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In Mathura City a twenty one-year-old youth, angry at the behavior of his uncle, threw his six-year-old cousin followed by some boulders as well in a dry well near Caurāsi Siddha Kśetra. Many people including the police were searching for the boy. After about seventytwo hours some people heard the boy screaming and brought him out of the well. The boy did not come to any harm. The boy informed that when his cousin pushed him in the well a mendicant caught him, took him into his room, and gave him sweets to eat and water to drink and made him sleep after covering him with a blanket. I was with the mendicant for three days. The police searched the well but failed to find any room or mendicant there. There were only stones and rubble in the well.
Many persons die in floods, earthquakes, accidents, wars, and other such calamities and many others are saved as well. Looking at these strange contradictions in life of beings in this world a question naturally arises Why so? Why all beings do not suffer same consequences in spite of the very same coincidences and same circumstances?
REASON FOR DIFFERENCES
These questions have plagued the human mind always. Different philosophers, thinkers, and scholars have provided different answers. Numerous schools of philosophy have evolved out of such questions. It would be pertinent to know briefly about them.
KĀLAVĀDA (THE DOCTRINE OF TIME)
All that is existent and non-existent, happiness and misery, in this world has its origin in time. It is time that creates all entities and destroys them, and also acts as savior of the beings entrapped in deluge. It is time that is the genesis of all good and bad perversions. The growth and decline of the population is also effected by time.
But how can an unbroken, permanent, and fraction-less time be the cause of infinite progressive transformations? How an ambiguous but preordained arrangement of the chances of occurrence or nonoccurrence of a particular event possibly exist along with the powerful
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