Why does God allow suffering?

Dadashri: This world operates subject to regulation, it is not baseless. There is a regulator of the world which constantly keeps the world in regulation.

Now, there was a woman waiting at the bus stand. Is waiting at the bus stand considered a fault? However, all of a sudden from the side, a bus comes crashing into the bus stand because the driver lost control of the steering wheel. The bus came onto the footpath and ran over the woman, destroying the bus stand as well. Immediately a crowd of fi ve hundred people gathered around there. Now, if you were to ask them “Where is the justice in this?” Then they would say, “This poor woman died due to no fault of her own. What was the woman’s fault in all of this? It is the driver who is unfit.” Then four to fi ve intellectual people get together and say, “These bus drivers, what kind of people are they? They should be thrown in jail. This is what should be done to them! The poor woman was waiting at the bus stand, what was her fault in this?” Hey, mortal one! You do not know what her fault was. She had committed a fault and that is why she died. Now, as for the driver, it will be considered his fault when he is caught. When the case is heard in court, if it is fruitful, then so be it. Otherwise, they will acquit him. That woman’s fault has been caught today. Hey! Can anyone kill [another person] without a past karmic account? The woman has repaid a past karmic account. You should understand that the woman has suffered so it is her fault. Later, when the driver gets caught, at that time it will be his fault. Whoever gets caught today is at fault.

On the other hand, some people even say, “If God exists, then such a thing would never happen. Therefore, in this worldly life, it does not seem like there is such a thing as God! What was this woman’s fault? God  certainly does not exist in this world!” Lo and behold! This is the deduction these people have made! Hey, what is this for? Why are you defaming God? Why are you making God vacate his house? They are out to expel God from his house! Hey, if God did not exist, then what would be left in this world? What is it that these people believe? That God no longer has control. Therefore, people’s faith in God vanishes. Hey, it is not like that. All these are ongoing karmic accounts. These are not from a single lifetime. Today, the woman’s fault was caught, and that is why she had to suffer. All this is justice. The woman got crushed, that is justice. Therefore, this world is in regulation. This is what needs to be said in brief.

If it actually was the driver’s fault, then the government would have had strict laws; so strict, that the driver would have been stopped right there, shot and killed immediately. But in fact, even the government would not say that. That is because he cannot be killed. In actual sense, he is not at fault, however, he has created a new offense, which will be considered a fault when he suffers. However, he has freed the woman from her fault. So she has become free from the offense and he has become bound by an offense. That is why ‘we’ say all this, to give the right understanding so that one does not become bound by any fault.