"DO NOT CROSS THIS RED LINE"

 "DO NOT CROSS THIS RED LINE"

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People must be wondering what Red Line I am talking about and to whom this injunction is being made.

Don't be surprised: It is the injunction of a devotee to his God!

His God, who gave him his life, his limbs, his health, his powers and abilities, and with it,prosperity and peace and life's numerous blessings,which man cannot repay in lakhs of lifetimes. Who gave him a human body instead of the body of some creature.

A soldier in the army will never say to his superior commander:

"I will obey your order only as far as this red line, and beyond this I cannot obey your order!"

But man has the boldness to say to God:

" I can only obey Thy injunctions up to this point and not beyond this, I am sorry, I cannot obey you . I cannot suffer any loss or inconvenience to please you.. it does not matter to me whether you gave me everything in life.I am my own boss.!"

So this is the RED LINE of a devotee before his God who gave him everything. A strange gratitude indeed!.

And so man disobeys God and And even though deep down in his conscience he knows he has done wrong but he is neither worried nor afraid. He tries to justify his disobedience by telling himself that he was right, he could not suffer worldly loss.- so what if it displeased God or went against His orders?

Rightly has it been said: "He who God punishes at once for their shortcomings are the luckiest ones because God has corrected them and brought them closer to Himself.

Those whom God chooses to ignore are the unlucky ones, who find themselves wallowing in an abyss of despair with no answer to their prayers as if God does not exist!

And when they die, as die everyone must, they try to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and find a RED LINE DRAWN THERE BY GOD FOR THEM, with the injunction: "DO NOT CROSS THIS RED LINE".

And then they plunge right back to earth into the Ocean of Life and Death , the Bhav Saagar, to experience life for lakhs of lives and deaths, or enjoy short spells of hell in-between.

THIS IS THE RED LINE OF GOD FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DRAWN RED LINES FOR HIM.

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Priya Nath Mehta