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; Bylylchdruidis. involves many difficulties, what interest could God have had in creating this universe, if He is Perfect Bliss and Knowledge ? Moreover looking to the inequality and misery that reign in this world, are we to attribute them to God ? In that case He will be unjust and cruel. But nobody would like his God to be made anything but just and merciful. Therefore this theory also has to be discarded.
The question propounded above is most satisfactorily answered by the Karmic theory associated with rebirth theory. Jiva is born and reborn because of his Karmas. Matter drags Jiva into life as we ordinarily understand. In life Jiva is again entwined by so many other Karmas. All these Karmas do not bear fruit in one life; many remain unfructified. The Law of Conservation of Energy requires that for the fructification of such Karmas Jiya should assume such bodies as would facilitate it. We see in the Universe that nothing is without effect. Jiva accumulates so many forms round itself and if they do not work out their end in one life it is but reasonable that they should make Jiya to be reborn for exhausting themselves.
The theory of rebirth. also accounts for the inequalities and accidents of human life. On that theory alone we can explain why one is born poor and the other rolling in wealth. Every being reaps as he has sown in past births. Misery in this world is nothing but the atonement of past sins.
The theory of rebirth is sometimes wrongly
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