Dattaswami
அன்பும் அறனும் உடைத்தாயின் இல்வாழ்க்கை பண்பும் பயனும் அது.
(If love and virtue in the household reign, This is of life the perfect grace and gain.)
Thirukkural 45
Vanakkam!
Jetavan;
Your tricks will not work with God who is all knowing. You cannot fool God who
is the genius among genius. God compete with your family when He comes in
human form. Your theoretical devotion will not allow GOd competing with your
family, since your love on GOd is very little and your love on family is very very huge.
Unless you break all the worldly bonds including family bonds, you can never
ever have single bond with God. A God who is alive in human form alone can
compete with your family bonds.
If love and virtue in the household reign, This is of life
the perfect grace and gainYour above quoted sentence is quite sounding very well to the ears,
But you will find the reality only when you analyse the concept.
One thing we should remember, we should not bring down the sky
To our level since we are standing on the ground and since
We are unable to fly to the height of the sky, let us agree the truth.
It is true that the sky is the goal and it is true that we are on the ground.
This will make us to start our journey, one day or the other you will reach sky.
You have to be in the constant effort, God will give you many human rebirths
Till you reach the goal, but one condition, you should not stop at any stage.
When you are doing the duty it is love expressed in action, it is proven love.
It is far greater than the love through words and through mind and therefore
Your love is ninety nine percent on your children and one percent on Lord.
The Lord is not at all equal even to your children and just you have thrown
One paisa [one cent] on the face of the Lord treating Him as a beggar for your love.
At the same time you are posing that all your love is on the Lord.
It is just the reverse in practice and everything is only the mind and words.
The proven love consists of sacrifice of five items to the Lord.
The first three items are by the ex-pression of love through words, mind, and brain.
Through words people sing devotional songs and the emotional devotion flows
Through the mind, through the brain scholars discuss the nature of the Lord.
These three constitute the theoretical phase, which has a value of one paisa [one cent] only.
It is just like sacrificing drinking water supplied by the municipality freely.
Similarly these three are already supplied to you by the Lord freely without any
Effort or strain by you.
The fantastic fun is that people sacrifice these three items to the Lord and
Ask some practical fruit for the sacrifice of these three theoretical items!
The other two items are practical and their value is ninety-nine paise[99 cent].
Those two items are sacrifice of work and sacrifice of fruit of work
In this sacrifice of these two items only lies the entire real sacrifice.
This alone is the proven love, don’t argue that this is impossible for you.
You are doing the sacrifice of these two items sincerely to your children.
Therefore you are having real proven love on your children only.
The sacrifice of the first three items is not done in the case of your children.
That means the sacrifice of these first three items is false dramatic love.
The word duty which you just uttered constitutes the last two items only,
Which are the sacrifice of work and sacrifice of fruit of work.
Therefore what is the meaning of your statement that resulted finally?
You will sacrifice the false love to the Lord and the real love to your children.
You designate the false love as the real whole love which is dedication of mind.
Now you say that you have dedicated all your mind to the Lord only!
Fantastic! And you say that you are simply doing duty to your children!