Why Do Good People Suffer?

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Jeeyar Thiruvadigale: Sharanam,

Jai Srimanna:ra:yana,

 

Dear Bhagavathas,

 

Please accept my humble Sashtanga Namaskarams. Jai

Srimanna:ra:yana.

 

The following is the typed version of the

"Pravachanam" on "Why Good People Suffer?" graced by

our Acharya, His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Tridandi

SrimanNa:ra:yana Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji on 29th

September, 2001 (over Telebridge).

 

Kindly read the following lecture graced by our

Swamiji keeping in mind that Rama is not Bhagavan, but

just 100% pure human being. Rama is an unadulterated,

spotless complete human being. Not even a trace of

mistake can be seen in His entire life . Before He

appeared on the Earth, He was Bhagavan and after the

incarnation is complete, the Earthly pastimes are

over, He is Bhagavan, but not in the meantime. In

other words, He limited His opulence to that of an

ideal human being, never exhibiting any super human

powers or pastimes. (Remember the boon given to

Ravana? Only human beings can kill him and if there

was any super-human trace in Rama, it would dissatisfy

Brahma's condition to kill Ravana).

 

Now, if we see each and every pastime of Rama, we

are touched by His sweetness, His beauty, His

unfailing, invincible strength as a warrior, His mercy

on the wicked and sinful, His loving exchanges with

variety of personalities, with great Rushis, with

demons, with lowborn people and with animals (birds,

vanaras....) His infallible behavior and perfect

discharge of the responsibility as an ideal Son, ideal

Desciple, ideal Husband, ideal Friend, ideal Warrior,

ideal Enemy, ideal King, ideal Father, ideal Master

and over all, a blemish less ideal Human Being.

 

Rama was a Man loved by all. Nobody could be found

who was not touched by His absolutely wonderful

qualities.

 

Amazingly "Ramo: Vigrahava:n Dharmah" was neither

expressed by sages and saints nor by great devotees of

Rama. It was told by a demon, Maricha, when Ravana

came to ask his help to abduct Mother Sitha.

Henceforth Maricha was aptly referred to by "Mari:cha

Maharshi:" by our great Acharya, H.H. Sri Sri Sri

Gopala:charya Swami Vaaru.

 

Swamiji's lecture starts here: (The above were all

mentioned by Swamiji, but not on September 29th 2001

lecture.)

 

Lord Rama, Mother Sita and Laxmana Swamy were

extremely good. They never lied. But, unfortunately

they had to go to forest. They faced so many problems.

However, because Rama went to the forest, Ravana was

killed. Vali, a very dangerous monster, Khara, Dushana

and Trishira were killed. Because Rama only, suffering

in the forest, Kabandha was killed.

 

Because Rama went to forest, we came to know about

such a very pious old lady, Shabari and a such a

wonderful devotee and friend of Rama, Guha. We came to

know the exaltedness and sweetness of Lord Rama. We

came to know about the greatness of a daemon,

Vibheeshana.

 

Whenever there is suffering, something good

automatically comes out of that suffering. Look at

Prahlada, Ambareesh, and other such great Vaishnavas.

They suffered, but they never thought they were

suffering. Great people suffer, but they become truly

great who, in the midst of suffering, feel that they

are not suffering. They take it in a very positive

way.

 

Again, because of Rama going to the forest only, we

came to know about a foremost devotee of Lord, mighty

Hanuman. Some good people have to suffer to bring some

good to the society. And Lord appears for the sake of

good people only. To save good people Lord comes.

 

Good people always have a control over their

temptations. Just think, think and think, then only

speak and then only do something. People are always in

a hurry. They take a step and then they take it back.

Devathas belong to such category. Devathas are

terribly short-tempered.

 

It is Devathas only who inspired Vishwamithra to

take Rama to the forest. Rama had no anger at all.

Devathas were upset to see Rama so peaceful and

compassionate always, as what they wanted was the

demise of Ravana. They thought, if He never becomes

angry, how can He ever kill Ravana daemon? So, they

wanted to see Rama angry. They thought if they can

carry Him to the forest, He will become angry. So they

provoked this terrorist lady Mandara to inspire Kikeyi

to ask the 2 boons from Dasharatha.

 

However Rama never became angry with that act.

Instead, He started to the forest with very great

equanimity of mind. Then Devathas thought they have

to use some internal thing to Rama to make Him angry.

They thought, let's hurt Mother Sitha and see if Rama

becomes angry. They used a crow daemon called

Ka:ka:sura to hurt Mother Sitha. Amazing, this time it

worked! Rama became very angry to see Mother Sitha

hurt. He at once stood and said "Who wants to play

with a snake having 5 hoods?...". Devathas have become

very happy to see Rama angry. They learnt that if they

do something to Mother Sitha, Rama would become angry.

 

So, as a part of their plan to start a battle

between Rama and Ravana, they caused great suffering

to Mother Sitha, Rama and Laxmana Swamy by leading

them to Panchavati in the forest. They made Mother

Sitha ask for such a silly boon, even though She knew

that such thing as a golden deer doesn't really exist.

 

Mother Sitha was an innocent Lady. No woman on the

Earth can even think of such hazardous existence among

700 demoniac ladies, always trying to cause pain to

Her. Ravana used to utter very bad and troublesome

words to Her frequently.

 

When Rama couldn't see Mother Sitha in the

Panchavati Ashram, when He found that She was

abducted, He started crying and crying. He asked

mountains, trees, rivers, birds and what not? Why He

had to suffer? (You cannot apply mundane Karma

Vasanalu to Rama and say that He suffered. That

argument fails. The only way to understand it is to

read and digest the spirit of this very brilliant

lecture graced by our Swamiji)

 

For every bad thing that happens to good people, lot

of good things happen to the world.

 

Because of Mother Sitha's suffering, the dangerous

monster like Ravana was killed. If there is a wound in

some part of the body, the whole body suffers. All the

cells in the body suffer, though they are innocent.

Unless every cell in the body suffers, the wound will

not come out and appear on the skin. After so much

suffering only, the wound comes out to the surface.

 

We must always remember that when good people

devoted to God suffer, the whole world gets benefit

out of it.

 

Nowadays everybody's tongue is twisting between the

USA and computers. It became like everybody's target

is to come to America. Strange! even so called priests

are also aiming to come to the US. My God! All roads

no longer reach the Rome, they now reach the USA.

 

Try to live in your own mother place. In the USA,

now so much unwanted stuff is being pushed into the

minds of people here. That is not good.

 

It's because of those who were burnt to ashes, the

whole world started thinking about its strategies.

Each nation is questioning, how they were, they are

and they would be! Something good always comes out of

such activity.

 

While churning the milky ocean, it was so painful

to everybody there. Lord suffered in different ways.

Devathas suffered in only one way, but Lord suffered

in many ways. However, nectar came out of such

churning, Dhanvanthari, Mother Laxmi and moon came out

of it. So many good things came out of it.

 

There must be some boiling in the heart to get the

things out of it. Unless you churn the yogurt you

don't get the cream out of it.

 

Superficially people might think that God has no

compassion. After WTC collapse everybody started

blaming God why He allowed it. But the outcome of it

is so good. People who were very very aggressive,

started thinking again. Only good people will perceive

it. Only those having positive attitude will

understand it.

 

The Lord's administration is terribly perfect.

When God thinks something, He thinks perfectly and He

carries it out perfectly. Because of the suffering of

Prahlada only, Lord LaxmiNarasimha came out.

 

Now, we can see it. It is because of Nachiketha

only, suffered in the Yamaloka (went to the Yamaloka

and fasted there for 3 days), the Katho:panishad came

out. We came to know about so many clues in

understanding the nature and the inseparable reality

between the souls and the Supersoul. We came to know

about the Lord's unfathomable compassion as revealed

by Yama. Nachiketha's sacrifice came out of it.

 

In next mail: Sri Katho:panishad – Ist lecture

 

Kindly forgive adiye:n for any mistakes or offenses

committed because of adiye:n's deep rooted ignorance,

 

Jeeyar Thiruvadigale: Sharanam!

 

Jai Srimanna:rayana!!

Sheshagiri.

 

 

 

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