11 Oct 2023
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[Satsanga at Hyderabad from 28th Sept. to 2nd Oct., 2023. Attended by Smt. Chhanda Chandra, Shri Soumyadip Mondal, Neel Mondal, Shri Kunal Chatterjee, Smt. Suchandra from Mumbai and other local devotees.]
1) Why did King Parikshit ask Sage Śuka about Krishna blaming that Krishna has violated justice by touching others’ wives? Here, My question is that why did he not touch the topics of the bond with children and the bond with wealth, which were tested by stealing the butter preserved for the children of the Gopikas? In this test, almost all the Gopikas failed since they complained to Yashoda. The three strongest worldly bonds or worldly fascinations are about wealth, children and spouse. These three are called as the Eṣaṇātrayam and liberation from these three strongest bonds means salvation from all the hundred worldly bonds. Actually, the sages born as the Gopikas failed in the test of bond with children joined with the test of bond with wealth (butter). All the Gopikas complained about the stealing of butter by Krishna that is kept for the sake of their children and no Gopika complained to Yashoda about the Rāsa-dance in Bṛndāvanam. This means all the sages failed in the joint test of children and wealth. But, no Gopika or sage failed in the test of the bond with spouse because everybody danced with Krishna and did not complain about this to anybody. The actual failure of the sages is due to the joint test of bonds with children and wealth only. In such a case, why did Parikshit question only about the test of bond with spouse and did not question about the joint-test with bonds of children and wealth? Why is King Parikshit questioning about the test of the bond in which all sages passed, but is not questioning about the two bonds (children and wealth) in which all the sages except twelve failed? The answer for this question is that:- In the test of the joint bonds (children and wealth), all the sage-souls failed and King Parikshit is also one of the souls. No soul will question about self-failure. Parikshit also has a son called Janamejaya to whom Parikshit has given all his kingdom (wealth). So, if Parikshit puts the question on the bond with children and wealth, he himself will be trapped in that question! Any soul does not like to refer to its own faults and failures. Any soul will question the faults of others only. Hence, Parikshit questioned about the leftover single bond with spouse as a matter of debate and discussion even though such single bond is not at all an important matter in which all sages born as Gopikas got a grand success. This is the reflection of human psychology.
2) The actual failure of the sages born as the Gopikas is due to the bond with children and in the beginning verse of the Bhāgavatam, this bond is very strongly mentioned. The point of this verse is about the strongest power of this bond with children. In this verse, Sage Vyāsa (the author of this verse itself) explains about His own failure in the context of this bond thereby saying that none including Himself can pass in the test of this single bond with children (Putreti tanmayatayā…). He is said to be the master of spiritual knowledge (Vyāsa Pīṭham) about which the promise done by the Veda is that truth alone shall be spoken in spiritual knowledge (Satyaṃ Jñānaṃ anantaṃ Brahma).
3) The best wise scholar always leaves everything to God without resorting to revenge against any crime done towards him by others because he does not know that whether the crime is a fresh case or a retort case. Fresh case means that somebody has done that crime against you for the first time in this birth. Retort case means that you have done the same crime against him in the previous birth and God arranged this in this birth in such a way that he does the same crime to you to retort your previous action. If it is the second case, your enemy will not be further punished by God. Suppose, this case is a fresh case, in which you have not done any crime against him in the previous birth. In such a case, God will take the responsibility of punishing that fresh criminal relieving you from the field of the case by giving a good compensation to you because you have not developed any revenge against him putting your total faith in the administration of God. Here, the very important point is that you will not be compensated if your enemy is punished. If you are without any revenge, God will compensate you for the fresh injustice done to you in this case. What shall you desire? Is it good compensation from God or is it simply pacification of your theoretical revenge by the punishment of your enemy, the criminal? A wise scholar will select the first option. Now, having received good practical compensation from God, you have no right to ask God about the punishment of your fresh criminal. God will give some time and try to introduce reformation in that criminal through spiritual knowledge. If the criminal is reformed, God will not punish the criminal because the purpose of giving punishment is only to stop the repetition of the same sin again in this world. If the criminal is not reformed, God will punish the criminal with a hundred times more intensity. But, you are not connected with this, be it no punishment or severe punishment of the fresh criminal, because you have already left the field of this case with good compensation. In the case of Draupadi, she always developed an attitude of revenge against the Kauravas. Had Draupadi kept silent, leaving everything to God Krishna, she would have received compensation and God Krishna had already decided to kill the Kauravas since they were not reformed. In that case, the compensation to Draupadi from God Krishna would be that all her five sons would have become future kings of the entire kingdom after winning the battle. Due to her unnecessary over-emotional attitude of revenge, Draupadi was also punished since her five children were killed by Aśvatthāmā at night while they were sleeping. Dharmaraja always left everything to God without a trace of revenge in his mind. Actually, Krishna killed all the Kauravas for the sake of Dharmaraja only and not for the sake of anybody on the side of the Pandavas. If this message is understood by every soul in this world, you can imagine the intensity of peace achieved in this world in such a situation! One important point to be noted in this context is that either injustice will be reformed or will be punished as a last resort by God and in this context, you need not put your finger that will be burnt unnecessarily. Draupadi lost the compensation from God due to her immediate revengeful attitude and was simultaneously punished for the sake of sinful revenge. You are immediately reacting against your crime without giving at least minimum time to God to deliver the compensation to you! You are spontaneously reacting against any action without following even a trace of patience, just following the laws of motion of Newton.
4) You may think that this message is useful in the case of an incapable person who cannot take revenge against the criminal. It need not be so because even a capable person is unable to know whether the crime done against him by the criminal is a fresh case or a retort case. Hence, even a capable person cannot decide the truth of the past birth’s action to decide his course of justified reaction. Suppose a capable person takes revenge against the criminal for the crime done to him and if that case happens to be a retort case, what happens finally? Instead of closure of the case, the case continues for the next birth and this time, the retorting person will be made stronger than yourself so that you become the incapable person and receive the retort punishment without the ability to react. This is not the procedure of a wise person and hence, if the capable person is also wise, he/she will follow the above message and will be benefitted by not committing revenge even though capable and leaving the final decision to God.
5) Arjuna fought with the Kauravas against their injustice because Krishna, their contemporary human incarnation of God or the Sadguru, had decided that it was a fresh case only and not a retorting case. Hence, whenever you fight against injustice, you shall not be the judge especially when you are the affected party. Even though you are affected, you do not know whether it is a fresh case or a retorting case. With this view, Arjuna went back from fighting, leaving everything to God. But, God Krishna, the Sadguru, who knows all the previous births, the present birth and the future births of all the souls, has decided the course of action and ordered Arjuna to fight. Hence, whether it is your personal case or the case of others, you must have the proper right guidance from a divine judge like Krishna standing in the status of the Sadguru or the human incarnation of God. In such a case, you must blindly follow the orders of the Sadguru and in such a case, your victory is also assured. Assuming that Arjuna went back from the war based on the above-said message (which is that leaving everything to God is the best) and assuming that he was not based on fascination towards his relatives, this message becomes perfectly valid.
6) It is told that whatever pleases God is justice and whatever makes God furious is injustice. This wrongly appears like God is a dictator so that by whatever God is pleased with, it is forced to become justice! But, you need not analyze from top (pleasure of God) to bottom (path of justice). Even if you analyze again in reverse way from bottom to top with sharp logical analysis, you will find that whatever pleases God is justified by itself. Since you have not understood God properly, you are thinking that if God is pleased, even injustice becomes justice. It is wrong. If you do sharp analysis, it is already justified by itself and it looks like injustice to your eyes due to your ignorance. For example, God Krishna told Dharmaraja to tell a lie about the son of Drona so that Drona could be killed. Dharmaraja refused to tell the lie. Dharmaraja did not properly understand that point as justice and felt it as injustice due to his limited knowledge. On deep analysis, Drona, being the son of a great sage and scholar, is supporting injustice or the Kauravas. He is fighting against justice or the Pandavas. Injustice can be dealt with injustice. Hence, the lie desired by Krishna is not a lie at all in this context, and it is the ultimate truth to be used to defeat injustice by injustice and thereby protect justice.
7) Sage Vyāsa is a great philosopher since He was the author of the Brahma Sūtras. Sage Vālmīki was also a great philosopher since he was the author of a great book on spiritual knowledge called the Yoga Vāśiṣṭam or Jñāna Vāśiṣṭam. Hence, we should not take Vyāsa and Vālmīki as simple poets, who wrote the Bhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇam. Both these sages being climax scholars of spiritual knowledge, have written the Bhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇam with spiritual backgrounds only. Let us see the Bhāratam, which deals with the two strongest worldly bonds, which are the bond with children (putreṣaṇā) and the bond with wealth (dhaneṣaṇā). King Dhṛtarāṣṭra was having climax fascination for these two bonds and wanted to give all the wealth to his children only avoiding the children of even his own brother. Let us see the Rāmāyaṇam, which deals with the third strongest bond, which is the bond with the spouse (dāreṣaṇā). Rāvaṇa was fascinated towards the wife of Rāma since she was very beautiful. Hence, these three strongest worldly bonds are discussed in the Bhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇam. Both the Bhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇam were reflected in the Bhāgavatam. Krishna stole the butter (wealth) of the sages born as the Gopikas and that butter was preserved for their children. Almost all the Gopikas went to Yashoda and complained about Krishna stealing their butter or wealth. Don’t think that Gopikas did not recognize Krishna as God and did this due to their ignorance. This is completely wrong. Sage Nārada says in his Bhakti Sūtram that the sages as Gopikas were well aware of God Krishna (Māhātmya jñāna vismṛti...). Even if you still doubt about the ignorance of Gopikas, it is not acceptable because Krishna was continuously showing the divine miracles from His birth itself. Hence, there need not be even an iota of doubt that the sages as Gopikas were ignorant and hence, complained to Yashoda. They complained to Yashoda while they were well aware of the divinity of God Krishna. Even though they knew thoroughly that Krishna was God, still, they slipped when the influence of the bond with children came into the picture. Always, the bond with wealth is joined with the bond with children because we see everywhere in the world that everybody earns even doing a lot of sins only to give the earned lot to their children. If the bond with their children could defeat even the bond with God in spite of their severe penance for God for millions of past births, what would be the case of ordinary human beings? Sage Vyāsa, the king of all the divine sages and the source of entire spiritual knowledge ran after His son and this point was mentioned by Himself in the beginning verse of the Bhāgavatam! This is the main point where even great sages failed even in the subject of God or Nivrutti. Just like Dhṛtarāṣṭra was fascinated to his children and was ready to do injustice to the children of his own brother, Gopikas as sages were also fascinated towards their children against whom God was competing by stealing their butter. Knowing that Krishna was God, Gopikas voted for their children against God Krishna and complained to Yashoda. In this way, the Bhāratam is reflected in the Bhāgavatam. Similarly, the subject of the Rāmāyaṇam was also reflected in the Bhāgavatam and this reflection is very clear in the question of Parikshit put to Sage Shuka (Paradārābhimarśanam). In the Rāmāyaṇam, Rāvaṇa aspired for others’ wives and in the Bhāgavatam, Parikshit questioned Shuka that how Krishna aspired for others’ wives. Like this, the bond with the spouse mentioned in the Rāmāyaṇam is reflected in the Bhāgavatam. In this point, Parikshit is totally wrong because Krishna threatened Gopikas to go back to their homes and threatened horribly by saying that they would go to hell if they liked to dance with Him. But, the Gopikas told that if they were refused, they would commit suicide by jumping into the river Yamuna. In this way, Gopikas pestered Krishna and not vice versa. The sages left their families and surrendered to God Datta. God Datta told them that the trend of the society is such that the males on leaving families were not much subjected to inconvenience. Then, the sages became females with their miraculous power and approached God Rama requesting Him to treat them as His wives. God Rama told that unless they are born as real females, the test will not be genuine. Then, the sages were born as real females, called Gopikas and approached God Krishna treating Him as their real husband. Even here, God Krishna told that married ladies shall not have such idea, which will throw them into hell. In this way, God always tried to avoid this type of testing the bond with spouse. When this is the fact, how could Parikshit dare to say that Krishna touched the wives of others? Somebody suggested that Krishna should have entered the lives of the Gopikas before their marriages. This is the utmost foolishness because if Gopikas were not married and did not have children, how could the tests about spouse and child have been conducted by God? Of course, we shall not blame the sages also because they have burnt their lust in the fire of penance done in their several previous births. This is a test for the bond with the spouse when God is competing and their reaction was perfectly justified as per the norms of the test. After all, this bond was mentioned in the three strongest worldly bonds, called Eṣaṇātrayam. If this bond is not to be tested by God Krishna, why did the scriptures mention this bond in Eṣaṇātrayam, the triad of the three strongest worldly bonds? Is your intelligence greater than the sacred scriptures to criticize God for testing this single bond? This inclusion of bond with spouse in the triad is also perfectly justified because if you take any family in this world, it certainly contains husband, wife and child only. Both husband and wife are continuously earning through justice or even injustice for the sake of the child only. Hence, you need not blame somebody for including the bond with spouse (husband or wife) in Eṣaṇātrayam since it is practical experience, which is the highest authority regarding these three strongest worldly bonds. The complete liberation from this triad (Eṣaṇātrayam), called salvation is recommended in all the divine scriptures.
8) In Pravrutti or worldly life, these three strongest worldly bonds play a big role in establishing justice against injustice. Parents try to do injustice also in earning for their children even though they have earned enough that is sufficient for ten future generations. This is injustice to be prevented and the justice to be followed is not to earn by injustice for the sake of your children since the unjust money will destroy all your future generations. Hence, the reduction of the strength of these three worldly bonds starts in Pravrutti so that justice is protected and injustice does not win to spoil the peace of this world. God is very much concerned with the peace of this world through the establishment of this justice because He is the creator of this world. If these three worldly bonds become weak preventing injustice in this world during the worldly life or Pravrutti, the peace in the world gets well established. The Bhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇam help in weakening these three worldly bonds in the Pravrutti or worldly life. When we go to Nivrutti or spiritual life, these three worldly bonds continue there also and have to be dropped away due to the strong devotion to the bond of God. These three worldly bonds should not be destroyed by force since they cannot be destroyed by any human being with self-effort. Due to the attachment to God, these three worldly bonds shall drop out by themselves and this is the real success in Nivrutti. When you are immersed deeply in a bond, all other bonds will not come even to your memory. Based on this principle, when a devotee is totally immersed in the ocean of devotion to God, all the worldly bonds will drop out simultaneously and spontaneously even without the knowledge of the devotee. Hence, whether it is Pravrutti or Nivrutti, the subject is only to weaken these three strongest worldly bonds slowly so that these three strongest worldly bonds are dropped out due to the devotion to God in Nivrutti. If you wish to destroy these three strongest worldly bonds, you will be destroyed by them. They will drop off by themselves in a spontaneous way if you develop the spiritual knowledge in the first stage and then the theoretical devotion is to be developed in the second stage. Finally, the practical devotion will liberate you from these three strongest worldly bonds and such liberation is called as salvation, in which situation, the only bond with God remains permanently. All these worldly bonds are temporary and hence, unreal as per the logic of Shankara (Yadanityaṃ tat kṛtakaṃ hi loke). The only real and permanent bond is with God, which shall defeat all the unreal worldly bonds and make them to drop out spontaneously. By this, God is extremely pleased and the soul is saved forever.
9) It is very clear that the sages were always pestering God for salvation, which is liberation from these three strongest worldly bonds and we need not find fault with the sages also about their effort in this line. As per the philosophy of Sage Aṣṭāvakra, these worldly bonds are always unreal compared to the real bond with God. He says that a mother in one birth is becoming wife in the next birth. Neither the mother-son bond nor the husband-wife bond is real like the cinema shooting bond, which was unreal before shooting, unreal during shooting and unreal after shooting. The bond with the producer of the cinema is real and permanent because in every cinema, the actors and the producer remain the same with the permanent and real bond of employer-employee relationship. For the sake of the permanent and real bond with God, the devoted soul is ready to sacrifice these temporary and unreal worldly bonds. From this angle, the sages as the Gopikas were also not to be blamed for sacrificing their spouse-bonds, which are always unreal like the cinema shooting bonds. The spouse-bond is weaker compared to the bond with the child and hence, in the test of spouse-bond (test for dāreṣaṇā), almost all the Gopikas passed. Almost all the Gopikas failed in the joint test of the bonds with child and wealth (butter) since they complained to Yashoda (the mother of Krishna) regarding the stealing of the butter that was preserved for their children. The bond with the child is related to the wheel of Anāhatam, which means that this bond was never crossed by any soul in the creation so far. However, twelve Gopikas crossed that bond also and passed all the three tests reaching the highest Goloka. Therefore, neither God Krishna is to be blamed (because even Krishna, God warned them to go back to their houses threatening that they will go to hell if they danced with Him) nor the sages born as the Gopikas are to be blamed (because they always tried to sacrifice all these unreal worldly bonds for the sake of true permanent bond with God).
10) The Bhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇam in Pravrutti or worldly life can be easily understood because the topic is voting for justice against injustice. But, when the case of studying the Bhāgavatam comes, it belongs to Nivrutti or spiritual life in which the devotee has to vote for God even against justice if required by God while testing the devotion of the devotee to God. It appears as if we have to vote for God against justice, but on thorough analysis, here also you are voting for God against injustice, which appears like justice. Therefore, both the following statements are not at all different, which are:- i) You have to vote for God even against justice, ii) Even if you vote for God against justice, on sharp analysis you will find that the justice against which you voted for God, is also injustice on doing deep analysis. Therefore, God is never against justice and if God becomes against justice, such justice is actually injustice and you are mistaking it as justice. This concept fully applies to God Krishna and Gopikas. Therefore, it is said that the test for the spiritual knowledge of a scholar is to be done in his understanding of the Bhāgavatam (Vidyāvatāṃ Bhāgavate parīkṣā).
11) A true devotee of God always lives with full satisfaction and is never seen with a trace of dissatisfaction. The reason is his/her strong faith in the fact that when God being the Ultimate Ruler of the creation exists, nowhere and never will injustice win and justice will be defeated. Sometimes, it may look as if justice is defeated and injustice is winning. This appearance is due to our lack of proper understanding of the background of such a situation. Sometimes, you see that a good man is harmed by a bad person and the bad person lives with happiness whereas the good person is living without happiness. Therefore, you think that there is a slip in the administration of God and this misunderstanding happened since you do not have the knowledge of the past births of both these good and bad persons. It is actually a retort case in which the bad man retorted the crime done by the good person to him in the previous birth. The bad person is not harmed by God for such retorting reaction. The bad person may have some good fruits to be enjoyed for some more time and hence, he is looking happy even after harming that good person. The good person need not worry about this incident and shall infer that it is a retort case. The good person may continue with unhappiness because some fruits of bad deeds are continuing in his case as per the wheel of deeds and fruits (Karma Chakra). In this way, the lack of deep knowledge and knowledge of past deeds develops such misunderstanding of God’s perfect administration. A person is especially worried when some bad effect is seen in the case of his family members. Here again, one must think that the cycle of deeds and fruits is universal and does not discriminate your family from other families. The good fruit of justice and the bad fruit of injustice are universally distributed homogenously as per the judgement of the deity of justice. One prays to God when difficulties come to his family. He does not pray about the difficulties of other families in the world. This is the inherent selfishness of the soul. If God does not react favorably, his devotion to God fades away and such a soul may even become a bad soul in course of time due to the gradual reduction of his devotion. In this context, God reacts in a very tactful way. God removes the difficulty so that the devotee thinks that due to his prayer, God removed the difficulty, and he becomes a more intensive devotee to God. This increased devotion to God will make the person to become a very good reformed soul in the future (Kṣipraṃ bhavati dharmātmā- Gita). But, the truth is not known to the devotee. The poor devotee is thinking that he could successfully exploit God by his prayers and tears so that God is trapped in his excellent soaping technology. Actually, God is not trapped. You are thinking that the difficulty, which is the punishment of your sin actually done by you is cancelled by God due to your prayers. But, the real scene is quite different. God only postponed your punishment to the future along with increased interest. In this way, God maintains the devotion of the devotee and at the same time, maintains the impartial nature of the cycle of deeds and fruits. See, how tactful God is! Hence, wise scholars pray to God to grant the punishments of their sins as early as possible so that unnecessary payment of interest in the future is avoided. Therefore, souls shall develop their devotion towards God without connecting it to any aspiration in return from God. Due to this devotion having no aspiration for any fruit in return, God is very much pleased with you because your devotion is reasonless and hence, it is true love on God. In course of time, God becomes very much pleased with you and takes your punishments onto Him and suffers for your sake relieving you from any punishment. The fruit which you are unable to achieve through aspiration in return, you have now achieved the same fruit through devotion without aspiration in return from God. Hence, whenever you attend Satsanga, please make it a rule that you are participating in the Satsanga without the odor of any selfishness and any personal aspiration. You must spend the whole time of Satsanga in a selfless state and in knowing more and more details of the divine personality of God that increases your devotion to God more and more as you participate in the series of Satsangas or spiritual discussions. You must have full faith in God’s administration in this world and you shall continue the same faith on God when He is dealing with the affairs of your family members also following the justice of the wheel of deeds and fruits. You must feel that your family members are not different from others in the view of God at least if not in your view. When the administration of God done in the entire world is correct, naturally the administration of God done in your family is also correct. When the whole is correct, the part of it must also be correct.
12) The fundamental clue regarding the failure of our devotion to God must be detected by sharp analysis. The fundamental defect is that we are approaching God only when we have some worldly problems. We never approach Him without any problem. When this is the fundamental concept, no matter how intensive your worship or devotion may be, God will not yield to your devotion because it is instrumental devotion (Sādhana Bhakti) only. This means that you have approached God because He is the instrument to solve your problems. It means that all your devotion on God is only because God is the instrument for the solution of your problems. Hence, all your devotion to any extent is false love only because your devotion is not on God and is only on your desire. If God is not the instrument for the solution of your problem, you will not approach Him at all. This is the fundamental point where we are missing God forever. You are showing a lot of devotion on God hiding your problem for some time so that you think that God will be trapped by your devotion misunderstanding it as true devotion shown to Him. In this way, you are cheating God and hence, there is nothing wrong if God cheats you back. You are thinking that God is trapped by your acting devotion and hence, God cancelled the punishment of your sin so that the difficulty is disappearing. You are also thinking that God is trapped by your false devotion and is giving a good fruit to you even though you have not done any good deed. The actual truth is that God is postponing the punishment of your sin to the future with accumulated interest. God is also picking up the good fruit of a good action for which you have to enjoy the good fruit in the future life cycle and is giving it to you now by reducing its value like withdrawing a pre-matured fixed deposit. By this, your future life cycles are filled with the postponed punishments only without any good fruit leftover since all the future good fruits are withdrawn early with reduced values. All this is done by God due to your foolishness only since you are always aspiring to attain a good fruit without doing a good deed and also aspiring the cancellation of bad fruit of the bad deed, which was done by you. You think that you avoided all bad done by you and attained all good that is not done by you. You think that you are very clever and God is brainwashed by your oil technology of your prayers and false devotion. But, God is a million times more intelligent than you and the final result is that you are going to enter the future life cycles, which are filled with miseries only from birth to death without a trace of good fruit in the entire life cycle. By this, you are going to weep from birth to death in the future life cycles, scolding God all the time without knowing the fact that your foolishness alone is the cause of such state of yours! Therefore, you shall not aspire anything from God in return for your worship or service or sacrifice done to God. By scolding God, you are committing the highest sin and earning some more bad fruits and you shall not mind for such addition of some more bad fruits because anyway, all your life cycles are filled with bad fruits only!
13) Instead of instrumental devotion, we shall follow the goal devotion (Sādhya Bhakti). When you start this type of devotion, God is pleased with you from the beginning itself. In this devotion, you are not having any aspiration for any fruit in return from God. The basis for this devotion is your attraction to God, which is based on His divine personality only. If you proceed in this line, God becomes very very close to you, and a stage will come when God will take all the punishments of your sins on to Him and relieve you from every misery. In fact, for what you tried through instrumental devotion is attained by you through this line of goal devotion. In the above instrumental devotion, you are ending in pitiable life cycles filled with misery only from birth to death. But, thinking that you will be benefitted in the line of goal devotion, you shall not choose this line because God is omniscient and knows your every idea behind every decision. The reason is that you shall not have any idea about fulfilling your aspirations from God. This (personality attraction without aspiring for anything else) is not impossible since you find this possible in fan devotion. A fan of a cinema hero or a political leader spends money from his pocket doing all types of services for the functions of his hero without aspiring for anything from the hero in return. The devotion of the fan is in climax state of madness so that when the hero dies, the fan commits suicide! In fact, the cinema hero looks with very good personality in the cinemas only and that is not original in his life. Why not such line of devotion is possible in the case of God having excellent divine personality originally? The change from instrumental devotion to goal devotion is the most essential turn of spiritual life.
14) The information or knowledge about God must be correct as well as complete. Some preachers preach that God is very merciful and the kindest. This is correct knowledge but this is not the complete knowledge about the divine personality of God. On hearing this incomplete correct knowledge, we feel that God is full of mercy only from top to bottom without a place for any other good quality. Such information gives a psychological impression to us to feel that if we weep and pray, God will certainly be trapped and remove all our difficulties. By this, you are approaching God through a wrong way and you will be shocked to see His silence even towards your weeping for days together. You will think that God is not merciful but very hard like the statue of a stone. The correct complete picture about the divine personality of God is that apart from being merciful, He also has other good qualities like protecting the justice, punishing the injustice, being very intelligent to intellectual people, being very tactful to tactful people, etc., so that He can never be exploited by any soul in this creation through weeping and shedding tears continuously. You have to understand the multi-faceted divine personality of God, which is the correct and complete spiritual knowledge. By such correct and complete spiritual knowledge, your approach to God will always be perfect so that God is extremely pleased with you, which is the ultimate goal of any soul in this world.
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