How to pass on the credit of one's actions to God?

[Shri Bhagath asked: When I achieve even a small thing in worldly matters (pravṛtti), I feel as if I have done it. I feel that it has happened only because of me. I feel that without me, my family would not be able to run smoothly. Credit or fame (kīrti) for any action is also the fruit of the action (karma phalam). How can we practically pass the credit to the Parabrahman or ultimate God like Paraṣurāma Avatāra?]

Swami replied: Even when some creditable action has clearly been done by God and not by the soul, ego makes the soul feel that he or she is the doer of the action (Ahaṃkāra vimūdhātmā…—Gita)! When this is the state of the soul, how can it feel that whatever action appears to have been done by the soul was also actually done by God? When a person cannot even jump 10 feet high, how can you expect the same person to jump up and touch the sky? In fact, God alone is the energetic-cause for every action taking place in this creation because He is the source of both imaginable and unimaginable powers. But the fruit of the work reaches the soul because the soul is the director of the action. God is the producer of this world-cinema, whereas the soul is the director of the same. God is like the horse that can take you to any place under your direction. The fruit that you receive upon reaching that place, fully depends on you because it was only your direction that brought you to the place (Abadhnan puruṣaṃ paśum—Veda). One can develop this attitude of giving the total credit to God only upon hearing, thinking and digesting the true spiritual knowledge delivered by the Sadguru, who is the contemporary Human Incarnation of God. Alternatively, one can also approach a Guru who strictly delivers the true spiritual knowledge that has already been established by a Sadguru, without mixing any of his own poetic imagination in it.

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| Shri Datta Swami | How to pass on the credit of one's actions to God? | vimuudhaatmaa Abadhnan purusham pashum

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