11 Dec 2015
[Shri Kishore asked following question:Padmanamaskaram Swami: Humble request to answer my queries.
Why Japan is prone to frequent Nature Disasters/Earthquake/ Tsunami? As we know about the people of Japan who are comparatively sincere, honest and hardworking. In case of an Earthquake, they maintain honesty by not looting the destroyed infrastructure for food/money etc (we have read many recent articles about it). From your previous discourses we understood that Earthquake/Tsunami indicates God’s angerness.]
Shri Swami Replied: In the divine administration of God, everything runs with utmost perfection and strict logic. Sometimes, we do not understand the logical background due to our inefficient and incomplete sight of the past deeds of certain human beings in their previous lives. Even the present cannot be understood perfectly by us since we are exposed to a part of the external life only of any human being. We are not aware of the internal sins and also all the actions done by those human beings. Without the complete and deep background, we start bombarding questions on the divine administration with just a drop of knowledge about a specific lot of humanity. However, questions must be put so that we gain knowledge through answers. The answer becomes very difficult since if God gives us the real answer, we will not believe it. Therefore, it is always better to approach such problem from the other side, which means that you should start with the assumption that the divine administration is always correct and recognize the limits of our information. Moreover, the analysis of such issues will not help us in any way in our spiritual path by which only we can please the almighty. Let us be pragmatic and proceed perfectly in Pravrutti and Nivrutti so that others will follow us setting us as the best example. We should always discuss about the useful side of the topic than the useless side.
We should always remember that God is never angry with any living being including even the worst demon since everybody is His child only. All the punishments given by Him are only the practical steps of His medical treatment of the psychology of His children to make them achieve good psychological behaviour in Pravrutti. He never tries to push us in to Nivrutti. It is enough for Him if we are good in Pravrutti (behaviour in this world). Sometimes, He has no alternative than becoming harsh in the treatment. We call this harshness in His treatment as His anger. Such harshness is only His rigid trail based on immense kindness to give good treatment to His issues so that all live peacefully without harming each other enjoying the facilities given by Him in this nature. Hence, earthquake and Tsunami are the results of bad behaviour in this society only. The first and foremost sin is to kill the living beings for food. The second sin is corruption for money and wealth. The third sin is corruption in the sexual life. These three sins are mentioned by the Lord as the three national highways to hell (Kamah Krodhah tathaa Lobhah... Gita).