18 Jun 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- A devotee may fight with injustice and get victory due to the help of the invisible God. Then, the devotee may get ego. How doesGod protect such a devotee?]
Swami replied:- If God wants to test the devotee to see whether the devotee gets ego or not, such situation as told by you will happen. If the devotee gets ego, such a devotee failed in the test of God. If the devotee does not get ego, the devotee succeeded in the test of God. But, if God wants that the devotee shall not fail in the test, He will give the vision in which He shows that He helped the devotee. When the devotee gets such vision, the devotee will not get ego and succeeds in the test. For such help from God, the devotee must have a strong background in the devotion to God. When Arjuna was fighting with his enemies in the final war, he used to get a vision everyday in which he sees a divine person holding the trident with which He is killing all the enemies of Arjuna. Arjuna used to feel that he was killing the already killed enemies. The secret of this vision was revealed by Sage Vyaasa to Arjuna. Sage Vyaasa told that God Shiva was killing the enemies and hence, Arjuna could kill them. God Shiva gave this vision to Arjuna only so that Arjuna will not be attacked by ego. At the same time, this vision is not seen by anybody other than Arjuna so that Arjuna could get the entire fame of killing the enemies. The background for such divine help from God was that i) Arjuna did a lot of penance for God Shiva previously and ii) Arjuna was a great sage in association with Sage Naaraayana doing penance in the Himalayas. Hence, God Shiva did not favour Arjuna without a proper background reason.
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