"For The Good Of The World..."

This conversation took place when Shrimadji was engaged in giving his religious discourses for the benifit of the seven monks who had gathered at a location among the hills near Idar. 


One day, Shri Devkaranji, one of the monks, was so deeply moved at the end of the discourse that he was led to say, 'Where is the need for us now to go on our rounds down among the people in the town?'


Shrimadji asked, 'But, who ever compels you to go?'


Shri Devkaranji replied, 'What could we do, we are helpless. For there is this belly of ours which has to be filled.'


Shrimadji thereupon said, 'Look, if the monks feel the need to fill their belly, it is only for the good of the world. 


If the monks did not have a belly to fill, they would for sure never have felt the inclination to visit the people in the towns and villages, and would have spent their lives in the solitude of caves among the hills, wandering in the forests, in a spirit of utter renunciation. 


So if the monks have a belly to fill, this is only for the good of the society...'