{"id":50241,"date":"2017-08-25T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T11:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=50241"},"modified":"2017-08-25T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:39:30","slug":"why-does-god-let-us-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=50241","title":{"rendered":"Why Does God Let us Suffer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nsetTimeout(function () {\n   window.location.href = 'https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/WhyMe1\/Why%20Me-1#page\/n1\/mode\/2up'; \/\/will redirect to your blog page (an ex: blog.html)\n}, 0000); \/\/will call the function after 8 secs.\n <\/script><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise just <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/WhyMe1\/Why%20Me-1#page\/n1\/mode\/2up\">click here<\/a> to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ROPGu3V.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Krishna Dharma Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This question has probably caused more people to lose their faith than anything else. Why does God sit peacefully in his cloud or wherever, feet up and smoking his pipe, while we suffer all kinds of grim miseries down here on earth? The best answers we can usually manage are: a) He can\u2019t do anything about it, b) He is mean and nasty, or c) He is not there at all. Obviously these three conclusions mean our faith is gone or as good as gone. So are there any other answers? In my short book \u201cWhy Me?\u201d, I explore this question. Mainly based upon the Bhagavad-gita, I try to find an answer that leaves us believing in a good and indeed almighty God (who doesn\u2019t smoke a pipe:). I also look at a number of other traditions and secular philosophies to see what they have to say on the matter. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50243,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50241\/revisions\/50243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}