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than Nature. Now, if we study closely the natural phenomena, we understand that Nature is working incessantly for the better-ment of every one, for the happiness of all, until everyone of us reaches the pinnacle of perfect peace and happiness. But, here again, another objection is raised by the critics that if nature is so kind, why does she put different souls in differeal wombs and make them suffer, birth and death, old age, disease, pain, and fear etc., and "What is the reason of this?" While trying to solve this point, I have to proceed further and remark that the whole univers is being governed by an unchanging Law with regularity,-Justice and Truth-and it takes account of even atoms and seconds. This Law of Nature never commits any mistake. In fact, just as any Government, though good, has to punish the wrong doers or Law-breakers to correct their wrong mentality and reform them into good citizens and to establish Law and order, in the state, and just as Parents punish their children, if they go wrong and render them more desciplined and well-behaved. Can we call the action of the Government or of Parents in the above instances as harsh aud cruel or unjust? Similarly, can the action of action of a doctor in giving some bitter medicine to the patient or operating a wound on the body of a child be construed as cruel? The disease appears in the body as a result of the violation of the rules re: eating and drinking it is by of punishment that Nature introduces disease in the body for one's going against the dietary rules. So also, the experiencing of pain by the living being is the result of its bad actions. The function of the Doctor is to remove the pain and also the function of nature is to do good to the living being We misunderstend the process of nature and call it pain and misery when she is actually doing good to it indirectly without our knowledge and this cannot be called a fault in her as the action of Nature is always prompted in our favour with 'disinterested motives.
Now, it is clear that the living is itself the cause-the seedof the its own troubles. If so, another question arises as to why it causes its own trouble! The answer given by all thinkers is
| SR No. | 010679 |
| Book Title | Jiva Vichar Prakaranam |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay |
| Publisher | Ratnaprabhvijay |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 240 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 33 MB |