Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

LIFE AFTER TAKING REFUGE IN GOD.

 

Question: What sort of life does a devotee lead after surrendering

himself to God?

Swamiji: According to the Gita, a devotee should not renounce his

duties and actions. He should offer all his duties and actions, all

his religious and social obligations to God. When entirely all

actions are dedicated and surrendered to God and refuge has been

taken in God, then for ourselves there remains no need to take any

decision about our duties and our actions.

 

" I am God's and God is mine " - like this feeling of kinship,

afffinity and intimacy, there is no other ability, fitting quality or

characteristic, or proprietory feeling. It is the essence of all

spiritual disciplines. Therefore the devotee who has surrendered

himself to God, without looking at his inclinations, should look at

the relationship. A devotee who on surrendering himself worries, then

due to his pride, he is committing a crime against God which is a

blot on his surrender. It is because of his pride that he worries

about his defects and wants to root them out with his own power.

Therefore give up your pride. If your conduct, feelings and

inclinations are not purified, if sometimes ill feelings sprout forth

and sometimes even if sins are committed, you need not worry. It is

He who will worry about them.

 

Every law of God has been made for the benediction of all creatures

of the world. If a devotee who has surrendered himself to God, pays

attention to this law, nothing remains to be done for him. By

surrendering himself to God, his feelings of surrender becomes firm

spontaneously. God just looks at the relationship, He is unable to

look at the defects of His devotees. By doing so his worry, fear,

gloom and doubt are rooted out because all the defects are due to

disinclination for God.