Natural love on Lord Vs False Love
The main aim of God is that you should have natural love on Him as you have the same on your child. You are not having the view of utility from the small kid who is your son. You are attracted towards him. You do not aspire any benefit in return for your service and sacrifice of wealth to him. Your love is not disturbed even if he gives serious troubles. Such natural love should come on God. But unfortunately the problem with God is that once you realize the God, the utility aspect of God comes in to your heart unconsciously. Everybody knows that God is omnipotent and this aspect brings the excessive love which rises like a Tsunami. If all that infinite love is natural, God would be immensely pleased with you. He is not impressed with that huge quantity of love. He starts searching the reality or naturality in it, which is destroyed by the knowledge of omnipotent aspect of God.
Your child is impotent and depends on you for every thing. But still your love flows on him and that is natural. Therefore if you have to develop the natural or real love on God, He must hide or mask His aspect of omnipotency by appearing as a human being. The human form masks His omnipotency so that your love on Him now can be real and natural. But unfortunately, when the human form masks His omnipotency and when He appears as an ordinary human being, even a trace of artificial love is not appearing on Him because He is just an outsider unlike your family member. Even the rules of Pravrutti do not allow to show more natural love on Him compared to your child. In fact the natural love will not arise at all in your heart even in the natural way and there is no need of the rules of Pravrutti to oppose it.
Krishna is the son of Yashoda who is just a neighbor. Why should a Gopika love Him more than her son? There is no need of even a trace of natural love on Him because He is an outsider and even not a relative. If at all some love arises, it should be only artificial because He is the son of the ruler of that village. If the mask is removed, the reality or naturality of the love disappears. If the mask is completely covering the God, even a trace of artificial love will not rise in your heart because He is just a co-human being, who is as good as any outsider. On God love appears but is not natural due to the appearance of omnipotency spontaneously. On an ordinary human being even the love will not be generated. Suppose God becomes your son like Rama in the case of Dasaradha. Even now the problem is not solved because Dasaradha showed natural love on Rama as his son only but not as God because the God remained completely covered in the mask of the human form.
When Krishna removed the mask by showing the world in His mouth to His mother, not only the naturality of the love, even the trace of love disappeared because she was shocked with fear and astonishment only. Therefore the Lord immediately covered Himself with the mask and also made her forget the entire situation. Thus there is one problem if the human incarnation reveals Himself as God and there is another problem if the human incarnation covers Himself completely. Similarly Arjuna was shocked when the Vishwarupam was shown. Therefore the only way is to cover Himself with mask and remove it now and then in a fraction of second to give a hint. The aim of such behavior is to reveal Himself as God but at the same time the love and its naturality should not be lost. This is a very difficult training like introducing poison drop by drop. You should not misunderstand that He is playing this game for His entertainment. Everything is done only to uplift you. Your upliftment is the primary aim and the entertainment of the game is only a secondary aim which is accidentally associated. By such Saadhana you will reach a final stage of Hanuman, Radha, Lakshmana etc. in which you will have the undisturbed natural love while simultaneously recognizing Him as God. You are aware of the omnipotency but it will not create any awareness of its utility in your mind. God loves such natural love of the devotee while the devotee is recognizing Him as the omnipotent God.
At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami
Anil Antony
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Universal Spirituality for World Peace
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