey his instruction will be a failure.

Spiritual Perfection in Household Life Seminar, Hong Kong, 18 June 2014

Sankarshan Das Seminar on Spiritual Perfection in Household Life

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Deliverer of Karma Is Karmically Implicated?

I wrote you as follows on 18 June 2014:

"Lord Krishna said that He has already made arrangements for everyone's death, and death is predestined for everyone. So if everyone's death already is predestined to happen at a specific time, then isn't the death of all those people who die by the hands of terrorists also predestined?"

To which you replied:

"Yes, it is predestined according to their karma."

So now my question is:

"Then, how do those terrorists commit sin and get bad karma if the death of every being they kill is predestined due to their karma?"

Kartik P.

Answer: Woe Be To He Who Is the Deliverer of Karma

Woe be to he who is the deliverer on one's karma because karma's nature is entangling, stringent and cruel. Even though it is someone's karma to be murdered, the person who murders him must also suffer the karma of being a murderer. In other words, he must also be murdered, and the person who murders him must then also be murdered, etc. In this way everyone is eternally imprisoned within the wheel of karma, getting misery and giving misery in an endlessly ongoing cycle. This is why, if one wants relief from this hell, he must surrender to Krishna, because that is the only way to get out of the karmic labyrinth.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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