Posted on: 11 Jun 2021
[Smt. Priyanka asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, I have a few questions to ask. I'm not sure if these were already answered before. Please forgive me if I am asking again. Does God keep silent sometimes without giving advice even to His closest devotees because it is necessary for something to happen due to the fate of that person or do devotees get divine advice/guidance from God all the time directly or indirectly and it depends on how it is being realised / received by the devotee? Also, is it up to the people themselves to first and foremost ask God for advice and then only we shall receive God's divine guidance?]
Swāmi Replied:- Kṛṣṇa preached the Gītā to Arjuna. Even if Arjuna requested Kṛṣṇa to preach the Gītā again, Kṛṣṇa told that it is not possible to preach the Gītā again because it was preached by the Spiritual King (Yogeśvara) present in Him in the war only. When Arjuna insisted, Kṛṣṇa preached Anugītā, which is not at all the Bhagavad Gītā in quality. This means that the soul shall be attentive when God preaches the true Spiritual knowledge and shall apply it to the practical situations in the life. The principles are studied in the college and their applications in the practical job works are done by the student with the help of intelligence. A Sadguru is like the author of the legal constitution. A Guru is like an advocate, who can be consulted for every specific case. One shall have the true Spiritual knowledge preached by Sadguru because sometimes a Guru may misinterpret it by mixing his own poetry! When an advocate gives a legal advice to you, you must also refer the constitution to check whether his legal advice is as per the heart of the constitution or not. The reason is that the advice of the advocate may not be accepted by the judge in the court. To check up all this, one must have his/her own intelligence to do sharp logical analysis. One may approach the author of the constitution directly, if he is alive. But, such possibility does not exist with every generation.