Question:
Thousand prostrations to Revered Swamiji.
Today watching morning TV on Disha, I fully understood God is source and pervades everything around us. Makes perfect sense to me. But one question always crops up. Is He not present in a rapist, murderer etc also? How can I see God in these kind of people who torture innocent children, brutally murder and find joy in killing others. My intellect is not able to find logic of presence of God here. I am definitely missing something here. I am unable to link karmic laws of nature with seeing God in everyone. I have obviously not understood something. What am I missing here because I do believe that God is everywhere in visible and invisible form. God is everything around. Only this point is not clear. What am I missing here Respected Guruji?
Koti Koti pranams at your holy feet.
Vandana Ritik
Dear and Blessed Vandana Ritik:
Harih Om Tat Sat. Your email of 22nd Oct. 2012 is before me, and I am reading it again.
Dear Vandana, the moment you begin to think that God is omnipresent, omnipresent, omnipresent … your mind has to grow and expand correspondingly. The usual constrictions, preferences and prejudices, would start falling, as you reflect upon the quality of omnipresence. Will you accept a God, who is not omnipresent? Equally, can you accept anything besides or in addition to God? If God is omnipresent, He alone is, can be, and nothing else. In such a background, discuss this question deeply, reflectively.
Omnipotence of God makes Him produce a world of infinite dimensions, distances and variety. Infinity or infinitude in any field will mean containing everything and all. And that will mean good as well bad, the best as well as the worst, and everything coming in the midst.
In the case of human beings, in whom are all the other traits confluence, the behaviour will have to range from the best and the worst, in order to become full, ample. Thus, the thief, dacoit, wicked and the rapist, all have a place in the world.
In all these, who is present is actually God. He is certainly present in the circumferential plane, the segments in between, and in all the variety these comprehend. That is why virtuous and wicked people are alike present here. Unless this variety persists, comparison and contrast resulting in the evolution of knowledge will not be possible at all.
So when we say God is present in the rapist also, it does not mean He is not present in the others. He is present in them also, in all. By triggering such a wicked trait, God displays how wretched and inexcusable it is, and what extent of derision and denouncement it will warrant, so that the rational mind can discriminate, withstand and outlive such tendencies.
Suppose God is not present in the rapist, then you will have to say somebody else is present in him. Is that acceptable? What will happen to the omnipresence of God then? God is the impersonal, impartial soul, beyond even the ego. In that spatial transparence, no activity emerges and no effect befalls. Unless, you can comprehend such a zero position within oneself as well as all, you cannot have peace, harmony and unfailing wellbeing.
So, try to enrich and sublimate your emotions, think more feelingly, in a subtle, deep and comprehensive manner.
Unless good and bad are equally there before you, how will you have knowledge at all, for which distinctions are necessary? How will you know whether it is bad or good, which has the intrinsic power to survive sovereignly? So, the world is bound to contain the infinite variety that it should. And this variety should incorporate everything, ranging from the best to the worst.
Love and ashirvaad. Ma Gurupriya and Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha also send their loving best wishes.
Antaraatma,
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Narayanashrama Tapovanam
Venginissery, P.O. Ammadam, Thrissur Dist., Kerala – 680 563, India. Tel: 0487-2278302 / 2278363
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