Serve the Boundless…

There is a payable in the scriptures of Vedanta. A gentleman and started a business. He was duped in business and went bankrupt. When his creditors asked him fro repayment, he assured them that by doing some job or business he would clear all his debts. He did join a job but could hardy earn enough to meet his own bare needs. So how could he ever repay his debts? Therefore he was always pestered by his creditors.

Someone ascended him, How can you clear your debts have by this petty job? For that you will have to go to a rich man. Work for him, without a salary, with the spirit to selfless crevice. By the power of selfless service you will become his own man. When you become his own, you reputation will become his own reputation your debts will become has debts, your happiness will become his happiness.”

This seems to be sound advice to hi. He joined the service and would just have his food and receive some basic necessities form his master. He did not aspect money for any other thing. This went on for six months. The Reich man was greatly impressed his bhosetyu. He was gradually promoted to the post of the accountant. Seeing that he now held high post, his Creditors were assured that he would clear his debts ad hence kept cool. Open daddy when the gentleman went to the market, his old credits surrounded him and scolded him left and right for not repaying there loans cone after being promoted to a good post. Disturbed by their scolding, he came the rich man with a fajorlon look on his face,. The man asked him, why are you sad?

The gentleman related his whole story to him. The rich man said, “Brother you are crazy. Why should you be troubled when you are living with me? Had you told me about this earlier I would have cleared all you debts. Now tell me, will you agree with whatever decision I take in this regard?”

“I agree.”

The rich man called his creditors and holds them, “

Will you agree with whatever decision I take regarding your demands?”

“Yes.”

The accumulated interest was deducted principle amount paid. This story is mar rated in the scriptures of Vedanta. It is a parable intended to illustrate a lesson. Now wood do the rich man, the creditors and the gentleman actually stand faro?

The java, the individual soul is the gentleman. He comes to this samara and loses all his spiritual wealth hay joining forces with the robbers in the form of lust, angers etc. He becomes bankrupt having lost his entire spiritual prowess.

Whatever merit he earns by that, is just enough for leading a had to moot life. He fails to clear his debts. Some one advisees him, “Go toe generous rich man. The generous rich man is the self realized sanity. Go to him worship and serve him, but do not ask for any returns. You just willingly surrender yourself to Him. And thane when He comes to known about you bang asked by Nature and Time to clear your debts accumulated on account of having been looted by robbers in the from of lust anger, etc. He will mediated between you and Nature a time for several lives; And by thus clearing your debts owed totem, He will finally awaken you into the Truth that is beyond the touch to Time and Nature.”

You will get nothing being a salve to petty people or by taking up petty jobs.

“The slave (imperfect master) meets the salve;

How can they be freed?

But serve the bondless Mater,

Who is slave to none?

And in a moment He will set thee wholly free.”

The Lord. And that is not all; the perfect discharge of one’s duty automatically leads to aloofness, which nature paves the way for surrender. The total annihilation of selfishness, sloth, ad the limited ego is not possible without a good sense for duty, aloofness and surrender respectively Selfishness, sloth and the limited ego alone have deterred man from seva, spiritual life and love respectively. Destruction of selfishness, sloth and the limited ego are all inherent in initiation.

Education makes a man useful, while initiation redeems one form then datedness to all. Without redemption from indebtedness on cannot make foray into the realm of ease, independence and love, which alumina constitute true life.