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happen?”                                                     cannot protect you.


    “You are back to square one – your mind                     4. Accidents, financial loss etc: Again,

    (ego) needs an answer – a black and                         being careful and cautious can help you to
    white answer – that a conditioned-mind                      certain extent. If you go deeply into the
    can understand. It is not satisfied. But it is               reason, you would see about 80 percent
    the nature of mind. It will continue asking                 of bad things happen in this category due

    why bad things happen to me.”                               to your own mistake or ignorance. Please
                                                                understand you will get a nasty shock if
    “Yes – the question always pops-up”                         you touch electric wire knowingly or
    “Ok. Let's do a deeper research into this
                                                                unknowingly. But, still there are 20 pct bad
    so-called “bad-things”. Bad things can be
                                                                things happen because of others (see the
    broadly classified into four:
                                                                category 2 above). And they don't care if

    1. Genetically: Diseases and conditions:                    you are good and bad. At the best we can
    Being good cannot protect you if you are                    try to minimize the risk if we can but we
                                                                can't eliminate the unpredictable.
    unlucky – You cannot guarantee that you
    will not develop the condition – it is
                                                                I hope you got my points” I paused.
    usually (but not always) unpredictable.
    Those genes won't disappear just                            “So it is not surprising that bad things

    because you are good.                                       happen to good people. That's the way
                                                                the world works!”
    2. Bad things are done by others to you –

    like what happened in your case. They are                   “Yes- that's it. Besides inconsistency in life
    insecure and do not value ethics in life.                   is what makes it interesting and livable. It
    Unpredictable and unexpected things can                     keeps you wondering and looking for
    happen from others – e.g. back stabbing,                    explanations… It gives you a purpose.

    mugging, exploitation, cheating etc…                        Humans would become organic robots
    Common sense will help you to reduce                        otherwise! If only good things happen to
    the risk but being good cannot protect you                  good people and bad things to bad
    if you are in the wrong place at the wrong                  people, would we still have freedom of

    time. Those insecure asuras (demons)                        choice?”
    won't care whether you are good or not.
                                                                “So there is no point of being good…”
    3. Natural calamities: These too are
    unpredictable and no place on earth is                      “Being good is a relative term… The
    safe from natural disasters. Natural                        concepts of good and bad are different in
    calamities can't distinguish between good                   different places and culture… Religions

       and bad people and being good                                and society teach you good and bad


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