125. The Penal Law of Creation - Its Advantages

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

PART IV

KARMAS, i.e. THE ACTIONS PERFORMED BY HUMAN ENTITIES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THEM

125. THE PENAL LAW OF CREATION - ITS ADVANTAGES

            192. It is clear from what we have explained about the creation in the preceding chapter that the entire body of the creational laws has been made with a beneficent object. The penal laws, too, contribute to eventual good, and the spirit-entities after undergoing punishment become fit for spiritual elevation to a specified degree in the grand division of creation in which they are located. These remarks apply in their entirety to the third grand division, although traces of the economy, referred to, are not entirely absent from the sub-creational portions of the first and second grand divisions (i.e. Mahasunna and Chidakasa respectively). The penal provisions, although they apply equally to all, are, however, mainly intended for the reformation of those who are incapable of deriving benefit from the laws that provide for reward. It is hardly necessary to observe that desires and acts and indolence, which make on seek reformation and eventual good by undergoing incarceration in some part of the creation, are marked by a want of wisdom and foresight which is very discreditable. Such a view is, however, held and acted upon in actual practice by incapable people, while those endowed with the necessary foresight and intelligence make themselves acquainted with the laws in question, for the purpose of obtaining the rewards and for protecting themselves from the penalties imposed by the penal provisions. Further, the penal provisions merely eliminate the evil propensities to some extent, and thus make the spirit fit for elevation, as already stated, in that division alone in which it is located. The translation of the spirit-entity to a higher division is, however, impossible, unless it comes directly under the influence of the spiritual current of the higher division, and is also aided in its efforts for ascension by an adept of that division. The instrument of such higher influence is spiritual training, and for its proper performance it is absolutely necessary that the lower tendencies, which are predominant in the second and third grand division, should be thoroughly understood and overcome. As the training, referred to, can be undergone with success in a human form alone (vide Article 111), the explanations that we proceed to record now refer to the effects produced on a human entity by his surroundings and by his individual acts.