Posted on: 26 May 2024
[A question by Smt. Chhanda]
Swami replied:- You physics scientists are very sharp and intelligent, but, sometimes you become very silly. Physics seems to be a problematic subject! Your greatest scientist in Physics prepared two boxes, one with a big hole and another with a small hole so that the big cat will go through the big hole and drink its milk and the small cat will go through the small hole and drink its milk. He was confused with the laws of motion of cats (even though he discovered the laws of motion!) in this case because the small cat went through both holes and drank the milk kept in both boxes!
If there is an alternative form of the punishment, God has to suffer that punishment, which cannot alter the suffering of God. God is suffering the sin of His real devotee with pleasure in a free atmosphere without any binding by any external force. There is no trace of compulsion on Him for suffering because the real devotee did not aspire at all for such suffering of God using business devotion. Somebody is pleased to enjoy a hot dish. Why should you object to him? You may not be happy to enjoy the hot dish. Everybody need not be like you. If you object to his enjoyment of the hot dish and insist him to enjoy only a sweet dish, he is displeased with you and is not pleased with you for your suggestion.
If anyone pulls the chain in the train, the person has to either pay a thousand rupees fine or be jailed for six months. Suppose a rich devotee and a devoted poor beggar pulled the chain on different occasions. By God’s grace, the rich devotee will be fined to pay thousand rupees, which is not at all inconvenient to him. If he is jailed for six months, he will be very much disturbed in his business. Similarly, if the devoted poor beggar is jailed for six months, it is very convenient to him since he gets food for some time without begging. If he is fined, he will not be able to pay the fine and this will be very much inconvenient to him. Here, both devotees are punished from the angle of justice, but not at all punished from the angle of grace of God. God is a genius to correlate His angle of love on devotees with the angle of the deity of justice. If both these persons are not the devotees of God, the rich man will be jailed for six months and the poor beggar will be forced to pay the heavy fine! In this way, God helps His real devotees. But, the case of climax devotees is different. God takes their punishments on to Him and will suffer with pleasure. Here, the suffering satisfies the deity of justice and the pleasure satisfies God. Hence, I request you with folded hands to drop this topic by which God is pleased from age old time.