Posted on: 08 Aug 2022
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
[Happiness is only a feeling in the mind. But humans seem to be craving for happiness all the time sometimes using even spirituality only as a means to attain happiness. Is it possible to get out of this craving for happiness and focus only on Love towards God like Sudaama whose Love for Lord Krishna was always High even in the time of extreme poverty? Currently, I feel if there is a difficult phase with no happiness, even if the direction is clear, the mind stops and goes to inactivity like a car without petrol. All the knowledge vanishes. I am left with only one option of calling You on the phone. Kindly advise.]
Swami Replied: The real attraction to God based on real love must come in order to continue in the phase of Divine attraction alone at all times. Such attraction itself is the real love that gives climax bliss all the time. The worldly happiness before this climax bliss appears to be like a kerosene lamp before the burning sun. Such climax state of attraction or love or bliss can be attained only by the True Spiritual Knowledge, which is a complete account of all the details of God. So far, Hanuman and Gopikas are only seen to have such state of climax love for God. This shall be the aim of our life. If the aim is highest, the soul can reach at least some high level. If the aim is only high, the soul can reach only a low level. Hence, one shall keep the highest aim as the life-aim. We need not doubt about such example in the present world. In the worldly life itself, such an example is seen, in which, there is no name of Nivrutti. Even if it is an example of 100% Pravrutti, we can take it in our spiritual knowledge because the process is common in Pravrutti and Nivrutti. The love for a worldly item is also similar to the state of the love for God. There is no difference between the two states of love and difference is only in the objects. Such climax example in Pravrutti is ‘fan-devotion’, which is the climax state of issue-devotion. This means that after crossing the limit of issue-devotion, one will enter the climax fan-devotion. Fan-devotion means the love of the fan to his/her pet hero of field of cinema or politics or of both mixed. The fan develops tremendous impression about the personality of the fascinating hero as he/she goes on seeing his films in which he acts as a hero with Unimaginable goodness and pure love. The fan neglects the fact that the hero does not have such a personality in reality and he is only acting in the film. The fan just becomes mad and thinks that the personality of the hero is his real personality. The fan does not receive even a single paisa from the hero and spends from his/her own purse only for all the functions of the hero. When the hero dies, unable to withstand the force of love on that hero, the fan commits suicide. This is when the family members of the hero have cremated the hero in the burial ground and are fighting for the property of the hero! If you analyse this example of the fan, it is the climax of true love.
True love stands for issue-devotion whereas the climax of true love stands for fan-devotion. In true love, God merges with the devotee to become Human Incarnation and the devotee becomes God. This is the example of Hanuman, which is monistic fruit. In the climax of true love, God becomes the servant of the devotee which is dualistic fruit. Gopikas in Goloka stand for this later fruit. Hence, if one keeps the fan-devotion as the aim of life, at least such devotee will reach the beginning border of issue-devotion. Once the soul is connected to the line of God, both worldly pleasure and worldly misery do not even touch him/her. Hence, there is no need of analysing worldly happiness or worldly misery, which are just passing clouds.