God is having good qualities only?

[dattaswami]

One devotee asked that God is having all good qualities only which are coming under a category of Sattvam. There should not be Rajas and Tamas in His qualities.

The answer for this doubt is that you should not say that God is associated with good qualities. You should say that whatever quality is associated with God is good. Any quality directed towards God is good and any quality which is directed towards the creation is bad. Sattvam is knowledge. Rajas is work. Tamas is rigid determination. The knowledge of an atheist which opposes the existence of God is a bad quality even though it is sattvam. The work in the divine service (Rajas) and the rigid determination in the faith of God (Tamas) are good qualities. The very knowledge is the process of work of mind and thus knowledge itself is basically Rajas. When you believe your knowledge, such belief is Tamas. Thus you cannot separate the three qualities basically in their original state. The scriptures (Sastras) say this.

The three qualities are always in the inseparable equilibrium state when the pure awareness (Mula Prakruti or Holy Spirit) was created by God. When the equilibrium is disturbed any one of these three qualities predominates and we call it by its name. The spiritual effort to attain and please God must contain these three qualities. The quality is neither in the God nor God is in the quality. Any quality must be associated with God only for its very existence. Any quality is created, maintained and is destroyed by God only. The creation is said to be Rajas. The maintenance is Sattvam. The destruction is Tamas. This entire Universe which is the asylum for all the qualities is created and is maintained by the God. In such case how can you say that God is associated with some qualities only and is not associated with some other qualities? Nothing can exist without His association. He is beyond this universe and therefore He is beyond all the qualities. He uses all the three qualities for His divine play.

From where satan came? From which source satan got power? The answer is that the same producer and director of the film who appointed one actor as hero has appointed another actor as the villain. The villain is also remunerated like the hero. Some times the producer-cum-director can enter the film in the role of a hero and such a role is called as the Human Incarnation of the Lord. The villain opposes the hero in the cinema. The hero wins over the villain giving a good message to the spectators. But remember that the hero who is the producer has remunerated the villain and also directed every action of the villain as the director of the whole picture.

At Thy Lotus Feet

Anil Antony

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