Posted on: 28 Nov 2022
[Smt. Priyanka asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, How do souls conduct themselves in everyday life when they have completely surrendered to God or have left everything to God? At Your divine lotus feet, Priyanka]
Swami replied:- Who asked you to surrender completely to God? It is your devotion and not the demand of God. God does not need a single paisa from you and also does not aspire for it. Sacrifice of hard-earned money (Karmaphala tyaaga) is desired by God and not simple money you possess, which is from the angle of testing the devotee for his/her true love to God and this is not the angle from the side of God at any time. A business man aspires your money whether it is hard earned or ancestral. If it is hard earned, you will have the strongest bond with it. God always competes with your strongest bond so that you can prove that the bond with God is the strongest. This is the actual underlying concept. For anything, there is the path and the goal. During the path, the devotee is expected to do some sacrifice as per his/her devotion to God.
When the extreme goal is reached, God conducts the test for total sacrifice also as He did with Saktuprastha and Sudaama. In that stage, the devotee does not get any question in the mind because nothing is appearing in such climax state of devotion. Before the climax is reached in the test of God Datta, step by step progress is needed without which the goal can never be reached. If this question comes to the mind of a devotee, all the wealth possessed by the devotee will appear as insufficient to conduct the requirements of life because even luxuries appear to be necessities. If anything is leftover, that will also appear as a necessity to be passed to the next generation! Even if excess is leftover beyond the necessity for the next generation, such excess will appear as the required necessity for all the future generations!