Government's role to propagate the spiritual knowledge

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It is the duty of the human government to propagate

the spiritual knowledge in the public starting from a

child, which alone can control the sins like robbing

the money of others, corruption, nepotism etc. The

blind liking for family members, relatives, caste,

religion, sex, and nationality are responsible for

various present social problems. The blind love to the

family members is responsible for stealing the wealth

of others and corruption. The blind love for the

relatives is responsible for the nepotism. The blind

love for the caste and sex is responsible for electing

the undeserving people into the government. The blind

love for religion is responsible for criticizing the

other religions and sometimes killing the people of

other religions in mass. The blind love for the nation

is responsible for the wars in the National

boundaries. If one realizes the spiritual knowledge

and finds that all the living beings are like brothers

and sisters only and that one God alone is the divine

father and that all this Earth is one nation under the

rule of the God, all these problems vanish. Krishna

was just witnessing the mutual killing of his

relatives in which even his sons and grandsons were

killed. He protected the Pandavas from the brutal

killing by Asvatthama though they were not his sons

and grandsons. His protection was based on their

merit. He made the son of Sandeepani alive though he

was not of His caste. He did not give life to

Abhimanyu who was his own nephew. He gave immense

wealth to Sudama who is not related to Him and does

not belong to His caste. He took away all the wealth

and killed Duryodhana though he was his relative. The

favour of the Lord was based on merit and the

punishment was based on the crime only. All the above

bonds were unreal and dramatic in His eyes

I repeat again and again that the government should

take all the efforts to propagate the spiritual

knowledge at every level and in every corner. Any

activity in the public office should be done in the

divine atmosphere. All the places of public activities

must be converted into temples. If secularism is

followed, let the temples have statues of all

religions. Every citizen should feel that the

omnipresent and omnipotent Lord watches his or her

activity. If funds are required to propagate such

spiritual knowledge, let the funds of the temples be

used for such propagation. The temple funds should be

spent for such purpose to bring the constant awareness

of the Lord and His all-pervading power that controls

each and every activity of the creation. Such programs

can be done only under the headship of the religious

saints who are well aware of the spiritual knowledge.

The officials of the government cannot effectively do

such program unless they are well-versed scholars of

spiritual knowledge (Jnaninah tattvadarsinah--- Gita)

(Brahmanah sammarsimah---Veda). The government

officials without any spiritual knowledge will use the

funds for public facilities, which should be done only

by the revenue collected. The money of God should be

spent only for bringing the awareness of God and His

rule everywhere. The funds are meant for the

propagation of spiritual knowledge and devotion. Any

misuse for other than this divine purpose is the

greatest sin and the Lord will punish the government.

Religious priests manage the funds of the Vatican

church and the government is not putting its finger in

it. They are managed for propagating the spiritual

knowledge and devotion. By this the Lord is pleased

and the western countries are blessed with all

comforts. India should learn this aspect from the

west.

When the government is forgetting its duty to

propagate the spiritual knowledge and devotion, the

responsibility false finally on the underline ultimate

government for which the Lord is the head. Therefore

the Lord comes down in human form to propagate this

spiritual knowledge and devotion. The Lord also

collects some tax from you for His mission. He has

already given some facilities like human birth,

longivity, health, wealth etc. The human government is

collecting the tax without caring for your problems.

But the Lord asks for the tax from all of you, which

is the time, energy or work and money, which you are

wasting in illusory entertainments. You can do the

sacrifice of your work (karmasanyasa) or sacrifice of

fruit of work (karmaphalatyaga) or both according to

your convenience. The liberated souls sacrifice fully,

which is impossible for all and such liberated souls

are blessed by the Lord to be His constant associates,

which is the permanent result. The former case is

pravrutti and the latter case is Nivrutti. One should

keep Nivrutti as ultimate aim. Pravrutti is like

scoring the pass mark in the examination. Nivrutti is

like achieving the rare gold medal from the

university. The teacher who aims that all the students

should at least pass should not advice the pass marks

as the goal. He will advise the achievement of the

gold medal as the goal of every student. Lord Krishna

was such excellent teacher who taught about Nivrutti

only throughout Gita. In the beginning of the Gita

Lord Krishna stated that he came to establish justice

or pravrutti on this earth (Dharma

samstapanarthaya—Gita). This is like a teacher stating

that his aim is to see that all the students in his

section should pass the examination. In that case the

teacher should stress on the pass and similarly

Krishna should have stressed on the path of justice.

Had Krishna done this, Gita should have become another

scripture of ethics like Manusmruti containing all the

rules of justice like a legal constitution. But

Krishna emphasised on the path of salvation from the

worldly bonds and devotion to the Lord (Nivrutti) for

achieving the establishment of justice (Pravrutti).

The teacher is fixing the achievement of gold medal to

every student so that every student by putting such

hectic effort will at least pass. If you put pass mark

as the goal, then every student puts least effort and

may fail. If the destruction of bonds is put as the

goal at least the bonds will become weak. This is the

excellent tactic of Lord Krishna in putting the higher

goal to achieve the lower goal. In Bible, Jesus also

adopted this tactic and He desired that His dearest

disciple should hate the family bonds including the

bond with his life. Hating means that one should see

his family members as his enemies. When such extreme

goal is fixed at least the blind attraction in the

family bonds is reduced. In fact these family members

were really your enemies in your previous birth. Since

you have robbed their wealth, they have come to you to

get back their money with interest. This principle of

justice is forcing you to earn the money and by such

force, you are doing the sins and get punished. When

you rob the wealth of somebody by force, you have to

not only pay it with interest but also should be

punished. Thus your blind love on your family members

is responsible for your sins and the consequent

punishment. Mohammed does not mention Nivrutti in his

scripture because He claimed himself as messenger of

God only. Nivrutti means loving and serving the Lord

in person. For that God in human form is essential.

But Islam believes only formless God and therefore it

is not possible to love and serve the God directly.

Therefore the path of Nivrutti has no place in Islam.

The Lord is pleased by pravrutti itself and such

pleasing the Lord is ultimate in Islam. In Hinduism,

Christianity and Islam the ultimate enquiry and the

punishment of sinner in the hell are common aspects.

Gita introduces the teacher and fixes the gold medal

as the ultimate goal for achieving at least a total

pass. Bible mentions the existence of teacher in the

class and explains both the goals (passing and gold

medal) separately. Quran also introduces the teacher

to the class but shows the single goal of passing the

examination. The scripture of Buddhism does not

introduce the teacher and emphasizes on passing the

examination and to pass the examination by

self-reading. But the Buddhists must realize that the

teacher is Buddha Himself, since they surrender to

Buddha ('Buddham sharanam"). The scripture of Jainism

is similar to the scripture of Buddhism but the jains

should know that the teacher is Mahavir Jain Himself.

The Jains also salute the liberated souls who are the

top devotees. God pervades all over the human body in

the case of Human Incarnation. But God dwells in the

hearts of top devotees also and thus salutations to

liberated souls are salutations to the Lord. All these

are Human Incarnations and are represented by the word

Teacher here.

 

 

His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

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