How does God punish us?

QN:

 

Sat naam ji,

                     one thing i want to tell is that how does God punish us for our bad work and what criteria he use.
REPLY:

 

Sat Naam Ji,

 

God has created his Divine Laws called Hukam.  These are all stated in GurBani.  The most powerful law is the Law of Karma - what we sow is what we reap.  Which means every action we take has a reaction.  Whatever we do to others will also happen to us, good or bad.   These good and bad deeds go with our soul when we die.  Our next body is determined by these good and bad actions.  We can never clear our Karma account - KArni, by ourself.  We can though maximise our good deeds and minimise our bad deeds, we can forgive others instead of taking revenge and that reduces our karma.  Eventually, God will bless us with His Eternal Blessings - GurParsaad.   We get these blessings through God sitting in the heart of the Sant,  then with Grace - gurParsaadi Naam, we go beyond karma and become one with the Truth - merge into the Light.

 

God doesnt punish anyone directly, He is the kindest of the kind, the mother of all, the most compassionate.  But the Law of Karma is there to teach us there are consequences for our actions, that we have to take responsibilty for what we do, and for us to learn from our mistakes so we progress from lower consciousness to higher consciousness and ultimately God-Truth consciousness.

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit