Whether God is sadist to create this world for His entertainment

[dattaswami]

Whether God is sadist to create this world for His entertainment

Some people criticize that God is enjoying the creation by entertaining Himself while the souls are troubled with problems and the blame God with sadism.  The entertainment of God is not at all the sadism.  Sadism is based on two points.  One is: that the sadism is exhibited in reality in the world and not in the imaginary world.  For God, this world is imaginary and not real.  However, the sadism in the imaginary world may also show the attitude towards sadism in the mind.  Even that point is ruled out because the second point for the sadism is: that a sadist enjoys by torturing some innocent person without justified reason.  Here in the case of God, the problem of the soul in the world is based on its own actions and the punishment is given based on perfect justice.  Hence, the point of sadism cannot be attributed to God even in mind.  Moreover, the soul is not concerned with the entertainment of God because the soul is not punished on any unjust reason.

If the soul follows the rules of God in the justice, no problem can be seen by the soul.  A rich person started a college for entertainment or to escape the income tax on his wealth.  This point is unnecessary for the student as long as the college is running on the rules of University. The student has scope to argue against the management provided any type of injustice takes place in teaching or in the examinations. As long as the academic program is perfectly implemented, the student has no scope of argument against the original intention of the management in starting the college.  Only a student, who is not perfectly following the academic schedule, will bother about such irrelevant points to mask his own defects.

If some body still argues on this point due to foolishness, the only answer is that God is the supreme most boss and there is no body to argue with Him.  If an ant comments on the driver of car, such comment is not even heard by the driver! Since you do not know all the actions of a soul from its childhood, you should not say that a particular soul is good and yet is punished without justice.  Neither you are capable of noting all the actions of a soul nor you are capable of judging the action in depth.  Shankara established the nature of the world as unreal by itself and is felt real as long as the world exists based on God.  Such unreal world is imaginary.  The dream cannot be real without its basic material, which is the soul or awareness.  Similarly, a pot without mud and a chain without gold are unreal and they are imaginary or illusory.  But the world is imaginary to God only and not to your self.  If you say that the world is imaginary for your self also and try to do sins, you will have to undergo all the punishments and you must feel the punishments also as imaginary like your sins!  Your sins and their punishments are within the realm of the world only and hence both must be imaginary!

[the fool]

its not god its your ego and the thing you  do on past life

[dattaswami]

its not god its your ego and the thing you  do on past life

People often blame God stating that they are troubled since God created this world for His entertainment. They say that God is a sadist because He is entertained by their suffering. This is shear non-sense.  God created this entire world consisting of the souls. Souls constitute Para Prakruti, which is a part of the creation.  He gave complete freedom to the souls and gave the intelligence (Buddhi), which is the powerful faculty of discriminating good and bad.  God propagated His constitution, which contains clearly the subjects of good and bad.  The prophets propagated this constitution on this earth.  Now if God is deriving entertainment on observing the creation, how can you call Him as sadist?  He is not responsible for your desires and selection of good and bad for which you have the full freedom.

He is not responsible even for a trace of your desire and even for a trace of your subsequent action. The constitution gives only information and does not encourage you in anyway. A hotel is exhibiting a board listing the various items available for the food. The board is only for your information.  According to your taste, capacity of digestion and problems of health, you have to select the suitable item of food. You cannot blame the hotel saying that the hotel is responsible for your indigestion, since it exhibited a particular item by which you are attracted!  A person is standing in the balcony of his residence and is observing the traffic to get entertainment.  Suppose an accident took place on the road, you cannot blame the observer to be responsible for the accident.  You are well aware of the traffic rules and your over look of the rules is responsible for the accident.  

The observation and entertainment of any spectator is not at all connected with the accident.  The divine constitution consists of two parts.  The first part is the Pravrutti, which is the social behavior to live in this world with peace and harmony.  This Pravrutti is based on heaven, earth and hell, which are plus, zero and minus signs respectively. If you do social service helping the poor people, you will get heaven, which is a temporary pleasure proportional to the extent of your sacrifice in the social service.  For this, you will receive the result on the earth also either partially or totally.  If the result is not seen on the earth, you will receive the total result in the heaven after death.  However, the result is not permanent (Kshenepunye…Gita) because your social service is not blended with divine mission.

 If you do the service to your self and your family only, you will be living on this earth with happiness and peace provided you are not harming others with corruption and torture.  For this also, the result is temporary because the result is confined to this temporary human life only. Anyway, in both the cases the result is temporary only.  If you are confined to your self and your family only, there is no result after death and you will not enter the heaven for serving your family and your self. You will enter the heaven partially or totally for serving the weaker sections in the society but the stay in heaven is temporary. In doing social service, you may confine to your village, District, State, Country, Religion and Earth but you should not harm any living being in this service.

You must avoid corruption and torture of any living being on this earth in doing the service. If you are indulged in corruption and torture of any living being, the court here will punish you. If you escape the punishment here, God will punish you here partially and in the hell after the death partially or totally. The punishment of God is based on the transformation of the soul and not the revenge as observed in the terrorism. Terrorism wants revenge without aiming at the transformation of the soul. It does not understand the whole divine system and denies even God due to emotion.  Emotion kills the analysis and patience will give happiness and permanent solution.  Do not take law and order in to your hands.  If the court or Government fails in implementing the justice, God will punish even the court and Government because human beings only constitute the court and Government, which can err.  All this comes under Pravrutti. If you avoid the hell after death and punishments here by limiting your self to the service of your family and the society, God is pleased with you.