Why should one donate to the temple?
Questioner: We had gone to visit the temples; people spend tens of millions of rupees for the stone [from which the idol is carved]. And the Lord has said that a living, breathing God is present within every living being. And people berate these living beings. They make people plead, and on the other hand, they spend tens of millions of rupees on stone idols, why is that so?
Dadashri: Yes, but they make people plead because of their lack of understanding, isn’t it! They make people plead because of their weakness of anger, pride, deceit, and greed, isn’t it!
The fact is, people go out to earn money. Now, a person may have enough money to run the home, but he still goes out to earn money. So would we not understand that he is setting out to take in what is beyond his quota? Everyone has the same quota in the world. But these greedy people take an additional quota and some other people do not even get their share. Now, even in this case, they do not get it by fluke, they get it through their merit karma.
If you have bound more merit karma, then you will get money, and then you end up spending that money.m You know that this has started to accumulate. When you spend it, it gets deducted, doesn’t it? The merit karma certainly accumulates. But you should know how to deduct [spend] it, shouldn’t you?
Thus, what people are doing in connection to temples is correct. They want solutions. Where do they want to do darshan (devotional viewing)? They want to do darshan where they do not feel embarrassed. They feel embarrassed in front of a living person, whereas one will even dance in front of an idol if you tell him to. He dances and jumps around [in a state of devotion] all by himself! However, he feels ashamed in doing so in front of a living person. This [idol] is not living and he cannot do anything in front of a living person. And if one were to do this in front of a living person, then he would attain salvation, he would attain absolute salvation, he would attain ultimate salvation. However, he does not have the capability, does he! He does not have such merit karma!
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