भगवान की कृपा या अकृपा

🔵 एक व्यक्ति नित्य हनुमान जी की मूर्ति के आगे दिया जलाने जाया करता था। एक दिन मैंने उससे इसका कारण पूछा तो उसने कहा- ”मैंने हनुमान जी की मनौती मानी थी कि यदि मुकदमा जीत जाऊँ तो रोज उनके आगे दिया जलाया करूंगा। मैं जीत गया और तभी से यह दिया जलाने का कम चल रहा है।

🔴 मेरे पूछने पर मुकदमे का विवरण बताते हुए उसने कहा- एक गरीब आदमी की जमीन मैंने दबा रखी थी, उसने अपनी जमीन वापिस छुड़ाने के लिए अदालत में अर्जी दी, पर वह कानून जानता न था और मुकदमें का खर्च भी न जुटा पाया। मैंने अच्छे वकील किए खर्च किया और हनुमान जी मनौती मनाई। जीत मेरी हुई। हनुमान जी की इस कृपा के लिए मुझे दीपक जलाना ही चाहिए था, सो जलाता भी हूँ।

🔵 मैंने उससे कहा-भोले आदमी, यह तो हनुमान जी की कृपा नहीं अकृपा हुई। अनुचित कार्यों में सफलता मिलने से तो मनुष्य पाप और पतन के मार्ग पर अधिक तेजी से बढ़ता है, क्या तुझे इतना भी मालूम नहीं। मैंने उस व्यक्ति को एक घटना सुनाई-’एक व्यक्ति वेश्यागमन के लिए गया। सीढ़ी पर चढ़ते समय उसका पैर फिसला और हाथ की हड्डी टूट गई। अस्पताल में से उसने सन्देश भेजा कि मेरी हड्डी टूटी यह भगवान की बड़ी कृपा है। वेश्यागमन के पाप से बच गया।

🔴 मनुष्य सोचता है कि जो कुछ वह चाहे उसकी पूर्ति हो जाना ही भगवान ही कृपा है। यह भूल है। यदि उचित और न्याययुक्त सफलता मिले तो ही उसे भगवान की कृपा कहना चाहिए। पाप की सफलता तो प्रत्यक्ष अकृपा है। जिससे अपना पतन और नाश समीप आता है उसे अकृपा नहीं तो और क्या कहें?

God Can Be Attained Assuredly Today

At least test my statement !  and see for yourself ! God is not attained by you, because you do not want Him.  If you want wealth, then how can God intervene? The worst thing in the world is money - wealth. There is nothing more despicable than wealth-money – nothing whatsoever. If your mind is engrossed in such a worthless thing, how can God be attained ? By giving money you can purchase food, clothes, vehicles etc., but money itself cannot be eaten, worn or ridden on. The point is that money itself is of no use at all. Rather its utility is what matters.

God can be attained purely by desire (i.e. earnest aspiration, longing). No one at all will be able to restrict Him if you have a burning desire. If a child is weeping, the mother definitely comes. The child does not do any household chores. On the contrary, he hinders your work. But when the child cries, everyone in the household is on his side. All members of the family – mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, all of them say, "Oh, why don't you do something for this little one, carry him and console him." The mother has to stop all her work to carry and take care of the child. The only power the child possesses is loud crying – "Baalaani rodun balam" - "To weep is the power of the children". If you were to sincerely weep for God, earnestly cry and call out to Him, then all devotees, saints, noble souls would take up your side and invoke God by complaining – "Why do you not appear before him?"

God Can Be Attained Assuredly Today

Truly speaking, God is ever attained, but only our worldly desires bar Him from being realized. When we desire money and enjoyments, God does not forcibly make us leave it? If we earnestly aspire for only God, leaving aside all worldly desires, then who has the strength to block us from doing so? Absolutely no one has the power to restrict us. If we long to behold God then God also will long to behold us. If we long and cry out for the world, the world will not reciprocate. But if we call out and cry longingly for God, He too will surely cry out for us.

It is only the mother who truly knows whether the child is really crying or not. If a child does not shed real tears and simply utters the sound of weeping, the mother understands that he is cheating, pretending! If the child truly weeps, the mother can tell instantly from his breathing. The mother stops everything she is doing and immediately carries the child. What is the use of a mother that does not pay immediate attention to her child in desperation! What is the use of her living, if she neglects the child? Similarly what is the use of God who is not paying attention to the one who truly longs, cries and calls out for Him? If God does not meet such a devotee, then what is the use of God’s existent. If God does not meet one who is sincerely longing for Him from within, then God should not live!

Attraction

Here we have got attraction, material, so we have to withdraw this attraction. How it will be possible? If we become more attracted to Krsna, then this attraction will go away. Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat [SB 11.2.42]. Bhakti means the more you realize Krsna, the more you will become detestful: "Ah, nonsense." This is test. One side increasing taste, the other side decreasing. This is the test.
If we think that "I have got attraction on Krsna and also the sense gratification," that means bogus. The test is how far I am detached to sense gratification. Then it means that you have increased your spiritual life. And Yamunacarya says,
yad-avadhi mama cetah krsna-padaravinde
nava-nava-dhamany udyatam rantum asit
tad-avadhi bata nari-sangame smaryamane
bhavati mukha-vikarah susthu nisthivanam ca
[Sri Yamunacarya]
This is the test. Yamunacarya, he was emperor. He said, "Since I have taken to Krsna consciousness and I am enjoying Krsna's association, since then, as soon as I think of sex, I spit on it." This is the test. This is test. Krsna... How I am increasing my Krsna consciousness, the test is how I am decreasing my sex attachment. This is test. A man is suffering from fever, that means how much he is becoming cured means how much he has decreased the degree of fever. This is the test. It is not that I have got 105-degrees fever and I am advancing and curing. That is not. This is the test, the vita-raga. You have got attachment for this material world, and the central point of attachment is sex. All man, birds, beast, everyone — test.

God Can Be Attained Assuredly Today

But if you yourself put a bar that God cannot appear, He will surely not appear! It has been declared explicitly in Gita –

"Api chetsuduraachaaro bhajate maam anayabhaak,

saadhureva sa mantavyah, samyagvyavasito hi sah

ksipram bhavati dharamaatmaa sasvacchaantim nigacchati

kaunteya pratijaaneehi na me bhaktah pranasyati."

(Gita 9:30-31)

"Even if the vilest of sinner worships Me with exclusive devotion, he should be considered a saint in as much as he has rightly resolved. Speedily, he becomes virtuous and secures lasting peace. Know it for certain, Arjuna, that My devotee never falls. " (Gita 9:30-31)

The point here is – even if the vilest sinner becomes an exclusive devotee, in other words, other than God he is desirous of nothing else, he also should be considered a saint, because he has rightly resolved that God will be certainly attained.

Desire only God, and don't desire anything else. Neither desire to live, nor desire to die. There should be neither desire for respect, nor desire for greatness. Let there be neither desire for enjoyments, nor desire for wealth. Only one desire – God, then He will surely be attained.