God must always stand in the first position before anybody including yourself

[dattaswami]

God must always stand in the first position before anybody including yourself

Samnyasa means the practical sacrifice of your possessions

Working for God and sacrifice of fruit of work to God is Yoga

 

Samnyasa means cutting the desire towards the cup of the sweet ( your possessions especially money). Yoga or fully called as ‘Karma Yoga’ means practical sacrifice of the cup of sweet to the human form of God and not to the statue or photo. Therefore, Samnyasa and Yoga are one and the same (Yam Samnyasamiti Prahuh Yogantam… Gita). Samnyasa means the practical sacrifice of your sweet and Yoga means the practical offering of the same sweet to God in human form. Therefore, Samnyasa and Yoga are practically one and the same involving single practical action only. Gita says that sacrifice of work or fruit of work (Samnyasa) is horrible if the receiver, God, is absent. You cannot remain without any work. if the fruit is offered to yourself or your family only leaving God you are not protected and therefore, the result becomes horrible (Duhkhamaaptumayogatah...).

Therefore, remaining without any work or storing the fruit without any sacrifice is not Samnyasa. Working for God and sacrifice of fruit of work to God is Yoga, which naturally means Samnyasa, which means working for the worldly people or sacrificing the fruit of work to the worldly people including yourself. Does this mean that you have to work for God only or that you have to sacrifice all the fruit to God only?

 

The answer is both ‘No’ and ‘Yes’. The answer is ‘No’ because you have to maintain yourself and your family to serve God especially when your family is also devoted to God. The bare needs to maintain the life are not selfish and this is told in the Gita also (Sharirayatraapichate…). This is the normal condition of the spiritual aspirant. The answer becomes ‘Yes’ in the special situation when you are tested by God. Saktuprastha offered even the food needed for the minimum life also to God during the test. God must always stand in the first position before anybody including yourself. That alone is the real and highest devotion that really pleases God. This point should be proved in the practical test only, which must involve the human form of God only, and not the statue or photo that represents God.

 

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