Posted on: 29 Aug 2010
Sin can never be cancelled by any remedy except through realization and reformation of the soul. Realization comes through knowledge and the determination and subsequent practical implementation of knowledge brings reformation of the soul. Adhibhuta is the subject related to matter of human body. Adhidaiva is the subject related to energy of human body. Adhyaatma is the subject related to behavior and qualities of the soul, which is pure awareness. Knowledge is always inherently related to soul. With the help of knowledge, you can change the states of matter and energy easily, but with lot of difficulty only you can change the state of soul since knowledge is inherently related to soul. Knowledge with top most intensity only can change the soul. The intensity of knowledge increases as the knowledge comes closer to the truth. The true knowledge means the knowledge that is totally identified with the truth, which can be given by the human incarnation of God only and hence, the Veda said that the true knowledge is the real inherent characteristic of God (Satyam Jnanam...). Except the human form of God, no other form can deliver the knowledge and this is the exceptional value of human incarnation. You may say that God can speak even through inert forms or other living beings due to His omnipotence but such exhibition of unimaginable power without real necessity indicates the brainless administration of God. When the human form is naturally available to serve the purpose, there is no meaning to use superpower through other forms for the same purpose. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa crossed the river by a boat paying one rupee to the driver. Another saint crossed the same river by walking on water to show his superpower. Paramahamsa told him that the cost of his superpower was just one rupee! God is not such a foolish saint, but God is such a wise Paramahamsa!
Realization is the process of effort to change the soul and reformation is the actual change of the soul. If the soul is reformed, the proof for it is that the sin is not practically repeated. If this result is achieved, there is no need of punishment. The punishment is not for the sake of past sin, since past is past. The punishment is only to change the soul so that in future the sin is not repeated. The day you have stopped repeating the sin, you are excused by God for the past sin. This is the only way to stop the punishment of sin, which is in the form of problems of life. If you have stopped all the sins, your life will be the happiest and for this you need not pray even to God. Prayer to God will not cancel even the trace of the sin. Ravana prayed to Lord Shiva in several ways, but, he could not escape the punishment of his sin. If you commit sin, you are violating the word of God and going against the will of God. God wants you not to commit any sin. His word is the ethical scripture, which says that you should not commit any sin. The sin will disturb the balance of the society since it hurts the co-living beings. Non-vegetarian food by itself is not a sin since the analysis of it shows that its contents are the same as exist in vegetarian food. The sin comes by killing a co-living being, which does not harm you at all. If you stop taking non-vegetarian food, killing of living beings is proportionally controlled. Do not say that you do not get sin since you have not killed the living being directly. Killing is the highest sin, which gives highest pain to the living being. In the next birth, the killed living being will be born as human being, you will be born as the living being and you will be killed similarly by the human being so that your soul will realize the pain and get reformed.
Reformation Results in the Cancellation of Previous Sins
All the punishments are only for reformation of the soul and not for revenge. Hell is created by God not with vengeance against sinners but due to kindness to reform the souls. God is always kind to reform the souls, which are His children since the souls are created by Him. The father will never have even a trace of vengeance towards his issues. Jesus always addressed God as Father and He propagated this concept by saying that all your sins will be excused by God if you are reformed. Practical knowledge, the practical realization, which is the reformation, will cancel all your previous bad deeds or sins as told in the Gita (Jnanaagnih…). Except this one way, there is no other way to cancel the sins and escape from all the present problems in the world and future torture in the hell. The results of all your good actions will be separate and will not interfere with the cancellation of sins. God will give you good results for all your prayers and any prayer will not cancel even a trace of your sin. Similarly, your charity [also will not cancel your sin]. If these good actions can reform you, then, your sins will be cancelled. Therefore, reformation of the soul is the only way by which God is pleased to cancel your sins. Even if you do not believe in God, it does not matter. If you do not do any sin, you are excused for all past sins and you will live with immense happiness in the world and after death also. You cannot please God by prayers and service simultaneously doing sins. If you do a sin, you are going against the will of God and you are insulting God. You cannot please and insult God simultaneously. Therefore, every devotee and servant of God should be careful about the concept of sin and about the only path to cancel the sin. Jesus tried to remove the cruelty from the hearts of the people, so that, in course of time, people will change from non-vegetarian food. It is very difficult to oppose the strong nature in the beginning itself and therefore, He did not oppose non-vegetarian food. It is the correct psychology of a teacher. Lord Krishna existed before Him and He also did not oppose non-vegetarian food to certain communities atleast in India, the reason being the strong ignorance. After Jesus, God came in the form of Mohammad but the time was not proper to preach against non-vegetarian food, since the time gap between them is almost nil. After sometime, God came in the form of Buddha, who preached against non-vegetarian food strongly since the time gap was quite substantial for some change in the minds of the people.
In spite of exhibiting several miracles and excellent preaching, Jesus was insulted and finally killed by the public. The reason is that it is very difficult to recognize the human incarnation of God. If you give the miracle as the inherent characteristic of God, Jesus showed several miracles. Krishna also showed several miracles and even a devotee like Arjuna could not recognize Him as God. If you say that the excellent knowledge is the real characteristic of God, even then, Jesus was not recognized since people could not properly digest it. Even after hearing the Gita, Arjuna did not get down from the chariot even though Lord Krishna ordered. It means, the Gita was not perfectly digested by Arjuna. Perfect digestion of knowledge means that it should stand in the blood forever. The disease that hinders the digestion of knowledge in this aspect is ego mingled with jealousy towards a co-human being. The way to remove this disease is to respect every co-human being without any insult and harm. Ofcourse, this point should be exempted from the punishment given to a sinner and from the training of discipline to students. You must treat every co-human being as the human incarnation of God and serve it with all humility and obedience. This is the meaning of “Manavaseva is Madhava Seva”. The result of such training will be that you will never insult the real human incarnation of God, coming across in your life. Even if you do not recognize the human form of God, you will not insult it, since you do not insult any human form. This is the best way to eradicate the ego and jealousy towards human form. This training is again misunderstood and it is propagated that every human being is really God. You must understand the real aim of the saying, so that, you will not be misled in wrong direction. Miracle is only a confined characteristic since it is meant only for atheist to prove the existence of unimaginable God through unimaginable events. Knowledge is the unlimited characteristic, which is needed by every human being, existing at any level and this is the meaning of the Vedic statement that the true knowledge is unlimited (Satyam Jnanamanantam…), which is God. This does not again mean that such knowledge itself is God. The characteristic of its possessor is addressed as the characteristic itself. You call the bearer of apples as apples or the bearer of red shirt as the red shirt itself. Hence, the possessor of such knowledge is called as that knowledge itself.