Not a beggar but a child
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate
We are real children of God and therefore, when we pray, actually it is our demand and when we are real children of God, it is the duty of God to meet our demands, if those are reasonable. When we are placing our demands before God, we are not beggars at His door, but we are His children and we are in trouble and that is the reason we have come to God and that is the reason we are placing our reasonable demands befor4e Him. Our needs are not our own creation, but those are also the wishes of God and that is the reason, our needs have taken their birth. What we need is the will of God because this whole universe is functioning as per will of God and therefore, what man needs, it is not his creation, but it is the desire of God and He wants us to work on those projects and give results as per will of God.
We all know that we have been sent here on this earth with some mission and God wants that we should fulfill that mission. Therefore, we should start functioning on that mission and if we feel some difficulty, we should recall God and tell Him the difficulties and demand from Him as a matter of right. God is the master and we are His children and therefore, we are functioning here as per His directions and as per His will. Therefore, it is the duty of God to provide us all the facilities and provisions with the help of which we could finish the task which has been entrusted to us. We are not doing anything for ourselves, but we are functioning on behalf of God and therefore, we should demand from Him all the facilities we need and all must be placed before Him as a matter of right and not as a charity from Him. We are not beggars, but we have been recognized as His children and therefore, we should demand things and facilities from God because he is duty bound to look after us. The parents on this earth are performing all the duties till their children start standing at their own feet and since we are always dependant upon God, He must look after us till our death.
When we want to talk to God there is no necessity of performing any rehearsal before placing our demand before God. When we perform some rehearsal and ceremonies before actually talking to God, it clearly means we are not taking God as our parent. We never come to our parents with all these ceremonies and rehearsal. We come to our parents straightway and place our demands before them and they immediately listen to us and do something for us. We do not know who had taught us all these rehearsals and ceremonies which we repeat before talking to God and we are concealing so many things from others while talking to God. There are so many wishes in our mind and in our heart which we are trying to conceal from others and that is the reason we are not open before God. The man had been on this path for centuries, but we must be sorry to note that this man could not learn the art of placing his demands before his father-God. He is still a beggar at His door and could not attain the position of a son or a daughter before Him and that is the reason, he is often discarded at the door of God and his prayers and demands are not fulfilled. The man must learn that he is not a beggar, but a real son of God and if he goes to God with understanding, then he shall be getting all what he demands from God. If he remains a beggar and that too a professional beggar, he would not be having all his demands fulfilled.
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