Master Rewards Before You Perform
I remember when I first went to Europe after becoming a preceptor, Babuji
Maharaj wrote to me and said, "Do some work of the Mission there." I did whatever
I could. I came back after six weeks. In the meantime, my preceptor, Mr. Veeraraghavan
of Madras, wrote to Babuji and said, "Parthasarathi has done very good work
abroad. I think he needs a reward. He merits a reward. Please reward him."
Babuji wrote back in a post card, "My boy has done excellent work in Europe.
By Lalaji's Grace, he was put in the Brahmanda Mandal the moment his
feet touched the soil of Europe." I asked Babuji later on, "How can this be
possible that you reward before the performance?" He said, "Only a fool waits
for performance to reward. I am not a businessman. Number two, when you are
put in a position like the Brahmanda Mandal, you acquire certain powers without
which you cannot do the work." Now, it would be a stupid boss who gives you
work which you cannot do, or for which you don't have the necessary powers.
So in Sahaj Marg, the reward is always before the performance. This is
His blessing, His grace, His immense generosity, that he is able to say,
"Take it and do the work." He is not like the temporal boss who says, "Suppose
I give him and he does not work, what should be my loss?" Here, there is
no loss or gain - "Poornam adah Poornam idam" [That is complete,
this is complete]. He is the Master of infinity. You can take away everything
from Him without His feeling the loss.
So don't think of reward because it is a weakness. We don't work to get something. We work because we love Him. We work because we must work. It is our only way of showing that we love Him, we adore Him, we worship Him. As Babuji once said, "I am doing Nature's work and anybody else doing my work is also doing Nature's work. For him, Nature will put no opposition in his path." So that is the blessing of the Master, that is our hope, that is our future. Let us work towards it with love.
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