{"id":34397,"date":"2021-03-23T00:38:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T22:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=34397"},"modified":"2021-03-23T00:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T22:38:54","slug":"why-evil-is-part-of-gods-creation-sri-sri-paramahansa-yogananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/kriyayogaguru-yogananda\/why-evil-is-part-of-gods-creation-sri-sri-paramahansa-yogananda","title":{"rendered":"*Why evil is part of God&#8217;s creation* Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Why evil is part of God&#8217;s creation*<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-15053\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paramahansa_Yogananda_Standard_Pose-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"862\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The truth is that God is using evil, not to destroy us, but to make us disillusioned with His toys, with the playthings of this world, so that we might seek Him.<br \/>\nThis is why the Lord Himself permits injustices and evil. But I have said to Him, Lord, You have never suffered. You have always been perfect. How do you know what suffering is? Yet you have put us through these tests; and You had no business doing it. We didn&#8217;t ask to be born as mortals and to suffer.&#8221; [ He doesn&#8217;t mind that I argue with Him. He is very patient.] The Lord answers, You don&#8217;t have to go on suffering; I have given everyone the free will to choose good instead of evil, and thus come back to Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,<br \/>\nThe Divine Romance.<br \/>\nP.110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Why evil is part of God&#8217;s creation* The truth is that God is using evil, not to destroy us, but to make us disillusioned with His toys, with the playthings of this world, so that we might seek Him. This is why the Lord Himself permits injustices and evil. But I have said to Him, Lord, You have never suffered. You have always been perfect. How do you know what suffering is? Yet you have put us through these tests; and You had no business doing it. We didn&#8217;t ask to be born as mortals and to suffer.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kriyayogaguru-yogananda","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34399,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions\/34399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}