God Playing Games?
SWAMI SUKHABODHANANDA
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Very often people ask, “Why is God playing cruel games with us?” We can give explanations, but explanations need not be answers. What is life and what is death? You are looking at death as the opposite of life when, in fact, death is one more expression of life.Life scientists declare that death is the most critical defining feature of life. All and only living things die. When you die, you are making the ultimate undeniable assertion that you have been alive. In fact, death is even a precondition to life. The Holy Bible says, “Unless a seed falls into earth and dies, it cannot produce any grains.” That is, a seed has to cease to be itself in order to be a source of life to several others like it.
At the time of delivery, the body of the mother pushes the child out. When it is pushed out, every child goes through what is called birth trauma, experiencing a form of death.
Tagore asks, “Is it death or is it life?” What do we experience? Birth, exit from the womb where life originated and was sustained for about nine months and into the world outside is a form of death that leads to life although in different environments. Similarly, death — exit from the world — could be a door to some other form of life or life at yet another plane.… Therefore, the trauma that you feel at events like accident or death is also mainly psychological and, so, death is something you can overcome through spiritual discipline.
At the time of delivery, the body of the mother pushes the child out. When it is pushed out, every child goes through what is called birth trauma, experiencing a form of death.
Tagore asks, “Is it death or is it life?” What do we experience? Birth, exit from the womb where life originated and was sustained for about nine months and into the world outside is a form of death that leads to life although in different environments. Similarly, death — exit from the world — could be a door to some other form of life or life at yet another plane.… Therefore, the trauma that you feel at events like accident or death is also mainly psychological and, so, death is something you can overcome through spiritual discipline.
