There are no errors in the Game

‘God does not play dice’- Einstein’s famous words when he got overwhelmed by the quantum mechanics. Does God really not play dice? Don’t we all sometimes wonder, read stories both real and imaginary in which riches go to rags and vice versa or the horrors that some people in this world go through during their daily living or treasures other people find when not even looking for those. Lucky or unlucky- are the categories that we have and we according to our human perception of looking at the things objectively categorise our friends, relatives, people that we read about in newspaper or hear of from other people. 

Hindus think that this world is a stage and we are all actors in it and it is all God’s ‘Lila’-play. Does then God play favoritism? Or is it all a broth of probabilities and random chaotic sampling that causes us to be born somewhere to someone who is somebody or nobody, with money or none and by the mere genetic play of genes that we inherit, we become the personalities that we are that in turn makes us look at life with a particular perspective, have our own set ideologies, rules of dos and don’ts, concepts and ideas of how things around the world should be, issues and agendas, grudges and prejudices. The list goes on!!!! And if at the end we just have one life and it all ends after that-our drama, and there is nothing more to it then it really does mean that God is doing nothing but playing dice!!! There is then no hope for a child born as a beggar on the streets of Calcutta-a victim of being conceptualised in a woman’s womb who is a beggar, and who will teach him 100 best ways to beg.  

God played dice and on the world stage he is a beggar playing God’s Lila. It can’t be. This goes against all the ideologies of the word ‘hope’ and ‘choice’. There has to be another explanation, some hope of redemption, another possibility-an escape from ‘no choice’ to choice and abundance.

 The possible word of rescue is’ karma’. We are the product of the karma of our souls.  The temperament, aptitudes and attitudes that you were born with serve the learning of your soul.  Where you are born, parents you choose, genes that you select are all a part of your previous karmas. You choose- to clear out your obligations, your debts- emotional and others or your credit. Are you paying out to someone or getting paid decides where you are born, who you are born to, what gene pool you will choose your parents from. You also choose the negative aspects of the personality that you will be born into by of course choosing a parent with a similar gene pool. And if you  after being born with all the flaws make choices that make you do things that cater to the highest thoughts you break free from the bondages of a lower birth ( not necessarily  poor but a birth with more sufferings) that then get you out of that karmic cycle and you make a transition to the higher, more spiritual birth. 

The pathways to healthy or unhealthy body are already set out when the foetus in just a couple of weeks old. A not so recent article and genetic experiment  suggests that malnourished mother’s foetus are more likely to be at a greater risk of diabetes, heart attack, obesity-causes of sufferings. You are the one who according to your karmas selects this womb to go through your karmic obligations.    This is just a simple physical aspect that is way easy to understand. There are emotional aspects too that are the typical characteristic – positives and negatives. We choose these too according to our karmic obligations.  Egos, anger, jealousy- that create intentions, which when combined with energy create experiences that further cause reactions and more or less karmic obligations depending on what you choose to do. What this means is that a beggar – with choices that are hard but reflect higher thoughts can improve his karmic obligations and accomplish a happier rebirth or no birth - his choice.

So there is hope .There is rebirth. There is karmic cycle.   God does not play dice. There are no errors in the Game.   You made the choice to be who you are, chose your family and friends who have made a difference to your life, each one bringing to you an experience that has a learning and it all depends on you – figure out the learning in that experience or treat it as  another random rambling of mind. Your choice.

Both you and I have passed through many births; You know them not, I know them all."—Bhagavad Gita.