23 Jan 2016
[January 23, 2016 Part 2] Smt. Devi (wife of Dr.Nikhil) asked:
1) What is the secret of the human incarnation’s enjoyment of continuous pain and sorrow in His life? How can one see, understand and maintain the enjoyment given by God as permanent feature?
Shri Swami replied: Since the human incarnation coming to earth is continuously enjoying the sorrow in Its life, you have put this question with lot of sorrow and pain in your heart. God appreciates you for your concern towards Him even though it is based on ignorance. After all, diamond is diamond even if it is in dust and love is love even if it is in ignorance. Your ignorance is due to the trick (Maya) of the Human incarnation to get sympathy from innocent people like you! Beware of its Maya! Suppose a person is eating sweets in the kitchen and is not seen by others. He comes to the dining hall and eats only hot items from the dish in the presence of all the people. The people sympathize him thinking that such eater is always eating the hot dish only. They did not see him eating sweets in the kitchen before coming out to the dining hall with a hot dish in his hands. After finishing the hot dish in the dining hall, he again goes into the kitchen and comes out with another hot dish after eating the sweets in the kitchen itself. The enjoyment of sweets in the kitchen during the intervals is not noticed by the people present in the dining hall. He is actually eating sweet dishes and hot dishes in alternative manner only. But, the poor public in the dining hall see only his enjoyment of hot dishes only.
Similarly, the God in human form in the upper world is bored with the happiness received by Him through continuous sweet prayers offered by the angels. The hot dishes are not available in the upper world. No angel will criticize or scold Him in any case at any time since the angel is generally not attacked by ignorance. In this world, the souls are easily attacked by ignorance. The upper world is a sweet shop for God. This world is a tiffin-cart on the road that generally supplies hot dishes only. You are seeing God in human form near the tiffin-cart only present on the road before your house. You do not see Him in the sweet shop present in another road, which is very far from your house.
While seeing God in human form suffering continuously here, you need not feel pained because even suffering is enjoyment only. God has the talent of enjoyment in suffering also just like everybody has the talent to enjoy the hot dishes. The difference between God and us is that God has the talent to enjoy the suffering and we do not have the talent of enjoyment during suffering. We suffer in suffering and God enjoys in suffering. This talent of God is simply based on the detachment from the bonds of the world attained by the knowledge of self (paramatma jnanam) that He is God. Since God has the knowledge of self, which is that He is the absolute God and not attached to the relative creation, detachment to creation is attained. Similarly, if we have the self-knowledge (atma jnanam) that we are the pure souls (awareness), we can also get detachment from this creation. Both these types of knowledge are true (paramartha jnanam). The attachment to the world is ignorance (ajnanam). The ignorance will vanish by the true knowledge like darkness vanishing by light. We have this application in our daily life also. While seeing a cinema, you enjoy the tragic scenes also because you know that you are different from cinema and also that you are true and the cinema is illusory based on an imaginary story written by some writer. This knowledge makes you to enjoy tragic scene in the cinema. An ignorant spectator immersed in the cinema thinks that he is seeing the real story in the world happening before in the life. By this illusion, he starts weeping and suffers in the suffering caused by the tragic scene. I had a friend in My childhood sitting on My side in the cinema hall bending his head to My side whenever a car straightly runs towards us on the screen! Absence of true knowledge associated by illusion is the main basis of suffering in suffering. God in human form also suffers in suffering but His suffering in such suffering is enjoyment. While you eat the hot dish, due to chilly-nature, tears come down from your eyes and tongue vibrates in the opened mouth. For others, all these symptoms show that you are suffering in the suffering, which is the eating of hot item. But, do you not enjoy in the suffering of such suffering? This is the logical clue. The Lord said that practice of the talent again and again maintaining the awareness of this clue associated by the detachment from the world, will make the man perfect (abhyasenatu…vairagyenacha… Gita).
When the Lord wanted to taste the hot dishes on this earth, His wife also requested the Lord to come with Him because she was also bored by the sweet prayers submitted to Her after praising the Lord. Sita and Rukmini are such roles of the Goddess. Sita enjoyed the hot dishes continuously throughout Her life. When the time for going to the upper world (sweet shop) is nearing, she prayed the Lord that she likes to go to forest once again to taste chilies on the last occasion. The Lord agreed to this and immediately influenced the mind of the washer man to speak wrong against Her. Rukmini also underwent insults from Her colleague Satya Bhama throughout Her life. The Lord (Rama) was so much immersed in enjoying the chilies here that He forgot to go back to the sweet shop till He was reminded by a divine sage. The name Rama of the Lord means the enjoyer, which is stressing the depth of His enjoyment. The extreme enjoyment called bliss (ananda) is continuous throughout the situations of happiness and subsequent situations of unhappiness and hence God is said to have continuous bliss (akhanda ananda swaroopa). Though enjoyment is common in eating the sweets and hot items alternatively, the alternative change of the dish is required for a change in enjoyment. Change in enjoyment does not mean that the enjoyment is changed. The change means the type of the enjoyment linked to the dish is changed. The soul is also entitled to reach this state offered by God Himself. The producer-director-hero likes to enjoy the film along with his assisting servant advising him to see and enjoy the film on par with him. This is the monism (Advaita) offered by the Lord in this single theoretical aspect. In the practical aspects like production of the film and direction of the film, the assisting servant has no role since he is totally incapable in such activities. In such practical aspects, dualism (Dvaita) exists. The theoretical aspect can never become the practical aspect and vice-versa. Of course, both are maintained simultaneously. Yet, the monism is totally the final complete fruit. All the pains taken in the production of the film end finally in the enjoyment of the film by seeing it. The continuous enjoyment in happy and unhappy scenes makes you to become God in the final enjoyment (theoretical) of the fruit. You should not be overambitious to achieve monism with God in practical aspects also and for that, you must remember always about your incapability compared to omnipotent God.
You can get the detachment by a simple clue instead of the above path of knowledge that removes ignorance. If you are totally immersed in God, such attachment to God brings the detachment from the creation. Just detachment from the world for the sake of detachment only is meaningless and useless unless you get the deep attachment to God as cause and detachment from the world as the sub-sequential effect. Mere detachment from the world without attachment to God is of no use. Gopikas got perfect detachment from the world due to their perfect attachment to the contemporary Human incarnation. The path of Gopikas completely immersed in Lord Krishna for continuous enjoyment is the safest, recommended by the Lord Himself. Uddhava, who was in the path of knowledge to attain this continuous enjoyment, was transformed to the path of Gopikas by the will of Lord. The first path was the mother-cat catching its child by mouth (marjala kishora nyaya) and the second path was the monkey-child catching the lower part of stomach of its mother (markata kishora nyaya). There is no possibility of slip in the first path where as there is possibility of slip in the second path due to the possibility of attack of ego.
Benefits Given By Lord Were Common to Gopikas & Their Relatives
2) Why are souls always ungrateful towards God, inspite of the fact that God is their greatest benefactor?
Shri Swami replied: Some souls become ungrateful to God in Human form due to the attack of ego and jealousy. Even angels in the upper worlds are not exceptional to this concept. Both ego and jealousy try to attack every soul especially when its resistance power becomes weak. Realization of God as the omnipotent and ultimate goal is forgotten when these two attack the mind. Both these are like the basic two ions potassium and cyanide forming the compound potassium-cyanide that kills anybody instantaneously. One ion is not so much dangerous as you see the poison of the snake having hydrogen cyanide does not kill instantaneously. The whole problem comes from the exposed human being-component and the hidden God-component. The electrified wire looks like the ordinary wire. When you touch the electrified wire, then only, you will experience the shock of God’s component (electricity), which alone is exposed and not the non-shock property of the wire, which is not exposed. Mere view receives the exposed wire only and the experience receives the hidden electricity. Hence, it is told that you can know the God-component only by experience and not by mere external view (Anubhavaikavedyam Brahma.). Gopikas experienced God in Krishna, where as other villagers of Brundavanam viewed only the external Human form of Krishna. Therefore, any villager cannot become equal to Gopika in the aspect of realization of God in Krishna. When Gopika gave butter secretly to Krishna avoiding even her strongest bond to her children, nobody in her house was convinced because of the non-realization of God-component in Krishna. Gopika alone knows the value of Krishna and hence her action was not understood by her other family members in her house. Hence, the mothers-in-law rushed to the mother of Krishna to complain about the butter stolen by Krishna directly or received by Krishna secretly from the hands of their daughters-in-law. Jealousy towards Krishna covered the eyes to make them blind even though all the villagers were benefited by Krishna from the attacks of demons, kaliya-serpent and Indra. The benefits given by the Lord were common to Gopikas and their relatives. But, the jealousy could cover the eyes of others and not the eyes of Gopikas, who were the sages involved in the discussion-penance about God from millions of births and who alone could realize the concept of contemporary human incarnation conquering the powerful ego and jealousy.
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