17 Mar 2024
[Shri Kishore Ram asked:- You told that we can criticize the God of another religion when the devotee of the other religion scolds the God of Hinduism. In such a case, are we not scolding the absolute God?]
Swami replied:- A bad fellow doing bad can be pacified only when you do the counter-bad. Here, our aim is not to scold God, but to scold his bad way to pacify him. A bad person harming us will be pacified only by the counter-bad reaction. When he is pacified, by this first aid treatment, you can reveal the true knowledge. The bad devotee of the other religion is not recognizing the common absolute God present in the divine forms of all religions. When he is scolding one form of God, he is scolding only one type of external dress of God. When you are giving a counter by scolding His form of God, you also think in your mind that you are scolding another type of external dress of God and not scolding the actual God. Sin comes to the other fellow and not to you because he scolded without knowing the real concept whereas you scolded realizing the true concept. Your intention to scold the external form of God was not to scold God, but to pacify the opposite bad person.
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