Does God personally bear the misery of His devotees and merely watch the misery of the rest of the souls?

[A questioner asked through Śrī Anil: God created this world for His own entertainment. He equally enjoys both happy and miserable scenes. The Human Incarnation enjoys the bad effects of His real devotees. But this world consists of the miseries of billions of people. Is the enjoyment of misery by God limited to the case of the Human Incarnation enjoying the miseries of His small number of real devotees? Or does it also include the miseries of all living beings in the entire universe, whom God is watching as a spectator? In other words, can I say that He physically enjoys the misery of only His real devotees while He merely watches the misery of the rest of humanity? The question then is, can God derive any entertainment by merely watching the misery of the rest of the living beings, since He is not experiencing their misery personally?]

Swami replied: You have utterly misunderstood the main concept. God helps such real devotees only under one single condition. That condition is that the devoted soul must be progressing on the spiritual path and if the punishments of the soul’s sins are transferred to God, the soul should achieve greater spiritual progress in that birth itself, without having to wait for the next birth. You have misunderstood this concept and have made God out to be a politician who only helps His own party workers, neglecting the rest of the public. The reality is that God does not even transfer the punishments of the sins of all His real devotees, unless they meet the above-mentioned special condition.

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