28 August 2014 - QA 5

If everybody’s soul is Krishna then why is there so much negativity and violence in this world?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

The soul is God, but in many people the God inside is sleeping, and so you are not able to see the light that is deep inside. The Divine is also in those who do wrong things. It is not that people who do bad things are devoid of God, no, it is just that the Divinity is covered; sleeping.
In Sanskrit we say, 'Devi Jagran'. This means that Divine qualities exist in everyone, it only needs to be awakened. These Divine qualities are dormant in our consciousness and need to be awakened.
If you see, in an awakened consciousness there will be no negativity or violence.

We should see the world and all its event as a play. That is why it is called as a Leela (Divine Play).