How can Sudaama's sacrifice to Krishna be appreciated?

[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked:- Swami told that the devotee must do sacrifice to God from his/her earned money, which is called Karma Phala Tyaaga. But, Sudaama did sacrifice to God by bringing a loan from neighbours. It means Sudaama did what Swami did not tell. How is that appreciated?]

Swami replied:- Had God told “If the devotee sacrifices the money that is brought on loan, the fruit of such sacrifice is to get the entire wealth of God”, then every soul will do it. Even though God did not tell about such sacrifice, Sudaama did it. God told that the householder must do both sacrifice of fruit of work and sacrifice of service. Hence, Sudaama wanted to do both as per the instruction of God. He did the sacrifice of service (sacrifice of physical energy) by walking to Dvaaraka. But, for doing the sacrifice of fruit of work, he was not having a single paisa since he and his family were starving for six days in a week due to poverty. Hence, he took three handfuls of parched rice on loan from neighbours to do the sacrifice of wealth. In such a case, this idea is impossible to any human being because one may give whatever is possessed by him, but one will not  bring a loan for the sake of sacrifice to God. Hence, God Krishna was completely moved and sacrificed all His wealth to Sudaama. Seeing the example of Sudaama, if anybody tries to imitate Sudaama, the result of Sudaama cannot be achieved since it is the idea of Sudaama that occurred for first time in the creation to sacrifice to God even by bringing a loan.

When Sudaama did this sacrifice, there was no similar example for him to follow. This means that Sudaama was not having the knowledge that if he does this type of sacrifice (taking a loan from others), he will get all the wealth of God. His aim was only to sacrifice in such a way since he happens to be a householder. He was not expecting anything in return. But, now, if anybody does such a sacrifice, Sudaama is already there as the prior example for getting immense wealth from God. Hence, the present sacrifice is not valid.

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