17 Jan 2023
(Divine Satsanga on 14-01-2023 attended by Smt. Chhanda Chandra along with Smt. Sudha Rani, Ms. Bhanu Samykya, Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya and Mr. Nitin Bhosle.)
[A question by Ms. Bhanu Samykya]
Swami replied: People think that impartiality means seeing everybody with equal amount of grace. In such a case, why did God Krishna look at Dharmaraja with full grace and looked at Dhuryodhana with full anger? He looked so and that is the real impartiality. Impartiality means looking at day as day and at night as night. Impartiality does not mean looking at day as night and looking at night as day. If you look like that, you become partial to the day or night. If you look at night also as day, you are partial to day. If you look at the day as night, you are partial to night. This is the reason why God Krishna said in the Gita that He arrives on this earth to protect good people and to destroy bad people (Paritrāṇāya sādhūnām, vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām). People say that you must help everybody without any partiality because Sage Vyaasa told that helping others is merit or Punyam (Paropakāraḥ puṇyāya). If this statement is correct, why Krishna told that helping good people is merit and helping bad people is sin? Even though Bhishma and Drona were good people, there were punished in the war with tortuous death. The reason is that even though they are personally good people, they helped bad people, which is a sin. Hence, both were punished in the war by God Krishna.
Draupadi was a very good lady. Why did God Krishna not protect her five sons from the hands of Asvatthaamaa? The reason for this is that Draupadi always provoked her husbands to kill the Kauravas because she was personally insulted. God Krishna already had decided to punish the Kauravas with death for their sins. In the desire of Draupadi for punishing the Kauravas, ego-based revenge always existed. She never thought that Kauravas are bad people and hence, they shall be punished. Like this, we have to understand the quotation of Sage Vyaasa in accordance to the quotation of Krishna in the Gita. This can be done by bringing a new meaning to the word para (para + upakaara = paropakaara) and such new meaning is ‘great’ or ‘good’. Para means a good person. Upakaara means help. Paropakaara means the help done to a good person. Unfortunately, the word para also means anybody other than yourself and in view of this meaning, the statement means that you should help everybody other than you. So, you have to take the first meaning (para means good) and reject the second meaning (para means anybody other than yourself). As per the first meaning, the statement means that you must help only good people and not everybody other than yourself. Therefore, helping everybody without partiality is not correct. You must be partial to good people only and help them and then only it becomes impartiality.
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