Do people in troubled places, like where there is war or famine, deserve to suffer?
Ans 2: According to the Vedic view of the world, everyone is born into suffering as a result of their past karma. It is illusion to think “I am not suffering (or not suffering so much), but those people are”. The so-called comfortable societies of Western Europe and America are under intoxication. That’s not just that drinking, smoking or drugs intoxicate them. Wealth, social stability, education, technology, soft living, easy sensual pleasures, etc intoxicate them. Like animals fatted for slaughter. Such creatures look upon the animals in the forest as unfortunate. “Oh, they have to struggle so hard to get something to eat. They face death on a daily basis. But our life is so nice — everything we want is just given, and we are protected.” That’s an illusion. Everybody is in the same boat in the material world. “Nobody gets out of here alive”. If you are in prison under sentence of death, and the fellow in the next cell is also, what’s the difference, really? He may be an unruly perso
