Power of Absolute Belief and Unconditional Confidence

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This story was told by respected Sri Acharya Bijoy

Krishna Goswami---

 

Once, in a European Country, there was a drought for a

very long time. Everywhere people started to pray to

God for rain. During those days, there was an

advertisement published in a local newspaper of a city

– inviting it’s dwellers to attain a prayer for rain.

On scheduled day, before evening, all dwellers of the

city started gathering in the Church. Then a small boy

arrived there with an umbrella in his hand. Watching

that umbrella, already gathered persons said the boy –

“ hay, you are really a foolish one. Why you brought

the umbrella now?” The boy replied “Today we will

pray for rain. God will give us the rain, then, what

will happen to us if we don’t have umbrella? Then, all

of us will be wet if we have to return home in the

rain”. Listening to the boy, everyone get astonished

and started laughing.

 

After the completion of the prayer, really the rain

started. Then the boy said “ if you have really belief

in god, then you could not have left your umbrella

back at your home. Now see, you all stay here back, I

am going.”

 

 

----- after stating this story Swamiji said “ pray to

God like a baby crying for mother. God is

compassionate. He has shown his compassion even to a

sinful person like me, then He will not dishearten

anyone. If you pray to Him from your heart, He will

certainly come to you. I am telling this not by

listening it, even not from my imagination. I am

saying this from my own experience. God will

definitely come to you if you pray respectfully and

with honesty. Please pray once in the way I am saying,

definitely He will shower His blessing on you.”

 

 

 

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

..... If we desire ONLY HAPPINESS, then to LEAVE the TRUE SOURCE of

HAPPINESS, GOD, and desire FULFILLAMENT in the WORLD, which is ONLY a

SOURCE OF SORROW and DISTRESS,

implies that WE STILL BELIEVE the WORLD to be a SOURCE of PERFECT,

UNLIMITED HAPPINESS!

 

God is in REALITY the TRUE Source of EVERLASTING HAPPINESS, yet

people WORSHIP HIM not for Divine BLISS, but for ACQUIRING TEMPORARY

WORLDLY PLEASURES.

 

This clearly REVEALS their IGNORANCE, because they BELIEVE that with

GOD'S HELP, they can ATTAIN UNLIMITED ETERNAL HAPPINESS in the

material WORLD, which in truth is ONLY a SOURCE of MISERY and

REBIRTH.

 

When the AIM itself IS WRONG, HOW CAN WE PRACTISE PURE DEVOTION?

 

The POSSIBILITY of attaining PERFECTION in such a case, is TOTALLY

out of the question.

 

Worldly objects and personalities only RESULT in MULTIPLYING DESIRES

and BONDAGE.

Their attainment leads to growth of PRIDE and GREED.

Remember, this PRIDE and EGOISM IS THE MAIN CAUSE that MAKES ONE

AVERSE TO GOD!!!

 

The second point to REMEMBER is that, when material possessions are

ACQUIRED by people ACCORDING to their SANSKARAS or potential

tendencies in their destiny, they PROCLAIM it to be due to the Grace

of God.

 

And when they DO NOT receive these possessions owing to their

Samskaras, they CLAIM it to be a result of God's ANGER!

Thus a person will be BELIEVER (theist), so long as he or she

acquires worldly favors, and when he or she is DEPRIVED of them, he

or she will BECOME an ATHEIST.

 

Therefore it is best for a Sadhaka (spiritual aspirant) to TOTALLY

RENOUNCE all DESIRES for material benefits.

 

The third point is that God does NOT break His law by granting FAVORS

contrary to WHAT IS DESTINED for each individual.

 

If someone CLAIMS that God always LISTENS to his SELFISH PRAYERS and

FULFILLS them, then WHY DOES HE NOT ASK God for 'GOD', once and for

all, so that the DESIRE TO ASK again and again comes to an END.

 

To REPEATEDLY ask for the WORLD, where there is NO HAPPINESS,

where fulfillment of desires RESULTS in the birth of MORE FORMIDABLE

CRAVINGS, ONLY brings about harm.

 

It is only when WE ASK FOR GOD OR DIVINE LOVE that the ROOT OF DESIRE

itself will be DESTROYED, and the individual soul will become

CONTENTED FOREVER.

 

However, this CLAIM of people that God fulfills their every desire is

actually A DECEPTION, a LIE.

 

The IGNORANT soul thinks the benefit received due to SANSKARAS, to be

Divine Grace!

There is some MERIT in this belief because the individual ACCEPTS

God's Grace on this basis.

 

But the DREADFUL future of this BELIEF is that WHEN there is AN

ABSENCE of MATERIAL GAIN and FAVOR, this FAITH will IMMEDIATELY

DISAPPEAR!

 

The fourth point is that the Scriptures refer to God as Omniscient.

Whatever HE DOES, IS FOR OUR BENEFIT.

 

When we UNDERSTAND this, then WHY DO WE INTERFERE HIS JUDGEMENT and

ASK HIM for OTHER THINGS?

 

Being IGNORANT, WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEST FOR US.

 

Therefore, we SHOULD REMEMBER that HE is ALL-KNOWING and LEAVE

EVERYTHING TO HIM ALONE!

 

In this way the disease of ASKING will NEVER be born!

 

The fifth point is that the Scriptures declare that each individual

is in the BONDAGE OF KARMA.

Whatever PLEASURE or SORROW is DESTINED for each one ACCORDING to

one's 'Prarabdha' (part of past actions referred to as fate in the

present life), will be given to that one.

 

We read in the Scriptures about the death of Dasaratha, the father of

the All- powerful, Almighty Personality, Lord Rama, yet Lord Rama DID

NOT SAVE him!

 

Abhimanyu, the nephew of Lord Krishna and son of Arjuna, could NOT be

SAVED from his death, by BOTH of these GREAT Personalities put

together!

 

Then WHY DO WE EXPECT that the UNBREAKABLE DIVINE LAW will be broken

for OUR SAKE???

 

The sixth point is that we must FIRMLY UNDERSTAND that the ABSENCE of

MATERIAL PROSPERITY is an INDICATION of God's Grace.

In this STATE, there is NO INTOXICATING PRIDE due to worldly success.

 

Therefore we should desire ONLY SUCH SITUATION.

 

What is the USE of wanting a STATE WHERE THERE WILL BE NO REMEMBRANCE

OF GOD?

The GREATEST IGNORANCE is to ASK for such a state from God Himself!

 

Besides these, there are a number of other LOSSES which will PREVENT

the soul from PRACTISING SADHANA, or SURRENDERING to a SAINT.

Hence, ALL desires INCLUDING the desire for LIBERATION or Mukti or

Moksha must be RENOUNCED.

 

The TRUE GOAL of EVERY SOUL is ATTAIMENT OF SELFLESS DIVINE LOVE.

 

Saint Sri Tulasidasa states -

 

"svArtha sAGca jIva kara ehA

mana krama vacana rAma pada nehA"

 

The HIGHEST Goal of EACH and EVERY soul is to DEVELOP LOVE for the

SUPREME LORD, with all his HEART, with all his MIND and with all his

faculties of EXPRESSION.

 

Our TRUE SELF-INTEREST lies in PLEASING, LOVING and SERVING GOD

ALONE.

In reality, this is the PUREST FORM OF DIVINE LOVE.

.........

 

An excerpt from Chapter 12, 'Prema-Rasa-Siddhant' by

Jagadguru Sri Rama Kripaluji Maharaj

 

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Jaya Sri Radhey!