23 Aug 2018
Shri Phani asked:- In Your recent three verses, You ended with the concept of Pravrutti to be carefully followed and told that Nivrutti is not mandatory whereas You said several times that Nivrutti alone gives the highest fruit with perfect safety. Please enlighten me on this. What will be the fate of a devotee, who becomes a failure in the path of Nivrutti after some journey due to superseding attraction towards family bonds?
Swami replied:- What you said about all that I said is perfectly true. But, there is a special way of preaching based on the psychology of the receivers. If I say that a student must first pass the school so that he can get a post of teacher in elementary school without any difficulty, the student will setup that post as his ultimate goal and works sincerely to achieve the short and easy goal standing very near. If you say in the beginning itself that the student has to pass school, college and university to get Ph.D degree and the ultimate goal is to become professor in university and this should be kept in the view from now itself, the majority of students gets discouraged in the beginning itself and stops coming even to the school. Of course, there are few students, who like the fixation of highest goal in the beginning itself and try to achieve it at a stretch. There are some students in this minority itself, who can succeed to the immediate goal only provided they fix highest goal in the beginning. Like this the nature of advice differs from one to the other. In view of the majority, the above advice is given.
The immediate goal for majority is only to escape tensions in this world as well as cruel punishments in the hell after death. For this purpose, development of personal bond with God is not necessary at all. One can confine all the personal bonds with his family only. There is no need of any effort to develop devotion towards God neglecting the devotion to own family. The only essential requisite to be achieved is fear to unimaginable God, who punishes the sinners in unimaginable ways even if they escape punishments from Government through false ways. Sins are done generally due to unlimited fascination to self and family members only, who can’t save you from tensions here and punishments in the hell. This is just common sense based warning to you from the danger of your over fascination towards you and your family members, who are not at all asking you to do the sins and undergo punishments for their sake. They only share your excess earned by sins but do not share your sin at all. You can verify this by having a straight dialogue with them! Hence, this is not an advice to do any great sacrifice to earn the love from God. This is just the basic simplest minimum warning that every soul shall be given so that no soul will tell that it is ignorant about this basic warning. The student shall at least pass the school so that he will get the minimum post of elementary school-teacher to survive basically. This basic point is to develop fear towards God by which at least fear for punishments of sins is developed. In every religion, this topic forms the important core.
Certainly, the post of professor is not only highly remunerative, but, also brings lot of name and fame to you because simply living like a bird or animal without the concept of God and fear to Him for the punishment of sin is not the ultimate goal of human life since humanity is given better understanding capacity than animals and birds. If fear to God alone is developed to control the sins, this is called as success in Pravrutti without any trace of scent towards Nivrutti. A better way than this in the same line is to develop fascination to God, which also controls your excess fascination towards yourself and your family preventing you to do the sins. Such line is actually the line of Nivrutti to achieve personal relationship with God, in which success in Pravrutti is just a middle by-pass station in reaching the goal. In this line also, one may fail to reach success in Pravrutti and may not proceed further in Nivrutti line. In the path of Pravrutti line, generally failures are very less in number because the controlling factor of sins is fear to God and not excess fascination to God. In the line of Nivrutti, it is very easy to fail in Pravrutti due to absence of fear to God. Mere love to God can’t control the sin and fear to God is also necessary in the stage up to Pravrutti. This does not mean that you shall proceed with fear to God alone and without devotion to God. Devotion to God is also necessary along with the fear to God since devotion to God will drag you further in the line of Nivrutti so that you can achieve profit in the future and you shall not be confined to the success in the Pravrutti alone, which is avoiding loss only. Along with avoiding loss, gain of profit must be also a simultaneous goal.
Nivrutti gives the highest fruit with full safety since God takes care of you like the head of the family taking care about his family member in all angles as said by the scripture (Nivruttistu mahaaphalaa). In Pravrutti, you will be responsible for your loss and lack of loss (which is not profit) only. In Nivrutti, God takes care of all your responsibility so that both avoiding loss and gaining profit shall be achieved by you due to affectionate direction given by God to you.
You need not take 100 per 100 as the pass mark in Nivrutti, even though it is the climax. You need not be discouraged to join a school or college thinking that unless you get 100 per 100 as pass mark, you are failed. The pass mark is 40 per 100, second class is 50 per 100, first class is 60 per 100 and distinction is 70 per 100. 100 per 100 is the record break, which is the real pass mark. Similarly, the soul is said to reach the record break or real pass mark after putting effort for several births (Bahuunaam janmanaam… Gita). Suppose you achieved 40 per 100 in this birth, this result will come along with you to the next birth in which your effort will be to achieve 50 from 40 and not to achieve 50 from 0 (labhate paurva daihikam.. yatatecha tato bhuuyah… Gita). Hence, one need not be discouraged that unless the record break is achieved in this birth itself, it is a permanent failure. One more fortunate point is that if you have achieved 40 per 100 in this birth, the opportunity of human rebirth is given to you in the next birth so that you will try from 40 to 50 per 100. This step wise ladder coinciding with the human birth wise ladder is very important to be understood without any discouragement for not attaining the record break in this birth itself. But, all this facility of human rebirth and continuity of the result of previous birth is possible only if the aspirant is in continuous effort till the time of death. Otherwise, the achieved result (40 per 100) may disappear due to force of worldly bonds so that at the time death, the aspirant is with 0 per 100. The human rebirth is given by God only based on the point that the aspirant is putting continuous effort, but, is failing due to superseding force of worldly bonds. If the effort is maintained continuously, the achieved result (40 per 100) is maintained. There are so many crucial points and close in the spiritual journey about which, one shall have perfect knowledge before the spiritual journey is taken up.
The main intension of the last verse is that it is not compulsory for you to get profit, but, it is compulsory for you not to get loss in the business due to your ignorance of the basic facts. You may argue that you are prepared for your personal loss, which is the punishment given by God for your sin and hence, God need not bother about you. God bothers about you and about your uplift since He takes lot of care to protect His missing child with more attention. It is told that a shepherd is not at all bothered about the 99 sheep present with him with full safety, but, is bothered about the one lost sheep only! The lost sheep must have some little worry about itself also so that the 100 percent effort put by the shepherd becomes meaningful. If the lost sheep does not care about itself and likes the journey in the wrong path only avoiding very carefully the shepherd thinking that it is very clever than other 99 sheep, it is a condemned soul left away even by God (Kshipaamyaasurayonishu- Gita). Such a foolish sheep will avoid the shepherd from all angles and will become the food of tiger or lion in the forest!
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