It is said, “ Guru bin bhav nidhi tarai na koi. Hari viranchi sankar sam hoi. ” Suppose you can create the world, but firstly you should think how much potential do you have to create? Even if you can do this, you cannot get peace without Guru. If someone does pious deeds, such as giving charity worth millions of rupees, he will get his reward in his next birth, but it may also happen that he will be reborn as a dog. See, a dog of some rich man is given good food and servants attend to his call. This implies that the dog must have done something pious in his previous human birth, because in no other species can one do such action. The fruit of good and noble actions of charity and piety may be enjoyed in other species also. But the reward of bathing in the ‘ Ganges ' of satsang is instantaneous.
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