Message on Purnima

The Majority Loses

[Mumbai] In the spiritual path majority should not be taken. As an example, since the gravel stones are in the majority and diamonds are in minority, we cannot say that the gravel stone is more valuable than diamond. There is only one Adi Shankara, one Miira, one Swami Vivekananda, and one Tyagaraja etc. Such people are very rare and only one in millions happen to be such a person. Our spiritual aim should be such rare diamond only. We should not take the majority as an example in our spiritual life. The Gita says that one only in millions reaches the God. So, should you follow the path of the majority or the path of that single person? Everybody should follow the path of the majority for the matters of this materialistic world. You have to do the job for earning livelihood. You have to earn and you have to sleep. So in all these worldly matters, you have to follow the majority. But in spiritualism you should not follow the path of majority because majority did not reach the God. Only one person like Adi Shankara or Meera reached God. So the concept of the majority fails in spiritual path.

You must serve and love God without aspiring anything in return from Him. This is pure love. Your aspiration is impurity and the selfishness is the bad smell by which the Lord gets repelled. If you serve the Lord without aspiring anything in return, such a love is the purest and highest devotion. For such devotion only Lord is fully pleased and the Lord will do anything or will go to any extent. This can be understood from the world itself. To learn philosophy world is the real picture. Books may contain faulty knowledge, but the world contains only truth. To know whether the concept in the book is right or not you must refer the world. This first one is the Scripture; the second authority is logic. Logic is more important than scripture because you should decide the validity of a concept in the scripture by the logic only. The third authority is experience in the world which is the topmost authority. Any concept in the scripture should be discussed by logic and it is finally approved only through its experience in the world. These three authorities are called Shruti (Scripture), Yukti (logic) and Anubhava (experience in the world).

So the purest love can be seen in the world. Suppose somebody loves and serves you without aspiring anything in return and his love is pure by all your tests, you imagine how much you are pleased! You will do anything for him.

It applies to God also. If you serve Him without aspiring anything in return from Him, and if your pure love passes all His severe tests, He will do anything for your sake. Love is proved only through service. Mere words and feelings are of no use. Service can be associated with words and feelings, like a plate of rice is associated with curry and pickles.

So how should we be before God? We should not ask Him for anything. We get troubles, which are the fruits of our own sins only. By mere payers, tears, weeping, begging and meditation, you know what He does? He postpones your problem to the latter part of your present life or to the future life. We have to receive the trouble with compounded interest. You do not know about this. You think that you have fooled the God by your tears and weeping. Do not forget that God is cleverer than anybody in this world. Just see this infinite universe, which is designed and created by Him! You can understand His intelligence.

There are three types of people in the world. The first type is foolish who do not think anything for their old age. The second type of people is neither foolish nor wise. They save for their old age and so they are not foolish but they are not wise because they do not save anything for their future birth. The wise people save for their future birth.

If the file of any person is opened after death in the hell that person normally is subjected to severe torture there and will be born as an animal or bird or insect or worm. The human birth is almost impossible. Therefore, the Christian faith says that the human birth is final birth. After this birth according to Christianity one has to go to hell or heaven forever. This is true because if one falls in the life cycle of birds and animals, he will be rolling continuously in that cycle only. This is a permanent hell. If you have done some service to God here which alone can be the proof of real love, your file is not opened and you are sent to Heaven to take rest for some time. When the Lord reincarnates in the human form, you will follow Him by getting a human birth. You are always associated with God in the heaven as well as on the earth. So that is a permanent heaven. Your service to God must be only to the human form of God and not to the statues or photos.

The service to statues and photos results in your cheating or the cheating of the priests. You have cheated God when you have offered food to the statue and then enjoyed it or the priests cheat you if they have enjoyed that food which was offered by you. The real sacrifice and service is proved only with the human form of the God. Gopikas offered butter to Lord Krishna, which was actually eaten by the Lord. The Gita says that God comes only in Human form (Mānuṣīṃ tanum āśritam…). The Gita also criticizes, the worship of statues by such offerings. The Gita says “Bhūtejyā yānti bhūtāni…”. This means that those who worship the five elements as the forms of God through offering will become those five elements. This means that if you offer food to a statue made of stone you will be born as a stone.

Why the Lord cursed too severely? You are offering the food to the stone and you are eating it. You are greedy and fooled God. You are not offering to the human form of God because of your greediness. Sometimes you are offering the food to a statue in the temple. The undeserving priest may enjoy it. The priest is undeserving because he is cheating you in the name of God. Sometimes you may distribute that food to the devotees who come there. Such a distribution becomes waste because the devotees may be capable of earning their food. You must distribute the food to the beggars who are incapable of earning that food. Lord Datta says that there are four types of beggars to whom you can offer the food. They are children, very old people, diseased and people who lost the limbs. Except to these four types food should not be offered to beggars who are capable of doing work. For such beggars you can help showing the work.

So lot of analysis is needed whenever you are doing charity. By your charity if somebody gains strength and does a sin you have to share that sin. If you give milk to a snake with pity it will bite you and others. So, you have to analyze and use lot of discrimination in doing the charity because sometimes you are purchasing the sin. Therefore, you must take the help of Sadguru in doing the charity. You pity a beggar but he is a sinner punished by God for his previous sin. Your pity and charity to him may annoy God because God wants to punish him and you are obstructing his punishment. Such a fellow may do the sin again due to the effect of his previous mentality. In such a case you are sharing his sin. The beggars are also adapting to certain cheating methods. So before doing charity you spend some time in analyzing the case history of the beggar. Instead of giving Re. 1 to ten beggars by giving ten paise each, you spend sometime in the analysis and give a rupee to the deserving beggar. Such a charity brings to you lot of good results. You are always hasty about the place and time for charity. You think you will get good results if you donate at Varanasi on Mahashivaratri? Place and time are not important for charity. The deserving person is important. If you get a deserving person that place is Varanasi and that day is Mahashivaratri. So you must have lot of analysis and patience in doing charity.

The Veda says “Saṃvidā deyam” which means donate after analysis. The Veda also says, “Śraddhayā deyam” which means donate with patience. Vyasa in the Mahabharata told that sin comes if you don’t donate to a deserving person and also if you donate to an undeserving person. The Lord can only know correctly the deserving aspect and the undeserving aspect. So, if you can identify the Lord in human form you better donate to Him and He will give it to a deserving person. He knows all the previous births of every human being and He knows perfectly who deserves and who does not deserve. Shirdi Sai Baba was such incarnation of the Lord. The Guru dakshina given to Him was properly utilized. He used to distribute the dakshina given by the devotees to the deserving people.

Sometimes He used to give the money submitted by one devotee to some wealthy person also because the devotee has to give to that person, as he was indebted to him in his previous birth. Therefore, catching a Sadguru is very important for your spiritual effort.

Don’t attach much importance to this material life because it is just like one-hour journey and it hardly matters whether you traveled by 1^st class or 3^rd class i.e., whether you are rich or poor. All will get down at the same station and will leave to lead the life there. That part is important than the journey. So, the scene in the upper world after death is important.

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