It Is a Wrong Notion That You Have to Fend for Yourself
How many times have you starved in your life till this point of time?
How many times have you not got water to drink in your whole life?
Don’t talk statistics, don’t talk about Somalia or famine-affected places.
Think about yourself.
How many times?
99 out of 100 people, 99 out of 100 times, get what they want to eat and drink, when they want to eat and drink.
And still, we are complaining.
Out of a world population of 7 billion, how many are not getting air to breathe?
Even in those cases where they can’t breathe on their own, there are ventilators connected to them, there are oxygen cylinders connected to them.
What is the complaint?
What your body needs — food, water, air — is being provided to you from time to time.
The rest is your creation.
You draw a line somewhere, call it poverty line — you are above or below.
You fix 120 mg/dL of sugar — above that, you are sick; below that, you are yet to be sick.
What will happen to your savings if the inflation moves up two points?
What will happen if you fall sick and can’t meet expenses? — Insurance.
What will happen if you die? — Insurance.
Savings, investments, insurance, preventive checkups, fitness diet, lack of growth, favoritism, not being rewarded for as much as you work — all creation of the mind.
God said: I have given you a body. I will take care of its needs.
You don’t trust.
Someone asked Ramana Maharshi:
Why are you not taking care of the worldly problems of your disciples?
Somebody is sick, somebody doesn’t have a job, somebody is not getting married, somebody doesn’t have children, somebody doesn’t get promotion, somebody doesn’t have a house.
Why don’t you help?
Maharshi said —
Someone is having a bad dream in his sleep.
He is being chased by a tiger in his dream.
He is going to be attacked.
What help can you give him?
The dream is in his mind.
You can only wake him up.
Then he will himself realize that he was having a dream.
You can’t get inside his dream and save him from the tiger.
The way to wake him up from this dream, this illusion — that you have to fend for yourself, you have to take care of yourself — is knowledge.
To understand how things work.
And the source of this knowledge is our scriptures.
Read them, listen to them, apply them to your life.
Don’t you see those people who go from hospital to hospital with food packets, trying to feed the needy and the poor?
Don’t you see free medicines, clothes, and food pouring into places affected by natural calamities?
Don’t you see huge organisations — Red Cross, Blue Cross, charities?
Who is prompting someone to be charitable?
That I should help the poor, the needy?
It is God.
He puts the seed of charity, mercy, sympathy into the minds of people.
It doesn’t happen on its own.
Everything is balanced.
There is a perfect system in place.
Sri Hari's system.
So Brahma was telling Narada about the strength of Maya, which is Sri Hari’s own creation — which makes people get into the mode of cause, effect, and doership — karya, karana, and kartrutva.
Sri Hari is the absolute Lord and controller of this Maya.
He desired to multiply.
Why?
Because He felt lonely. He felt bored.
Simple answer.
Scriptures sometimes give these kinds of answers.
It serves the purpose and allows us to go ahead rather than getting stuck to some useless point.
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