It is disturbing that there is so much violence, corruption, discrimination, wars, etc in this world. What do religions tell us about these conditions? In the Ofudesaki, God in the first verse of this sacred scripture tells us we do not understand the soul. What would happen if everyone in the world understood the soul? God tells us there will be peace and prosperity in the world.
What is the soul? Most people understand that because of the soul, we live after our physical bodies die, and go to heaven. But what would happen if our soul also descends back to earth from heaven to be reincarnated into any race, or gender. If we knew this, it would be difficult to discriminate against any race or gender.
But what does the soul do when in our physical bodies? It monitors our behavior, and eventually serve justice for our Behavior. Many time karma does not occur immediately, and may occur in the next life time as the right opportunity to manifest may not appear in this lifetime. When our physical body stops functioning the soul leaves with any unmanifested fates and their associated thoughts to the next destination. Therefore, when we are reborn, we do not get a fresh start. This is why suffering or joy appears in our lives, and why we have different thoughts, good or evil in our minds.
But now we know why suffering and joy appear in the world, we can prevent future suffering from not acting on our negative thoughts. But how do we remove our negative fates from our own soul, if present now? God tells us how to do this in the Ofudesaki.