Devotee: What is the Hindu perception of justice and retribution toward the evil people in the world? Do you believe in hell?
 
Didi Ji: According to Hindu scriptures, every action has a reaction, which is the law of nature.  Virtuous actions beget virtuous results; evil actions, evil.  There most certainly is hell, a prison God has designed for offenders.
 
 
Devotee: How should I live my life?
 
Didi Ji: Live your life in such a way that you are doing your duty physically and keeping God with you at all times mentally.
 
 
Devotee: Didi Ji,Please enlighten me on this subject: If one talks about one's own capabilities and good qualities in public does this contribute to one's ego? What is the difference between one's self-esteem or confidence in one's self and the ego (subtle & gross)?
 
 
Didi Ji: Talking about one's own capabilities and good qualities certainly does make one proud.  We must give God and Guru the credit for any good that exists within us.  This will keep pride in check and keep us humble.  Humility does not mean a lack of confidence, rather it means having supreme confidence that 'my Lord has bestowed this wonderful gift upon me.'
 
Moreover, if we are good and virtuous, people will notice on their own.
Others shun a person who blows his own horn.
 
 
 
Devotee:I am a Muslim and interested in world religions. My question to you, which I hope you do not find offensive, is: What is the significance of having four to sixteen arms? In my personal opinion this makes God, well... look scary.
 
 
 
Didi Ji: Hinduism is the only religion that does not restrict God to being formless.  Our scriptures explain that God is with form as well as without.  Furthermore, God can and does assume both male as well as female forms.  In some forms, such as Kali, God is depicted as having more than two arms.  This is to show that although God can and does assume human form, yet He is not limited like humans are.  He has countless heads, arms, legs etc.  A Hindu, because he has been trained from birth to accept the unlimited nature of God, does not get frightened at the concept of God with many arms and legs.  However, some forms of God are definitely frightening, and some are definitely very loving.
 
 
Devotee: What is the need to pray to God with form?
Didi Ji: I think you would agree with me when I say that it is very difficult to love God.  The mind is so attracted to the world that it refuses to think of the Creator.  Have you ever thought about why it is so easy for us to love the world?  It is because we can see, hear, taste, touch and smell the world.  You love mother, father, brother and sister, because you see these people, embrace them, laugh with them  and interact with them.  God is difficult to love, because He is invisible.  This is why God takes on a form and reveals Himself to us.  He comes to this world in different forms from time to time so that we may fall in love with Him.

 

This is a Q&A with DidiJi, one of Shree Maharajji’s preachers.
 
Devotee: What is the Hindu perception of justice and retribution toward the evil people in the world? Do you believe in hell?
 
Didi Ji: According to Hindu scriptures, every action has a reaction, which is the law of nature.  Virtuous actions beget virtuous results; evil actions, evil.  There most certainly is hell, a prison God has designed for offenders.
 
 
Devotee: How should I live my life?
 
Didi Ji: Live your life in such a way that you are doing your duty physically and keeping God with you at all times mentally.
 
 
Devotee: Didi Ji,Please enlighten me on this subject: If one talks about one's own capabilities and good qualities in public does this contribute to one's ego? What is the difference between one's self-esteem or confidence in one's self and the ego (subtle & gross)?
 
 
Didi Ji: Talking about one's own capabilities and good qualities certainly does make one proud.  We must give God and Guru the credit for any good that exists within us.  This will keep pride in check and keep us humble.  Humility does not mean a lack of confidence, rather it means having supreme confidence that 'my Lord has bestowed this wonderful gift upon me.'
 
Moreover, if we are good and virtuous, people will notice on their own.
A person who blows his own horn is shunned by others.
 
 
 
Devotee:I am a Muslim and interested in world religions. My question to you, which I hope you do not find offensive, is: What is the significance of having four to sixteen arms? In my personal opinion this makes God, well... look scary.
 
 
 
Didi Ji: Hinduism is the only religion that does not restrict God to being formless.  Our scriptures explain that God is with form as well as without.  Furthermore, God can and does assume both male as well as female forms.  In some forms, such as Kali, God is depicted as having more than two arms.  This is to show that although God can and does assume human form, yet He is not limited like humans are.  He has countless heads, arms, legs etc.  A Hindu, because he has been trained from birth to accept the unlimited nature of God, does not get frightened at the concept of God with many arms and legs.  However, some forms of God are definitely frightening, and some are definitely very loving.
 
 
Devotee: What is the need to pray to God with form?
Didi Ji: I think you would agree with me when I say that it is very difficult to love God.  The mind is so attracted to the world that it refuses to think of the Creator.  Have you ever thought about why it is so easy for us to love the world?  It is because we can see, hear, taste, touch and smell the world.  You love mother, father, brother and sister, because you see these people, embrace them, laugh with them  and interact with them.  God is difficult to love, because He is invisible.  This is why God takes on a form and reveals Himself to us.  He comes to this world in different forms from time to time so that we may fall in love with Him.