20 Nov 2010
God will not use His superpower as far as possible unless a very rare occasion of protecting the most deserving devotee arises. A good administrator will always run the institution on the natural wheels of the rules already setup. As far as possible, he will not disturb the routine and natural functioning of the system. This is the reason for Lord Krishna not changing[1] the mind of Duryodhana, who rigidly favored the war. He did not use the superpower in the case of Arjuna also, when Arjuna was against the war. In the case of Duryodhana, the Lord tried His best to stop the war. In the case of Arjuna, the same Lord tried His best to provoke Arjuna to fight the war. In both cases, He has taken lot of time and put best efforts through long preaching. In the case of Duryodhana, the Lord failed and in the case of Arjuna, the Lord succeeded. Ofcourse, virtually it is failure of Duryodhana and success of Arjuna to assimilate the advice from the Lord. However from the angle of the Lord, the effort was put by the Lord and hence, from the point of effort it has to be considered as failure and success of the Lord only. The total essence is that the Lord is not bothered about the success and failure of His efforts put based on the natural setup of the creation. If the individual soul fails in its effort, it will try to use the superpower if it is in possession of such superpower. But, the Lord never uses such superpower since He wants that everything should run on the natural rules setup by Him. In both the cases [Arjuna and Duryodhana], the Lord could have changed their minds in a fraction of second by using His superpower. In both the cases, He never used His superpower and tried to achieve result through the natural effort only. Therefore, God is always fond of doing things based on the natural setup of administration. He is never fond of exhibiting His superpower.
The demon is quite opposite to God. He always uses the superpower achieved by him in the wrong direction of fulfillment of his ego. He often exhibits the superpower and gets his ego satisfied. The devotee is always in search of superpower to use it for selfish problems. The devotee is like the ONGC [Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, an organization looking after oil exploration in India]engineer, who is in search of oil hidden in the soil to use it for the generation of power for the sake of using it in improving the facilities. The devotee appears good since the superpower is not found. Once the devotee finds the superpower and achieves it, he will misuse it like the demon. The devotee is always a hidden demon waiting for the opportunity.
A true devotee is never in search of superpower. He is always in search of God to surrender his power in service of God without any aspiration for the returns. He always feels that the power in him belongs to God and therefore, should be surrendered to God in His service. He does not aspire for anything in return because you do not aspire for anything in return while repaying the loan to the donor. This is the true attitude of a true devotee. You do not charge the donor for returning the loan given by him. A true preacher also preaches the same true knowledge. He will say that the rupee given by you to God will not return to you with interest because you have not invested your energy in the service of God as loan to Him. In fact, it is reverse. You have taken the energy from God as loan and in fact you should return it along with interest. At least you can use a little of it for your selfish ends and return back the huge balance to God. At the worst, you should return at least a little to God after using a huge amount for your selfish ends. Can we imagine the fate of the people, who do not return at least a little of the loan taken from God? The false preacher always propagates false knowledge to exploit the innocent people and get selfish benefits. He says that you will get back the money multiplied by several folds, if you donate a little to God. He collects that little money for his selfish ends posing himself as the representative of God. People are exploited for their ambition of getting back the money in multiple forms. The true preacher [Satguru] says that God has nothing to do with such business (Naadatte kasyachit… Gita). He says that God will accept your offering in case it is offered without any aspiration for returns. He explains always the true concept without bothering about the returns in terms of business. Whether anything is given to Him or not, He will not be concerned about it and always spreads the true knowledge, which may be liked or not, by the people. If He gets something through the propagation of such knowledge, He will feel that it is given by God only through the medium of human beings and expresses His gratefulness to God.
[1] Lord Krishna going as an emissary
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