Receive the Joy of Giving
Chapter 5:
The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita by Swami Krishnananda
Everybody in
this world has a duty to perform and in this, you should not connect your
performance with any fruit or result that may follow from it. We are always
prone to think that everything we do should yield some result: “What shall I
get if I do this?” Can the legs ask what they will get by walking? The
spectacles are for the eyes, but the nose bears the burden.
The more you
give, the more you receive. This is the philosophy of spirituality. The
receiver gets nothing; only the giver gets. How is it possible? You never see
that by giving more you get more. It looks as if you are losing by giving more
and more. The more you give out of the abundance of your own personality, the
less is the attachment that you will have for the personality and the more you
will be able to participate in the universal setup.
The giving
aspect is emphasized because of the fact that in giving, you are not giving
some object; you are giving your own self, giving your satisfaction. The
charity is in giving a part of your own joy. If joy is not there in giving, you
have given nothing. Suppose you give a useless old coin to a beggar; you have
done no charity because even by giving, you have lost nothing. The charity has
not been done in the proper proportion.
Joy is
shared in giving. Inasmuch as your joys are egoistic in nature,
body-conditioned and not actually universally placed, it is good that you share
your joy with other people. In sharing the joy, you are also sharing a little
part of your ego, because joy and ego go together. The ego it is, that is
happy, for whatever reason. Let its happiness go a little bit. It pinches.
Nobody likes to give anything. The ego feels that a bit of it is also going,
and feels great grief. Let it feel the grief so that the more you give as a
sharing of your own joy, the more also is the ego part that goes with it. The
less is the ego, the more is the universal aspect that will enter into you, the
more spiritual you become, the more godly you become, and the less human,
finite and drab your existence becomes.
Thus, the Bhagavad-Gita
doctrine of - duty, giving, participation, is minus expectation of a recompense
that will follow. If this universal principle is maintained behind your every
act, the Universal Being will protect you.
Continue to read:
“Receive the
Joy of giving” by Swami Krishnananda
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