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Yudhisthira

By Karmayogi

Yudhisthira was the son
of Lord Dharma. How could he indulge in a game of dice? How could he not know
that he would lose? How dare he lose his brothers and wife? What kind of Dharmaraja
was he? Those were the questions asked about him.

Those questions were even addressed to him. He replied that when Rama the
Avatar could not know that the golden deer was false, there is no wonder in his
own lapse at the dice game. Surely this is a complete justification, but cannot
constitute an answer.

Rama was an Avatar, i.e. an emanation of Vishnu, born as a human mortal. Lord
Shiva foolishly gave a boon to an Asura who attempted to test it on Shiva
himself. Had he tested it, Shiva would have been reduced to ashes. It was
Vishnu's intervention and ruse that made the Asura put his hand on his
head and test its efficacy.

Well, if Yudhisthira could lapse, an Avatar can go wrong, God himself can be so
trapped, then, of course, KARMA is too powerful. Or the laws of the cosmos are
inexorable. Krishna stands out from this net. Perhaps he is
outstanding. How to answer the question asked of Yudhisthira? You may be from
any higher world, but when you are born on earth, the laws of earth are binding
on you.

So also, the karma that envelops the life of a divine being born on earth. Let
us come nearer home. Is that the end of Indian spirituality? The birth of Sri
Aurobindo opened the earth to the Power and Force of The Hour of God. It is an
hour when aeons of work will be done in a trice.

This Hour of God came as a result of long cosmic labour. We are likely to
mistake Sri Aurobindo as a Rishi. It may not be entirely wrong. We may take him
to be an Avatar. That too may not be exactly true, as He was not and His Force
now is not subject to the laws of earthly life, particularly karma.

If you find yourself in such a position as Yudhisthira or Shiva and feel
entirely helpless and find the onset of forces of Life is imminent, call Sri
Aurobindo's Force. Better still, call Mother. In either case, you will
see karma is NOT binding on you. A client was fleeced by a corrupt lawyer.

The lawyer helped his client to lose! The client went to the High Court. He won
the case. The formalities required the property to be issued a certificate from
the government pleader. In the meanwhile, this corrupt lawyer became the
government pleader.

He took the file and declared, “Last time you escaped. Now unless you
give me what I demand, you won't get the certificate.” The client
invoked the Force. The district administration was bifurcated and this file
went to the pleader in the other part of the district who happened to be a
friend. Karma binds the hero of Mahabharata and the hero of Ramayana, not one
who relies on the Force now on earth active in the atmosphere.