There is only one universe and one God, its Creator. That one Unimaginable God incarnates repeatedly on Earth in human form. The main purpose of God's incarnation is to guide humanity by preaching spiritual knowledge and thereby establishing justice and peace in the world. Donation of food for hungry poor people, Spreading of this spiritual knowledge will be counted as real service to GOD…
A christian Father: Those who do not have faith in Jesus Christ are destined to be consigned to the flames of liquid fire in Hell. This is the declaration of our faith
Shri Datta Swami: Does that mean that there is no salvation to all the devotees who lived on this earth prior to the incarnation of Jesus Christ? If so, all those devotees were subjected to the prejudice of God, as they were deprived of that revelation...
avatīrṇa naro brahma
mārgaḥ karma phalārpaṇam |
jīvaḥ sṛṣṭikaṇaḥ sṛṣṭiḥ
mithyā tasyaiva nātmanaḥ ||
This means "The human incarnation is God for human beings. The path to please Him is only the sacrifice of work and the fruit of work in His divine mission. The soul is an iota of the creation. The creation is almost unreal (mithya) for God alone and not for the soul."
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Mahima Yamuna (Yamuna River of Miracles) is a collection of miracles experienced by the devotees of Swami. Swami says "the miracles are named as black Yamuna because miracles are only for ignorant (ignorance is Tamas quality, which is black) people to generate and develop faith in God. Generation of faith is in atheists and development of faith is in devotees of low level aspiring for solutions of their personal problems. Scholars of high level devotion serve God without aspiration for any fruit in return. In spite of this fact, miracles are essential for the initial attraction of the attention of the devotees." Explore…
Bhakti Ganga (Ganga River of Devotion) contains lyrics of several devotional songs (Bhajans) on various forms of God, spontaneously composed and sung by Swami. These bhajans are available in Sanskrit, Telugu, Hindi and English languages. Swami says "These songs increase the devotion towards God enormously". These divine songs are available as three books — Ganga River of Devotion (English) and Bhakti Gantga (Telugu and Hindi). The audio (mp3) of these bhajans are also available for download (Click here).
Jnana Saraswati or Saraswati River of spiritual knowledge is a compilation of discourses given by Swami. These discourses cover a wide range of subject areas like – Unification of religions for World Peace, Science and Spirituality, Advaita, Unified Vedanta, Pravrutti-Nivrutti, Parabrahma Sutras, Avatara Sutras etc., in different languages (Sanskrit, Telugu and English). Among these, some of His discourses are simple and suitable for all the people. His other writings are more advanced and suitable only for intellectuals.
Among several of Swami's spiritual preachings, selected featured articles are given below for a quick overview. These are mainly categorized into three subject areas namely: 1) Pravrutti or following the Path of worldy justice, 2) Nivrutti or following path of liberation and 3) featured articles for intellectuals.
How to worship and serve God? Theoretical worship is devotion. Practical devotion is Service. You can have theoretical devotion with statues and photos. But the practical devotion is to be done only to the present human form of the God, because only the living present human form can receive and enjoy your service. Service is work (karma) and Karma alone can give the fruit.
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