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DISCOURSE 6
All of you go to the temple, don't you? see in the temple? Do you go to see Paramatma? Why do you go to him? from him or to give him something? you take there? Would you not carry from your home all the necessary substances for the worship? May we hope that you would not perform the worship wearing the red and yellow dress kept in the temple? Would you not perform the worship wearing clean and beautiful dress? Would you not go to the temple carrying with you sandal-paste, saffron, incense-sticks, ghee-wicks, fruits, offerings etc.
WHY DO YOU GO TO THE PARAMATMA? IS IT TO RECEIVE OR TO GIVE ?
Whom do you want to the stone-image or the Is it to get something What substances would
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From the Audience: We do not take anything to the temple. We wear only the dress that is kept in the temple, for worship.
Reply: Have you become so poor? Is that the reason for your not taking anything to the temple? or you must be selfish. You go to receive......selfish people are interested in what they can get. That is what they understand.
One day, Lord Shankar appeared before Jatashankar. He said to Jatashankar, "Son, I am pleased with you. What do you desire from me ?" Jatashankar asked, "What is the manner in which you give anything?"
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The Lord said, "Dear son! I give one hundred for one; If you give me one rupee, I will give you one hundred rupees. Jatashankar thought that this was his first meeting with God; and he had heard that God would vanish in a moment. He wondered how he could believe God's words. God might disappear soon after he gave him his rupee. He would lose his rupees. He thought so. Jatashankar was a clever person. He thought, and a plan flashed to him. He said to God. "Oh God! you are gracious and magnanimous. If I give you one rupee you will give me one hundred rupees. You kindly do so. Think that I have given you one rupee; and give me ninety nine". God kept staring at him.
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