Talks Excerpt 584. Swamiji explains how creation, preservation and destruction are continuous processes.
From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.
Some people try to divide the Supreme Being in their minds. Just like a part of the whole in mathematics. They may say, ‘I’ll go to Lord Vishnu only because he can preserve. I’ll go to Lord Brahma only because he can create. And I’ll go to Lord Shiva because he can destroy.’
That is one way to understand it. But in reality it is One God who has become three simultaneously – not separately. In the body the cells are being created, at the same time the cells are being destroyed, and at the same time the cells are being sustained or preserved. Everything is happening at the same time.
God has become the whole creation so He must be in the demons as well.
Devotee: Swamiji, why should God listen to us if we want to ask Him to do negative things, destroying somebody for instance?
Swamiji: Sri Krishna says, ‘You have a free will, O Arjuna, if you so desire you can choose now. I gave you the dharmic [righteous] things and the adharmic [unrighteous] things. If you want to do with my power what you want to do, you have the rights to do it. But the fruit of that is yours too, it is not mine.’
Devotee: In the scriptures it says various people asked God to destroy their enemies. Should our prayer ask such things?
Swamiji: It must ask that. It just has to ask for it. But your ‘enemies’ will be according to your evolution. If you are lowly evolved you will think that the man next-door is your enemy. If you are highly evolved you know your ill-disciplined senses are your enemy. Sri Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, ‘The unruly senses are your enemy.’
Devotee: So, if I want to get rid of an enemy like the senses, must I go ahead with it? Swamiji: Yes, yes. Because it hides God from you. And the method is to do Japa and meditate. Think of God.
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