When the material for organic evolution was selected --- that is, if one is to pin faith in the Design Theory --- perhaps, it was found that the material that favoured fastest spiritual evolution was one that incorporated a fair degree of pain in it. Sorrow and suffering were deemed the best catalysts to accelerate evolution and give the enmeshed soul the due experience to emerge fast out of the maze of Maya. The reason behind this unfortunate choice may be rationalised thus. Sorrow and suffering lend the ignorant soul the perception that phenomenal life is fleeting and worth not holding on to for the sheer impossibility of doing so beyond the prescribed term on earth or in any heaven or hell thereafter. The antidote to sorrow must be spiritual realisation of the eternal principle underlying life. Thus, the provision of periodic pain interrupting the pleasurable flow of life otherwise is to play the endgame of this cosmic chess match fast and deliver the checkmate to Maya. A few, of course, checkmate Maya in the opening game itself while a few more do so in the middle game, but for the generality of humankind it is the eternal trudging through the dreary desert sand of life to its endgame when freedom from the myriad moves of Maya will be. To expedite the process, suffering is, and its presence in life is, thus, a boon for it hastens liberation from the stranglehold of phenomenal life and leads us on to life eternal, unbounded and blissful.
Written by Sugata Bose
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