Is there any justice in the world?

Nyāya (Justice) is defined as the rightful judgement or the culmination of a person’s state which is better or worse in relative terms than his initial state depending on his deeds or karma.

But who has the rightful authority to segregate the wrongdoings or the good work? Is it an objective assessment or a decision marked by a society’s, culture’s or a person’s perspective.

If justice is a forsaken result in the world then why do we have millions of impending cases lying in courts waiting for the winds of time to turn in the favourable direction? Many lives have breathed their last just waiting in distress.

Let us trace this dichotomy of right or wrong since the mythological eras. Who suffered more .. Rama or Ravana? Pandavas or Kauravas? If the line of reasoning given here is that at the end of the day Truth triumphs over the evil and Ravana and Kauravas had to face infamy and notoriety in the millennia to come then I beg to differ. I’d like to counter this argument by saying a stern “Who cares!!” Did Ravana or for that matter Kauravas endure any negativity when they were alive, hale and hearty? Who endured the suffering during their lifetime? Moreover, death is inevitable. Personally I hardly care what people may think about me when I leave for the heavenly abode (maybe a wishful thinking!!). I don’t want my life on this planet to be embroiled with miseries simply because I plan to choose the path of righteousness and fight against what is not right. (This can be an altogether different debate on how we choose to lead our lives and in this post neither I am commenting on my way or any other person’s way of living. It is merely a perspective.)

My belief in statistics would help me defend my point further. If I have to accomplish the goal of being happy in life I should be mean, cunning, scheming, engage in just my own pursuits and achieve them by hook or by crook with no regards to anybody else.. and lo and behold!! I would flourish like a tree laden with thousands of ripe, luscious, juicy mangoes in the Sahara desert... Yes, you read me right.. a magnificence...brilliance of lovely green cover with radiant dots like mangoes amidst a miserable and harsh climes of the land.

All the proponents of dharma, satya who say that all this is transitory and will soon come to an end, I politely request them to go back and check the dusted tomes of our history. An unfortunate realization, but for one's benefit, if one does not want to cry endlessly and don't want to go down the path of distress, it is better to know that this is Kalyug!!

Disclaimer: This post does not intend to propagate any means, ways which are not aligned to what is correct as practiced and widely known to us. I reiterate it was simply to see a scenario from a different angle.