This chapter, the shortest one comprising of just twenty verses, opens with Arjuna asking Lord Krishna as to w.....
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What if God goes on a holiday?
By :DD, DD
This is a purely hypothetical question, but the answer may involve many mysteries: What if the God withdraws himself from this universe one day for a day only? Will everything come crashing down or will the things go on as always for that one day at least? Or what else would happen?
Interesting question. Of course , God can never withdraw from this world as the world is in HIm and He can not go out of HImself. For example, even when we are on leave, we are still working for our own self.
But imagine that He really decide to withdraw for a day. There may still not be chaos since he has already made rule of Karma to run the world and instilled morality in man who will anyway do good deeds. It is like a kind decide to take off for a day. Nothing much would happen, in my opinion.
Awdhesh 4/29/2008 11:34:43 AM
(Sorry it is "King" and not "kind" in the last line)
DD 4/30/2008 4:58:25 AM
And what if he withdraws permanently? How long will the system sustain itself? For a few days or months or years or for ever? I think we should give the God some rest if we can let him take it.
Awdhesh 8/5/2008 11:46:23 AM
I believe that God is not an exteranl entity sitting somewhare OUT there but he is present in all of us. We can compare ourselves like cells of the body and God as the person. THerefore, if God rest for sometime, the essental functions may continue but the growth will stop. I think from the analysis of the world at the present era that God must surely be resting.
Dolores 12/30/2008 12:20:31 AM
This is an interesting conversation. I can only say that God can not withdraw for even a second, let alone a day. If God actually did withdraw, he would take every last one of us with him, as we are divinely connected to God. We are the substance of God and God is our substance. We are "one" always. An unseen divine and scientific essence binds us to God. These are my thoughts.
DD 12/30/2008 12:53:29 AM
Well said. Incidently, that also explains the saying: All work and no play makes God a dull boy..
We are conditioned to see work as something that moves. In science it is tought that work is equal to the force multiplied by the displacement of the object. That means that if the object does not move there is no work irrespective of your effort (force).
In the same way, we often think that a person sitting silently is actually doing nothing. While in reality, there is absolutely no possibility that a person cease to do work. When we sit silently even like a stone, our mind is working, our blood is flowing, our heart is beating. Yet it is all done inside us and for an outsider there is no work.
Even when we go on a holliday, we continue to work, though it is a different work than what we do in our offices and profession.
When we can not stop workking for a second, how can God? After all we all are a created from Him and ramain a part of Him.
