God takes the role of ignorant soul for guiding the ignorant souls through the practical path

Several devotees asked Swami about the behavior of Swami as an ordinary soul many a time. They asked Swami about the possible interest of God to play in roles of ignorance. Swami replied: The interest of God to have entertainment to play a role of ignorance is only a minor point. This point is always associated with a major point of God taking the role of ignorant soul for guiding the ignorant souls through the practical path. If an ignorant soul sees another ignorant soul reaching the goal through the spiritual path, certainly it will be a standing as a practical example of inspiration. God plays such a role and inspires other similar souls in a practical path. This is the actual major aspect of his program to act in different ignorant roles.

Incidentally the entertainment is also done so that you cannot blame Him as a bad person who enjoys a bad role. Rama went after the golden deer just to satisfy His beloved wife even though Lakshmana was opposing it. He faced a big tragedy due to that mistake of blind love on His wife and not listening to a learned advice. It is a role of total ignorance. But the Lord gives message to such ignorant souls. When such good purpose is served, what is the harm of His entertainment in such ignorant role, which is inevitable in preaching of practical spiritual knowledge?

In the case of a really ignorant soul, only the blind entertainment exists without such noble cause. Similarly, if you analyze the life of this Swami, you can clearly find such noble cause of practical demonstration of the spiritual knowledge emitted from Him. His life is His message of the spiritual knowledge preached by Him.

In fact, it is a double role of human incarnation in some scenes and a devotee in some other scenes. Swami is a combined form of Rama and Anjaneya, playing both the roles separately in related scenes of requirement since He is very ambitious to have double remuneration! Perhaps, the external dress is one and the same causing confusion for both the roles, but you can distinguish both the roles by the corresponding dialogues and actions as in the case of a rehearsal of a drama. In a complete incarnation, this is inevitable.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

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