Devotional Queries

If you can feed one Muslim, one Christian, one Brahmin close to each other on one carnival of feast, you cannot say that all the nations have become iunited. If you can arrange a common prayer with all of them, all the communities do not become unietd. He who has attained real self knowledge sees unity in everything. He who has understood one-ness in all communities has no altercation with any community. He sees inner communion in all community.

FAITH AND RELIANCE

That which fosters spirituality may be named gobardhanan (the increaser of spirituality) which is immovable and unshakable. Here go means spirituality, so gobardhana means faith. And one's spirituality increases with the increase of faith. Faith is the cause of the development of one's spirituality. For this reason faith may be styled gobardhana.

And reliance is not possible without faith

One cannot rely on another, if one has no faith in him. So, those, who have faith in God, have also reliance on Him.

I am assured when a man holds out to me hope and assurance which produce belief and reliance in my mind. And I can easily put my faith in his assurance and rely on it. But how strange it is that I cannot have this belief and this reliance that the Merciful God, who has created me, who has protected me and who is still protecting me, will protect me always.

One, who is truly faithful cannot disbelieve another. One who truly trusts in God cannot distrust any creature of the world. Jesus had true trust in God: that is why He never distrusted anyone. Though He was aware beforehand that He would be betrayed by one of His disciples inti the hands of the foes, yet He did not adopt any measure of precaution.
 

KINDNESS

Kindness comes under the virtues. It is the mother of charity and benevolence. And kindness, charity and benevolence, too have been abandoned for one, who has rebounced all forms of duty and has taken refuge with God and God alone.

Benevolence due to kindness is shown not with a view to any return.

Those, who are kind, are naturally moved to pity at the sight of any one's misery. And kindness is shown to any person without any hope of return; even the idea does not occur to a kind person at the time of showing kindness.

Serve the friendless, helpless patients of your own accord. That service is not servitude.

Kindness begets the desire for benevolence.

The greater the disposition of kindness, the better it is for him, who has to be an object of others' pity.

He, who requires others' help should help others.