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Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo master who is continually rewarding with lollipops his good boys and continually canning his naughty urchins."?
Moreover, there is no place for chance. It is only a word by which we can cover our ignorance. Physical sciences also presuppose the law of causation according to which everything is determined by fixed causal relation. Sciences can predict earthquakes and cyclones but cannot explain our moral and spiritual becoming. This cannot be explained by the mechanical law of causation. “To know the law of my moral spiritual being is at first and last more imperative for me than to learn the ways of steam and electricity, for without these outward advantages, I can grow in my inner manhood, but not without some notion of moral and spiritual law."8
But there is indeed an element of luck or fate which brings good or evil effects. We often see a virtuous man suffering from evil and the wicked triumphs and gives this the name of luck. But it is difficult to accept this simple solution that good luck is a return of forgotten past deeds and bad luck is a return of past sin or crimes. It is not reasonable to suppose that a man who was a saint in his previous life has taken a wrong turn and has become wicked. But a total change of this kind is possible though it is not frequent. Difficulties of such types arise in this context. “The logic of the correlation is not so strong as it claims to be; the idea of retribution of Karma as a compensation for the injustice of life and Nature is a feeble basis for the theory, for it puts forward a shallow and superficial human feeling and standard as the sense of the cosmic law and is based on an unsound reasoning, there must be some other and stronger foundation for the Law of Karma.'*9
So, there is not only a law and process, not only a machinery in the Law of Karma,but there is a spirit, a mind behind it. It has been held by many that the explanation of the world does not necessitate the existence of any Being or Will behind the cosmos, But Sri Aurobindo does not accept this view. If there is no conscious Being or Will behind the cosmos, there would be no law and order here. Moreover, there could not be evolution of tho Soul and so there would be no rebirth and hence no field
