Posted on: 11 Aug 2021
[Śrī Ganesh V asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmiji, Recently in Guru Pūrṇimā Satsang, You had mentioned that whatever good is about a particular soul it is because of God and whatever bad is about a particular soul is because of the soul himself. So jealousy gets removed. I find this as an excellent way to remove ego and jealousy. Having said that, I also find that there is logical consistency in Your statement which makes the above mentioned point more profound and beautiful. In the beginning of time, You created souls to be perfect examples of what humanity should represent and You gave them little freedom. When freedom was asked by us, You granted them. But with that freedom we started committing sins and we became sinful in nature and hence turned bad. So it is true that whatever good is there in us, it is because You had already given us those qualities and whatever bad is there in us, we had developed it over time by the freedom that was wished by us. Is the above correlation of the two different points right Swāmiji? At Your divine feet, Ganesh V]
Swāmi Replied:- Both the points are perfectly true. But, at the same time, the boring of souls due to continuous discipline is also justified and due to this reason only, the freedom is granted to the souls by God. At the same time, God took all the care about the discipline through scriptures and Spiritual preaching. From the side of God, there is no other way that can be justified more. At the same time, all the souls did not use the freedom in any wrong way. Only few souls went in wrong line. For those souls also, the facility of reformation is created through which any soul can escape the punishments of all the sins. Moreover, another golden path is also created, which is pure Nivṛtti in which the punishments of all sins of the climax devotee are taken by God so that the soul is totally liberated. In view of all such facilities, the maximum justice that is possible was rendered by God to souls.