Sacrifice of Wealth Is The Way

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Matthew–6 : 19 to 22

"Do not Lay up for yourselves, treasures on earth. But lay up for

yourselves treasures in heaven. For where your treasure is there

your heart will be also".

Matthew -7: 21

"Not everyone who say to Me, `Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of

heaven, but He who does the will of My Father in Heaven".

 

Indians, particularly, are sacrificing words through prayers and

feelings through expression of love for the sake of God. When the

question of wealth or money comes they sacrifice it for the sake of

their families only. This is the reason why India suffers with

poverty. Swami Vivekananda wept loudly facing the sky asking; "Why

India with such high spiritual knowledge is suffering with poverty?"

The foreigners are not so well in prayers and expression of love or

meditation compared to Indians but they sacrifice their money for

the sake of God with full vigor. Therefore God blesses the foreign

countries with wealth and prosperity.

 

Indians sacrifice words and mind only to God. Therefore Indians are

blessed with very good pronunciation of language and excellent

knowledge, which are connected to the words and mind. Gita says `Ye

Yatha Mam Prapadyante' which means that God gives you result in the

same way in which you worship Him. If you worship Him with words

(prayers) only He will also appreciate you with sweet words. If you

love Him with your mind and concentrate with meditation, He will

also love you in turn with high concentration of mind. If you

sacrifice practically, He will also do everything to you

practically. Indians must learn this practical sacrifice from

foreigners as they have learnt the science and technology from the

West. Even in the olden days, Indians were always doing exercises in

theoretical knowledge of God and in composing lot of poems on God.

Therefore the same attitude entered even their education of science.

They have become theorists even in science.

 

The foreigners were less theoretical and more practical in spiritual

things and therefore that attitude entered their scientific

education also and the foreigners have become the real practical

scientists. Let Indians not be proud that they are the masters in

the spiritualism if not in science. Though I am born in India, I

deny this. The Indians should follow the foreigners not only in

science but also in spiritualism by learning the practical aspect of

the materialistic as well as divine knowledge.

 

Today, in the world everybody agrees that the real power is the

money only. Money is the fruit of work and Bhagavatgita calls

sacrifice of money "Karma Phala Tyaga". In Bhagavatgita it is

said "Dhyanat Karma Phala Tyagah" which means that devotion is

greater than Knowledge and sacrifice of the fruit of the work

(money) is greater than the devotion. Knowledge consists of

intelligence and words. Devotion consists of mind and words.

Sacrifice consists of heart and love. The proof of the love is the

practical service, which is the practical sacrifice of work or

money. For the propagation of the divine knowledge and devotion the

money is needed to publish the gospel in the form of books. When you

sacrifice your money for the divine work your treasure in the heaven

is built up. This means that God will help you after your death and

you will enter the kingdom of God.

 

You are giving your earnings to your family only and so your real

love is on your family only. There is no need of any further

argument on this point because it is very clear proof. This is the

real fire test for your love. You are sacrificing valueless words

and valueless mind in leisure, which is valueless time. This cannot

prove the real value of God. You must give real value to God. You

are finishing your prayers and meditation on God as soon as the time

to go to job is nearing. Similarly when some work for the family is

approaching, you are immediately leaving the presence of God.

Therefore you are not giving any value to God for all practical

purpose. But you are telling lies in your prayers that God is

everything for you. The money is the final test and it can be the

only test also since all the family is associated with you for money

only and the family serves you in your old age for your money only.

If the money is sacrificed to God your real color of love can be

seen.

 

At the lotus feet of Shri Datta Swami

surya

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