The Inequality of Manifestation

"It seems we’re not all equal in manifestation. I could do something nasty to someone else and they receive the consequences of my forgetting – even if they’re a two-year-old who didn’t deserve anything. Why did I get to be here while others are on the front line in Ukraine? Why are things so unequal? Rupert says: ‘The traditional response is past lives – that you reap in this life what you sowed in previous ones. I find that profoundly unsatisfactory. It suggests a child who is abused somehow deserves it because of past actions. I would far rather say: at the level of manifestation, things are not equal. Why that is, I don’t know. Why do two siblings raised by the same parents go off in completely different trajectories – one deeply interested in these matters and happy, the other rejecting them and miserable? What accounts for that? I don’t know.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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