Serving the humanity

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Buddha introduced the social service in which you have

to serve the humanity like the servant. This is a

training course given to serve the human form in

general so that in course of time you will serve the

human form of the Lord. Lord Krishna also emphasised

such training in Gita. The service should be without

any desire according to Buddha and this is the

Nishkama Karma Yoga taught by Krishna in Gita. When

you are trained in doing such selfless service to the

humanity, you will naturally do the same selfless

service to the Lord in human form also. The selfless

service is indicated by the word Dharma. The humanity

is indicated by the word Sangha. The Lord in the human

form is indicated by the word Buddah. The words Dharma

and Sangha indicate the training to serve the

humanity without any selfishness. The word Buddah

denotes to serve the human incarnation after this

training in the same way. This is the essence of the

three statements “Buddham,Dharmam,Sangham Saranam

Gachchami”. Sankara also formulated this training in

order to remove the repulsion to the human form. He

asked to serve all the human beings treating each

human being as Brahman. He included yourself also as

Brahman so that you will not have egoism and jealousy

to the humanity. When the training is over and the

repulsion to the human form ceased the ripened souls

served Him as the human incarnation of Sankara. To

such disciples only He told “Sivah Kevaloham” which

means that Sankara Himself alone is Lord Siva.

Krishna is not mentioned in the ten incarnations

of Lord Vishnu because in His place Balarama was

mentioned. He was said to be the fullest incarnation

(Paripurnatamah Sakshaat). Lord Vishnu indicates only

one quality that is Satvam. Lord Krishna exhibited all

the three qualities that are Satvam, Rajas and Tamas.

He showed Satvam and attracted the devotees. At the

same time He showed Rajas and Tamas and repelled the

devotees. He is the incarnation of Datta who is the

form of the three qualities in equilibrium indicated

by the three full faces. When the devotees run away by

the exhibition of the bad qualities, he laughed at

them calling them as ignorant fools. He says

“Tribhirgunamayaih—“, which means “This fool is not

understanding that I am beyond these three qualities

and that I am untouched by any quality. Any soul in

this world is the composite of these three qualities

only in different proportions and therefore cannot

cross the influence of these three qualities”. Krishna

asked Dharmaraja to tell a lie but Dharmaraja refused.

Dharmaraja was taken to the hell for not following the

Lord. The Lord told that one should even cross the

justice because whatever pleases Him is the justice.

Krishna appeared as a liar in this scene. He appeared

as a thief in steeling the butter. He appeared fond of

girls when He danced in Brindavanam. He appeared as

the protector of justice in the kurukshetra war. He

appeared as the top most divine preacher while

preaching Gita. This multi dimensional personality of

Lord Krishna shows that He is the creator who is

totally untouched by these items of creation. The

cosmos is His play ground and the human beings are the

audience of the play and all the qualities are the

tools of His divine game. we must constantly remember

that the play ground, audience, co-players and the

tools of the game are just His imagination and that He

is deriving the entertainment from His imaginary

world. The word Krishna is derived from the verb

Krish, which means that He attracts His devotees

towards Him. Rama means the Lord who entertains

Himself. Krishna means the Lord who wants to give the

same entertainment to His close devotees. For this

purpose He attracts His devotees towards Himself. He

likes to enjoy this divine game along with His close

devotees. It is just like some body goes to see a

picture along with His family members. He says that

one in millions can only recognise Him (Kaschit

Mam—Gita). This means that a few liberated souls who

are always associated with Him in the upper world come

down into this world as His devotees and those few

devotees can only recognise Him. Therefore all His

life history on this earth is the divine drama played

by Him along with His troop.

This discourse is the divine butter, which is being

offered as prasadam(offering) to the devotees of the

Lord, which removes egoism to form the basis for

receiving the eternal grace of the Lord. The butter,

which you are taking as prasadam is increasing the fat

in your body, which raises the egoism and cholesterol

that brings serious illness only. Today you are

breaking the pot containing butter, which is hanging

up at far height. Do you know the inner meaning of

this? Lord Krishna used to break the pot containing

the butter. The maidens were storing the butter, which

is in excess left over. They wanted that the Lord

should not take this excess butter. Infact they

themselves should offer this to the Lord. The reason

is that this entire world is the wealth of the Lord.

You can take whatever you need. But you are taking it

in excess and storing for generations together. The

Lord does not permit taking more wealth and therefore

you are considered as a thief (Stenaevasah, Yavanartha

Udapane—Gita) (Maagrudhah, KasyasvisDhanam—Veda). The

maidens used to take that excess butter to the city of

Madhura and purchase some luxurious ornaments. The

Lord broke such pots and the butter in it falls on the

soil and goes waste. Therefore when you store the

money for luxuries and for the future generations

without offering it to the Lord in human form like

Krishna, it will become waste by the will of the Lord.

Either it will be stolen or it will go to hospitals or

it will be lost by the undeserving future generations.

 

 

 

 

His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

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