Daily Meditation: Friday, August 4, 2000

By rejecting the concept of reincarnation and by refusing …

08/04/2000

By rejecting the concept of reincarnation and by refusing to teach it, Christianity is preventing people from understanding divine justice and the way in which it manifests itself. It comes as no surprise therefore, that everything consequently seems senseless. When you do not see the true reason for situations or events, they become incomprehensible and you end up seeing injustice everywhere. Faced with suffering and unhappiness Christians say: ‘It is God's will.' They themselves – unbelievably – have done nothing to cause this suffering; they are not responsible for anything. Only God is responsible. God does as he pleases and what pleases Him is not based on justice. All Christianity has achieved by rejecting the concept of reincarnation is to make the human spirit lose its way. Whereas with reincarnation everything becomes clear. Reincarnation explains how the law of cause and consequence manifests itself from one incarnation to another. It is no longer the Lord who dishes out good things and bad things in such a way that nobody can ever understand the reason. People become the creators of their own destiny. The greatness, the splendour, the perfection and, especially, the justice of God are thus maintained.