Posted on: 06 Sep 2021
[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Pādanamaskāram Swami, When a devotee wants to pray to God just before attending a competition or a test or a medical surgery, what should the prayer be like to please God? We generally tend to ask God to give us success in that event due to the heat of the situation. I attended an interview recently and I decided to be a good devotee and not to pray to You to give me success. But, just before the beginning of the interview, I couldn't stop myself from begging You for success. How to let go of this idea of success and love God without aspiring any practical fruit in return?]
Swami Replied:- Love to God without aspiration for any fruit in return can come only through strong effort or Saadhanaa. Once the aspiration for fruit exists, such love is not real and pure. If such pure and real love exists on God, God Himself will help you with utmost sincerity. In pure and real love, the devotee develops confidence on God. Even if God does not give the fruit, the true love of devotee on God shall not be affected at all. The devotee must think that perhaps God has some better idea. This comes through total surrender to God.