Is it considered a 'sin' if a person cannot go to 'Devdarshan' in the temple due to being busy in business?

- Guftego - Dr. Chandrakant Mehta

- Do Dharma with pure karma and do karma with Dharma. It doesn't matter if you don't go to the temple for Devdarshan, your mind should bow to the deity sitting in the temple. Make work not 'veth' but worship. Business means using 'money' to 'wash'. The money I earned at the fair is the gateway to fall

* If a person cannot go to Devdarshan in the temple due to being busy in business, is it considered a sin?

Questioner: Kisan Sureshbhai Chandora (Prajapati), Aishri Khodiyar Vegetable and Fruit Center, Anandnagar, Ahmedabad.

Whether a man is single or married and has family responsibilities, he has to earn a living. You also have to do job-business-business to earn. While working, I will work wholeheartedly, not for a salary, but for the service of God. It will become devotion if you work 'skillfully' with a pious attitude of not committing adultery, fornication and corruption. God can be pleased if you make your business Seva Yoga by remembering Karma Yoga and Kartavyoga in business as well.

If you do business, consider the customer as God. Provide justice and ethical service to the customer by keeping an eye not only on profit but also on the sanctity of karma so that God will be pleased because you are a devotee of humanity.

People often ask the question, if we don't make a profit in business, we will starve. The scriptures do not forbid a fair profit or return in business. That is to say, 'meaning' means putting the word 'religion' in front of wealth. Make money in business in a way that does not cover religion. Do not apostatize for the sake of wealth. Regarding how to do business, it has been said that business should be done in the same way as a skilled shepherd can fill a cup of milk without keeping the calf hungry. This means that the first right to milk belongs to the calf. The trader has to remember this in terms of profit. The customer is the calf and as a trader you are the cowherd. Without cheating the customer-like calf, keep a reasonable profit and give pure goods and excellent service so that you will get the virtue of Ganga bath sitting at home. Being rude to the customer, taking revenge if the customer insults, looking for an opportunity to cheat if a small child comes for shopping are all forms of apostasy. Showing such low level behavior, if you go to Devdarshan in the temple, it does not bring any virtue or your prayers do not come to fruition. God does not approve of sin. God says that you should not be like 'God' but come to me as a 'true' man. And if you are engaged in doing pious, devotional holy deeds, then that work is a good deed. I don't have to leave it and run. Dev Darshan is a matter of emotion. It is a place to express the feeling that I will do business keeping the purity of my heart in mind. Do business in your house and worship your deity with devotion, so your karma becomes bhakti.

Great saints and devotees also worked for Petgujara. Kabir was a weaver. He was not greedy but he was a recluse and contented by nature. Kabir praying to God that

'' Sai Utna Dijiye

Go I accommodate the family

I'm not hungry either,

Even a monk should not go hungry. "

Where is the approval of God that a merchant man himself is not rich but desires so much wealth that seven generations will be happy? In the difficult times of Corona, in the name of wrong medicine, injections, ambulance service, in the name of cremation, a large sum of money has to be paid or if you consider the disaster as an opportunity to make money by making a hefty bill in the hospital, then become a criminal of God.

The act of holiness is the same Devdarshan. The example of Narad and the farmer here is worth remembering. Narad chanting the name of Lord Narayana with twenty four hours of harp playing. That is why he felt that I was the greatest devotee of God. He asked Lord Vishnu who is your biggest devotee? Lord Vishnu said: "My greatest devotee is the farmer." Narada was surprised that the farmer does not worship God all day long and yet God considers him to be his greatest devotee! This is an injustice. Lord Vishnu discerned Narada's mind. He handed Narad a bowl full of milk and said that the bowl was full of milk. You have to orbit the earth in such a way that not a drop of milk falls on the earth and you continue to play my name.

Narad took out a container of milk but his full attention remained on it even if not a drop of milk fell on the ground. Barely orbiting the earth came back. The Lord asked: "Speak Narad, how many times did you take my name?" Narad said he could not take your name even once because he was worried that the milk would not spill.

The Lord said: "Such a small task, to keep the milk, and you could not even mention my name once in the discharge of that duty, when the farmer works all day in the field to revive the world and sleeps in the evening saying 'Hey Ram'." Even in the midst of such a great responsibility, he does not forget to take my name twice a day. The farmer is a devoted devotee, so he is a dearer devotee than you. Narad realized his mistake.

So do Dharma with pure karma and do Dharma with Dharma. It doesn't matter if you don't visit the temple. Your mind bows to the deity sitting in the temple. Worship, not work.

A beautiful thing is said in 'Naishadh Charit': This earth does not feel the weight of mountains, does not feel the weight of the sea, does not feel the weight of gigantic trees, it feels the weight of the human mind, which does not know the suffering of others. 'Means' wealth' to use 'wash'. The money I earned at the fair is the gateway to religious decline.