Posted on: 18 Jun 2024
1. How is God's love so special in terms of its magnitude, quality etc.?
[Ms. Geetha Lahari asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami. As per my understanding, a climax devotee of God has true love to God without any aspiration and he/she sacrifices everything to God in terms of money, time and energy. How can we truly differentiate God's love from climax devotee's love towards God in that state? Please make me understand how God's love is so special in terms of its magnitude, quality etc.?]
Swami replied:- The true love of a climax devotee does not analyze the love of God towards the devotee because there is no aspiration for anything from God in the case of a climax devotee. Whether God loves the devotee or not, it is immaterial for the climax devotee. The devotion of a climax devotee is purely one way traffic because it is based on the personality-attraction of God in the mind of the devotee. If you analyze fan devotion, the fan is fascinated towards a cinema hero or a political leader based on his attracting personality of qualities and is not worried about the return response. In the angle of a climax devotee, there is no question of differentiation of the love of God and the love of the devotee to God in climax devotion because the love of responding God is never expected by a climax devotee. Of course, the love on both sides is true and is confined to the need base. God Krishna needed a piece of cloth to bandage His cut-finger and Draupadi gave it by tearing her saree and the love here is purely need based. The same Draupadi needed thousands of sarees when it was attempted to make her naked in the court. God Krishna gave the required number of sarees and the love response was also need based. But here, Draupadi did not expect even a trace of the piece of cloth donated by her to God in the future. This is the most important point in this topic. Had she aspired even a trace of the piece of cloth, she would not have got even a thread of the piece of the cloth. If you aspire anything in return from God, you are insulting His divine personality! You can ask a human being in such context because the nature of the human being is to get and forget. But, the nature of God is not like that, which is to give and forgive.
2. Is my following understanding correct?
[A true devotee of God loves God based on the attraction to God's divine personality. But, God loves each soul although souls don't have an iota of merit. Therefore, God's love is reasonless and highest. Is my understanding correct?]
Swami replied:- Even though the devoted soul has no merit, the devoted soul is doing service and sacrifice to God, which are practical. A saint must do only service since he does not have anything to sacrifice. Hanuman is a saint and did not take any salary from Sugriva even though Hanuman served him as Minister. Hence, Hanuman did only service, which is spending physical energy. But, householders shall do both service and sacrifice. Gopikas served God Krishna while dancing with Him and sacrificed their hard-earned wealth (butter) to Krishna. In doing service and sacrifice based on true and complete spiritual knowledge along with theoretical inspiration, the love of the devotee is well expressed. The response of God to the true love of a devotee exists even though the devotee has no other merits.
3. Swami, can You give the biological names of the parts of brain, which are related to awareness and related to mechanical inert energy?
Swami replied:- You refer google or any book on human anatomy.