I have been reading a novel by Amish, titled "The Oath of Vayuputras'. Something that changed the way I see things was a conversation between lead character & his partner (wife), which went like this:
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'But I didn't free myself, Shiva. You did. It was your strength. And all the Vikarmas, including me, were set free because that was your karma.' Said Sati.
'So how does this work?' asked Shiva disbelievingly. 'That was the compounded totality of sins committed by all the Vikarma over their individual previous lives was nullified at the stroke ofa quill when I struck down this law? On that fateful day, in a flash, several lifetimes of sins sullying every Vikarma soul were washed away? A day of divine pardon, indeed!'
'Shiva, are you mocking me?'
'Would I ever do that, dear?' asked Shiva, but his smile gave him away. 'Don't you see how illogical this entire concept is? How can one believe that an innocent child is born with sin? It's clear as daylight: a new-born child has done no wrong. He has done no right either. He has just been born. He could not have done anything!'
'Perhaps not in this life, Shiva. But it's possible that the child committed a sin in a previous life. Perhaps the child's ancestors committed sins for which the child must be held accountable.'
Shiva was unconvinced. 'Don't you get it? It's a system designed to control people. It makes those who suffer or are oppressed, blame themselves for their misery. Because you believe you are paying for sins committed either in your own previous lives or those committed by your ancestors, or even community. Perhaps even the sins of the first man ever born! The system therefore propagates suffering as a form of antonement and at the same time does not allow one to question the wrongs done unto oneself.'
'Then why do some people suffer? Why do some get far less than what they deserve?'
'The same reason why there are others who get far more than what they deserve. It's completely random.'
Shiva gallantly reached out to help Sati mount her steed but she declined gracefully slid onto the stallion. Her husband smiled. There was nothing he loved more than her intense sense of self-sufficiency and pride. Shiva leapt onto his own horse and with a quick spur matched Sati's pace.
'Really, Shiva,' said Sati, looking towards him. 'Do you believe that the Parmatma plays dice with universe? That we are all handed our fate randomly?'
'I think the Parmatma does not interfere in our lives. He sets the rules by which universe exists. Then, He does something very difficult.'
'What?'
'He leaves us alone. He lets things play out naturally. He let His creations make decisions about their own lives, It's not easy being a witness when one has the power to rule. It takes Supreme God to be able to do that. He knows this is our world, our karmabhoomi,' said Shiva, waving his hand all around as though pointing our the land of their karma.
'Don't you think this is difficult to accept? If people believe that their fate is completely random, it would leave them without any sense of understanding, purpose or motivation. Or why they are where they are.'
'On the contrary, this is an empowering thought. When you know that your fate us completely random, you have the freedom to commit yourself to any theory that will empower you. If you have been blessed with good fate, you can choose to believe it is God's kindness and ingrain humility within. But if you have been cursed with bad fate, you need to know that no Great Power is seeking to punish you. Your situation is, in fact, a result of completely random circumstances, an indiscriminate turn of universe. Therefore, if you decide to challenge your destiny, your opponent would not be some judgmental Lord Almighty who is seeking to punish you; your opponent would only be the limitations of your own mind. This will empower you to fight your fate.'
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Copyrights of above are completely owned by the author of Novel. I am but using it as a muse of my current blog.
"Randomness of the universe", this has been on my mind since the day I have read above portion of novel, which is on page 57 (of total 565 pages). I am currently at page 153, as I write this blog.
This blog is an attempt for to get my thoughts out in the open.
My personal belief's are very much inclined to randomness. I do believe that there is Greater Power beyond Human understanding, which has created / product of complex event which has occurred a very long time ago which has led to Universe, as we understand it as of today. Scientific recognizes this event as "The Big Bang", normal people like us, are taught to believe its Intent of God.
As one can clearly observe, it has become Homo sapiens' prime purpose to understand in a structured way about this chaotic, completely random chain of events called life in a universe.
Which has led me to question the intent: Why do we need to know where do we come from? What drives us to question why there in imbalance?
I have been attempting to answer above questions. Here goes:
Highly intelligent beings need to have a drive / a delta (deficit which leads to drive) / a sense of owning a purpose, in order to navigate through this chaotic universe of randomness. We tend to look for a pattern with our own little perceptions to navigate through randomness called life.
Our perceptions are built based on experiences which we go through. And experiences are based on decisions which we make based on then state of mind and situation presented.
Situations are random which we do not have any control.
However, we intelligent homo sapiens need to have a sense of control over this randomness of situations. Which in itself is a decision taken at a given instance unleashing its chain of events.
Explains why our ancestors created a science called astrology to interpret / predict how does one take a decision in a given instance of randomness. Has that helped thus far in maintaining balance? Our science did answer that gravity plays an important role in minutest of activities in our lives. Do we have control on gravity?
"Greater Power" / "God", She / he would have so much micro management to do across all the universe, if they chose to focus on actions of their creations every second. She / he has to maintain same fairness to homo sapiens, to viruses & to aliens (living on other end of milky way).
Yet God's / Greater Power's actions did trigger the Big Bang which has led to set of random events, which has resulted in life on planet earth.
Randomness explained: I took a decision to stay away from my family to facilitate recovery of my partner. Then came COVID-19 / lockdowns et cetera. This led me to dig into shelves of my own home to find this book (bought by my partner years ago) to read which was a decision to fight against limit of of my mind.
Which lead to me deciding that I am inspired by what I read and to post a portion of it on Twitter. Then a week later I decide to blog about it.
Random situations presented and I took a decisions based on my state of mind in those given situations.
Were all these an act of God / Greater Power / Gravity / Infinity?
