God Is Most Deserving of Your Love

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

The involvement in this world is inevitable. The sequence of such involvement is the stress, which is also inevitable. We may succeed in getting the fruit of the stress or we may also not succeed in it. The bullet is used but the bird is not certain. The present Yoga is just a sleeping pill for short time and it is in no way different from deep sleep. In fact, the deep sleep is better than the present Yoga. The reason is that in present Yoga, the nervous system functions at a minimum level because awareness of itself is alive as in the case of thoughtless self-meditation. In deep sleep, even that pure awareness disappears and the nervous system takes complete rest. In any case, the immediate involvement in the world is inevitable. In such Yoga, you are having only peace, which is absence of misery and that is not bliss. Such peace is not equal even to materialistic happiness. When you are in self-meditation and if someone tells you that you got one crore-lottery, you are clearly experiencing the distinct materialistic happiness. It is common practical experience that any one is unable to stand firm in the state of self-attainment through self-realization. The reason for this is that if you continue in the self and thereby, detach yourself from the misery, who will suffer the misery of your future results of past sins ordained in your life cycle? The rest of your past deeds, which have to be enjoyed by you in future cannot be cancelled suddenly. The force of the divine law governing the cycle of deeds is stronger than the self. The divine law is in the hands of God only. The divine law will drag you into the world for the sake of punishment. Only God can save you from the misery. The word Yoga means your meeting of such God in human form. If you are continuing in the self without further proceeding to God, thinking that self is God, you are doing a sinful deed. You are in no way different from an atheist who says that there is no God other than self. At least to enjoy the result of this sin, you have to be dragged out.

If you divert this inevitable stress into service in spiritual field, God will protect you in both this world and upper world. This is one bullet-shot and two birds are certain. When God takes care of you, there is no chance of uncertainty. For you, the solutions in this world are not certain in spite of hectic stress. Therefore, it is far better to divert the inevitable stress and involvement into the spiritual service of God. You have no complete faith in God. The atheism imparted by the external environment is hidden in you without your knowledge. You are in daily association with people who always put self-efforts with partial faith on God and this injects such attitude into your brain. Hence, you are not having full faith on the word of God. You will always estimate the success based on the worldly factors. Really, you do not have the confidence on the superpower of God, which can produce an ocean of sweet water in a desert. In practical situation, the faith on God and the extent of your theism is tested. Wise people, who say that the self-effort is the main component and that God’s help is a minor component, often cover up such deficiency of your faith. When all the doors are closed, you will be worried about the possibility of success assured by God. Then, you will put effort to open one of the doors so that God can help you through that door. This is your utter foolishness, because you think that God cannot help you without the door opened. God can enter through the wall to help you even if all the doors are closed. Thus, the faith in the practical situation is important.

Service to In-laws by Daughter-in-law

The Gita says that the concept of cycle of deeds is complicated (Gahana Karmano Gatih…). The action or deed by itself is inert without the intention of mind and has no result. When you are walking on the road, an ant may be accidentally killed under your foot. There is no sin for this deed because the intention of mind (samkalpa) is not there. Suppose, you have intention to kill the ant and subsequently kill it. This is a deed associated with mind and hence, will have the full punishment. Suppose, you have the intention to kill the ant but somehow the deed is not successful due to miraculous escape of ant, you will have half of the punishment for the intention. Since the effect of your intention is not received by the ant, the other half of the punishment is cancelled. Therefore, action without intention has no fruit. Action with intention has full fruit. The intention without action has half fruit. Why should you enjoy the half fruit for your intention, when the action is not materialized? I will give you a small example. A daughter-in-law is serving her mother-in-law or father-in-law. The service is inevitable. If the service is done with good intention by treating the father-in-law as father or mother-in-law as mother, the good fruit in heaven is fully enjoyed. Suppose the daughter-in-law serves them sincerely due to unavoidable circumstances and scolds them with hatred in mind, what is the result? The good fruit in heaven is reduced to half and half bad fruit appears in the hell for the bad intention. The good fruit of good deed can never cancel the bad fruit of bad deed. Fruits of goods deeds and bad deeds have to be enjoyed separately. If you create a provision to cancel a bad deed by doing a good deed, everyone will commit sins by emotion and then will try to cancel the sins later on by doing good deeds. Therefore, when the Priest says that by doing a ritual, all your sins are destroyed, it is a point of climax of ignorance. No good deed can cancel the bad deed.

Kauravas had ninety-nine percent sins and one percent good deeds. They went to heaven first to enjoy the little good deeds and went to hell later on to enjoy the major bad deeds. Pandavas are vice-versa and hence, went to hell first and then to heaven later on. In both cases, mutual cancellation is not exhibited as we see in the Mahabharata (Svargarohana parva). Now, I pity the daughter-in-law who has sincerely served the in-laws but went to hell simply for the sake of bad intention. The daughter-in-law who has not served in-laws with bad intention goes to permanent hell. The daughter-in-law who has served her in-laws sincerely but had bad intention in her mind goes to both hell and heaven separately. The daughter-in-law who has served her in-laws with good intention thinking them as her own parents has gone to permanent heaven. The daughter-in-law who has good intention in her mind to serve her in-laws will somehow serve them directly or indirectly and will not go to hell. Suppose a bad intention has come into the mind but the intention is not materialized and nobody is affected practically in the world. Certainly, there will be partial punishment for this mental sin in the hell. How to get rid of this mental sin? Only the powerful divine knowledge at the level of intelligence can smash the mental sins. The intelligence alone can control the mind. The intelligence is strengthened by the divine knowledge injected by the Sadguru. The mind is strengthened by repetition of sins and temporary experience of false happiness. When the divine knowledge is intensive, the mind is purified and at a stage of climax, even the results of previous sinful deeds are smashed (Jnanaagnih sarva karmani… Gita).

The divine knowledge at climax makes you surrender to God and leads you into the involvement of practical spiritual service in the mission of God without aspiration of any fruit in return. In such a stage, God attracts all the results of your past sins and suffers for your sake. This technique of God is not known to you. Somehow, you are relieved from all the mental sins and also from all the results of the previous sinful deeds. The mental sins are cancelled by the divine knowledge. The results of previous sinful deeds are cancelled by the interference of God that is resulting by climax of divine knowledge. Therefore, when the service is inevitable, you do it with good intention also so that you will not receive the partial punishment in the hell unnecessarily. This does not mean that I am encouraging you to do the sin fully and get the full punishment. You have to follow the constitution written by God strictly in this world as far as your behavior towards other souls is concerned. Here, the justice must be followed and the injustice must be discarded. Only in the case of God, you can overlook even the justice for the sake of God, which cannot be sin in that particular case only. For the sake of God, you can overlook any other soul including your own self and this shall not be a sin. In fact, it is the best. If you do not overlook the justice for the sake of God, it shall be a sin. But this special case (Nivrutti) cannot be extended into their behavior with other souls (Pravrutti).

God establishes justice in this world in serious way (Dharma samsthapanardhaya… Gita). But the same God in the same Gita says finally at the end that one should violate even dharma for His sake (Sarva dharmaan parityajya…). This is not a contradiction at all. You must follow the justice and discard injustice in your behavior towards other souls in this world. But when you realize God, you have to sacrifice even the justice for the sake of God. This is a point of contrast. The more powerful the villain, the more powerful will be the projection of hero. The more firm the dharma, the more love to God is expressed in violating such dharma. Therefore, the firmness and rigidity in establishment of dharma is directly proportional to the love expressed to God in violating such dharma for His sake. Let us take the example of naked Gopikas saluting the Krishna. A lady cannot come out in naked posture before a male. That is against the justice and leads the lady to the hell for punishment. Apart from this threat of hell, a lady is characterized by lot of shy in standing like that and no lady can overcome the shy in such a situation under any circumstances. In the case of Gopikas, this violation of justice and shy might have been done because Krishna is God. For the sake of God, justice can be violated and even the shy can be overcome because God is the creator and is aware of everything in this world. There is an excuse in this scene. But there is a similar example, which is more serious. Shri Manikya Prabhu was the incarnation of God Datta and Smt. Subbamma was His topmost devotee. Other devotees were jealous about this. One day, the Lord called her by name while she was taking bath. Subbamma came running into the court in which all the devotees of the Lord were sitting. She was completely nude and did not wear the sari to avoid delay in following the order of the Lord. All the devotees were astonished. The Lord threw a cloth on her and asked her to go back. She went away. The Lord looked at the faces of the devotees, which were bent with repentance. This sin is more severe test than the scene of Gopikas. Here, Subbamma stands naked not only before the Lord but also before all other human beings for the sake of the Lord by crossing shy and justice. Gopikas stood before the Lord only.

When the Lord faces the exceptional devotion of such topmost devotees, He is immensely pleased. Such immense pleasure is the aim of this entire creation and establishment of justice is the background in contrast. If Subbamma comes out like that on the call of any person, then there is no speciality of the scene and Subbamma shall be simply a mentally derailed lady. In such a case, the background will not serve any purpose to the God. The other souls deserve love in a limited way only controlled by the rules of justice. But the Lord deserves unconditional love and kindness for His devotee. If you realize the truth by taking away the layer of ignorance acting as a stage of this divine drama, you will be surprised to know that anything sacrificed for the sake of God was given to you by God only. He gave something to you and forgot that the something belongs to Him. He covered you also with His delusion (Maya) so that you will think that this something belongs to you only. Now, the drama of sacrifice is enacted over the stage of this layer of ignorance by which both God and devotee forget the basic truth. Now, when the soul sacrifices the something to God, both God and soul enjoy the sweet love of sacrifice based on the concept of donor an acceptor. Realized scholars pierce through the stage of ignorance and find out the truth that the something belongs to the Lord only and the whole drama is just for enjoyment of the sweet love of devotion between God and devotee. If you compare God with the other souls who love you just for sacrifice of something, which belongs to you only (in the relative sense) and that their love on you is only for their selfish happiness only, you can realize the difference between God and your beloved souls and deservingness of God to your boundless love.

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