25 Dec 2021
[Swami was visited by Dr. Balaji on Dec. 22, 2021 for a Satsang. The following are the questions and answers from the discussion. When people do rituals with a worldly desire, some are fulfilled and some others are not. Similarly, when people go to a temple, the desires of some devotees are fulfilled and the desires of others are not. Due to this, the devotees change their ritual or form of God to achieve their desire. What is the background of all these concepts?]
Swami Replied: Let us take 2 cases, X and Y with different backgrounds of fruits to be enjoyed for their past deeds. X has fruits of 10 sins and 100 merits pending in the background (Sañcita). Y has fruits of 10 merits and 100 sins pending in the background. Both have done the same ritual or worshipped the same form of God. Now God is analyzing the backgrounds of both and is granting the desire of X while keeping silent about the desire of Y. We must know the reason for such partiality. Actually, devotees think that on worshipping God, God cancels our sin so that our difficulty is removed and people also think that God is giving the fruit of the merit from His own pocket by which we have received some extra benefit. This is a wrong knowledge of the background. God is the impartial Father to all His children-souls. If He does one favor to one child, He must extend it to all the children impartially.
The actual mechanism of disappearance of difficulties and appearance of extra benefits is misunderstood by devotees. Devotees think that the very performance of the worship of God cancelled the sin to remove the difficulty and created a new merit to give new benefit. This false knowledge is leading to misunderstand God and worship. Actually, the sin is not cancelled but is postponed to a later date with accumulated interest. Similarly, new merit is not created, but only our own merit fixed in the future life cycle is withdrawn with lesser value and is given to us as the new benefit. You may doubt that in such case, worship is a waste. It is not a waste because God will try to do some rearrangement of fruits suitable for your convenience and hence worship is not at all wasted. Another point to be remembered is that you may do 10 merits in one sequence and 10 sins in another sequence. If the fruits are given to you in the same sequence of your deeds, you will be bored with continuous benefits and tortured with continuous fruits of sins. If good and bad fruits are arranged in an alternating manner, you will enjoy life like enjoying meals with alternate sweet and hot dishes. God being the Father of all the souls always aims at the enjoyment of the children. Hence, He will appropriately arrange your life cycles with alternate good fruits and bad fruits.
Now, God analyzed the backgrounds of both X and Y and tries to help both as far as possible. Let us take the case of X having 10 sins and 100 merits. In this case, sins are very less and merits are very high in number. God will postpone one sin with accumulated interest to the future because payment is not very difficult. Hence the difficulty of X is removed. X has several merits and if one future merit is brought back with reduced value, it is not much inconvenient to him. Hence new benefit appears in his case. Let us take the case of Y having more sins and less merits in number. Postponement of sin and premature payment of fixed deposit with reduced value will be very much inconvenient to this case. Hence God allowed the difficulty and also did not give any new benefit in his interest only. The fruit of his worship is stored as the fruit of merit to be used in the future life cycles wherever it is necessary. Hence the worship done by Y did not go waste.
Now tell Me, did God not do favor to both cases? Even if people change worships or rituals or forms of God, there is no trace of use at all because the inner God, who is omniscient and omnipotent to do miracles in deserving cases is one and the same in all the divine forms. It is only your illusion that you have changed God. The same Unimaginable God or God Datta exists in all the Divine forms of the world-religions and it is the same one unimaginable God or God Datta called as Father of Heaven is giving the fruits of deeds. It is just like the same one actor acting in different roles having different external dresses.
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