When Jaya-Vijaya became demons by Krishna’s will and performed so many atrocities what was the fault of their victims?
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so when Jaya Vijaya are cursed to come to the earth and become demons and they perform so many atrocities the lord knew that they were going to perform atrocities why did he let all this happen see there are the chain of karmic reactions can come through multiple instruments that means that see if A kills B then for B it means that that particular time the death was destined and if A had not killed then maybe there would have been an accident there would have been a heart attack or something and B would have died but still because A kills B A was not thinking I am being an agent of god and killing B A was simply angry or whatever settling some personal score so A actually does bad karma and A will get separate karmic reaction for that whereas at that time when B suffers something B is getting a karmic reaction for what B has done earlier so like that when when the demons when Jai Vijay come down as demons in this world at that time they perform atrocities and people suffer because of that but those who are suffering they are getting karmic reactions for what they have done and it is not that Krishna is deliberately sending the demons down and he is causing people to suffer actually people talk like that but the point is that ok wait a minute there is we could say everything is this term everything is god’s leela that is used quite often but we have to understand what it means even in Krishna’s leela it is not that things are chaotic there is a causal connection between them when we use the word leela there it simply means that it is beyond our human capacity to understand why this is happening but leela when it is used to say that when bad things happen to people to say that it is god’s leela that is not to say that there is a difference between god causing something and god sanctioning something so when bad things happen in life god is not their cause god is sanctioned so that means that it is not that god wants anyone to suffer it is rather that there is a system of action reaction and when somebody does something wrong they are going to get the reaction and god simply sanctions that so when we say that something is Krishna’s leela we have to see in what sense that word is being used if it is simply used in the sense that this is something which I can’t understand that is fine but if I am thinking that it is god gets some pleasure in doing this that is a misunderstanding Krishna’s pleasure is in elevating us to higher consciousness