God's Entertainment in the Relative Reality

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Message on Dasara, Day-6] The continuous entertainment (ananda) is possible only in the world when God exists in the relative reality. In the state of absolute reality, space also disappears and God alone is leftover. In such state, there is no question of any entertainment. If you take God in to such state of absolute reality, you are making God bored. There will be no necessity at any time for God to cross the space (Mula Maya) because God need not destroy this world completely and regenerate it. The show of cinema is withdrawn but the film roll is never destroyed by any producer unless he is extremely mad. The dissolution of the world means the closure of the show only and the world in subtle state is protected, which is regenerated as per the Veda (Yathaa Purvamakalpayat…). Therefore, God will never cross Mula Maya (primary energy or space) at any time. He is only aware of absolute reality and such awareness exists in God, which is not always remembered. In the human mind also, several concepts are stored even though they are not remembered always. Similarly, God can attain the awareness of the absolute reality at any time if He likes and can really become alone. But, such awareness is only stored in God and is never attained since such lonely state bores God. The next inferior level of ignorance is Maha Maya, which consists of matter, awareness and energetic forms like light, heat etc. God never crosses this Maha Maya also unless there is emergency of the use of His superpower. Thus, the human incarnation of God is under the control of Maha Maya and Mula Maya and therefore, resembles with a realized human being, who is just above Maya.

Maya consists of forms of matter and energy and feelings of awareness. The ignorant soul is under the control of Maya. Thus, the human incarnation tries to uplift the ignorant human beings above the Maya through preaching the divine knowledge. The entire drama is confined to the boundaries of Maya only, which is story, dialogues and actions of the actors. Standing above the Maya, the realized soul can have continuous entertainment like God. Even God in human form is enjoying the creation just standing above the Maya only. The realized soul need not go beyond Maha Maya and attain superpowers, which will spoil the soul with egoism that ends in misery only. In fact, the soul can never cross Maha Maya and can never dream of crossing Mula Maya. The Advaitin is often running to the state of absolute reality and is trying to make God bored for fulfilling his impossible ambition. In such case, the creation along with the Advaitin does not exist at all and the entertainment of God is completely lost. The dualism of relative reality must be maintained in order to maintain the entertainment of God. Hence, you should not say that nothing exists except God. In fact, from your angle such statement is absolutely wrong. In such state of absolute reality, you do not exist because you are a part and parcel of the creation (Prakruti). The human being is mixture of para and apara prakruti as per the Gita. Such absolute reality is true from the angle of God only. But such God does not like even to remember that boring state. The Advaitin also says that God is every thing. If God is every thing, nothing exists apart from God and then there is no concept of entertainment because such state is only absolute reality. Some say that God is every living being. If an actor plays every role in the drama simultaneously (it is possible to produce such cinema in the present technology), then also there is no entertainment. The entertainment becomes meaningful only when something different (object) from God (Subject) exists and also when the souls other than God exist like different actors in the drama. The entry of the God in to the world is only limited to a specific role of His choice. Then only the entertainment becomes real and continuous.

A spectator of drama is not having any bond with any role or with any material present in the drama. He is completely detached from the drama and then only he can entertain himself in the real sense. The aim of the spectator is only entertainment and not the achievement of anything from the drama. Thus, God is completely detached and also has complete fulfillment (Aptakamasya… Veda) and therefore, derives continuous entertainment. A spectator, who is attached to the drama or to any role by emotions is always upset. This is the difference between a realized soul and the ignorant soul. The state of a realized soul exactly coincides to the state of God (Matbhavayopapadyate… Gita). Such state of God is the philosophy of life, which is the highest. This highest level is realized through logical analysis of scriptures and such analysis is science of life. Attainment of self, leading into the state of peace without any entertainment (since interaction with the world is cut) is the art of life. Philosophy is superior to science and science is superior to art. Art is artificial or unreal and involves ignorance and science reveals the state of reality. Unless the grace of God falls on you, you cannot attain the philosophy of life through science. The art of life also involves analysis to attain the self but the result of such analysis based on egoism is not permanent and the soul will bitterly fall down. With God’s grace, the analysis is extended in the right direction to finally reach the philosophy of life.

[Mr. Anil Antony asked whether the devotees of ISKCON can be considered as the best due to their sincere devotion.]

Swami replied: Those devotees are really the best cream because they have realized the concept of human incarnation, which is Krishna. They are not much worried about the energetic forms like Narayana, which are meaningful only with respect to the souls of the upper world. But from another angle, they are in the lowest state. The practical aspect of worship is service, which alone has the divine fruit. The service requires a living being and not inert object. The living being can only receive the service rendered by you. These devotees are serving the idols and photos of Krishna, which are inert. These idols and photos serve the purpose of development of theoretical devotion in yourself, which is related to mind. But mere theoretical devotion without practical aspect is useless. The theoretical devotion should result in the practical devotion and the fruit is always associated with the practical devotion only. The knowledge and devotion are like the degree and the appointment order achieved by yourself. But both these cannot get you the salary unless you work in the job. The salary is given at the end of the month for the work you have done in that month. The salary is not given to your degree or to the appointment order. The degree and the order help you to procure the work. The water and fertilizer help the plant to grow and give the fruit. The fruit is associated to the plant directly and not to the water or fertilizer. Thus, knowledge (Jnana Yoga) and devotion (Bhakti Yoga) help the achievement of the state of service (Karma Yoga). Only Karma (work) can get the fruit directly. These devotees are not serving the present human incarnation and therefore, all their service done to the statues or photos becomes waste. Some undeserving people behind the statues or photos are benefited by such service. You can worship the devotees and preachers of this cult and in such case, Krishna is more pleased. The Advaitin is wrong in extending the concept of human incarnation to every human being. In this angle, the ISKCON devotee is better than Advaitin because such devotee has confined this concept to a specific human being like Krishna. But when the concept of service to God comes, the Advaitin looks better than that devotee. The Advaitin is serving himself assuming that he is God. At least, the living being (Advaitin himself) is served, which really receives the service.

Lord Krishna Himself stated that He will come down whenever it is necessary (Yadayadahi… Gita). In such case, why these devotees are confining to the past Krishna only and why they are not searching for the present human incarnation? Do they accept Rama also as another incarnation of Krishna or not? They accept Rama as another human incarnation. It means more than one human incarnation of Krishna is accepted. Then, why not accept some other human incarnations especially when Krishna told that He will come again and again whenever required? In the Gita, Krishna told that He should be worshipped. Since Krishna was preaching the Gita to Arjuna, for Arjuna, Krishna was the human incarnation of that time. For other human beings belonging to other generations, Krishna means the human incarnation that is present in each generation. The Bhagavatam says that Krishna died and His body was cremated by Arjuna. If Krishna was God, it means God was cremated. In such case, God cannot come again. Then the statement of Krishna that He will come again and again becomes false. God was in the body of Krishna like the current in the wire. The wire may perish but the current is eternal. But during the time of existence of current in the wire, such a live wire should be treated as current directly. Similarly, the medium in which God exists has to be treated as God directly because God cannot be contacted directly. Therefore, the body of Krishna at that time had to be treated as God directly (Vasudevah Sarvamiti… Gita).

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