Posted on: 02 Jul 2021
[Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi ji, Firstly I am a new to the group, I came to this group by one of Your students guidance as I have asked a doubt to her and she guided me to ask You. I found Lord Kṛṣṇa is even ready to break His promises or even ready to do Māyā for Dharma. Lord Kṛṣṇa is seeing the Mantavya (motive) of the person in any situation and is ready help that person in some way or other if his Mantavya is for good or dharma.
Doubt is? I actually work in a bank, previously I was very strict used to follow banking rules very strictly irrespective of Mantavya of customers bcoz of which I found some customers are facing trouble, getting hurt, wasting there time etc etc, but after seeing Radhakrishna serial might be, I started to break bank rules if Mantavya (motive) of the customer is good.
Eg: I have a 100 years old customer who barely is able to walk, hear, he lives with his only son and his son takes care of him. He gets pension of around 2000 every month and as per bank rules that old pensioner only should come to branch and withdraw amount since he is under illiterate category of customers, but because of this rule, time of his son is being wasted and even it causing pain to that old customer coming in auto etc etc. So I started giving pension amount to his son thinking that money is being used to take care of that old customer and satisfying myself saying my Mantavya (motive) is correct at the end even though I am breaking the bank rules. There are various numerous such situations in my daily job, I am completely taking decision on Mantavya (motive) these days. I am correct or wrong I donno??? Kindly guide Swāmiji, Regards, Hareesh kumar]
Swāmi Replied:- Did you take the permission of the old man to pay his pension to his son? Even if he has given the permission, take the phone number of the old man and phone to the old man that you have paid pension for this month to his son. This will ensure that the son is spending pension to his old father. Always means justify ends and sometimes, ends justify the means. If the end is justified, means are also justified and there is no sin in it. In such curved dealings, we have to be very very careful at every step because curved dealings shall not end in the victory of injustice and victory of selfishness. If the end is justified by a curved path, in such case, straight path will be sin. Sin can be removed by another sin like a thorn can be removed by another thorn. Kṛṣṇa followed this policy because by the end of Dvāpara age, 75% injustice was dominating. In this Kali age, 100% injustice is dominating and hence, the path suggested by Kṛṣṇa is very much applicable to the present time.