katlaughing-How does age, or Parkinson's, or Tay-Sachs, or any disease come about as a result of our free will? Suffering exists which is purely the result of the way the world works, and as such can be ascribed to one cause alone: God. Further, if Nirvana is where God would like us to be, why aren't we created there? Why are enlightenment and ego exclusive, when ego is what makes us who we are?