Spirituality - 4

...Here one thing is not clear that who performs the deeds. Surely an individual performs the deeds. Does the body or the soul perform them? The deeds are performed either by the body or by the soul. Let us consider the case where the deeds are performed by the body. In this case the body should be punished for the deeds performed by it in the past life. The body in each birth is new; it is unrelated to previous birth. Both the bodies are separated by time. In such a situation the body is punished for the crimes committed by a different body. Thus the present body has not committed the crimes it is being punished for. The previous life’s crimes were committed by an already extinct body. Thus the divine punishment according to theory of Karma is wrong. You cannot punish a body for the crimes it never committed. Forget about crimes the new body has yet to produce any karma.

Let us consider the second case where the crimes are committed by the soul, the indestructible one. It can only perform any action through body but that is also not possible since soul is not brain. A soul which has left the body cannot perform any action. It can keep wondering about in the world until it acquires a body to perform some action. However let us assume the soul has performed the crimes through a body in previous life. So by taking birth in painful life the soul is punished. But the soul by its nature cannot be punished. There is no way in which it can be punished. The soul is indestructible so it cannot be destroyed. It cannot be hurt so hurting does not imply punishing it. It cannot be burnt, cut or killed. It is immune to everything, including pain and pleasure. So actually by punishing soul nobody is really punished. Actually it is the body which gets punished and which never committed the past deeds. Thus the divine justice system enshrined in Karma theory does not really punish the really real guilty. It gets its victims in Varna dharma; at its bottom. It is a concept devised to absolve the lawmakers, the Brahmans, of their sins. If it holds good which it is supposed to then it absolves the Brahmans of their crimes and the atrocities that have been committed under their eternal guidance. It also absolves them of crime of practicing untouchability. Simultaneously it absolves the Muslim invaders of the atrocities committed on the Hindus. The Hindus suffered under Muslim rulers due to their bad Karmas. Similarly any oppressor can be absolved of his sins since the victims suffered due to their Karmas of past lives. Therefore Genghis Khan stands absolved. It is all in the Karma; the individuals do not matter, the soul does. The Karma theory also grandly fails in the case of genocide of Jews in Second World War. If it is not applicable there then it does not have general applicability...