If, as you believe, there is an almighty, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent God-who created the earth or world, please let me know why did he create it ? This world of woes and miseries, a veritable, eternal combination of numberless tragedies: Not a single soul being perfectly satisfied.Untrue, there are many satisfied souls, myself being one of them, Creator created, Creator cannot take responsibility for our actions in how this world has turned out
Pray, don't say that it is His Law: If he is bound by any law, he is not omnipotent. He is another slave like ourselves.It is not his law, it is the opposite, it is down to our law, if we all followed Hukam, the world would be a better place, but we do not, so disease, imbalance of assets, environmental tragedies all take place as a consequence, Please don't say that it is his enjoyment.Creator enjoys seeing Creation living in perfect harmony Nero burnt one Rome. He killed a very limited number of people. He created very few tragedies, all to his perfect enjoyment. And what is his place in History? By what names do the historians mention him? All the venomous epithets are showered upon him. Pages are blackened with invective diatribes condemning Nero, the tyrant, the heartless, the wicked.
One Changezkhan sacrificed a few thousand lives to seek pleasure in it and we hate the very name. Then how are you going to justify your almighty, eternal Nero, who has been, and is still causing numberless tragedies every day, every hour and every minute? As stated, Creator does not cause these tragedies, they are man or nature made, what Creator does is give us ways and philosophies to handle and deal with these tragedies, Sikhi is not magic, no hocus pocus, no prayers and miracles, it is pragmatic way to live life How do you think to support his misdoings which surpass those of Changez every single moment? I say why did he create this world - a veritable hell, a place of constant and bitter unrest? Why did the Almighty create man when he had the power not to do it? What is the justification for all this ? Do you say to award the innocent sufferers hereafter and to punish the wrong-doers as well?This and most of your post is based on an Abrahamic view of God, the God that we believe in and accept does not punish or reward Well, well: How far shall you justify a man who may dare to inflict wounds upon your body to apply a very soft and soothing liniment upon it afterwards? How far the supporters and organizers of the Gladiator Institution were justified in throwing men before the half starved furious lions to be cared for and well looked after if they could survive and could manage to escape death by the wild beasts? That is why I ask, 'Why did the conscious supreme being created this world and man in it? To seek pleasure? Where then is the difference between him and Nero'?Creator created so that we all learn to live in consonance with each other and rest of Creation, as Sikhs, We are here to assist in the sharing of love and to learn the ability to see Creator in everything, to find peace, to live life by Hukam, and through that to find more peace and happiness than can be obtained through the senses, to have a connection
Call him today. Show him the past history. Make him study the present situation. Let us see if he dares to say, "All is well". All is not well, but do not blame Creator, there is nature, our own stupidity, natural disasters, Creator teaches us how to straddle all these and live a good life as defined by Creator
From the dungeons of prisons, from the stores of starvation consuming millions upon millions of human beings in slums and huts, from the exploited laborers, patiently or say apathetically watching the procedure of their blood being sucked by the Capitalist vampires, and the wastage of human energy that will make a man with the least common sense shiver with horror, and from the preference of throwing the surplus of production in oceans rather than to distribute amongst the needy producers - to the palaces of kings built upon the foundation laid with human bones.... let him see all this and let him say "All is well".Creator cannot think for us as humans, Creator gives us options and gives us the correct answer every time, it is us as humans who ignore and choose the path of least resistance and most pleasure, years of these actions have resulted in the world before you
Why and wherefore? That is my question. You are silent.
All right then, I proceed. Well, you Sikhs, you say all the present sufferers belong to the class of sinners of the previous births. Good. You say the present oppressors were saintly people in their previous births, hence they enjoy power. But let us analyze how far this argument can really stand. This is not what Sikhs believe, this is Vedic. Sikhs get one life and one life only, then its wormfood
From the point of view of the most famous jurists punishment can be justified only from three or four ends to meet which it is inflicted upon the wrongdoer. They are retributive, reformative and deterrent. The retributive theory is now being condemned by all the advanced thinkers. Deterrent theory is also following the same fate. Reformative theory is the only one which is essential, and indispensable for human progress. It aims at returning the offender as a most competent and a peace-loving citizen to the society. But what is the nature of punishment inflicted by God upon men even if we suppose them to be offenders. You say he sends them to be born as a cow, a cat, a tree, a herb or a best. You enumerate these punishments to be 84 lakhs. I ask you what is its reformative effect upon man? How many men have met you who say that they were born as a donkey in previous birth for having committed any sin? None. Moreover do you know that the greatest sin in this world is to be poor. Poverty is a sin, it is a punishment. As stated, this is not consistent with Sikhi, the idea is to learn and change in this one life
I ask you how far would you appreciate a criminologist, a jurist or a legislator who proposes such measures of punishment which shall inevitably force man to commit more offences? Had not your God thought of this or he also had to learn these things by experience, but at the cost of untold sufferings to be borne by humanity? You need to address this issue to a Hindu forum as, again, this is not a Sikh issue
I ask why your omnipotent God, does not stop every man when he is committing any sin or offence? He can do it quite easily. Why did he not kill war lords or kill the fury of war in them and thus avoid the catastrophe hurled down on the head of humanity by the Great War? Why does he not infuse the altruistic enthusiasm in the hearts of all capitalists to forgo their rights of personal possessions of means of production and thus redeem the whole laboring community - nay the whole human society from the bondage of Capitalism. You want to reason out the practicability of socialist theory, I leave it for your almighty to enforce it. It is called free will, Creator does not interfere with Creation, if I get drunk and decide to drive home, and see a tree come out of the fuzzy haze, and I supposed to pray and hope God changes the law of physics and somehow makes the tree vanish? or make people come back to life again? or cure HIV? or make herpes go away? no, Creation moves on, we are all here to validate and check each other, do not blame Hitler on Creator, blame the many people that followed him, if we are to think and action, we must take responsibility for such, to the end. Creator has given us knowledge and information, embrace this, and despite what is happening around you, you will be happy and content and following Hukam, and maybe together we can make the world a better place instead of sitting on our behinds chanting for Creator to put OUR mess right
