Q. 184: Gurudev, there is so much violence and natural disasters happening in the world. Why does God let this all happen? If God exists then why does all this happen?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You chop off some leaves and branches of plants. Don’t you prune rose plant? Does it die by pruning? It grows up. Same way nature brings all this from a bigger picture. It is not always that ripe fruits fall from a coconut tree. Sometimes even small coconut drops off. 

Baby fishes are also swallowed by big fishes in an ocean. So, these natural calamities are all part of the nature. If we exploit nature too much, more natural calamities occur. We are putting dynamites in the Earth. We are blasting it every day. Imbalance gets created and so Earth starts shaking. 

Sustainable development is what is needed today. We need to care for the planet. Nature moves with the law. God means a rule, a law. Everything goes by that. This planet Earth has to be protected and cared for. 

One is natural calamity. Another is man-made calamity. Man-made calamities can always be avoided. People are not valuing human life for a little piece of gold. Human values need to be brought back into society.

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