Posted on: 04 Mar 2024
Shri Hrushikesh asked: Some people asked that if God created this world for His entertainment, why shall we undergo suffering for His entertainment? Please enlighten us.
Swami replied:- God created this world and allowed it to proceed in its own nature (Svabhāvastu pravartate - Gita). He did not force anything in the creation that disturbs the souls. Assume that God is not there and this creation appeared by itself as per the version of science. In such a case, whom do you blame? In such a case, the present government would have been formed to control sins in the public even in the assumed absence of God. Moreover, God supports the government by punishing the sinners, who escape the punishments of the government through corruption, etc. The existence of God punishing the sins through unimaginable ways creates fear in the public so that a fully good administration can be maintained. Realizing the omnipotent God, nobody will dare to do a sin. In this way, the acceptance of the existence of God is more favorable for that justified administration of the government. Hence, the blame of the people is meaningless.
Suppose you are walking on the road and if somebody is entertained by seeing you, what is the loss to you? God is not entertained from your suffering like a sadist, who is entertained by burning your hand with His ignited cigarette. You are getting happiness or misery based on your own deeds and hence, God is not at all responsible for your miseries. Moreover, God is coming down as human incarnation to preach all the souls the path to escape these worldly miseries. This is a helping point for the existence of God. You need not say that since the soul is also enjoying in the creation, let God also enjoy through entertainment. This argument will fail when people say that apart from happiness, they are also suffering with miseries. Your logic cannot cover the total angle of the criticism. You simply say that God is entertaining Himself just by seeing whatever is happening in its own natural way. God is not provoking the soul to do both good and bad actions. The soul is doing both good and bad actions based on its own nature or samskaara that is attained from several previous births. Hence, God is not responsible for your happiness or misery (Na kartṛutvam…-Gita).
People are praising God when they are happy and scolding God when they are unhappy. They should praise themselves for their happiness that comes from their own good deeds. They shall blame themselves for their misery that comes from their own bad deeds. Hence, there is no trace of place for the people to blame God for their miseries. God is not responsible for their misery or for their happiness (Nādatte kasyacit pāpam…-Gita). Therefore, this question is completely unjust and meaningless.
The propagation of spiritual knowledge is assigned to the Samnyaasi or Saint. The Samnyaasi sacrifices everything including ego. This ego is responsible for the fascinations. The fascinations towards all the sins except the sin of self-credit are temporary and such sinners doing temporary sins will return back to the earth from hell. The sin committed in self-credit is permanent and its punishment is the fall of the sinner permanently in liquid fire because a wrong concept preached by the preacher will permanently stay in this world as the wrong concept circulates in the people forever generation by generation. Hence, either show a xerox copy of the true spiritual knowledge preached by God Datta (www.universal-spirituality.org) or send email or study it thoroughly and then, preach without any addition or any deletion.
You need not recite blindly the knowledge like a Vedic Scholar blindly reciting the Veda. You study the meaning and hold the meaning as it is in your brain and this is called as Nididhyaasa. Before this, you have to hear the true knowledge from Sadguru (Shravanam) and study it several times (Mananam). When the knowledge is digested by you, it is called as Nidishyaasa and after this third step only, you must preach God’s spiritual knowledge. If the itch for self-fame is very high on your skin, claim the true spiritual knowledge of God as your own knowledge because in such a way, at least the true concepts are not adulterated even though the name of the real author is snatched away by the propagating preacher having intensive itch for self-fame!