Karma & Retribution – 09.16.10

Student Question: The agencies of evil and greed operate around the world openly and freely because there is no retribution. Such arrogance. Is there retribution to be paid, or do they get away with murder?

“No. There is ultimate justice in the universe,” assures Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “The law of karma reaches everywhere, but it’s not immediate. And in part, the reason why it cannot be immediate in this time period is that everyone participates in that evil to some extent, and therefore everyone deserves to suffer. And so the evil is the payment for evil. No one wants to live in an evil world, but no one’s willing to become good. And so it is the collective karma of the populations of the world that put up with evil in the society and the government—in whatever structures have been created that are accessories both before and after the fact. And it is our awakening from this internalized evil that is necessary if we’re going to change the world and bring about the kind of retribution you’re talking about. . . . And the weak point in what prevents this full balance from being re-achieved is that there hasn’t become yet a critical mass of beings who have transcended the ego. When that happens, then the world will deserve to be restored to the Garden of Eden state that we have destroyed.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 16, 2010.