I have a few things that I want to put down here as my theories as to how God has designed the universe to function. These theories have evolved over time and will continue to change as I think more about these things and get more knowledge over time.
We Go Through a Cycle of re-Birth#
We go through a cycle of rebirth. The reason I think that is the case is because, God won’t punish us for eternity, for any crime. There is always a way to redeem ourselves. Even if it takes millions of years, it can happen. Like the case of Ashvattama.
This ideology is different from other religions who think that, once we die, we either go to heaven or hell for eternity but, in Sanathana drama, heaven and hell are just two places, and these aren’t the highest or lowest places either.
You don’t go to heaven for eternity, nor you go to hell for eternity. The karmic system allows you to go to heaven for a certain amount of time depending on the good deeds you’ve committed, and respectively the same happens for hell but, just as our time of earth, we have a limited time there as well.
In Sanathana drama our goal is not to go to heaven or hell, as when you really think about it, it’s yet another type of rebirth. The goal of any Sanathana is beyond that.
You are a drop of water, when a drop of water mixes with the ocean, can you tell which is a drop of water, and which part is the ocean?
Don’t get me wrong, these are just semantics in a way, let me explain. It’s not that other religions are wrong, they just have an ultimatum, while Sanathanis don’t have that.
The goal of every major religion is the same which is to be with God, the only differences are-
| Sanathan | Other Religions |
|---|---|
| God is not in heaven | God is in heaven |
| You have all the time in the universe | You just have one lifetime |
| You don’t find God in heaven | You find God in heaven |
| Heaven is not permanent place | Heaven is a permanent place |
So the goals are not that different, but the way we go about achieving them are different. The point to remember being, that you can try again if you fail to do the right things in this life, but there is a catch. Do you know when will you get to try again?
Being in a cycle of rebirth has its own issues. So much so that you might think other religions are better, as I can just do all the good in one lifetime and be in heaven with God for eternity.
And what I mean by trying again is that, do you know what will you be reborn as? You might not get a human body. You might become an insect wondering all your life, never getting the opportunity to do something significant that will move you forward in your journey to reach God, but you’ll go through all the pain and suffering that an insect goes through.
This makes me feel that hell is nothing more than, yet another existence of some kind where you just go through painful experiences. More on this on karma-cycle.
The Timeline of Karma or the Cycle of Karma#
People often say, especially atheists, that, ‘If God is a peace loving being, why would he give innocent children cancer?’ or something similar, but according to the above points on rebirth. We only see people and their limited time of life here on earth. We do not get to see their previous lives and the kinds of acts/karma they have committed in their previous life/lives.
Now, this example can be very triggering to some people, but this is just and ideology and as we’ll discuss more about how the universe operates we’ll understand that it’s not all that bad when we see things from that kind of higher perspective.
Being in the karmic cycle can be a type of hell as well, you go through the cycle of birth and death countless times because you’re looking for pleasures of the world. This can be anything from money, sex, drugs, etc.
The urge to become fulfilled has no end. Only way to end this cycle of life and death is to realize the truth. Just realizing the truth will get you halfway there.
