25 Aug 2024
[Shri Durgaprasad asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, Kindly forgive me if this is an irrelevant question. If a student studied 10th class and passed the exam, we call him a 10th pass student. Similarly, if a soul passes all Nivrutti tests (crossing the three bonds), we can call him a successful Nivrutti. What is the necessity of another level 'Mahaa Nivrutti' in spirituality in which the tests mentioned are still the same - crossing the three bonds with spouse, children and money. Kindly explain. At Your lotus feet, -Durgaprasad]
Swami replied:- The syllabus in the 9th class and 10th class have many similarities but also have different levels. Passing 9th class does not mean that passing 10th class is unnecessary. In Nivrutti, the three strongest worldly bonds are defeated before the bond with God and here also the justice is involved in competing with God. A Gopika may think “Is it not injustice if I don’t give the butter to my child that is stolen by God Krishna?” You take the same situation in the case of Arjuna, who thinks “Is it not injustice to kill my grandfather even if God Krishna advises me?” In both cases, justice is standing against God. But, don’t you think that there is difference in the intensities of these two situations? The intensity of justice standing opposite to God in the case of Arjuna is far greater than the justice in the case of Gopika. Even though justice is of lesser intensity in the case of Gopika, many Gopikas failed in this test due to the strongest bond with children. You can treat Nivrutti as P.G. degree and Mahaa Nivrutti as Ph.D. degree. When the intensity in the side of justice increases, the tested candidate will be perplexed so much that the candidate may start doubting about even the genuineness of the contemporary human incarnation giving the advice against justice. Hence, Mahaa Nivrutti becomes more difficult than Nivrutti. If Issue Devotion is Nivrutti, Fan Devotion is Mahaa Nivrutti.
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