Can anyone get salvation with enemy kind of relationship with God?

[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Swami, we realised that God (contemporary human incarnation) is the source of bliss. Having faith in the incarnation and establishing a relationship with God is very important to attain such bliss and happiness. Some see God as Father, some as friend and so on. Would the soul attain bliss even by enmity with God? We know that Rāvana and Kumbhakarna got salvation just within 3 Janmas by enmity with God. Can anyone get salvation with enemy kind of relationship with God?]

Swami Replied:- Certainly, enmity with God is not the path of love and hence, none can reach God through enmity. The story of the six demons (Raavana etc.) is totally different in which people are confused. They were the gatekeepers of God and were cursed by the Sages to be born on earth. Then, God told them that whether they will reach Him in 3 births as enemies or in 7 births as devotees. They told that they will reach God in 3 births only since 7 births was very long time and told that they cannot separate from God for such a long time. In this way, it is a test for the devoted gatekeepers to see how much time they can stay in separation from Him. You can’t generalise this and say that you can reach God quickly through enmity and if you say like that it will be utter foolishness because God is not testing you regarding your capability of your separation from God.

Anyone can reach God through the path of climax love so that all other bonds are spontaneously dropped without any effort. There are several types of love. They are treating God as father, brother, teacher, master, husband, darling etc. Draupadi as sister excelled all the eight wives in the scene in which they ran to fetch a cloth for bandage of the wounded finger of God Krishna whereas Draupadi tore her sari for the bandage at once. The reason here is that the bond as husband is one of the worldly bonds only, which is equal to the other worldly bonds. In fact, we can say that the bond with husband is weaker than any other worldly bond because there can be divorce in husband-wife bond, but, there is no divorce in any other worldly bond! It is not the question of the type of bond, but, it is the question of quantity of love in a bond.

Whatever may be the form of the candy sweet like swan or donkey, the weight of the candy existing in the form brings value to the sweet. When Lakshmana fainted in the war, Raama cried saying “Stop the war. I don’t want Siitaa. If Lakshmana is dead, I will not be alive”. The case of Gopikas is totally different from all these worldly bonds because all their worldly bonds were spontaneously dropped due to bond with God Krishna. Such bond can’t be compared with any worldly bond. Their love to Krishna was totally blind and is the climax of advanced stage of love called madness. In this state, even a defect or extreme negative quality of Krishna was felt by them as the extreme positive quality only. Hence, their bond with Krishna cannot come under the category of worldly bonds. They said to Uddhava that they were occupied by Krishna from top to bottom and there is no place in them to hear even a word told by Uddhava against Krishna! Uddhava spoke that the absolute God is unimaginable and the external medium is temporary and will disappear in course of time.

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