If God is forcing us to do something, He should bear the karma. Why should we bear
the Karma? Ramesh ate the food and Dinesh vomited out?!
But Swamiji, what we do, we are doing ? God is not doing?
We are the doers. If God was our director, then we would never have made a mistake.
Can God make mistakes? Of course not. If God was our director then we should be
free from any mistake. simple logic. If the driver of the car is sane, the car
will go properly. If the driver is inebriated, the car will go off course. If
God is our driver, all our actions should be perfect. But we people make so many
mistakes. "Sorry". What sorry?! I made a mistake. Why did you make a mistake? To
err is human. So to earn as human means that we humans
are doing it not the all-perfect God. Second point if God is the doer then the
karmic reactions of those actions should be borne by God. If God is forcing
us to do something he should bear the Karma , why should we bear the Karma ?
Ramesh ate the food and Dinesh vomited out. What
kind of logic is this? God made us do all these awful things, and the Karma He is
putting it on to us. Let Him either bear the Karma Himself or forgive Himself. But
let Him release us. If this philosophy is true that God is the doer, then nobody
can ever punish anyone. One criminal has committed murder and he is being brought
to court. The judge asks ,the judge says all the evidence has come.
It is confirmed that you were the killer and you should be punished. The convict
says, "Your Honor don't you know philosophy? All that we do, we are not the
doers. It is God who is making us do. If you have any punishment in mind, give it
to God. Please free me from here." The judge will say, look in every country of
the world, no matter what their religious tradition, everybody understands, for your
actions you are responsible. Even when in Bharatvarsh, the rule of Manu Smriti was there,
even then everybody was responsible for their actions. That means we are the
doers, not God. Third point. If God is the doer then he should do equally through
everyone. Because he's perfectly unbiased to all. Either he should make
all God realized or he should make everybody a demon. But why does He make
somebody Vibhishhan and somebody Ravan, someone Prahlad and someone Hiranyakashipu.
The equitably disposed God why does He engage in such prejudice?
Further God in the scriptures has given injunctions. There is "Vidhi" and "nishedh". Do
this, don't do this. If you do this, you'll get this fruit. If you get do tha,t you'll
get that punishment. Now if God is the doer, why is He telling us, do this, don't
do this. This is the consequence, that is the consequence. What is the need for
explaining all that? In the Bhagavad-gita itself, He repeatedly tells Arjun,
Arjun this work will have that consequence. This path will lead to such
a goal. At the end of the Bhagavad-gita, He says
I've given you the knowledge.
Now do what you wish. Supposing Shri Krishna is the doer, then
he should say Arjun you don't need to hear anything. I will do what I want. The
whole Gita will end in two sentences. Arjun, you don't need to understand. I
am going to do. What is the need for the whole lecture? So we are responsible for
our actions. If we make a mistake, we must correct it and not blame God for it.
Does the point makes sense? But then somebody who has been reading scriptures can
question that Swamiji the Scriptures have repeatedly said that God is the
doer.
Arjun, I am seated in everybody's
heart. And from me comes knowledge, remembrance and forgetfulness how come
the scriptures are saying this? Yes, this philosophy is a little intricate and
needs to be understood seriously, not just casually. You see you apply yourself
to your material field of specialty. Apply your intellect to spiritual
knowledge as well. It is equally if not more important. I am sure, each of you can
understand this poin if you just try. Why do the scriptures say somewhere the
soul is the doer and somewhere God is the doer . The reason is there are two
kinds of doers. One is he who provides the
power and energy to do and second is the one who utilizes that energy. Just like
the powerhouse, the energy company supplied
the energy and then we have utilized it to illuminate this room. Now if the
energy company did not give the power, we could do nothing of electric work here.
However once the power has been given, how we utilize it is our own choice. You
can light an LED or an LCD or a halogen. You can cool the room, you can heat the
room or if somebody is off balance, they can catch the two terminals and get
electrocuted. But they should not blame the energy company. Even an American
Society, where suing is an epidemic, I don't think anybody has sued the energy
company. "I got shocked; it's all the energy company's fault." They will say, look
we gave you the power. What you did with it was your own lookout. Similarly God
gives us the power to do. Just like this clock is insentient, dead matter, this
mic is insentient. Similarly the body, the mind, the intellect are all insentient.
God energizes them with the ability to do. He gives our eyes the power to see.
Now what do you make of it. Either you come to the temple and see the form of
the Lord or you sit in a cinema hall and see Bollywood and Hollywood. But whatever
you see, don't blame God. Why does God show me Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh
Bachchan? God is not showing you. God is only giving you the power to see. The
ability to choose is yours. God has given the mind the ability to think. Now either
you think of Virata kohli and Dhoni or you think of God and guru.
That is a choice that you will make. If God did not give us the power, we would
not be able to do anything. It's a fact. Not even a leaf can move but by God's
power. However once he has given us the power, what we do with it is the
decision we make and that is why we are responsible for our actions.