If you identify the live human form of God, service is generated

[dattaswami]

If you identify the live human form of God, service is generated

Brahma indicates knowledge. Vishnu indicates devotion. The dancing Shiva indicates action or service. Lord Datta indicates these three associated together. Hanuman served Rama in His personal matter. Hanuman knows strongly that Rama is God and this knowledge is constantly maintained in His service. His devotion on Rama was in climax in the service. When Sita was not found, He wanted to commit suicide. This shows His love to Rama in the service. You can find knowledge and devotion of Hanuman always in service only as per the Valmiki Ramayana. You can never see Hanuman in debates on God or in singing songs on God. He is always seen in service to Rama throughout the Ramayana and knowledge and devotion always exist in the service simultaneously. All the essence of His knowledge is only in identifying the contemporary human form of God.

All the essence of His devotion is only in serving practically such live human form. Sundara kanda means the beautiful part of Ramayana since it describes the selfless service of Hanuman to the live human form without aspiring any fruit in return. You have to read Sundara kanda to learn this aspect only. But, people read it to get success in selfish works! Hanuman did not accept even a garland for His service at the end. Such selfless service based on the spiritual knowledge learnt from God Sun and devotion learnt from His mother, yielded the topmost fruit of becoming Brahma (God). Such selfless service integrated with knowledge and devotion is the Nishkama Karma yoga of the Gita. Service is work and hence, called as karma yoga. Work is energy and matter (money) is energy. Hence, work and matter are one and the same. Therefore, both sacrifice of work and sacrifice of fruit of work (money) come under karma yoga or seva yoga.

The sages were always busy with knowledge and devotion to God. They did not do any service to Rama practically even though they identified Rama as God. The water and fertilizer without the plant could not get the fruit and they had to take another birth as Gopikas to get salvation. Hanuman got the top most divine fruit in that life itself, since He did not stop with knowledge and devotion. He extended His knowledge and devotion into service. The moment you recognize your child it is Jnana yoga. Immediately, the love is generated and it is Bhakti yoga. Spontaneously, you start serving your child and this is karma yoga, which is Nishkama karma yoga, since you do not aspire any fruit in return. In the case of your child, really no fruit is achieved. But, in the case of God, for the same selfless service, unimaginable fruit is given to Hanuman. Here, the transformation of knowledge into love and into service is spontaneous in the case of your child. But, in the case of God, why the transformation is incomplete? I mean why some stop at knowledge and why some stop at devotion?

The reason is that their knowledge itself is fully wrong in not generating devotion. If the knowledge is partially wrong, devotion is generated but not the service. If you identify God as formless, it is fully wrong knowledge and hence, no devotion is developed. If you identify God in human form, but worship statues of such human form, devotion is generated and not the service. If you identify the live human form of God, service is generated. When you fully identify your child, the knowledge is fully correct and love and service are generated spontaneously. When you have a doubt in the identity of your child, your knowledge is partially correct. Then love is generated, which will not really transform into service.

The service always includes correct knowledge and full love. The formless God has no expenditure of your work and money. The statues have partial expenditure like cleaning (sacrifice of work) and repairs (sacrifice of money). The live human form of God has lot of recurring expenditure like feeding everyday etc. The essence of sacrifice is deciding the concept of God. The Advaitin is very clever, who says that he is God and feeding himself everyday is accounted in the recurring expenditure in the account of God. The human form of God (Sadguru) alone can give the fully correct knowledge that transforms into devotion and service spontaneously.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

https://www.universal-spirituality.org

Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

[livin'itup]

Another great work by Ajmeri baba

I came to USA in 2004. I am basically from Karachi. I am working here as a software engineer. While I was in my home country, I came to know a girl who was a junior in my college. She is a very nice and decent girl. We soon became friends and did not even realize when we fell in love. Though we are from different castes, we did not get a chance to think about all this at that time. Soon, her parents came to know of our relationship and she was locked indoors.

She was not allowed to go out alone and she was forced to give up her education. She somehow managed to send a friend of hers to me with the message that her brothers will kill me if I am seen around her house. The friend told me that she was very sad as they had beaten her a lot and she kept crying all the time. I could not bear the thought of this, and went to her house. I was caught and beaten badly. Her brothers came to my home and told my parents that they will kill me if they see me around their sister again. My parents knew her family’s reputation and they understood that this will become a huge issue soon due of our different religions.

I was sent to USA for further education. I started to concentrate on my studies but could not forget her at all. I kept in touch with her friends to check on her well-being and exchanged emails sometimes. Then I came to know that her family was arranging for her marriage with one of their relatives. She told me while chatting online one day that they will never succeed and the grooms family will only find her dead body. I knew she meant every word of it. I did not know how to get out of this.

I was not ready to lose her. When I tried every other route, and nothing came of it, I called Ajmeri Baba. He heard me out and told me that I will be able to get her as she is my true love. He agreed to pray for me, and told me to go to Karachi and get her here with me. It will happen once he prays for me. It is difficult to remember how I organized things, but a lot of my friends came forward to help me. I reached there without anyone knowing about it (not even my parents). Stayed with a friend of mine, and arranged for her to come out to meet me. We had already arranged a marriage ceremony, and I filed for her papers before leaving the city.

We were miraculously able to get the visa and we could fly to US completely un-detected. Now we are both together and very happy. All this was possible only because Baba Ajmeri was on our side. I think, sooner or later, our families will also forgive her. She is the best wife and a companion – she is my soul mate.

Thank you so much Baba Ajmeri. It is the greatest virtue to help re-uniting lovers. May God bless you always.

[dattaswami]

I came to USA in 2004. I am basically from Karachi. I am working here as a software engineer. While I was in my home country, I came to know a girl who was a junior in my college. She is a very nice and decent girl. We soon became less you always.

You are admitted in the college and your main aim is to get the degree. If you fail in the exams your main aim is upset, therefore, you should not get tension. Similarly you should have tension if the main aim of the human life i.e., to achieve the grace of God, fails. Except that, all this family life and relationships are only extra curricular activities. In your college life, a game is conducted as an extra curricular activity. Suppose you are defeated in it. You should take it sportively and not seriously, because that is not the main aim. Therefore take everything in life sportively, because, this life is not the ultimate aim. If family life only is the goal, even animals and birds have their family lives. The speciality of human life is to think and achieve the grace of God.