How Can We Overcome Our Worldly Problems?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Nava Chaitanya asked:- Padanamaskaram swamiji, Thank You swami ji for granting this life and access to this wonderful knowledge. Swami ji i have been reading Your discourses past few years in which i found lot of wonderful information, different perspectives, underlying meaning etc. I have few questions swami which i presented below.

1) How to practically tackle a problem?

My view: We get problems because of our past deeds.

1) Omniscient god dattatreya arranges problem arising due to past deeds in best possible way to uplift soul in spiritual direction. But If we ask lord dattatreya to remove problems is direct insult to god, his divine administration and the effort & interest he showed on us to teach spiritual knowledge even through problems because if we are asking god to help to remove difficulties which suggests to alter his best judgement.

2) But our kindest lord gave us an option that he will remove difficulty provided deservingness of the requesting person and borrowing fruit from future and using it cancel current problem or reduce the intensity by doing pariharams to planets this again links to deservingness & borrowing fruit from future.

Inspite of knowing this wonderful knowledge still i am failing to tackle if problem is intense and disturbing mental peace which leads me to adopt above option 2. I am feeling guilty whenever i approach this option Swami. I am trying my best to not approach option 2 but sometimes i fail.

Swami how to enjoy happiness & misery equally? U gave wonderful example of cinema where we were equally enjoying. How to implement this in pravrutti? How to treat this worldly activity as maya? And i understood if we were attached to the fruit, inevitably we are attached to tensions but sometimes i am failing to implement detachment if problems are intense. How to detach ourselves from this practically swami?

Are all these questions arising because of not having proper faith in God? Is this a test by God?

Am in correct spiritual path? I am tangled in all these thoughts and confused. Please help me & remove my ignorance Swami. Regards, Nava Chaitanya]

Swami replied:- God has no trace of objection to cancel the fruits of all sins of all the souls and grant only fruits of merits so that all souls will be always happy. He is not bothered about the systematic arrangement and fame of His administration. In fact, He has done so in Kruta Yuga by keeping the souls in His full control so that no soul does any sin so that all the issues are always happy based even on the logical administration, in which He will not get a bad name that He cancelled the fruits of sins done by souls. But, the continuous happiness bored the souls and they were craving for a change. How it will be, if God created only sugar for food and not salt, chillies, tamarind etc., to give different tastes? Boring is also a type of misery only! God, the divine Father, never wants to cause any misery to His issues. The change of souls from happiness is only misery, which is the fruit of sin. Now, God did not create any sinful atmosphere also to provoke His children to do the sin. He only relaxed His issues from His rigid control and gave a little freedom. This freedom became the way to proceed to misery, which is a change from continuous happiness. At the same time, God incarnated Himself several times to preach against the sin and its misery. More than this, what any father can do for his issues? Hence, possibility to do sin through some given freedom was facilitated by God in the interest of the welfare of the souls only and not in the interest of the fame of His administration. In support of this, He also arranged the good and bad fruits alternatively in life-cycles so that there is a continuous possibility of change from one to the other.

If some people want some change from misery, planets are to be worshipped by distributing food items (made of grains corresponding to the planets) to beggars and this brings the attitude of service and sacrifice for the needy. People have different psychologies due to their different stages of spiritual maturity and we can’t bring the universality for different levels. A person having lower maturity follows astrology and gets rid of the temporary problems. A person of higher maturity enjoys the miseries also by the grace of God. Enjoyment of happiness and misery in equal level comes only if the person is charged with God for whom rest other than Him becomes non-existent even though visualized very clearly. Even if the person is not charged by God, such view can come to the devotee by the grace of God. For the soul, the rest world is equally true and hence, such equality in enjoyment (Yoga) can’t be achieved. Human trial for such stage mingled with God’s grace gives success. This stage is the highest stage because you are becoming equal to God in equally enjoying the creation like a cinema containing both comedies and tragedies. This is the only monism that the soul can attain with God. Total monism can’t be attained by a devotee (except human incarnation) since creation, control and dissolution of the world are impossible for a soul. A servant is unable to create and direct the cinema, but, can sit with the boss (producer and director) to see and enjoy the cinema with equality. This simile has also limitations because a devotee can enjoy this world-cinema becoming equal to comedy and tragedy by the grace of God only. Your perplexity will end if you analyze My spiritual knowledge with patience and apply the suitable portions to the proper situations in the life. Fast application of all the concepts without their isolation will create confusion.

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