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Subject: Using your energy for God�s work

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dattaswami

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Date Posted: Friday, March 27, 03:32:46am

Using your energy for God�s work
You are like an inverter (an emergency backup power supply) with limited energy and limited working time. You can use the current to run the essential fan and light bulb in your house. The remaining current can be used for the temple (mission of God). This is the stage of saints (monks). The next stage is that apart from the essential fan and light bulb, you use some current for watching the television for a little time only. The remaining current is then given to the temple. This is the stage of a householder. If one does not give any current to the temple and uses the inverter entirely for his house and spends all the current for not just the essential fan and light bulb but also for watching the television throughout the night, then it is the state of the demon. Thus a saint needs minimum for his own sake and uses all the rest of his energy for God�s work.

A householder uses the minimum and also little more for his own enjoyment in the world, but spends the remaining energy for God. A demon spends all his energy only for enjoyment in the world and never thinks about the Lord. The Gita explains these three types as angels, human beings and devils.

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