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Many
people wonder if Love for God will be an
impediment for service to Him. This depends
on how that Love manifests itself.
Certain
people, when they get intoxicated with their
Love for God, will not be able to perform
service or even their worldly duties too.
They prefer to be immersed in devotion.
Love
for God can lead you to serve God in some
capacity. You can compose lyrics singing His
Glory. You can render manual service at
temples, like Appar Swami did. Whenever
Appar went on pilgrimage, he used to weed
the gardens (called in Tamil as ‘Uzhavaarappani’)
in the temples he visited. Unto his last, he
was on this service, focusing his thoughts
always on the Lord.
His life is an example of the type of
service God relishes. At a time when famine
struck the land, Appar and
TiruGnana
Sambandar
sought the Lord’s Mercy for prevailing
over the effects of famine. God granted them
each a gold coin every day, and bade them to
use it for charity. In Appar’s place, the
visitors were able to have their food before
noon, whereas in Sambandar’s place, the
mealtime extended till about
3 pm
. When Sambandar questioned his people about
this, they replied that God had given Appar
genuine gold, whereas the gold coin given to
Sambandar was amalgamated, and therefore it
took time at the grocery shop for them to
test the genuineness of the gold before
selling the required groceries to
Sambandar’s men. When Sambandar pondered
over this distinction, he realized that all
that he had done for the Lord was sing His
praises and even for that, God had rewarded
him with a pearl palanquin to travel in and
sheltered him from the heat of the sun under
a pearl umbrella. Whereas Appar, despite his
old age, motivated people, through his
songs, into thoughts of the Lord and also
rendered manual service by weeding temple
gardens, thus gaining a better place in the
Lord’s books which was the reason for his
being rewarded with genuine gold.
(Based
on the request of viewers, we have created
a new email id where you can address your
queries to Baba. Mail your queries to
soughtclarifies@samratchana.com Baba
replies to all queries during the daily
Sathsangh and nilacharal.com will publish
the transcribed version of His reply.)
(
Baba's replies to other questions
continues next week....)
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