How To Respond To The Problems That The Life Throws At Us?

Radhanath Swami

The world is filled with problems and that’s just the nature of the material existence is that there will always be problems. janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi- duhkha-dosanudarsanam There is a problem of suffering, there is a problem of depression, there is a problem poverty, there is a problem of health issues and pandemics and epidemics and there is problems of birth and old-age and decease and death. These are all problems and what Dharma is giving us with true spirituality is tools to actually help, as we are trying to solve the temporary problems of life in this world, we are actually in the process of solving the bigger, most serious problems. Our beloved Guru, Srila Prabhupada he would often say “sarve sukhino bhavantu”, that the whole purpose of vedic literature is, the sense the whole purpose of religion Dharma is “let all beings be happy.” When we actually have this attitude, ‘let all beings be happy’, then when we are motivated by compassion in this sense, then as we are solving the problems of the world, we are actually approaching the truest and most important problems in giving true solutions.