Why do we say it’s His Blessings when things go well and you
have achieved something but when something goes wrong / bad – we try to blame
our past actions / deeds for the misfortune? Is it an escapist attitude, or we
are too scared of asking questions? But that is the way we all have been
brought up in general – irrespective of the religion, caste, creed. We are made
to believe that whatever we have done in our past life will have an effect on
our present life and what we do in this life is going to define how our future
(next) life is going to be. Was it just
a way to keep people in line in the earlier days or is it true? To be honest, I
am not sure we will be able to agree on any of these… we will continue to follow
what we have been taught by our parents, family, society etc.
The other question comes up how many of us believe in
destiny? Are we responsible for all our actions? We will reap the fruits of our
actions, good or bad, in our present life in our next (another school of
thought says in our present life, so leaving it at that).
If we come to this world with our fate / destinies written
and defined – that means Almighty is the architect who has designed our lives,
which includes good deeds, bad deeds, and he has added a good measure of noble,
kind-hearted people and the evil people and so on. So if it is already defined
what we are supposed to do in our life then are we actually responsible for our
actions? Do we deserve the rewards or punishment for our actions? We are just
following our Master’s Voice and what he has written for us. What that means,
from my perspective, is that there are no Good or Bad people, there are no Evil
or Noble people… each of us are playing a part which has been defined for us
and we are just following the script. What is good in one person’s eyes may not
hold true for another and the same thing holds true for each and every action,
so it is the perspective you have of the action.
From this discussion, another point emerges – how does
Almighty decide who gets to do what? And if he is writing the script of this
world, why does he have to include all the suffering, pain, disease on the
people he created. Why did he have to create the animosity among people, to
create jealousy, why did he have to create the economic inequality amongst us
all… why can’t we just live the way we are, peacefully.
Does He know how much a mother’s heart pains to see her
ailing child and in some cases where she cannot do anything – Does He (as a
parent – know a parent’s heart), how much it hurts a father to see his kids
struggle in life, for a daily wager to see his kids in the hot burning sun and
other rich kids enjoying the cool climes of a controlled environment.
