Why God allows suffering in this world?
Traditional theism has to wrestle with the problem of evil: if God is good, why does he allow suffering and death? But Nature is suffering and death. Recently i read about the above statement from an article on Newyork times about Panteism and the movie Avatar. The definition of God is that he is the root of all creation, the primal point from which everything emanates. Everything that be in the cosmos is a result of his multifarious energies. Life comes from life - so we as life have all emanated from the central super conscious life the supreme being called God. God also stand for Generator, operator and destroyer. Why is suffering created by God?
We chose suffering due to wanting an independent life from him. When we try to imitate God as an enjoyer we suffer. Constitutionally we are meant to provide pleasure to the supreme being. That is our innate nature. We were created to serve and not to enjoy. We are serving units of consciousness. Forgetting this constitutional nature, we try to create our own world with 'me' as the center. The Lord is the center of the cosmos and everything is meant for his satisfaction. When we are ready to serve the Supreme being and drop all plans for enjoyment, we are ready to start seeing things as they are. Otherswise our eyes are blidned due to enjoyment tendency and we suffer in illusion. When we are ready to serve, we become eligible to join his lila, the celebratory dance of the absolute. Having come from him, we have a strong affectionate link to him. That link is discovered by the practice of Bhakti yoga - the yoga which transforms our distorted nature of enoyer to that of service. Bhakti yoga reduces the consumption propensity and encourages dedicative nature. Who can challenge the free will of God. He is beyond ifs and buts and not bound by any principle other than love. He is a transcendental autocrat and dictator.
We chose suffering due to wanting an independent life from him. When we try to imitate God as an enjoyer we suffer. Constitutionally we are meant to provide pleasure to the supreme being. That is our innate nature. We were created to serve and not to enjoy. We are serving units of consciousness. Forgetting this constitutional nature, we try to create our own world with 'me' as the center. The Lord is the center of the cosmos and everything is meant for his satisfaction. When we are ready to serve the Supreme being and drop all plans for enjoyment, we are ready to start seeing things as they are. Otherswise our eyes are blidned due to enjoyment tendency and we suffer in illusion. When we are ready to serve, we become eligible to join his lila, the celebratory dance of the absolute. Having come from him, we have a strong affectionate link to him. That link is discovered by the practice of Bhakti yoga - the yoga which transforms our distorted nature of enoyer to that of service. Bhakti yoga reduces the consumption propensity and encourages dedicative nature. Who can challenge the free will of God. He is beyond ifs and buts and not bound by any principle other than love. He is a transcendental autocrat and dictator.
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