Discourses-----Day 17
February 5, 1940
Kestoda, Ramda, Saratda, Haripadada, Umada, Khagenda and
others were sitting in Sri Sri Thakur’s room. Sri Sri Thakur did a little bit
of mental figuring and said, “It is not at all difficult for the Ritwiks and Adhwaryyus
to draw a benefaction of two to four hundred rupees a month. It may turn out so
that all good people will be attracted to this. Efficient people will no longer
be available for salaried jobs. The work of a Yaajak is much more profitable
and respectable from all standpoints than that of a sub-deputy Magistrate. Each
Ritwik should have his own staff of doctors, engineers, agriculturists,
industrial experts, scientists etc. A particular area is perhaps suffering from
drought. That should put a bee in the bonnet of the Ritwik. His group should
immediately take to research. This group should render services to man in all
possible ways ; inward, outward and at all levels. One also has the task of
controlling the fund set aside for the service of environment. A total of
15,000 rupees per annum is likely to be collected in a thana where 10,000 people are daily offering
Ishtabhriti. If that fund is utilized for the benefit of that area, one need
not fawn for favour. On one occasion a canal is dug, electricity is perhaps
installed on another, a school is built, industry is developed and so on. People
cry themselves hoarse for independence, but if one moves on like this,
independence without a movement for it. People will spontaneously understand
what is good for them, what is advantageous to them. Each individual has the
whole world to gain and nothing to lose from an arrangement and organization of
service directed toward the benefit of mankind and for the fulfillment of the
interest at all ; even a madman understands when something good is done to him.
That is why I cannot understand how any person can have conflict with us.
People used to starve and carry on some movement by going to prison. Try to
think for a while the difference between such a movements inaugurated by the
inflicting of suffering on oneself and the type I suggest. The leaders are not
able to understand this simple thing. Try to appreciate them what a path the
Aryans used to tread ! That is why the scriptures have stressed Ishtabhriti in
so many ways. I also assert that there can be no more honourable professions
than those of Ritwik, Adhwaryyu and Yaajak. Each penny is given out by man’s
cordial urge. How sacred it is ! It has no comparison with the money earned by
service. Juice from the date palm is a kind of liquid ; so is urine. How
different they are intrinsically though they look so much alike ! And is this
setup you are not slave to anyone. You are under obligation to none. You are
just children of the Lord. That is why the gift from me to you is better than
the donation taken directly from the oblate. Under the latter arrangement some
amount of obligation sets in. One has to serve their whims to a certain extent,
and it sometimes becomes an impediment against going all out for the work of
the Lord. Yajan, Yaajan, Ishtabhriti and Swastyayani ; this is all that the
work amounts to. There is nothing else to be done. As long as the path is, as
far as the eyes go, this the way to move on.”
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