Shri Dattaguru Bhagavat Gita: Vishnu Khanda: Chapter-7

(Song of Preacher – God Shri Datta)

Vishnu Khandam – Part of Vishnu

Seventh Chapter – Datta Nishkaama Bhakti Yogah

(Vision of Selfless Love of Datta)

God-preacher Shri Datta spoke:-

Arjuna used God Krishna for his work and became weak after God left (Arjuna could not fight even with hunters after Krishna left). Arjuna did not have any temple for him. Hanuman used Himself for the work of God and remained powerful even after God Rama left. Hanuman has several temples built for Him. This is the difference between using Yourself for God’s work and using God for Your work.
The word ‘karma’ means work done with selfishness. This is not correct path. The Veda says that by such work, salvation is not obtained (na karmanaa…). Hence, the word karma should not be mistaken as all types of work. Work done for the sake of God is not covered by this word.
Doing the ritual-sacrifice (feeding hungry devotees with ghee-fried food and not burning ghee in the physical fire), singing divine songs, meditation, reading spiritual books, participating in spiritual discussions, seeing My pictures, etc., are various ways of My worship. You can engage Yourself in any way as per the convenience of Your mind and external atmosphere. Similarly, You can worship any form of Me as You like.
Whatever may be the form and whatever may be the way, Your interest should be spontaneous love and not by force due to desire for some fruit. I like such natural devotion only. The devotion due to interest in fruit is not natural and I hate it. Such devotion for fruit is like the false love expressed by a prostitute for Your money. As Your love appears on Your life partner and children in natural and spontaneous way without any force, such true love is liked by Me. For the expression of true love, there is no specific place, specific time and specific way of expression.
As You are expressing Your true love on Your beloved issue in any place at any time and in any way using spontaneous words, You shall worship Me in the same way. Are You reciting any previously written dialogue before Your issue to express Your true love? Why are You reciting previously written prayers before Me? As You are not aspiring any fruit in return from Your issue, so also, if You don’t aspire any fruit from Me, Your worship will be natural and spontaneous.
All the above ways please Me. But, participation in My service by doing propagation of My spiritual knowledge is directly the salvation itself. Hence, only a salvated soul can participate in My service. Today, the right direction to be obtained by true knowledge is missing and hence, the need of this hour is propagation of My spiritual knowledge. My service is not an effort to please Me, but, it is the fruit given by Me for Your spiritual effort!
Ego is of three types by association with three qualities. The first type is ego of sattvam quality. In this, ‘I’ stands as a word indicating Yourself without any pride. In this, ‘I’ desires bliss and elimination of all grief. This is also selfish expressing the real state of self. In this way also, he/she uses God to attain the state of infinite bliss.
The second type of ego is with rajas quality. In this, desire for fame through miraculous powers exists. The ‘I’ here is associated with inert energy and work. This ‘I’ is fond of the fame to be obtained in this world through exhibition of divine powers. This ‘I’ is always fond of followers and devotees. This ‘I’ speaks that it is God.
The third type of ego is associated with the quality tamas. He feels that he is the body and that he is God. Sometimes, he feels that he is above the God by separating from God. The analysis and knowledge is completely absent. He is fond of tongue and sex. He behaves like a drunkard.
The essence of ego is fascination, which is the desire to possess other items. Even in the first type of ego, there is fascination for bliss. Absence of these three types of ego is the meaning of the word ‘Atri’.
Tamas is desire for worldly pleasures without thinking about My existence and this is pure ignorance. Rajas is using Me as instrument in his work for getting the worldly desires fruitful. Sattvam is the path of full knowledge having the desire for salvation from grief and for attainment of bliss. If You leave the selfishness or ego and jealousy, You become the sage Atri, in which state, I Myself will come to You.
Ego and jealousy are the sinful couple, always associated with each other. Lack of three types of ego is sage Atri and lack of jealousy is mother Anasuya. Both these are pious couple to attain Me at once.
My servant is beyond these three types of ego. He forgets even the basic ‘I’ that denotes himself. He will never have any worldly fascination except fascination to Me. He propagates the spiritual knowledge with an aim that I should become famous and not that he should become famous. In My service, he does not differentiate happiness-heaven and misery-hell.
I adopt Myself to such true and beloved servant. I become his/her issue and follow their orders like a son following the orders of his parents. I become their servant. I hide Myself and give credit of My work to them. I will see that such servant becomes God in this world, in whom I always hide Myself.
This is greater than monism, in which I merge with the soul and become the soul. Devotion in which God becomes the servant of the devotee is greater than such monism obtained through incarnation. Such devotee keeps his/her eyes on Me only forgetting self. I also keep My eyes on such devotee forgetting Myself. I see that the doership of My work goes to such devotee only and not to Myself.
‘I am God’ (Aham Brahma asmi) means that such devotee feels satisfied if God eats. The reverse is not true to feel that if the devotee eats, God eats! This is the transformation of God into soul, which is not soul into God. If God is beaten, such devotee feels all the pain of the beating! This fruit comes only through My service with full sacrifice.
In such state, I also feel satisfied if My devotee eats. If My devotee is beaten, I feel all its pain. The Veda says “thou are that (tattvam asi)”. Before this state, that has to become thou. This means that You are not becoming God by Your will and Your effort. By the will of God, first, God becomes thou and then only You will become God, which is also by His will only.
My servant does My service by working in propagating My spiritual knowledge. He says that I have done all the work through him. In reverse, I do the work of a miracle and give the credit of that work to him. Like this, the cycle between him and Me rotates in forward and backward ways.
You do lot of effort to fix Your mind on Me. But, Your mind is not fixed on Me in spite of Your hectic efforts. Suddenly, in a time that is unexpected, Your mind gets fixed on Me. What is the reason for both these states? The reason is that in the first state, My mind is not fixed on You and in the second state My mind is fixed on You. Use the time fruitfully in the worship when My mind is fixed on You. If You leave this fortunate moment for some other worldly work and come back, My mind is fixed on some other devotee. Break the iron while it is hot!
When My eye falls on You, Your mind gets absorbed and surrendered to Me. When the King looks at some servant, he runs towards the King for getting order from the King. All this creation is in My service. Yourself and Your mind are tiny parts of the creation. Know that in such state of Your spontaneous attraction to Me, My eye is on You and surrender to Me in such unexpected spontaneous state leaving everything else. I become pleased with You and will see You again and again. Your mind gets attracted to Me often. This is very fast path in the spiritual progress.
In such state, Your mind will be without aspiration for any selfish worldly fruit. This is an important sign of such fortunate state. As long as the worldly desire exists in You, Your mind is not surrendering to Me spontaneously. Your mind has already surrendered to the worldly desire. Its attraction to Me is only to use Me as an instrument to attain such worldly fruit. In absence of Your true love to Me, My eye will not fall on You. You can cheat Your human boss giving an impression that You are surrendering to him with true love, but, You can’t cheat Me, the omniscient, unless You really have that true love!
Mutual cheating is the essence of worldly bond. The husband thinks that his wife loves him. She loves him only because he is giving her happiness. Hence, she loves him for her happiness and not for his happiness. If the husband starts torturing her, truth will come out. Only God loves You without any selfishness. God does not require any happiness from You. He loves You for Your happiness only. This is well explained by Sage Yajnyavalkya to his wife, Maitreyi, in the Veda (Aatmanah kaamaaya sarvam priyam bhavati).
You also love Your wife for Your happiness and not for her happiness in the same above explained way. Hence, worldly bonds are mutual cheatings. Only the bond of God towards You is true, which is love to You without aspiration of any fruit from You. What about Your bond towards Him in reverse? Is there a single instance in which You loved Him without aspiration for any fruit in return from Him? You are showing such true love to some extent at least towards Your family, but, never to God. Is this justified on Your part?
If You see fox and dog, both almost look alike. Fox is a cheater whereas dog is representative of real faith! In devotees, You have both foxes and dogs. Both are devotees looking alike. But, if You analyze their devotion, You will understand that one devotion is false and other devotion is true. The most important point that every devotee shall know is that a human being can be cheated by fox but not the omniscient God. Hence, be sincere before God by maintaining homogeneity in mind, word and action.
In the case of gold, there are two important aspects: i) Whether the gold is pure or impure and ii) If it is pure, what is its weight? Similarly, in the case of Your worship, the two important aspects are: i) Whether Your worship is pure without selfishness or impure with aspiration for some fruit in return and ii) Whether Your devotion is firm standing against My tests or weak failing in My tests. The proof of Your devotion is practice and every theoretical devotion must be associated with practical proof.
All My plays are practicals of My spiritual knowledge preached. Radha left her life in My constant memory after I left My body. This is practical proof for her total surrender towards Me. Hanuman stays with His body even though I left My body. It is not His desire to keep His body alive. He is made eternal by Me only, forcing Him to be in My service after Me. When He could not find Sita in Lanka during His search, He thought of committing suicide! Both are in equal status of devotion. Hanuman is incarnation of God Shiva. Radha is incarnation of Sage Durvaasa, who is incarnation of God Shiva. God Shiva incarnated Himself as a devotee to show the climax of devotion.
Your love on Yourself and Your family is the selfishness. Your love on God is selflessness. You aspire for the happiness of God and not for happiness of Yourself and Your family. God is always working in the propagation of spiritual knowledge. If You aspire for His happiness, You participate at least a little in His work to give Him some rest and happiness.
The firm devotion without aspiration for any fruit is the pure devotion with lot of weight. Such devotion is qualitatively and quantitatively tested item. The devotion must pass both the tests for quality and quantity.
The worldly fascinations are like the waves of ocean. If a plant is hit by the waves, it will bend and fall forever. If a hill is hit by the waves, nothing will happen. An ordinary soul is like the plant and a true devoted soul is like the hill. The waves are thrown back by the hill and such hill-like devotee is called as avadhuuta, which means that the devotee throws away the worldly bonds. This does not mean throwing away the clothes and becoming naked!
Different devotees worshipped Me in different bonds. Prahlada treated Me as his father. Dasharatha treated Me as his son. Rukmini and Sita treated Me as husband. Radha and Meera treated Me as darling. All these bonds are noble and equally important. All bonds are made of same gold-love. The difference lies only in the quality and quantity of the material of the bond.
There is nothing wrong if You are involved in the worldly responsibilities like earning livelihood for Yourself and Your family. These are inevitable. Such people are householders, who may request God for help in such basic responsibilities. Some people limit these responsibilities to self only without families. Such people are saints (samnyaasins). But, avadhuutas leave these responsibilities also for My sake. All these three are good souls only differing in the distance travelled by them. The souls, which are always fascinated to self and to their families only going to the extent of doing any sin and to pray God to help their sinful works also, are the worst fallen souls going to be thrown into cycles of birds and animals after this birth.
One should not become a saint or avadhuuta suddenly by using forcible effort. Such state shall come by a very long standard spiritual effort, ripened without any force. If one attains such state without deservingness, this nature will revolt against him and throws him away like the public throwing away an undeserving ruler.
If one is interested in God with very limited fascination to world, he is the saint. If the saint throws away that little worldly fascination also, he is called as avadhuuta. If one has full worldly fascination in the mind and acts as saint or avadhuuta, such a soul is the worst and a householder is far better than such a worst soul.
A person, who fasts, having increased fascination towards food in the mind without fascination to God is worst. A person, who takes food and worships God, is far better than this worst soul. A person having full fascination to God by forgetting the food is really fasting. Mind is very important that governs the external actions. Mind and practice are equally important. Mind is like the application for job and practice is like the certificate of qualification and experience enclosed with the application.
Fascination is generated by the enjoyment of desired fruits generated by the corresponding deeds. The desire for fruit is based on the mind. The mind follows the decisions made by intelligence. The analysis of knowledge helps the intelligence in making decisions. Hence, knowledge and its analysis are very important for the development of fascination.
If the knowledge is perfect, decisions are always right. In such case, the fascination is also generated in the right direction towards God. The direction of the fascination is important. Fascination in the right direction is very much essential for the right spiritual journey. Such a soul is liberated in this life itself (jeevanmukta) and is called as sthitaprajna. Such a soul will be very powerful in doing works. Such a soul is selected by Me for My service.
Fascination generates aims, which result in deeds. Deeds, by rule, give their corresponding fruits. In the absence of worldly fascination in a soul filled with the fascination to God, if worldly deeds appear, such a soul is not touched by their fruits even though deeds are done by it. For example, Sage Vyaasa generated issues by meeting with the widow-wives of his brothers. He is not touched by the fruits of such sinful deeds since he has no worldly fascination and aim except the fascination to God. Such deed was imposed on him by his mother. He has no fascination and no aim in this deed. Hence, he is not touched by the fruit of such deed. Similarly, Lord Krishna stealing the butter and dancing with Gopikas did not end with any fruit since He was testing them in their worldly bonds.
Ravana could not even touch Sita and did not do the sinful deed. But, he had lot of such sinful fascination and bad aim towards Sita. Even though the deed was absent, he was punished by the fruit of the sinful deed. Hence, fascination, aim, mind, decision of intelligence and direction of knowledge are the real factors in giving the fruits.
I am the seller of items in every shop appearing in different forms. All items exist in every shop. The rate of any item is one and the same in any shop. You may travel in any path, You will come to one of My shops only. You will get any item from any shop for the same rate based on Your selfless service-money.
I use the fruits of Your sins only for My tests. If You pass in the test, You have double advantage:- i) The fruit of Your sin is exhausted and ii) You will attain My grace for passing the test. If You fail in My test, You are not put to any extra loss because even if You fail, the fruit of Your sin is exhausted. Even if My test is absent, You have to face the fruit of the sin either here or in the upper world. Hence, You need not fear about My tests.
The permanent attraction is generated on understanding the nature of any item deeply. The attraction appearing on mere seeing and hearing is not standard. After the perfect knowledge of the item only, attraction and practical effort to attain it are generated. Without perfect spiritual knowledge, effort to attain devotion is like the effort to climb up without basic staircase-steps.
I am invisible and even unimaginable to souls. This gives value to Me in their minds. This leads to constant attraction. Radha reached the climax of devotion only since I was far from her. Rukmini was constantly in My association and hence, could not reach the state of Radha. Once, Radha came to Dwaraka and Rukmini gave the hot milk, which (with such heat) was taken by her every day. When both reached Me, I was found red hot and I told that it was due to hot milk drunk by Radha passing over the heart in which I always existed. Rukmini was drinking the same hot milk every day and I did not become red hot. This showed that I was not in the heart of Rukmini. I explained the reason that close stay with Me is the cause for her negligence to Me so that I was not in her heart. On hearing this, Radha went back to Brundavanam and never came to Dwaraka. It is very difficult for ignorant souls to understand the background of My deeds.
I am attracted by the scent like selfless love of a devotee that comes up to My world and drags Me down to this earth. The false love due to selfishness is like bad odour that repels and drives Me away from the earth to My world. The Veda says this (yathaa sampushpitasya vrukshasya duuraat gandho vaati…).
The worship may be very much attractive and I may approach that worship due to its attraction. As soon as I realize the aim behind it as selfishness, I immediately go back. A young man may approach a beautiful girl attracted by her exceptional beauty. As soon as he approaches her, if very bad odour due to sweat is emanated, he runs away from her!
Spiritual knowledge of God or Brahma Jnaanam does not mean the knowledge of various angels to be worshipped for specific fruits. Such knowledge is total ignorance only. Such knowledge is like a thief in saffron cloth. You shall not argue that knowledge, devotion and practice are to be done for attaining some benefit only and not without any use.
Your argument is not correct. A fan of a great person is seen without any selfish aim. When that great person dies, the fan is also committing suicide! We are seeing this in the world. This fan is really great for his selfless sacrifice and service to that great person. Such great person is not great since he never bothered about this fan. But, God is not like that person. God embraces His fan and merges with him!
Such climax of true love alone can bind the God. But, when God tests the devotee, God appears as very selfish to estimate the strength of the devotion. The above mad fan is standing as an example for the devotee. But, the above said ignorant great person is totally different from God, who is omniscient.
All this creation is the cycle of spiritual knowledge only. Sun, air, water, etc., are functioning without selfishness. Even trees are giving their fruits to others without any selfishness. Even birds and animals earn that much, which is required for their maintenance only. If You see this human being, it is the greatest item of this creation blessed with tremendous intelligence. But, it is worse than birds and animals, which is going on storing and storing even though its basic maintenance is fulfilled. It is continuously doing sins in spite of the wealth stored for ten generations. The cycle of deeds in human beings is towards the direction of injustice whereas the same cycle of deeds is towards justice in all other living beings. The greatest human being is standing in the worst position!
A prostitute studies Your details and gets full knowledge about You not to really love You, but to get Your wealth by tricks. Almost every human being is like the prostitute only, which studies about God to get some selfish benefit either here or there. The knowledge about God is not selfless ultimate aim, but, is an instrument for getting selfish benefits.
A chaste wife also knows about the details of her husband. She loves her husband even if he loses his wealth. This is the true love or devotion. A prostitute is differentiated from the chaste wife when he becomes poor by losing wealth. In such stage, the prostitute throws away the person from the house. A true devotee is like the chaste wife and a false devotee is like the prostitute.

Seventh chapter is completed.