Why Did God Datta Choose to Merge With You?

[Q. Why God Datta selected You for merge to propagate the final true spiritual knowledge to this world while several saints are available, who have sacrificed everything for the sake of God? After all, You are a married person with children struggling for livelihood and a teacher of chemistry, which is not connected to spiritual knowledge at all! (This question is part of a mahā satsaṅga or a great spiritual discussion between Swami and several devotees who had come from various places, seeking the clarification of their doubts.)]

Swami replied:- When God Datta appeared before Me asking Me to propagate this final spiritual knowledge, I have exactly put the same question to Him, which is put to Me by you. In fact, I prayed Him to help Me in the interview for a job, which was very much needed for My livelihood. He did not respond to My request and as soon as He appeared, His first statement was “I have selected You for full time for the propagation of the final spiritual knowledge in this world”. Then, I replied “there are several saints, who dedicated their total lives for spiritual knowledge and I am just a teacher of chemistry. You can select them”. Then, He replied “who can be more deserving than You for this work in this entire world?” I thought that He is testing My ego and hence, I dropped that topic and told about all the pitiable conditions of My struggle for livelihood as the head of a large family. I also told Him that He shall help Me in an interview for job because it has become bare basic necessity. I also told Him that I will earn My livelihood through My job and propagate the spiritual knowledge in all My leisure time without aspiring for any fruit from God for His work done by Me. I told that I am asking His help in emergent necessity only and told that I am requesting Him not for wealth directly, but, only requesting Him to help Me in getting work through which I can earn My livelihood. I clarified that I don’t want anything in return in doing His work.

Then, He told Me finally “I will take care of Your emergent need. You enter in to the propagation of this final spiritual knowledge for full time without bothering about any worldly job. I know that You were spending all Your leisure time of Your childhood in writing various books in Sanskrit on spiritual knowledge and in meeting various Sanskrit scholars to bring correlation between various philosophies in Hinduism. You never did any spiritual activity for any selfish need and even now You are asking Me to get work for your livelihood only and not asking for any fruit for spiritual work. You are an ordinary householder doing spiritual work for the sake of others only without aspiration for any fruit for the God’s work. You are an ordinary hut, but, emitting pleasant scent of sacrifice for God. These saints are extraordinary with all divine merits standing like palaces of marble stones doing the spiritual work for uplifting themselves and emitting bad odour of selfishness. Shall I enter a hut with good scent or shall I enter a palace with bad odour? I like all good qualities but, I don’t like one quality, which is selfishness before which I reject all the good qualities. I don’t like all bad qualities but, I like one quality, which is sacrifice before which I neglect all the bad qualities.”

I have told My personal experience only to emphasise that the only quality that spoils our entire devotion to God like a drop of poison spoiling the whole pot of milk is our aspiration for fruit in return from God for our worship, service and sacrifice. This is the basic criterion to become human incarnation through which one has to work for the world and not for self. Even the work done for the world must be due to love on God only and not due to love on world. Since He is the creator and established this world, He likes that His world must run smoothly with full peace. For the sake of His liking to this world only, we have to do the divine service to promote peace in this world, which is His main liking. This is the essence of this final spiritual knowledge. All of you are palaces of marble stones and if you attain selflessness also, what to speak of palaces with good scent! God will run in to you while entering!!

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