How to prove that nobody can love a soul like that of God?

Ms. Thrylokya asked: Swāmi, I learnt from Your knowledge that God loves us without expecting anything in return from us. Nobody can love a soul like that of God. When I tell this to other people, some of them are claiming that they also love like that and they also serve others without expecting anything in return. Please help me how to prove them wrong?]

Swaami replied:- In doing social service also, service and sacrifice shall be done without aspiring any fruit from the people in return. Of course, the politician also says the same, but, the politician aspires votes from the people in return so that a post can be achieved to earn secretly! A true devotee of God does such selfless service and sacrifice to people in order to please God. This means service and sacrifice are done by anybody with a specific aim only. If aim is absent, action will never arise. Now, you may criticize that the devotee is also doing service and sacrifice to people with an aim only, which is aspiration for some fruit in return. This argument is not correct because by pleasing God, the devotee is not aspiring any fruit in return from God except His pleasure. To please somebody is not a selfish fruit. You may say that in such case the action of service and sacrifice is happening without any reason. This is also not correct because pleasing God through action of service and sacrifice to people is an action by itself. Such action (pleasing God) has reason, which is the real love for God and this (real love) is also an action because love is dynamic mode of awareness. For such action of real love, there is the fundamental reason, which is the attraction towards the divine personality of God.

At this stage, we shall stop by not saying that the attraction is also an action being dynamic mode of awareness. This will lead to ad-infinitum or endless chain (Anavasthā) for which the basic reason is that every item of creation is a form of dynamic action of the God only. Scholars say this point by speaking that the dance (dynamic action) of God Śiva or creator itself is the creation (na hi kaścit kṣaṇamapi, jātu tiṣṭhatyakarmakṛt—Gītā). Based on this logic if one says that he is doing service and sacrifice to the people due to attraction and real love on people, it is appreciable because God also appreciates it. God also gives a temporary fruit of heaven to him because his/her real love is on non-eternal temporary creation. The nature of the aim (object) reflects in the fruit. Hence, you must advise such person to do the same social service in the name of God based on real love to God to get permanent divine fruit and say that this is only a small extension of the concept without disturbing his/her practical program in anyway. Such person shall not be concluded to be wrong because such person is in correct path, which is not completely travelled by him/her.

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