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Right Understanding to Help Others
Right Understanding to Help Others
happy. They would be constantly thinking of ways to oblige others.
More important than a person's extemal actions of obliging others are his internal intents (bhaav) to help. This intention should always be present. If you have the money, your intention should be to use it to lessen someone else's misery. If you have such knowledge, use it to explain things to people to alleviate their misery. Help Others with whatever assets you have. If you cannot do this, at least maintain an obliging nature. What is an obliging nature? It is to Help Others.
Your nature would be beautiful if you maintained an obliging nature. Simply giving away money is not considered an obliging nature. Whether you have money to give away or not, your intentions should be to Help Others. You should at least have intentions to help those who come to you. To donate money or not depends on your ability to do so.
You do not oblige others by simply giving them money. Giving money is dependent upon a person's ability to give. All you have to do is make sure that you have the constant internal intent to oblige others.
how it is possible to make others happy without money. Money is not the only thing that you can give; you can keep an obliging nature, run errands for others or give advice to people. You can oblige others in many ways.
Religion (dharma) is not the mere sitting in front of an idol of God; religion is to attain the goal of life. Whatever one does to attain concentration (ekagrata) is a different matter. If you focus your attention on achieving your goal, then you will succeed. If you make a decision that you want to maintain an obliging nature, the change will occur within you. Decide that you do not want any 'wildness' in your nature, even when the other person is behaving 'wildly towards you. Is this not possible? Would changes not occur from the time you make that decision?
Questioner: But it is difficult.
Dadashri: No, but even if it is difficult, you have to make the decision because you are a human being, and not just an ordinary human being at that, either. You are born in India. Your heritage is that of ascetics and spiritual aspirants. You have tremendous energy within you. What good is energy that is concealed? If you make a decision based on what I am telling you, then it will definitely materialize, otherwise for how long will you carry on this 'wildness'? Besides, do you find any happiness in such 'wildness'?
Questioner: No. Dadashri: On the contrary, you invite miseries.
Merit Karma Helps This Way Until one attains liberation, merit karma (punya) functions as one's friend and demerit karma (paap) functions as one's enemy. What you have to decide now is whether you want a friend or an enemy. You have to ask how you can make a friend and get rid of the enemy. If one would like to make an enemy, I would tell him to run himself into debt while living extravagantly
Goal of Life
Without a goal in life, this life is meaningless. You earn money, you eat, drink and enjoy yourself but you still have worries. How can this be your aim in life? What is the point of a human life that goes to waste? Having been born a human, what should you do to attain the goal of a human life? If you want worldly happiness, you should give whatever you have to others. You can expect happiness only if you make others happy, otherwise misery will come to you for making others miserable.
Understand the law of this world and of all the religions in just this one statement: "He who wants happiness should make others happy and he who wants misery, should make others miserable.' Do whatever suits you. Someone may question about
