Bhavati Bhiksham Dehi

 

Have you ever begged in life? Do you know that when Sri Krishna entered Gurukula (the ancient Vedic education system) his Guru (teacher), Sage Sandipani gave him a plate and asked him to procure food by begging? Then Sri Krishna’s friend Sudama felt very bad because the teacher asked Krishna, a Lord to beg. Sudama requests Krishna to hand over his plate to him. But Krishna smiles and replies, "Sudama, you do not know the spiritual beauty which lies behind this action. Only when you beg the last remaining part of your selfishness will die. If there is slightest selfishness within us then it will damage our ancient Sages intention of life. Then we will work for ourselves, not for the world. The beauty of Gurukula is that we have a wonderful method to test. Sudama, we are born to save our ancient Sages words in action, not in slogan. It is not our duty to support our inner selfish voice. First, there is a need to kill our own cunning mind.  Sudama, understand that when we beg our ego dies and true education begins only when ego dies. Ego must witness a complete death. Enemy is within us, my friend. So, please do not ask for my plate, Sudama. I love to beg". This is the history of the very phrase “BHAVATI BHIKSHAM DEHI” (Mother, give me alms) Buddha continued the same.

 

Do a soul searching! If we really love Buddha how can we store something? Buddha asked everybody not to store anything for tomorrow. When we store something, there begins corruption, the inner corruption. When we store anger it will become grudge. When we store money it will become capital and capital will give birth to calculative duality. That is why the Bible says, "The love for money is the root of all evil".

 

In our all actions we are very much concerned about the returns. May be it is not in the form of money, but in some other form like name, fame, position, sex and so on. But still it is a profit motive. First, we must know the inner and understand why our own inner mind is provoking all these finite actions. Whenever we are communicating we must know which part of our mind is talking and provoking the action. When we know the root of the inner vibrations we will be freed from all the ugliness of life.

 

Just question yourself! Why we are not getting proper results in love, marriage, life, family, sex and so on? Answer is very simple. We do not get proper results only because we are seeking results. We are result-oriented robots. This sensation of result orientation will lead towards a deep inner corruption. Finally, one day we will be ready to do anything to attain the results. Sometimes, it will begin in sex then will spread inside our organic system like a dangerous virus. This is what happening in every human mind, including that of the enlightened ones.

 

However, if you want to get a result, be it in business, profession, love, sex or in life, keep a saying of Rig-Veda in mind and free yourself from the commercial lock-up of life. It says, "Let not the fruits of action be the motive of your actions; otherwise you might be disappointed and leave the path of right action".