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Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)

 

God is responsible for all our actions

 

CHENNAI, OCT. 23. The greatest folly of almost all human beings

is to presume that they can achieve any task by their own efforts

and claim that they need no help from any external agency. Out of

pride they will blow their own trumpet forgetting that their

success was due to the guidance of a superior power, though

unseen. He is God, who is responsible for all our actions. Due to

ignorance, people feel that they need not depend on anyone.

 

Imagine 10 persons, all suffering from cancer, being treated by a

physician, paying equal attention to all of them and

administering the same type and dosage of medicines. But only

four survive. The doctor can only do his best to cure but he

cannot give a fresh lease of life. God has decided that the other

six should die. Hence everyone should realise that they should

give up their pride and bow before the Lord, who is the ultimate

authority to decide what one should deserve and when. The sun

arises and sets only in accordance with His master plan. The cock

has been gifted with the capacity of crowing before dawn making

man get up from bed. But how foolish would it be if that fowl

feels that the sun would have to appear only after it crows. Not

only humans but even celestials had once displayed this type of

arrogance.

 

The Sankaracharya of Sakatapuram, in a discourse, referred to a

rare occasion when celestials, always used to get defeated, won

over the demons. Suddenly each one of them believed that they

possessed the power to carry out any job. There appeared in their

presence a phantom which threw a blade of grass in front of them,

asking them to move it. Neither fire could destroy it, nor the

chief of celestials crush it with his thunderbolt, nor wind, with

all its force could blow it away. They shed their haughtiness and

realised that they derived their power only from the Supreme

Lord.

 

Even Arjuna, who got support from the Lord, boasted that the war

was won by his prowess and that but for him, his elder brother

could not have become the ruler. He even slighted Krishna who

then took him on a stroll and made him face an ascetic, who

carried a sword in his hand. Questioned, he said he intended to

do away with Prahlada, who though a great devotee, made God lay

in wait and be ready to appear when his father wanted Him; to

punish Draupadi who insulted God by giving curry leaf while

devotees honour Him with feasts; and stab Arjuna who treated the

Lord as a servant and boasted that by his valour he had conquered

the enemies. Arjuna was ashamed and wept. All of us should be

aware that our acts should be approved by God.

 

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