30 Sep 2024
1. Why did God choose such a harsh way of crucifixion in the Incarnation of Jesus?
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, I have few questions, please guide me out of these doubts--
Why did God choose such a harsh way of crucifixion in the Incarnation of God Jesus. Souls are always unworthy of God's love. Then, why did God have to show such an extreme sacrifice for such unworthy common people who don’t even really bother about God. What is the need and essence of crucifixion of God Jesus?]
Swami replied:- You will understand this question very well when you are married and get children. Only parents give and sacrifice to the unworthy children. This is the reason why the bond with the child is strongest among the worldly bonds and even sages failed in the test of this bond.
2. What is the difference between Sudama and Ramadasu?
[What is the difference between Sudama and Ramadasu? A) Both took other's money and sacrificed to God? B) You have said that Sudama took a loan, that means he had to pay back with interest in the future, the three parched rice grains that he has taken, even if God Krishna didn't give the riches?]
Swami replied:- Ramdas also can be justified in collecting the money from the public, which was based on the donations done by freewill. Sudama is also justified since he has taken the parched rice based on conditions of loan. Here, the reasons for their sufferings cannot be drawn from the above information. The suffering cannot be given without its sin as per the rules of deeds. Sudama suffered the result of the sin done by him by eating the share of food of Krishna secretly without informing Him. Ramdas suffered the punishment of jail because he imprisoned a parrot in a cage. The sins were clearly existing and their results were very clear. In order to assist the procedure of cycle of deeds, God keeps silent even in the case of devotees.
3. If I do Karma samnyasa more than karma phala tyaga by spending more time in serving than earning, will I be low in the eyes of God?
[Swami, if I have some stipulated time. I can do Karma samnyasa or over work in pravrutti to earn more and do Karma phala tyaga. If I like to do Karma samnyasa more than karma phala tyaga by spending more time in serving than earning, will I be low in eyes of God than the one who earns more and does Karma phala tyaga to God instead of doing Karma samnyasa as matter value is more than energy?]
Swami replied:- The scripture gives the highest place for Karmaphala tyaaga, which is the sacrifice of fruit of work. If you are liking to do more Karmasamnyaasa, what is the reason? Is it greediness so that you want to save for your sake and for the sake of your family, which is treated more than God. The justified reason may be also that you are very short of your earnings, which are just sufficient for maintaining yourself and your family. If this is the reason, your plan is justified. As you become a climax devotee in Nivrutti, you will donate the food of yourself and family also to God like Saktuprastha. Everything depends on the intensity of your devotion to God and also your inherent nature i.e., fascinated to your worldly bonds.
4. How is Rukmini’s sacrifice to the priest Karma Phala tyaga? He is not the Incarnation of God.
[Swami, generally karma phala tyaga means sacrifice of money to God in contemporary Human Form. But in the case of Rukmini, You have said that her sacrifice of necklace to priest as Karma phala tyaga. But the priest is not God, Krishna is God right? Then how is it called Karma Phala tyaga when sacrifice was not done to Human Incarnation of God i.e. God Krishna?]
Swami replied:- The priest will keep silent even if Rukmini has not done Karmaphala tyaaga because Rukmini is the daughter of the king. The priest did a very important work, which is connecting both Krishna and Rukmini. Krishna was also very anxious about marrying Rukmini and the donation of Rukmini in this way is donation to the contemporary human incarnation of God. Even Krishna gave a lot of wealth to the priest. Opportunity to donate to Krishna can come only after marriage since there was no possibility of contact before marriage. Satyabhaama gave the Shamantaka diamond to Krishna, which was very precious.
5. A friend of mine feels the suffering of Sita was so much that she committed suicide. How to counter her feeling?
[One of my friend said that she feels that part of Ramayana where Sita Devi goes into earth after Agnipariksha, after all the suffering She has undergone. And then going into earth after Agnipariksha, looks like suicide to her it seems. She feels that, as the suffering was so much and nobody understood her, she committed suicide. How to counter her assumption that Sita Devi didn't commit suicide?]
Swami replied:- Even Rama entered the Sarayu river along with His brothers after Sita left Him. It was not suicide of Rama. Both Rama and Sita left their gross body to reach the divine abode because these mortal bodies are not at all permanent and have to perish on the earth itself. It is the rule of nature that is to be followed by any mortal human being.
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