Should we not ask god for help?

July 13, 2006

If you are ordinary person you should follow the rules of your deeds

and nature. If you are a devotee, even then, you should not ask God

for help. Your devotion must not aspire any result. You are asking

God for help means that you want God to violate his own natural

rules. The impression of millions of angles and sages is disturbed

if God violates his own rules. That will give a poor impression on

God. You are putting God to inconvenience by forcing him to use his

supernatural power. Whether you are a devotee or not, you must

always try to solve your problems by putting your best effort.

If you fail, even then, do not ask God to help you. Then, you think

that it is your fate and worship God as usual. Arjuna was fighting

with his grandfather, Bhishma. Arjuna was not putting up his best

effort to kill Bhishma. He was having sympathy to Bhishma, who has

brought up Arjuna. Noting this, Krishna took His Sudarshana chakra

and ran to kill Bhishma. That means the Lord tried to solve the

problem of Arjuna through His divine power. Arjuna did not agree to

this and forced Krishna to stop, because Arjuna knew about his

inadequate effort. But when Sindhava was to be killed, Arjuna tried

his best, because Arjuna took an oath to kill Sindhava before sunset

and otherwise he promised that he would enter the fire.

Since the sunset took place apparently due to the Maya of Krishna,

Arjuna stopped fighting and wanted to enter the fire. He was just

going to jump into the fire but he never asked for help. He thought

that was his fate. Therefore, the Lord helped him secretly.

Therefore, if you put your best effort, still fail because it is

beyond your limits, if you happen to be a real devotee and do not

ask for the help from God, then you will be helped by the super

power secretly. The secrecy is due to preservation of the sacredness

of his administration in the eyes of others.

At the lotus feet of Shri Datta Swami

surya

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