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“Why do bad things happen?” or “Why do bad things happen to good people?” “Why does not God intervene when evil people do evil things to good people?”

A quest for God in irrational numbers

My physicist friends sometimes go crazy with the “magic” of numbers. A recent discussion involved the famous irrational number “pi”. A friend was mesmerized by a YouTube video on what the speaker in the video called “Powell’s Pi Paradox”.

On Being Unimportant~II

It is advisable for us to create a permanent source of importance for us, something which makes us immune to such temporary ups and downs in our fortunes. Such permanent importance can come only by continual investment in our relationships and in the development of uplifting qualities in our personality which eventually lead us to the growth of our eternal consciousness which moves with us from one life to another and also stays with us in the finer realms after our death.

On Being Unimportant~I

We should not feel depressed or down in the dumps during such occasional periods of lull or so-called unimportance. These are, actually, God's way of making us stronger to face bigger challenges of life. In fact, every position or situation is nothing but a facilitating stage for learning the right lessons for improving one's Karma for one's upward spiritual evolution. After all, the greatest of celebrities, the most famous or the most powerful movers and shakers of the world are also soon forgotten.

Swamiji’s correspondence~II

Swami Vivekananda compares ‘truth to a corrosive substance of infinite power‘ which ‘burns its way in wherever it falls‘. He says, ‘Fear is the greatest sin my religion teaches. Sister, the way is long, the time is short, evening is approaching. I have to go home soon. I have no time to give my manners a finish.‘ A believer in Christian Science, Mary had no difficulty to perpetuate a free and facile communication with Vivekananda ~ a protagonist of the Vedanta ~ and prolifically so. Gems of wisdom are studded all over the letters of Swami Vivekananda to her.

The Believer

LR was a deeply religious man. He certainly didn’t have the aspect of a pious person. He was a flamboyant guy, who wore tailored suits, sported expensive watches and drove the latest Porsche.