Can One's Love for God Miraculously Cancel One's Sins?

[Shri Anil Antony asked: Jesus told that the sins of the devotee will be excused in proportion to the love possessed by the devotee to the God. Does this mean that the love to God has such miraculous power to cancel the sins?]

Swami replied: The love to God does not have any miraculous power. Even if it has the miraculous power, such miraculous power is not used to cancel the sins. Due to love to God, God comes down in human form to preach the devotee about the reformation-path of cancellation of sins, which is realization (recognition of sin without false twists supporting the sin as merit), repentance and finally followed by non-repetition of the sin in the rest of the life. Mere confession of sin is not sufficient to cancel the sins. Confession, repentance and non-repetition of sin alone complete the process of reformation of the soul so that its sins can be cancelled by God. Without the final practical step of non-repetition of sin, sins cannot be practically cancelled. With mere realization followed by repentance (both these are theoretical steps) the sins are not practically (really) cancelled, but are cancelled theoretically (means that the sins appear to have been really cancelled, but are not cancelled really). God is just our reflection (pratiruupo babhuuva- Veda). When Mary Magdelena worshiped Jesus with perfumes, one fellow commented that the cost of perfumes could have been diverted to feed beggars. Jesus told that the devotee shall be allowed to worship Him to her satisfaction and commented that beggars exist always in this world. The devotee who commented like that is not eligible to pass on such comment because the immediate question to him will be “Did you spend all your expenses of pleasures for feeding beggars only?” Anybody shall comment only after perfect practice of a concept. Then, Jesus told that her sins will be cancelled proportionally to her love towards Him. This means that even if God preaches the total concept of reformation to a soul, the soul will digest it proportionally as per the quantity of devotion. If there is full devotion, the digestion of the concept is also full. If the devotion is partial, the digestion of the concept will be also partial. This means that unless one has full devotion on God, who preached this concept of reformation, the sins are not cancelled. If it is so, unless the full digestion is completed, sins shall not be cancelled at all. But, Jesus told that partial cancellation takes place for partial digestion due to partial devotion. This clearly means that partial devotion results in partial implementation of reformation to some lighter sins by which some sins are cancelled and not all the sins because the harder sins take time to be cancelled through reformation.

Some say that Jesus married this lady and got children also. Whether Jesus is married or not, how does it matter as far as His valuable preaching is concerned, which alone is going to benefit us? If you have gone to a teacher for tuition in a subject, you are concerned with the preaching of that subject only. You need not bother about the personal life of that teacher. Moreover, Jesus married legally and got children. This is not any unjust and illegal activity to criticize Him. Even if God is mediated by a human body, such human body will have its own natural characteristics like hunger for food, thirst for water, sleep for rest and legal sex. All these are inevitable biological needs of human body. I don’t understand that why sex alone is isolated as important. If the human incarnation eats food, drinks water and sleeps for rest, nobody is bothered! If the human incarnation or a God-man is involved in legal sex, why should such person be looked down? In such case, the God-man eating food, drinking water and sleeping for rest must be also looked down for not conquering the biological needs of the body! If illegal sex is done by such God-man, He can be criticized after analyzing the case very carefully because the case of Krishna is mis-understood. The negative qualities of rajas and tamas are sometimes, projected by God in human form so that it may help in repelling the selfish souls having positive qualities. Repulsion of selfish people avoids their exploitation of God for selfish benefits. The negative qualities are exhibited by God, sometimes, to test the firmness of faith of devotees. Sometimes, the deep analysis shows that the negative qualities are superficial only involved in testing the devotees deeply. Gopikas occupying the top most level of devotion are tested by God Krishna in all their worldly bonds. Krishna stole the butter (wealth) preserved for their issues to test the strength of the bond for wealth (Dhaneshanaa) and the bond for issues (Putreshanaa) when both bonds stand in competition with God. Krishna danced with Gopikas to test the strength of their bond with their life partners (Daareshanaa) standing in competition with God. When Krishna died, Gopikas jumped into fire, which is the test of the strength of their bond to their lives (Praaneshanaa). On deep analysis, one can find that Krishna has not done this for any selfish motive. Once this test is completed, Krishna never returned to Brundavanam and Krishna never repeated this test elsewhere in His life. Shirdi Sai Baba may appear as a smoker and this is not His weakness, but this is to test the faith of orthodox devotees in Him. Hence, we shall not jump with fast conclusions in the case of God-men. Of course, false God-men appear as unmarried bachelors projecting themselves as winners of the concept of sex while carrying on illegal sex secretly!

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