14 Dec 2021
[Smt. Priyanka asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, You said that God is not pleased if we divert our essential worldly work to God’s work. He only sees whether a soul has used all the energy and time other than the worldly work without any wastage for the spiritual line of God’s work or not. But at the same time, You also said in an older discourse that when our activities of pravrutti are transformed for the sake of nivrutti, all our pravrutti becomes nivrutti only. Detachment from pravrutti does not mean withdrawal from the activities of pravrutti but re-directing these for the sake of Nivrutti. Therefore, I am unable to understand what it means by the statement that God is not pleased if we divert our essential worldly work to God's work. Can You please explain this further? At Your divine lotus feet, Priyanka]
Swami replied:- There are two cases:- 1) A person is doing both Pravrutti and Nivrutti and is not wasting even one minute of time in any work other than Pravrutti and Nivrutti. 2) A person is doing both Pravrutti and Nivrutti and is also wasting some time in unnecessary things, which are neither Pravrutti nor Nivrutti. If the first person is diverting all his Pravrutti in to Nivrutti, it is ok. But, if the second person is diverting all Pravrutti in to Nivrutti it is not correct because he should first divert the wasted time in to Nivrutti and then can divert his Pravrutti-time also in to Nivrutti. The second person becomes wrong if he continues with the wastage of time and turn pravrutti-time into Nivrutti-time. If you understand this point properly there is no contradiction.
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