04 Feb 2005
The Lord is always kindest and is interested in the happiness of all the human beings, who are all His children. The Gita says that the Lord is the father of all living beings (Aham Bija Pradah Pita). The father always tries to favour His children and likes to see His children to be always happy. Originally, only the good path was created and all the human beings were permanently happy. There was no trace of sorrow in their minds. That was called ‘Kruta Yuga’ or ‘Satya Yuga’ in which the deity of justice was standing on all four legs. But in due course of time the continuous happiness started boring the human beings. One cannot eat sweets continuously. This reminds one of the law of diminishing marginal utility from economics. They were bored and started feeling unhappy. Their minds were disturbed due to continuous happiness. Therefore there was a need for a break in the continuous happiness. That break can be only sorrow, which can only be the fruit of sin. Therefore the chilies were needed as breaks in the continuous eating of sweets. Thus the Lord created the sin only for the happiness of His children.
He gave freedom to the souls so that they could commit the sins and earn their chilies. Then the Lord arranged the life cycles of souls by arranging sweets and chilies [fruits of good and bad deeds] alternately. Such arrangement alone can bring real permanent happiness without boring the soul. If it is a continuous winter, you will get bored. Summer is necessary. If it is continuously daytime, it will be boring. Night is necessary. Even in food the Lord created both sweets and chilies so that His children will enjoy the meals withoutgetting bored. While eating food, people eat sweet dishes and hot dishes alternately. Similarly the life cycle was arranged. Therefore creation of sin originally by the Lord shows only the infinite kindness of the Lord for His children.
Even if you have done two sins, one after the other, he does not give the results of those two sins one after the other. In between these two sins a sweet result of good deed is given so that the whole life cycle is an alternate arrangement of sweet and hot dishes i.e., results of good deeds and bad deeds. Such arrangement also shows the infinite kindness of the Lord for His children.
But what are you doing? You are pestering God by showing false love through words (prayers) and mind (devotion) for removing the chilies and for getting sweets continuously. Since your love is not true, the Lord will not interfere with the Law of Karma, which says that one must enjoy the results of good and bad deeds. Therefore when you pester the Lord, He brings you the sweets from your future cycles as pre-matured fixed deposits with reduced values. He is postponing your present chilies to the future cycles with added interest. Therefore as you pass through your life cycles you gradually enter life cycles in which you find many chilies and less number of sweets. Remember that your future cycles are going to be full of chilies without a single sweet. In such life cycles the Lord cannot help you even if you cry to any extent. Then you lose your faith in the Lord and you will only do sins in such life cycles. Such sins will create further life cycles full of chilies. Like this a chain reaction is set up and there is no end for such cycles of chilies and finally you will be born as a worm in the drainage, which continuously undergoes misery.
By doing rituals and certain worships and donations as suggested by astrologers, your sin is not cancelled and you will not get the fruit of a good deed, which was not done by you. These rituals suggested by priests and astrologers are of two types:
1. Trying to please the Lord by prayers (words) and devotion or meditation (mind). This type resembles the path of a prostitute who tries to please a person by words and feelings to get some fruit from that person practically.
2. Trying to please the Lord by sacrificing work (Karma Sanyasa) and by sacrificing fruit of work (Karma Phala Tyaga) for getting some fruit from the Lord in return. This is like the business of a merchant in which you give something and take something in return.
In both these ways only your future sweets are brought to this life cycle and your present chilies are pushed to your future life cycles, because in these two ways, your love is completely false. In true love, you will do Karma Sanyasa and Karma Phala Tyaga without aspiring for any fruit in return. Of course sacrifice of words and mind to the Lord without aspiring for any fruit in return is good, but cannot bring any fruit from the Lord. When you sacrifice words and mind, you get peace and pleasure in your heart immediately and that itself is the fruit for those actions.
Suppose you are working in a field and singing a song. The owner of the field will only pay you for your work but not for your singing. The work alone can bring the fruit which is called Karma Yoga that consists of Karma Sanyasa and Karma Phala Tyaga. While doing Karma Yoga, you may chant, sing or express devotion but only for your own peace and happiness. It cannot bring any fruit from the Lord. Suppose you work in the field for one hour and sing the songs for another hour without doing any work, the owner will pay you only for one hour and not for two hours.
There is only one path to get rid of the fruits of your sins and to get the fruit of good deeds, which you have not done. When you serve the Lord in human in this world, the Lord in human form will transfer your sins upon Him and will suffer for your sake. As a servant of the Lord, you enter the second cycle called ‘Deva Yaana’ or ‘Jyotir Marga’ as explained in the Gita. You will go to Brahma Loka along with the Lord and derive continuous happiness here as well as there in the presence of the Lord. But in this path you should serve the Lord without aspiring for any fruit—even without aspiring for this path. Such selfless service consists of Karma Sanyasa as done by Hanuman for Rama and Karma Phala Tyaga as done by the Gopikas by offering butter to Krishna. In this path, the recognition of the human incarnation of the Lord is very very important. The Lord comes in every human generation. Otherwise the Lord would be partial to a particular human generation.
Hanuman and the Gopikas never worshipped statues or pictures of previous incarnations of God or God present in energetic bodies in the upper worlds like Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva etc. Only in the human body can the Lord really enjoy [suffer for] your sins as any other human being. Then alone can He do justice to the Law of Justice. Otherwise, in the form of a statue or a picture, He cannot enjoy your sins and therefore the Lord never enters a statue or a picture as said in the Veda “Natasya Pratima Asti”. Therefore the original creation of sin by God cannot be blamed. In fact it shows His infinite kindness to see His children really happy with alternate enjoyment of sweet and hot dishes.