Posted on: 01 Jul 2021
[Ms. Amudha asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmiji, I am writing this email with full of doubt and unable to make decision on the challenges.
Spiritual Journey: Unable to focus on spiritual knowledge. I am only thinking and focusing on worldly activities. Sometimes I didn't like to eat, sleep, work and wasting time. It is pure of my ignorance but Swāmiji please help me to concentrate on spiritual knowledge. I cannot do anything without Your help.
Basic Needs: Now I'm thinking of worldly basic needs and saving related things. Taking step on it but I feel something wrong in my thought. Please clarify Swāmiji, I doubt myself.
Asset: Do I leave everything for family members in terms of money, asset and all. I feel what they are asking is not correct from my view but my point of view is nothing. I would like to follow Your words. Please order me to do.
Treating Parents: I feel very stressful and unstable because of my brother behaviour towards mother. Please guide me on this situation. On Your divine feet, Amudha]
Swāmi replied: First you must concentrate on pravṛtti, which is the foundation even for nivṛtti. Unless you study hard and get a good job, how can you participate even in the service of God? Suppose you don’t have any money in your hand and become a saint confining to service only without doing any sacrifice of fruit because you are unable to do it, okay. You have become a good saint. But, the present time is Kali age. When you go to somebody to preach the true spiritual knowledge, naturally you will have to take food in that house. The people of that house belong to this Kali age and will think that you are preaching the spiritual knowledge to them in order to get food from them. Once this inevitable idea comes to their mind, all your true spiritual knowledge, which is a huge pot of divine nectar will become a pot of hard water from sea! All your effort has become the valuable scent poured in a heap of ash! What is the use of your such service to God in the nivṛtti? If you have your own food earned by job or at least have sufficient ancestral property to support your food, people will hear your spiritual knowledge with perfect attention since they know that you are not preaching for food. This point is very essential in Kali age. Hence, sage Parāśara objected sainthood in Kali age. The main point is this only. The mentalities of human beings are very very strange jumping from holy God to horrible hell in a fraction of a second. Once you become strong in materialistic line in pravṛtti, all other problems mentioned by you will disappear immediately.