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Anil Kumar Questions and
Answers
Question 38
Why does
God come so infrequently? Why only every 500 years or 1000 years?
Why not regularly, like a train? Why not? (Laughter) Had He been
here throughout, arriving year-after-year, then all our weaknesses
could have been prevented and we would never run away from the
path of righteousness -- we’d never run astray. God could control
us if He appeared frequently and regularly. It would make His job
lighter and easier. (05.01.2003)
My friends, with no publicity or
sense of ownership, with no feeling of pride and ego, not even in
the wildest of my dreams, I humbly urge you to go through the two
volumes of Satyopanishads, Volume One and Volume Two. These
books contain 272 questions asked of Swami in Kodaikanal. They
cover all these questions, giving His Divine answers. These are
answers given by God, over which I have no claim. (If there is any
confusion, I am ready to take the blame, to improve upon the book
and revise it for the next edition.) Please go through those two
volumes of Satyopanishad. Those books have the answers to
many of these questions.
What is the question here? “Why
doesn’t He appear frequently?” The answer given there in
Satyopanishad is this: When five people are fighting, the
elder member of the village will come and say, “Don’t fight.” He
will resolve the problem. When two groups of 50 people fight with
each other, a police constable is necessary to settle the problem.
When two groups of 100 people fight, a Circle Inspector needs to
be there. When villages fight with other villages, the District
Superintendent of Police needs to be there. When states fight with
states, an army is needed. So, it depends upon the intensity of
the problem.
When there is so much confusion,
when the human race is threatened with extinction from this
planet, then it is a serious enough case for the ‘Divine Surgeon’
to come down and operate. (Laughter) Like in appendicitis,
any further delay would lead to the collapse of the patient! So,
an operation is not needed for a simple stomachache. It may ache
so much, but it doesn’t call for an operation -- some syrup is
enough. If I fast tonight, that should be enough. So, He
decides the condition of the patient; I cannot decree it myself.
So, why doesn’t God incarnate more
frequently? He doesn’t find it necessary. When and if He finds the
necessity, then He incarnates at His own behest, according to His
own Will. That’s the answer that Baba gave in this context.
© Anil Kumar Kamaraju 2004 - Here
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