The word Satan is being used in this blog in many places due to lack of information’s from other religious lines. This chapter deals with freewill. From the previous chapter we understood that there is no possibility of Satan to exist to bind us in the material world. We have born in this material world and suffering in the cycle of birth and death. This repeated death and birth is caused of Maya-(Illusion). God’s shadow potency which binds us in three modes of nature. Now the question will be raised from the other end-why God has to make the living entities so weak to become entangled in Maya if he’s so merciful? In this chapter we are going to learn how God is so merciful for living beings and how we entangled in the boundary of material world.
It is true that God –Krishna is karunamaya, overflowing with mercy, however, He also lilamaya, overflowing with desire to perform pastimes. Desiring various pastimes to enacted in different situations, Sri Krishna made the living entities eligible for all conditions, from the marginal state to the higher state of mahabhava. And to facilitate to java’s progressing practically and steadfastly towards beoming qualified for Krishna’s service. He has also created the lower levels of material existence, beginning from the lowest inert matter up to the ahankara, which are the cause of unlimited obstruction in attaining paramananda-(Lord Krishna), having fallen from their constitutional position, the jivas who are entangled in Maya-Illusion are different to Krishna(God) and engrossed in personal sense gratification.
How-ever God is reservoir of mercy. The more living entity becomes fallen, the more Krishna provides him with opportunities to attain the highest spiritual perfection. He brings His about by appearing before him also with His spiritual dhama-(abode) and His eternal associates. Those jivas who take advantage of this merciful opportunity and sincerely endeavor to attain the higher position gradually reach the spiritual world and attain a state similar to that of Sri-Krishna’s eternal associates.
“Why must the living entities suffer for the sake of God’s pastimes?”
The living beings possess some independence. This is actually a sign of Bhagavan’s special mercy upon them. Inert objects are very insignificant and worthless because they have no such independent desire. The jiva has attained sovereignty of the inert world only because of his independent desire.
Misery and happiness are conditions of the mind. Thus what we may consider misery if happiness for one engrossed in it. Since all verities of material sense gratification finally result in nothing but misery, a materialistic person only achieves suffering. When that suffering becomes excessive, it gives rise to a search for happiness. From that desire, discrimination arises, and from discrimination, the tendency for inquiry is born. As a result of this, one attains sat-sanga (association of saintly people). Whereupon sraddha develops. When sraddha is born, the soul ascends to higher stage, namely the path of bhakti (devotion).
Gold is purified by heating and hammering. Being indifferent to God, the soul has become impure through engaging in mundane sense gratification. Therefore, he much be purified by being beaten up with hammers of misery on the anvil of this material world. By this process, the misery of the souls averse to God finally culminates in happiness. Suffering is therefore just a sign of Bhagavan’s-Gods’ mercy. That is why far sighted people see the suffering of souls in Krishna’s pastimes as auspiousness, though the near sighted can only see it an inauspicious source of misery.
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