Sometime I hear when there are catastrophes like this that people just say “It is just their Karma”. Is that a way a devotee thinks? It may just be their Karma but that’s not our business what their karma is. Our business is to save them and to feel for them and give them relief of whatever their Karma may be. Karma is between them and Krishna. How many millions of cows are being slaughtered every year? But nobody thinks about it. How many millions of innocent children are being killed in the womb of their mothers every year? No one thinks about it. How many tens and thousands of people are starving to death every year? No one thinks about it. When four five thousand people are being killed, the whole world is upset. Of course, we should be upset. We should be upset for all the people who are suffering, all the people who are being murdered. If it’s just the matter of karma, then why are we trying to stop people from murdering the cows? why only vegetarians? It’s just the karma of the cows to die. No, we are willing to preach and give our lives to teach people to protect these cows and if we hear about cows being slaughtered, we will weep, we will cry, we can’t bear that fact, what to speak of human beings? If Srila Prabhupad came to New York city and he saw people addicted to illicit sex, intoxication, gambling, meat eating, atheists, suffering in the streets. He didn’t just say, it’s your karma prabhu. He wept, He cried, His heart was broken and he was willing to risk and sacrifice his life to save us. That is Vaishnav. Wherever we see or hear of suffering, we should cry to think of people physically, mentally, spiritually suffering. And that should be more of an impetus for us to do something to help them.
