Who has the taste for Dharma?
The devotee of God doesn’t like worldly happiness and bodily happiness. He never acts against Dharma and Maharaj’s instructions. He has the taste for Dharma in every activity he performs. He always desire to follow the instructions of Maharaj and His Saint. He strongly believes that Dharma and Maharaj’s instructions is the greatest wealth one can possess.
A devotee who earns millions of dollars through Adharma and against Maharaj’s wishes considers his money worthless and sinful. Even if he gets such a wealth, he would consider it as an obstacle to achieve Maharaj.
One could earn land, spouse, kids, bungalow, rich foods, and other valuable things by discarding Dharma and Maharaj’s instructions. The real devotee of God doesn’t even think about acquiring such possessions.
If we get happiness, fame or wealth by going against Maharaj’s instructions, we should clearly know that we are not going to be benefitted from that. We should think that it is a great loss by acquiring them. All those things are going to be destroyed in the dimension of time.
Nishkulanand Swami’s view is that we should at once discard rich clothes, vehicles, higher positions, etc., if they are acquired or possessed by disobeying Maharaj’s instructions.
Nishkulanand Swami says that if there is a situation that our body dies by following Maharaj’s wishes and the body lives by disobeying Maharaj’s instruction, then as per Maharaj’s wishes we should allow the body to die.
Living without following Dharma and Maharaj’s directions is a life worth to be discarded. If our birth is not used in pleasing Maharaj and is useful for everything else, then our birth is useless.
The son of Dharma, Maharaj, would always be happy on us if we follow Dharma and His instructions.
Maharaj’s Dharma includes all Dharma
Maharaj’s Dharma includes all Dharma. All scriptures made by Maharaj and His Saints is not just for worldly good but for everyone’s ultimate good.
In general, Do’s-and-Don’ts are always good though not all Do’s-and-Don’ts are the same. Some of them are for executing worldly dealings, some of them are for social dealings, some of them are for bodily maintenance etc., But the Do’s-and-Don’ts that help us in our ultimate good is the best of all.
There are many types of Do’s-and-Don’ts described in Vedas. All of them may not help in your ultimate-good. For many of Do’s-and-Don’ts, the efforts we put to- follow them are way greater than than the fruits we get in return. Efforts would be high, and results would be negligible.
Many of those rules might be without any benefit. Some of them might benefit but after a long time. Maharaj filtered them out. He picked only those Do’s and Don’ts and code of conduct that would get us ultimate good. That is why following Maharaj’s orders includes everything for your ultimate good.
Maharaj extracted all the pious rules and regulations and then filtered out the essence of all of them and presented us Shikshapatri, Vachnamrut, and other Holy scriptures. He extracted all the rules that would definitely get us ultimate good.
Dharma which protects Adharma is Adharma
If we go through historic epics, you will find a bunch of people who followed morality but also protected and safeguarded immoral people by using their morality as an armor. If you follow morality but protect immoral people, then you are immoral too.
Bhishma-Pitamah was a very strong follower of Dharma. But he was protecting immoral people. Bhishma Pitamah was protecting the evil intentions of Duryodhan. He was protecting the wicked feelings of Dhritarashtra.
Dronacharya was a great archer. With his talents and greatness, he was protecting the immorals like Duryodhan.
Arjun was not a staunch follower of morality like Bhishma-Pitamah. But he protected Dharma.
What is the path of morality? The path in which immorality gets killed is called morality.
Lord Krishna asked Yudishtir to lie. Telling a lie is moral or immoral? Immoral. However, Lord Krishna told Yudishtir to lie so that immorality gets weakened. In that case telling a lie is definitely moral. Even if Lord Krishna says a lie, that lie protects Dharma.
One’s Dharma should be so strong that it should never feed Adharma.
The Dharma by following which immorality is weakened, troubled and killed, is real-Dharma.
Bhishma-Pitamah, Karna, and Bali Maharaj were all staunch followers of Dharma. Bali Maharaj was a strict follower of Dharma, but served the immoral souls.
Dashrath Maharaj was a strict follower of Dharma. Did he protect Ram, or did he protect Manthara? Whose intentions are protected. Dasarath Maharaj was protecting the feelings of Kaikeyi and Manthara. He was not protecting the intentions of Lord Ram who came to earth to remove immorality.
“Dharmasya tattvam nihitam guhayam” – The real-science of Dharm (morality) is hidden. It is difficult to understand.
Whoever doesn’t follow the core Dharma has to follow lots of other types of Dharma. If someone misses to follow core-Dharm, they have to follow a lot of petty Dharma to satisfy themselves and to show that they are indeed the followers of Dharma.
Lord Krishna’s Dharma was to remove the immorality from its very roots. That is why he is called the divine form of Dharma. Whatever he does is Dharma. Maharaj’s orders are His form. He is the Divine form of Dharma. He gives a lot of troubles to Adharma.
The Dharma that Dashrath Maharaj followed can not be called Param-Dharma (Best Dharma) because it protects immoral.
Never go beyond the orders of Maharaj
Whoever surrenders to Maharaj has no Dharma beyond the orders of Maharaj. That is the highest Dharma. Householder devotees, renunciates, and Brahmacharis should follow Dharma as mentioned by Maharaj.
Maharaj choose only such Dharma from all scriptures that would cause ultimate-good and ordered us to follow only that Dharma. We should keep that in mind and follow the Dharma provided by Maharaj. There is no Dharma beyond that.
References:
Sarsiddhi Katha Part 21