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Anil Kumar Questions and
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Question 7
Why do
some children die at a young age? (03.11.2002)
I repeat once again. If you go
through the two volumes of
Satyōpanisad, most of the questions will be answered.
This question was dealt with here in this book with the answer
straight from Bhagavan: “Young or old relate to the body. It is
the body that ages. It is this body that is young. It is this body
that is old. So, young and old are the terms applicable to the
body. But the soul is eternal.”
Therefore, this story is one of
eternity. To me, he may be a boy. But in the earlier life, in the
previous lives, that soul has been pining, that soul has been
praying for merger into the Divine. This so-called ‘child’ is
young from your point-of-view. But the soul is pretty aged. It is
immortal and eternal. It doesn’t want to remain outside. It wants
to be one with the Divine. The drop does not want to exist
separately. It wants to be back in the ocean. Am I clear? So the
drop wants to come back to the ocean.
We may say, “Drop, you are so
simple; you are so small; you are like a pearl; stay there.”
It will say, “No, no! I must go back
to the sea.” The drop and the ocean are one and the same.
Another point. A great saint,
Narada, asked this question of Sri Mahavishnu, God. This is also
from Sai literature. “Oh God, you seem to be partial. You look
very much biased. Why?”
Then immediately God asked Narada,
“What is this nonsense you are talking? I thought you were a wise
man. Perhaps you are out of your mind now. What’s wrong with you?
Since you have been moving in all of the three worlds, you must
have become imbalanced!”
Then Narada gave the answer: “Swami,
Prahlada is a young boy. He could attain liberation very quickly,
whereas there is one sage named Morocunda Maharishi, a great sage,
who did penance for hundreds of years, but he could not have
realization. Why? How is it that this boy could have realization
so soon, but this old man could not? Why?”
Then the Lord gives the answer:
“This Maharishi, who has been doing penance for hundreds of years,
started that penance only in this lifetime; whereas this boy,
Prahlada, has been doing penance for the last several lives. He
may appear young now, but he has been doing this for the last
several lives. That you do not know about.”
Bhagavan Baba gives one example It
seems two men were passing by. One gentleman has picked up a
crowbar and hit it against a hard stone. He hit it but the stone
did not break. He hit it again and again, but the stone did not
break. He hit it ten times and it did not break.
Then the other man said, “I will
try.” He took the crowbar, hit it once and it broke immediately.
The first man felt sad. “I tried ten
times and this stone did not break. Now it has broken. Nature is
not fair.”
hen the second man said, “Look here,
I have hit it now and the stone has broken into two. Please
understand the simple mathematics here. It had already received
ten strokes by you. Mine was the eleventh stroke; therefore it
broke. It had ten strokes already.”
Similarly, young age or old age is
our own calculation. But in the Divine formula, it is a different
dimension altogether.
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