Real Devotion Keeps No Accounts

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Kishore Ram asked (through Shri PVNM Sharma):- It is very difficult to be without aspiration for any fruit in return from God while doing service to Him.]

Swami Replied:- The point here is not to achieve such state of lack of aspiration for any fruit in return by putting efforts, but, to attain such state in a natural way without any trace of effort. If you take our state of real love to our issues, such state of real love to our issues (which is practical service and practical sacrifice without aspiration for any fruit in return) is existing in us in a natural way and not in artificial way achieved by efforts. If we are not achieving such state in natural way without any trace of effort in the case of God, our love to God is not the natural and real love that is existing in us is towards our issues. In such case, we shall not tell lies in our prayers to God that God is beyond all our worldly bonds and God is higher than anybody and anything! We can’t trap omniscient God by telling lies. We can trap any human being by telling lies. We shall not also say that it is impossible to show such love to God without aspiration for any fruit in return. The word ‘impossible’ is an utter lie since we are showing such love to our issues. Will anyone believe that I can lift the hill in Mumbai, but not in Delhi? If it is impossible, I can’t lift the hill in any place. Hence, we shall frankly admit that we have real love to our issues, but, not to God. Our unreal love to God is based on the aspiration of fruit in return, which is either prostitution-devotion or business-devotion. In the former devotion, we try to achieve practical boons from God for our theoretical devotion exchanged. In the latter devotion, we try to achieve practical boons from God for our practical devotion exchanged. One should not say that even our devotion to our issues is based on the aspiration for fruit in return since we aspire for the services from our issues in our old age. This is not true. If the issues refuse to serve us in our old age, we will neither change the will written in favour of our issues nor will keep silent if they require some urgent service from us at any time. We may scold them for their ungratefulness, but, we will not change our attitude towards them in the case of our sacrifice and service to them at any time!

We fear about the loss of our energy in service and our wealth in sacrifice expecting the possibility of God to keep silent in our difficulties even if our service and sacrifice done to God were without any aspiration for any fruit in return from Him! This is the exact point of our slip. We are having confidence on our issues, who are human beings, but, we don’t have a trace of confidence on the omnipotent God. Our issues are human beings with little potency, but, God is omnipotent. When the omnipotent God is expected to keep silent for your practical love shown to Him, you are treating God as ungrateful with lowest grade of character! Sometimes, we find our issues becoming ungrateful to us even though they are competent to render service in our old age due to absence of real love to us to be reciprocated at least. The reason for such ungratefulness is their ignorance, which diverted their real love to other blind bonds. The souls are ignorant sometimes and sometimes incapable in rendering services to us in reciprocation. But, the omniscient and omnipotent God has no reason to keep silent towards us in our difficulties without any valid reason. Difficulties reform the soul and improve devotion to God. His help or silence is real help only. Unless we are reformed, we will be continuously rotating in the chain of sins and punishments.

We shall establish our relationship with God based on real love, which does not follow the balance sheet of accounts of credit and debit based on businesses devotion. The real love is not based on any account and such real love is eternal. When Draupadi cried for the help during the attempted effort for de-clothing her from the opposite side in the court, God Krishna supplied saris to her without any account. Once, when His finger was cut, Draupadi tore her sari and used the piece of cloth for His bandage. If the account is maintained, even after adding lot of interest, the piece of cloth would become one sari at the maximum! The son gives his salary to the hand of his mother or the husband gives the same to the hand of his wife. The mother or wife looks for all the comforts needed by the son or husband respectively without the balance sheet of accounts of salary and comforts. There is no aspiration for any fruit from the other side on the part of any side. Such real love shall be established by us with God. The mother or wife is not omnipotent and may not be capable of providing all the comforts needed by us. Both are ignorant and may not be able to understand our requirement also every time. But, God is omnipotent and omniscient. Sometimes, if we find that such omnipotent and omniscient God is keeping silent, we must realize that there must be some very important valid reason that is in the interest of our better welfare only. In this real love, which is not based on the balance sheet of accounts, our love should be really real. What I mean is that our love shall be real both inside and outside. One devotee tried with such way of real love and did service and sacrifice without aspiration for any fruit in return. When this devotee got difficulties, God kept silent. This devotee asked God that he expected a countless love from God in return to reciprocate his countless love to God! His question to God shows that his love to God is real on the external side only and unreal internally! We must have real faith in God because He is omniscient to know our requirements even without our asking and that He is omnipotent to meet any of our requirements unlike the human souls. We are blind and foolish and hence we are behaving in reverse way with respect to God and with respect to these worldly bonds.

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