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What is the real interpretation of the word 'Aadi Bhikshu'?

[A question by Shri PVNM Sarma]

Swami replied:- This means God, who is a beggar from the beginning of creation. God is the owner of this entire creation! Why and for what is He begging the human beings for even food? God Datta, the highest form of God is still begging and all His incarnations so far continued to beg. What is the secrecy in this drama of God?

God wanted to test the practical devotion of the devotee because after theoretical devotion, practical devotion is to be followed, which means practical sacrifice of the fruit of work to God accompanied with the practical sacrifice of work or service to God. God is the actual giver of  wealth to any human being. If this fact is known to the human being, the human being will sacrifice some fruit of work at least in gratitude to God. Such sacrifice based on gratefulness cannot be true love because such sacrifice will be done by any human being even if it is having climax greed. Hence, God wants to hide the fact, which is that He has given wealth to any human being so that in this situation, gratefulness does not appear and if any sacrifice is done, that shall be based on true love only. Therefore, to conduct this test, God wants to appear as a beggar and not as a rich person. For this reason, God behaved like beggar from the beginning and hence, He is called as ‘Adi Bhikshu’.

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