Natural vs. forced inclination towards God.

[Smt. Chhanda asked: Oh the divine preacher of spiritual knowledge, will You please help me to clear my mind in the following two cases.

a) If somebody is driven towards the spiritual path due to natural inclination coupled with issues in the devotee’s family life leading to weakening of the family bonds, will the devotee be considered as naturally inclined towards God? Or has the devotee to overcome all these bonds again in some other birth for the sake of salvation?

b) Now the case is reversed. That of a person  forced to move in the spiritual direction due to issues in the family. Will the devotee with the forced factor only that is weakened family bonds due to non co-operating family members be a hindrance towards making him a true member of nivrutti family? At Your divine lotus feet, Chhanda.]

Swami replied: - a) Almost every human case is a mixture of Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Destruction of worldly fascinations is removal of illness and construction of spiritual life is gaining health. Both are simultaneous. Attraction to God is the most important phase and its simultaneous side effect is spontaneous dropout of worldly bonds. All the efforts are to be put towards the side of attraction and no effort shall be put to the side of detachment. One shall not even wish for the detachment of worldly bonds, which shall dropout in a natural sideway. Both these are not separate sections so that we can concentrate on different phases in different births. As you eat the food, the hunger gets pacified simultaneously. Both are continuous simultaneous processes.

b) As I am clearly stressing again and again, the only process is attraction to God directly, which is not a simultaneous process of some other factor. The only primary factor is progress of love to God and nothing else shall be thought over. When the love to God enters the stage of madness, the part of devotee gets exhausted. It is a construction process and not a destruction process in any side. After this, if the destruction of something else takes place, it is an inevitable consequence for which the devotee is not responsible at all.

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