Posted on: 10 Sep 2021
[Shri Uttam asked: Pujya Swamiji, Pranams!! Day by day unwantedly going deeper and deeper into worldly desires. Even know the final destination is only at God's feet. How do I overcome this terrible state and find a straight direction towards final truth? How do I attain the ultimate Wisdom and mingle my mind and soul with Almighty God? My dreams are also not normal. Most of the time dark force, snake, ghost comes in my dream. Does it mean anything wrong I have done in past or in previous life. Want to concentrate my mind and soul towards God but not able to connect and obstacles are only worldly desires or thoughts. Is this punishment? Concentration always breached though I want to mingle with divine inspiration. Please enlighten me Regards, Uttam]
Swami replied:- Pravrutti or worldly life means following justice and resisting injustice. Pravrutti alone is the ultimate aim of God. If you asked God to help you in Pravrutti, God will certainly help you through your prayers. Nivrutti is spiritual life in which you are trying to become close to God thorough your true love and due to this the worldly bonds are dropped resulting in disappearance of Pravrutti. Therefore, God opposes Nivrutti and supports Pravrutti. Moreover, in Nivrutti you are loving God and God does not like to encourage your love to Him. If you are asking Him to encourage your love to Him, it is not correct. This means that your love is not real and strong. Therefore, you are asking Him to support your weak love to Him. If a girl asks her lover to do some encouraging deed so that she can love him, if the lover is wise, he should understand that her love to him is not true and strong.
Therefore, God always opposes Nivrutti for two reasons: 1) If God encourage Nivrutti, it means that the love of devotee to Him is not real and strong and 2) Due to progress in Nivrutti, Pravrutti becomes weaker and weaker, it is not desirable to God because His ultimate is only the pravrutti-constitution written by Him for souls. Moreover, if you ask God to help you in Nivrutti, you are insulting God by telling indirectly that you could not get real and strong love to Him. Nivrutti is actually discovered by the devotees and not by God. Hence, in Nivrutti the devotee shall take total responsibility knowing that God will oppose Nivrutti. The devotee must prove the strength of his/her devotion by himself/herself and that will be perfectly proper on the side of the devotee. God is not like the politician, who employs people to praise him before public!