25 Nov 2015
Shri Anil asked:
1) Even Arjuna was caught by ego and jealousy in the end by not getting down from the chariot. What is the case of ordinary human beings?
2) How to transform a terrorist?
3) God is pleased with a perfect person in Pravrutti and is furious to a person, who is corrupt. Is not God affected by such feelings?
4) How about forming a spiritual university?
Shri Swami replied:
1) The example shows that ego and jealousy are the most serious deceases in the spiritual path. But, it is not said that they are incurable. Knowledge gives the diagnosis to identify the specific virus so that the subsequent treatment can proceed in the corresponding specific direction. Once you have identified the virus through the spiritual knowledge, the treatment becomes clear and easy. You have succeeded 50% by the identification of the specific decease so that your concentration of the treatment will be unidirectional avoiding the dissipation of your energy in various directions of treatment. Anything is achieved by continuous practice (Abhyasa) as said in the Gita. Once you are sincere in practice, God will also give a helping hand to your effort. There are several famous devotees, who practically conquered both ego and jealousy. The example given indicates that your effort must be sincere and strong in the case of eradication of ego and jealousy. You should take the meaning to that extent only and you should not take the meaning as the impossibility and become discouraged.
2) The transformation of a terrorist or any other sinner depends on the strength of his or her extent of rigidity and strength of the ignorance. If the ignorance is in the tolerable range, transformation is quite possible. The transformation also depends on the power of your knowledge transmitted to him. The success depends on both sides. Even if the ignorance is very strong, it will be at least cut to some extent and the next step can easily succeed. The ignorance may not completely vanish, but, will certainly become weak on application of the spiritual knowledge. It may take long time for the final success. Only time is the point, but, success is certain in future.
3) The word ‘affected’ is used in the negative sense. But, this word can be used in the appreciable positive sense also. There is good affect and bad affect. If the pleasure and anger affect the God in positive sense, the neutral word ‘affect’ is appreciable. If you take the case of good administrator in this world, who promotes merit with pleasure and punishes the defect with anger, do you not appreciate such administrator? Since he is affected by pleasure and anger, do you criticize him? Similarly, God should be appreciated for His pleasure towards merit and for His anger towards defect. Of course, if you say that the feelings of pleasure and anger are impossible in the case of unimaginable God, the point is at least logical. But, we can answer this objection also by saying that the omnipotent God can do anything by virtue of His unimaginable power. He can be entertained by any feeling that arises in Him even though the awareness is impossible due to the absence of nervous system in Him. The feeling is not possible in Him in the light of worldly logic existing in imaginable domain. But, the very unimaginable domain means that every illogical incident is possible for the unimaginable God due to His inherent unimaginable power. Now, two points resulted: i) The two feelings expressed by you bring the appreciation to God as good administrator and ii) The feelings are possible due to the omnipotence of unimaginable God though awareness is absent. When something is good and is also not impossible, why do not you allow it to happen in the case of God? Everything is possible for the unimaginable God and you can restrict anything if it is not good since God is always good. You can say that something is not done by God since it is not good, though He can do it.
4) This Universe itself is the university of God-Chancellor. If you see the present universities, is there real learning? In the university, everywhere politics alone actively exists. Of course, politics is also one of the subjects present in the university. But, today, all the departments of all the universities became only one department of politics! The real learning and sincere practice are the essential programmes of the spiritual university. Any person can become the student and any place can become the premises of spiritual university. There is no convocation in this spiritual university. The certificate is awarded to the successful student by God without the knowledge of any other student to avoid the clashes of ego and jealousy. The service obtained after getting the certificate here is unique since there is no aspiration for any fruit in the service. University is not place and buildings. University is the process of learning taking place in certain specific individuals. Similarly, the spiritual university is only the process of discussions and debates on the spiritual knowledge, which is to be propagated through the devotees to the entire humanity in this entire world. This is Open University without any formality in the system of education.
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