29 Dec 2021
[Smt. Chhanda Chandra and Soumyadip Mondal asked: Pada namaskaram Swami. Oh the divine propagator of spiritual knowledge, for the last few years a thought has been is continuously lashing on my mind. Only now I felt that it is the right time to express the same before You as no one else in this world can guide me in the right direction. We want our child (Samadrito who is 9 years old now) to be in the sacred divine mission of Yours as this is the most sacred path and also it should be the ultimate goal of all human beings. Kindly guide us on what should be our effort or in what way should we encourage him so that he can have his own strong spiritual base. By Your grace only, we are fortunate enough so far that he is showing deep faith on God at this age and he spends most of his times either in singing/dancing/telling stories about God or acting on various forms of God spontaneously in a very natural way. Though I don’t know what is stored for him in future, we believe You can foresee everything. We want him to participate in Your service so that we can offer him in the safest pair of hands of You to mould him in a complete form. This task will not be fulfilled without Your grace as we, the parents, are the lesser mortals with our limited knowledge and reach. Please enlighten us and clear my mind. At Your divine lotus feet, Chhanda Chandra and Soumyadip Mondal.]
Swami Replied:- You can train your child in My spiritual knowledge side by side while taking care about his main professional career. Now, the minds of even great devotees have become petty due to the influence of Kali age. People save mustard seeds while pumpkins are going out! Hence, the divine preacher must have self-support regarding his/her worldly maintenance so that people will not feel that one is preaching spiritual knowledge for attaining some holy offering (Gurudakṣiṇā) to maintain personal worldly expenditure. If the preacher has his/her own personal asset for personal maintenance, people jump forward with huge offerings! This is the foolish basic psychology of humanity. They donate when it is not necessary and become greedy to donate when it is necessary!
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