Justifiable to whom? The soul of the child might want to go through certain experiences. The soul of the mother, as is most likely in this case, may want to move further on to take a leap, something it felt is no longer possible in this body. Our desires and attachments are not the arbiters in the cosmic play. The journey of the soul spans through many lives and each soul passes through number of scenes and stages, some terrible some beautiful and grows through everything. Justice is not the arbiter here but the strong pull to have certain experiences needed for our growth. Of course the proponents of justice can easily explain such events by saying that possibly the child had abandoned the mother in a previous life leaving her weeping. But there is something deeper and truer behind these human justifications. The outer events through which we move and progress towards our own divine possibilities are part of the cosmic workings to help us discover our own strengths. The soul may even take an inner leap through seemingly painful events. It is this inner growth and its necessities for certain experiences that is the real reason for the outer suffering and pain through which we sometimes pass. Justice is a very secondary and subordinate element in the cosmic play and that too is not what we understand by Justice. Cosmic Justice serves the same eventual purpose, it is of growth and progress through difficult outer events. Its purpose is evolution and not punishment. Here are few lines from Savitri reminding us of the same.
‘O man, the events that meet thee on thy road,
Though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief,
Are not thy fate,—they touch thee awhile and pass;
Even death can cut not short thy spirit’s walk:
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.
On the altar throwing thy thoughts, thy heart, thy works,
Thy fate is a long sacrifice to the gods
Till they have opened to thee thy secret self
And made thee one with the indwelling God.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
