Posted on: 14 Jul 2022
All worldly bonds have selfishness as the basis of love in the bonds. This is told by the Veda in detail (Ātmanastu kāmāya sarvaṃ priyaṃ bhavati). This means that a husband loves his wife for his selfish happiness and not for the happiness of the wife. Similarly, the wife loves her husband for her selfish happiness and not for the happiness of the husband. This is clearly explained by the Veda. In the case of God, He does not love souls for His happiness because He does not require happiness from anybody or from anything. God says in the Gita that there is nothing which is not obtained by Him and there is nothing which is to be obtained by Him (Nānavāptamavāptavyam). Hence, only God is loving the souls, who are His children without any selfishness in the love. The Veda also says that God has no desire for anything because He is in a state of the totally fulfilled desires (Āptakaāmasya kā spṛhā). When God is loving the soul, without any selfishness, is it not the minimum duty of the soul to love God without any selfishness? Hence, in the Gita, Niṣkāmakarmayoga is very much propagated, which means that you should love God without aspiring for any fruit in return from Him. Hence, some clever souls developed a theory that in such a case, let us show theoretical love to God, which does not involve any practical loss. In such a case, God also adopted a nice policy by saying that He will respond in the same way in which a devotee has approached Him (Ye yathā māṃ prapadyante - Gita). If theoretical devotion is done by the devotee, theoretical fruits will be given by God. This devotion is called ‘prostitution devotion’ or ‘Veśyābhakti,’ which means aspiring for practical fruits for theoretical devotion. If you sing the greatness of God, He will sing back about your devotion. The fruit will be in the same phase of devotion, which is called ‘business devotion’ or ‘Vaiśyabhakti’. Hence, people have started business devotion. In this, devotees show practical devotion and ask for practical fruits in exchange. This business devotion is somewhat better than prostitution devotion because there is some basic ethics of business in this devotion. The devotion expected by God from you is ‘Apatyabhakti’, which means the love shown by parents to their children. The parents show real love to the issues by doing sacrifice of service and sacrifice of fruit of work without aspiring for anything in return. Even if the issues go wrong in their love towards them, the parents will scold them but do not change the will. Hence, we treat this as the best devotion containing real love towards issues without aspiration for any fruit in return from them. Such real love shall come towards God at least in the last minutes of life. While doing prayers, people say that nothing and nobody is equal to God for them! Is this not the greatest sin in the name of prayers and worships? Devotees think that they are very clever in soaping God and feel happy that they have exploited God through their prayers because their problems were solved by such prayers. The devotee is foolish to think that God is exploited by him by his oiling technology, but God also is very very intelligent. He has removed your trouble, which is fruit of your sin by postponing it to the next birth or postponing to some later time in this birth itself. The devotee is thinking that the punishment of his sin is totally cancelled due to his prayers. The devotee is cheating God and God also is cheating the devotee. Any person is likely to cheat any other person in this world because every person is selfish in love. But God is not at all selfish in His love towards souls. Is it justified to cheat God through prayers etc., while God is the only person, Who is never selfish in His love? The devotee gets some benefits as new boons and thinks that he got these benefits due to his prayer and worship. But the intellectual God is bringing back some good fruits arranged in the future life cycles with reduced interest like cashing pre-matured deposits. Hence, the soul never crossed the business devotion and never entered the issue devotion. This business devotion is continuing forever due to the lack of knowledge of the above explained truth. At least, once in the entire life, the true picture must be known to everybody!
While doing social service, you must love God and do the service in the name of God. You are loving the souls and doing social service due to your love towards the souls and not due to your love towards God. Tomorrow, when you reach hell, and stand in the queue proceeding to receive the punishments for sins, you will ask God to help you. Then God will say “you never loved Me. You always did service to souls and loved them only. Hence, you should ask souls for help.” If you ask the souls in the queue for help, the souls will reply that they themselves are in trouble with their punishments and refuse to do any help to you. In fact, they are also unable to help you. If you can do the same social service in the name of God, God is pleased with you and will help you in hell. You have not done any service to God directly. He is also pleased by social service itself because this creation is created by Him only and He loves your service done to the creation. Hence, there is no change in your social service. Simply you have to do the same social service in the name of God and you must feel that you are doing the social service for the pleasure of God and not for the pleasure of the souls. How foolish you are to lose the help from God just by not changing your attitude towards God and social service?