Real love is only a one-way traffic

It is easy to approach the human incarnation of God and praise Him as God. But the most important part is to retain the same faith throughout one’s life. When following, Datta becomes practically inconvenient. [He gives you problems to test your faith] Your faith should persist. The faith should be practical and permanent. The recognition of the human incarnation must be done with the help of the sacred scriptures like the Vedas, Brahma Sutras and the Gita. You must take a long time to decide the human incarnation. Once you have decided, you must stick to your descision in spite of all the troubles and inconvenience, which you face practically. There is no use of catching somebody in haste and then withdrawing the next day. You will continue like this throughout your life.

Therefore, you must study all the scriptures and be thorough with the divine knowledge, which generates devotion or love. If your devotion is real, you must prove it by your service. Real love is only a one-way traffic. Attaining the God, seeing Him and talking with Him are useless. Demons have seen and talked with God after doing long penance. What is the use of it? They were finally destroyed. Even if you don’t see or talk with God, if you please Him through your proven real love, you are blessed. Rama never saw Lord Shiva. But He was blessed. Ravana saw and talked with Shiva, but was destroyed. Therefore, pleasing the Lord should be our final aim and not mere vision or conversation.

true.
and we have to be balanced..some people only fight for their dreams and they forget about the most important..and on the other hand there are ones who dont care about gloryfying God with a blessing life...

Business Mentality of people to God

No form is God because God is unimaginable (Aroopa vadevahi... Bramhasutra). Veda also says the same (Aroopamavyayam). Due to this point, people escape the practical service, which is expensive. They are prepared to spend their physical and mental energy in their leisure time when there is no possibility of any earning. Instead of wasting the physical and mental energy in the activities, which do not involve in earning in any way, they like to divert these two forms of energy to God by moving around God (Pradakshinam) and by praying to God through prayers so that God may help their earning. Hence, only the point of earning is again involved here also.

Thus, the process of earning is continuous without any gap in the case of these people. Their love to God is instrumental only. Even if they spend some money to the works of God, it is done again on the basis of business only. They invest some money for God and aspire for the same money multiplied from God. Thus the practical service is purely business and in this business, it is immaterial whether God is formless or with form. Since practical service is not possible in the case of formless God, these businessmen choose God with form. Again for these people, it is immaterial whether God is in the form of a statue or in human form. Their requirement is that the form must have the potency to return their money multiplied.

Some people doubt the return of money and hence spend their physical and mental energy only in leisure for God formless or with any form. Some people fix themselves in formless God only so that their mind will never bend to the possibility of practical service since the formless God can never be practically served. Some extreme people of this type feel that they are God so that they serve themselves practically. Such people do not donate food to anybody else and feel that they are feeding God while eating the food. Before eating the food they read the verse of Gita, which says that the food is given to God (Bramhaparnam...).

Some of these people worship statues because a statue can never accept your practical service. They donate food to the statue and eat it as the leftover remains (Prasadam). Everything is leftover since nothing was eaten by statue and it is a wonder that they call it as remains! All these are various channels of greedy psychologies of human beings, which are projected as sacrifice by their intellectual hypocrisy.

Real love is only a one-way traffic

It is easy to approach the human incarnation of God and praise Him as God. But the most important part is to retain the same faith throughout one’s life. When following, Datta becomes practically inconvenient. [He gives you problems to test your faith] Your faith should persist. The faith should be practical and permanent. The recognition of the human incarnation must be done with the help of the sacred scriptures like the Vedas, Brahma Sutras and the Gita. You must take a long time to decide the human incarnation. Once you have decided, you must stick to your descision in spite of all the troubles and inconvenience, which you face practically. There is no use of catching somebody in haste and then withdrawing the next day. You will continue like this throughout your life.

Therefore, you must study all the scriptures and be thorough with the divine knowledge, which generates devotion or love. If your devotion is real, you must prove it by your service. Real love is only a one-way traffic. Attaining the God, seeing Him and talking with Him are useless. Demons have seen and talked with God after doing long penance. What is the use of it? They were finally destroyed. Even if you don’t see or talk with God, if you please Him through your proven real love, you are blessed. Rama never saw Lord Shiva. But He was blessed. Ravana saw and talked with Shiva, but was destroyed. Therefore, pleasing the Lord should be our final aim and not mere vision or conversation.

Real devotees do not expect benefit from God

If your aim is only to solve your problem in this world or in the upper world or in both, you have nothing to do with the formless God or the form of God. Your work is done when you pray for it sincerely. But mind that your love is not for God but for the solution of your problem. Then God gives the solution for your problems only in a temporary way, which is not good for you in the long run. He postpones your bad results and brings the good results from your future births to the present. By this, you only enjoy the results of the deeds, which you have done and you cannot enjoy the results of the deeds, which you have not done.


It is like sending your application to the officer through a peon [office boy] after paying the necessary amount and getting back the application with the signature of the officer. You have nothing to do with the personality or the qualities of the officer. But when a girl loves the officer, she likes to see the personality and know about his qualities. His position as an officer is only one of the several aspects. Often, she neglects this aspect of the post, when the personality and qualities have attracted her. Similarly, a real devotee feels happy by knowing the details of God and he is not worried about the benefit from God. In this case, the Lord suffers for bad results of that real devotee and gives him eternal happiness.