Spiritual Life & Ordinary Life Are the Same

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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Q) When Sankara chanted Kanaka Dhara prayer the golden fruits fell as a rain.

Even an ordinary fruit is not falling from the tree in spite of our chanting

hundred times the same prayer. What is the reason?

 

A) One person got M.A. degree by working hard. He applied for the post of a

lecturer and attended the interview in neat dress. He got the post. Another

fellow who failed 10th class is putting 100 applications for the same post

everywhere. He is going to the interview in very very attractive dress. Such

fellow is not even called into the room of interview. I know in the olden days,

a person received the appointment order for the post of a lecturer from the

Government even before the result of his M.A. degree was declared from the

university. The Government got the pass list from the university before it is

announced. Therefore if you have the deserving degree, you need not apply and

need not go to the interview. The order of appointment will come directly to

your house.

 

Similarly your chanting of the prayer is your application. Your silk cloth,

garlands, sacred ash on the forehead etc., compose the neat dress for the

interview. The practical sacrifice for the sake of the Lord crossing the family

bonds is the real deserving M.A. degree; you must work hard to attain that

degree. Without doing that what is the use of all these external things.

 

Sankara sacrificed His old mother for the sake of the mission of the Lord, which

is the propagation of divine knowledge. The deserving qualification of Sankara

was responsible for that rain of golden fruits. The prayer chanted by Him was

merely a formal application for the post. Even that application is not necessary

if you have the deserving qualification.

 

Sabari, Kannappa, Elephant, Spider and Serpant never asked the Lord for

anything. Their practical sacrifice was their deserving qualifiation. Our

present tradition is preaching you to attain the external means only without the

real internal deserving qualification. Therefore the Lord is not pleased with

you and no fruit is seen for such wasteful external means.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

epston wrote: Here is a description of two days of my ordinary life,

which to me is also my spiritual life because every moment of life is an

expression of the One Life Being. Every thought, every breath, every sensation,

every creative

 

 

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