Right Understanding To Help Others

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Right Understanding to Help Others
Right Understanding to Help Others
miserable; he is neither able to die nor is he able to leave his bungalow and cars behind!
You should not charge money for your professional advice. Today a person donates large amounts of money, yet if someone comes to him for advice, he charges a fee. How can such a person call himself a Jain when he charges for advice? He shames even the Gods and the Vitarag Lords (the fully enlightened Ones)! He may argue that he has to make a living, but to charge a fee for information is not beneficial.
Questioner: Are you saying that this fee is for the use of one's excessive intellect (buddhi)?
Dadashri: There is nothing wrong with the intellect, but this kind of intellect is wrong intellect (viparit buddhi). It brings harm to one's own self. Lord Mahavir has not objected to the intellect. The Lord has said that the intellect can become right (samyak) also. If there is right intellect, one may even feel that he wants to Help Others in any way that he can.
Benevolence and Vyavasthit Questioner: In my opinion, stopping a dog from killing a pigeon is being benevolent. Does that not mean that I am obstructing scientific circumstantial evidences (vyavasthir)?
Dadashri: You are only able to do so when it is in your vyavasthit to do so. Nevertheless, you have to maintain an obliging nature. In doing so, you will bind only merit karma and therefore, there is no scope for any suffering later for you. If you cannot Help Others financially, then at least oblige them by using your intellect to advise them or run errands for them. Help people in any way that you can.
Lives as Humans, Animals and Celestials
You will not incur any loss or experience any obstacles in life if it is spent serving and obliging others. All your wishes will be fulfilled providing you remain free from interference and
restlessness, but if you do not, then none of your wishes will be fulfilled. Restlessness will not allow you to sleep at night. These wealthy businessmen are not able to sleep for days because all they have done throughout their lives is cheat and rob people.
So be obliging. If you are going somewhere, ask people if you can run an errand for them while you are out. What is wrong in asking? Someone may tell you that they don't trust you, so in that case, ask for their forgiveness. Those who do trust you, be sure to help them.
I am telling you this because even as a young man I had an obliging nature. At the age of twenty-five my friends used to call me a 'superhuman.'
Who do you call a human? A human is one that gives and takes equally. He will give happiness to those who make him happy and bestow misery upon those who cause him misery. This kind of dealing is a characteristic of a human being.
Those who take away happiness of others go into the animal form in the next life. Those who give happiness and take happiness will remain as humans. Those who give away their own happiness to others are superhuman and will be born as celestial beings.
The Ego of Those Who Help Others is Normal Questioner: Is benevolence associated with ego?
Dadashri: The ego of a benevolent person is always normal; it is within limits. But the ego of a person who charges a fee for his services is greatly increased.
Nature's law is such that if you give the fruits of your own efforts to others, nature will take care of you. That is the hidden science. This is relative (paroksha) 'religion.' First comes relative religion, then comes real (pratyaksh) religion, and finally comes the religion of the Self (Atma dharma). The only purpose of the human life and its essence is this: To use one's mind, body and speech for others.