Premanand Ji Maharaj on wavering faith and why bad things happen

Two questions often arrive together: why is this happening to me, and why is my faith slipping? His answers are linked.

Premanand Ji Maharaj at a riverside satsang

In short

  • Wavering faith is ordinary, not shameful.
  • Keep the practice running through the doubt.
  • Certainty arrives behind the practice, not in front of it.
  • Difficulty is not evidence of a wrong turn.

Wavering is ordinary

Keep the practice running through the doubt. Certainty arrives behind it.

He treats doubt as ordinary rather than shameful. The instruction is not to wait for certainty to return before continuing.

Why bad things happen to good people

He does not offer the comfortable answer. He treats difficulty as the field where devotion is either real or decorative, and he speaks from years on the ghats at Varanasi with nothing arranged in advance. His point is not that suffering is deserved, but that it is not evidence you have taken a wrong turn.

The distance

His diagnosis of nearly every complaint: suffering is the distance between what happened and what you demanded. Close that distance and the same events land differently.

Where this comes from

Everything on this page is drawn from what this site records of his public satsang on the questions page and the teachings page. It summarises his position; it does not quote him word for word.

This is a fan website, not the official site of Shri Hit Radha Keli Kunj. The article summarises what he teaches in public satsang; it does not quote him. If something here is wrong, tell us and it is corrected the same week.

Quick answers

Questions people ask about this

My faith keeps wavering. Is that a failure?

No. He treats wavering as ordinary; keep the practice running through the doubt.

Why do bad things happen to good people, according to Premanand Ji Maharaj?

He does not say suffering is deserved. He says difficulty is not evidence of a wrong turn, and it is where devotion becomes real.

When will I feel certain?

In his telling, certainty arrives behind the practice, not before it.

Keep reading