Have you ever wondered why someone is born intelligent, and some not as much. Someone born in a wealthy family, and some who can’t make ends meet. Some are born as humans, while others as animals. Some are born as a de:vatha (with divine powers like Indra, Bramha, Surya etc), and some born as stha:vara (mountains etc)…
Do you want to say it’s karma of the soul? If so, why did each soul behave differently in the first place? Aren’t everyone guided by God, the supreme indwelling power? Do you feel that God is being unfair? If God is the supreme and runs everything, then why should such differences exist?
Bramharshi, the greatest of the great sages, Vedavyas has listed a Bramhasutra that answers all the questions. Let’s look at a close analogy to understand.
When a baby is ready for the first solid feed, family celebrates it by a small ritual that gives the baby a ‘free-will’. Family arranges various objects on one side and the parents on the other side. The baby begins to crawl; goes in the direction of objects and picks one of them or goes to the parents.
Similarly, bramhasutra states aadya pravrutthi (the first flow of natural inclination of a soul). By nature, all souls have jna:na, knowledge of three realities [nature (prakruthi), the supreme (paramathma), self (athma)]. We (all souls) were all left to act for the first time in full independence with all options equally open to everyone. Each one chose a different first pravrutthi. Accordingly, the supreme power God began His support to them. From the second pravrutthi onwards, He was with them all throughout to enable their existence and provide the support. The choice of first pravrutthi is the cause for inequalities stemming from the consequences of the choice.
Why did God give them swatantrya, full independence, for the first time?
If He didn’t leave them at full independence the first time, the souls could complain asking why they weren’t allowed to make a choice because they are knowledgeable by nature.
Why did God take away independence from the soul after first pravrutthi?
He didn’t take it away, but He had to take control or else they (we all) won’t survive. For the first pravrutthi, He could leave us on our own as that is the maximum time that we could survive by ourselves. It’s analogous to a severed tail of a lizard that wiggles by itself for upto 30 mins.
What do you think? Does that sound fair?
– From the teachings of HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji – As part of Bhagavad Vishayam, 5-1-4
Is it fair…?
Have you ever wondered why someone is born intelligent, and some not as much. Someone born in a wealthy family, and some who can’t make ends meet. Some are born as humans, while others as animals. Some are born as a de:vatha (with divine powers like Indra, Bramha, Surya etc), and some born as stha:vara (mountains etc)…
Do you want to say it’s karma of the soul? If so, why did each soul behave differently in the first place? Aren’t everyone guided by God, the supreme indwelling power? Do you feel that God is being unfair? If God is the supreme and runs everything, then why should such differences exist?
Bramharshi, the greatest of the great sages, Vedavyas has listed a Bramhasutra that answers all the questions. Let’s look at a close analogy to understand.
When a baby is ready for the first solid feed, family celebrates it by a small ritual that gives the baby a ‘free-will’. Family arranges various objects on one side and the parents on the other side. The baby begins to crawl; goes in the direction of objects and picks one of them or goes to the parents.
Similarly, bramhasutra states aadya pravrutthi (the first flow of natural inclination of a soul). By nature, all souls have jna:na, knowledge of three realities [nature (prakruthi), the supreme (paramathma), self (athma)]. We (all souls) were all left to act for the first time in full independence with all options equally open to everyone. Each one chose a different first pravrutthi. Accordingly, the supreme power God began His support to them. From the second pravrutthi onwards, He was with them all throughout to enable their existence and provide the support. The choice of first pravrutthi is the cause for inequalities stemming from the consequences of the choice.
Why did God give them swatantrya, full independence, for the first time?
If He didn’t leave them at full independence the first time, the souls could complain asking why they weren’t allowed to make a choice because they are knowledgeable by nature.
Why did God take away independence from the soul after first pravrutthi?
He didn’t take it away, but He had to take control or else they (we all) won’t survive. For the first pravrutthi, He could leave us on our own as that is the maximum time that we could survive by ourselves. It’s analogous to a severed tail of a lizard that wiggles by itself for upto 30 mins.
What do you think? Does that sound fair?
– From the teachings of HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji
– As part of Bhagavad Vishayam, 5-1-4
Jai Srimannarayana adiyen Ramanuja dasini 🙇♀️well said Swami ji
Jai Srimannarayana! 🙏🏻
Please accept my obeisances Swami!
I am very happy to learn this, but my friend after seeing this asked, this soul has been created by lord, how can the soul make a wrong choice (go for wrong Inclination) , when we are naturally endowed with knowledge, why did the knowledge not help in making a right choice.
Sorry Swami, if my question is wrong one or if this is out of proper behaviour but I wanted to learn this.
Jai Srimannarayana
Dasa dasanu das
Jayanth
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Souls are not created by Lord. Souls and Lord have existed eternally. While all souls are naturally endowed with knowledge, because all of them got full freedom for first pravrutthi, they landed up in according paths.
– As clarified from HH Swamiji.
Jaya Sriman naraya.
If souls are existing since eternity, how do define “first” pravrutti? “First” from what point of time? There is no “first” because soul has no beginning,
Jai Srimannarayana, Souls are eternally existing. However, that does not mean that they don’t act and make their ‘first’ wrong choice.
-As clarified from HH Swamiji.
In life we don’t harm any one but why in life we get hurdles, I little bit not connected
Only those who are appearing for exams get questions of different complexity to solve. Those who are interested in living right will be presented with right challenges to work with, thereby preparing well for next stages in life (journey of soul).
Jai Swaminarayan Adiyen
జై శ్రీమన్నారాయణ అడియెన్ రామానుజ దాసిని, అస్మత్గురుభోయనమః 🙇♀️
Well said swamiji