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Apr 9, 2017 at 11:41 history edited Advaita Charana dasa CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 9, 2017 at 11:40 comment added Advaita Charana dasa @Sakthi No, I am not saying untouchability is a good practice or that this is a dharma activity. Also, the question is about past, when the society looked drastically different. In today's society, there is no reason for people to practice untouchability, imho. I personally would not discriminate based on how or where someone was born, and do not justify caste-based exploitation. My answer was specific to the question asked, about why Rama or Krishna did not stop untouchability (the way it existed then).
Apr 9, 2017 at 11:35 comment added Advaita Charana dasa @Rohit I didn't exactly follow your questions. I'm not suggesting imposing cause-effect theory only to others, but to everyone. Everything that happens has a series of events that lead up to it and cause it; the causality is an easily perceivable principle. But how would you explain someone being born with a deformed body, or someone born in a poor family while another born in a rich one? There are many events whose cause is not obvious, and you can understand it's due to past karma. Regardless, that doesn't stop you from helping those in need, be it you or others.
Apr 9, 2017 at 4:07 comment added Sakthi @AdvaitaCharanadasa friend are you saying untouchability is good practice and now also people follow it is this a dharma activity ?
Apr 4, 2017 at 3:59 comment added ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Why you make sure they are to be punished if they torture your beloved ones? It is good your or theirs prarabdha Karmas would exhaust. Why to impose cause - effect theory only to others? Again, human gets all kind of reason or philosophy when victim is other. Justice can't be based on past lives, it is based on present situation.
Apr 4, 2017 at 3:44 comment added Advaita Charana dasa I wouldn't say that it asks for acceptance of injustice, but rather it explains a more subtle cause of it. I see it as more of a way of understanding why certain things might happen without there being any causal explanation of them. This does not preclude justice being meted out to any wrongdoers. If someone tortures my loved ones, I will do all I can to make sure that they are punished appropriately; you can also understand that as me facilitating their receipt of their karma of torturing the victims. I agree that the idea of karma needs to be more clearly explored, and I'm no expert.
Apr 4, 2017 at 2:19 history answered Advaita Charana dasa CC BY-SA 3.0