Wisdom is a curse if u are not willing to respect it--Raavana

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@antika if you look all evil people they are more or less Bhakths or atleast pretend to be bhakths. Because Bhakthi helps them to do the evil things they want. And they feel Bhakthi can wash away their sins.

And to some extend it is true also. If you the greatest evil people, they live on their free will and on most occasions get killed at Lord's hand thus getting Moksha.

And many times the good people even after doing penance are unable to get Moksha. The trick is in the use of free will. Evil uses freewill for selfishness. If good uses freewill selflessly then they can also attain God.

Just like Arjun, Hanuman and Prahalad. If you look all these 3 people you can see freewill paramount in them. But the freewill they surrendered at Lord's feet in various forms.

Arjun got the knowledge from God himself for his selfless choice. Hanuman is worshipped alongside Vishnu for his selfless service given to God.

Prahalad is said to be occupying Lord's heart as his greatest Bhakt. During Narasimha avatar seeing the anger of Vishnu after killing Hiranyakasyapu even Lakshmi was afraid to go near him. It was Prahalad who went near Lord, calmed him down and the Lord took him and placed the child in his lap.

Freewill is the key to reach God. Wisdom helps you to make correct choices on whom to trust, whom to follow and whom to worship. But it has to be selfless.

Many good people falter because they appear selfless but on most occasions they are not. Expectations, ego, societal norms add selfishness in their actions. Hence they find it difficult to reach God.

Originally posted by: aditi97

Very well said

No matter how much knowledge you may have if you are not able is use that knowledge for the welfare humanity or simply by not using it in a destructive manner what's the need of that knowledge...

There are many examples in the mythology Ravan being the biggest one but I would like to state an example from today's world...

I heard about two brothers who passed out as chemical engineers from a very reputed university..

One using his knowledge to make medicines for people and for research work other using it to make bombs and helping out the terror groups...

One helping out the people other using the same knowledge for destruction of humanity... How sad !

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@antika the answer to your question is in the scene of Mahabharata when both Duri and Arjun comes to Krishna for help. You need to understand God has to be impartial and anyone who comes to his door for help he cannot turn away, good or bad. And that is why he is called God.

And Krishna gives the first option to Arjun because he saw Arjun first as he was sitting at his feet. Duri shouts that is not fair. But still Krishna gives first option to Arjun. And Arjun is given the option of Krishna's army in one side and Krishna without weapon in other side.

Even while having the option to choose Krishna's army Arjun chooses Krishna and in that lies Arjun's greatness.

Duri gets what he wants army and Arjuna gets Krishna. A true Bhakth is differentiated the way Arjuna is differentiated. At every point we get 2 choices God's power or God himself. If you choose his power you are no different from Duri who is also looking at same. You get differentiated only when you choose God with free will when you have the option to choose God's power.

If Arjun had taken Krishna's power, Krishna goes to Duri, even if Duri doesn't want him. Krishna is obliged to help Duri. Then can you blame Duri won. Good people when they take God's power are not realizing they are giving God in the hands of evil. Then what is the point crying evil is winning.

Have the courage to choose God and then see the tide reversing.