Page 10 - Amrit Varta - Issue Feb. 2023 - English

2 MA ANANDAMAYEE AMRIT VARTA Vol. 27, No.1, February2023

Ma: There is something called as karma-phal (effect of past action). Besides
this, whatever God does is for one’s benefit only. Isn’t He called as the Param-
Pita, Param-Mata and Param-Bandhu (Supreme Father, Mother and Friend)?
Just as a father benefits a child by giving him trouble just for the sake of giving
him knowledge similarly God also benefits someone through his troubles. If
someone is saved from a snake’s bite, then it is beneficial for him to stay alive
at that moment and if someone dies due to a snake bite then his death in that
manner is also beneficial for him.

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Q: A Mahatma has written that if one does not have the urge towards spirituality
then it is better not to take that path. Ma is this proper?
Ma: There are infinite ways to attain God and this in one way is true. But This
Body states that taking God’s name in any condition does not go waste. The
main purpose of all these that have been mentioned is that, whenever one takes
a particular path, always try to follow that path in totality. One should not keep
his feet on both the boats.
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Q: Is it correct to say that ‘if one is living in the grihastha ashram then he
should not leave it and accept sanyâs ashram?
Ma: The fact is, whatever is favorable for attaining spirituality only that should
be accepted, whether it is a family life or a life of renunciation. One can realize
God in both the states. Proper marriage and family life is clearly mentioned in
the religious scriptures. For this reason only a wife is called as a religious-
wife. There are several who renounce family life, but after reaching the jungle
they again grow a family. This of course is not proper. Hence it is mentioned
that one should not leave family life to become a sanyâsi. But if and when His
call comes then all these do not matter at all.

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Ma: One should not speak unpleasant words. Many a time when unpleasant words
are spoken to someone, those words instead of harming him bounces back to
the speaker. Again sometimes those undesirable words become true. When these
words are spoken against someone at the swasti-muhurt then those words will
have to become true.
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“Without worldly agony, the desire to be acquainted with the engineer of
this Universal machine is not awakened.
--- Shree Shree Ma Anandamayee.