vaishamya
वैषम्य vaishamyaPartiality or inequality; the charge, answered in Brahma Sutra 2.1.34, that God is unfair in creating a world of unequal fortunes.
Where this term appears
- Lila: The World as Divine Play Essentials
…rich and some poor, some radiant and some in agony, must be partial ( vaishamya ) and cruel ( nairghrnya ).
- Who runs the ledger, and why the innocent suffer Treatise
The Lord, in creating a world of such unequal fortunes, some born to ease and some to agony, seems guilty of vaishamya , partiality, and nairghrinya , cruelty.