Bharat, brother of God Ram, set forth an excellent
example of doing service to God while doing the job. After departure
of Ram to jungle for fourteen years, Bharat became ruler of the
kingdom ruled from Ayodhya. He first tried to pursue Ram to be back
as a ruler but Ram refused citing the promise given by his father.
Bharat said to Ram,’In that case I will rule Ayodhya, not as a
king, but as your servant. I will not have any of the royal luxuries
of a king. I will stay in a hut.’
It may not be possible to go to that extent, but
at least one could have a God’s idol in the main office where
the owner or manager or workers carry out work. Workday could begin
with aarati and prayer to God. One should always realize that all
assets are provided by God free of charge and hence God has every
right on your income. You are a manager who manage the assets given
by God. Who gave you birth? God. Who gave you human body? God. Who
gave you power to think, to see, to hear, to touch, to speak, to
smell, to taste? God. To be frank soul works on the alms showered by
God. Soul owes everything it has to God. Therefore the one who does
not return due, is an ungrateful person and deserves to be punished.
That exactly is happening to all souls who are sufferings from cycle
of infinite deaths and births.
No can be more stupid and illogical than the one
who rejects presence of God may be he is a great scientist. One must
remain grateful to God for whatever he has and for whatever he does
not have. Accept the fact that God is everything to you. As of now,
soul works for himself, for his near and dear ones not giving
anything back to God. This must change, soul should work for God and
not for family and friends. This no way means non-performance of
duties towards the family. When a student leaves his home for study,
he might stay in hostel where all needs of student are taken care of.
The stay is arranged by and paid by his parents. Hostel warden is
not father of the student. Similarly, God who is mother and father of
soul, arranges soul’s stay on this earth with some family so
that the needs of the soul could be taken care of. That does not
change God’s status as father of soul. Soul’s true home
is God’s abode. Soul should be aware that sole well wisher,
facilitator and provider of soul is God and hence soul must show
gratitude at least by returning his income to God.
Minimum ten percent of earnings must be donated to
spiritual charity as per divine rules. The one who breaks this rule
gets punished by lack of money in the next life. Then he commits
misdeeds to fill the belly and suffer from more pains as the result
of those misdeeds. Soul is trapped in a vicious cycle of misdeeds
leading to sufferings leading to more misdeeds leading to more
sufferings. Reason? Ungrateful attitude towards God. Not donating at
least ten percent of earnings on the pretext of family and other
material pleasures. Just come out of it now. Tell mind to accept
God’s compassion. And do your business or job in the service of
God. Else you would be a big fool to ignore sufferings and pains of
multitude of humans and other lower animals and in all probability
you yourself would land up in their position sooner or later.