According to hindu beliefs and practices god is “nirakara”, meaning it does not have a shape, rather called as “param atma”, super soul, which we can translate into as a powerful collection of souls. In the devine act of existence of living being, soul or atma is the “class” that gets instantiated over the course of Janma, “the birth” and Marana “death” cycle.
The basic physics principle of object creation, functioning and eventual destruction of it can be attributed to three functions of “thri-murthy”,the three projects managers, of Hindu “gods”, Brahma, the creator or new dev team. Vishnu, the maintainer, the manager of rapid response team and Siva, the destroyer, manager of product evaluation team.
Atma, the class is abstracted with attributes such as deed, karma and functions such as good(), bad(). In the cyclic regeneration, the atma instantiated into objects such a human beings, cows, fish, pigs, insects and other living things. These objects inherit the atma properties and attempt to override and overload the functions. The global variable of deed gets updated with every action a living object takes.
The new dev team lead by Brahma has got a prescribed legacy system which reads the atma, the soul’s deeds against a set of master data and accordingly living objects are created. Since it is an automated work flow most of the work handled by Brahma himself with little help from good souls escaped the birth and death cycle.
With 14 lokas (worlds) existing full of objects, the rapid response team is a very busy team lead by vishnu and his team leaders such as Indra who is in-charge of heaven. when a living being is destroyed or expired it’s soul’s global data is evaluated and based on the karma chart it will be either recommended to have better opportunity to improve the score to attain the moksha, escaping out of birth, death cycle and move on to heaven. If the data is bad the soul is forwarded to product evaluation team. To maintain the good order vishnu takes different incarnations and spread the order, dharma, to the world.
Siva, oversees product evaluation team, but day to day activities are lead by Yama Dharma Raja, who is the king of hell. The rejected souls are brought here and are subjected to various punishments and deed value is set to very low so that the next birth will be a very rotten life. It will take many births and deaths to have respectable deed total to qualify a life of a human being. If the souls are committing too many bad deeds and dharma is not functioning properly Siva will embark on a reboot of life engine,essentially restarting the life in all the worlds.
Various support teams such as Yaksha, Gandhrva and many other past human souls, who had consistently demonstrated good behaviour and performed great deeds, works in tandem with heaven and keep track of all the living objects deed count. If the soul has done very well in the living cycle, it will be given a chance to moksha and the soul is transferred to heaven. There it has to demonstrate a consistent and far beyond deeds to prove that it is worth the god. After careful evaluations and considerations it will be moved up to chain of command which is the super atma, or param atma. Param atma will be the guiding force for living objects and gods reps to constantly raise or lower the deed bar and evaluation techniques. Ultimate goal of a soul is to reach the super soul and become part of god.
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