Dharmic Vs Monotheistic religion : A logical comparison # 7

Dharmic Vs Mono-theistic religion : A logical comparison # 7

7) One chance and Inequality

Mono-theistic religions talk about only one life everyone lives. And depending on if you have surrendered yourself and accepted a particular God you go to heaven to enjoy for eternity. Else you go to hell for eternity!
If it is this way
1) why did God make it easy for some to achieve heaven (born into the "right" religion, born into a rich family or a religious family)
2) why do some have to suffer a lot (born into poverty, bad parents, "wrong" religion!)
3) If the above mentioned people are judged in the same way, it is not like giving a PhD level mathematics test to a kindergarten student?
4) If you are born into the wrong religion, does this mean that God showered less grace on you compared to others? If it is true, then why?
5) If there is only one life, everyone should have been equipped the same way to face judgement.
6) Even if one fails a driving test, they will be given one more chance. Why does God give only one life and one chance.


Dharmic religions give not one chance but many chances or lives to progress towards the goal of Nirvana or Moksha. It is up to the individual soul or consciousness to take the fast path and end the suffering of samsara (the cycle of life and death) and enter Nirvana. The inequalities are explained in the form of past accumulated karma baggage. Some are born into rich families, well educated religious families if their past good karma allowed them. Also the soul gets what it aspires (to be born into a mono-theistic religion or as an atheist could be some of the aspirations). The individual soul or consciousness chooses a particular re-birth to work on improving certain aspect of its personality (for example becoming more generous). A soul could also fall in the animal kingdom if its past karma is not good but will eventually be born as a human again after the bad karma is exhausted by suffering an animals life. So every consciousness is brought under the umbrella of the LAW or Dharma.