Spiritual consultancy

Spiritual consultancy

From Rakyat Merdeka

From my observation of the latest condition of the Soehartos (and their cronies) I can see that they need a team of "spiritual consultants", rather than legal consultants. Yes, spiritual consultancy is what they need.

It seems that the Soehartos need to know that everything a human being does both pretendingly (contributing foods and clothing, etc, merrily performing a religious service) and openly (through corruption, collusion and nepotism, violations of human rights, etc) is subject to just punishment.

In my opinion, God is most just as well as most merciful. He will forgive our sins 100 percent as long as we repent. However, laws cannot be forgiving subject of one's crimes although all the things that one has stolen / embezzled are returned/refunded. Indeed laws can be cheated by power, material, and the sophistication of a lawyer's or defender's equivocation. But God can never be cheated. In God's eyes, the best lawyer is the individual concerned, not other people.

One should believe in the hukum karma ("cause and effect"), a law saying that something (usually bad) will happen to one because of evil deeds in previous life. Every being who is capable of, or who has done something, shall be subject to this law.

This is a bit of input from me. May the Soehartos make this something like a contemplation of life. God willing, we will always get the best. Indeed true happiness can only be found in a soul that is clean and close to God.

May God bless us all and grant us the strength to be able to behave well and to do things honestly to others in particular to ourselves.

PUNEL SUNARYO

Jakarta