Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I wish to inquire on how to see a certain life situation.

              HpS - ASA - AGTSP. We hope we can help!

Generally our vaishnava notion is that if someone hurts us, blasphemes us, we tolerate and do not retaliate. A devotee was telling how another devotee cheated him out of 100k Euro. That is certainly a big amount. He was of the opinion that it was his money, and he wanted it back, so he is in a courtcase.

Now what about the attitude of tolerating and not retaliating?

           HpS - ASA -- Well, a Madhyama adhikari avoids the demons, demoniac, in his Godbrothers. Don't get hurt, don't get cheated. Other than that we must think that it is Krsna's money for my service to Him, so we can do things like take the case for decision by a judge. Depends on the attitude in detail, no?

His argument was that the whole gita is about the same thing. Arjuna was cheated out of his property, and Krishna wanted him to fight for it. I am not sure how to deal with this. My idea was that the kurus were already dead due to their karma, and Arjuna just had to execute the 'death sentence.' If he is suffering his karma, why bother to get the money back? But to just say, "Hey, tough luck, i was probably a cheater in my previous life," that's kind of a hard pill to swallow.

What is your idea on this matter please? Thank you for your response.
I hope you're body is cooperating well, and may you think of Krishna always.

Kind regards,
Raghava Pandita dasa.

    HpS - ASA --- Like we said, it depends on the details. Dharma in the first canto, how M. P. recieved the age of Kali gives that argument that it was just reaction of my bad Karma. That could be O.K. Yuddhistira tried that approach for like 45-years or something and only fought when there was no other choice. 

For details you could have like six devotees talk about the details and make a decision. Look at Parasara's dharma sastr in our archives at: www.bhati.org.

Thank you!