Jahnu
2021-06-01 02:56:54 UTC
God couldnt care less whether you believe in Him or not. He certainly
wont punish you for not believing in Him.
The only interest God has in you is that He wants to exchange love
with you, and for that to happen you must know who God is. Thats why
God in Bhagavad Gita invites us to know about Him.
Krishna says:
"My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart
to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which
you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence." (Bg.
9.1)
"This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all
secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct
perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of
religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed." (Bg. 9.2)
The only one who brings you misfortune is yourself. As we act towards
other living entities, the miseries we inflict on other living
entities will result in bad karmic reactions. The law of karma
dictates that you suffer or enjoy according to your activities, life
after life.
Many people like to reject God because of all the bad things in the
world. They say, how could an almighty God allow all these bad things
to happen?
I have even heard of people who became atheists because of some
personal tragedy in their lives. They lament - Oh God, how could you
take my son away? How could you let Holocaust happen?
While they are lamenting in this way, do they ever stop to think, or
even care the least about someone in China or India losing their sons
and daughters?
Do they lament over the poor calves who are abducted from their
mothers and slaughtered every day in automated death-camps? In fact,
every second someone is dying on this planet. Do they complain about
that?
"In relation to the animals, all people are Nazis; for the animals, it
is an eternal Treblinka." ---Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
The Upanishads tell us that God is transcendental to His material
creation. That He is transcendental means He has nothing personal to
do with the workings of material nature. He has arranged nature to
function in a certain way, and after that He doesnt get involved.
But because He cares, He has issued a user manual to humanity - a
manual on how to operate nature - Bhagavad Gita.
So, as the saying goes - God helps those who help themselves. By
reading Gods manual on life, and acting according to its directions,
we shall find that life will treat us better.
In Bhagavad Gita, God tells us how nature works. He gives us
directions, following which we can live nicely. If, like we do today,
act whimsically treating nature and her inhabitants like shit, we must
be prepared to reap the consequences.
What most of us are reluctant to accept is that whatever good or bad
happens to us in life - it is of our own making. So rather than
blaming God, nature, or the universe for all the bad stuff, actually,
we have only ourselves to blame.
In the material world, nothing happens unfairly or unwarranted to
anyone. Everything is a result of karma - ie. peoples activities, and
the reactions to those activities.
When people suffer the reactions to their sinful activities, its a
really good thing. The material world is designed to give us the
reactions to our pious and sinful activities, and that is good.
So nobody has to wonder - how come an almighty and good God allows all
these tragedies to befall us? The fact is that God allows mother
Nature to give humanity the exact karmic reactions they deserve for
their evil activities.
When Nature punishes us for the pure hell we put other living entities
through, simply for our own selfish satisfaction. like we do when we
slaughter animals en masse simply to satisfy our taste buds, its a
good thing. Its exactly like its meant to be. Thats how God has
designed it.
So next time somebody whines about how cruel the universe is to him,
we should take a look at the slices of a cadaver from a murdered cow
on his dinner-table, and we can know for certain - he gets exactly
what he deserves from the universe.
"As long as there are slaughter-houses, there will be battlefields. A
vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarian." -- Leo Tolstoy
wont punish you for not believing in Him.
The only interest God has in you is that He wants to exchange love
with you, and for that to happen you must know who God is. Thats why
God in Bhagavad Gita invites us to know about Him.
Krishna says:
"My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart
to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which
you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence." (Bg.
9.1)
"This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all
secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct
perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of
religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed." (Bg. 9.2)
The only one who brings you misfortune is yourself. As we act towards
other living entities, the miseries we inflict on other living
entities will result in bad karmic reactions. The law of karma
dictates that you suffer or enjoy according to your activities, life
after life.
Many people like to reject God because of all the bad things in the
world. They say, how could an almighty God allow all these bad things
to happen?
I have even heard of people who became atheists because of some
personal tragedy in their lives. They lament - Oh God, how could you
take my son away? How could you let Holocaust happen?
While they are lamenting in this way, do they ever stop to think, or
even care the least about someone in China or India losing their sons
and daughters?
Do they lament over the poor calves who are abducted from their
mothers and slaughtered every day in automated death-camps? In fact,
every second someone is dying on this planet. Do they complain about
that?
"In relation to the animals, all people are Nazis; for the animals, it
is an eternal Treblinka." ---Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
The Upanishads tell us that God is transcendental to His material
creation. That He is transcendental means He has nothing personal to
do with the workings of material nature. He has arranged nature to
function in a certain way, and after that He doesnt get involved.
But because He cares, He has issued a user manual to humanity - a
manual on how to operate nature - Bhagavad Gita.
So, as the saying goes - God helps those who help themselves. By
reading Gods manual on life, and acting according to its directions,
we shall find that life will treat us better.
In Bhagavad Gita, God tells us how nature works. He gives us
directions, following which we can live nicely. If, like we do today,
act whimsically treating nature and her inhabitants like shit, we must
be prepared to reap the consequences.
What most of us are reluctant to accept is that whatever good or bad
happens to us in life - it is of our own making. So rather than
blaming God, nature, or the universe for all the bad stuff, actually,
we have only ourselves to blame.
In the material world, nothing happens unfairly or unwarranted to
anyone. Everything is a result of karma - ie. peoples activities, and
the reactions to those activities.
When people suffer the reactions to their sinful activities, its a
really good thing. The material world is designed to give us the
reactions to our pious and sinful activities, and that is good.
So nobody has to wonder - how come an almighty and good God allows all
these tragedies to befall us? The fact is that God allows mother
Nature to give humanity the exact karmic reactions they deserve for
their evil activities.
When Nature punishes us for the pure hell we put other living entities
through, simply for our own selfish satisfaction. like we do when we
slaughter animals en masse simply to satisfy our taste buds, its a
good thing. Its exactly like its meant to be. Thats how God has
designed it.
So next time somebody whines about how cruel the universe is to him,
we should take a look at the slices of a cadaver from a murdered cow
on his dinner-table, and we can know for certain - he gets exactly
what he deserves from the universe.
"As long as there are slaughter-houses, there will be battlefields. A
vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarian." -- Leo Tolstoy