Blessed with Stress

In today's modern day stressed out society stress is taken as an enemy that somehow must be conquered. But Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita that this material energy, which is the cause of our stress, is insurmountable. This means that no matter what kind of material adjustment we may make to become stress free the stress distress will continue to hound us. Therefore a different approach must be adopted in order to attain stresslessness. The insider's secret for conquering stress is to see it as your friend instead of your enemy. By understanding the simple principle of karma you can immediately see that whatever stress is coming to you is the karmic reaction for your past sinful activities both in this lifetime and in previous lifetimes. So when stress comes it is for my purification of consciousness. It is for burning off the reactions to my previous sinful activities. By seeing stress in this light, it all of a sudden becomes a blessing instead of a curse. And as soon as you perceive how you have been blessed by stress, it immediately goes way being transformed into pure stresslessness, supreme happiness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikarif

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Problem of Evil

Hare Krishna.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Please accept my humble obeisances.

Guru Maharaja, I've often heard about the "problem of evil" put forward by many philosophers, which still baffles all (especially in cases of natural disasters causing mass scale destruction of life and property).

The argument consists of the incompatibility of the three points they put forward:
1.) God is perfectly good (all loving)
2.) God is all powerful (omnipotent)
3.) Evil exists

Their point of contention is that why doesn't God stop all evil when He's all-powerful and perfectly good. This means that evil exists with the permission of God. Why does God allow so many people to suffer? Why does evil exist in a world created by God?

I humbly request you to kindly enlighten me in this regard. I've read some explanations by various great people but am still unconvinced about it. I've eager to know your answer and solution. Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

Madhav

Answer: God Did Not Create Evil. We Did.

The simple answer is that evil is created by us when we refuse to serve the all-powerful, all-merciful Lord. Therefore Krishna personally repeatedly comes and He also repeatedly sends His pure devotees to this world to save us from the evil we have created by convincing us to give up our evil misuse of independence and once again engage in His service as we did originally before we fell into Maya or illusion.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari