WHY GOD SOMETIMES KEEP SILENT

Why God sometimes keeps silent to somebody even after intensive cry?

Ans. A diabetic patient cries before a doctor to get a sweet for eating. The doctor has infinite number of sweets and he does not worry at all for giving a sweet to the patient. You are crying before God, who is the divine father (creator of all the souls) to give some wealth or to solve some problem. If He helps you, there is not even a trace of any personal loss to Him. Neither His wealth nor His power is finite and nor His love to souls is limited.

The only factor that guides Him is to see the future position after the help. If your eyes are to climb the roof of your head after the help, God will keep silent.

After the help you will fall down even from your present level and then you will cry again before the same God to lift you up.

If the doctor gives you the sweet, the level of sugar may go up and the emergent treatment is also the responsibility of the same doctor. Hence the doctor will not give you the sweet. If the doctor is confident of your health, he may give the sweet. Sometimes the doctor gives the sweet and conducts the emergent treatment to show you the truth, if you are scolding the doctor to be unkind. The response of the doctor lies on his analysis of the situation and it is not the subject of the patient at all. You must have the faith in the doctor (God) that any response is for your good only and you must know that the patient is ignorant of his own real welfare.

Everybody in this world worships God only in aspiration of some fruit here or in the upper world (especially to avoid the hell). You need not worship God at all for getting some good fruit that helps you. Even without your worship, God being the divine Father, the divine Mother and the divine preacher (Matrudevo...

), gives you the best fruit that does good to you always. He is three-in-one. Brahma is the preacher, Vishnu is the Mother and Shiva is the Father. Therefore, Lord Datta is the complete expression of God.

The father and mother (parents) here are not harsh to their child due to blind love. Due to this, the child is spoiled. The preacher here is harsh without love as we see the harsh punishments given by the teacher. The teacher here is not worried about your failure in real sense. The teacher teaches the student only for the fees. Hence, these three here are partially or totally defective. The meaning of the above Vedic statement is that God is your father, mother and preacher (if you take the word 'Matrudevo' etc., as Bahuvrihi Samasa). This is the correct sense. The reverse meaning (Karmadharaya Samasa) is wrong in taking father, mother and preacher as God.

God has both the paternal affection and the harsh treatment of the preacher required to mould the soul towards highest position. You should not judge God by rating the fruits. He gives apple to one person and banana to other person. The cost of apple is Rs.50/- ($50) and the cost of banana is only Rs.2/- (2 $).

You pray God to give costlier apple in the place of cheaper banana. The banana is given to you because you have the problem of indigestion and banana will cure it. Your body is not resistant to cold and hence, apple is not given to you, which increases cold. The other person has resistance to cold and has less blood. Apple will not harm him and increases his blood. Hence, the doctor (preacher) gives whatever is suitable to the patient (student). Its cost is immaterial. For your case, banana is the costlier fruit and apple is cheaper fruit. The same is vice versa to the case of other person. God will give that much money or wealth to you beyond which, you will be spoiled with ego and bad ways.

So, whatever is present with you is sufficient and will do good to you. Even an atheist is treated in the same way. If a son scolds always his parents, will the parents become angry with him? They pity him more and will also give to him whatever is needed. They try to change him slowly. All this analysis shows that you need not worship God at all for getting more fruits since you are already given the best needed fruit to you. A father, who is really interested in the welfare of his son, will send him to jail if he becomes a criminal. A father, who has blind love to his son, will hide his crime.

Similarly, God, as a real father interested always in the welfare of the human being, will send him to the hell for betterment of his qualities through inevitable punishments. Hell shows the greatest love and concern of the divine father towards his children. Hence, hell should not be treated as indicator of the revenge of God towards sinner through punishments.

The sole aim of the punishment is only to reform the sinner and not to revenge against the sinner. The love of these worldly parents and worldly preacher is always blind and limited to this life only. The love of God is in the perspective of long range to uplift the soul to the highest position irrespective of the duration of time.

When I say that you need not pray God for anything, since already best is given to you and since you do not know what is best for you, this does not mean that you should not pray God any more. You must pray God always to express you gratefulness to God for the best fruit already given by Him to you. Jesus always says that He is expressing the prayer of gratefulness to God. We must take this point very seriously with the above background. The other religions may feel inconvenient about Jesus, being the preacher of Christianity- religion. You should take anything good from any religion. A Christian scientist invented the train. Are you not travelling by the train since you are conservative of some other religion? Universal spirituality alone opens your eyes fully to see the truth with highest clarification.

Generally, the fruits (results) are linked to efforts only in this world. But, this link is established by God only and hence the final authority to give any fruit is God only.

Hence, your efforts generally yield the corresponding fruits as per the link established by God in the divine programme, which is computerized in routine way. By this routine procedure, you will have a false impression that there is no God and fruits are obtained only by your capable efforts. This was the path of Purvamimaamsa.

Now, God interferes in your life and will see that some efforts fail to give the corresponding fruits thereby preaching you to leave your ego and atheism. If you are a devotee and feel always that God is the giver of fruit, even then, some of your efforts fail because the fruits of such efforts are not good for you and hence, are avoided. A real devotee always prays God with gratefulness whether the effort gives fruit or not. Such actions in which you are not attached to fruit in any way at any time will not bind you and your attachment is always towards God so that you will reach the highest position in spiritual path (Nivrutti). The devotee reaching such highest position will be the dearest son or daughter of God, though all the human beings are dear children to God.

Qn) When a devotee approaches God for help and if the sheet of deeds of that devotee does not allow the help, what is the result?

Swami replied: Since God is not bound by the constitution of deeds and fruits, God helps the devotee even if the help is not supported by the sheet of deeds, provided such help, in His view, will bring spiritual uplift to that devotee.

The sheet of deeds allows the help even if the devotee does not approach God provided such help exists in the sheet of deeds as a fruit of some good deed done by the devotee, in which case, the help is done due to the constitution of deeds. If the sheet does not allow the help and in the view of God, the help will not help him in the spiritual progress or reformation, God keeps silent. Since God is omniscient unlike us, His estimation of the future of the devotee will never go wrong.

Sometimes, we help a person thinking that the person will be reformed by that help. But, our expectation fails and the person is not reformed. This will not take place in the case of God. When God keeps silent and the help is not done, the devotee is attacked by the misery. Such misery will develop the fear for sin in the mind of the devotee. Hence, even such misery is helping the devotee in getting reformed through misery. Hence, the reaction of God is always a double-edged knife helping the devotee in any way. Hence, it is better to approach God for the help and keep faith in devotion to God undisturbed even if the help is not rendered. This approach to God will always help you whether your required help is rendered or not. Such devotion with the background of such spiritual knowledge is called as best devotion (Paraabhakti).

We must note that God is the creator of souls, called as Divine Father (aham beeja pradah pitaa – Gita).

A father always tries to help the issue in all the possible ways. The human father is blind in his fascination to his issues and fears to punish the issue for the reformation. The Divine Father is different, Who aims at the final reformation only and not the intermediate misery of the issue. A doctor gives injection even if the child weeps aiming at the final cure of the illness. But, a doctor-father does not give injection to his child and requests another doctor to give the injection

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