God spreads by its own divinity and potency and not by the help of the devotees, who spread it.

[dattaswami]

God spreads by its own divinity and potency and not by the help of the devotees, who spread it.

 

God in human form also, who generates the divine knowledge, does not need the service of anybody in its propagation, since the knowledge itself gets propagated without any effort like the scent of a flower. Once it is generated, it itself spreads everywhere.

 

The knowledge of a scholar is like water, where as the knowledge of God in human form is like fire. Yohan says that his preaching is like purifying with water-bath, where as the preaching of Jesus is like purifying with fire-bath. Water purifies the place where it is poured. But the fire put in one place spreads and purifies the entire mass by burning and turning it into ash. The purification by water is limited and also is temporary. If you wash any item with water, it becomes dirty by next day. But if you burn any item with fire, it is permanently purified without any change. Hence, the divine knowledge preached even to a single person like Arjuna personally in secrecy, spreads all over the world like fire and its effect of purification is forever.

 

Jesus also preached the knowledge to a few people only and did not publish it in His time. But today it has spread all over the world. The divine knowledge of God spreads by its own divinity and potency and not by the help of the devotees, who spread it. The efforts of devotees in propagation are only formal and nominal like the efforts of monkeys in the service of Rama. The devotees are sure to succeed in the service of God and to get the eternal grace of God.