Aradhana that was uninterruptedly pursued 3

A grain of bajra or maize on being sown ripens and multiplies into hundred grains. This has actually happened with me when I scarified all I had. Members of the family should be maintained as a long as they are not to earn their livelihood. To go on spending money, labor and intelligences on ablebolded and earning family members and die leaving property in inheritance for them is immoral and I have always opposed it. Money which comes unearned or ' gratis' is ill-gotten although it may be ancestral. Having kept complete  faith in this ideal, I did not allow my wealth in the form of physical and mental labor, emotional feelings and accumulated savings to pass on to the hands of undeserving persons. It was totally applied in Aradhana of God, towards the growth of nobility and goodness in society. The result is self-evident. If like a miser, I have used all my resources in self- gratification, hoarding or in spending on members of the family to make them multi-millionaire, it would all have been wasted. One has to wait for the next birth for getting results of certain virtuous deeds, righteous actions. Public service, however, is such a universal good whose reward one gets instantly. We feel deep soul satisfaction in consoling others in the moment of their despair. There is a divine rule that the store of a benefactor never becomes empty. God's grace always blesses him and whatever has been spent comes back multiplied manifold.

Sheep parts with its wool but it gets new wool every year. Trees yield fruits but their branches again get loaded with fresh fruits every season. Clouds go on raining but they never bet emptied as they go on collecting water from the ocean. The coffers of magnanimous persons never get empty. It is a different matter if a person donates his time, labor and resources to underling persons and blindly encourages evil tendencies and considers it to be a righteous deed. Otherwise, public service is bound to be instantly rewarded. Whosesoever invests in this enterprise is bound to be rewarded by soul-satisfaction, public respect and divine grace. Misers are those who foolishly boast of their shrewdness and cleverness but great is their loss in the ultimate analysis.

Public service loses its significance when in return a man expects to get name and fame. It then becomes a business like publication of an advertisement in the papers. If a person is reminded of the favor done or something is expected in return, the efficacy of virtuousness is lost. Donations given under pressure do not fulfill the true aims of a charitable purpose. The criterion is whether by such an act there is growth of kindly feelings and spread of righteous tendencies. These days' innumerable ostentations and hypocrisies are in vogue which promotes the growth of social parasites who exploit simple people by fraudulent and deceitful means. Before spending any money a man should think a thousand times what its ultimate use will be. It is absolutely necessary these days to exercise such far-sighted wisdom. On such occasions I have declined to oblige and have even dared to incur the ignominy of being dubbed as inconsiderate

One can have a glimpse of the philosophy of my life in these three aspects of Upasana, Sadhana and Aradhana. This is t path which has been followed by all thes great ones who have achieved their goals and earned fame. There is no short-cut on this path.