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[dattaswami1]

You should not embarrass God by foolish statements even though they are true

You should not embarrass God by foolish statements even though they are true

Govindabhagavatpada, the preacher of Shankara jumped from the top of hill announcing that if God is the author of Veda, he will be protected. He was protected because his statement was from God. If every fellow utters this and jumps from hill, he will die since the statement is from the devotee and not from God, even though the statement is true. You should not embarrass God by such foolish statements even though they are true. If God states through you, He will certainly act through miracle. You are the best judge of the source of your statement since your inner consciousness knows the truth very well. If the statement is from God, you will utter it forcibly and spontaneously.

Satan challenged Jesus to turn the stones into breads by the grace of God if God is really omnipotent. Really God is omnipotent and God can turn the stones into breads in no time. But Satan provoked Jesus to do the miracle and God is not involved in this issue directly. Jesus replied to Satan stating that one should not test God through miracles. Jesus did several miracles to change several human beings in to devotees. When the devotee deserves the miracle, it was done spontaneously. Satan doesn’t deserve the miracle and God does not wish to do the miracle for the sake of Satan. Jesus grasped the will of God and did not force God to do the miracle. Even if He forces God will not do the miracle. He acted as a devotee to preach this point to devotees.

 

[dattaswami1]

Devotee without the sanction of God can’t perform any extra miracle

Devotee without the sanction of God can’t perform any extra miracle

Even devotees perform miracles by the grace of God. In the case of devotees, a divine program chalked out by God is strictly implemented. The devotee without the sanction of God can’t perform any extra miracle. If he tries to perform it, it will utterly fail. The miracle that happens spontaneously is due to will of God. The devotee need not plan for it. God comes down in human form as incarnation, but He will be acting as devotee also. Hanuman is God acting as devotee forever. Rama acted as master rarely and frequently as a devotee only. Krishna acted as master frequently and rarely as a devotee. The program of the incarnation is planned according to the requirement.

Whenever God acts as devotee, He will be exemplary to all the devotees. In the role of devotee, God also shows the defects committed by devotees and reveals the results of such defects. God in the role of Parashurama exhibited the defects of devotees and showed the bad effects of such defects. Devotees think that they are human incarnations and show jealousy towards the real human incarnations and also to other devotees acting as human incarnations. Their ego gets insulted in the hands of God. Parashurama was egoistic and jealous towards Rama, who was real human incarnation. Remember that Parashurama is also a real human incarnation but acted as fraud incarnation to show the defects of fraud devotees acting as human incarnations. You should not misunderstand that Parashurama is really egoistic and jealous. He killed miraculously all kings as per the divine program of God. But when He saw Rama, He offered the bow of God Vishnu for handling and got insulted in the hands of Rama. This indicates that a devotee does miracles by the grace of God as per the divine program. Offering bow of Vishnu to Rama was an extra miracle, which was not in the divine program, and hence he got insulted.


Bhaskarasarma prepared food for Shri Narasimha Sarasvati, the human incarnation of Lord Datta. The Lord invited all the villagers for the feast and hence the food was multiplied. If Sarma invited villagers, the Lord will not perform the miracle. The Lord will also come for food along with the villagers. Sarma can’t make the Lord to perform the miracle.

 

[Angela22]

It's true that one needs to be knowledgeable to know what power if of the Father alone, and what power is being exercised of another source.

Only by faith in the Father and Son who was sacrificed on the tree will one know the truth, and by belief in that which is already of the Father such as the Son resurrection from the dead. Along with having wisdom and knowledge in the Holy Truths, one will also have salvation and redemption, and all promises of the Father to the faithful.