01 Sep 2023
[Smt. Sudha Rani asked:- Swami, You said half of the good fruits of worship done by the husband is transferred to the wife. In the case of the Gopikas, their sin is completely taken by Krishna. How to correlate both these?]
Swami replied:- The case of husband and wife is the subject of Pravrutti. The wife is engaged in household duties like cooking and the husband is worshipping God in the same time. Since the husband eats half of the food cooked by the wife, half of the good fruits of worship done by the husband is transferred to the wife. Such promise is done by the husband and the wife in the marriage ceremony. The case of Krishna and Gopikas is the subject of Nivrutti. God can transfer any fruit good or bad from anybody to anybody due to His omnipotence. Both these topics are different since Pravrutti is different from Nivrutti and there is no correlation.
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