What Do You Offer to Your Beloved Devotees?

[Shri Anil Antony asked: All other Gods have lured their followers by offering to forgive their prarabdhas, what You got to offer to Your beloved devotees? A question asked to Swami by a devotee.]

Swami replied: Punishment given for a sin is only to change the mind of the soul and purify it. There is no trace of revenge in this. The hell is an indication of the intensive love of God to the souls through which God wants to reform the souls. The hell indicates the hectic effort of God put on the soul to reform it and not to leave the soul to its fate. A father may leave his son since he does not change inspite of all his efforts. But, in the hell, God puts serious effort and succeeds to change the soul. Therefore, even thousands of fathers cannot be equal to God. God does not leave the soul without changing it and this point is indicated by the punishment and hell. Therefore, there is no point of excusing the Prarabhdas if this true basis is understood. God will try to change the soul through preaching as far as possible. Punishment in the hell is the last resort. Once the soul is reformed, all the sins are smashed since there is neither the necessity of preaching nor the necessity of punishment.