10 Apr 2023
[Smt. Chhanda asked: Padanamaskaram Swami. It is told that the closest devotees (like Adishesha, Garuda, Swan etc.) have to stay like animals. All of them have overcome the common media repulsion problem but Swami, are these forms not only to give us proper direction? Otherwise they are in different media and in that case the common-media repulsion doesn’t arise. They have to be in the same media always so that they always remind themselves and win over it. Please enlighten me. Always at Your lotus feet my Lord, Chhanda.]
Swami replied:- Hanuman is not the foolish monkey jumping on trees that is seen today by us. Hanuman is a human being with slightly projected mouth, retaining the tail in the process of evolution. Adishesha is a lean and tall human being, very furious and always hissing with high emotion. The several heads in these two cases indicate the multi-talented intellectual brain capacities. Garuda and Hamsa are human beings with long nose having rich capacity in walking with high and long jumps. All these are human devotees with slight deformations in the faces establishing the concept that beauty is the internal devotion to God and not facial features. Good qualities constitute internal beauty that is far better than external physical beauty. Among good qualities, the best quality is selfless devotion to God. Such devotion shall be taken as the climax of beauty. Every human being wants to be born beautiful. Everybody also tries to become more and more beautiful as far as possible with the help of cosmetics. In such a situation, do you know that these climax devotees prayed God to be born without beauty so that they want to become inferior before the beauty of God! By this, these devotees wish to be servants and wish their God to be the master in every angle. These devotees do not want to be equal to God in any aspect. Their devotion to God is mind blowing! The lesson that we shall learn from this is that you must see any human being as beautiful by its excellent devotion to God and not due to physical beauty or other worldly good qualities.
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