Posted on: 06 Mar 2022
[Shri Anil asked: Swami, few questions from internet are given below: Kindly reply to them.]
1. Why did God come in Human form to Himself suffer at the hands of what He created?
Swami replied: When God wants to suffer for a particular purpose, who are we to question God? If we don’t want to suffer like that, did God force us? It is His individual decision since the fundamental right for freedom exists even among the souls. If we analyse such purpose, God suffers in that way for doing good to the souls and there is no selfish motive for God.
2. When Jesus died for the salvation of sinners, should the people who killed Jesus be blamed?
Swami replied: The people who killed Jesus did not kill Jesus with the intention that killing Jesus would give salvation to sinners! The credit goes to Jesus and not to the killers of Jesus! This is simple basic logic.
3. Why does Jesus refer to "the laws of Moses" if He Himself (as God) gave them to us?
Swami replied: God came as Moses and gave certain laws to humanity possessing certain psychological trends in a specific period of time. The philosophy given by God depends on various important factors like the capacity to understand a concept, the psychological capacity of reformation etc. In a different time, the same God comes in different forms to preach a different philosophy to humanity in view of the changed above mentioned factors. The changes are only external, like different types of dresses, and the inner concept remains the same as the unchanged person.
4. What does it mean that "the truth shall make you free" (John 8:31)?
Swami replied: Truth always brings freedom because freedom alone can make anybody to understand the truth. If the mind is governed by certain rigid prejudices, truth can never be realized. Basing on this psychological prejudice and bias, which is solidified rigidity, even God preaches the truth in a modified way because there is no use of injecting a medicine when the needle of the injection syringe itself breaks during the effort of the process of injecting the medicine into the patient. In this way, a chain of changing truths will be injected by God to humanity over a long period of time and when the proper ultimately ripened time comes, then only the final truth is injected. This is inevitable even for the Omniscient and Omnipotent God!