11 Jun 2021
[Smt. Anita Renkuntla asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmiji, 🙏🙏🙏 Thank You Swāmiji for the quick response to my questions and also to the team of devotees who are in Your service. I have a few more doubts regarding Human Incarnation and jealousy. I understood that the human beings on the earth have ego and jealousy. They are jealous of human incarnation of the present time. My question is Angels are greater souls than humans. They too have jealousy. They are not in the materialistic world like humans. Why do they feel jealous and for what?]
Swāmi Replied:- The Veda says that even angels have jealousy on God present before eyes and have attraction to God present far from eyes. Not only God, this nature is common to any soul on any item. The soul likes the item that is far from it and dislikes the item near to eyes with negligence (Parokṣapriyā iva hi devāḥ, pratyakṣadviṣaḥ…- Veda). In the angels, souls are also like the souls of human beings made of the three principle qualities and their mixed modifications. The external media of the souls only differ. In angels, the external body is energetic whereas the external body in human beings is materialised. Of course, the angels are blessed with some miraculous powers by God. Even on the earth some human beings are blessed with miraculous powers by God. If you take earth, some devilish people are also blessed with miraculous powers. Similarly, some angels also have bad qualities even though they are possessing miraculous powers. The king of angels is called Indra. He got several miraculous powers blessed by God as a virtue of his supreme position in the kingdom of angels. Indra became egoistic and also jealous about God Śiva.
Though miracles are qualitatively common to both Śiva and Indra, there is lot of quantitative difference in the power of miracles. Not only is this, even many types of miracles are confined to God Śiva only about which Indra can never dream. Added to this difference, Indra was always in troubles due to his ignorance and Śiva was always giving proper solutions due to His omniscient divine knowledge. Indra developed jealousy to God Śiva due to the repulsion between the common external energetic media. Once, Indra lifted his diamond weapon (Vajrāyudha) to hit God Śiva. God Śiva just stared at him and Indra became standstill like a statue! (Jaḍīkṛtaḥ Tryambaka vīkṣaṇena, vajraṃ mumukṣanniva vajrapāṇiḥ – Raghuvaṃśa – 2nd Sarga). The human beings become angels due to their extraordinary meritorious deeds. Indra is the name of the post of the King of Angels. After final dissolution of this world, in the end of this Kaliyuga, King Bali is going to become Indra. The human souls go to heaven for some time to enjoy the fruits of their deeds and return to earth like people going to foreign countries on visa. Some human souls stay there for a long time and become citizenship holders of heaven like Indra etc.
What I want to say here is that the soul is one and the same whether it is angel or human being. The main reason for jealousy is the repulsion between common human media having the same properties like birth, hunger, thirst, disease, sex, sleep etc. These properties mislead the devotee to think that the human incarnation is also an ordinary human being like himself. But, when the divinity of human incarnation is expressed, such thought of equality gets hurt and the ego based jealousy towards human incarnation will develop in any case without exception. The jealousy may vary in its intensity depending upon the strength of the devotion of the devotee. This is told by Kṛṣṇa in the Gītā “Avajānanti mām…”, which means that the devotees may go to the climax of jealousy to insult the incarnation and its super-climax made devotees even to kill Jesus on the cross.
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