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Shri Datta Swami

 02 Sep 2022

 

How to correlate the following statements of You and Jesus?

[Shri Durgaprasad asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, You said that a devotee should hide the love towards the incarnation as in the case of the Gopikaas to avoid fighting at home. On the other hand, Jesus said- He came not for peace but to turn one family member against each other as given below:

[Matthew [10:34 - 10:36] - "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.]

How do we correlate these two statements? Did Jesus mean something else? At Your lotus feet, Durgaprasad]

Swami replied:- What Jesus told is the final step in which the devotee should revolt against the family bonds if they are hindering the spiritual progress of a devotee. The above said stage is the stage just before the final stage declared by Jesus. The stage told above is called cunning devotion and the stage of Jesus is care not devotion. As long as cunning devotion succeeds, it should be adopted. Only when this stage fails, care not devotion must be adopted. This means that the devotee shall do his/her work as far as possible without hurting family bonds. If the family bonds happen to detect the cunning devotion, the last resort is only a fight against the family bonds. Even before these two steps belonging to Nivrutti, the first step belonging to Pravrutti is careful devotion, which is to worship God to such extent only as allowed by the family bonds. In Pravrutti, this is possible because in Pravrutti, the love to God is also false and not true because in Pravrutti, God is worshipped only for the sake of the welfare of self and the family bonds. In Nivrutti, there is no question of defeat for the divine bond with God under any circumstances. The only point in Nivrutti is that first the devotee avoids unnecessary fight with the family bonds as far as possible and in this context, cheating the family for the sake of God is not a sin at all. When this stage fails, only then, open fight is to be taken up with the family so that the bond with God defeats the worldly bonds even if cunning devotion fails. This cunning devotion is indicated by the path of Yoga in which kundalini is crossing the six wheels by travelling in a curved way (serpentine motion), which means that you can reach God by the path of cheating so that you can do your work without hurting the ignorant family bonds.

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