God metes out perfect equality

[sravna]

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So much has been said in both serious and light discourses how unfair the world is with men being created not equal. Nothing can be farther from the truth because God ensures that equality is maintained at every point. God in my view implements the equality in the following ways:

1) In the long term or in the final analysis all souls reach the same state.

2) At each and every point, increasing the pressure from the external world in correspondence with the inner development of a person. Let us consider the following cases:

(a) a rich person and a poor person. Though one would seem to think that the former would enjoy a happy life because of the comforts, it really is not the case. The final factor which decides whether some one is happy or not is the mind and not the body. These people generally have big pressures to cope up with and that would bring down the extent and quality of happiness. A poor person has less comforts for the body but also less worries for the mind.

(b) the same is true for a spiritually inclined person and a selfish person. The former can cope up with pressures better but is also given large external pressure to cope up with . The latter is the norm in a materialistic world and hence faces little pressure but when ever big pressure faces him, handles it poorly.

(c) a physically handicapped person and a normal person. The former generally possess high mental strength and that turns out to be the equalizer.

3) Finally equality is meted out in the form of reactions to actions.


So I would say equality exists not only in the final analysis but also with respect to whatever divisions we may think of because all are one when one transcends space and time.

 

[renuka]

Dear Sravna,

I feel religion has over emphasized Perfection becos its man who never ceases to have desires to be perfect and somehow roped in God and labelled God as the perfect being.

I feel using the word Perfect when it comes to God is not accurate.

Wholeness is a better description.

Frankly speaking there is a world of difference between Wholeness and Perfection.

Wholeness embraces everything..perfection and imperfection...wholeness is dynamic and beyond duality even though polar opposites exists in it.

Perfection on the other hand is static, rigid,autocratic and totally lifeless.

So I would like to feel that God is not concerned about "perfection"..Life goes on in accordance to the law of cause and effect and God is always the silent witness.

 

[sravna]

It may seem that some know how to handle pressure well and some may not face pressure at all, the former being the case of a spiritual guru and latter say could be the son of a rich man. In this case another factor namely temptation becomes the equalizer. Both the two cases are very likely to be exposed to temptations and hence may falter. If they don't falter, in the former case the person deserves to attain moksha and have no rebirths and in the latter case all the equalizers are likely to operate in the next birth.

 

[krish44]

Existence of God is open to doubt

To say that God has something to do with reaction to an action is at best your belief and has no basis.

We being science students believe in newtons laws and not so much on God

 

[sarang]

we believe in newton's laws, theory of relativity, quantum physics and hundred other mundane science, spiritual science and paramatman. they are not mutually exclusive. of course one's capacity to understand and experience differs. doubting thomases can doubt; that does not change reality.

Existence of God is open to doubt

To say that God has something to do with reaction to an action is at best your belief and has no basis.

We being science students believe in newtons laws and not so much on God

 

[renuka]

It may seem that some know how to handle pressure well and some may not face pressure at all, the former being the case of a spiritual guru and latter say could be the son of a rich man. In this case another factor namely temptation becomes the equalizer. Both the two cases are very likely to be exposed to temptations and hence may falter. If they don't falter, in the former case the person deserves to attain moksha and have no rebirths and in the latter case all the equalizers are likely to operate in the next birth.

Dear Sravna,

I think the problem is we try to fight off facing pressure and indirectly feel added pressure.

I feel if we let ourselves face pressure and even if we do not handle the situation well or failed miserably....at least we experienced pressure and that builds the mind defense mechanism and the 2nd time round the mind wont feel so pressurized.

If we try to always "get over" something we eventually succumb to it.

Today I was getting a bit pissed off becos the internet line was not that great and an internet call with a friend of mine was getting cut off.

I was getting a bit annoyed and my friend asked me why I am getting annoyed and I should not get annoyed for small matters like this.

I replied my friend.."I am annoyed but I am just enjoying the annoyance and finally when we observe our own annoyance or even anger, it just disappears" and my annoyance did disappear.

Previously when I used to get annoyed or angry I used to feel bad that why I gave in to anger but now I have learnt to just watch and feel and enjoy anger and that enjoyment eventually just douses anger.

So finally its not about faltering as you say..its about observing yourself. Let not even Moksha be thy goal.

 

[sangom]

So much has been said in both serious and light discourses how unfair the world is with men being created not equal. Nothing can be farther from the truth because God ensures that equality is maintained at every point. God in my view implements the equality in the following ways:

1) In the long term or in the final analysis all souls reach the same state.

2) At each and every point, increasing the pressure from the external world in correspondence with the inner development of a person. Let us consider the following cases:

(a) a rich person and a poor person. Though one would seem to think that the former would enjoy a happy life because of the comforts, it really is not the case. The final factor which decides whether some one is happy or not is the mind and not the body. These people generally have big pressures to cope up with and that would bring down the extent and quality of happiness. A poor person has less comforts for the body but also less worries for the mind.

(b) the same is true for a spiritually inclined person and a selfish person. The former can cope up with pressures better but is also given large external pressure to cope up with . The latter is the norm in a materialistic world and hence faces little pressure but when ever big pressure faces him, handles it poorly.

(c) a physically handicapped person and a normal person. The former generally possess high mental strength and that turns out to be the equalizer.

3) Finally equality is meted out in the form of reactions to actions.


So I would say equality exists not only in the final analysis but also with respect to whatever divisions we may think of because all are one when one transcends space and time.

Dear Sravna,

You have written your beliefs. Now, what I think is that there is inequality in this world simply because all people are not identical and each one is a special edition and creates his own story Board, so to say, for a next birth, on account of his/her karmas during the present life. Each of us makes a distinct storyboard and so distinct births take place, on a continuous basis. No two people are equal and so there is a lot of inequality.

All are not one, but the ONE becomes all!

 

[sarang]

ONE remains ONE and ALL remain ALL.

 

[renuka]

ONE remains ONE and ALL remain ALL.

Dear Sarang ji,

What you wrote sounds very Abrahamic and distinctly Dualistic.

Lord Krishna has been very clear in the Geeta with regards to the All and One phenomenon.

Chapter 9: ​

The Most Confidential Knowledge

mayā tatam idaḿ sarvaḿ
jagad avyakta-mūrtinā
mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni
na cāhaḿ teṣv avasthita

By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.

​

He clearly says that ALL are in Him(The One) but He(The One) is not in Them(ALL).

So All and One are interconnected ..All is in One but One is not in All.