Q80. Why didn’t God save those who died on 9/11?

In the 2 towers which were brought down by the Islamic terrorist attack on 11SEP2001 in New York, normally around 50,000 people occupy those 2 buildings and around 3000 died. Many people say why didn’t God save them? Who saved the 47,000? It was Lord Krishna (God) who saved the 47,000. Lord Krishna is omnipresent (present everywhere) and He is the witness to all our actions in this life and our previous lives.

Lord Krishna does not create the terrorists nor criminals, human societies create them, and He simply allows us free will to do as we wish. The result of free will is that some humans will become terrorists, because they become followers of evil man-made ideology and become corrupted. But Lord Krishna has a system in place to control our use of free will. This is the law of nature, karma. For every action we take we will face an appropriate reaction. This is like the traffic laws in every country. If one speeds then one will get a fine, which puts a control on speeding, as most people stop speeding because of the fines imposed. Without the fines, nobody would follow the speeding laws and there would be disaster. A doctor will prescribe the correct medicine to a diseased patient, but if the patient does not take the medicine or makes up his own medicine then the he will not be cured, and the disease will intensify. The doctor will not force the patients to take the correct medicine and we cannot blame the doctor if the patient suffers more. In a similar way, Lord Krishna has prescribed the correct medicine that will enable all humans to get through this miserable material life with minimum misery and go back to the spiritual manifestation at the end of this short life. In the form of the instructions in the Bhagavad-Gita and other Vedic scriptures. But if we do not follow the instructions given by Lord Krishna, then we will become corrupt and suffer more in this life and stay in the material creation, suffering life after life. Just like the Doctors, Lord Krishna will not force us to follow Him, He has given us free will. Lord Krishna’s credentials is that He has appeared more than 18,000 times in His original form as Krishna and millions of times in His other forms. In each and every appearance, He proved that He was God without any doubt. Despite the over whelming evidence, the foolish will not accept Him as the supreme and will follow some unknown/invisible/unproven character as God. The cause, place, and time of death for each person are fixed at inception of soul into the womb of a mother. If a person is destined to live to say 70, then Lord Krishna will protect him until his time is up. Where ever the person goes, Lord Krishna will make arrangements to ensure he does not die before his due date (at 70 years). This explains why 2 people who were next to each other at one point in the building, one of them dies and the other does not. This is because the time was up for one of them and the time was not up for the other person and so Lord Krishna makes arrangements to protect the other person by moving him out of the building before it collapsed or before the planes crashed into the buildings. One person I know who worked in one of those buildings, but on the day of the attack, he was late to work and, so he wasn’t in the building. This was an arrangement by Lord Krishna to save this person, as his time was not up at that point. In a similar way, Lord Krishna made arrangements to save the 47.000 people, whose time was not depleted. Some terrorists and criminals do get away from the Police and are never caught and thus never get punished from the human law and order system. But with Lord Krishna’s (God’s) law and order system, karma, nobody gets away with anything. In the human courts, witnesses are called up by the Judge and their evidences are used to sentence the criminals based on their crimes. With Lord Krishna’s justice system, He is the Judge and He is the witness to every action that every living being takes, every second, in every life. Lord Krishna is omnipresent, present in the heart of all living beings as the super soul and also present in every atom, the perfect witness who misses nothing. Lord Krishna keeps a complete record of all our physical actions

and even our inner thoughts. At death, each person is judged by the perfect witness and Judge (Lord Krishna). Based on the Vedic teachings, the terrorists are not rewarded with virgins or heaven, they are sent to the hellish planets for a long time and then they go down to the animal kingdom (take birth as animals). The proof of this is that there are many animals in the world, the souls in animal bodies were once in human bodies but due to aggressive behavior and ignorance, they now have a more suitable body to practice their aggression/ignorance. “At death, those who have developed the mode of goodness, will go to the higher planets where the saintly persons live. Those who have developed the mode of passion, will take birth among those engaged in materialistic activities. Those who have developed the mode of ignorance, will take birth in the animal kingdom.”(Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 14.14-15)