Mr. Ehrman is an Err Man

A Christian fundamentalist named Bart Ehrman became an agnostic, one who maintains a continuing doubt about the existence of God, when he could not answer this question:

How could there be a God when there is so much suffering in the world?

It's too bad that he has not studied the Vedic wisdom because if he had, he could have easily answered this question. If someone challenges, "How can there be a government when there is so much suffering in the prison?", will we accept his line of reasoning? No, we will not. Even a benevolent government is obliged to provide a prison for those citizens who choose by their own free will to live as outlaws.

So it is not that God is the cause of our suffering. He has made a perfect plan for everyone to live a happy eternal existence completely free from all types of suffering. It is rather we who through misuse of our free will have cast ourselves into the prison of this world of suffering. And it is we who can choose to engage our free will once again in His service and return to His eternal all-bliss abode.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Initiation Ceremony19 May, 2009--Sofia Bulgaria

Initiation Ceremony19 May, 2009--Sofia Bulgaria

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Know Krishna's Will?

You have mentioned that we shall be perfect when we are 100% surrendered to the will of Krishna. But with mundane imperfect senses, associated with a false ego and entangled with thousands of material desires and non important commitments at the family and professional front.. we are in complete dark to understand the will of God. Nor could we conceive the idea of thinking about the same.

Please do let us know how can we understand the will of Krishna and the real objective behind our life. His Grace please please bless us with your valuable advise.

Hare Krishna .. Dandavat .

Arjun Sakha Dasa, New Delhi

Answer: From the Spiritual Master

It is not difficult to know the will of Krishna because He fully reveals it in the Bhagavad-gita. He wants us to completely surrender ourselves unto His representative, the bona fide spiritual master. As a surrendered soul to the spiritual master we accept whatever order or instruction he gives us as our very life and soul. So to know how to execute the will of Krishna is not at all difficult. We simply have to mold our lives according to the directions we receive from Krishna from the transcendental via media of the bona fide spiritual master.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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