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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Q: Is there no justice? Surely such people will have to pay the penalty of their actions? But how is it they are the ones who succeed in life?

Justice in this life? May not be, most probably not. But what is justice? It is not what most people believe it to be. The common idea is that the virtuous will be rewarded with happiness and prosperity in the next life while the wicked will have the opposite results. In that case the people you speak of must have been virtuous in their previous birth. Well, that’s not my idea of justice. There is true justice in the sense that the good people advance towards a Sattwic nature while those with the contrary disposition go down the scale of humanity: they become more and more Asuric.

– Sri Aurobindo

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