Human Suffering....

Human suffering is thus seen to be neither a retribution imposed by the Deity, a punishment inflicted from above, nor an unjust, accidental adversity. On the contrary, all pain is self-inflicted and therefore justly received. It is, moreover, designed to apprise the actor of his or her transgression. Suffering is thus seen to be both just and truly beneficent, because it is educative in its ultimate effect. Recognition of the law of action and reaction solves the problem of justice for humanity. All human conditions—suffering, disease, happiness and health—are self-created under law. The problem presented by the birth of babies which are malformed or diseased is solved when the sequence of cause and effect is recognized as operating throughout a series of lives. While such afflictions seem on the surface to be completely unjust because they are unearned and so undeserved, they are not really so. They are, in fact, the strictly appropriate effects of causes generated by the same Ego in former lives. Without this explanation life is, indeed, a hopeless riddle defying solution. The twin doctrines of reincarnation and karma throw a flood of light upon human life, revealing the existence of justice, purpose, and an assured goal for all beings.