11 Apr 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Gopikas failed in spiritual path due to the strong fascination to their children (Anaahata cakra). They were also doing penance throughout their past births. They must have developed the fascination to God also more than the fascination to children. In such case, why did they fail?]
Swami replied:- In the case of ordinary human beings, we can clearly explain this concept. An ordinary human being need not pass through human births only and could have passed through births of animals also. In the human birth, fascination to God and fascination to children must have existed. But, in the births of animals, fascination to God must have been absent due to lack of growth of intelligence. In that case, fascination to God must have existed in lesser number of births whereas fascination for children must have existed in all the births since fascination to issues is common to human beings and animals. Hence, fascination to children is quantitatively more than fascination to God. In this conclusion, we have assumed that fascination to children is equal to the fascination to God in qualitative sense. Therefore, the inequality in fascinations is only due to the quantitative difference. But, the case of sages, who did penance to God in every birth brings a new concept into light, which is that the quality of fascination to children is greater than the quality of fascination to God. In that case only, even though both fascinations are equal in quantitative sense, even in the sages, the fascination to children defeated the fascination to God proving that the fascination to children is qualitatively greater than fascination to God. This is clearly proved even in the case of sage Vyaasa, the king of sages, who ran after His son running for God. Hence, the only solution in this problem is that you can make the fascination to God exceed the fascination to children by increasing the quantity of fascination to God so that the fascination to God becomes greater than the fascination to children based on very high quantitative aspect of fascination to God. We have the case of ‘Siriyaala’, and ‘Abraham’ in the west, who proved their fascination to God was greater than their fascination to their children.
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