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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

The spiritualism is the context in which you have to make efforts to reach

God. In this context, you need not even control your bad qualities because, God

has no personal objection towards your bad qualities. These bad qualities

cannot be obstacles in any manner in this context. Moreover, when you turn

these bad qualities towards the God, they become your helpers. Any quality

whether good or bad, is created by God only to help you in reaching Him. If you

realize the original aim of all these qualities, good or bad, why should you

control these qualities, which are with you as a helper? No fool controls his

helpers. So, any quality when involved in spiritualism is used for its original

aim, it becomes a good quality. So all your qualities become good in

spiritualism and you need not put any effort to remove or even control them.

When the qualities are not used for their original purpose, they become bad

qualities. Therefore, whatever qualities turned towards the world, are

bad qualities. In this spiritualism, there is no need of any effort even to

control these bad qualities.

 

Then, for what, our effort should be made? Our effort should be concentrated

to achieve “Bhakthi” which is the love on God. “Bhakthi” is achieved and is

grown by the knowledge of God. For example, you came to know that Bombay City

exists. This is the knowledge of existence of Bombay. By this you want to see

Bombay. As you know the details of Bombay more and more, your desire to see the

city becomes more and more. Knowing details about the Bombay City is again the

further knowledge. So, knowledge is directly proportional to desire. First

Rukmini heard that there is Lord Krishna on this earth. As she heard more and

more about Lord Krishna from Sage Narada, her love on Krishna increased

enormously. Narada means he who gives knowledge. Therefore, ‘Jnana”(knowledge)

generates and develops “Bhakthi (devotion)”. Due to Bhakthi, the Lord is

attained. Gita says the same ‘ONLY BY BHAKTHI I AM ATTAINED’ (‘Bhaktya………’).

 

In the spiritual path all your effort must be concentrated in acquiring the

knowledge of God day by day. Once this knowledge based Bhakthi (devotion) is

achieved, your qualities good or bad are immaterial. Whatever may be the

vessel, the drink in it is important. The value paid in a hotel is for the

drink only. If you have taken a cup of coffee, you are paying the cost of the

coffee only whether the cup is made of glass or metal. Similarly, God gives

value only for your Bhakthi and not for your quality. I will give a beautiful

example here. “Sabari” is with good qualities and offered fruits to the Lord

Rama who is Vishnu. A hunter called “Kannappa” gave flesh to the Lord Siva.

Sabari reached the ‘World of Vishnu and Kannappa reached the World of Shiva”.

Both have reached the same Lord because Veda says, “Shiva is Narayana”. Both of

them have been given the similar value by the Lord because in both cases, the

intensity of the devotion is the same as both gave even their

food without eating. Therefore, this proves clearly that the Lord has no

objection for your bad qualities.

 

Hence, all the effort should be only to achieve and increase the intensity of

love devotion or Bhakthi on God. It is not necessary to bother about your

qualities that are inherent coming from millions of births. They are the born

qualities. The tail of the dog is curved. Any effort cannot make it straight.

By force, we can keep it straight but it has not become straight. Similarly you

can control your bad qualities for not disturbing peace of the world by some

force. When you come to God, you come in your natural state because you can

deceive the world showing that your banded tail is straight but not the God.

Whether the river comes in straight path or curved path, the ocean receives only

the water with equality. Similarly, God receives your love irrespective of your

quality. He received “Sabari” and ‘Kannappa” equally. Sabari with good

qualities and Kannappa with bad qualities reached the same Lord, as their

devotion is of same intensity.

 

A piece of gold is wrapped in an old cloth. A stone is wrapped with a

metallic foil. Which has more total value? Similarly, the love with high

intensity covered even by a bad quality has more total value than the love with

lesser intensity covered by a good quality. When the blood flew from the eye of

the Lord, the Priest who is a person with good qualities is trying to apply the

medicine. But, his devotion is less. In the same situation, “Kannappa” plucked

his eyes and donated to the Lord. Kannappa is a person with bad qualities but

his devotion is the highest. Devotion is the highest good quality. Now let us

evaluate the total cost of the priest and Kannappa. The devotion in Kannappa is

+100. The bad qualities in Kannappa are –10. The total cost is +90. The

priest with good qualities is +10. The devotion in him is +20. The total cost

is +30. So, of the two who is good? Obviously it is Kannappa. Gita says, that,

“Even the worst is best by Bhakthi” (Api chet….).

 

posted by:

surya

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

Adithya K <adithya_comming wrote: Whatever you " feel " is Not your

fault!

 

All the " feelings " belong to simple bio-chemical

reactions...

This is how the body-brain reacts given

these inputs under these 'conditions'!

 

The appropriate way to look is to look...

is to look at the... Inputs!

 

Look at the conditions...

change the input... when possible,

change the conditions when appropriate!

 

 

 

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