Posted on: 01 Aug 2022
[Shri Bharath Krishna asked: Pādanamaskāram Swami, A few devotees of Swami did Satsang yesterday. There were two arguments which came up.
Argument-1:- God has equal unimaginable love on every soul in this creation. But only the expression of His love is different on different souls depending upon the devotion of the soul to God.
Argument-2:- Although God has unimaginable love for this entire creation, God has special place for devotees in His heart. He Has more love on His devotees than on other souls.
Which argument is correct Swami? Please enlighten us. Your disciple, Bharath Krishna.]
Swami replied:- For Me, both the above arguments look like the same. He has universal love on all souls because He is the Divine Father of all children-souls. This is equal on all as the basic foundation. But, His love in response is according to the level of the love of various souls. All the ticket holders are allowed to enter the cinema theatre. This point is like the universal love of God on all souls, which is equal on all. All the ticket holders are having equal entry into the cinema theatre. But, as per the value of the ticket, the corresponding section in the theatre is shown by the gate-keeper of each section. Inside the theatre, there are different sections like floor, bench, chair and balcony. If you are having a floor ticket and try to enter the chair section, the gate-keeper of the chair section shows the floor section to you denying your entry into the chair section. This does not mean that you are denied entry into the theatre. This is diversity in equality. Diversity is in the entry to different sections. Universality is in the entry to the theatre. Hence, this is the essence of both the arguments and I don’t feel any essential difference in both the arguments.
The Divine Father, God (Aham biija pradah pitaa— Gita) has equal love on all the issues at the basic level, but, behaves differently with different types of issues, which is the appropriate manner. You must understand that even though the behaviour of the father differs from one issue to another issue, the basic background is only equal love. One son has fever due to infection and the father will take him to a doctor for medicines. Another son also got severe fever due to some ulcer in the stomach, which will not be cured without operation. The father will take the second son to a surgeon for operation. Giving medicines is an easier treatment than an operation. The father is not loving the first son more than the second son. Based on the requirement, the father acted. Similarly, a soul may be doing good deeds and the Divine Father will send that soul to heaven to encourage him to do more good deeds. A soul may be doing bad deeds and such soul will be sent to hell to reform the soul. You should not think that since the second soul is punished by God, God has lesser love on the second soul. In fact, God is more worried about the second soul. Sending to hell is like taking the second son to the surgeon, which indicates equal or even more concern about the second soul-child. If you understand the background of God’s actions, you will not get such doubts.