The Lord is associated with ignorance in order to show path to ignorant people.

[dattaswami]

The Lord is associated with ignorance in order to show path to ignorant people.

 

The Lord is associated with ignorance in order to show path to ignorant people. The Lord has to act like a soul and practically demonstrate the path. By knowledge (analysis) you can realize that He is beyond darkness. The crackers produce sound and light. Sound represents the speech through which the knowledge-light comes out. All this is not necessary if you realize the internal meaning. You have to lit the knowledge-lights in the ignorant people through your speech. You need not waste money like this because all this is only a representative worship which is indirect. All this can be spent in divine mission of propagating knowledge and devotion in the people which includes helping the poor practically (Social service) also in the name of God. This is not the direct service of the Lord so that you can justify that it is better than the divine mission or social service.

 

When Jesus was alive, He supported the application of scent to Him instead of spending it to feed the beggars as suggested by His follower. That was direct service since the Lord is existing in His body. The practical worship which involves spending of your hard-earned money should be always to the living beings. Even in the direct service to God, the life as the receiver is important in such practical worship and therefore God in human form only should be worshipped practically. When the fruit of service is not received by life or awareness (Chit), every thing is waste. Neither Krishna is pleased with the wastage of wealth like this through lights and crackers nor is Jesus pleased with a similar wastage on Christmas.

 

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

 

Anil Antony

 

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