worshipping formless God part 2

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(Answer for Q.195 continued)

 

 

Suppose some parents requested the management of a

school to provide a park for waiting. The management

is capable of doing so and it is the earnest desire of

some parents. Suppose, there are some parents who do

not like the facility of the park. They should not

object those parents who want to use the facility of

the park. They should also not oppose the management

in the construction of the park. It is the duty of the

management to inform the availability of the park so

that any parent who ever desires to use that facility

can use it apart from those parents requested for it.

If this general information is not provided to all the

parents, some may ask the management regarding their

negligence in informing the parents. Similarly, God

comes in human form based on the prayers of some top

most devotees to give direct experience. Through the

human body the experience is not only direct but also

complete. Such experience is not possible in the

formless worship or in the worship of the statues.

Such worship of formless God and statues is only a

representative worship. It is just like worshipping

the statue of the king and not the direct worship of

the king. When you break a coconut near the statue,

you can offer it by waving the hand and then eat it

yourself. But when we break the coconut before the

actual king, the king is fond of the pieces of coconut

and will eat the entire coconut. When you want to

avoid such inconvenience, you need not worship the

human incarnation. You break the coconut before the

statue and eat it yourself. But there is a fellow who

wants to really offer the coconut to the king. He is

pleased only when the king eats that coconut. He feels

happy by seeing the happiness in the face of the king,

while eating that coconut. What right you have to

object such person? What right you have to object the

king to come directly to eat that coconut for the

happiness of a real devotee?

There are two fields. 1) Pravrutti: In this people

desire the welfare of their body and family. They love

their bodies and their families only. Their real love

is not on the God but only on their body and family.

When that welfare is disturbed and when it is not

possible to rectify it by worldly means, then only

they look at God. When you get fever and it is not

subsided by the medicines you used, then you are

approaching a doctor. Thus God is only an instrument

to achieve the welfare of their body and family. They

pretend real love on God, which is not real. When you

go to the doctor you respect him too much. That

respect is not real. That respect is only apparent and

the aim of that respect is only that he will cure

carefully your disease. These people do not bother

about tomorrow. They don’t bother about the hell after

death and about the next birth. Their aim is only the

temporary happiness confined to this birth only. They

worship God for this purpose, which is not true love

at all. God also acts accordingly. He postpones all

your bad results to the next births like pronotes with

increased interest. He brings the good results from

future births with reduced values like the pre-matured

deposits. The Lord will not save these people in the

hell. They will go to the heaven and when the results

of their good deeds are finished, they are thrown back

to the earth. In the future births, which are full of

difficulties only, these people weep scolding the

Lord. But the Lord keeps silent, because He acted

according to their prayers only in the previous birth.

In this field one can worship the Lord with single

face, who is Vishnu, the embodiment of Sattvam

quality. With this quality God will help you when you

worship. But this quality always requires justice and

logic. Therefore, within the rules of the cycle of

justice God helps you. He will never harm you for your

worship. In this field God in human form is not

necessary. God will protect the justice by His power.

In this field the aim of the people is not God. Their

aim is only protection of justice and their families.

Lord Krishna did not fight directly in the war because

in this field His power is sufficient to protect the

justice. Arjuna was charged with His power and Arjuna

fought with the enemies. In this field the devotees

can worship formless God or statues and can get

apparent and temporary protection in this world.

Nivrutti: In this field people want God only. Their

aim is the permanent association with the God and not

the temporary results in this world. They never care

for the worldly justice. They don’t care for their

body or family bonds. Their concentration is always on

God. Here the justice is also crossed. Prahlada did

not care for his father’s death. God came directly and

fought with the enemy in his case. Gopikas left every

body and every thing for the sake of Lord Krishna. He

liberated them in this world itself. God in human form

was required by Gopikas and not by Arjuna. Gopikas

wanted to see, touch, talk and live with the God. The

Lord came in the human form as Krishna for the sake of

Gopikas only. Arjuna wanted only the power of God to

protect justice by getting back the kingdom.

Therefore, Arjuna worshipped statues like Siva Lingam

and energetic body like Siva. Lord Krishna was an

instrument for Arjuna in achieving his kingdom. The

aim of Arjuna was kingdom and not Krishna. But in the

case of Gopikas the aim was Krishna and not anything

else or anybody else. They crossed even the

traditional justice and ran to Brindavanam to dance

with Krishna. They were unable to live for even one

minute without Krishna. In this field of Nivrutti the

Lord comes down in human form and donates Himself to

the devotees. Such human form is called as Datta. In

this field the Lord has all the three aspects of

Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra. He shows Sattvam of Vishnu,

Rajas of Brahma and Tamas of Rudra. In this field He

gives troubles when you worship Him. Troubling a

devotee unnecessarily is Rajas and Tamas. In this

field only the real love on God is proved. When God

troubles you after your worship and if you are unable

to leave Him still then that is real love. Thus single

face Datta (Vishnu) is for Pravrutti and three-faced

Datta is for Nivrutti.

God acts according to the field you choose. In

Nivrutti only He protects you from hell and takes you

to His eternal abode. In this field only He attracts

the evil effects of His real devotees and undergoes

suffering to save His devotees. Here the attitude of

God is not logic and justice but only pure love. But

real devotees oppose this. Therefore, He undergoes the

bad results without their knowledge. The God

circulates the information regarding Pravrutti and

Nivrutti to everybody so that nobody can blame Him

later on for their ignorance. Except the motto of

information He is not having an intention to attract

the people into Nivrutti. He is not benefited in any

way by doing so. All the benefit is only for the

devotee. The person following the Pravrutti always

scolds the Nivrutti. The reason is that he is unable

to catch God directly in Nivrutti and therefore,

discourages that field with jealousy. When he is

unable to succeed in that field he does not want

anybody to succeed in that field. He wants to close

that field and wants that his field only to remain.

Such psychological jealousy is not good because God

will punish him. Even though he is incapable he should

appreciate others and in such case God will help him

to come to Nivrutti. In nutshell God helps in

Pravrutti with sympathy only and such help is only in

the apparent and temporary rearrangement of your good

and bad results. In Nivrutti the fruit is permanent

and real and God really loves the devotees.

If you are unable to follow Nivrutti, please be in

Pravrutti at least and never become an atheist. You

try constantly to follow the Nivrutti. You might have

not reached the goal, but you have left your station.

Only a person who is always limited to Pravrutti

should worry. The attitude towards Pravrutti or

Nivrutti comes from the accumulated Sadhana done in

several previous births. Such a person turns

spontaneously towards Nivrutti and the association of

Satguru is only accidental. In the pearl shell one

raindrop fallen becomes the pearl. Even if 100 drops

fall on mud pond, all the drops become mud water only.

Therefore, the deservingness of the devotee due to

previous Sadhana is the most important factor and not

the close or long association with Satguru. One may

sit on the seashore for several hours but he has only

a small tumbler in his hand. He can take only a

tumbler of water even after sitting for several hours

on the seashore. A fellow may come with a pot but he

takes a full pot of water in 5 minutes. The Satguru

rains His divine knowledge on all the people

impartially so that He should not be blamed later on.

The knowledge is essential like the rain, but more

essential is the deservingness of the devotee that

developed based on his sincere spiritual efforts for

the past several births continuously (Purva Janma

Samskara).

 

 

 

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