Posted on: 21 Jul 2009
Shankara told that if you are interested in God, it is immaterial whether you are in congenial atmosphere or in the opposite atmosphere (Yogaratova Bhogaratova…). This applies equally to a person interested in the worldly affairs. If you are a real devotee of God, you will rememberGod only, e.g. whether you see a devotional movie or a social movie. Even if it is a social movie, involving worldly scenes only, without any direct scene related to God, you will see God only everywhere. Generally, in social movies some scenes show development of injustice through cheating, rowdyism etc., and some other scenes show the defeat of injustice and suppression of rowdyism through victory of justice and power of hero respectively. In these scenes, if you seethe will and plan of God working behind to suppress injustice etc., you will enjoythe glory of God only in the final stage. Thus, you see the power of God that entered some good people, who defeat the injustice etc., in the cinema. You will also appreciate the concept of induced human incarnation (Aveshaavatara) through such scenes. You will appreciatethe concept of human form of God, which is possible at any place and at anytime. The Gita says that a devotee sees God everywhere and also sees everything in God, which means that everything is under the control of God only (Yomampashyatisarvatra…). The Gita says that the power of God is pervading the entire world and can induce any human form in any situation to establish the truth and justice (Sarvatah panipadam tat…). The entire social movie becomes Ramayanam or Bhagavatam or Bharatam according to the scenes and situations of the cinema for a devotee.
God is available anywhere for any devotee. The power of God that is spread everywhere in the world, which can express itself through any existing living being to protect the justice is the cosmic vision (Vishwarupa) of God. The cosmic vision is simply the world containing all the living and non-living beings controlled by God who is behind. It indicates that the power of God can come out through any living or non-living being. If necessary, even a non-living object moves in the direction of the will of God to establish the justice. A thief may be trying to kill a good person. Suddenly a huge stone may slip from the hill and may fall on the thief and kill him on the spot. Here, there may not be any living being near that situation to interfere by the will of God. The living and non living items of the world are completely under the control of God only. Therefore, God appears in two forms. One form is a limited human form for preaching the knowledge. To establish the justice, the power of God is required, which can act through any living or non-living being. Suppression of injustice in a situation requires urgent solution for which a limited human form of God cannot appear, since it has to take birth and grow. So much time is not available. God can also create a human form and appear in the situation, if it is required so. But, if a human being is available near the situation, it is unnecessary to create a new human form. The limited human form of God is Krishna (Manusheem tanu maashritam …) and the other unlimited form of God is the power of God controlling every inch of the Universe indicated by the cosmic vision.
If There is A Will There is A Way
Similarly, a person involved in the worldly affairs only, without devotion to God gets worldly concepts only, even if he sees Ramayanam or Bhagavatam. From Ramayanam, the worldly person derives the conclusions like good brotherly-hood as in the case of Rama and Lakshmana, good love to son as in the case of Dasharatha to Rama, good love of husband to wife or vice-versa as in the case of Rama and Sita, romantic love in youth as in the case of Radha and Krishna etc. Even if the limited human form in which God exists (human incarnation) is seen, the spiritual knowledge may not be realized. A learned devotee will see Rama as God and the other roles as His followers like Adishesha (Lakshmana), Mahalakshmi (Sita) etc. The devotee sees only God in the form of Rama, showing immense love to His close followers or sometimes testing the followers in their faith. Worldly persons cannot see God even in the limited human form, even though the human incarnation is the direct form of God. In social movies, even if the direct form of God is absent, the devotee sees God indirectly through His power establishing justice. If there is a will there is a way always. Similarly, in the real world also, a worldly person can never recognize the contemporary human incarnation. Even if one recognizes, the recognition is only to exploit the power of the human incarnation to solve the personal worldly problems. A devotee may not see the human form of the God but sees God in the world everywhere, through keen observation of incidents of the surrounding people. A devilish person on seeing Ramayana or Bharata tries to learn the mistakes done by the roles of villain and plans to avoid those mistakes, so that injustice can be done without shortfalls. Some people see the victory of good qualities like truth and justice and become overwhelmed without touching the concept of God, while seeing the devotional or social movies. Such people reach heaven only from which they return to the earth after sometime. They will not reach the abode of God due to the absence of the element of God in their minds. You have appreciated the protected justice only and not the protector God.
Therefore, the people who see social movies and serials can also become devotees of God if their angle and the background of their vision are directed towards God in this way. Even if they see the social movie or serials with this angle, their view can be considered equal to the worship of God, done by a sincere devotee. They will receive the grace of God, equal to the devotee hearing or seeing Ramayanam, Bhagavatam etc.
The people, who learn the tactful way of doing injustice from movies will go to hell. The people, who learn the love of worldly bonds from the movies, will be born as living beings on the earth. The people, who appreciate the victory of justice over injustice, will go to heaven for a temporary period. The people, who see God directly or indirectly everywhere in the movie, will reach the abode of God. Generally, we think that a person reading Ramayana or Bhagavatha gets the grace of God. It is not correct. It depends on the attitude and angle of the reader. A person reading a social novel may also get the grace of God, if his mind is realizing the interference of God in the back ground of every step. Sometimes, a movie or novel happens to be a tragedy in which a good person suffers even at the end. In such case, the doctrine of karma should be applied, which happens to be a part of the spiritual knowledge. Here, the learned devotee thinks that the previous sin of the good person, resulted in such punishment and in this case, it is not injustice. It is only clearance of his past sin, which should not be considered as injustice done by some villain to him. In this case, the villain is only a namesake instrument to pass on the punishment by the will of God. An ignorant person thinks that the tragic end of a good person as the final victory of injustice in this world and this is totally wrong since the Administrator is the Omniscient God. Such impression comes due to lack of knowledge of the previous births or even the childhood in which several sins are done without any realization.