25 Jun 2024
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Paadanamskaram Swami, I've heard a story, where a devotee of God Krishna happens to be in danger of tiger attack and keeps thinking of God Krishna intensely. Then, God Krishna gets up to go save the devotee. But, the devotee takes a rock to battle with the tiger. Then, God Krishna goes back immediately and says that this idiot has taken the control of himself instead of giving full control to God. So, let him fight his own battle. Is this a true story or insertion, Swami? If true what is the message to learn Swami? At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhanu Samykya.]
Swami replied:- There are two angles:- i) An ordinary devotee shall fight with the tiger by himself and his prayer to God shall be that God shall give sufficient energy to him to drive away the tiger. In such a case, God will react in that way only because the devotee is not in climax level of devotion to pray to God to help him based on his complete surrender to God. ii) If the devotee is a climax devotee, he/she will pray to God to react in whatever way God pleases. But, this level is very much rare because even Jesus prayed to God in the last minute to protect Him from the crucifixion. However, at the end of the prayer, Jesus told God that let His will be done. Through this prayer, Jesus (the human incarnation of God) preached His disciples about the details of an ordinary devotee and a climax devotee. These two different thoughts indicate an ordinary devotee and a climax devotee respectively.
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