Swami Guiding a Professor in Conducting a Course on Spiritual Knowledge (Part-1)

Part-1

[Dr Nikhil asked:- I like to conduct a course for students in Spiritual Knowledge and I request You to give suggestions for this program.]

FIRST PART

Existence of unimaginable God and hell

Swami replied:- Tell Me whether a serpent-child is soft or an older cow. We can’t say that all children are good and all elders are bad. The goodness or badness depends upon the mental setup with which a soul is taking birth in this world. In the same mental setup, age can be considered. An elder serpent is more dangerous than a child serpent. A child-cow is more soft than a grown up cow. This does not mean that a community is totally bad and another community is totally good. It is the question of mental setup, which is either good or bad and thus, there are only two communities:- 1) community of good souls and 2) community of bad souls. Within any one of these two communities, age can be considered. When the age is small, innocence is more and when the age is much worldly wisdom grows. The children are innocent relatively with reference to elders in any community because of least span of association with the world. The soul in the childhood of its body is innocent because it has very recently returned from hell and is terribly frightened for the sin. As it gains more association with this world, it forgets the innocence and becomes attracted to sins using its grown-up wisdom to misinterpret the sin as merit.

This world consists of human beings in which both good angels and bad demons also exist in the same human form. Apart from these two extreme categories, an intermediate average of both also exist, called as human beings. We call both angels and demons in human forms also as human beings because of the similar external form. The three categories in human beings can be classified only on studying them intensively. Based on this intensive classification, children of three categories exist and we can’t differentiate them unless we study them. We can’t say that all children are reflections of the pure God. But, this statement is justified in another angle, which is that all the children have a specific high level of innocence with variations within the line because all are just hell-returned like we call just foreign-returned!

Another additional point is that in these days of Kali, even the adults need the same preaching as done to the children. The children are also surpassing adults due to the same influence of this Kali age. Whether the soul is in the body of a child or an adult, the common aim is to prevent the soul from doing any sin so that the soul is not punished by God either here while alive or there in the hell after death. Intensive sins are punished here itself as early as possible. The soul can be saved from the punishment from God either here or in the hell provided the soul believes the existence of unimaginable God with unimaginable power. The sins are generally to be punished by the worldly courts. But, sometimes, the clever human beings are escaping the punishments from courts due to intellectual logic and power of money. In ancient days, a lawyer used to select a case after studying it deeply and after confirming that the case is really justified. The lawyer, then, fights on behalf of the case to establish justice and condemn injustice. But, today, the lawyer is simply fighting for the case just for money only and doesn’t bother whether the case is justified or not. He never selects the arguments based on truth and justice. He selects only the winning points for the case whether the points are true or false and are justified or unjust. He has to simply win the case, get more name to attract more cases to earn more money. He is ignorant that the sinful money earned will destroy him and his family for generations together. Apart from this, today, we here that many a time, judgements are purchased. Of course, punishments from God are inevitable even for such sinful judges, who are ignorant of this truth.

The world must be self-balanced without the aid of courts and police. The corruption of money and unjust influence are not allowing this achievement. God is very much worried about this and is ordering His devotees to participate in the propagation of spiritual knowledge to achieve this. God is becoming very pleased and graceful to such devotees, who accomplish this work. When the balance of the society (Pravrutti) is spoiled and God is not at all pleased, what to speak of Nivrutti in which God has to be extremely pleased! Without pleasing God through Pravrutti (doing justice and not doing injustice) and more over making God furious through dushpravrutti (doing only injustice), can anyone imagine to enter into Nivrutti (extreme devotion to God) to extremely please God?

What is the root of roots of development of Pravrutti and Nivrutti in order to prevent dushpravrutti? The most fundamental point is the existence of unimaginable God with unimaginable power so that He will punish the sinner even if the sinner escapes punishments from police and courts. Even the mediated God is exactly the unimaginable God since the unimaginable God merges with a specific medium called as mediated God. When we say God, God means either unimaginable God or mediated God since both are one and the same having the same unimaginable power to capture the sinner existing anywhere in this creation and to give the suitable punishments. The existence of such unimaginable God must be established through convincing logic, which alone can prevent the sinner from doing the sin. The sinner must know that even if the sin is done secretly and even if the punishment is escaped from courts, the punishment from God is inevitable. The faith in the existence of God prevents dushpravrutti and promotes Pravrutti. In course of time, if a soul develops devotion to the wonderful divine personality of God, such devotion leads to the stage of Nivrutti and such soul is the most fortunate one.

Existence of God is the invariable and fundamental truth. Some atheists appreciate the concept of existence of God with all their generosity for the sake of good results since such concept helps the maintenance of balance of society even though the concept is not true! This is the utter nonsense. Whether the society is balanced or not, the existence of God is the fundamental truth. The cloud rains and the plants grow to give good fruits. In view of the importance of the good fruits, if you say that you are accepting the existence of cloud in view of the availability of good fruits, is it not the climax of foolishness and nonsense?

The unimaginable God exists since unimaginable events are exhibited in the name of miracles in every generation of this humanity. God is exhibiting miracles in the life of everybody answering the sincere prayers. The unimaginable miracles show their unimaginable source in the name of God, who is punishing every escaping sinner through unimaginable ways. Such punishments done in unimaginable ways and such unimaginable miracles are constantly reminding us about the existence of unimaginable God. Even scientists must accept the existence of unimaginable God because the boundary of universe is not perceived at all by anybody. The boundary of the universe is imaginable since it is like the core of universe only, but, is never perceived. Assuming that you have perceived the imaginable boundary of the universe, what is present after the boundary? If you say that some imaginable phase exists after the boundary, it is not at all the boundary since the same imaginable world is extending after the boundary also. After the boundary, the phase should not be imaginable and then only we can call such boundary as the real boundary of imaginable world. This means that unimaginable entity must be present after this boundary of universe. Such unimaginable entity is called as unimaginable God by us. The boundary of the universe must be the boundary of space also. This means that there is no space in unimaginable God and hence, we call Him beyond space. Anything not having spatial dimensions and is beyond space can never be imagined by any extent of intelligence and hence, God is unimaginable forever. The actions of unimaginable God are also unimaginable and hence, even the escaping sinner is punished by God through unimaginable ways.

You shall not argue that the hell is not existing in the space anywhere. How can you say this? You have not seen all round boundary of this space or universe. I have not also seen the boundary of space to show you the hell in this space. You have also not seen the boundary of space by travelling all over the space. If I have not shown the presence of hell in this infinite space, you have also not shown Me the absence of hell in this infinite space. This results in 50-50 probability, which means that the hell may exist (50% truth) or the hell may not exist (50% truth). The believer in the existence of hell is not having any risk because even if the sins are not done and the hell may not exist, this probability will not harm the believer. If the non-believer in the existence of hell does sins and if the hell exists, this probability will harm the non-believer. It is better to take the side of least risk than taking the side of full risk. Moreover, the existence of hell created by unimaginable God is certain in view of the existence of unimaginable God inferred through miracles and miraculous experiences of devotees.

To be continued...

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