No 1236 of Living Life Series 1
Likewise, in every religion, there will always be the most unlikely of people who come to a temple for blessings. They break all the precepts, are unable to be worthy and contribute towards the goodness of society. Some are like pests and parasites. They even run temples.
In fact, they come for nectar of worldly gains from God and saints. They seem to be even more blessed instead of being punished for not doing right and contributing to right.
They are likely to also be the ones who are miserable in life. They don't know how to be happy and just could not be blessings to themselves. They are so dependent on others. They readily come to God and saints in a temple.
Some may think why on Earth must God and saints be so kind to them. Why don't such people be taken to task and be deprived from blessings they already have, let alone be showered more blessings and love? Why not make them worse?
Why don't God put them in their place? But God knows better than that. Depriving them will make them worse and in worse shape. They will be caught in the vicious cycle of not doing right and not making it in life, be it spiritual or otherwise.
Instead God and saints give them more blessings and love hoping that they will wake up and make good. This is better than depriving them and pushing them further - only to push them deeper into the life of wrong and the life that is far from right.
Readers would have realised that in many families, some children who grow up given blessings of education, having degrees and diplomas don't have the volition to even work and would rather not work.
They seem so spineless and blaming others for being unkind. They cannot find jobs or hold on to jobs. They depend on the parents for pocket money which can be as much as a salary of sorts.
Instead of depriving them, the parents who are like God and saints may even give them more. Why are parents like that? What are they trying to do?
Often these young adult children want to work and earn a living but somehow they are so stressed out and have hang-ups that they can never pick themselves to do so.
Parents who walk the way of God and saints would not mind them being like insects coming to the flower for nectar. Which loving parent would have the heart to propel them deeper into the abyss of more lack of volition and drive for life.
Some though may say, spare the rod and spoil the child. But what if the child is no longer child but adult. Using the rod of whatever form will only further wreck their lives.
Anyway, there is no way to use the rod on adult children. They must be even more blessed and supported instead. Worldly blessings will not spoil them but will prevent them from more wreck.
There will at least feel the love and hopefully they will wake up and make good in life. This must be the intention - the noble and divine objective.
Do not wreck those mired in wrong and cannot seem to make it in life on their own. They need help and more blessings, not less and don't even think of punishing them.
Those who can make it don't need extra help. Often they are blessings unto themselves. God knows better and we should learn from God. They are also good role models and can provide worthy peer influence.
Punish not but support more those who are not right. Only God and parents who are loving will do so. Doing otherwise will finish those who cannot make it and have not shown they can make it. Do not give more hell to those already in hell despite having heavenly benefits.
It is even likely that those who are good too have faults. If love means to uphold the law, then no one is worthy of God and saints. Every one will be nearer to hell or be in deep shit of hell.
Are we to punish those who cannot make it in life because they don't find the need to change and cannot pull themselves together to change as individuals? Won't that be mean? They are already maladjusted to life and their life is already in tethers.
They just could not be whole and the hammer of authority will break them even more asunder into more pieces. Only more love is the solution. God knows even if we don't. Love and not punish. Only more love will work. This is how God deal with us and we too must do likewise to others more so our children and family.
This too is how popular religion must be. The wise but yet not so wise enough who let ego go into their heads may think this is ridiculous.
How can God and saints not only accommodate but also love people so excessively that they think they can be saved just by believing? Such people continue to be wayward and even feel they could continue to do.
They do know they are in the wrong. They do believe the teachings but they still continue in their erstwhile ways. They know God is still with them no matter how and what they do or not do. God loves them even more though some men think they are not worthy to be men and not worthy of God.
God believes in love. Love and not punish. Bitterness follows unpleasantness. Only more love will work. We must learn from God.
Oh God, when can we be like you. Teach us not to judge or be judged. Teach us to love even those not worthy of love - even those in their own hell or in hell below.
Life on Earth is hell enough to those who cannot see life as blessings and cultivate blessings. Many see effort to cultivate blessings as hell-like experience. The need for such effort simply switch them off.
No need to add to the hell others have but give them some leeway and heavenly blessings if we can. Popular religion helps to address this. Just be at the house of God and all will be well by grace and not by effort.
