Does existence believe in fairness and justice? Is the world running according to a system where there is natural justice? These are questions that often come to our mind, especially when we see injustice around us. Most of us would say that life is not always fair. We have our own set of grouses against people, events, and circumstances. But every one of us would like to believe that natural justice does exist.

As and when someone insults us or does harm to another, we want justice. We are always looking for that person to suffer in some form or the other. And we ourselves set out to mete justice, or hope for divine intervention against our tormentor. It is our nature to compare and compete, and feel dejected especially when we see others having more money, huge properties, better relationships or good health. We then try and find some flaw

in their live. And consciously or subconsciously, we often wish that something bad happens to them, because it seems unfair that others should be having an apparently better life than us.

However, existence does not work according to our desires, wants, ideas or beliefs.
Why life unfolds for each of us the way it does? Is it past life karma, fate? Or the law of cause and effect playing out. You might feel that the person who is having some benefits today must have done some good in the past, and is reaping the rewards of his past good deeds. And so we advise our children that they must be good, honest, humble, giving, fair and forgiving.

Despite many of us living good, honest lives, existence does not seem to shower its blessings on us. It is then that we wonder if life is unfair. In reality, life or existence is neither fair nor unfair. Existence just is; life flows as it is meant to. In reality, existence does not favour anyone more than the other. Swami Vivekananda would say, "Not even an atom in this universe can be different than how it is, for that would destroy the balance of the universe and the entire system would collapse”. Events and occurrences happen in a certain way, and life moves not in a straight line, but in cycles. This much we know by looking at life, where rich and poor, happiness and sorrow, life and death all come in cycles.

While life may seem unfair, if things changed as per every individual’s desires and wishes, imagine the chaos and confusion that would result. In a matter of a few days, the world would come to an end. The apparent unfairness that we see is needed for continuity.

There is a master blueprint somewhere which has the details of how life should proceed every second on earth for each of us, and this is controlled by God, whom we know is never unfair as He loves all.