This video is a conjugation of three questions answered by revered Swami Swami Sarvapriyananda by three devotees. First question being Where does evil come from ? Second being what is Vedantic standpoint on Evil compared to other traditional religions specially in a scenario where everything is considered as false, and third and most interesting being why did the all loving and all just GOD had to create evil.
Swami ji travels around the world traditions from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism to even older religions to beautifully sum the concept of evil and why and how the questions arrived on this day and age.
It further majestically sums up the Vedanta standpoint through the Snake an Rope analogy, by asking if the rope is mistaken as snake how valid would be the poison of the snake and even if it would be valid it would be only valid in the realm where the snake is considered real.
Swami Sarvapriyananda answers a devotee upon asked to reconcile principal of non-violence with the offense of truth. Truth is often offensive so are criticism, if truth causes offence how dose it fit into the scheme of non-violence and non-offence taught by religion.
The answer can act as the manual for a layman on how to take criticism and even how to criticize if at all. It mentions about a monk's criticism, that only come if criticism improves the person at the receiving end.
The piece ends with a beautiful memory of swami of of his training days in the Belur Math. A must watch for all who is a seeker or a non seeker. The way you look at criticism may change forever.
Swami Sarvapriyananda (pre-monastic name Biswarup Mitra) is a Hindu monk (sannyasi) belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since January 2017.
The Ramakrishna Order (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ সংঘ) is the monastic lineage that was founded by Ramakrishna Paramhansa, when he gave the ochre cloth of renunciation to twelve of his close disciples, in January 1886 at the Cossipore House.
The Ramakrishna Order should not be confused with the Ramakrishna Math, which is the legal entity that trains young monks and directs the spiritual duties of the Swamis of the Order. There is also a parallel organization, the Ramakrishna Mission, which performs the charitable work including, orphanages, hospitals, clinics, primary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities - as well as disaster relief and economic development in villages.
Ramakrishna also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, romanized: Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; pronounced [ramɔkriʂno pɔromoɦɔŋʃo],born Ramakrishna Chattopadhay,[2][3][4] was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Vedantaas well as Christianity and Islam.
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