Posted on: 31 Oct 2022
[Shri Kishore Ram asked: Namaskaram Swamiji, Swamiji, Please explain the state of boredom of God and how it is different from the boredom of human beings.]
Swami replied:- Boredom comes only to human beings, who are always in the stage of dissatisfaction. A human being goes for an entertainment since he is not satisfied with the existing atmosphere. God is always in satisfied condition and hence, there is no need for God to aspire for entertainment. Hence, you shall not treat God as a human being existing in dissatisfied (not contented) state aspiring for some entertainment. Hence, in the case of God, you can’t use words like boredom and entertainment. The words like boredom and entertainment used in the case of God by the Veda must be taken in a different angle or a different sense. In the case of God, boredom means that He always existed in the monistic state. In the case of God, entertainment means that He desired for a different variety of state, which is the dualistic state. Let us take the example of a king in the palace, who is also fully contented. He wants to go to the forest for hunting, which is a different atmosphere other than the palace. You should not say that the king is not contented in the palace and became contented in the forest. In both the places, the king is fully contented. Desire for changing the existing atmosphere is only desire for change in the variety of the atmosphere. You have to carefully understand about the subtle point in this context.