04 Sep 2015
Mr. Veena Datta, S/o. Ajay, asked: How to avoid the tension in the interviews even though miracles of God are experienced by me?
Shri Swami replied: Tension starts only when you are attached to the fruit of your effort. You know very well that your effort cannot give the fruit unless God gives it. Even then, the tension comes because you are not sure whether God is going to give the fruit or not. “If God is pleased with me, the fruit is given to me and if God is not pleased, the fruit is not given to me” - like this, you think. You will be worried since you are unable to judge whether God is pleased or not pleased with you. You think that if the fruit is achieved, God is pleased with you and if the fruit is not achieved, God is not pleased with you. After putting up your effort sincerely, when the fruit is not achieved by you, you are worried that God is not pleased with you and hence, the fruit is not achieved. This is the wrong conclusion regarding God because you are unable to judge Him properly. Why don't you think that the fruit is not given by God in your present effort because God has planned a better fruit for you in the short future? If you are a sincere and real devotee of God, you should be happy if the fruit is achieved and you should be more happy if the fruit is not achieved because better fruit is in the mind of God in very near future. Hence, as a devotee of God, you should be happy in achieving the fruit and should be more happy if the fruit is not given now because this is an indication of a better fruit to be achieved by you shortly. If you digest this concept, where is the tension? You have to search for the existence of tension with the help of a torch light in your hand. This will make you happy throughout your life without any tension. You should think that it is good to pass in the examination of 10th class and it is better if you fail in the same examination. The reason is that the candidate failing in the 10th class examination is eligible for the post of Group IV (there was such rule in the past). After failing in the examination, you are employed in a service and lead a happy life with the limited salary. Due to the limited salary, you will maintain your health because you will not eat unnecessary fatty foods. Since your income is limited, the relatives and friends will not trouble you in any way. In fact, they will try to help you financially. By this, you are loved by all the people. If you pass the examination, you will proceed to the higher education and get the P.G. Degree. You do not get a suitable post for your high qualification due to rush for the high level jobs. You will wander in the streets without job and undergo the tension more on seeing the failed candidate leading a happy life. Even if you get job and high salary, you will be unhappy with illness and tensions given by your relatives and friends. You know the value of fruits and feel unhappy to receive a fruit with lesser value. You do not know that a fruit with higher value is going to spoil your health. Your knowledge and analysis is very much limited and cannot judge the future reactions of the fruits. Therefore, even if you fail in your effort, you should feel more happiness because such a failure is good for you in the future according to the perspective of God, who is omniscient. If you have this faith on God, you will certainly experience that this failure has given you immense pleasure in your life. This is the total analysis of many verses present in the Gita, which recommend your detachment to the fruit.
Every activity in this world is done by God only and hence there is nothing, which is not a miracle. Every respiration of the human being is a miracle of God only. This is the highest stage of knowledge and such a devotee never distinguishes a particular incident called as miracle from the other normal incidents. All the special incidents as well as the routine normal incidents are done by God only. A stage below this exists as intermediate middle step in which the normal incidents are considered as the activities of nature and only a special incident is considered to be the activity of the unimaginable God. The normal incidents are imaginable and hence are considered to be the activities of the routine nature. Yes. This is perfectly agreed. But, this nature itself is a computerized program prepared and installed by God, Who is the top most software engineer. If you know this truth, every normal incident of the nature is credited to the account of God only and not to the account of inert nature mobilized by God. In this way, all the normal incidents are done by God only. However, in this intermediate stage, the human being distinguishes the normal incidents from a special incident, which is unimaginable performed by the unimaginable God. At least, you must recognize the existence of God and thank Him on the experience of the special unimaginable event called as miracle. There is a lower stage than this intermediate stage and this lower stage is the lowest stage in which the human being becomes the atheist and says that even the special incident happened to be a normal incident only occurred randomly due to the factor of probability in nature. Such an atheist sometimes says “luckily this incident happened”. This shows, at least, the possibility of the atheist to become theist in future because the word luck indicates God. Some schools of logic admitted this luck (Adrushtam) while considering the fruitful collisions of molecules and this made the path to accept God in course of time in their theories. If the atheist is fanatic and conservative, he remains as a blind scientist in the lowest stage only. If his heart is opened with broad outlook, he will become theist and enters the second intermediate state. From the second state, the theist develops by reaching the first stage in which he is considered as the top most devotee, who feels that everything is creation of God only and every activity in this world is done by God only.
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