Pleasing the Lord

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FROM DATTA JNANA PRACHARA PARISID

 

To please the Lord you have to surrender

your words by singing about Him, the mind in His

devotion and the intelligence in His discussions.

However these three constitute only 1% of the total

sacrifice and this is called as theoretical sacrifice.

The sacrifice of your work and fruit of work

constitutes 99% of sacrifice, which is called as

practical sacrifice. The practical sacrifice should be

done to the most deserving Lord in human form if

recognised properly. The reason is that all this

wealth belongs to the Lord only since He is the

creator of the entire universe. All this wealth is His

immovable property and all the living beings are His

movable property. You are a part and parcel of His

movable property. You are supposed to take any amount

from His infinite wealth for your basic needs, the

boundary of which cannot be infinite. The rich man who

has no boundaries in his ambition to take the wealth

of the Lord in unlimited quantities must realise that

his effort is useless and waste. The reason is that

one has to leave all the excess of wealth here only

and his family members will not share his sin. They

never provoked him to earn infinitely for their sake.

Therefore he is the only responsible person for all

the sins. He should retain the required wealth for all

the needs only (Yavanartha Udapane—Gita). If he

analyses the family bonds, they are proved as unreal

dramatic bonds. Therefore a rich man should donate the

excess of wealth to the Lord in human form for His

mission. If the human incarnation is not recognised,

the second address of Lord is a real devotee. The Lord

dwells in the harts of a real devotee. But people are

donating to temples seeing the statues without

analysing the background management. If the manager is

neither the human incarnation nor a real devotee, the

sacrifice of your money is a waste.

The sacrifice of money applies even to the

ordinary human beings. No doubt these people are

earning the money for their basic needs only. Some

earn a little more to utilise for the unforeseen

problems in the future. Storing the wealth for such

purpose is also justified. Such storing is not wrong.

Some people earn just up to the mark. Some people earn

even below the mark. All these people need not do any

sacrifice of their money to the Lord, because the very

basic point is that the Lord neither needs your money

nor your work for His mission. Just His will is

sufficient to carry on His mission (Name Karmaphale

Spruha—Gita). But all these ordinary human beings are

wasting some money in the name of entertainments. All

the entertainments will end only in loss and misery.

Therefore you’re wasting, your time, energy and money

in the entertainments, which are ending in loss only.

For example if you see a picture, you have lost the

time and money and at the end you experience the loss

of the energy also as weakness. Similarly reading the

novels and doing unnecessary gossips. Either you

utilise your time, energy and money for basic needs or

store it for future needs. Instead of wasting for the

entertainments, which end in loss (Duhkha Yonaya

Evate—Gita), you convert this wastage into divine

wealth for getting the grace of Lord which protects

you here as well as there. This is a beneficial

programme for you only and not for the Lord. The money

that is earned for your basic needs also comes under

the account of the sacrifice of money to the Lord.

Unless the basic needs are served one cannot even

sacrifice the work for the mission of the Lord

(Sareeram Kevalam, Sareera Yatra—Gita). But the people

of this ordinary level should avoid all the

entertainments and should feel entertained in the

service of the Lord. The worldly entertainments give

you final loss only if they are properly analysed and

realised. This is the worst path (Bhogaiswarya—Gita).

Instead of this loss, it is better to analyse yourself

and fix yourself in the soul, which is pure awareness.

This at least will give you peace, which is far better

than the loss in the entertainments. However if you

recognise and engage in the service of the Lord you

are getting bliss, which is a profit. If you cross

this level also and serve the Lord even if it worries,

you are entering His innermost circle. Therefore

instead of purchasing the worry in the entertainments,

it is far better to purchase worry in the service of

the Lord. The result of the former case is hell and

the result of the latter case is the permanent abode

of the Lord. A person who purchases the bliss from the

Lord in His mission is called as Yukta, who is blessed

by the Lord. But the person who purchases worry from

the Lord in His mission is called as Yuktatama, which

means the best of the devotees present in the state of

Yukta (Sameyuktatamah—Gita).

 

 

His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

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