The human intellect cannot reach the definition of sin and virtue. Same act – small sin, same act – big sin, same act – bigger sin……….You killed an ant, killed a mosquito, killed a fly, is it a sin? Yes, it is a sin! And one killed a cow. Yes, that is also a sin. Someone killed a man. This is all murder. The sin of killing an ant is small, the sin of killing a cow is big, the sin of killing a human being is bigger. Then the sin of killing a religious person is greater than that. Then there is the bigger sin of killing a great man who is detached, then the bigger sin of someone who is knowledgeable, then the biggest crime of all is to kill someone who is a devotee. Now the work is all the same.
You were bad, we spoke bad of you, still wrong, but minor sins. Then if you were good, we spoke bad of you – a big sin. To do an evil to a righteous man is a big sin. To do an evil to a holy man is the biggest sin.
So the definition of sin is according to the personality, hence no human being can know it. Tell me, who will know what is someone’s inner state? All these are the works of God’s government. Only they can calculate and only they calculate. Man should definitely have some idea according to the Vedas, the limit will be considered according to the personality of the person against whom we commit crime. This happens in the world too. If you slap someone’s servant, the master says – “Why did you slap our servant?”, scolds him and that’s it. And you slapped his son, now he is coming with rage to kill you. He slapped his wife and it became a serious case. Now look, the slap is the same but as per the personality it becomes so big that a murder is committed just behind one slap – “How dare you!”
The daughter-in-law came after a marriage. You placed your hand on her shoulder – “scoundrel!” Now she has become an old woman, even if you hug her, she will not say anything. “Yes son, it is fine.” The body is the same, your body is the same, her body is the same, but see the difference.
………When there is advocacy in the court, one law trumps another law.
Did he die due to your bullet?
Yes sir, died by my bullet.
Then you should be hanged!
No sir.
Why?
I was shooting a bird, he was sitting on the tree, he got hit by the bullet, what should I do? It is true that he was killed by my bullet, but I did not kill him. I was hunting the bird, now let me know why he was sitting on the tree.
These are very subtle things. The subject of right/wrong is very complex. Its details are many. One cannot acquire this knowledge even if one studies for a hundred years, let alone following it is a very distant thing. Devotion alone is such a means that it can get forgiveness for all sins, purify the conscience, help attain God, and get all things right. Just hold on to only two – Guru and God. Put everything else out of your mind. If you get into “this trying to understand or know what is righteous or what is unrighteousness, its theory”, then you are a lost case.
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