Why Doesn't God Stop the Evil?

Sometimes we are asked, "Why doesn't God stop the evil in the world? If He really loves us, surely He would do something to put a stop to all of this evil and suffering that is going on everywhere all around us." The answer is that as our loving father He has already done something to stop the evil and the suffering in this world. He has manifested Himself in the form of the Krishna consciousness to save the suffering humanity from its distress. Now that He has done His share, it our turn to do our share for stopping the evil and suffering by our dedicated, enthusiastic participation in the missionary activities of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: The Form of the Soul

I attended your class in ISKCON's Pune, India temple recently along with my three non-devotee friends. Thank you very much for your wonderful class. My friends got answers to many of their questions. And now they have become little serious about Krishna consciousness.

I have a very technical question about the form of the soul. In one of Srila Prabhupada's writings I read that the soul has a form. He gives the analogy of clothes. Clothes themselves have no form but when a person wears them they get a form. Does this mean that the form of a soul is exactly same as our material form with five senses, mind, intelligence and ego?

Your Servant,

Kanchan

Answer: Soul Has a Human-like Form

Yes, in its original pure form each soul has a form possessing human-like features: two arms, two legs, one mouth, two ears, two eyes, etc. It is not that because we have such a form in the material existence, we conveniently imagine our spiritual form much be the same. No. We have learned from authoritative sources that our material form has these characteristics because it is modeled after our original spiritual form just as clothes take the shape of the form upon which they are worn.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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