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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 reproduced for personal use of the devotees for the purpose of seva.
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