20 Jul 2021
[Shri V.Ganesh asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ swāmiji, Before I entered spirituality, I wanted to earn a humongous amount of name and fame. I wanted to leave a legacy behind me. Then I saw the time period of yugas and manvantaras. From it I understood that the legacy that I'm going to be leaving behind is going to be a fraction within that timeline; it is minuscule. So there is no use in leaving a legacy behind because people are going to forget me. Is this the practical significance of knowing the time period of yugas and manvantara? At Your divine feet, Ganesh V]
Swāmi Replied:- Name and fame depend on merits of the soul. If you have realised that all your merits are not your inherent merits, but only granted merits by God’s grace, where is the question of desire for name and fame? The defects are inherent of the soul and hence, the desire must be for defame, which is based on the inherent defects of the soul. Hence, realised devotees never have a view on self-projection for name and fame. If you mention the merit of any realised soul and start praising it, the realised soul will say “All this is due to the grace of God only”. Demonic people are always reverse of this and they own the merits and pass on defects to God. When a misery, which is the fruit of the sin comes they say “O kindless God! Why You have given this misery?”. They think that they are sinless people and should not get the misery on their account. Moreover they say “As far as I know, I was always helping others and never harmed anybody”!
Realised people say “This misery is due to our sins only”. Some realised people with hypocrisy say “We have not done any sin in this birth. We don’t know the sin of which birth resulted like this?” This is pure hypocrisy because the intensive sins of this birth only gave the misery. You must keep the rotating fan as your preacher or guru. It rotates drawing circles or zeros in the space indicating that it by itself is zero and the merit of rotation to give air to us is due to the current and not its own power. When the bad sound comes from the fan, the rod behind it indicating ‘I’ tells us that the defect of sound belongs to itself and not to the current. The fan is passing on the credit of merit to the current and is passing on the defect of bad sound to itself. The soul is well punished for all the sins in the hell and is born in this world with a fresh record so that it can do Spiritual effort with full peace and for this reason only, this human world is called Martyaloka or Karmaloka, which means the world of fresh actions and not the world of enjoying fruits.
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