
There are many people who tell me that they worship God daily and they are not s…
There are many people who tell me that they worship God daily and they are not satisfied in their life. Their life is disturbed and they cannot live in peace. The first thing I would like to know is what have they given to this world that they are seeking so much from the same. The answer will be oh! Yes, I have donated so and so thing to my maid, or I have done so and so thing on that full moon day. Helping your maid, shows your self-interest and not help. Donations on a particular day shows our self-interest because we are doing it as we seek something from God. Kindness does not need motives. Motives murder the very spirit of generosity. Chanting, reading scriptures at home, donations to Brahmins does not make you good. (You will wonder who is a Brahmin according to vedas. A native who seeks God is a Brahmin. It is not that caste related dogmatic idea.) So all this help and kindness is unfortunately nothing as it is done under the veil of motives. People blame God for everything while he is not the doer. He is a watcher, we are the doers. All these bad things in our life are the reciprocal of our own deeds, then who do we blame. Ask anybody that whether they are good? Ninety percent people answer in affirmative. Everybody is so confident about their goodness that I wonder that I am living in heaven. It is not the truth. The truth is that we humans need up gradation, we need a mental reboot. Sage Kabir wrote this in his sakhis:
”माला फेरत जुग भया, फिरा न मन का फेर,
कर का मनका डार दे, मन का मनका फेर।“
It has been the whole eternity chanting the names by moving the beads of your rosary but there is still no change in your heart. Therefore, Leave those beads of your hand and try to change your heart.
In other words you cannot find peace by such means, peace belong to good hearts and those who change and leave their meanness.
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