Guest guest Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 Let us carefully dive into the minds and hearts of numerous devotees,who proclaim their devotion to God with complacency and pride.In most cases the devotion will be found to be a bargain.God,give so much temporal benefit and the devotee to offer his namaskarams,archanas,vazhipadus etc in return.Most people frankly declare that in case of the benefit being reaped,the devotion will be confirmed and the proposed offerings etc will be done.Is this Bhakthy?But at the same time it can't be denied this is how devotion starts,is made to start or can start in the vast majority of cases.No objection can be made to rudimentary bhakthy being so crude.But it would be pitiable indeed if bhakthy should continue to be so crude,after the early stages and days are passed.It is ok in the beginning.The child throws away its teething ring,trundle hoop and spring toys,one after another.So shuld a bhaktha soon recognizes the absurdity of resorting to God merely to pull out one's earthly chestnuts from the fire.God is not to be bargained with and God knows what is really good for a devotee better than the devotee.Regard for God beginning with gratitude for one or more extraordinary acts of help must turn into Love,the love of a child to its mother touched into sublimity by dim perception of Infinite Power,Wisdom etc in the unseen Universal Being.Failure to advance will be not mere stagnation but descent into lower and lower levels. Let us consider the evil effects of continuous looking to God for earthly benefits. Our longing for earthly benefits gets strengthened ie. rajas and tamas get more and more to predominate in our nature,clouding the satwa and even temporarily banishing it from us.The evils of tamas and rajas rise up at once.A bit of disappointment makes us angry with God that we hv just worshipped for earthly objects alone and we even tempt to break our idols and gods and become some type of agnostics.If we but worshipped God in the correct spirit ,nor in terms of dictation but with humble submission,recognizing the possibility that the All-wise Mother-God might deem it better to disappoint us and make us suffer in the present,to wipe off old karmic accounts,to develop the satwic side of our nature and to fit us perhaps for the position decreed by Supreme Wisdom and mercy.The Omnipotent,Omniscient and Universal Father-Mother provides for the present and future of innumerable creatures with apparently conflicting interests and may make use of us as His instruments or even as agents to carry out His high decrees.It is for the devotees to submit their wills and be receptive.If we are in this proper mood,prayers are found to be needless assertion of ego,not promoting but retarding our real progress. After the Great War of Kurukshetra Lord Krishna happened to see Kunti and asked her what boon she wanted.Kunti in her humility replied that she shuld always be given troubles so that she could always remember Him or else she would forget Him.Such is the real position of a bhaktha.Let us recognize that our notions of God are really abstractions and that it is wise not to ignore and lose the concrete manifestations of God before us in trying to clutch at abstractions that are so elusive.We must always remember that the Creator can't be purchased by our promises to do this and that if we get this and that and if we think it is only obnoxious and rubbish.By that we may be able to satisfy our ego complexioned mind but that won't hv any effect on the course which God has decided.Only love,dedication and surrender without reservations can fetch the ardent devotee His Grace after putting him into lot of trials and tribulations and make him choke and if the devotion is true there be no doubt he will be saved at the right time by the Mercy of the Creator. This is the experience of everso many devotees in the past,present and of course the same will be in the future too.There is no incident that an ardent devotee failed to get His mercy and Grace in times of distress.May that Bhakthy cult grow. Hare Krishna, agraman. India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on India Click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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