Where does hostility towards God and the godly come from?

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What is your name? So, Jesus Christ when he came here, he was killed.
So why does hostility towards God or towards those who are devoted to God, where does it come from? I will answer this at three different levels. First is that we all have a desire to seek pleasure. But we seek that pleasure according to our current conceptions.
So, for example, this tube light, the tube may be white light, but if I cover it with a red film, the red covering, then the light that will come out will be red. So similarly, our desire for pleasure gets distorted by the kind of conceptions that we have. What is enjoyable? And sometimes this may get highly distorted.
So if I think that earning money is the sole way to pleasure, then somebody who thinks like that may not even hesitate to hurt others or destroy others in the pursuit of money. So basically, it is our desire for pleasure, when it is distorted by our particular conceptions, that makes us destructive. So whether it is anger, whether it is greed, whether it is envy, whether it is lust, all these are distortions of our innate desire for pleasure.
And when this desire for pleasure encounters an obstacle, or what it pursues to be an obstacle, then it can become destructive. So this is how people can become selfish and exploitative and destructive towards others to different degrees. And this is the universal problem of humanity.
And even if somebody divine manifests over here, humans target only the divine. Because this is the world, this is the nature of the world, at one level. Second level is that when the divine manifests over here, or the representatives of the divine or saintly people manifest over here, they also they also teach us.
And sometimes they accept suffering as a means of teaching us. So when we have to face suffering, when we have to face adversity, how to face adversity with grace, how to face adversity with spiritual dignity, we need lessons for that. And if the great souls came to this world and they did not face any difficulties, then most people would feel that their life is too idealistic for me.
They lived a great life, but they didn’t face the kind of problems we face. So it is when they face this, it is through it that they teach us that this is what we are, this is how we can also try in our own small ways to emulate their example. And the third point is that when we, when such specific specific specifically those who are devoted to God are targeted, the idea is that in this world, this world is a place of materialism.
This world is a place of material consciousness. And people want to maintain the materialism. So anybody who talks about spirituality becomes a threat.
Becomes a threat and sooner or later, they become targeted. Because when all of us get some sort of strength in community, so when everybody is materialistic, yeah, this is the way to live. But when one person starts becoming spiritual, others start thinking, maybe I need to rethink what I am doing.
Maybe I am not on the right track. But rethinking one’s own life is quite a challenging thing to do. So instead, just make the other person rethink.
You are on the right track. Don’t do that. And somebody stays strongly on that track, then that person becomes a threat to the status quo.
So in many ways, those who are devoted to God are, they can be reformers, they can be revolutionaries in the specific actions that they do. But as compared to the status quo of materialism, they are seen as threats. And that’s why they become targeted.
And across religious traditions, we see that saintly people have been targeted. So that is the nature of this world.