The whole world is the kingdom of God

[dattaswami]

The whole world is the kingdom of God

You must realize that the whole world is the kingdom of God as stated by Jesus. Any injustice will be punished by Him and you need not worry about it. Your view of the punishment is revenge but His view of punishment is to transform the soul. If somebody has stolen your money, don’t pray to God to punish that person. Everything is recorded by Him unlike the courts which register the case only when a complaint is given.

The enquiry by God takes place immediately. Sometimes you find no punishment from God and you are scolding God. The silence of God means that the enquiry was completed and the judgment was “no punishment”. In the previous birth, you might have stolen money from that person and today you paid along with the compound interest. In this case there cannot be punishment and the enquiry was over. Since you do not know this, you mistake God for His silence.

Suppose such background is not there, then you will get your money with interest in some other way which is compensated by God. That person will lose the money along with the interest. You will see it with your eyes. But suppose you cursed that person with revenge, you will receive the punishment in addition to the above. Kauravas stole a share of wealth of Pandavas and finally they lost their whole kingdom. Pandavas gained the total kingdom which is double the share. But Draupadi was cursing Kauravas aspiring always for the revenge.

She was also punished for this as she lost all her children. Therefore, we should not scold even our enemy even by words or mind. God takes care of the entire case. If the injustice wins, it is a black mark for His administration only. He is well aware of it and will take the necessary action. He is more serious in your case than yourself. Unlike the court, He does not require registration of case or witness or advocate. When Hiranyakashipu tortured Prahlada, Prahalada kept silent and did not curse him in any way.

The Lord took very serious action in that case. Thus you have to keep God at every step as the basis in the worldly life also (Pravrutti). Jesus told that unless you excuse others, you cannot be excused by God. Your enemy will be punished if he does not excuse others. Such behaviour which indicates the full faith on God at every step of the life is divine Dharma in Pravrutti or Nivrtutti.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

 

[Steven_Merten]

Hello dattaswami,

So if someone was rapeing your wife and beating her, would you simply sit back and wait to see what God does about it?

If someone was murdering your children, would you just sit back and see what God does about it?

 

[dattaswami]

Thank you for the reply;

Punishment

Neither do you have the power to punish nor do you have the power to excuse anybody. The reason for this is that you are not omniscient. If a sinner realizes his sin and repents, the punishment is reduced. After repentance if you do not repeat the sins, the punishment is cancelled. If the sinner does not repent, he will repeat the sin again and again. Such a sinner can be controlled only by punishment. If this were not true, the police department would have no use. There are some sinners, who can be controlled only by third degree treatment (severe beating and physical punishment). If such punishment and revenge were not necessary, and if everybody could be transformed only by preaching, then what is the necessity of the existence of hell and ‘liquid fire’? If there was a possibility of transformation only by love and knowledge, why would the Lord mention the word ‘revenge’ at all? Therefore it is clear that there are some sinners who cannot be transformed by love and knowledge.

Some clever people criticize Lord Rama and Lord Krishna, who resorted to punishing sinners. Such clever people should explain the meaning of word ‘revenge’ uttered by the Lord and also should explain the mention of the liquid fire in the scriptures. If all sinners could be transformed through love and knowledge alone, such words should not have been mentioned in their scriptures.
The Lord is the Father of all the souls. Your love for another human being is only brotherly love. The love of the Father is far greater than your brotherly love. You are criticizing your Father for punishing your brother! The father tries His best to transform His son. On the first day of the war Ravana was defeated by Rama. Rama could have killed him on the very first day.

But Rama, asked Ravana to go back and think that night. The Lord punishes any one only as the last resort. Even then, the Lord does not have anger or hatred. The punishment is only the last method attempted for transformation. There also the aim is only transformation. But when you punish your enemy you do not have such an aim. Therefore the punishment by the Lord also reflects His divine love and kindness for the soul. Due to such a sacred aim, the Lord is authorized to punish the soul. He is just like a teacher who punishes the student for his misbehavior. The teacher does not get any sin in such punishment.

The reason again is that the intention decides nature of the action. Therefore when you live in the world, according to the instructions given by the Lord, the Lord is pleased with you. The Lord will make you happy in this world. Your happiness in this world is an indication of His grace. Therefore you will be happy in the upper world also. He is the only one Lord for both the worlds. So if you are unhappy in your worldly affairs in this world, you will be unhappy in the spiritual matters in the upper world also. If you are blessed in this world you are also blessed in the upper world. Hence, follow His commandments and be happy in this world. When you are serving the Lord, you should be happy in the sacrifice. You should not sacrifice to the Lord with unhappiness. The sacrifice with unhappiness will make the Lord unhappy. The result of such service is unhappiness in the upper world. Therefore it is better not to sacrifice if you are not happy. Why should you purchase unhappiness with such sacrifice? Are you unhappy when you sacrifice for your family members? Therefore sacrifice for the Lord with force or unhappiness is not only a waste but it also brings negative results.

 

[dattaswami]

Steven;

Even in the case of your family members, if you sacrifice with unhappiness it is a waste. Therefore the intention is very important for the Lord. You should not do any sacrifice aspiring for something in return. Such a sacrifice is only a business. Business done in the case of your family members may bring a benefit or loss. But in the case of Lord, business always brings loss. Therefore live in this world according to the instructions of the Lord given to you with regard to other human beings. With regard to the Lord, do sacrifice and service to the Lord only to the extent that there is no force, pain or sense of doing business with Him.

Some people say that the Lord preaches with love and kindness in this world for transformation. If the soul is not transformed, it will be thrown to hell permanently at the end of this life. They say that the Lord should not punish the soul in this world. This is exactly similar to saying that you should teach the student and if the student fails, he should be hanged to death permanently at the end of the period. You do not allow punishing the student with a cane during the period.

Therefore even before the final punishment, temporary punishment must be also given to the soul. Before the final examination, interim examinations are also conducted. If the student fails in the interim examinations, there will be a chance for the student to correct himself before the final examination. Therefore interim punishments are part and parcel of the coaching before the final examination. The Lord adopts different procedures of coaching in different regions based on the psychology and attitude of the human beings. You should not criticize the procedure of the Lord which maybe different in some other religion and region.
The Lord is universal but the human beings in the universe differ in their attitudes. The same single Lord adopts a different procedure in a different region and such a different procedure appears as a different religion.

 

[dattaswami]

Steve;

If some body is doing unjustice to your family memebers then it is your repsponsibility to protect them, you have to use ways and means which is within your capability to protect them, even if some thing happens, then Lord will take care of that.

Dont you think that Lord is not seeing everything. Nothing is unnoticed in His court. Some people even after doing mischeives can escape from the worldly court, but from the Lord’s court he cannot escape. When Lord retaliate He do it will infinite force.

God does anything with a motive to change the soul and give him introspection so that one should not do the same act again and again. Lord is the teacher, and He punishes without any hatred becasue His aim is the ultimate welfare of the soul.

Only true divine knowledge coming out of Lord in Human form can remove all your doubts, for this purpose only Lord has come at present in this earth in Human form.

So make use of this golden opportunity and clear all your doubts.

 

[Steven_Merten]

Thank you for the reply;

The reason again is that the intention decides nature of the action. Therefore when you live in the world, according to the instructions given by the Lord, the Lord is pleased with you. The Lord will make you happy in this world. Your happiness in this world is an indication of His grace. Therefore you will be happy in the upper world also. He is the only one Lord for both the worlds. So if you are unhappy in your worldly affairs in this world, you will be unhappy in the spiritual matters in the upper world also. If you are blessed in this world you are also blessed in the upper world. Hence, follow His commandments and be happy in this world. When you are serving the Lord, you should be happy in the sacrifice. You should not sacrifice to the Lord with unhappiness. The sacrifice with unhappiness will make the Lord unhappy. The result of such service is unhappiness in the upper world. Therefore it is better not to sacrifice if you are not happy. Why should you purchase unhappiness with such sacrifice? Are you unhappy when you sacrifice for your family members? Therefore sacrifice for the Lord with force or unhappiness is not only a waste but it also brings negative results.

Hello dattaswami,

So you are going to sit there and do nothing while your wife is being raped and beaten and your children are being murdered. While you sit there watching these attrocities you would feel as happy as if you were in heaven. You feel that even the slightest feeling of sorrow over these attrocities upon your family would make you a Christian not worthy of heaven? Is this correct?

 

[Steven_Merten]

Steve;

If some body is doing unjustice to your family memebers then it is your repsponsibility to protect them, you have to use ways and means which is within your capability to protect them, even if some thing happens, then Lord will take care of that.

Hello dattaswami,

How does your teaching fit into our Lord’s teaching to offer no resistance to those who harm us?

NAB MAT 5:39
But what I say to you is: offer no resistance to injury. When a person strikes you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other.

 

[dattaswami]

Hello dattaswami,

So you are going to sit there and do nothing while your wife is being raped and beaten and your children are being murdered. While you sit there watching these attrocities you would feel as happy as if you were in heaven. You feel that even the slightest feeling of sorrow over these attrocities upon your family would make you a Christian not worthy of heaven? Is this correct?

You are totally misunderstood the concepts.
If you are watching you family members being tortured by others and you are not doing any help to them, defenitely due to negligence you will to to Hell.

On the other hand if you leave your family member (not when they are being tortured by others), for Lords mission of divine knoweldge propagation then it is not a sin. Lord comes in human form and if one leaves all the justice for Him then that is not a sin. You will be saved for ever. Unless you cut the worldly bonds and have only one Bond with Lord in human form you will not be saved. ‘Saving’ means having only one bond with Lord.

You cannot travel in both the boat, Spirituality is not a picnic tour to involve in goispe with family and enjoy with family members etc, spirituality means indenfying Lord in Human form who has come to this earth for the propagation of divine knowledge and participate in mission without any desire or result in return.

This is the reason why then Human Incarnation Jesus told, 'Unless you hate your father mother etc you cannot become My beloved disciple.

See the impartial attitude of Lord there. Unless you break your worldly bonds for Lords sake you cannot become dear and near to Lord. This is the harsh truth and no body will digest this except His few dearest devotees.

 

[dattaswami]

Hello dattaswami,

How does your teaching fit into our Lord’s teaching to offer no resistance to those who harm us?

NAB MAT 5:39
But what I say to you is: offer no resistance to injury. When a person strikes you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other.

Steven Merten, thank you for the question;
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Non-retaliation
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You have to live in this world according to the instructions of the Lord. Regarding your life in this world, the essence of His instructions is:

• Be deceived by others but not deceive others

• Be harmed by others but not harm anyone

• Be insulted by others but not insult others

• Be abused by others but not abuse others

One cannot attain God by doing penance even for centuries. But there is one easiest way to attain God. When you are deceived by others, harmed by others, insulted by others or when you are abused by others, the Lord comes to your side. It means you have attained God. Therefore, you should thank the people who have deceived, harmed, insulted or abused you. They have helped you in attaining God by the easiest way.

You should not deceive, harm, insult or even scold such people in return. What they did to you might have been the punishment for your sins by the will of God. In that case also, they have cleared your sins at an early stage so that your punishment does not grow due to interest. Thus even in that case you should thank them.

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How good are the good?**

Some people criticize God saying that even good people are unnecessarily harmed. You cannot be sure that a person who appears to be good is necessarily good. Did you observe him every minute from his birth? You also think of yourself as a good person. Are you aware of all your sins done in your childhood? You might have harmed an innocent insect in your childhood. Do you remember that? Even mental feelings are sins that are not expressed in words and actions. The feelings of the mind are the source of words and actions.

Therefore the feeling may not hurt others today. But tomorrow it will hurt others when it comes out in words and actions. In fact, intention is given more importance in the crime according to law. The judge gives more importance to the intention in giving the punishment. Suppose you are walking on the road and an ant is killed by your foot, without any intention. There is no punishment for such sins. But when you kill the same ant with an intention to kill, you are punished by God. Therefore mind is the source of action.

Even if somebody harms a really good person, it is better to leave it to God. You should not seek revenge. Why? The reason is that you cannot judge the exact nature and facts of the case. You do not even remember your own sins. Sometimes you commit a sin thinking that you are doing good. You cannot be the standard in judging your own sins. Only the Lord can decide.

Therefore, if somebody has harmed a person who is really good even in the view of the Lord, then the Lord Himself will punish the person who harmed him. You cannot take the law and order in to your own hands. You have to refer the case to the court. Let the judge decide and punish the criminal. Therefore the Lord said, “The revenge is Mine”. If revenge is justified, the Lord will certainly punish. The Lord will not punish just because you pray to Him to do so. The Lord, will not excuse a criminal even if you recommend an unjust case.