Spiritual Questions and Answers with Radhanath Swami
Question to Radhanath Swami: I want to know a rational solution. How can we rectify those people who are just misusing religion for political agenda?
Radhanath Swami : The greatest thing any of us can do, individually or collectively, is to educate people. There must be spiritual education based on universal and eternal religious principles. People must be educated by our words, and especially by our examples.
Question to Radhanath Swami : Swamiji, my question is not directly related to religion. But some of the biggest challenges facing the world today are the problems caused by religions. What is the solution for this?
Radhanath Swami : I do not see it as a problem of religion. I see it as the problem caused by irreligion in the guise of religion. We have to find what religion actually is.
Question to Radhanath Swami : What about those people who are doing a single thing wrong in their life and still they are suffering?
Radhanath Swami Answers : Life does not begin when you enter a body. The soul is eternal. If somebody is good, that means they are good in this life. So in the future they are going to have very good results.
Question to Radhanath Swami : Why was Arjuna forced by Krishna to fight?
Radhanath Swami : Arjuna was told to act like a surgeon. If a person has a serious tumor and if it is not cut out, the person dies. So surgery in one sense is violence. It taking a knife and cutting a person, open. Now, open heart surgery is really a violent surgery; the ribcage is cut
Question to Radhanath Swami: It is said that God is all loving. But sometimes we find that a father loses his only son, and sometimes a child loses its parents. In the face of such miseries how can one’s faith in God be sustained?
Radhanath Swami : God means the absolute truth. It is He from whom everything emanates. Even great scientists like Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton were very religious men. They understood mathematically and scientifically that the universe cannot be the way it is without a supreme
Question to Radhanath Swami : What was God’s Purpose behind putting elements of negativity in the creation.
Radhanath Swami Answers : We are responsible for the negativity. God creates the opportunity, but then according to our desires and our ambitions we create the world we live in, the situations of this world. Just like, a father gives his children so many nice gifts.
