Justice in the Hands of Torture - Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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Many get steeped in delusion, or they are swept by pride and egoism.As a result they over-value themselves or misbelieve altogether.Thereby they miss the Supreme, the benefit of His infinitelove and power. Alas!Here we have an exemplary fusion of the two, the faithful and thefaithless, the humble and the proud, the innocent and the infatuated,and their corresponding fates. A great battle for winning supremacy,no doubt. As well-known for all time ever since the dawnof human history, the faithful, the humble and the innocent had thevictory; to the discomfiture of the other and to the discernment ofone and all. Without combats and duels, the deeper lessons ofTruth and piety cannot be let known to men and women of theworld.The within is truly the cause of the entire without. In the within liesthe golden solution for all the problems caused by the without. Inthe within alone originate as well as dissolve all polarities, all contradictions,all opposites.The Invisible Lord is enshrined truly in the within of each mortal.One’s own within is the potent and infinite zero upon which subsistthe whole range of numerals and their multiples. The cause andsource are but one. And that one reigns secretly in one’s own within.It needs great eyes to see this truth, lofty wisdom to discern it, nobleand pious heart to cling to it and gain succour. Draupadi wasone rare soul with the choicest blessings in this regard. With herinvincible husbands tied down in total slavery with the wise eldersstruck dumb in doubt and indecision, with the next kith and kin(Duryodhanas) frowning with vengeance and cruelty, she lookeddesperately to the Power within, calling it by her own belovedname. The name means but little. The call alone matters and the46
depth and reliance with which it is made. Before such heroic hearts,even the hardest rock has to melt, the ferocious river has to go dry,the tallest mountain crumble and turn to mere dust. And this iswhat happened in the case of Draupadi. In an instant the villainturned to a mere weakling, bashful and exhausted pitiably, to theridicule of the noble and to the surprise of even the wicked.In fact this imposing Universe and the entire visible things havesprung from the Invisible. Everything rests in the latter and uponit. Nothing has an abode outside the Invisible. Everything is intruth and that alone. Is not our body, of many parts and limbs, belongingto the one ‘I’ within it, the Spirit? So too is this single bodyof the universe with all its constituents and contents belonging tothe one mighty ‘I’ within, the Almighty Spirit, the Supreme Lord.Our left hand scratches an itch on the body, aggravating the suffering,but only to make the right hand apply medicine to heal it. Thesame ‘I’ causes the one hand to scratch and another to resist. Bothof them inhere in the same body, possessed and propelled by thesame spirit, the soul within. For both, the Master is the same, theonly one. In this universe too, in spite of its endlessness and ramification,the process worked is the same, though it is hazy and elusiveto the unwary eye. The one Lord is the owner, possessor, motivatorenjoyer, sufferer, in short everything and all. He is the giverand the taker alike. He gives through one hand, but only to takethrough another.Through a villain He chooses to be cruel. Through a graceful another,He chooses to be kind. He it is that tortures. He alone is thetortured alike. The problem is not His, but ours, to know this naked mystery.The challenge is perpetually there before every man andwoman. Once man succeeds in knowing this truth, saved is he for47
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