Posted on: 29 Jun 2024
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, in answering my latest question, You told that it is better to save money as fixed deposits or permanent assets to give to children in their grown up age. Does this not provoke parents to earn more money through sinful corruption?]
Swami replied:- I never told that the parents should grow their earnings through sinful corruption. What I told is that they shall save within the limits of their justified earnings. If the parents want to give a hundred rupees from their justified earnings, the hundred rupees may be given to their children in the form of a Fixed Deposit. If the parents want to give one crore rupees from their justified earnings, they can purchase a property (permanent asset) and give to the children. I never told that you shall give one crore instead of a hundred for which the parents shall follow corruption and earn more. Justice is appreciated by God and injustice makes God furious. Moreover, the unjust earnings given to children will ruin them forever. Justice (Pravrutti) is greater than injustice (Dushpravrutti). But, God (Nivrutti) is greater than even justified Pravrutti. My advice is only to be within the limits of justified Pravrutti without entering unjust Dushpravrutti and this shall not spoil entering Nivrutti of Spiritual path. Suppose you have earned a hundred rupees by justice and suppose you want to give seventy-five rupees to children and twenty-five rupees to God, My advice is that the seventy-five rupees shall be given to children as Fixed Deposits and not to spend seventy-five rupees for the children lavishly as per their childish desires. This also does not mean that you shall not give twenty-five rupees to God.
You must be well aware of the fundamental concept of true spiritual knowledge, which is the theory of chain relativity, which means:- The wall is unreal with respect to real bricks. The brick is unreal with respect to its real particles. The particle is unreal with respect to the real atoms present in the particle. The atom is unreal with respect to the real sub-atomic particles present in the atom. The sub-atomic particles are unreal with respect to the real inert energy. The inert energy is unreal with respect to the ultimately real God. Here in the chain, the cause is gifting its reality to the effect or product. This is the analysis of matter. If you come to the analysis of awareness:- The feelings or thoughts are unreal with respect to the real awareness. Awareness is unreal with respect to inert energy from which it is generated. Inert energy is unreal with respect to the ultimately real God. In this way, we have to take the reference and context of a statement. Mere passing of the examination is better than failure. But, a first class pass is better than mere pass. Hence, it shall not mean that mere pass is not only better than failure but is also better than first class pass! Similarly, justice is better than injustice and God is better than justice.
The theory of relativity causes illusion about the absolute reality of the product when you do not refer to the real absolute reality of the cause. An example from economics can be given:- A person thinks that the rate of the property increased a lot from past to present and becomes overly happy that leads to ego. This is an illusion because the rate of the property did not increase whereas the value of the rupee (currency) decreased very much from past to present and this hidden fact leads to the above illusion. Unless you understand the real absolute reality of the cause that is gifted to the unreal product by the cause, you cannot understand the concept of the unreal world (product) from the angle of the real God (cause). Since the soul is a part of the unreal world (that became real due to the gifted absolute reality of God) from the angle of the unreal soul, the rest of the unreal world becomes real (since the unreal world is real for the unreal soul).