Posted on: 11 Nov 2017
Shri Anil asked:
1) People, who crucified Jesus (along with the disciple cheating Jesus) have done this sin as per the will of God only and did not commit any sin. How do you justify this?
Swami replied: If these people are not sinners, why Jesus prayed God to excuse them for their sin? At the same time, since Jesus told that the will of God, which is crucifixion of Jesus, shall be done (Ref: prayer of Jesus before arrest) they can’t be punished and hence no need of excusing them since they acted as per the will of God. This is a critical juncture developed by misunderstanding a subtle concept of correlation: There are two contradicting concepts: 1) Everything takes place in this world as per the will of God only, in which case, none shall be punished and God only shall be punished for all the sins and 2) even though God is the basic power of action, the direction of the deed is set by the souls only and hence good or bad fruit shall reach the soul only in the end. The first concept is defective and shall be modified as that every action takes place as per the will of God only in the sense that the will of God is the basic power of action that does not decide the direction of the action. If the first concept is modified in this way, it does not contradict the second concept.
In the above settled setup, the basic question is that whether the crucifixion of Jesus was done by the will of God or by the sinful will of those cruel people. The answer is that crucifixion of Jesus was purely done by the cruel will of those people only. Now, where is the place for God’s will? The place for God’s will is that it can stop the crucifixion if God likes so. It is on this point, the discussion between God and Jesus went on. In fact, Jesus asked God that whether He can stop the crucifixion of Jesus or not. The prayer of Jesus did not contain the point that why God planned such horrible crucifixion. Therefore, it is clear that the crucifixion is not the plan of God, but, is the plan of those people as per their cruel psychology. God only used this incident to create sympathy and kindness in those stony hearts to induce spiritual knowledge in future. Hence, God did not stop the natural incidents that will take place as per their cruel minds. The sacrifice of Jesus was at this juncture to be prepared for the horrible slaughter for this divine purpose. This preparedness of Jesus for the divine service is the test of God. Jesus has not done any previous sin for which such punishment is given by those people, in which case, they are not sinners. It is a fresh sin committed by those people and not the revengeful punishment for any previous sin committed by Jesus (human being component). If you take the example of Kartavirya, he was having defective hands, which were broken by the hit of Datta in His test. If Kartavirya was in his palace only without coming to Datta, he would have fallen from upper floor and the same punishment would have happened. This case is punishment of his previous sin, which was used by Datta for His test. In the case of Jesus, the cruel crucifixion given by those people was not the punishment of any previous sin of Jesus. You can differentiate Jesus and Kartavirya from their behaviors in their lives. Since crucifixion was a fresh sin committed by those people, they shall be punished in the future. In view of this only, Jesus prayed God to excuse them since their sin was fresh and not a form of revenge of some previous sin. Since their cruel nature was used for the divine purpose, there is logic in the prayer of Jesus to excuse them.
This correlation is very important because every fellow does a sin and says that the sin happened since the will of God is reason for everything! Such wrong concepts twisted to escape from the punishments of sins are useless since these indicate the over-intelligence of some wrong preachers in twisting the concepts for negative applications.
Dr Nikhi asked:
2) Why have women traditionally been treated as inferior and maligned?
3) Isn’t materialism the root cause of gender-biases against women?
4) Shouldn't the seeking and sharing of spiritual knowledge be a fundamental duty of every human being?
Swami Replied: You are perfectly correct in arriving the concept that women are suppressed by men through differentiation of gender, just for the basic financial issue. Finance is the root of this world (Dhanamulamidam jagat). There are two stages of time: 1) age of ancient sages, who were very good scholars of the Vedas and 2) Middle age of priests, who blindly recited the Veda without following their meaning. It is the second age, which is responsible for such cruel and selfish suppression of women of all castes and suppression of lower castes by higher castes (lower and higher decided by births and not by qualities and deeds). These two are the most dangerous diseases developed in Hinduism, which destroyed the strength and unity of Hindus. Swami Dayaananda tried His level best to rectify these diseases.
These tape recorder priests suppressed women to learn even Sanskrit and limited them to regional language called as Prakrutam. The reason behind this is that if they learn Sanskrit, they will come to know the original concepts and question regarding the injustice. If you see the ancient age of sages, Sūta, a low-caste person was made as the president of the sacrifice conducted by all ancient sages. Balarama killed the pot maker due to caste feeling and it was condemned by all the sages. Balarama repented and rectified his mistake by giving back the life to the killed person. Balarama is one of the ten incarnations and you can think the power of ignorant caste system by birth that grew as huge poisonous tree in Hinduism. Similarly, several female Vedic scholars were familiar in the ancient India. Maitreyi, Gargi, Sulabhaa Yogini, Suvarchala, Apaalaa, Ghoshaa, Romashaa, Lopaamudraa, Vaak, Shachi, Paulomi, Visvadhaaraa, Shaasvati, Sarparaajni, Suryasaavitri, Shraddhaa Kaamaayani, Indrani, Urvashi, Yami Vaivasvati, Daakshaini etc., were several women to be praised and many of them were authors of parts (Suktas) of the Veda.
These priests denied the three threads (Upanayanam) to women and in fact, Upanayanam means coming close to God through singing sweet songs (Gayatri) and the real Gayatri is with women only. Who sing on God with their sweet voice? If the background of ritual is understood and the truth is realized, all castes and both genders are eligible for this ritual, which is not wearing three threads in reality.
The actual background of this cruel difference between both genders of all castes by birth is suppression of economic right to women. For this robbery of the property, the funeral rituals were linked to the three threads, which were denied to women. The funeral ritual involves only prayers to God (even in mother tongue since God knows all languages) to protect the departed soul with the help of preacher-priests and donating something to them from the property of the departed soul.
The word ‘Putra’ means both son and daughter (as per Ekashesha Sutra of Grammar) having equal rights in the property as explained in the Veda (manuh putrebhyo daayamadaat). Of course, unequal distribution of property can be also done based on their capabilities of earning as Apat-dharma, but not based on gender. The general dharma is to give equal shares of property to both sons and daughters. This is the basic economic issue on which all the above atrocities were built-up! If this basic issue is solved by implementing the present Act, all the above fog of injustice disappears by itself!
All souls irrespective of caste by birth and gender are eligible for the spiritual knowledge provided the required quality exists, which is the love to God decided by sharp analysis. The Veda says that the so called males in souls are not only females but are also wives of God (Striyah satih pumsaahuh). Wife means the maintained and husband means the maintainer. Even the word ‘purusha’ means the awareness (Paraaprakruti) that pervades all over the body and this is equal to both male and female. The difference between male and female is only in very few places of the external gross body that is to be burnt in fire in the end. Such ephemeral difference can’t bring even a trace of substantial difference between genders. Rama gave salvation to Shabari, the lady of low caste and not to male sages in the forest. Even the male sages got salvation, when they were born in their final birth as uneducated female Gopikas of lower caste by birth devoid of ego of caste, gender and education. Ego makes any soul to become blind or incapable of doing analysis called as ignorance. Ego and ignorance combined is the most dangerous case for treatment like the case of a patient having B.P. and Sugar together! Such soul neither knows by itself nor has submissiveness to listen preachers.