20 May 2012
Pravrutti is the balance of the society by maintaining justice in the context of worldly bonds. Nivrutti is exceptional record break by sacrificing the worldly bonds for the sake of love to God. God never aims at Nivrutti since it is somebody loving Him personally. Nivrutti deals with a single individual called as God. Pravrutti is the subject dealing with all the living beings in the society to maintain the balance of the world. God never aims at Nivrutti because it is the case of an individual and more over that individual is Himself. Generally, a human being encourages other human beings to love it and also rewards such personal love. The reason is that every human being is blind and selfish. The ego in the human beings is also the basis for this. God is quite different from the human beings in not being blind and selfish. He never encourages nor rewards the love to Him. He discourages such love by creating hurdles and by speaking negatively. To sacrifice the worldly bonds for the sake of such divine love itself is impossible. It becomes doubly impossible since God discourages such love. The heaven is only for doing good deeds to help the society and not for the devotion to God. But, the Divine personality of God is far higher than the worldly bonds. Hence, the love to society is rewarded by the sanction of temporary visits to heaven. If one succeeds in Nivrutti, the fruit is unimaginable and permanent.
The human soul that succeeds in Nivrutti either becomes God or becomes the master of God. In the first option, God enters such liberated soul and this results in the human incarnation. Such human being is identified with God. Sometimes, such human being remains as the devotee of God and God becomes its servant. Hence, Nivrutti and its unimaginable fruit (Nivruttistu mahaphalaa…) exist but the point is that Nivrutti is always discouraged by God since it is His personal affair. The human being always gives top most priority to the personal affair. But, God does not give any importance to the personal affair. This differentiates the human being from God. He always gives importance to Pravrutti, which is impersonal and is related to the balance of the society by protecting the justice.
God also encourages Nivrutti, but, the aim here is impersonal. Such encouragement of Nivrutti is only for the sake of Pravrutti. When you love the Divine personality of God, it influences your mind to practice justice. The reason is that the personality of God always shows the support to justice. When you love such personality, your mind is naturally affected by the qualities of such Divine personality. These qualities are always in the support of protection of justice and destruction of injustice. In this way, the Nivrutti is encouraged by God, but, the ultimate aim is Pravrutti only. Such encouragement should not be misunderstood as the encouragement of human beings, which is blind and selfish.
The punishment for the sin is for the reformation of the soul. When there is a change in the soul, the punishment is reduced as we see in the reduction of the period of life imprisonment. The judge gave the life imprisonment as the punishment. But, the jailer recommends the reduction of punishment due to the observed reformation of the soul. In this case, the jailer is contradicting the judgment. But, in the case of God, this contradiction is not seen. When the soul is reformed, certainly the punishment given by the deity of justice is reduced by God. But, unlike the case of jailer and judge, here, the deity of justice is not contradicted by God. The reason is that the punishment is reduced but God undergoes the remaining part of the punishment for the sake of His reformed devotee. By this, the judgment of the deity of justice is maintained and at the same time, the punishment is reduced in the case of reformed devotee. Here, God is the jailer and the deity of justice is the judge. But, here, the jailer (God) undergoes the rest of the imprisonment!
The reduction of imprisonment is not given to every prisoner. Only the reformed prisoner gets such benefit. Similarly, the punishments of all the devotees are not taken over by God. Only deserving devotees, who are reformed by the partial punishment itself, are given such chance as in the case of Kuchela. The undeserving devotees like Ravana do not get such benefit. Therefore, devotion to God will not affect the punishments of your sins. Only the transformation of your mental setup, which is a proof for the reformation of soul, can cancel your punishments. In the case of non-devotees, the punishment is completed since the period of the punishment is already planned correctly. It means that the period of punishment is precisely decided according to the possibility of reformation. In the case of a devotee, this period is reduced since the future behavior of the devotee is guaranteed by God. It is just like the bail given to a victim on personal assurance. God never fails in such personal assurance because He is omniscient. The person giving bail pays the huge amount from his pocket and is undergoing the partial punishment. Similarly, God undergoes the partial punishment giving assurance for a specific devotee.
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