Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00700)

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> > From: Etzion B
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> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:58 AM
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> > To: study@b...
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> > Subject: [bn-study] Re: Divine Wind
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> > What I have learnt, is when a person kills another person, he 
takes 
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> > himself the sanskaras/impressions of that person. Presumably, the 
> *victim*
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> > is the real winner here, bacause his karmic burden has been 
> lessened, while
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> > the karmic burden of the killer grew. A person who kills in order 
to 
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> > another person or his country, and doing it without any trace of 
> anger, can
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> > help the other side to lessen its karmic burden, while he himself 
> don't
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> > contract any further karma. This is very rare. I of course, don't 
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> > personal fate of those Japanese pilots. They were ordered to do 
so, 
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> > were not volunteers. The burden in such a case, falls on the 
heads 
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> > who gave the orders. Etzion


I don't believe this, that acting under orders relieves a person of 
karmic 
responsibility. 

Larry