Posted on: 14 May 2018
Shri P V N M Sharma asked:- “In Bhakti TV channel I found one person by name Shri E K Girish preaching monism that the soul is supreme and can do anything if self confidence is developed. Please analyse this point.
Swami Replied:- Let a human soul develop its self-confidence for any number of years that it can lift a hill, can it lift the hill by its self-confidence on any day? If it thinks that it will lift the hill on one day by improving more self-confidence, it is called as overconfidence. Therefore, the soul can’t do everything by developing self-confidence, which is just in the theoretical phase. The concept of self-confidence works within certain limits of the efficiency of the soul. Any human being can lift a cup of coffee. Suppose some human being due to some psychological disorder doubts about itself that whether it will be able to lift the small cup of coffee also, such case is an example of under-confidence. In this case, the development of self-confidence is necessary and his point works out. Even Krishna is a human being, but, lifted the hill up just by tender finger itself due to the power of God and not due to the power of human being. Hanuman also lifted the hill due to the same power of God. Even Ravana lifted the hill by the power given by God. The first case is human incarnation. The second case is a devotee proceeding in right direction. The third case is also a devotee perverted in wrong direction. In all these three cases, work beyond the limits of the power of human beings happened due to the power of God and not due to the confidence of human being without power. Of course, human confidence is also power, which can’t be developed beyond certain limits. Within the limits, the confidence can be developed to do a work, which is possible for the limits of human power. Prahlaada was not affected by fire, serpents, elephants etc., because of the intervention of God’s power. It is also not correct to say that Prahlaada could do all these superhuman works due to his confidence on God. The confidence on God works out provided you have such real bond with God. Without the real bond with God, mere confidence on God can’t do the superhuman works. It is not the question of your confidence on God, but, it is the question of God’s confidence on your real devotion to Him. Without having real devotion to God, mere confidence on God can’t do the miracles. Some people start doing some great works saying that they are proceeding to do the works with confidence on God, but, the works fail! Hence, you can do any work on developing real devotion to God, which is the root basis.