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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Veda says that donations should be done with knowledge and patience

(‘Samvida….’) (‘Sraddhaya..’). Use the knowledge to identify the deserving

person and have patience to wail till you get that deserving person. Who is the

utmost deserving person? The Lord himself is the utmost deserving person. His

first address is the human incarnation and the second address is his devotees.

Between these two, the first address is better. The reason is, in the case of

human incarnation, the Lord lives in the inert human body. In the second

address, the Lord and Devotee live in the inert body. The amount so, donated

will be used by the Lord only with utmost utility. Blind and hasty donation

without knowledge and patience may bring sometimes even the sin. The Lord in

human form is the proper channel for your donation because there will be no

error when He utilizes the funds. Devotees may waste due to improper knowledge.

 

When Rama approached his Guru ‘Vasishta’ for the spiritual path, Vasistha told

Rama ‘First you go and earn some money and then come”. The Guru always asks for

Guru dakshina to teach this Karma phala tyaga. Guru is the human being and uses

that money for himself and for his family. A ‘Sadguru’ is the Lord in human

form and he uses that money for propagating knowledge and devotion in the world

to uplift all people. People sacrifice their money to feed the beggars? But

remember if the beggar does a sin with the energy given by your food, you have

to share that sin. You must spend lot of time to detect the deserving person.

People are hasty in giving donations at a temple and distribute ten coins to ten

beggars in five minutes and came back thinking that they have earned ‘Punyam’.

You were very particular of the place and time (Desa and Kala) of your donation.

You think that if you donate at Varanasi on the day of ‘Shiva ratri’you can get

the punyam. You don’t care to search

for the deserving person (Patra). Store all the coins that you want to donate

and go on searching for a deserving person. Whatever may be the place and

whatever may be the time, when you get a deserving person give all the coins to

him. That place becomes Varanasi and that time becomes Shivaratri.

 

People often say that Service to man is Service to God. This is a very

dangerous statement if it is not properly understood. Service does not mean

simply giving food, clothes, medicines etc., to suffering poor and needy people.

That poor person is suffering due to the punishment given by God due to his bad

deeds. You have not seen his past deeds but you are showing sympathy on him at

present. Your help is only temporary. Make him a devotee by imparting

knowledge. Then the Lord will help him and that help is permanent. So the word

“service” should not be limited to donating food etc., In such case after

receiving your help he may do sins which you have to share. So convert him into

a devotee by donating knowledge so that he becomes a devotee, to get personal

help from the Lord and also helps others. Since this is the work of the God,

such service of yours’ becomes God’s service. Donate knowledge and devotion,

even for the wealthy people. Poor did not mean lack of money

only. Poor means lack of knowledge and devotion also. Actually the original

sense of this statement is different. When the Lord comes in the human form, he

appears as a man. You have to detect him by his inherent quality that is

blissful knowledge. When you serve such a man your service becomes God’s

service because that man is God. When the God is born as a man called as

Krishna, some people think that Krishna is a man and some others think that

Krishna is a God. So, there is a controversy. God pervaded that man as the

current pervades the metallic wire. So both God and man co-exist.

Sankaracharya discussed that particular context only and concluded that though

two are present, both become one and the same only. Though wire and current are

present, the wire is the current because the wire gives a shock wherever it is

touched.

 

Similarly, when God pervades the human body, that human body is the God. So,

touching Krishna is touching God. But people extrapolated this concept to every

man and said, “Every man is God”. The disciples of Sankaracharya also thought

like this. When Sankara swallowed the molten lead and asked his disciples to

swallow the same disciples realized Sankara proved that he alone is God and not

his disciples. If every man is already God what is the use of all this

‘Sadhana’? Who is to get salvation? If you are already God, do you mean that

God gets salvation? If there is no salvation, why all this sadhana, (effort)?

Why Prahlada did not accept his father as God? Narasimha killed Hiranya

Kashipu. Both of them are Gods. Then God killed God, which means God committed

suicide!

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

Tatwamasi <tatwamasi wrote:

While one has to be careful as to who one gives money, and thus empower, the

moment one becomes dogmatic that dakshina has to be given to one person and not

to another, to one guru and not another, it raises a warning flag as to the

authenticity of the messenger who is stating this. More often than not,

overzealous ego-centric students corrupt a Guru's message as they seek power

vicariously through their Gurus' acheivements.

 

Of course a question then arises about the Guru who allows such a thing to

happen. But then again a Guru could be teaching responsibility using the concept

"give them a rope and they will hang themselves!!!"

_/\_ Tat twam asi

Uma

 

 

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