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Q) When guru dakshina is given to Satguru, my mother says that
we should
watch the satguru about the expenditure of that donation. Is it
correct?
Ans) This statement is not correct. Once you decide Him as
satguru, you must
have 100% belief that He is God. If you have any trace of doubt,
then He is onlyguru and not satguru. Guru is a devotee and scholar.
The word Sat mean God
according to Veda. Therefore, you must take long time to analyse
and distinguish
the guru and satguru. Guru is the guide and shows the path to
reach God. Satguru
is the human incarnation, who is both guide and goal. Narada was
guru but Krishnawas satguru. The composition of guru is gross body,
subtle body and cause body.
The composition of satguru is also these three bodies, but these
three bodies arecharged and pervaded all over by God. If guru
misuses guru dakshina, he will be
punished by God. If Satguru misuses it, that is not misuse at
all. It is properly used
which will appear as misuse apparently. We do not know the
background of it.
You must have 100% faith and should not doubt Him in any angle.
Infact the entireworld is His immovable property. All the living
beings are His movable property.
You are part parcel of His property. Where is the concept of
donation? Veda saysthat when you give guru dakshina to satguru, you
must give it with shyness and
fear. Generally, people give excess of money as guru dakshina.
You are permittedto take from His property for your basic needs
only. If you have earned excess, you
have stolen His wealth. Veda says the same (Ma grudhaha ). You
are returningthe stolen wealth to owner as guru dakshina. Therefore
you must fear and feel shy.
You must also give secretly (Gupta daanam) because returning
back the stolenwealth to its owner should not be done openly. Veda
says the same (Hriya deyam,
bhiya deyam). Veda also says that before giving guru dakshina, a
very deep logicalanalysis must be done to decide weather he is a
guru or Satguru. When you donate
money to a temple, it is taken by the trust, which consists of
good devotees. Theyare not God. They are most likely to err.
Certainly they will not steal the money,
but they do not know how to spend it properly. Generally they
spend it onconstructions and create more facilities to visitors. A
piligrim should not be
encouraged with facilities. In the old times the temples were in
forests and on hills.Piligrims will develop devotion only through
difficulties. Thus the money is not
properly spent. It should be spent to propagate true knwledge
and devotion to God.
Piligrims are coming to temples to fulfill their desires. They
donate for that
purpose only. The trust creates facilities to them. All this is
business. The devotionand sacrifice without aspiring anything in
return should be developed through the
propagation of true knowledge. When they come to temples, the
prostitute type or
merchant type devotees should be transformed to real devotees.
Money should bespent for this purpose. Your donation is either
wasted or misused. For this he will
be punished because it is a sin. Even if the poor people or
beggars are helped by
our money without preaching them devotion and spiritual
knowledge, that also isa sin because it is interference in the
administration of God which was explainedby Me at several
places.
Mahabharata says that donation to undeserving and denial of
donation to deservingare the two sins. After lot of logical
analysis only donation should be done
because, donation brings both good and bad results. The
candidate to receive thedonation is most important. Time and place
are not important. If the receiver is
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satguru, any place and any day are sacred. If the receiver is
undeserving, even if itis a temple or even if it is a day of pious
festival, sin is purchased. Instead o
donating to ten undeserving people for ten days without
discrimination in haste, itis better to donate all the accumulated
donation to one deserving person on one
day. You feed hundred piligrims in Benares on shivaratri day.
God is not pleasedwith that because your money is misused. With the
same money select one
deserving devotee and feed him for 100 days at any place. Lot of
time should betaken in selecting the deserving person. Meanwhile go
on accumulating the
donation. Veda says samvida deyam, which means donation must be
done afterlot of analysis. When you give it to satguru, He will
spend in the best way.
Sometimes He may give your guru dakshina to another individual.
You are nothappy about it because that person is undeserving. But
satguru gave that money to
him because you have stolen money from him in the previous
birth. God is clearingour debt. You cannot understand His ways
because He alone knows all the
background. People used to give guru dakshina to Shrdi Sai baba.
Sometimes Babawas demanding for guru dakshina. He was taking the
money and was pocketing it
with lot of care. People misunderstood him. By next morning all
the money
disappeared. Actually in the midnight, He was giving secretly
that money to some
deserving devotees. How nice it would be if He gives the same
money to the samedeserving in the daytime in the presence of all!
Was He foolish in not doing so?
o. He was testing the failth of donor. Satguru takes guru
dakshina only to cutour bond with the money (dhaneshana). In Vishnu
Puranm, the Lord said that He
would take the money from a devotee if He wants to uplift him
(tasya vittam
haramyaham). When you donate to Datta, He will not look at the
donated money
but He will look at the remaining money. When the Lord came as a
guest toSaktuprastha, the Lord asked for the entire food. The
family of Saktuprastha wasfasting for the last ten days, since it
was a severe draught.
Written By
His Holiness Shri Datta Swami
website address: http://www.universal-spirituality.org
e-mail address: [email protected]
Jai Guru Datta
