Stress Relief WorkShops:

[Guest guest]

The generation and propagation of the divine knowledge is not a

waste. Certainly, all will not change. A few will partially change.

One or two in this minority will change completely (Manushyanam…

Gita). Majority remains as it is. They are always concentrating on

the worldly bonds only. Their goal is money, family, comforts, fame

etc., only. At the maximum they may attend some work shops to get

relief from the stress because they are tired with the stress by the

problems to attain their goals. For them work is worship. Their

ultimate and utmost spiritual effort is only the participation in a

work shop on stress relief so that they can be reactivated for fresh

efforts to achieve the worldly goals by improving their professional

skills. It is just a commercial advertisement!

 

The spiritual preachers also changed according to the public because

the tendency of today is that the ruler should go according to the

needs of public in democracy. A king may do like that who is a

politician aspiring for position, power and wealth. But a spiritual

preacher should not come down to such level. He should guide the

people to the right path without any compromise of the truth. The

people should follow the knowledge. But today the knowledge is

following people. The people need only fresh strength in the worldly

work. The spiritual preacher limited himself to that particular

lowest level only which is needed for the public. All the other

higher levels are just mentioned as a formality. Here the spiritual

preacher should impress on the life after death. He should preach

about the unimaginable stress which is to be faced by the people

after death in the hell. Islam and Christianity speak about the

permanent hell. There is only one enquiry at the end of this only

one human life. After that enquiry, either permanent place in the

abode of God or permanent hell will be the result of the divine

judgment. Such concept is absolutely correct and is also universal.

 

The law of God is one and the same in any religion. God uses His

special power in the case of exceptionally deserving devotees to

grant the human rebirth and this cannot be generalized. In Hinduism

this exceptional facility is extended to every human being and this

caused a careless lenient view about the spiritual effort to

concentrate on God. The president of the country can cancel the

death punishment in the case of a deserving candidate using his

special power. If this is generalized and if every human being is

granted this facility, there is no fear for any one to do a murder!

Due to this reason only, we can find most of the Christians and

Muslims in Churches and Mosques to worship God and they are not

found in the stress relief-work shops. We can find mainly Hindus in

these work shops. Hindus feel that a number of chances of human

birth will be available in future and going to hell is only a

temporary visit. One must note an important point here. By

concentrating on God through devotion, you will get the stress

relief also, which is included in the devotion. Then why to spend

time for mere stress relief from these temporary worldly problems?

In the school all the subjects are taught. If you go to a single

teacher, you can learn one subject only. Which is better? School or

Tuition teacher?

 

By the divine knowledge and devotion, you are getting stress relief

in this world as well as in the upper world. In the workshop you can

get stress relief from the problems in this world only. I am not

criticizing these work shops because I am not in the competition

with those preachers for fame or wealth. I am also not jealous with

those preachers for their fame. I am only pained by the fate of the

followers and those preachers also in the future. The Veda says that

blind lead blind and fall in the well (Andhenaiva…). Some preachers

say that they know the truth, but they are doing like this for

initial attraction. But the initial attraction is always continuing

through out the human life. What is the difference between such work

shops and cinema theaters, since both give stress relief? What is

the difference between these work shops and hospitals since both

give relief from illness?

 

at the lotus feet of swamiji

surya