I Do Not Cheat You

I do not cheat you by telling you that you are God. Of course, qualitatively you are one with God because God is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss and you are also eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. This does not mean, however, that you are quantitatively one with God, that you are one with Him in all respects. In other words, you are one with and different from God, but you are not one with and the same as God.

If you were one and same with God you would have complete total power over the entire universe at this very second. If this were true, why would you have to work a job in order to pay your bills? God has unlimited wealth at His disposal. Why would you have to waste time and risk your life driving every day on the highway? God can appear anywhere He likes instantly at will.

Be leery of the guru who tells you that you are God. The bona fide guru teaches that you are the servant of God, not that you are God.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Krishna Created this World?...

Why has Krishna created this world? If the ultimate objective of the life is to renounce this world, considering it as unworthy for true spiritual Life, then let's ask the Lord why He has created this unworthy world. Did he waste His energy and wisdom? What is the purpose?

Thanks in advance...

Aspiring to be a your servant,
Krishna Mitra Nitai Das

Answer: Because of His Love for You...

I am little surprised that you, as an initiated devotee, would not know the answers to these questions. There obviously needs to be more effective training programs in ISKCON so that all of the initiates are strongly situated in a solid understanding of the Vedic wisdom. But since you are one of my students taking my e-course, I shall be glad to try to thoroughly answer your question to give you a clear understanding.

This material world is certainly not wasted energy. It is a hospital, a place of healing, for all those who have caught the "I am God" disease and are thus trying to imitate the Lord's position of being the Supreme Enjoyer. A hospital is for curing the sick. It is not meant to be a place of permanent residence. By taking the health-recovery program carefully outlined by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gita, one can quickly recover from the delusion of material consciousness and return to one's original position and identity in the spiritual world. The distressful symptoms of temporality, illusion, and misery will go away and the recovered patient returns to his constitutional position of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. So for those who agree the take the health treatment this material world is wonderful place where one can recover one's lost wealth of eternal blissful existence. For those who are proud and stubbornly refuse to take the treatment, this material world is a big hell.

In short, Krishna created this material world because of His love for you.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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