This Unfair World

“Why is everything unfair and unjust in this world?…”

It’s a question a lot of people have on their minds. Frankly,
it’s a very big question too. Philosophers and mystics have
pondered this for as long as humans have been on this earth.
Hence, it’s impossible to give a definitive answer. However, here
are my personal thoughts on the matter.




We have to see this from two points of view simultaneously; two
viewpoints which are ultimately paradoxical to each other. The
first is our standard personality consciousness. From this point
of view, many things in life do seem unfair. Not only do they
seem unfair, they actually ARE unfair.

I don’t need to give examples. You know what we are talking
about.

However, that is just from the personality consciousness
viewpoint. In order to believe that life is unfair, you have to
completely believe in the “reality” of the personality
consciousness experiencing that life, and its interpretation of
what is being presented to it by the senses.

Now, the other viewpoint is what we might all the “enlightenment
perspective”. This is essentially the dispassionate, detached
observer – pure consciousness – that can watch the unfolding of
events without judgment or blame. It does not have mental
investment in world events. It just sees them come and go, like
the water flowing by in a river.

To it, the meanings and motives we attribute to events are
essentially illusory. Not only that, it perceives the human body
and the human consciousness to be equally illusory. from that
higher consciousness perspective, there is no “unfairness” and
“injustice”. Things just are. That’s all.

Even if you suffer physically or mentally, this higher
consciousness perspective is untroubled because it realizes that
the suffering and death of the physical body is not ultimate in
any sense, but just a passing phase in existence.

Now, all of this is admittedly a pretty tough perspective for
most of us to achieve on an ongoing basis We may be momentarily
capable of this, but in the unenlightened state, it is impossible
to sustain for any appreciable length of time. And the vast
majority of us ARE unenlightened, no matter how much modern
Western spiritual books and courses might like to tell you
differently.

Now, this higher consciousness we are talking about is largely an
Eastern mystical perspective. It cannot generally be found in the
Western tradition, as represented by religions such as
Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

All of these DO assume the reality of the individual person as a
given. There is no illusion here. A person is real, and that
person’s consciousness is real. Likewise, if there is a higher
perspective that makes all things right, it is the personal God’s
perspective alone. Moreover, this perspective is “right” because
God knows his own private purposes and plans that are working
themselves out in his creation. Hence, from the human point of
view, according to this system, things ARE unfair. BUT… all
will be made right WHEN God’s purposes are finally revealed.
Until then, we must have faith and trust that all will eventually
work together for good for those that trust in God.

There are many problems with this approach, not least of which
is the perfectly valid question as to why God created such a
perverse situation in the first place. Christianity, at least,
has to give a strange and convoluted answer in order to devolve
direct responsibility for the situation from God himself. This,
however, is never really done with any great degree of
satisfaction, and still leaves many questions unanswered.

The Eastern perspective on higher consciousness poses fewer
problems, and is ultimately more satisfactory. It does not need
to resort to notions of Sin, Judgment, Devil or anything else
like this in order to give a satisfactory explanation of what we
perceive. Instead, the cosmic Law of Cause & Effect – called
Karma – ultimately dictates, in a totally dispassionate, unbiased
and irrefutable manner, why beings experience what they do,
either for good or ill.

However, we have to be careful not to “talk theory” all the time
about this higher perspective, whilst still remaining firmly
rooted in our own normal consciousness. You see this a lot in New
Age online forums. It’s easy to talk enlightenment, i.e. talk of
things you have never personally experienced, but it’s quite
something else to live it.

Be gentle with yourself, and gradually work towards the higher
consciousness perspective. It may not be something that you even
achieve in this lifetime. However, you can still remind yourself
of it constantly whenever you look at the world and all of its
sufferings, and despair of it all.

The world may seem and unfair, and actually BE unfair to the
personality consciousness. However, every time it seems so,
remember that you are associating with a view of reality that is
ultimately confined by your own senses and your own necessarily
limited understanding.

There is a higher perspective possible. So, as much as possible,
mentally associate with it. One day, it will become your reality.

Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2005. All Rights Reserved.
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This Unfair World
This Unfair World