27 Apr 2021
[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, Human incarnation of God is always covered in Māyā and hence we cannot recognise and surrender to the incarnation. We, souls, are incapable of escaping Māyā. I regret to say that I am unable to do any sadhana or prayer or bhajan consistently. I feel like doing prayers to Māyā saying, "Oh dear Māyā, please uncover the human incarnation of God to me all the time and please don't attract me into the world. I'm weak with ego and jealousy. Hence, don't repel me again the incarnation and let me take refuge at feet of the incarnation". Kindly enlighten me. Thank You for everything. -At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Laxmi Thrylokya]
Swāmi replied: This is the problem of every spiritual aspirant. The subject dealing this problem is only called spiritual knowledge. This problem is not specific to you. You have to put your efforts to overcome ego and jealousy. Those two are the only cataracts of the two eyes of the devotee that hinder devotee in recognising the contemporary human incarnation. When Kṛṣṇa was alive very few only could recognise Him and majority was enemy to Kṛṣṇa. Several fought with Him. Only when He passed away, all recognize Him. Similarly, take the case of Shirdi Saibāba. Several devotees neglected Him and now everywhere you find temples of Sai Bāba! The main point is that the devotee will not recognize and doesn’t have even a drop of devotion to God in human form as long as He is before the eyes. Once He disappears from the eyes, the devotion will become ocean! The Veda says that any soul (human being or even angel) has a natural tendency to like which is not before eyes and dislike, which is before eyes (Parokṣa priyāḥ…- Veda). Hence, the main background of this concept is that the devotee will like anybody as long as he is out of the vision. Once one is visualized, repulsion starts due to ego and jealousy. Unless one conquers these two, there is no question of recognition of contemporary human incarnation. First, one has to develop love towards humanity and destroy his/her ego-based jealousy towards co-human beings. Once this step is reached, the ego-based jealousy towards co-human form gets destroyed. Then, one can very easily recognize the contemporary human incarnation. Once the contemporary human incarnation is recognized all the love of the devotee must be concentrated on Him only. Then, your love shall not be towards humanity, justice etc., which is other than God. In pravṛtti or worldly life, you shall say that God likes justice. Once you recognize the contemporary human incarnation, you shall say that whatever God likes is justice and this is nivṛtti. Once the devotion on human form of God is concentrated to the climax, which is called madness, māyā can’t do anything. In fact, māyā helps you to intensify your devotion like the culvert in a canal increases the speed of the flow of water. Māyā is the power of God, which appears as hurdle in your spiritual journey, but, māyā helps you by increasing the intensity of your devotion to God through creation of hurdles. God tests you and you think that these tests are hurdles. But, these tests increase the efficiency of your devotional knowledge. In the regular academic program, there are only three tests (quarterly, half-yearly and annual) but, in EAMCET training weekly tests are conducted and sometimes even daily tests. More the number of tests, more will be the sharpness of your knowledge. Hence, God and His power, called māyā are always helping you. Therefore, you shall be always positive to God in the spiritual effort.
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