Causes of losing cultivated faith in God.
Chapter-13
On the second day of the first fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada of
Samvat 1877, Swami Shri Sahajanandji Maharaj was seated on a cot in the
Verandah near the hall facing north in the Durbar of Shri Jiva Khachar at'
Sarangpur. He was dressed in white clothes and the Muni's and the devotees
from the different pieces were assembled before him.
Then Muktanand Swami asked, " One who has once known God in human
manifestation here and afterwards experiences a lapse in this knowledge, can
he be regarded as having known God or not ?" Then Swayamprakashanand
Swami replied, "One who has known and realized God and has so purified
his Atma from vicious material influences would never experience any lapse in
such knowledge. But one who has known God on the bases of his attributes
described in the scriptures is likely to experience such lapse when God behaves
contrary to such scriptural injunctions." On .this, Shriji Maharaj asked, 'The
scriptures have desribed all the attributes of God, divine and human, capable
and incapable, doer and witness and so on. Therefore, how does the behaviour of
God become contrary to such scriptural desriptions ?" All the Muni's tried to
give a reply and ultimately said, "It-seems there is no action of God which is
contrary to the scriptural description of his attributes. Therefore, you may
please reply to this queston."
Whereupon, Shriji Maharaj said, "All the attributes of God and his saint,
both in divine and human manifastations, are described in the scriptures.
Therefore, one who has known God or his saint by such scriptural descriptions
has known him fully, whereas one who ignores these scriptures and has his
own -conceptions of God is sure to suffer such lapse when God behaves
contrary to his conceptions. These scriptures are the source of the prevalence
of Dharm. Even one, who was not read scriptures, conform to the rules laid
down in the scriptures and acts accordingly with his mother, sister, wife,
daughter etc. These relations are according to* the scriptures and one holds thim
to be true and behaves with these relation according to the code of behaviour
so laid down. These scriptures are therefore the great and only authority. But
one who does not respect these scriptures and acts according to his own
conceptions is a heretic. And one who takes the authority of the scriptures has
a strong foundation for the path of God realisation. These scriptures describe
elaborately all the attributes of God and therefore the behaviour of God
cannot be said to be uncanonic. One who desires to know God to redeem
himself from the bondage of Maya by such knowledge of God should always
take the scriptures as the final authority. Such an aspirant would then never
devolve from living his life in a religious spirit.
Thus Ends Vachanamrit : Sarangpur - 13.
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