Here is an example of karmic punishment inflicted upon leaders.

When heads of state demonstrate authoritarianism, enslave their own people to the point of preventing them from accessing true spiritual knowledge, and rule their country while ignoring the fact that they must do so under God's authority, they will be sent to a hellish planet located in Hell.

Similarly, when leaders oppress a community, enslave a people, and occupy a region, forcing its inhabitants to live in poverty, with almost nothing and under great suffering, they will be condemned by divine justice to be reborn within that community, among those people, in order to experience in turn the suffering they inflicted upon them.

It is very common for politicians who develop a racist, hateful, and degrading philosophy toward a community other than their own to be condemned, by virtue of their karma—the law of action and reaction or cause and effect—to be reborn in their own country, but into a poor family, within the very community they despised, in order to experience the suffering associated with the racism they themselves spread in their last life.

The human form should allow the soul that has attained it to achieve spiritual realization, to deepen its understanding of God, to know God as He truly is, and to discover the ultimate purpose of existence, which is none other than Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.

When a nation is governed by the principles mentioned above, the consciousness of God naturally spreads everywhere, for the benefit of all living beings—human, animal, and plant.

Those who walk with God in virtue and obey Him take refuge in Him. What could be more natural for a virtuous person in danger than to think of God, who will protect them? If they face imminent peril, the Lord will protect them.

The Lord says, “Abandon yourself to Me, and I will take you under My protection.”