All of us have given examinations since our childhood. Be it a simple painting competition at the age of 4 or an interview for a big-tech job or ivy-league school at the age of 25, exams are ubiquitous ! Everyone has to undergo an exam at every stage in life, to prove their worth, to justify what they did, to show progress in terms of numbers, to get promoted, to get paid, basically to be successful. Exams are those means for us all to get that, almost immediate, sense of achievement after we have done our part. If we look at the world today, we see different entities nested in each other. There are nations, then there are economies. Corporations/businesses are nested inside economies, with business units inside them. So goes on till teams within business units and individuals in those teams. This is a simple construct adopted by humans to understand the grand schemes of things. In order to measure the success of entities in this grand scheme of things, exams and their resul...
Matters of Future are difficult to understand. And it becomes highly susceptible to controversy if it is linked with Religion. Existence of god has been debated for years and the primary reason behind this is the fact that God is considered to be Omniscient. And hence naturally, if the god is omniscient, then in the first place he/she lets the unpleasant things happen. The Hindu system of beliefs, which is mainly based on the teachings from Bhagvat Gita, considers god not as the master but as the Moderator of the universe. (In fact, the belief also suggests the existence of Multiple universes or Multiverse system). So as a moderator, even if God is omniscient, he/she still cannot make changes in the system. This can be understood better by a simple analogy. God acts as the Programmer for this program of Universe. He/She has designed all the logic of time, as in the equation of Past, Present and Future. This equation is based on the transactions of the Doing...