not the other way round that “Oh I sanctioned it because it was you who insisted and I, God was not wishing for it, and God will keep on teasing like — oh didn’t I told you? You didn’t listened to me and so you are in pain and sufferings”. If God is perfect love then why by his power of devine love he doesn’t share his foreseen insights to human beings instead of teasing them? Or give the devotee the courage and knowledge to take the consequences of decisions made by oneself in such a manner that devotee will not complain about pain he is experiencing.
To do what you say is an equivalent of creating automatons, a perfect faultless humanity, robotic and exact and artificial and false driven by AI rather than through living and conscious choices.
The rest is all your words put in God’s mouth. He does not say that “Oh you did not listen to me etc….’. That is like a very insensitive parents or God of semitic religions who is busy punishing and rewarding. I am not sure from where you got these ideas so i cannot really answer to hypothetical questions. God is just too busy trying to help us come out of ignorance through any means and any which way to have time to care about what opinions we have of Him. His is a labour of thankless love since He is trying to give us a permanent solution while man wants just to stay in some comfort zone of inaction and be magically transported to a world of bliss. It is somewhat like a person being flown directly to mount Everest without going through the preparations just because he wants to enjoy the sight. The result is an obvious disaster. Sorry that is not happening because fortunately God is wiser than man and has had quite a good track record so far of evolving plants out of hard rock and reptiles and birds and beasts out of animals and then of man out of the ape. One may say that it is all nature but then what is that wisdom and power operating in nature or behind it? So far God can take the credit of a good job. But now man first wants to judge Him and sentence Him and doubt and despair and yet wants God to do miracles. Well might He do it and is indeed doing it but then time is still needed after all. He has set the ball rolling for our good. We have to add our little push to it. that is all that is needed. But man does not want even to do that. well still it will happen but then we got to wait a little more unless in the meanwhile the self sufficient man arrogant of his intellect does not blow the world out.
Affectionately
Alok da
Follow up question:
Sorry I am not very accurate and comfortable with English. May be grammatically I may be correct but not while expressing my feelings and exactly what I mean. I just wanted to ask you that it seems that God is there somewhere without which life seems to be aimless and hence a meaningless journey. And again from childhood I was given the understanding that God is nothing but Pure Love towards all beings. And I used to think that every thing is alright and under perfect control of God and I was living my little life unaware of the surroundings leaving that to God. But all of a sudden with the horrible things that I see now on social media some of which include those happening under name of ‘God Himself’, and also due to some very painful and unexplainable things happened in my life I went under emotional shock. (I used to read some books of Swami Vivekananda and I was inspired and practiced a very little of it in life sincerely and yet most probably stupidly also.) Hundred times a day your sorroundings crushes your faith of that One Reality called God in all possible ways and sometimes in a cruel way also…. And further more worse is that you cannot return to your normal life also due to unforgettable painful things claiming with authority — ‘see there is no God…’ .And if you accept that ok no God then also it is not easily possible to live with that idea also. Something not letting return to usual normal state, nither letting you go forwards. It is so torturous. So I thought is there no Bypass to the unnecessary pain of humans, animals and plants? Is a life possible without pain? Is “जीवो जीवनस्य जीवनम्” the ultimate truth? So from this point of view I wrote that comment. I came to know about Auromaa on YouTube a few months ago and since then I enjoy your talks so much. The Law of Karma kept annoying me for years upon which your talk was a ray of hope for my annoyed mind. Again my sincere pranam to Shri Maa and Sri Aurobindo and to you!
Pure love, the love that has no mixtures of ego and desires, free from all expectations, the love that flows straight from the Divine can only be found in the psychic being of man. The first necessity therefore is to find the soul within us without which it is not possible to practice true love though the vital can create a good imitation of it.
When we see the horrible things around, or for that matter even pleasant things around we should not rush to conclusions but calmly discern and patiently wait for the true wisdom to dawn upon us. Instead of jumping to conclusions about the Divine and His working or drawing upon standard explanations of karma etc we should aspire to know the Truth that is covered by the brilliant and dark appearances. Then slowly the coverings begin to melt and we begin to understand a little of the Windom behind the mysterious Play and the secret Player who uses everything including death and failure and fall for our growth.
Affectionately
Alok da
Source: प्रयास और समर्पण (RH 076) Prayas aur Samarpan
YT Link: https://youtu.be/fC4q-12EmIg
