19 Nov 2006
Shri Ramanath: O Swami, even in some foreign countries, a lot of corruption happens upto the topmost level. I feel that Indians alone need not be blamed for corruption.
Shri Swami: Suppose you are drinking one bottle of wine every day. I show a person who does not take even one drop of wine and then advise you not to drink. Then you will have some inspiration seeing that person and try to stop drinking. Your trial shall be in controlling your habbit of drinking and not to make a search of that person to see whether he drinks or not. If you have found him drinking ten bottles of wine every day, then you will be pacified and continue drink. You may even raise the number of bottles to two or three by comparing his ten bottles. If he is drinking ten bottles, his health will be ten times more spoiled than yours. Your health may be spoiled 1/10th of his health but your health is in the negative sign [decaying] only. You cannot take your illness in positive sign with respect to his more serious illness in view of theory of relativity. If you receive hundred beatings in the hell, he will receive thousand beatings for the corresponding level of corruption. Your beatings cannot be treated as a relative heaven with respect to his beatings. Such toppers of corruption are atheists, who do not believe in God and hell. Our spiritual knowledge does not touch them. Such people are present in all countries and in all religions. They are debarred students, who are out of our limits of spiritual knowledge. Within the limits of the religious faiths, I have compared Hinduism with other religions.
‘The only one human birth, the only one final enquiry at the end of this birth and the permanent hell for the sins’, in other religions will certainly affect the psychology of the human beings. ‘The human rebirths and temporary visit to hell’, certainly dilute the psychology of any human being. Therefore, I correlated both the contradicting concepts because the same God cannot give contradicting concepts in different religions. I favored the other religions as far as the general rule is concerned and favored Hinduism in the exceptional power of God to be used for a few deserving devotees. Therefore, the human beings should be concerned with the general rule only and should not depend on the special power of God to be used for a very few devotees only.
Qualities Get Stronger with Practice
Shri Ramnath: None can beat Lord Datta in logic! I would like to ask if You if the top most knowledge given by You should be confined to only the topmost devotees and not to general lot of devotees.
Shri Swami: It is true that the preacher should give the knowledge corresponding to the level of devotees only. But if the top most level knowledge is given to all, there is no harm because, a theoretical goal can be set up at any level. The goal must be always highest. The effort for highest goal will be certainly better than the effort for higher goal. Every human being is eligible for the highest goal. If the teacher announces hundred out of hundred as the pass mark, then even the below average student gets forty out of hundred and passes the test. If the announced goal is only forty, the below average student will certainly fail. You may fear that the below average student may be discouraged by the highest goal. But we say that if the soul is in the path of constant spiritual efforts, God will give any number of human births till the highest goal is achieved. Therefore, every soul is sure to reach the highest goal one day or other if the effort is maintained constantly (Na me bhaktah… Gita). Even if the goal is not achieved in this birth, the Samskara (concept) of the highest divine knowledge follows the soul in every birth, if atleast the soul is convinced with the highest knowledge in this birth. In the next birth, the rare chance of getting this highest knowledge may be or may not be possible. But, the highest knowledge kept in the brain only follows the soul as a weak Samskara to the next birth and cannot help in any effort. But in this birth if the highest knowledge is associated with constant effort (even though it fails) to be put in practice, the highest knowledge will atleast follow the soul as a strong Samskara. Therefore, you need not worry about the failure or success of your spiritual efforts in practicing the highest knowledge. Even the failed efforts have their own value because even if practice is a failure, the failed efforts will strengthen the Samskara for the next birth, which will have a definite possibility of practical implementation.
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