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What is the difference between a demon blessed by God with miracles and a devotee blessed by God without such boon?

[A question by Shri Kishore Ram]

Swami Replied: A demon blessed by God with miraculous power is like a charged laptop containing 100% energy in it to work. The laptop is disconnected from the charger. A demon also has no further contact with God. As we say that a charged laptop is working with its own stored energy in its own battery, a demon with miraculous power exhibiting miracles also feels that the miraculous power is with his soul (battery) and this develops ego in him. A devotee blessed by God with miraculous power in the same way similar to the demon does not feel ego thinking that his soul (battery) is supplying power not by its own accord, but is working due to the power attained by it from the source of energy or God. However, if the devotee also feels ego like the demon, God will stop the soul functioning as the source of power for sometime so that ego is removed through realization. This rectification is not done in the case of demon because there is no use of it. The demon will blame God for cheating him. The case of the devotee in whom the soul is stopped from functioning can be compared to a charged defective laptop refusing to open for sometime and opening after sometime. A devotee, who is not blessed by God with a boon since the devotee did not ask God for any boon. The state of such a devotee can be compared to a working laptop that is connected to the charger continuously. This state exists with the case of Human Incarnation also.

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