Asthikas and Nasthikas

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Once the Late Shri.V.K.Gokak asked Swami that " So Many Asthikas or God-fearing people in this world are changing into Nasthikas (Atheists) .Is there no weapon to put down these persons, who without any regard for their own learning and without any effort to know the reality abuse everything connected to the Divine? Bhagawan wonderfully and most Beautifully said : The words of such persons will be listened to only by such persons; no real Asthika will associate with them. Even if they do,they will move far away as soon as they understand that those stories are fictitious. So the weapon to put down these persons is in their own hands. Haven’t you heard the story of Bhasmasura? Placing his hand on everyone’s head, he reduced them to ashes. Finally,placing it on his own head, he himself was reduced to ashes! Similarly, accusing others, they themselves will

be finally accused by their own words. Swami also said that Those who find fault with the Lord are of four types: 1. Persons who have no interest at all in matters related to God.2. Persons who on account of individual spite cannot endure another’s greatness.3. Those who have neither personal experience, nor contact nor knowledge of anything and so merely manufacture stories based on hearsay to which they have become enslaved.4. Persons who come with some worldly desire, and who accuse the Lord, as an excuse for the failure caused by their own destiny. Only these four types of people clamour against the Divine,the others will not shout or jump about like puppets. Even if they do not have personal experience, when they hear such stories, they will just analyse them within themselves and arrive at conclusions, for their own satisfaction. They won’t

abuse others.

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