Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 107
— Part I 106 mechanism. This protective system is designed to cope with many faults to a certain extent. But if man continues to commit mistakes or takes suicidal steps beyond all limits, then the punitive system takes over. Even then, a struggle begins between health and disease, life and death, each step provided with all of the requisite devices for prolonging this struggle against the destructive forces. What we understand in religious terminology as indecency or transgression is in fact applicable to the physical world as well. Of course we do not mean to apply the same terms to the physical counterparts of spiritual behaviour, but the similarities are so strong that one is tempted to use the same terminology. Yet it should not be forgotten that even at such extreme stages, the benevolence of God and His limitless mercy can still come to man’s rescue.