he was on his death-bed. When questioned why he cried, he replied that the Pandavas were great
devotees of the Lord and always abided by the laws of Dharma. Above all, the Lord was
constantly with them in the form of Krishna. And yet they underwent so much of suffering.
Some wicked persons do flourish in this world of hypocrisy, but it does not mean that
they are free from suffering. The really good souls do not suffer as much as the ‘flourishing’
wicked ones, for peace is in the hearts of the former. To be able to abide by the ideals they hold
sacred is by itself a great cause of happiness. The welfare and the misery of people can be
explained only in terms of the law of Karma.
Good persons suffer because of the mistakes they had committed in their past
incarnations. Wicked persons, who seem to be well off, are now reaping the results of their past
good actions, but will have to pay the price of their present ones, later. It is the law of Karma
that lifts God above all the good and the bad conditions of man. If God were made responsible
for the material state of affairs of the individual or the enjoyment or suffering of man, then God
would cease to be God, for a partial God, dishing out favours to some and withholding them
from the others, would be no God at all.
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