Whether God need Money
Smt. Padma, wife of Sharma passed on a comment ?God is in money?. Sharma became angry and told her that she will be punished by God by commenting like that. Sharma came to Swami and complained about the matter. Swami told ?You should not threaten anybody. You should analyze the topic and convince the people through knowledge. By threatening, the thought is only suppressed but not removed?. Sharma came back along with his wife and Swami delivered the following divine discourse to the devotees.
People say that God is in money. It is correct because money is Goddess Lakshmi. Lord Narayana is in her heart always. The money is also in the heart of God because Goddess Lakshmi is in His heart. Whatever is in the heart of Lord, the same came out in His word which is the Veda. The Veda says that sacrifice of money alone can please the Lord (Dhanena Tyagenaikena). The Lord came down in human form as Lord Krishna who also told the same point with the highest intensity also. The Gita, the word of Lord Krishna, says that one should sacrifice the entire money possessed by him to please the Lord (Sarva karmaphala tyagam). Jesus told a rich man to sacrifice all the wealth possessed by him. Lord Vishnu said the same in Vishnu Puranam ?Yasyaanugrahamichchami Tasya Vittam Haraamyaham?, which means that the Lord is pleased by taking the money from the devotee. The Lord is Satguru and one point is appreciable with Him. That is, whatever is in the heart He spoke it out. The present gurus aspire for money in the heart but speak against money in the words. It is said that great people think, speak and do the same (Karmanyekam, vachasyekam, manasyekam mahaatmanaam). Whatever the Lord told, the same thing was also done by Him. The Lord came as guest to Saktuprastha and took all the flour from him for eating, when Saktuprastha was going to eat the same, who was suffering without food for the past ten days in a draught.
Vasistha asked Rama to submit gurudakshina (money) before preaching Jnana Vaasistham (Dhanamarjaya kakutstha). A sacrifice is useless if dakshina is not offered (Adakshina hato yajnaha). All the rituals involve sacrifice of food and dakshina (money) only. Sai Baba was asking for dakshina everytime. Yoga Vaasistham says that money is the root of the world (dhanamoolamidam jagat). Shriyantram which is based on Shri (money) speaks about the importance of money. Everybody should frankly accept that everything is revolving around money. If money is not there, all the family members will leave you and even the body leaves the soul if the food (form of money) is not there. The proof of the real love is only the sacrifice of hard earned money. The real love is only on children because all the wealth is given to them only in the end. Therefore if you say that you have the real love for God, God will catch your money and will ask you to give it to Him. The real colour will come out. Therefore sacrifice of fruit of work (money) is real proof of devotion as praised in the Gita.
