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Saturday, August 30, 2008

why blame God?


The scriptures state that this material world is a prison house and that we are souls put here to reform ourselves. The scriptures also talk about a “dhira” - a sober person (person not bewildered).

If we simply seriously take to heart that we are imprisoned in this world and as a result suffering, we will immediately become sober about this place and less enthusiastic about material life as a whole. When we actually deeply realize our conditioned and imprisoned nature, we will no doubt take shelter of Krishna from our heart just to get out of this imprisonment. Yet Krishna is very kind to not reveal the true harshness of material nature (imprisonment) by keeping us in illusion (maya) of so called material happiness (something like anesthesia during an operation that dulls the pain).

Ultimately, we are illusioned not by Krishna’s will but by our will. Why blame God?

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