Is there GOD?!! If so, why did he not help the troubled one, God was called to help and rescue, still it seems he did not turn around on time?!!

"Is there GOD?!! If so, why did he not help the troubled one, God was called to help and rescue, still it seems he did not turn around on time?!!"

This is the Argument posed to me by a friend; I suppose a, genuine question.
As soon as I realized that arguing this is bit challenging - I was wonderstruck and the hours went by when I was asking myself the same question - Is God all merciful and a perfect being?!! If so, why does he leave people in troubled situations without helping them?! Why he did not help when he was called to help, in all earnestness, by those troubled individuals who were suffering?!!

We should first have faith that GOD is perfect and perfection alone exists from that perfect being, as our Ishavasya Upanishad, which is a part of Yajur Veda, says “purnamadah purnamidam purnaat purnamudachyate purnasya purnaamadaya purnameva vashishyate” (The shanti mantra, the invocation verse) This means:
purnamadah: 'That is complete.'
purnamidam: 'This is complete.'
purnamadah purnamidam 'That is complete, this is complete'.
purnat purna mudachyate - 'From that completeness comes this completeness'
purnasya purnamadaya - If we take away this completeness from that completeness'
purnameva vashishyate: 'Only completeness remains.'

All this is fine – I can have faith – but what is the relationship between this and the problem in hand – what is the solution and how do I accept that Perfect being – GOD – Lord Sri Krishna, Lord Sriman Narayanan – helps us from such troubled situations.

With my sincere prayers and an eagerness to learn the reasoning for such an, presumed, indifferent behavior from all merciful Sri Krishna, I was thinking... “Why did he not help those in dire needs, when they have actually called the lord for help?” (This, I do not doubt, any way).

But, from first, one thing was very clear in my mind, that I have never heard even a single Baktha complaining in this manner – if suppose, does this mean that only his Baktha’s are helped? Not the common man who is not a great baktha? Is god partial? I suppose – this is not so. God is impartial, but definitely has a soft corner for his ardent Baktha’s or those who have surrendered to him sincerely.

To analyze and to find a good reasoning – we will have to relook into the problem statement in a different angle. “why did he not help the troubled one” – This is not correct, in a sense that we miss out some important news in almost all the cases – that is, how far are we sure that God had not really helped that individual – I strongly believe that God is all merciful and it is wrong to argue that he did not helped the trouble, as God indicates the humans to be good and thread the right path and has given all the intelligence and senses and posted warning signs – not to get into troubles. This is the essence of my reasoning.

To elaborate and explain, let me put some more examples to make it clear.

“GOD is all Merciful” – as he puts signs and has given the humans common sense that tells us about our short comings and limitations, that we have to accept and work carefully within the given situations / environment around us. It’s like blaming the government – who allows the selling of alcohol in the open market – at the same time has put laws that forces the Liquor company to put big indicates that Drinking alcohol is injurious to health and not good for his family, and so on... Still the man with desires and less morals ignores the warnings and starts and get entangles in his bad habits. Taking another live example – In the banks of a great river, say like Ganges, there were indications laid down telling that there are crocodiles and be watchful not to even try to go near them – ignoring them, a happy explorer risks his journey through those river and swims and gets attacked by the crocodiles and cries telling that government did not help him being saved – in first place, why did he venture into such a risky sport, did he take all the precautions and support, even some human calculations go wrong even when tried at their best, but man ventures into such risks for the sake of his pride, satisfy his ego and feeling that he is great and showoff that he is different from others who lived in this world before him, ignoring or criticizing the greatness, teachings and learning of our forefathers with his meanly thinking.

All said, it is clear now that GOD does indicate each and every individual about his limitations and strengths – but due to his/her Ego, desire, wrong habits, ignore the signs shown by the Lord and gets into trouble. We should not blame the Lord, for we have already ignored or many times are not even aware of the signs that GOD shows us, before the even of such troubles. Prevention is better than cure. God gives every individual soul the free will to act as well as the tools for him to get to his lotus feet without facing troubles.

God is merciful and impartial as he has given all the required tools that we should use diligently – like the forest, where deer’s live is given with the sense of sound and fast pace to escape from its predators, the lion or tiger. The lion or the tiger in turn is successful upon those deer’s which is being distracted from its core strengths even for a second and does not react on time becomes its prey. Humans, for example go and trust the finance companies that promises enormous returns or say provides eye-washing gifts, which the foolish trust and gets into the trap and gets cheated, when you have other better and wise options (like a Government bank which provides a nominal interest) to invest. We cannot blame the government for not controlling such misgivings, in such cases – all that the government does is, at the max – punish the cheater (but remember this is a reaction and not proactive measure). The trap is the desire of the men and the risk he takes is by ignoring the signs that he sees, and at last he falls as a pray. So, it is not meaningful to ask, why in first place I should get into such trouble.

The difference between a true baktha and a common man (who only wishes to seek the help of God during the time of trouble is). A real Baktha is dependent and seeks the grace of God - all the time for all his actions and he gets the signs correctly and acts accordingly and does not land in trouble, or at-least he is honest to accept that he has ignored the signs shown to him by the Lord and is currently facing the trouble and he accepts it without doubting the Lords presence. Whereas, a common man is not even ready to accept that God has shown him the signs to safe guard himself, but goes to the length of blaming the Lord or question his presence, without how’s strength he cannot even survive.

Thus the correct reasoning is – God is impartial and all merciful and his creation is all perfect.

Due to the ego, desires, wrong habits that one gets from this birth or over many births or due to his/her karma and past vasanas, the humans ignore the warnings that God posts us, and we get into real troubles. It is meaningless to question “Why I was not helped when I was in trouble?”, as I strongly believe and have experienced in many occasions, that Lord Sri Krishna does indicate that you may get into trouble (provided me with a bit of intuition) and asked to avoid the situation, as prevention is always better than cure. To just give my own life example: Very long back when I used to travel in the Chennai city buses. One day, I was in an errand, I had taken the bus ticket, as a good citizen ;) as always, but for some silly reason, in an hurry, I had thrown away my ticket from that bus window, my destination was at least 5 stop away, it was early morning Sunday, I believe. I suddenly realized my mistake and got down the next stop just before I saw that there was these ticket checkers (which was not usual in the early mornings) waiting in the next stop, if I had traveled I would have had to face problems. I was saved from the embracement to be caught in such a situation where I will have to struggle to prove that I had actually taken a ticket but due to my negligence I had lost it, which I am sure they are not going to accept and charge me for the same. As Sri Krishna was all merciful ;) helped me by providing the correct intuition just to get down the stop before the ticket checkers had come – in a hurry. I am not sure, how you would be able to understand this situation – unless you have traveled in the buses of Chennai ;) and the situation of being caught red-handed without tickets ;). This is just a small incident – i can go on and on – the point is – God does provide us with signs to save us but we keep on ignoring them and for this we have to face the problem in hand but we cannot blame the lord for not helping us.

Thank you for reading my blog ;) Please share your comments, if any. I wish and pray that our Guru (H.H. Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji) and Lord Sri Krishna provide us the strength to understand the signs that he shows for us, much more clearly, and give us the strength to thread the right path and act correctly on time, every time and reach his lotus feet.