Theodicy

? The Brahma Sūtra clears God of cruelty by making saṃsāra beginningless. Isn’t that too easy?

I have been reading Śaṅkara for forty years, and this passage still bothers me. Brahma Sūtra 2.1.34 raises the objection that if God creates the world, God is guilty of partiality and cruelty, since some beings are born happy and others miserable.…