YOU ARE SENTENCED TO…

Such are the usual pronouncements of the final verdict in the court of law reserved to be uttered by the presiding judge. And this only point at one thing – a foul end for the person condemned! It is either such person is pronounced death by some sort of mischievous manner or sent behind jail bars for donkey years. This is regardless of whether the person actually committed the crime or not!

As for the judge he takes much pride in these solemn harsh words as they form some rhythmic sounds as they escape from his lips. ‘I hereby sentence you to death by, ’ by this statement he has arrogated to himself so much power not mindful of whether his judgment is just or unfair to natural course of event. He prefers to see as wrinkles form dark clouds on the faces of his viewers and watch indifferently how tears depart from the eyes of the victim’s kiths and kin.

It is better if such pronouncements are made only to punish offenders by dissociating them from their families and the luxury they enjoy by confining them to some remand home. It would have been constructive and commensurate! But where death sentences are pronounced, hmm man has to watch it! Unfortunately, the law of the society negates the law of the Almighty in this regards. Here the victim is at the mercy of the Judge, as the case may be. The issue here is not whether the judge’s judgment was fair or not. It is about if he really has the right to condemn another to death. Perhaps the following lines will shed more light on this.

‘Let he who hath sinneth not cast the first stone’. These are the plain words from the Light Itself. They are such simple that one cannot but understand the weight of their simplicity. Or how better can one interpret this? All the commandments point at one thing – Love thy neighbour as thyself! If you go through them till the last calling, you will observe that all warnings in the tablet given to man were for the benefit of man.

How come man found solace in the indiscriminate pronouncement of death verdicts? From what doctrines has man gotten his mandate to pronounce punishments such as killing of another? Let man desist from these arbitrary draconian corporal punishments lest he faces the wrath of his Maker! By now readers particularly those who allow their intellect to rule over their being would ask: What of the man that kills another in order to appropriate his belongings? Should he be set free, and asked to go and sin no more? If man would but seriously think for a second, the answers are just on his laps.

Without mincing words, the society had erroneously borrowed from the doctrines of the Scriptures – an eye for an eye! If truly that was what was meant then, there wouldn’t have been a contra-instruction from the Light - ‘Let he who hath sinneth not cast the first stone’. For everything that comes from the Light is pure, simple and logical! No hidden place for vagueness. So how can there be the old and the new when there is only one Source of Truth and is everlasting?
To put a thick line between the society and the essence of life is harmful. They are supposed to be inseparable. Intertwined. It is as though separating the blood from the arteries.

So let the judges watch how they pronounce judgments of death, they might only be looking and not seeing! Here again I choose to speak to those who have third eyes. Those who could understand the harm in this.