Posted on: 20 Jul 2021
[Śrī Hareesh Kumar asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmji. Thanks a lot Swāmi ji, I was able to take few tough decisions in my day to day life because of the answer given by You regarding, “Can I take decisions based on motive of others?”
I was wondering how I was able to take decision without any hesitation this time after Your answer, Is it because of the confidence I got by Your reply? Is it because of increase in intelligence? Is it because of my similar experiences? Generally I found all questions the devotees are asking You, they might be having answers with themselves some way or other but still we are hesitant to accept the answers which we have. Why is it so?
How was Lord Rāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa, Lord Śiva were able to take such tough decisions without any influence from anything, without any hesitation, without thinking the consequences?
As I am seeing Radhakrishna serial these days I found Lord Kṛṣṇa took many tough decisions in His life without coming under any influence of His family, brother, relatives etc. without thinking about consequences He was self-confident on Himself, why we are not having such confidence on the decisions, answers which we have and always trying for approval from someone may be family, friends, Gurus? How to build such self-confidence like Lord Kṛṣṇa? Kindly share Your wisdom Swāmji. Keep smiling take care. Regards, Hareesh kumar]
Swāmi Replied:- God is omniscient. He knows past, present and future (Tānyahaṃ Veda…- Gītā). However much the human being may be intelligent, it cannot take correct decision in all issues. Correct decision may be taken by an intellectual in several issues, but, in very few issues at least the decision will become wrong. In the case of human incarnation, the innermost omniscient God-component gives the true knowledge and not the external human being-component. It is the God Datta, who speaks the knowledge through Me. All merits are with God and all defects are with the souls. Sometimes, merits are found with souls because God’s grace falls on them. Therefore, any soul shall not project itself thinking that the merit is its inherent quality. If any merit is found in any human being, it should pass on the credit of the merit to God only. Self-projection thinking that the merit belongs to itself is the ego of the soul. If you find merit in others, be happy because that merit also belongs to God’s grace only. If you have this knowledge, you will not differentiate yourself and others regarding the merit expressed because anywhere the merit expressed belongs to God only. When you see merit of others, you misunderstand that such merit is inherent of that soul (as you feel that your merit is inherent of yourself) and hence, you feel jealous of that soul. Any devotee after eradicating ego and jealousy will attain God Datta, who gave Himself to Sage Atri not having ego and Anasūyā not having jealousy. The human being misses human incarnation here and the energetic being misses energetic incarnation in the upper world due to these ego and jealousy only generating from repulsion between common media.