Why Humans Suffer In The World Hinduism

There was a question in Quora as to ‘Why There is Injustice in the world,

Human suffering — Every day, almost 25,000 people starve to death—and only after long, horrible agony. This is not limited to physical pain, but includes psychological and mental anguish of parents often having their children die in their arms. Starvation is so awful death can be longed for.

“Hindu Philosophy: How does Hindu philosophy try to explain the suffering in the world? [no oneliners please]“

Why is there suffering in the world in general?
Why do people have to suffer birth defects?

If possible, I’d prefer if you don’t resort to rebirth theory, some alternative explanation will be appreciated.

News has just come in that the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi case,Santhan,Perarivalan and other’s Death sentence has been overturned by the Supreme Court.

For them it is justice, and to the most who believe that they deserve the sentence the Death Sentence.

The other side says that Rajiv deserved to be killed for sending the IPKF to Sri Lanka.

He sent them because LTTE was killing People.

LTTE became a killing machine because of ill-treatment of Tamils,

Tamils were ill-treated because, from the Sinhalese point of view, were usurping Sinhalese’s Rights and Lands.

Tamils counter that Sri Lanka was Tamils’ and it was developed by them!

The list is endless.

The point I am trying to make is that Justice or Injustice are relative terms and have no absolute term of reference.

It depends on the ever-changing circumstances and the individuals’ perceptions of them.

So is suffering.

For the poor absence of Money is the cause of suffering.

For the Rich the presence of it , is the cause of suffering.

At the individual level what caused me suffering once ,no longer causes it .

As also Pleasure.

So these judgments a are variable and are not themselves the cause of Suffering.

As such things by themselves do not cause any suffering.

It is our reaction to and our capacity to handle them is the cause of sufferings.

Sufferings are,

1.Mental

2.Emotional and

3 .Physical.

Mental sufferings are those that occur in our mind because of our inability to cope up with things that happen which are beyond our scope.

Emotional sufferings are because of our inability to control our desires and attachments,

We take things to be permanent and yearns for them.

Like Love, Relationships.

All things come to an end in death ,if not earlier.

So sufferings per se are not real and are our making.

People may ask,

Take for example ,the Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka or the Holocaust inflicted by Hitler upon the Jews.

As said earlier the reason lies in the perspective of the people.

At the Universal Level there is no such thing as Good or Evil.

They are all Illusions pertaining to this Temporal World.

They do not affect the Self, the Atman.

It is beyond these.

Look at you self.

You have suffered.

Have you been suffering all through your Life?

People think only of sufferings and never recollect their Happier times.

Worse still is that they do not realize they are Happy when they are Happy.

So Happiness or suffering is the attitude of the Mind.

Some years back I had an occasion to ask of a Mason, whose job was over in one of the construction sites I was handling.

He just a job.

He whistling and I knew he had no money.

I asked him as to how he can be happy under the circumstances.

He replied,

‘Sir, I am 40, I do not bother about these things.I am happy now. I know my job.I know some body will give me a job to-morrow the day after.Why should I suffer now thinking about it?’

What an attitude!

Now as to the physical suffering part, there is no concrete answer apart from the faith in Fate and Karma Theory.

No other Theory can explain these other than the Karma Theory.

It is the best explanation not only for suffering but also the Evolution of world.

Quantum is veering round to this view.

Please read my posts filed under Astrophysics, Science.Indian Philosophy and Hinduism.

Meaning:
4.1: Neither am I bound by Merits nor Sins, neither by Worldly Joys nor by Sorrows,
4.2: Neither am I bound by Sacred Hymns nor by Sacred Places, neither by Sacred Scriptures nor by Sacrifies,
4.3: I am Neither Enjoyment (Experience), nor an object to be Enjoyed (Experienced), nor the Enjoyer (Experiencer),
4.4: I am the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness; I am Shiva, I am Shiva,
The Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness.

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