Spiritual Questions and Answers with Radhanath Swami
Question to Radhanath Swami: Suppose a fisherman is catching the fish and selling it in the market to maintain his family. Do you think he is doing some sinful activities?
Radhanath Swami: Rather than talking about what’s sinful, we will just speak of the science of how the world works.
Question to Radhanath Swami: Even when we are doing business, we are exploiting others in one sense. So by the laws of karma, are we going to get reactions for all that?
Radhanath Swami: In this world, exploitation is inevitable. Just to survive, people are exploiting each other. But we should try, as far as possible, not to do that beyond what’s necessary. In business our motivation should not be to destroy others.
Question to Radhanath Swami : Many new borns were amongst the Tsunami victims. You may say it’s karma, but how can one be punished when one doesn’t even know what is right and what is wrong? I don’t think what happened was right.
Radhanath Swami : But what is right according to us is not always what happens. We have to understand that the soul in that child has
Question to Radhanath Swami : If there is a God who is all loving and compassionate, how could he allow a tragedy like The Attack on the world Trade Centre (WTC) on 9/11 (Sept 11) to take place?
Radhanath Swami : Today the world is drastically shaken by recent events that have taken place in the United States of America. I just came from that land. I have never seen America in such a condition. It is shaken to its very core ….
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
