IS GOD FATHER /MOTHER IF NOT GODFATHER?

    The last blog I was trying to outline arguments for the God being treated as Godfather and was stating that he is not like that and we decide the destiny . But at the same time in our scripters it is stated that he will help his devotee. We also see examples of many devotees who have been helped by the God. Pralhad who was tried to be killed by his father who was a demon - Hirankashypoo, by various means -throwing of a cliff or in a boiling oil etc. or Mirabai who was given poison  and many more . In theses instances the God did come and helped . So the question is does God help or are we on out own - experiencing the fruits of our Karma?

    The answerer -that I have or I believe is something in between. In Bhagavat Geeta the Lord Krishna says that I CARRY THINGS FOR MY DEVOTEE .Can I get a parking spot near the entrance if I pray or will the cancer be cured by HIM? It depends upon 2 factors . One is how strongly you believe or trust the God. We do say that we trust God . But the minute something does not go our way e start cursing our luck and next in line for blame is the God. The trust in God has to be such as shown by Prahlad . When he was thrown in boiling oil he did not care if he died and he was saved . So we must have that high a trust then only he will save us .But the second point is more important . None of theses devotee who were helped or saved by the God ever asked for any help or did not ask for things tat we often do - job promotion , a new car or bigger house or betterment of our kids - all these things are never asked by these devotee. In one of the stories of Tulasidas who  was devotee of Lord Rama, he was given some gifts by a rich man . Tulasidas did not care for the gifts but they were given to him and they ere in his home. So the robbers wanted to steal it. But every time they came at night to steal they found 2 guards with bow and arrow guarding the home. THE GUARDS WERE LORD RAMA AND HIS BROTHER LAXMAN . 

    If we don't care or ask for things that are worldly possessions and we have intense faith and trust  and don't ASK FOR HELP THE GOD DOES HELP. My be he ACTS LIKE FATHER OR MOTHER IF NOT LIKE THE  GODFATHER. 

IS GOD THE GODFATHER ?

    I have often seen that many of us blame God when things go wrong  and also thank God when we have success. We tend to blame him when bad things happen and ask question like 'why me'. But when good things happen we never ask the same question 'why me'. We tend to 'treat' the God as if he is the GODFATHER or the Mafia leader. I recently had a friend that had stroke all of a sudden and then recovered but not enough to function as physician. He had no major medical issues till then. Then he lost his wife who was his support . She also had no major history and she dies of sepsis from simple bacteria staph. This is very unfortunate, but then other friend asked a question-"if the God is there why did this happen/'. I am sure we have faced these kind of situations. I have in my personal as well as medical life. One could give an excuse of KARMA. But I want to know  and talk about the concept of the God.

    Is God kind and omnipotent and omnipresent .Or is God STHTA-PRADNYA-described in GEETA unaffected by SUKH - DUKHHA - Pleasure or Sorrow ? DOES HE CARE about our problems? These are the questions that one asks when there is something bad that happens. If he cares why does he allow bad people to be successful or allow them to bother good people? I have mixed feeling about the answers. According to some VEDIC philosopher this is all not REAL and it is like a movie happening on the screen and the screen is not affected by it not the light that allows us to watch or create the pictures on the screen is affected by  the content of the movie is. So the God is like that . WE create our own destiny. Then blame God for our problems and thank him - sometimes for the success. The God is neither happy nor sad or upset by out success or failure. I am not sure of that either. 

   I feel that we have to divide the concept in 2 forms. The God cannot be with emotions like having mercy and feeling sad and feeling happy and getting mad and punish and forgive  and help . Then he is nothing but a HUMAN BEING - may be very very powerful Human being . This also shows that he has 3 GUNAS  and is guided by them . So the GOD is nothing but consciousness  and is without theses attributes. But then we have another entity which we will call god. This is the so called lower level of controller or the god. When universe came in existence, there were 3 different worlds. The  Causal, ASTRAL and Gross universe  and each had a creater.And at further down the gods that are there have GUNAS as they are due to combination of CONSCIOUSNESS  and Nature -which had 3 Gunas. 

    SOI feel that we create our future  and our past create our future. There is free will and we certainly can pray and that can please certain gods but not the GOD. This may also help our endurance or aboilty to tolerate the adverse conditions. The prayers work for whatever reasons , but certain things cannot be changed and in addition to prayers we need efforts on our part and desire and time . 

The example that I have given in past is painting a yellow wall to make it blue. We need desire to change the color and we need paint  and also we need time to paint. The yellow wall is what the cards that we have - the luck  and the free will will dictate if we have enough desire- paint - time to make a change.