Hi,
According to Jainism, one faces good or bad things according to the deeds done by his/her soul in current or past lives. God does not interfere, help or create hurdles for anyone. We do not pray to Gods, but, we just praise God and desire to achieve the kind of freedom that the God has.
All live-beings are equal for Nature or God. When an earthquake strikes or a Tsunami occurs or an asteroid hits the surface of the earth, it kills hundreds and thousands, God still does not do anything. Humans too have killed people in past ranging in lakhs to millions with atom bombs, concentration camps and world wars. God didn't interfere at that time too. Because, God is free of life and has nothing to do with the World that we live in. But, before God achieved freedom, God showed the human beings a path and asked us to walk on it to become one like him. I am talking about Lord Mahavira - he showed us the path of Ahimsa - to develop a feeling of love for all living-beings, be it a human, animal or an insect. Actually, it is even deeper than that - in his talks, he described that water, air, stones and also the fire contains life.
God does not and will never intervene in our day to day lives. It all happens because of the Karmas that one has accumulated by the deeds done in this life and those of the past.
According to Jainism, one faces good or bad things according to the deeds done by his/her soul in current or past lives. God does not interfere, help or create hurdles for anyone. We do not pray to Gods, but, we just praise God and desire to achieve the kind of freedom that the God has.
All live-beings are equal for Nature or God. When an earthquake strikes or a Tsunami occurs or an asteroid hits the surface of the earth, it kills hundreds and thousands, God still does not do anything. Humans too have killed people in past ranging in lakhs to millions with atom bombs, concentration camps and world wars. God didn't interfere at that time too. Because, God is free of life and has nothing to do with the World that we live in. But, before God achieved freedom, God showed the human beings a path and asked us to walk on it to become one like him. I am talking about Lord Mahavira - he showed us the path of Ahimsa - to develop a feeling of love for all living-beings, be it a human, animal or an insect. Actually, it is even deeper than that - in his talks, he described that water, air, stones and also the fire contains life.
God does not and will never intervene in our day to day lives. It all happens because of the Karmas that one has accumulated by the deeds done in this life and those of the past.
A Common Man.