People give different reasons for not surrendering unto God and one of their favourite reason is, God is egocentric, we don't want to worship egoistic God who always thinks of himself. Actually this is a result of not understanding spiritual subject matter perfectly and having wrong preoccupied notions for God's compassion and selflessness. Egomaniac is a person who thinks of himself as an very important man and does only whatever he wants without bothering for anyone else's opinion.
They say God made this universe for His pleasure, He made us for serving Him, He wants us to worship Him, glorify Him, praise Him, love Him? Why? Can't He be happy with Himself? And when they read Bhagavad Gita especially 10th ch. named 'Opulence of Supreme', where Lord declares His glories to Arjuna, Lord says,' I am the cause of everything and everyone including demigods, sages, patriarchs, surrender to me and I will freed you from sins, hear my glories that will give you pleasure. I am the best of everything and best of everyone. I am the controller in the form of time and nothing(living and non living) can exist without me'. At the end Lord says 'But this is just spark of my splendour, I am much more than I have explained', they get more convinced that God is egoistic because Krishna so many times use words like I..I..Me..Me...only Me and no one else etc.
People feel God is egomaniac because they think these are just false propagations by God just like any tom, dick and harry of footpath but no, Lord Krishna is not falsely boasting Himself in fact He proved His words in 11th ch. of Gita showing Universal form to Arjuna, where whatever He stated was visible in front of the eyes of Arjuna. A nice example is given, when a filthy rich, aristocratic person goes to a beggar and tells him that, 'I have 100 billion dollars, I have so many cars, I am owner of 10 bungalows, if you serve me I will give you food', but beggar refuses to surrender saying,'you are too egocentric'. Is rich person egomaniac? No...because he is telling truth. In fact beggar is egoistic of his filthy condition of life thus don't want to change it by surrendering. We are like that of beggar, helpless and hungry for true love but don't want to surrender being attach to our egos.
If you observe Lord Krishna's pastimes from Bhagavat Mahapuran, you will find several evidences of humility, selflessness and compassionate nature of Lord. Lord was learning under sandipani muni serving him menially, He was very respectful towards Brahmanas, He was collecting their left overs of food in Rajsuya sacrifice, He was charioteer of His devotee Arjuna, so many demons He liberated. In conclusion He is always concerned about us, about our happiness, He wants us to be back with Him in spiritual world and that's why so many times He Himself comes in different Avatars to reclaim us from material world. He sends his prophets, sons and saints to remind us of our fallen condition like that of beggar, who is the person other than God who wants to share His riches, His happiness and family with us, so rather than questioning about God's ego let's give up our egos and become member of His happy family.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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They say God made this universe for His pleasure, He made us for serving Him, He wants us to worship Him, glorify Him, praise Him, love Him? Why? Can't He be happy with Himself? And when they read Bhagavad Gita especially 10th ch. named 'Opulence of Supreme', where Lord declares His glories to Arjuna, Lord says,' I am the cause of everything and everyone including demigods, sages, patriarchs, surrender to me and I will freed you from sins, hear my glories that will give you pleasure. I am the best of everything and best of everyone. I am the controller in the form of time and nothing(living and non living) can exist without me'. At the end Lord says 'But this is just spark of my splendour, I am much more than I have explained', they get more convinced that God is egoistic because Krishna so many times use words like I..I..Me..Me...only Me and no one else etc.
People feel God is egomaniac because they think these are just false propagations by God just like any tom, dick and harry of footpath but no, Lord Krishna is not falsely boasting Himself in fact He proved His words in 11th ch. of Gita showing Universal form to Arjuna, where whatever He stated was visible in front of the eyes of Arjuna. A nice example is given, when a filthy rich, aristocratic person goes to a beggar and tells him that, 'I have 100 billion dollars, I have so many cars, I am owner of 10 bungalows, if you serve me I will give you food', but beggar refuses to surrender saying,'you are too egocentric'. Is rich person egomaniac? No...because he is telling truth. In fact beggar is egoistic of his filthy condition of life thus don't want to change it by surrendering. We are like that of beggar, helpless and hungry for true love but don't want to surrender being attach to our egos.
If you observe Lord Krishna's pastimes from Bhagavat Mahapuran, you will find several evidences of humility, selflessness and compassionate nature of Lord. Lord was learning under sandipani muni serving him menially, He was very respectful towards Brahmanas, He was collecting their left overs of food in Rajsuya sacrifice, He was charioteer of His devotee Arjuna, so many demons He liberated. In conclusion He is always concerned about us, about our happiness, He wants us to be back with Him in spiritual world and that's why so many times He Himself comes in different Avatars to reclaim us from material world. He sends his prophets, sons and saints to remind us of our fallen condition like that of beggar, who is the person other than God who wants to share His riches, His happiness and family with us, so rather than questioning about God's ego let's give up our egos and become member of His happy family.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by www.iskcondesiretree.com
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