When I look around, I see only misery, hate, anger, greed and meaningless violence. How do I know that there is a higher power around me?

Question - Gurudev, when I look around, I see only misery, hate, anger, greed and meaningless violence. How do I know that there is a higher power around me?

Gurudev Sri Sri - See, the nature of our mind is when we see misery we magnify it. If ten complements are given to you and one insult is given to you, what you usually do is, you catch hold of that one insult and blow it out of proportion. My dear, I would like to tell you, there are a lot of good things also happening in the society. There is lot of service happening. There are a lot of good intended people around, and if you look into the eyes of these people, you will feel that there is compassion and love in most people's hearts and minds. I agree there is hate, anger and greed. This is because we have not been able to educate them in human values.