Posted on: 14 Mar 2018
Shri Kishore Ram asked: Padanamaskaram Swami
1) When a devotee approaches God for help and if the sheet of deeds of that devotee does not allow the help, what is the result?
Swami replied: Since God is not bound by the constitution of deeds and fruits, God helps the devotee even if the help is not supported by the sheet of deeds, provided such help, in His view, will bring spiritual uplift to that devotee. The sheet of deeds allows the help even if the devotee does not approach God provided such help exists in the sheet of deeds as a fruit of some good deed done by the devotee, in which case, the help is done due to the constitution of deeds. If the sheet does not allow the help and in the view of God, the help will not help him in the spiritual progress or reformation, God keeps silent. Since God is omniscient unlike us, His estimation of the future of the devotee will never go wrong. Sometimes, we help a person thinking that the person will be reformed by that help. But, our expectation fails and the person is not reformed. This will not take place in the case of God. When God keeps silent and the help is not done, the devotee is attacked by the misery. Such misery will develop the fear for sin in the mind of the devotee. Hence, even such misery is helping the devotee in getting reformed through misery. Hence, the reaction of God is always a double-edged knife helping the devotee in any way. Hence, it is better to approach God for the help and keep faith in devotion to God undisturbed even if the help is not rendered. This approach to God will always help you whether your required help is rendered or not. Such devotion with the background of such spiritual knowledge is called as best devotion (Paraabhakti). We must note that God is the creator of souls, called as Divine Father (aham beeja pradah pitaa – Gita). A father always tries to help the issue in all the possible ways. The human father is blind in his fascination to his issues and fears to punish the issue for the reformation. The Divine Father is different, Who aims at the final reformation only and not the intermediate misery of the issue. A doctor gives injection even if the child weeps aiming at the final cure of the illness. But, a doctor-father does not give injection to his child and requests another doctor to give the injection!