Summary: Falling victim to delusions usually ends badly for us. However, the Lord holds our hand and illusion stops tricking us when devotion reaches its peak. God is someone we should constantly be afraid of and very afraid of. We should be afraid of him, not because he is angry, but because our transgressions will make him unhappy and pained. We have to be afraid that as a result of our transgressions, we will no longer be able to call ourselves “children of the lord” and be connected to him. We should be afraid of the “lord’s illusion” more than the lord [in Hindu mythology, the universe we see is nothing but the god’s illusion, and the only true being is the god]. God is compassionate, therefore he will show his worshipers kindness and take away their dread. However, the illusion of God is cruel and never frees its captives. Illusions have such potent power that they may quickly separate us from God. The only ones spared are those who were able to bind themselves to the Lord or whose hand the Lord held. With the exception of this exception, everyone else is completely deluded. When our level of commitment is at its highest, god holds our hand. There’s always a potential that illusion will trick us until this occurs. We get misled once and end ourselves lost in life. When Saint Ajamil committed adultery, deception gained the upper hand and brought in the demise of a distinguished scholar. As a knowledgeable scholar, Saint Ajamil saw an act of adultery once. He allowed himself to be indulged in it throughout his life, and the pronunciation of the Lord’s name delivered him from the sin at the moment of his death.] The lord (in his incarnation as Lord Ram) was forced to go into exile since mother Kaykayee soiled herself out of love for her son and the delusion overcame her. Lord Ram’s stepmother was Queen Kaykayee. She sent her older brother, Lord Ram, into exile in order to make way for her son, Bharat, to become the king of Ayodhaya. In addition to rejecting the kingdom, Bharatji disowned her mother Kaykayee and continued to serve Lord Ram in a modest capacity.] We should be more afraid of god’s illusion than of the real god, just as it is believed that the name of the god is greater than the god. this is due to the fact that illusion often draws us away from the Lord. It causes us to deviate from the path of dedication. Hence, in order for illusion to never bind us or have any power over us, we must bring such vigor to our devotional pursuit and bring it to such a high point that it pleases God and he kindly recalls his illusion (God’s illusion is solely under his control) from our lives. We can only protect ourselves against illusion by using this method; otherwise, it will always fool us. Seeking the compassion of the Lord with all our devotion is the wisest course of action before deception fools us. The lord had always been kind to all of his followers. History demonstrates that devotees who experienced God’s compassion had happily advanced along their spiritual path and had never fallen victim to the web of deception. The first story is that of Sudamaji, a renowned devotee, who, by the grace of the Lord, was able to control his avarice when the Lord granted him the holy splendor of sudamapuri instead of three handfuls of rice. Bhagwati Susila, Sudhamaji’s wife, was instructed to utilize the riches for charitable giving, pilgrimages, and other virtuous deeds that she had prioritized in life but was unable to do because of her poverty. However, sudamaji remained unaffected by the riches and kept on the religious path without stopping. This excellent devotee was not bound by the illusion of the Lord. Actually, the illusion praised this tremendous devotee by not shackling him. [In return, the lord gave sudamaji the riches of three worlds instead of three handfuls of rice. For this great devotee, sudamapuri—a grander structure than the lord’s own kingdom—was created.] The second instance is the renowned devotee Narsi Mehtaji. He followed the road of dedication and donated all of his fortune to charity. His family ridiculed and made fun of him because he was poor, and they taunted him. Even yet, he was unable to overcome the delusion of riches. He never again looked to the Lord for money; instead, he marched calmly down the road of devotion. This is the reason the goddess Rukamani and the lord entered to carry out the maayraa ceremony. The delusion thus submitted to this great devotee. [Narsi Mehtaji chose the religious path and donated all of his fortune to charity. When the lord found out that his granddaughter was getting married and he lacked the money to perform a ritual known as “maayraa,” he took on the role of his abide, carried out the ritual obligation in magnificent fashion, and showered extraordinary wealth on the occasion to make that maayraa immortal and the largest in history. The heavens dumped an unimaginable amount of gold, pearls, and diamonds as rain in place of raindrops. The idea is to identify with the Lord and, by fervent pursuit, establish a relationship between the Lord and ourselves in order to protect ourselves from being crushed by delusion. In human life, the illusion fades away from our existence if we are able to grasp the hand of the Lord and if the Lord holds our hand because of our devotion.
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