What is the reason for India in not developing...?

What is the reason for India in not developing compared to Christian and Islamic countries? The basic reason is only corruption that always hinders the development of the country, which is based on the public works like construction of dams etc. If you see the construction of dam by Mr. Arthur Cotton on Godavari river, there is no sign of damage even after 100 years. But if you see the public constructions like roads and dams done by Indians their life time sometimes is only a few days! Does this mean that Arthur Cotton was not as intelligent as Indians to do corruption in the project? The lack of corruption does not show the lack of intelligence in his case.

It shows only his awareness of right spiritual knowledge as the back ground. Similarly, we don’t see any type of corruption in Islamic countries. Why corruption is in its climax in India only? Does this mean that there is no spiritual knowledge in India? We say that such spiritual knowledge does not exist any where in the world as much as it exists in India. The reason for this may be attributed to the difference in these three religions. But the same God gave the same spiritual knowledge in all religions through different forms because only one God created the entire universe and there are no three Gods.

The concept in Christianity and Islam is that there is no rebirth. They say that this present human birth is the sole and final. After this birth the enquiry is done and the soul goes to either God or hell. The soul will remain with God or in the hell for ever. You can easily imagine the fear that is created by this concept. Just for a few rupees and a temporary luxurious life on the earth, one cannot take such permanent risk. This spiritual foundation is the reason for the absence of corruption in these two religions to a very large extent. The administration of this world is Pravrutti and the field of

God is Nivrutti. The basis of Pravrutti is Nivrutti and both are not different.

Pravrutti= Obeying path of justice
Nivrutti = Loving service to Lord in Human form without any self desire


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

Sorry dataswami but you can't just put the Indians' lack of progress down to corruption, all countries are corrupt - and the arab ones are no more or less than the others, baksheesh is an arabic word afterall.
Maybe the corruption is not as obvious in England (you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours) but it is still here.
When the great railway system was being built in India and they were heading towards the Himalayas, the people in chrage were British but the mathematicians who planned the route, worked out all the calculations (and Everest) were - Indian.
You have a long tradition of maths and these people did not have computers, just pens, paper and abacus' and they were right to the the N'th degree.
Whether the Raj and it's servants were corrupt or not, I don't know, should we have been there in the first place - that is another question.
Please don't put down your countrymen, poor men must live how they can, don't forget the great Christian motto - God helps those who first help themselves!

The Indian scholars have developed several tricks to do 'Karma Phala Tyaga’ and keep the fruit with themselves.  For 'Karma Phala Tyaga’, both the human form of Lord and the money (Karma Phala) are required like a paper and pen for a test.  One intellectual way is to offer the food (Karma Phala) to a statue and then eat it as remains but the God has not even eaten a grain.  Another intellectual way is to say that every man is God and the eating of food by a man is considered as eating by God.  So you eat the food and say that God has eaten the food and you say that you have done ‘Karma Phala Tyaga’ to the God.  Such intellectual tricks result in storing all your 'Karma Phalas' with yourself only.  Like this, Indian scholars have covered their greediness by intellectual interpretations.  The heart is full of love and the brain is full of intelligence. Indians have connected brain to God and the heart to their family.  It is reversed in the case of foreigners.  Love results in karma phala tyaga.  But intelligence results in knowledge, praying etc., without practical sacrifice.  This brought poverty to India.  When the wheat flour was blown away by the wind, an Indian scholar says,

“I sacrificed this flour to the Lord”.  Let us take a foreigner. He earns, enjoys and donates for good cause.  He will ask his child to earn and live after certain age.  The family bonds of the foreigners are very weak compared to the Indians.  Hence, huge love is stored in them without much diversion to the family bonds.  Therefore, once they come to know about the Lord fully, they will jump with full intensity of love and devotion.  They reach God quickly by their strong 'Karma Phala Tyaga'.  He does not store even for his children due to such frankness and simplicity in his thoughts.  God blessed almost all the foreign countries with lot of wealth.  However much knowledge may be rained in India, it does not come into practice.  All the rain on loose soil goes down only.  In foreign countries, when the knowledge is rained, it is converted into practice immediately.  The rain on a rocky soil flows on the surface as a river and becomes useful for all the people.  Even in the path of science foreigners are practical people whereas Indians are theorists.  This is the psychology that is coming in the Indian tradition for the past several generations.  God blessed Indians with lot of intelligence and blessed foreigners with lot of wealth.  Gita says that in whatever path you approach the God, in that same path the God approaches you.

I have told this, so that Indians rectify themselves and make India wealthy by Lord’s grace. It is clear that even the Indian spiritual centers are grown by the sacrifice of foreign funds only. Swami Vivekananda wept loudly, “Why my country with such a rich knowledge suffers with poverty”? This is the answer given by Swami.

The four dogs around Datta sacrifice work (karma sanyasa) by watching the feet of Datta. The cow which is along with Datta sacrifices its milk (karma phala tyaga) for the Lord even avoiding its calf. Both karma sanyasa and karma phala tyaga put together is called ‘karmayoga’.  Karmayoga is greater than karma sanyasa as per the Gita, which is the service done to the propagation of knowledge and devotion by the Lord. This is the only path to reach Datta.
 Today is 'Guru Purnima' indicating the full moon.  Moon indicates mind.  The full moon indicates the strongest mind i.e., the strongest determination as indicated by the word ‘Purnima’ which should be diverted to Guru Datta.  You should direct all your love towards Guru Datta. That can be proved only by ‘Karma Phala Tyaga’ (Donating the money) i.e., by offering Guru Dakshina.  Lord appeared on Purnima day. So every full moon day is Guru Purnima.  Guru Dakshina proves the real love on the God and not the Pradakshina that is moving around Guru Datta.  Give Guru Dakshina on every Purnima that comes in every month.

Gita goes on stressing on Karma Phala Tyaga by stating "Do Karma.  Do not aspire for the result and for the fruit. Surrender the fruit to me".  In the first chapter of ‘Yoga Vasistam’, even Lord Rama was asked to come with money to offer the Guru Dakshina.  The first mantra of the first Upanishad says, "The whole world is the wealth of the Lord.  Take the minimum requirement.  If you have taken more, return it back to the Lord.  If you claim that the extra belongs to you, you have stolen the wealth of the Lord.  The stolen money will bring you only the sufferings”.

“Gurussakshat parabrahma”. Guru means Sadguru and He is Datta. He takes your sins through food and money you offer to him and can rid you of your sins proportionally so that you will be happy and can do sadhana. SAI told that the bread offered to Him was their sins. One rupee-gurudakshina of a poor man is equal to one lakh of a rich man.  An individual is unable to do this and so scholars do not take meals and money from others. ("Aparigraha vratam''). People never liked to act as priests for the same reason. No one has the patience and power to take the sins of others and so people followed ‘Vaisvadevam’, which means not to take food or anything from others. Only Lord can do this.

The sadguru uses His energy obtained by taking the food offered by you in teaching knowledge. He also uses the money offered by you (Gurudakshina) for propagation of knowledge and devotion to uplift all and in helping poor devotees. Due to this sacrifice, sadguru is called ‘DATTA’ which means ‘sacrifice’.