The way to overcome suffering

[dattaswami]

UNIQUE WILL OF GOD TO OVERCOME SUFFERING

The sin, which is the source of all sufferings, cannot be cancelled through any extent of devotion and any extent of dearness and nearness to God. No way is competent to cancel the sin except one path. Such only one path is real and permanent transformation of the mind. Such transformation will avoid the doing of sin in future. Since the punishment given for the sin done in the past also aims at this transformation only, there is no meaning of punishing the soul further for the past sins after the transformation. Hence, the permanent and real transformation of the soul cancels all the past sins and the future possibility of doing any sin more. There is no other way than this because such unique way is the will of God.


If God cancels all your past sins, it means that you are really and permanently transformed and that you will never do sin in the future. Such permanent and real transformation of the soul can be achieved only by getting the true knowledge, which is the starting step of the correct treatment. After getting the true knowledge, you will try to travel in the right path and now, your effort gains importance. Gradually, you will succeed in getting the real and permanent transformation through the right knowledge associated with your subsequent effort to implement the right knowledge in practice. Both right knowledge and your effort are necessary to achieve the goal.

You must get the correct information to reach Delhi. The correct information will show you the right path to reach the goal. Here, the purpose of knowledge is over. From this point onwards, your effort is required. You may have the correct knowledge of the path, but unless you put the effort to walk, the goal is not reached. The true knowledge is given by the scripture. But, unfortunately wrong interpretations of the scripture exist in this world. Therefore, the correct interpretation with powerful explanation of the scripture is required. The correct interpretation is only known to the Author of the Scripture.

Therefore, God, the Author of the Scripture, should come down in the human form as Preacher to give the original interpretation and clarify all your doubts to convince you with powerful and correct logic. If God comes in any form other than human form, preaching is not possible. Of course, God can preach to you even in the form of a statue through His omnipotence. But, if that is done, you will be excited with tension and will not be able to receive the interpretation and will not be able to express your doubts in cool atmosphere. For this purpose only, God comes down in the human form as a Preacher so that you will treat Him as your co-human being and express your doubts freely to get correct clarification. Hence, the importance of contemporary human incarnation.

Nearness and Dearness to God

To establish that you will be punished for your sins and your nearness and dearness to God cannot save you from this punishment, even the soul existing in the human incarnation is punished for its sins. No soul can be more near and dear to God than the soul existing in human incarnation. The human incarnation is a two component system of God and soul, appearing in a single phase called as the human being. It is like a copper metal appearing as copper metal only but having a trace of invisible gold in it. It appears as a single phase (pure copper) only even though it is a two component system (copper and gold).


The activity of the soul-component is rewarded by the God-component if the activity is good. If the activity of the soul-component is bad, God-component will punish it, even though the soul component is very near and dear. The soul is pervaded by God and hence, is near most to God. The soul is selected by God for the human incarnation since the soul is very dear to God through its excellent devotion. Therefore, the soul in the human incarnation is near most and dearest to God. Even then, such near most and dearest soul is rewarded or punished according to its good and bad deeds respectively and there is no trace of extra consideration in the case of even such soul. Parashurama is a human incarnation consisting of both soul and God.

The soul exhibited egoism and jealousy towards another human incarnation called as Rama due to its predominant qualities of Rajas and Tamas. Then, the God-component existing in Rama and Parashurama, which is only one, punished the soul-component called as Parashurama. The soul in Rama is very humble due to its predominant quality of Sattvam and hence, was rewarded with continuous victory and unparallel fame. Even in the incarnation of Rama, the soul-component did a mistake. Due to over anxiety in the search of His lost wife, the soul-component killed Vali by hiding behind a tree. Rama gave very long explanation to support His action. Even though killing Vali is a justified end, the means are not justified.

Rama acted as a perfect human being. The human being should give value to both ends and means. This means the means justify ends. Otherwise, there is a danger of achieving the wrong end easily through false means and justify later on both the ends and means through intellectual interpretation. If a check is put on both ends and means, the human being will have sufficient patience to do the impartial analysis. Therefore, Rama was punished in the next birth for this sin, where Vali born as hunter, shot Him to death. If you take the human incarnation called as Krishna, He used false means like telling a lie to kill Drona to achieve justified ends in the war. Krishna always exhibited the aspect of God-component. God is omniscient and will never justify false ends.

Therefore, in the case of Krishna, the false means supported by justified ends become justified means and hence, there is no sin. Krishna, being rich, stole butter from the houses of poor Gopikas. He also danced with them secretly in the mid nights. These activities look like sins, but if you analyze the background, they are not sins. In the previous birth, Gopikas were sages and prayed to the Lord for salvation. In the next birth, the sages were born as Gopikas and were tested by the Lord in their intensities of bonds with wealth, children and husbands. Bonds with these three are very strong called as Eshanas.

Stealing butter involves the test of their bonds with the wealth and the children, since the butter was stored for their children. Those sages, who passed the tests, got salvation. Krishna never repeated these activities after leaving the village since the sages with such specific background were confined to the village only. Therefore, all the activities of Krishna are related to the God-component only and not to the soul-component.

You may argue that the nearest and dearest soul in the human incarnation will never do sins after going to such highest stage of devotion. If that is the case, what is the reason for such sinful deed and subsequent punishment? There must be some divine purpose for such act even if you consider the soul in the human incarnation as purest. The soul must have done such act not for its own sake. It must have done to give some important message to the souls in the creation. The message must be that you may become nearest and dearest to God through top most devotion, [still] you will be punished for your sins.

Devotion can never save you from sins. The only way is real and permanent transformation of soul, which is achieved by true knowledge followed by special effort in implementing such true knowledge in practice. The soul in the human incarnation must have enacted this drama to give this true concept to the world. Whether the soul did the sin really or enacted the sin for the sake of message, it makes no difference as far as the need and truthfulness of the message given to the world is concerned. The final concept does not change in both the situations. Ravana was very near and dear to the Lord as the gate keeper in the previous birth, but he was also punished for his sins. The internal soul of human incarnation, Rama and the external soul, Ravana, were punished for their sins irrespective of their nearness and dearness to God.

This concept of sin and its remedy was told by Krishna in the Gita. He told that the true knowledge giving the correct direction followed by the effort of soul in implementation will burn all the sins of past, present and future (Jnanaagnih…, Abhyasenatu…). Jesus propagated this concept telling that if you confess and do not repeat the sins through surrender to God, all the sins will be excused. The priests of the church crucified Him, since the propagation of such true knowledge will affect their interests. The sinners come and donate to get their sins cancelled. The priests play important role in this process and get highest respect from the public. The propagation of this truth will affect their business and respectful positions in the society. The priests of all the religions in the world are doing huge business based on this false concept only. In fact, these priests can earn more and can get more respect if they are based on the truth and propagate the true knowledge. When the truth is propagated, the souls will get real benefit. The priests will be rewarded more and hence, should not object the propagation of the true spiritual knowledge under the false impression that their livelihood gets spoiled by the true knowledge.