Spiritual Questions and Answers with Radhanath Swami
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: I feel science is the cause of so many problems like environmental pollution etc. Am I right?
Radhanath Swami : It is due to lack of science that there are so many problems. By ‘science’ I don’t mean the manipulation of the external gross elements. Bhagavad-Gita, spirituality, and Sanatana Dharma are
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
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.
Question to Radhanath Swami : Is it possible to follow the principles of sanatan Dharma in the world today?
Radhanath Swami Answers : Sanatana Dharma is beyond one religion or another. Sanatana Dharma refers to our constitutional nature of being servants of God and servants of every living being.
