27 Nov 2022
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
(Abstract:- Advice to devotees is given to maintain unity and love among them along with team spirit in doing God’s work. Devotees are advised to completely eradicate ego-based jealousy towards the co-devotees.)
We are blessed by God Datta in a very special way because this time, the knowledge which has radiated from God Datta is so wonderful that such knowledge was not revealed by God Datta so far since the beginning of this creation. Are we not specially blessed? Am I exaggerating by hiding any truth through this statement? Every devotee shall answer this question without any influence from outside by keeping his/her hand on the heart. To propagate this special knowledge of God Datta in this world, shall we, all the devotees of God Datta, not be united as one family without quarrels based on ego and jealousy?
Ego and jealousy are expected to be on the contemporary human incarnation from the side of the devotees. It is a matter of great surprise if ego and jealousy are appearing among the devotees! The contemporary human incarnation is on one side and all the devotees are on the other side. All the devotees develop ego-based jealousy on the contemporary human incarnation and by this commonality, anyway, all the devotees are united! In such a case, why don’t they unite in doing God’s work? All shall feel as one family with the spirit of extreme unity to accomplish success in God’s work.
God is omniscient and can’t be influenced by any soul. If some human being exists in the place of the human incarnation, such human being can be influenced by some devotee due to the excellent talent in soaping technology and in the technology of ear biting. When God in human form is existing, the sincerity of the devotee alone is understood by God and even angels cannot divert God from His true opinion. God does not require any report from anybody like the superior officer depending on the recommendations of the officers of lower cadre in giving a promotion to an employee. There is no question of seniority in the devotees because a junior devotee might have been the closest devotee of God for the past several births and the senior devotee might have been a fresh devotee in this birth only. Based on the knowledge of God regarding all the previous births of the soul, the first may become last and the last may become first. Gita says that God is aware of all the previous, present and future births of a soul and the soul is not aware of even the present birth (Tānyahaṃ veda sarvāṇi…).
The devotees show a lot of affection and unity with their family members, who change from birth to birth. A devotee is always accompanied by another devotee by the will of God so that the devotion of the devotee may continue and grow in the future births. The children and the life-partner were money lenders to you in the previous birth and they are associated with you now in the present birth in order to collect their loans along with interest (Ṛṇānubandha rūpeṇa, paśu patnī sutālayāḥ). You are licking their feet and paying the loan with climax love, who are going to be disconnected with you in the next birth itself as soon as the loan is cleared in this birth. Your co-devotee is following you as your co-devotee in the future births also by the will of God in order to help your spiritual progress. You are showing ego and jealousy towards such co-devotees! Are you not the biggest fool in this creation! If you quarrel with each other and disturb God’s work, can you imagine about your immediate next birth? Your next birth will be that of an animal or a bird in which there is no touch with God’s work. You need not worry about this future birth in one angle because you have concentrated only on four items (eating, drinking, sex and sleeping) and those four items are continuing with you in your future births also so that you need not blame God for any injustice since whatever you have desired is sanctioned by God forever!
In the initial stage, every devotee concentrates on God’s work with full sincerity and pure mind. But, in course of time, the mind develops fascination for one’s own name and fame in this world. In God’s work, you have to project the name and fame of God and not the name and fame of yourself. You must continue as the servant of God only till the end of your life and must not be attracted to any selfish projection, which is induced by Satan to deviate you from the divine spiritual path. If you are deviated even slightly, Satan will certainly lead you to the liquid fire of hell. Beware of these dangers in your spiritual journey.
Even in an ordinary program of doing social service, team spirit is maintained by all the participants, which alone makes the program to be completed with grand success. If all the devotees are not united in doing God’s service, it becomes equal to insulting God. It means that God is not efficient in giving the correct guidance to the devotees. This means that you are rubbing a false blame on God. The devotees must always reflect God’s preaching in their life activities or at least in their behavior towards co-devotees. A devotee following God’s preaching throughout the life is a pass candidate with distinction. A devotee following God’s preaching at least towards co-devotees is a pass candidate with first class. If God’s preaching does not appear in a devotee anywhere, it raises a doubt that whether God preached perfectly or not. There cannot be any doubt about the omniscient and omnipotent God in any of His actions. Hence, the defect must be with the devotee only. A devotee hearing the preaching of God without implementing it anywhere is the junior devotee. A devotee hearing and implementing the preaching of God at least in the case of co-devotees is a senior devotee. A devotee hearing and implementing the preaching of knowledge everywhere in his life is the senior most devotee. Seniority depends on the effective implementation of spiritual knowledge preached by God, which does not depend on the mere period of association with the Sadguru or the human form of God.
Shankara says that if you want salvation while you are alive due to your powerful attachment to God (salvation means detachment from worldly bonds due to the attachment to God), which is called as Jiivanmukti, the important step in this process is attachment to God. Such attachment to God results only due to your association with co-devotees, which is called Satsanga (Satsaṅgatve… —Shankara). Satsanga means association with co-devotees (Sadbhiḥ saha saṅgaḥ). Satsanga means association with God also because in the association with co-devotees, God also gets associated (Satā Bhagavatā saha saṅgaḥ). Shankara says that Satsanga is the first step for Jiivanmukti. If the association is with worldly people, you will be born in this world entangled in worldly life only. If the association is with bad people (Dussanga), you will become a demon and will stay in hell forever. Now realize the importance of co-devotees responsible for Satsanga, which pleases God extensively. Hence, you must love co-devotees after loving God.
God Himself told that He will stay with Satsanga (Madbhaktā yatra…Tatra tiṣṭhāmi— Bhagavatam). You must have heard a recent miracle in Satsanga. Shri Hrushikesh and Shri Abhiram were walking on the road in the night talking about spiritual knowledge. They remembered My comment that God stays with Satsanga and doubted whether God Datta is with them. Immediately, they heard the sounds of heavy foot steps behind them and the big footsteps of two feet length of God Datta marked on the road were photographed on their cell phones by them. They also found four dogs coming from four directions standing before them indicating the presence of God Datta with them. They got confirmation of My comment and were happy. Jesus also told that He will stay where two or three devotees are associated discussing about God. Therefore, you must give topmost importance to your co-devotees, (who help you in developing your devotion to God) than anybody else.
Remember that Uddhava went to the Gopikaas to preach them Jnnana Yoga in the direction of the Advaita philosophy thinking himself as the senior devotee of God. But, he returned back as a devotee of the Dvaita philosophy after hearing the preaching of the Gopikas! You must not feel ego-based jealousy towards your co-devotees at any cost, which is the greatest sin. Even if you feel ego-based jealousy towards the Sadguru or the contemporary human incarnation, nothing happens since God is not at all worried about any negative reaction from human beings. You may move your sword in the space for any long time, the space will not be cut.
Shortcut to remove jealousy:- Whatever good exists in a soul, it is because of God and whatever bad exists in a soul, it is because of that individual soul. All good qualities belong to God and all bad qualities belong to souls. You become jealous of your co-devotee because you found some good quality in him/her. Think that the good quality does not belong to that soul and it was given by God alone. You should feel jealous about that soul only when such good quality belongs to the soul. Why should you feel jealous about the soul? If anything, you must feel jealous about God only.
Shortcut to remove ego:- Compare yourself to the omnipotent God. Your ego will immediately disappear because you are just a kerosene lamp before the summer bright sun.
Regarding your behavior to devotees, you shall be submissive in your nature so that the other devotees will learn from you that any devotee must be egoless. You shall never show ego on a co-devotee because the co-devotee also develops ego on seeing you. Whatever you show on others will appear in others as your reflection. You shall not try to become God before your junior and innocent devotees. Self-projection is the poison that kills the life of devotion. You shall be projected by God and you shall never project yourself. As much as you raise yourself, so much will you be suppressed by God. As much as you lower yourself, so much will God raise you up. You should not pose something extra, which you are not exactly. That is demonic nature and everybody should know that God destroys demons.
God Datta appears as a beggar or as a bad man with negative qualities like a drunkard and being associated with prostitutes. In this world, a poor man tries to appear as a rich man and a person with bad qualities tries to appear as a good man! But, in God Datta, you find the total reverse behaviour. The aim of such reverse behaviour is that you should always hide your greatness and shall appear as the lowest person. Such reverse appearance of God Datta is preaching to us that we shall always avoid ego and false projection. Even the truth about the self shall not be projected by self. Others only shall project your true greatness. What do you think about this simple beggar? He is the original unimaginable God mediated for the sake of your worship and meditation. He created all this universe including you and He rules all this creation including you. In the end, He is going to destroy everything and everybody. You cannot imagine His intelligence and power. Such greatest, greatest and greatest God is appearing like a beggar before you! In such a case, how should you appear before Him! You shall appear as the lowest, lowest and lowest beggar before Him. But, how are you appearing and how much you are projecting yourself! Unless you destroy your ego to the last trace, God Datta will not even throw a single look on you!
The force in the implementation of knowledge comes with continuously reading and remembering the knowledge Only. It needs frequent remembrance of the concepts (abhyāsena tu kaunteya… Gītā) in the initial stages at least. If you remember these concepts every day at least for some time, you will implement the concept of love to co-devotees and eradicate your ego-based jealousy towards them.
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