30 Sep 2024
1. Why did God choose such a harsh way of crucifixion in the Incarnation of Jesus?
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, I have few questions, please guide me out of these doubts--
Why did God choose such a harsh way of crucifixion in the Incarnation of God Jesus. Souls are always unworthy of God's love. Then, why did God have to show such an extreme sacrifice for such unworthy common people, who don't even really bother about God. What is the need and essence of crucifixion of God Jesus?]
Swami replied:- You will understand this question very well when you are married and get children. Only parents give and sacrifice to their unworthy children. This is the reason why the bond with child is the strongest among all the worldly bonds and even sages failed in the test of this bond.
2. What is the difference between Sudaama and Raamadaasu?
[What is the difference between Sudaama and Raamadaasu? A) Both took other's money and sacrificed to God? B) You have said that Sudama took a loan, that means he had to pay back with interest in the future, the three parched rice grains that he has taken, even if God Krishna didn't give the riches?]
Swami replied:- Ramdas can also be justified in collecting the money from the public, which was based on the donations done through their free will. Sudaama is also justified since he has taken the parched rice based on the conditions of loan. Here, the reasons for their sufferings cannot be drawn from the above information. Any suffering cannot be given without its sin as per the rules of deeds (Karma Cakra). Sudaama suffered the result of the sin done by him by secretly eating the share of food of God Krishna without informing Him. Ramdas suffered the punishment of jail because he imprisoned a parrot in a cage. The sins were clearly existing and their results were very clear. In order to assist the procedure of the cycle of deeds, God keeps silent even in the case of devotees.
3. If I do Karma Samnyaasa more than Karma Phala Tyaaga by spending more time in serving than earning, will I be low in the eyes of God?
[Swami, if I have some stipulated time. I can do Karma Samnyaasa or over work in pravrutti to earn more and do Karma Phala Tyaaga. If I like to do Karma Samnyaasa more than Karma Phala Tyaaga by spending more time in serving than earning, will I be low in the eyes of God than the one, who earns more and does Karma Phala Tyaaga to God instead of doing Karma Samnyaasa as matter value is more than energy?]
Swami replied:- Scripture gives the highest place for Karma Phala Tyaaga, which is the sacrifice of fruit of work. If you are liking to do Karma Samnyaasa more, what is the reason? It is your greediness that you want to save for your sake and for the sake of your family, which is treated more than God. The justified reason may also be that you are very short of your earnings, which are just sufficient for maintaining yourself and your family. If this is the reason, your plan is justified. As you become a climax devotee in Nivrutti, you will donate the food of yourself and your family also to God like Saktuprastha. Everything depends on the intensity of your devotion to God and also your inherent nature i.e., fascinated to your worldly bonds.
4. How is Rukmini’s sacrifice to priest the Karma Phala Tyaaga? He is not the Incarnation of God.
[Swami, generally karma Phala Tyaaga means sacrifice of money to God in contemporary human form. But in the case of Rukmini, You have said that her sacrifice of necklace to priest as Karma Phala Tyaaga. But the priest is not God and Krishna alone is God. Then, how is it called Karma Phala tyaga when sacrifice was not done to the human incarnation of God i.e. God Krishna?]
Swami replied:- The priest would have kept silent even if Rukmini had not done the Karma Phala Tyaaga because Rukmini was the daughter of a king. The priest did the very important work, which is connecting both God Krishna and Rukmini. God Krishna was also very anxious about marrying Rukmini and the donation of Rukmini in this way is donation to the contemporary human incarnation of God only. Even God Krishna gave a lot of wealth to the priest. The opportunity to directly donate to God Krishna can come only after marriage since there was no possibility of contact before marriage. Satyabhaama gave the most precious Shyamantaka diamond to God Krishna, which was very precious.
5. A friend of mine feels the suffering of Sita was so much that she committed suicide. How to counter her feeling?
[One of my friend said that she feels that the part of Ramayana, where Sita Devi goes into earth after Agnipariksha even after undergoing all the suffering looks like suicide to her. She feels that as the suffering was so much and nobody understood her, she committed suicide. How to counter her assumption that Sita Devi didn't commit suicide?]
Swami replied:- Even Rama entered the Sarayu River along with His brothers after Sita left Him. Even this cannot be called as the suicide of Rama. Rama and Sita are the human incarnations of God Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, who came down to earth for the upliftment of the souls. After their work is over, both Rama and Sita left their gross bodies to reach their divine abode because these mortal bodies are not at all permanent and have to perish on the earth itself. It is the rule of nature that is to be followed by any mortal human being.
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