03 Mar 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: You said that God will suffer by taking the punishments of His real devotees. You also said that God will enjoy the misery like happiness, which is called Yoga. If God is enjoying the punishments of His real devotees, in such case God is not suffering and this will be cheating the Deity of Justice. How do You correlate this?]
Swami replied: When you are eating the hot dishes, you are undergoing suffering in the first stage and in the later second stage only, you are enjoying. For example, you are eating a food item which is very spicy. During the time of eating, you are suffering as seen by your flowing tears and vibrating tongue due to burning sensation of chilies. This means you are undergoing all the suffering caused by the hot dish in the stage of eating. Only in the second stage, you are deriving the enjoyment, which does not exist in the first stage of eating. Since suffering is undergone as suffering, the part of punishment causing suffering is completed with full justice without any disturbance anywhere. By the end of this first stage, the Deity of Justice is fully satisfied and she has no connection with the second stage in which you are enjoying the taste of the hot dish. Even if you say that taste can be enjoyed while eating itself, in such cases of God enjoying the punishments, He enjoys the taste only after eating-suffering is completed so that this objection becomes futile.
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