Cheating God

[dattaswami]

Cheating God

 

A prostitute sacrifices sweet words and feelings of the mind for getting money. But she does it for meeting her minimum requirements, so it is justified. But today people who already have enough money to satisfy their minimum needs are trying to please the Lord through sweet words and sweet feelings of mind (devotion) to get extra from the Lord. These devotees are called as divine prostitutes and can never be excused by the Lord. One can please a person, who is either ignorant or has less knowledge, by such false behavior. But no one can please the Lord who has the full knowledge (Sarvajna) in this way. If any one tries to please the Lord by the sacrifice of words and mind only, such a person is blind. These people are made blind by fraud preachers who exploit their ignorance and natural ambition. The people who follow such fraud preachers, loose time here (in this world) and the fraud preachers will be punished later. These fraud teachers encourage these innocent people and even make them do Karma Phala Tyaga. These innocent people are advised to spend a hundred rupees in order to get one lakh (hundred thousand) rupees from God.

 

Unfortunately a part of the hundred rupees that they spend in the name of God, is wasted in purchasing some unnecessary materials and the fraud preachers steal the another part. [The false preachers advise the ignorant devotees to worship idols and statues with rituals involving purchasing costly but useless materials]. Such a sacrifice of the fruit of the work cannot be a real Karma Phala Tyaga. It is just like a patient going to a fraud doctor and loosing money and time without any reduction in his illness. Sometimes the illness may even increase.

 

When you worship God in this way, the Lord only gives you the fruits of your own good actions, which you were supposed to receive in future life cycle arrangements. The fruit of good work from your future birth is drawn to this birth like a pre-matured deposit. You think that you have attained a large fruit of the good work, which you have not done, just by spending a hundred rupees. In fact you are getting rid of the present trouble only because the Lord is pushing this trouble to the future birth with added interest. By this, your future life cycles become miserable and full of troubles from birth to death. Do you not see such people in the world? They blame the Lord for giving them such a miserable life but they do not know that they had pressed the Lord for this in their previous births.

 

 

Just see this wonderful world and imagine the intelligence of the Lord. Nobody including your fraud teacher can fool God. Therefore the present tradition of blind preachers and blind followers is finally leading only to the ever-lasting fire. Therefore it is better to know the true path which is established by the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita. It is better to take at least one step on the true path because the distance from the goal is reduced by at least one step. What is the use of taking a hundred steps on the false path by which you move away from the goal by a hundred steps? The true path is only the one shown by Hanuman and the Gopikas i.e., Karma Yoga (Karma Sanyasa and Karma Phala Tyaga put together) which is emphasized everywhere in the Gita.

 

The value of the words and mind is only two paise (100 paise = 1 rupee). The value of practical action is hundred paise. If you do the sacrifice of any of these three (words, mind and action) without aspiring for anything in return, you will get the fruit from God according to the corresponding values. If you praise the Lord without aspiring for anything, the Lord will praise you by His sweet voice. If you meditate upon the Lord without aspiring for anything the Lord will love you with His sweet heart. If you serve the Lord practically without aspiring for anything in return, the Lord also gives the fruit in the same practical way. Hanuman simply participated in the work of the Lord. He was given the highest post, which is a practically real fruit. The Gita says that He will approach you in the same way as you approach Him (Ye Yatha Maam).

 

The Gopikas sacrificed the fruit of their work and they were given the highest Goloka (highest heaven). In these examples, sacrifice is without aspiring for anything in return from the Lord. Such sacrifice is called ‘Nishkama Karma Yoga’. If you do the same sacrifice, aspiring for some fruit in return, you will get proportionate results here also. But the results will be the fruits of your own works, which you were supposed to enjoy in the future life cycles.

 

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

 

Anil Antony

 

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