Thursday, March 27, 2008

Of KARMA, DESTINY , demo game vs real game



Silly as it might sound, being a software engineer I have always been intrigued by java random numbers !! what is a java random number? To put it in simple words, java random number is a random number generated whose value one is not aware of beforehand by using an input parameter called the “seed”. What’s interesting is that for a particular seed only one particular number gets generated!! That means even though I am not aware what number is gonna be generated I am always sure that for a particular input seed i give , i can get back only one particular randomly generated number!!

To put it in the form of an equation,

generated Random number 1= java.random(seed1)

generated Random number 2= java.random(seed2)

If seed1 is equal to seed 2 then,

Random number generated 1= Random number generated 2


The reason I am talking about random numbers here is not to show off my java skills ) but because life as I see it has heavy influence of java random numbers everywhere!!

What we call as destiny, is it something based on the random number funda? dont we feel many times that whatever that is happenin in our lives though random is consistent with certain choices we made or decisions we took or a direct result of our actions?

Modifying the java random number equation above,

destiny = “game”.random(karma)

to put it in a better way,

destiny = BRAHMA.Manzoor-e-khuda (karma)


Which means, the programmers of the code for the game (that we r playin here on this planet) written somewhere in say brahmand(assuming!) dont really care much about what the EXACT consequences for every individual's actions on this planet would be, all they have taken care in the code is that for a particular karma* of the individual there is always only one particular random but consistent consequence which he/she will have to face/experience!!



So if anybody thinks he/she can make his/her own destiny here then he/she might be correct after all!!!


However, i have come across few cynics who think our life no doubt might be a pre programmed game but its not a live/real one but a DEMO one where irrespective of how well u try to play it, whatever is supposed to happen only will happen eventually!! so whats the point in trying hard? This argument might be partly correct as the consequence for every karma is predecided(assumin the random number funda is correct!) which might give the impression that its actually a demo game but the most important point that is missed is that the choice/karma of the individual is not predecided, only the consequence is!! Suppose an individual decides to murder his wife n then later commits suicide it was not because it was all pre decided but because thats what he decided!!

I think this random number thingy works both at the micro level and macro level...(yeah believe me:))

At a micro level i cannot be takin the risk of crossin a busy highway blindfolded thinkin whatever has to happen will happen irrespective of whether i am blindfolded or not!



At a macro level I feel GOD must have initiated the big bang hoping that somewhere in some random location in this wide universe, conditions would be completely and perfectly favorable for life to sustain itself and thereby the "convicts" could be made to play THE GAME there! Afterall earth is just an ordinary sized planet revolving around an average sized star in the outskirts of an ordinary sized galaxy which is one amongst many billions!! So does that mean this entire universe was created for me n us n green colored aliens are mere figments of imagination of hollywood sci fi script writers?