Karmic Arbitration
Most of us
have watched courtroom dramas on TV. You know the sort of
thing I mean where barristers (or lawyers if it’s American),
strut their stuff. The opposing sides may as well shake
hands and utter, ‘may the best man win’ to each other
because it’s a sport, or rather, that’s what it boils down
to. The winner is the one with the best rhetoric, the best
arguments. What happened to truth and forensic evidence?
Well the evidence is there, but what is made of it depends
on the two stars of the performance, and I am not talking
about the witnesses or the defendant.
A barrister will defend a
guilty person and get him off if he can. He has to. His reputation depends
on it. As to the prosecuting counsel, to him (or her) it is just a job,
it’s what they get paid for. What ever happened to the truth? Don’t ask!
This, of course, is an
appalling state of affairs and unfortunately not set to change in the
foreseeable future. In reality what should happen is for someone (or a
group of people), who is honest and ethical and with enough insight to
know the situation from a karmic point of view, to decide on the truth
or innocence and make the necessary recommendations.
We have all heard of
innocent people going to jail and eventually proving it, being
released ten or twenty years later, but were they innocent or did
they commit a crime in a past life and get away with it, or worse,
made sure that another person got the blame?Only someone with true
insight could give the answer and dispense what I would call, true
justice.
In civil matters
how would it work? Say for example a woman with three sons, one
of whom is married, dies and leaves her money to her only
daughter-in-law. The three sons contest the will. Karmically
say that in a previous life the family relationships were the
same and the three sons conspired to poison their mother slowly
so that it looked as if she died from a debilitating illness.
They do not get caught. The daughter-in-law, unaware of the
situation, nurses her mother-in-law with love and kindness until
the end. In this case it is right for the sons to be done out
of the money bearing in mind their past karma and the
daughter-in-law deserves to get it for her faithful services of
the past.
Of course, the
judicial system is not ready for karmic arbitration, not least
of all because it would mean that courts and barristers, not to
mention solicitors, would not be needed in the way they are
today and many of them would be out of a job, but I am sure
there are plenty of businesses and families who would welcome
such solutions instead of squabbling over who should have
received what in granny’s will – it is not only fair but a lot
cheaper than using a solicitor!
Karmic
arbitration is available by post, phone, e-mail and, of
course, in person. Terms and conditions on application.