Trouble is, if everything comes from God … Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection, Suffering and an all-powerful benevolent God, What are we doing here?

To tell someone who strongly feels they are suffering, and/or this world is very much a place of misery, that they are not in fact suffering at all, and not a fallen soul being punished for their sins, but a divine part of God eternally engaged in the beautiful divine lila (pastimes) of God is unlikely to resonate positively. Reality of suffering is so proven and real that such a idea is more likely lead to negative judgement about God. … “My suffering is God’s fault!” for example.

Trouble is, if everything comes from God (us and this world included), but we are finding fault with something (anything) that comes from God, sooner or later, logically, that is going to become an impediment to continued spiritual progress. Isn’t it? How strange it is that many religions and gurus actively promote negativity toward the world and the motivations of the souls therein? Perhaps they sense that the deeper true truth is unhelpful to one new to the path?

Anyway. How to avoid finding fault with things that come from God? After all we all have a born-with conditioned nature … preferences/aversions/predispositions, and therefore it is very difficult to be truly non-judgemental of things/values that are incompatible with our nature. How to genuinely transcend such conditioning? Perhaps a useful beginning is to recognise our conditioning for what it is … association with the modes of material nature … and develop the habit of rejecting attitudes born of that conditioning? And later on we can try to see and celebrate divinity explored and expressed everywhere? Even in the dark stuff.