10 Jan 2016
[Evening Message] Shri Phani asked: Please give some advice for the devotees, who are willing to involve themselves in the propagation of this spiritual knowledge?
Shri Swami Replied: First of all, you must be careful about the entry of ego into you when you are appreciated and praised by others. Since this spiritual knowledge is really marvelous as all of us recognised (including Me), you will certainly get lot of appreciation from the public. Immediately, pass on the credit to God. In ancient days, even if you salute somebody, he/she used to say immediately that let your salutation reach the Lord (Ramaarpanam). Jealousy, can at least be tolerated because sometimes jealousy towards other developed devotees will activate you to develop you to their level. In this way, there is a positive side of jealousy. If you try to harm somebody due to jealousy, that is the negative side of jealousy. Ego has the negative side to a large extent. The more you rise, you must know that the danger for you proportionally rises. The reason is that when you fall from more height, more will be the damage. The fall results due to the ego that enters your brain through the praise-injections from outsiders. Jesus said that you must reduce down yourself so much, as much as you are raised up. This instruction makes you to stand on the ground always, which is the highest safety since no damage takes place by falling on the ground on which you stand. On the last day, Jesus washed the feet of all His disciples indicating the reduction of ego and development of obedience in future while they are involved in the propagation of knowledge.
In view of the worst psychologies of the present human beings in these modern times, you must have your own financial level sufficiently capable to maintain you so that you should not aspire for anything from others. The minds of the present people have lost all the excellent values of the ancient tradition developed by our sages in this country. In ancient days, everybody was ready to honour the guest, whoever comes to their house with warm hospitality. Sometimes, the householders searched for guests since it is the principle of a householder that he and his family members should not take food unless a guest is served with food before their meals! In those days, the householders searched for the guests and today the guest searches for the householder like a beggar. The mentality of the present people is amazing! They allow rupees like pumpkins to go out through big holes, but, take lot of care to save paise like mustard seeds going out through tiny holes! They start calculating their wealth when a guest comes to their house. They do not bother about the outward flow of their huge funds in unnecessary ways. Whenever, there is a necessity, they hold paise strongly. They allow the rupees to run out unnecessarily. In the olden days, even if the guest is a normal person, the householder treated him as God (Atithi Devo bhava). Today, even a great spiritual preacher and excellent scholar comes to the house, people calculate even to give a cup of coffee. Therefore, when you go to the house of somebody to propagate the spiritual knowledge, their first enquiry about you in their minds is not about your spiritual knowledge, but, about your financial background. You may preach excellent spiritual knowledge for hours together, it will not enter their brains because their brains are always thinking whether you have come to their house for getting some donation or at least meals for that day. If they know that you have sufficient financial background and hence you have not come for meals or donation, then only, they will become attentive to receive your spiritual knowledge. This is the starting trouble. This is the basic psychology of every human being in the present time in Kali Yuga. Even in this Kali Yuga, the old times just before this modern time were not so bad. Today, people calculate the expenses of food even in the case of their old parents and compare the expenses they incur with the property they get from the parents. Even in the case of parents, they calculate the debit and credit. But, these ignorant people do not know the unnecessary fate-debit that is going to come in the future, which will make them beggars. The money earned by injustice or saved by injustice in the case of parents and deserving guests will drag away all their earned just money also. The engine coming and getting itself linked to the compartments standing on the railway line before platform, drags away all those compartments as a train (Sahamulam Vinashyati). Of course, you must donate to deserving people only and also must not donate to undeserving people. But, these people want to avoid the donation in any case. Therefore, the very first step that every devotee involved in the propagation in the knowledge should take care of his own livelihood and should not depend for it on others. Then only, the receivers not only receive your knowledge but also feed you forcibly compelling you to accept their donations. The whole humanity running now is always in reverse gear. Therefore, you must approach anybody with your gear in reverse to their reverse gear.
Truth of Knowledge Given by God Should Never be Disturbed
Your aim should be only to propagate the spiritual knowledge for the peace of the society on the command of God and should not to aspire for anything from others including even a cup of coffee. If you find that they offer something with full goodwill only, you can think of accepting it to spend in the service of God. You must accept anything only when you are compelled by others to ensure that their charity is real. You must not show any hypocrisy in this aspect and you must be faithful and sincere to yourself to the core. Do not have even a trace of idea to collect money from others for the propagation since if you are truthful, God will take care of everything including your food etc., also. You proceed always with the support of God and do not aspire the support of humanity at any time and at any place. You must remember the story of Swami Vivekananda when He went to USA for the propagation of knowledge. He depended on the support of God only in every fraction of second and you know how God supported Him! God will certainly respond you if you are truthful without any hypocrisy and without exploiting the public. Do not modify the knowledge to impress the receivers. The truth of the knowledge given by God should never be disturbed by you. You need not show the way of marketing knowledge since knowledge is not a commercial item.
Even if the human incarnation of God comes for preaching, He has to follow certain steps initially till He is recognised. You will also not have any trouble with the public once you are recognised by it since as I told you, it is only the initial problem in the human psychology. The first stage is Kutichika, which means that you should not stay in single house for several days. The second stage is Bahudaka, which means that if you have finished all the deserving houses in that village or town, you must leave it and go to other village or town. You should not stick yourself to water of one place. As Jesus told, you need not stay in your native village even one day for this purpose because the preacher will never become famous in his native place. When people of all other places clap at your knowledge then only the people of your native place will clap at your preaching. Constant touch leads to negligence (Pratyakshadvishah – Veda). The third stage is Yati, in which you should follow control in your personal expenses including eating the food. The Veda says that if you eat more food, you will be eaten by food by getting illness (Adyate). If you eat less food, it will be eaten by you (Atticha). It means that it will be digested fully and no problems of sugar, etc, come. There is another side also in the modern time. If you eat more food, the householder will think that you should leave his house in two days. If you eat less food, the same householder does not mind your stay even for four days. Do not laugh at My statement. This is true in the modern times and hence I tell you seriously. God is speaking to you and the omniscient God knows everything in all times and at all places. Maintain your prestige without going to a stage of its damage. The next stage is Hamsa, in which people recognise the human incarnation as a good preacher. They start respecting you as God because preacher (Guru) should be worshipped like God. The word Hamsa reversed is Soham, which means that the God and Guru are one and the same. The human incarnation is Guru (Hamsa) of Gurus (Hamsa Hamsaaya – Veda), but, in this fourth stage He is recognised as Guru only in the initial step. The fifth and final stage is Paramahamsa in which people confirm the human incarnation as God. Hence, even God in the human form has to face all these problems like the devotee involved in the propagation.
In fact, the devotee involved in propagation is more dear to God than the devotee into Whom God entered as human incarnation. God identifies Himself with the devotee in the human incarnation. The worship of human incarnation is the direct worship of God. But, God is more pleased when the devotee involved in the propagation undergoing all types of sufferings is worshipped. A person is pleased if you give the sweet to him, but, the same person will be more pleased if you give the sweet to his beloved son. The human incarnation is God and the devotee involved in propagation is beloved son of God. The love to the beloved son is more than the love of the father to himself. The work of a devotee in the propagation of knowledge is more than the work of a devotee in the human incarnation, just speaking the knowledge out as a tape recorder since the God speaks to him in himself. In the propagation, you have to convince the human being with this given spiritual knowledge and this is higher task. Therefore, the work of devotee in propagation is more valuable than the work of a devotee in the human incarnation. The devotee in the human incarnation gets the same place of God since God merges with him. The devotee in propagation is given a place higher than the head of God and God treats such a devotee as His master and Himself becoming servant of such a devotee. The position of the devotee in the propagation is certainly higher than the position of the devotee in the human incarnation. Higher place is certainly more valuable than equal place. Therefore, participate in the propagation without ego and without aspiration to become the most dangerous risky position of human incarnation. My first word of this message is about your care towards ego. My last word of this message is also to warn you about the ego, which is the Satan opposing the propagation of God's spiritual knowledge. Satan will always walk by your side waiting for an opportunity to capture you. Always pass on the credit to God and own the defect in every work throughout your life.
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