In the last blog, says that the restoration of righteousness should be the outcome of justice. Whereas the restorative justice, or even our traditional punitive justice only tries to fix the bugs or feels like a patchwork at the best. You break the law (a bug), get the punishment under so and so law (fix) and that’s it. That’s not it!
The other blog describes 2 forms of tolerances. And one might get a feeling that Justice is kind of like a cold start. Until the engine warms up, it can’t start. Similarly, until tolerance 1 limit is reached, justice can’t start playing. It awaits its turn patiently. There’s also a saying, “justice delayed is justice denied“. It means tolerance 1 has to act with immense responsibility. This point gives me a sense that justice always follows the past. However, I have a different opinion. Justice is always anew and ever present and doesn’t follow past or anything for that matter.
Lord Krishna, the Supreme embodiment of Justice says in Gita:
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् |
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे || 8||
To protect the righteous, to annihilate the wicked, and to reestablish the principles of dharma I appear on this earth, age after age.
Given this emphatic proclamation, I think the “operation of justice” is a continuous phenomenon, while that of manifestation is an “age after age” phenomenon. Justice is ever present. For example, if you play with the fire, that moment you start burning. This is observable and accepted phenomenon. Justice is always instant. It takes time to manifest. The analogy is the law of Karma. Fruits of some karmas take time to ripe. And therefore, again coming to the original point, tolerance 1 doesn’t mean that justice is not operating. It only means justice is not getting manifested.
In this perspective, the understanding of justice moves from a human-administered system to an ever-present, intrinsic Cosmic Principle.
Reinvent The Self! 