The servant of the Master of Unlimited Resources
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aham sarvasya
prabhavo
mattah sarvam
pravartate
iti matva
bhajante mam
budha bhava-samanvitah
I am the source
of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates form Me.
The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship
Me with all their hearts.
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (Chapter 10, Text 8)
In the Bhagavad-gita,
Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, explains to his warrior
friend Arjuna that He is the Master of Unlimited Resources.
In this classic text from the ancient teachings of the Vedas of India are
countless slokas, or verses written in the original Sanskrit language
of the earth, about Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion to God in the heart.
brahmany
adhaya karmani
sangam tyaktva
karoti yah
lipyate
na sa papena
padma-patram
ivambhasa
One who performs
his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme
Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by
water.
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (Chapter 5, Text 10)
The business of Unlimited
Resources is to engage in practical service that is dovetailed with service
to God. This is the business of Spiritual Economics.
In the material world, people are motivated by love of money, whereas in
the Spiritual World, souls are motivated by pure love for Krishna and His
dearmost servants. Just imagine what kind of a world we could
inhabit if people were motivated to give to one another as an offering of
love!
A positive example
of Spiritual Economics is the barter system. One person brings his
organic homegrown potatoes to trade with another person for some honey he
gathered from his beehives. As they understand the relative value of
their products in terms of the common denominator of money, so they strike
a fair trade. But in the process of exchanging goods they have both
produced as a labor of love in harmony with the earth, spirits of the earth,
and God, they develop an affinity for one another. The potato farmer
concludes the deal by throwing in a bushel full of hot chili peppers because
he likes the bee farmer so well. The bee farmer reciprocates by offering
the potato farmer a slab of beeswax. While they are having a good time trading,
the potato farmer's wife arrives and offers the bee farmer some homemade
oatmeal cookies. See what happens when we try to serve one another and God
in the spirit of love and devotion? - we just want to give and give more.
What a contrast to the modern capitalistic entrepreneurs who try to squeeze
every drop of profit out of customers!!
karmany
evadhikaras te
ma phalesu
kadacana
ma karma-phala-hetur
bhur
ma te sango
stv akarmani
You have a right
to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of
action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities,
and never be attached to not doing your duty.
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, (Chapter 2, Text 47)
It is very easy to
serve the Master of Unlimited Resources when we understand that everything
of this material manifestation is coming from the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
We cannot possibly claim any of it for our own proprietorship in any permanent
manner - we are simply stewards of Krishna's resources. The most wonderful
aspect of Spiritual Economics is the realization that as God's resources
are unlimited, our potential to utilize and serve those resources is also
unlimited.
sri-bhagavan
uvaca
sannyasah
karma-yogas ca
nihsreyasa-karav
ubhau
tayos tu
karma-sannyasat
karma-yogo
visisyate
The Personality
of Godhead replied: The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both
good for
liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional service is better
than renunciation of work.
Bhagavad-gita As It Is (Chapter 5, Text 2)
In this age of Quarrel and Hypocrisy, known as the Kali Yuga,
the ancient Sanskrit Hare Krishna Maha Mantra is
recommended in the Vedic scriptures as the most effective means of meditation
for deliverance from material conditional life:
HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA
KRISHNA KRISHNA, HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA
RAMA RAMA, HARE HARE
Translation: Oh God, Oh Energy of God! Please engage me in your service!
This mantra is more powerful than an atom bomb.
All other mantras, such as OM, are contained with it.
It is a sound incarnation of God and one who chants it purely can at
once be reconnected to Lord Sri Krishna in one's constitutional spiritual
identity.
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