Why does God change to an illusory form in the husband bond and remain in original form in other bonds?

[Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked:- Namaste Swami. You wrote in a song, "Whenever I think only, the feeling of darling arises in the soul." In the knowledge, You said that the fascinations on all the worldly bonds should be diverted towards God; these include the spouse bond and boyfriend bond. Why is there lust between husband (God)-wife (devotee) bond which is not between brother (God)-sister (devotee), Father (God)-daughter (devotee) bonds. Why did God create those romantic feelings when it is wrong (as written in the song). Depending on the experiences happening to me, I sometimes feel God as a mother in one situation, a brother in another situation, a husband in another situation, etc. Why does the God change into an illusory form in the God husband bond and remain in original form in the other bonds? Pada Namaskar Swami.]

Swami replied:- The husband-wife bond is created in souls by God for a specific purpose called ‘reproducing children’ so that the earth is always filled with human beings whenever God visits the earth as a human incarnation. This bond is highly specific in nature and the nature of this bond cannot be extended to all other worldly bonds like father, brother etc. God created all the souls and therefore, He is like the father to all souls. He declared in the Bhagavad Gita that He is the Divine Father of all souls (Ahaṃ bījapradaḥ pitā…). In all other worldly bonds, this specific point is absent and the common nature in all these worldly bonds (including the specific wife-husband bond), the love apart from lust is common. In fact, even the word ‘husband’ (Bhartā) means the maintainer and the word ‘Bhāryā’ means maintained. Based on this sense, God is the husband and all souls are females and wives of God. By telling this, the romantic angle does not come at all. This is told even by the Veda (Striyas satīḥ puṃsaḥ). Moreover, the soul is relative reality and God is the absolute reality. There is no equality between God and soul. God is equal only to the embodiment of His power. Along with the incarnation of God, the incarnation of the power of God also comes down for this purpose.

If devotees are rigid, God gives the same psychological satisfaction through His illusory forms. The difference between the original form and illusory form is only that unimaginable God is present in the real form and is absent in the illusory form. The presence or absence of unimaginable God makes no difference because the unimaginable God is beyond imagination of any human being. The rest is only medium and the medium is exactly one and the same between original form and illusory form. Also, the happiness generated in the union stands as one and the same whether it is true form or illusory form. Hence, the spiritual progress is not at all effected. God is said to be the perfect celibate and His celibacy is not disturbed when He meets with His own monistic form, which is the embodiment of His power as incarnation. When there is no loss in any angle, is it not foolish ignorance to become rigid in getting the form having unimaginable God, who is not touched by the experience of soul in anyway?

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