Are the male souls denied of sweet devotion?

[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Regarding the sweet devotion to God, male souls may fight on the ground that partiality is shown to female souls only since male souls are denied of sweet devotion. What shall be our answer to such a question?]

Swami replied:- There was a person called Dhanurdaasa, who was always attracted by the beautiful eyes of his wife and he always was holding an umbrella over her so that no effects of sunlight result. While coming on the road, he collided with Ramanuja and his umbrella fell down. He became very angry with Ramanuja by scolding Him for disturbing his protection of the beautiful eyes of his wife. Ramanuja told him that He can show the more beautiful eyes of the Lord if he comes to the temple and showed him the eyes of Lord shining with unimaginable beauty. From that time onwards, Dhanurdaasa, the so called ‘male soul’ became the strong devotee of the Lord and was liberated from the blind fascination of his wife. Gender is only for the external body and not for the internal soul or awareness. God alone is the creator, maintainer and destroyer of His creation. Maintainer means Bhartaa or husband. The maintained creation is Bhaaryaa or wife. God Datta is the creator, maintainer and destroyer of the creation since unimaginable God or Parabrahman merged perfectly with God Datta and there is no trace of difference between Parabrahman and God Datta. The creation is personified by the divine Mother called Ánaghaa, who is the incarnation of God Datta Himself like other energetic incarnations. The soul is a tiny part of the creation and happens to be a part of Anaghaa Herself as per the principle of representation of the creation. The soul itself is Anaghaa as a mini model. Anaghaa loves Datta means that all souls irrespective of gender love God.

Let us consider the case of a male soul loving a prostitute leaving his wife. You should not compare the love of sages to God with the above mentioned love. In fact, the above mentioned love is only hormone provoked lust and not pure love. The sages have already burnt their lust in the fire of penance and hence, you cannot take the above example here. The pure love or devotion of the sages is transformed into lust while they danced with God Krishna, who is the human incarnation of God Datta. The sages were liberated from all the worldly bonds and the leftover last bond is with spouse only (Daareshanaa). They wanted to prove their liberation from this bond also and requested God Rama that they would become females with the help of their superpower and embrace God Rama to prove that they have crossed the bond with spouse. Even though they were transformed into females, their male-ego would not leave them reminding them that they were males only. In view of the rules and regulations of the then society, a male has more freedom to leave his spouse than the wife to leave her husband in the context of devotion to God. Such test will be real only when the soul is really in a female body than a in male body. Leaving the spouse for the sake of God is more difficult in the case of a female than in the case of a male. Due to this point, the soul in female birth is tested for this bond than the soul in male birth. Moreover, the love of the mother to her child is million times greater than that of the father. Hence, the Veda gives a first place to mother by saying that first the mother shall be worshipped (Mātṛdevo Bhava). This is correct as far as the worldly life is concerned. But, in spiritual life, the same statement becomes that God shall be worshipped as mother. This means that apart from the spouse-test, the child-test is also to be conducted for declaring the total liberation from the fascination of all the worldly bonds. Between these two bonds, the child bond is more strong. The fascination to the child becomes very very strong if the soul is in female birth. The sages, who have crossed both these bonds in their male births previously failed in the child bond test when the same sages were in female birth. Many Gopikas (reborn sages) complained to Yashoda (the mother of Krishna) when the butter preserved for their children was stolen by Krishna. The money (butter) bond is always linked with the child bond. Except 12 Gopikas, all the thousand Gopikas complained showing that the child linked money bond is very strong in the case of female birth. All the thousand Gopikas attended the dance in Brundavanam and this shows that the child bond is the strongest bond among the three worldly bonds with money, children and spouse. In the test of the bond with spouse, certainly a female birth is more inconvenient  than a male birth. Hence, the final test for the liberation from fascination of all worldly bonds has to be done for the soul in a female birth only if the final tests for the two bonds is to be done very strictly and very seriously. When this is the case, God in a male form can be the examiner especially in the test of the bond with the spouse and the soul has to be in a female form. This should not be misunderstood as God fascinated to the female souls due to hormone provoked lust. If it is the point of lust, the most beautiful heavenly dancers will form a long queue before God. Even that is not necessary. God can create the most beautiful female, who is far far more beautiful than even heavenly dancers. When a male doctor attends to the delivery of a female, if the females blame the male doctor to be enjoyer of romance and fight that they shall attend the delivery case of a male, how much laughable is their fight? This is because females alone deliver a child. Such emotional fights lead to loss of common sense as well. The examined student is the soul in female dress just like the operated patient must be in a specific stipulated dress. The examiner is bothered about the quantity of worldly fascination present in the soul and is not bothered about the gender of the body.

Ravana, a demon asked God Shiva to sacrifice the divine Mother Parvati to become his wife due to hormone provoked lust. Even Mahishaasura, Shumbha and Nishumbha desired the divine Mother Goddess Durga with the same hormone provoked lust and not due to love to God. All these demons were destroyed because of their ignorant and foolish path. The strongest bond with God in female form is always the mother-son bond because the female has million times more love to her child than to her husband. If God wants to test the bond of the soul to its issue, the soul shall be in female body because a male devotee can easily sacrifice his bond with child for the sake of God. The child is in the womb of its mother for 9 months and comes out from her body directly and drinks the milk from her body directly for a long time. This brings a lot of fascination of the mother towards her child and such strongest bond alone shall be tested in the context of God standing in competition with the child. The traditional customs are more serious for the female than for a male regarding the test of bond with the spouse. In this way, the requirements of the final test demand the examined soul to be in female body and God to be in male body. If God is fond of female-romance, God would have permitted the test of the bond with spouse in any female birth. God stipulated the condition that this test would be done only in the final birth of the soul provided the soul has already crossed all other 99 bonds of the total 100 worldly bonds. This point becomes clear that when God conducted both the tests (test of the bond with the money linked child and the bond of spouse) together, almost all the sages who had taken female birth  failed and only 12 Gopikas among them passed both the tests.

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