Posted on: 14 Jan 2022
[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked:- Seeing cinemas and reading novels related to worldly matters is the common entertainment of everybody in the society at present. How to control this by the soul intending to travel in spiritual line?]
Swami replied:- In fact, unnecessary gossip with friends, seeing worldly cinemas and reading worldly novels are the three hindering factors in the progress of spiritual path, which are the modified forms of the three heavenly dancers called Rambhaa, Uurvaashii and Menakaa, who were used to spoil the penance of sages. If the devotees are unable to control themselves from the influence of these three hindering factors of spiritual progress, there is a path in which you can divert these three hindering factors into the side of spiritual line, by which the negativity of these factors is reduced to some extent. The Mahaabhaarata is also a social movie in which the story of Pravrutti of worldly souls like Pandavas and Kauravas is described. But, in this story there is a role of personified God Krishna involved everywhere supporting justice and destroying injustice everywhere in the line of Pravrutti. If we want pure Nivrutti, we shall see the movies of the Raamaayanam and the Bhaagavatam.
The present social movie is neither the Mahaabhaaratam of Pravrutti type in which God Krishna personally appears recognized by several devotees nor the Raamaayanam or the Bhaagavatam of Nivrutti type in which the story of human incarnations of God only are described. The present social movie or social novel is the Mahaabhaaratam without the appearance of Krishna. Hence, people see the present social movie or read social novel as pure worldly affair only without any element of spiritual line involving God. Now, the modified way is to see the social movie or read the social novel imagining the role of unimaginable God as imaginable and invisible first energetic incarnation called God Datta in the background of the story, who is following the story supporting the justice and punishing the injustice everywhere till the end where the final victory is given to justice only. This trend of final victory to justice is generally followed by every writer of the story of the movie or novel. This trend satisfies every spectator in the end of the story and hence, the movie or novel will be successful based on which only the writer is strictly following this type of end of the story.
In this way if the devotee follows the movie or novel, the worldly matter of the movie or novel gains the colour of spiritual line and becomes almost equal to seeing or reading the movie or novel of Mahaabhaaratam respectively. By such imagined background, at least, the concept of liking justice and disliking injustice in Pravrutti is developed for which the basic reason is that if you are a devotee you must like the likes of God and dislike the dislikes of God. God always likes justice and dislikes injustice in Pravrutti. Even in Nivrutti God likes justice and dislikes injustice applying the same constitution of Pravrutti to Nivrutti also. God Krishna warned Gopikas to go back to their homes threatening them with severe punishment in hell, which is embracing the hot copper statue of Krishna for the sin of dancing with Krishna. Gopikas refused this advice of Krishna saying that since the statue is of Krishna, they will be very happy to embrace it. In this way, Nivrutti is started by devotees only and not by God. Hence, if the soul is trained in perfect Pravrutti, the spiritual effort of the soul from the view point of God is completed. Therefore, if devoted soul follows the cinema or novel with this spiritual background from the beginning, the hindering factor is turned into promoting factor.