Comparison of love to wife, children Vs Love to Lord

dattaswami1 · Big Guppy Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 47

Comparison of love to wife, children Vs Love to Lord
The love to child is strongest like gold medal. The love to wife or husband is real but limited and is the next silver medal. The God is worshipped in these two lines only (Aham Bijapradah pitaa….., Gatih bhartaa…, Gita). Between these two, the gold medal overcomes the silver medal.

If the wife asks the husband to give all the property to her only, the husband sometimes may give it with the confidence that she will give to his child because she is also the mother of the same child. If the husband has any doubt on her love to his child, the husband will not agree to this. He may give some little property for her maintenance but the rest major property is given to his child only.

The sacrifice of fruit of work is the acid test of the reality and limitations of the love. Hence, Veda gave top most place to this sacrifice of wealth only (Dhanena Tyagena Ekena…) and Gita gave the final place to the sacrifice of fruit of work. Since work is the source of the fruit, sacrifice of work is also as good as the sacrifice of fruit; especially in the case of saints, one can do only the former.

Any way the desire of God is the most important in sacrifice because it tests the devotee about his or her total preparedness for the total sacrifice (Sarva Bhavena … Gita). The fulfillment of the desire of God can only give Him the maximum pleasure because that only proves your readiness for the total sacrifice.

The omniscient Lord catches straightly your nerve of weakest point at the very outset so that the other weak points need not be tested in which you have every probability of success.