Sacrifice Of Wealth Is The Way
datta swami
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 of shri datta swami
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