Posted on: 22 Nov 2022
[Smt. Chhanda Chandra asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, please explain the following doubts of mine: A person for whom money is not the strongest bond, can his/her sacrifice be considered as Karma Phala Tyaga in God’s mission as the person does not have the highest attachment with money?]
Swami replied:- It is not the question of bond with money. When sacrifice is done for the sake of God, his/her bond with money is defeated by the bond with God. Here, bond with God is the important subject. If this bond with money is defeated by the bond with other worldly human beings or worldly objects, such defeat of the bond with money is not significant because the whole-competition is within the boundaries of Pravrutti or worldly life alone. Similar competitions with other worldly bonds and bond with God also must prove that the bond with God wins the competition. In such a case, it is proved that the bond with God is stronger than the bond with any worldly item (inert and living). Such stage of the devotee is called ‘Eka bhakti’, which is single point devotion. Here, the spiritual effort of the devotee comes to an end. Of course, God Datta conducts tests for all types of devotees so that the public shall be aware of the deservingness of the devotee so that His favour to the devotee will not be misunderstood by any other devotee.
But, the devotee shall not aspire for any favour from God and the service and sacrifice must be done purely based on true love to God. For the sake of measurement of quality and quantity of the devotion, love to children can be kept as the standard. This will reveal the truth of the devotion in your consciousness. The devotion must be in full free atmosphere of full free will and shall not be forced by any aspiration. The service and sacrifice to God must give pleasure to your soul whenever remembered. God will certainly repay it without the frame work of account whenever the soul is in need, but, the soul shall not aspire for it. If the soul aspires, the account will be coming into the picture. The sacrifice must be done due to attraction to God and not due to detachment to money. Attraction to God is the main reason and detachment to money should not be the reason. A person, who is very much attached to money sacrificing for God is a better devotee than a person sacrificing for God due to detachment to money. In the sacrifice, if the aspiration is absent, like in the example of Draupadi, God gave an infinite number of saris to Draupadi for her sacrifice of a piece of cloth because true love is need based and not account based.