Answer by Citing the Vedic Version H.H. Shriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Question: Do Non-Hindus Believe in Law of Karma?

My dearest Mahaguru, I have some questions to you as follows: 1. Is it true that non-Hindus like Christian and Islam do not believe in the concept of karma? 2. But my friends told me that from the Bible they come across a sentence, "As you sow so shall you you reap," which basically states the law of karma. How do you explain this? 3. If human suffering and happiness are entirely due to the will of God without any room for human's will? If so, does not it mean that God is quite unfair or unjust? On what basis does He elect a person to suffer for all his lifetime, for example since his birth to be crippled and blind, while the other person born in a rich and abundance family? I think the explanation given by the law of karma regarding this phenomena seems to be more acceptable. How do you think? Please kindly enlighten me about these . Thank you so much. Begging for mercy, Nyoman

Answer: Regardless of Belief It Applies to Everyone

The first point is that I am not telling you what I think. What I think is useless. Therefore I am telling you instead what I have learned from my spiritual master, who has revealed the knowledge which has come to him from Krishna through the chain of disciplic succession. If Christians and Muslims do not accept the principle of karma, it means that they are not reading there own scriptures carefully enough. Karma is a universal principle, which is applicable to all, theists, atheists and agnostics. Not only is it taught in the Bible, as your friends have pointed out. It is also taught as follows in the Koran: "Then, on that Day (Judgment Day), not a soul will be wronged in the least, and ye shall but be repaid the meeds of your past deeds. " (Surat Ya-Sin, 54) If a child runs away from home and is suffering while living on the street, is this his parents' fault or is this his fault? We are the cause of our own suffering. lf we try to blame God for our suffering, that is our foolishness. In fact, this mentality of blaming God for our suffering is the cause of our suffering. It is only when we accept that it is our own foolishness which has cast us in this ocean of misery that we can come out of the suffering and return to our eternal blissful situation in the kingdom of God. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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