THOUGHTS ON CONNECTICUT

We Vedantists ask how Brahman could allow 27 people, including 20 children, to be murdered by Adam Lanza.

First off, Brahman is not a person, someone of whom this can be asked.  Brahman is everything, all possibilities, including, sadly enough in the case of Mr. Lanza, mental illness. 

To say, meantime, that mental illness, or any condition in existence, is the will of Brahman is, again, to misunderstand what Brahman is.  Will has nothing to do with it.

To say that Brahman is heartless, however, is not fair either.  If anything in this world has a heart, then so does Brahman.