“Paritranaya Sadhunam
Sambhavami Yuge Yuge.”
Chapter 4, Verse 8, Bhagavat Gita – The Song of God.
Rough translation of the above is as follows: In order to deliver the pious, and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to establish the principles of Dharma & Religion, I advent myself millennium after millennium.”
Whereas this looks good to read and believe, it also creates many questions in mind. Allow me to share some questions my heart keeps asking:
- From the above it is clear that You will come Yuga after Yuga. Kindly let us know from where You would be arriving? There must be a place or a spot where You would be arriving. What is the address?
- Is that place well connected – with Metro/Rail/Air?
- You promise us in your Song “You will come”. But please allow me to ask… “Who is asking You to go”? We can make the best temple home for Your stay. We are not asking You to go sir.
- If You make up Your mind to go… then please go… no human can stop You. But we implore You to leave Your forwarding address, so that we can reach You, if necessary. Is it possible to leave Your contact number or are we asking too much?
- We are aware that You want to go ‘there’. Is there someone dearer than us, requesting Your return? For us it is unimaginable to think of someone being nearer to You than us.
- You say You want to save the good people and punish the bad people… or rather annihilate (Vinasaya cha) them. Have you ever defined what is good & bad in Your celestial Song?
- What was good yesterday is bad today. For example, sati / child marriages were good yesterday; today, there are bad! Today sati & child marriage are unthinkable. Hence please define good and bad as we do not want to be bad and be annihilated.
- Why are You making a unilateral promise i.e., the promise of returning (Sambhavami Yuge Yuge). Did we ask for Your to promise?
- Please allow us to assume that You won’t keep Your promise. In that case what are we expected to do? I do not think we can sue You in a court of law. Then why promise at all?
- You talk of Dharma and Religion and its establishment (Dharma Samsthapanantheya). How many times do You wish to establish the Dharma & Religion? The Dharma which You established, for example in the Treta Yuga, does not hold good now?
- Establishing the same Dharma & Religion again & again… You must be bored! By the way, why are You establishing Dharma & Religion so weak?
- It also implies sir, the people You are creating / manufacturing are very weak-minded. They keep forgetting the distinction between good & bad and Dharma and Adharma. May we ask, why do You create weak people with weak characters? It only increases your work!
- Establishing Dharma & Religion – Have you been awarded with an eternal contract to keep establishing them? If so, You must be making a fortune in the contract!
- You said ‘Vinasaya cha Dushkrutam’ i.e., to annihilate the miscreants. Don’t You know capital punishment is bad? Hence, we request You to annihilate the bad in the miscreants so that they can become good… they deserve a second chance.
- For the sake of argument allow us to agree with your statement – ‘annihilate the miscreants’. But what about those who suffered in the hands of miscreants? You, for example, will annihilate the Rapists… What compensation or plan do you have in mind for the ‘Raped’? In other words, in Your promise there is no plan of justice for the suffered. Therefore, how can we believe in Your promise?
Finally, trust us, we are well developed today. We have no Hiranyakashyap or Kamsa or Ravana whose presence may entail you to come. We believe in humanity, peace and co-existence. In view of this we relive You, give You a NOC from Your promise. If You don’t come, we don’t mind sir.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional.
What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com
