LAW -- PART THREE

Humanity´s whole attitude towards the law, crime and punishment, has to change. The only laws that will be respected and obeyed by an evolved soul are Natural Laws.

The Need For Change

There are, of course, always going to be certain individuals who will not learn through their own actions. They kill or steal because they do not think it is wrong. They do not desire to work because they would rather obtain money the easy way. These people will, naturally, reap the effect of Natural Law, but, in that they are potentially dangerous to society, society must take action against them and must isolate them until such time as they have been re-educated.

What happens today is that such people are isolated as a punishment, are not re-educated, and are then released after so many years of punishment to carry on exactly as they had done before. If you look at the crime records in the World today you will see that very often it is a few persistent offenders who continually appear before the judges; but Humanity does not seem to learn from this and to appreciate the need to change its present systems.

A Reflection of Natural Law

Humanity´s whole attitude towards the law, crime and punishment, has to change. The only laws that will be respected and obeyed by an evolved soul are Natural Laws. Now I am not saying that you should ignore all of Humanity´s laws, because many of them will reflect in some respects the greater Law. Obviously it is wrong to attack or kill another person. It is wrong to steal, to slander or to bear false witness against another person. All these aspects, for they are only aspects, of Natural Law appear in Humanity´s laws and should be obeyed. However there are some of Humanity´s laws which are not correct, and these should not be obeyed.

Humanity needs to make its laws more spiritual, more a reflection of Natural Law. Humanity has to recognise that when a person breaks the law, not punishment but re-education is required. Humanity must realise that most people commit crimes only because of the environment which has led them to think and behave in that way, for the sum total of a person´s physical consciousness is the life they have lived, the things they have seen, the people with whom they have associated, what they have practised and done, the whole vibration of the country in which they live.

Help Not Punishment

Humanity must look at its forms of punishment and see if they really are having the desired effect. Remember that fear, fear of being punished, fear of being imprisoned, will in no way restrain a person who is determined to do something. Even in war, when they fear death, people will risk their lives if they believe that what they are doing is just. Humanity must examine its prisons and ensure that they become not punishment cells but schools of education and learning. It must ensure that the standard of life inside these prisons is of a higher standard than life outside, for here are people who need special treatment, who need a special atmosphere, who need individual attention. People who are placed in prisons need help, and help is not given by imprisoning a person within four square walls, sometimes in solitary confinement, our of sight of the sun, of nature and of life.

The Greatest Law

Finally, Humanity must realise that the greatest law that exists in the Universe is Natural Law. What Humanity does will always have an effect no matter what form of punishment Man-made laws decrees. The punishment of Humanity in no way transmutes the effect of Natural Law, and by punishing a fellow brother or sister Humanity is very often only incurring karma for itself.

The greatest Law of this Universe, which has been demonstrated to Humanity by so many Masters when they have incarnated on the Earth, is that you do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If you break the laws of God you expect to be forgiven, you expect to be helped, you expect to be gently shown the error of your ways: you do not expect to be punished. Should not a person who breaks Humanity´s law expect the same treatment??

Humanity has advanced beyond the age of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It is slowly beginning to recognise the sanctity of life. Let it now begin to understand the purpose of God, the rule of God, and let the Laws of the Universe, not the laws of Humanity, govern life on the Earth and then perfection, harmony and brotherhood will return to this World.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teaching of Ramala".