Pending Offerings
9:18:00 PMKrishna RaoOnce it so happened that a person who was supposed to offer silver breasts to Saptashrungi Devi. This was supposed to be an offering to that divine Goddess because that persons mother had asked Her for some favors. So as a return she had promised Her the silver breasts. The man took them to Saibaba but He refused them and said that since they were to be an offering to the Divine Goddess, they should go to the right recipient.
In the same way we sometimes promise some divine beings or saints some sort of offerings once our work gets done. On the granting of the special favors we should repay them back whatever we have promised them.
Say for example you have promised the divinity a kilo of pedhas, then it is mandatory that you give it to that One. In case you forget it then it is needed to be fulfilled so the divinity sometimes asks for it through dreams or knocks on your memory.
You should try to give back what you have promised otherwise you have it attached to your destiny as a pending thing. It converts into a future karma for sure.
So try giving back what you have promised and complete that cycle.
Sometimes the holy ask for favors from you in the form of money or some sort of a meal. They may come to your house and tell you to prepare a meal for them. Saibaba used to ask from people a few rupees so that they could be rid of their sins or as we say karma's. These holy beings are very benevolent and ask you for such stuff. They are actually rubbing off a whole load of karma from your account book.
So please complete whatever you have promised to someone who has given you what you have asked for. Maybe it is a wedding, a child, a job, a pay rise, good health, money, fame, fortune, transfers or whatever that you may have got from these holy or divine beings. You gotta repay it back in some form or the other. Otherwise you be called an ungrateful person in life.
The payment of Guru dakshina is also to be considered for that reason.
You have to give in return what you have got. Except that the Guru normally asks for what he or she wants. Just in the case of Sandipani or Vasistha. So when you visit a mystic or a Guru and have received favors from Him, you better pay up in the form that they ask for rather than take something free otherwise you maybe called an ingrate!
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