27 Jul 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, You told that Jesus suffered for the sins of His real devotees only and not for the sins of all the souls. Christians say that Jesus suffered the sins of all souls existing in the creation. Don’t You feel that what Christians say indicates very broad kindness of Jesus than what You say?]
Swami replied:- In such a case, there is no distinction between justice and injustice because people doing justice and people doing injustice become equal since no one is punished. In that case, the liquid fire and hell created by God become useless. There is no need of reformation of any soul. The souls are encouraged to do sins. Only the punishments of deserving devotees are suffered by God so that those deserving devotees can concentrate on God without being disturbed by the misery of punishments of their past sins. In this way, there is important purpose fulfilled by such sacrifice of God in suffering the punishments of deserving devotees. If you take the case of undeserving devotees, they are encouraged to continue with their sins because God will suffer for their sins if they accept God Jesus and confess their sins. This means that you can do any sin in daytime and confess before God in the evening and you can do any sin in nighttime and confess before God, the next morning. One will also think that all the sins done in one’s life will be burnt if he/she does confession at the time of death. All these negative results start since humanity is very intelligent. In the procedure of reformation, first, one must realize that a specific deed done by him/her is a sin (first stage of analytical knowledge). The second step is confession with a lot of pain and repentance (second state of emotional devotion). The third step is non-repetition of the sin in future (third state of practical devotion). The third step is very very important and this step alone gives the fruit of permanent reformation. If one realizes and repents on the death bed, where is the future for that person in old age when he has no capability in doing sin or merit? Such person is exploiting the concept. The other case is also the case of full cheating since he/she thinks that day-sins are cancelled in the evening and night sins are cancelled the next morning. In this case, where is the final step of non-repetition of sins?
The above concept can be used in a correct way in the following manner:- The sins done by you till today are suffered by Jesus. If you do not repeat the sin further in future, you are saved forever. If you repeat the sins, you will be thrown into liquid fire. Christianity shall not stop at the stage of confession, but, shall extend up to the step of non-repetition of sin. Otherwise, if confession itself ends the sins, devotees will exploit the procedure of reformation. In this way, the above said procedure of reformation can appear completely. In such a case only, the fire of realization through knowledge accompanied by the spontaneous steps of repentance and non-repetition of sins can burn all the past sins (there is no question of future sins since non-repetition means absence of future sins only). This is said in the Gita (Jñānāgniḥ sarva karmāṇi, bhasmasāt kurute'rjuna).
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