I count on holy Names when all goes bad for me. I am a brahmana in the brahma-madhva gaudiya vaisnava sampradaya, lol, ie the hare krsna movement. I will preach a little;
This world is not God's world, He is not here making decisions and doing everything. That He has set up, to run as if automatically, according to His laws. There is a warden of this seperated-from-heaven prison universe, of the many prison universes, in fact. She is known as Maya, in this one. Her authorized prison laws stand. So, Lord Krsna's's representative is in power here. In God's direct spiritual eternal realms, there is all-mercy, but here, the temporary and false "self" we identify with, the human body, is subject to the prison laws of karma, and that's it, brother. The drama is exquisite.
We came here in a sense of adventure and even sometimes rebellion, leaving the spiritual skies, but after we are done doing our own seperatist things here, if we are ready, we go back to God's worlds again, where there is no material form subject to decay and limitations, causing suffering to the soul.
God lives in infinite perfect worlds in the spiritual skies. We have free will, love being love only when freely and sincerely given. Being His sparks and like unto Him, We exercised that freedom, and left His direct company, to play, to be our own small God, being like prodigal sons, all.
God dwells within us eternally, and sees and feels everything we see and feel. Things are so stupid down here, though, He does not ordinarily take part in the goings on. He remains aloof, though He protects those even in the mundane worlds, who surrender and take shelter of Him. He also suffers to see the sufferings here, and so makes every possible endeavor to give us chances to get free. The soul does not belong encapsulated within matter and the karma of past actions. That is not the real self.
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