Posted on: 25 Jun 2006
[This is telephonic Divine Discourse given by Swami on June 25, 2006, in response to questions asked by devotees from various places in the world. The questions asked by devotees were pertaining to practical worldly problems faced by them. Swami has answered the questions based on the essential message of all the religious scriptures of the world such as the Veda, Bible, Gita, Quran, the Puranas and the great epics.]
Guru Selection
Mrs. Bhargavi (USA), who has created a website on the human incarnation and is a devotee of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba, bombarded Swami with a question: “Why have You advertised Your miracles in Your website and propagated about Yourself? We are in search of a Guru, please guide us”. Swami replied, “If you give Me the appointment order to join the duty as your Guru, I shall join at once. I shall be very happy if you select Me as your Guru after conducting an interview and analyzing Me patiently.” A saint from Varanasi came to see Sai Baba. On his arrival, he found a procession in which Baba was walking for relaxation. The saint bombarded Baba for such publicity. Baba told him that the procession was for the sake of satisfaction of the hearts of devotees and not for any personal publicity.
Miracles are the chocolates offered in the lower kindergarten (LKG) class for kids in the spiritual institution. If one joins the post graduate (P.G.) class directly, such chocolates are not necessary. It depends on the level of class into which you are admitted. The Gita speaks about four different classes. The person in the LKG class is an ‘Arta’, which means a person hit by worldly problems. He comes to God for help. God solves his problem once or twice to introduce Himself to that person. Chocolates are given to the kid, as initial attraction only for a few days. The Lord transfers the punishment onto Himself and suffers in order to solve the problems of the devotee. It is hoped that the devotee develops gratefulness to the Lord, which may lead to selfless love. If that happens, the devotee enters into higher classes.
Mrs. Bhargavi asked, “In which class am I going to be admitted?” Swami replied, “That depends on your application mentioning the class, you would like to join. In the entrance test, if you score low marks, you will be advised to apply to the lower entrance test. If your marks are very high, you will be asked to apply to higher test. By such a procedure even you will be convinced about yourself [level]. Otherwise, if I directly tell you [where you stand], you may not accept it, thinking that you are eligible for a higher class.”
Suddenly the phone stopped functioning [Swami’s voice could not be heard]. But the phone at Bhargavi’s end was still functioning [the line was not disconnected]. Lot of time passed. Finally, the phone started functioning again. Bhargavi told Swami “We are waiting to hear from You and have not disconnected the phone all this time”. Swami told her, “You have a good lot of patience. Patience (Shama) is the first prerequisite for Brahma Jnana according to Shankara. This shows your spiritual interest (Shraddha). You have passed the preliminary test. Contact Dr. Nikhil and get all My divine knowledge. Study it patiently and then evaluate Me for appointment as your Guru. The knowledge is the real form of Guru, by which alone you have to assess the candidate [Guru] in the interview [in order to select Him as your Guru]. You should not decide a Guru in a short time by a momentary emotional [hasty] appreciation. Your studying My knowledge is like a written test for Me. Then talk with Me, which will be the oral interview for Me. Only then decide about My appointment as your Guru.”
Participation in Swami’s Mission
[Reply to a devotee from U.K., who approached Swami through Anil Antony, Mumbai]
You have asked Me how to participate in this mission of the Lord. The answer is very very simple. Think that the Lord is your son and that He is involved in this work of propagation of this divine knowledge on earth. Your son (God) has given out this knowledge and wants to spread the knowledge. What will you do? Will you not yourself plan and implement his mission? Your participation in this mission starts even from the application of your mind to this program. The plan will lead to the execution of the program. You will sacrifice your mind, intelligence, words, work and your money for the sake of your son. Just replace the Lord by your son. You will understand everything. Before sacrificing your hard earned money (fruit of work), which is called ‘karmaphala tyaga’ in the Gita, you must plan well. You can co-ordinate with Dr. Nikhil, who is the President of the mission started for this purpose in Florida (USA). Do whatever is possible for you, thinking that this is the work of your son, who is also the son of God and who has come down for this divine purpose.
Every devotee is independent by himself or herself and mutual discussion is the better way of planning. Every devotee should feel that he is the leader of the work and should take the help of other devotees. When a group of monkeys went to the south, to search for Sita, Angada was the leader of the group. Jambavan was the co-ordinating leader. Hanuman did not have any position in the group (Jambavan yatra Neta Syat, Angadascha —Valmiki). But all the work was done by Hanuman, who received the reward of the post of the future Brahma from the Lord. It is the work that is judged by the Lord.
Jesus preached to His disciples to go and spread the knowledge. Other than this order, He did not give any guidance to them. The urge in devotees [to serve] gets divine guidance spontaneously as one proceeds in the work. The guidance will come from the Lord at every step of the work. Simply spending all the time in planning is of no use. Some planning can be done and some time can be allotted for it. If you spend all the time and energy in only planning, then no time and energy will be left over for implementation. Such a theoretical fellow will not achieve any fruit (Deergha Suti Vinasyati). Only work without any pre-planning and only planning without any work are both extremes [to be avoided]. Both theory and practical work are important.
Sacrifice is the only path to get the grace of the Lord. But sacrifice of what? Sacrifice of everything is stated in the Gita (Sarvakarma phalatyagam…). Everything means anything that is required in the particular context [requirement] and it does not mean blind sacrifice of everything. Planning decides the requirement. Sacrifice of that particular item required in the context of implementation of the plans, is true sacrifice. If you just keep the Lord as your son, you will understand everything, because the love for one’s child is the strongest among all the worldly bonds. For the sake of your child, you will sacrifice anything, without aspiring for any fruit in return. God created this bond in the world to preach to you practically regarding the bond that you should have with the Lord. It is a simile created by God for preaching to you practically. There are some devotees in Christianity and Hinduism, who actually sacrificed their sons for the sake of Lord, when tested. This means that the bond with the Lord should be greater than the bond with your child. At least, give equal importance to God, if not more.
When Hanuman was going to search for Sita, Rama did not give him any guidance. Hanuman faced several problems on the way but all were solved by the intelligence of Hanuman, which was associated by the grace of the Lord. At this point, sacrifice of intelligence is needed. Hanuman did not simply pray “O Lord, this is your work. Please solve this problem.” Your intelligence should also get the fortune of participation in the divine service. Do you advise your son “Whenever you get some problem, pray God, it will be solved?” When your son comes to you with a problem, you apply your intelligence to solve it. Do you just start praying to God as soon as you hear his problem? The Lord wants to see the extent of your sacrifice in the mission. When you have sacrificed all your efforts by all your means, the Lord is pleased and gives guidance at that point, since the success in the work is not important for Him. He can finish the work in a fraction of a second. Finishing of the work is not important for Him, since it takes no time for Him. He gives all the importance to the sacrifice of your efforts using all your means, which is a proof of your real love towards Him. God can excuse all the sins of devotees without Jesus. What is the use of His cruel crucifixion? It shows the sacrifice of Jesus for God, which will be an example for other devotees in the spiritual path. You should not expect any help from God even in the last moment. Jesus sacrificed everything irrespective of any help from God even in the last moment of crucifixion.
Jesus died in the propagation of the right knowledge of God and it appears that He was not supported by God even in the last moment of crucifixion. In one way, the work of Jesus failed at that moment and it was a victory for the priests. Therefore, the work is not important for God, because, it got completed later on. The concentration of God was on the sacrifice of Jesus for the sake of God and not on the success of work at that moment. The faith of Jesus did not shake even in the last moment of crucifixion and He was working for the divine mission irrespective of its momentary success or failure. The war of Kurukshetra was the work of the Lord, which was destroying the evil forces. But still the Lord told Arjuna to fight and try to do the divine work irrespective of success or defeat. He showed both possibilities [possible outcomes] at the end of the war (Hato vaa—Gita). For the Lord, the completion of work is not at all important. The work is only the blank answer sheet supplied to you in order to examine the answer that you write on the paper. The work of the Lord is only a basis to test your sacrifice. Success or failure of the divine work is not at all important for God. If you conclude everything with the crucifixion of Jesus, it is a tragedy showing the failure of divine work at that moment. At least for the eyes of Jesus [before He died], the divine mission failed, as He was mocked by the soldiers there. But in course of time, the divine mission was completed with tremendous success.
Therefore, do not bother about the success or failure of this mission, today. When Jesus was alive, the propagation of His mission was very negligible and in fact, it failed at that time. But Jesus never deviated from His path and never doubted the knowledge of God. Generally, as long as the human incarnation is alive, the propagation will be very slow, due to the egoism and jealousy of the majority of human beings towards a living co-human form. The appreciation will come out like an ocean if the human form goes away from the eyesight. Only a few blessed souls appreciate and participate in the work of the Lord, while the human form exists before their eyes. Such blessed souls are not ordinary human beings and their special behaviour is attributed to their inward stage. They are liberated souls who accompanied the Lord and therefore their recognition of the Lord will be exceptional. They are the angels of the Lord that accompanied Him. Egoism and jealousy cannot touch their eyes even for a moment.
Even in your personal work, you should not bother about the fruit. You should concentrate only on the work (Karmanyeva adhikaraste—Gita). The runners-up also get a prize along with the winners. You are congratulated for playing the game well and not for the success or failure, which is by chance. Even if you put hectic efforts, sometimes, the work gives a negative result due the cycle of deeds or due to the will of God which is otherwise.
If Rama wished, Ravana would be turned into ash and Sita would be by His side in a fraction of a second. Rama did not do like that, since the aim of Rama was not to get Sita but to see the dedication and devotion of Hanuman and Lakshmana. Similarly, Bharata was tested by the sudden twist given to the role of his mother. Even in the last minute of hectic torture of crucifixion, Jesus did not change His mind and faith and finally cried that He was submitting His soul in the hands of God. He sacrificed His life for the work of God and He was never worried about the final result of the work. The aim of Rama was not to get back Sita, because he left her within a short time later. His aim was different.
Acceptance of Living Incarnation
The same category of the priests of church, who are appreciating the knowledge of Jesus today, insulted and killed the same Jesus some time ago. What is the reason? The only reason is that at that time, Jesus was alive before their eyes in the same human form like their own. Today Jesus does not appear alive, and is reduced to a statue on the cross or to a picture. When a co-human being does some great work, jealousy and egoism affect the hearts immediately, even though people appreciate the great person externally. Those priests who killed Jesus appreciated the Old Testament of the old prophets, because those prophets were not alive at that time. If a prophet is dead, the appreciation of His knowledge bursts out. Today, thousands of temples of Sai Baba have appeared. But when Sai Baba was alive, not a single temple was built for Him. Even the present temple, where He was cremated, was built for Lord Krishna when Sai Baba was alive. In fact, Sai Baba commented to the builder of the temple by asking “Am I not your Lord Krishna at present?” Still the bulb did not glow in the mind of the devotees. Therefore the greatness of even a human being cannot be tolerated. Can people tolerate a human being being called the greatest, meaning God? Even if one says, “He is as great as you”, nobody tolerates. Can he tolerate the statement “He is greater than you”? Then, it is impossible to tolerate the statement “Here is a human being who is the greatest—God in human form”. People’s jealousy will exceed even its climax and people will just laugh at the statement. The appreciation exists even now in their hearts, but it will come out only when the human form disappears from the eyesight.
The spiritual knowledge given to you by God through Me is like food that should be offered to a hungry man. If he is not hungry, he will reject it. But certain portions of it will create hunger like ginger pickle, which is a food item as well as medicine. Even for an atheist, there is food, which acts like a medicine as we see ‘Unizyme’ capsules. Some people have another type of illness. They can digest only certain items of food like Hinduism, Christianity etc. When they see the scriptures of other religions, they become allergic to those food items. For such people there is ‘Digiplex’ tonic in this spiritual knowledge. You have to pick up the right medicine. Certain food items act as medicines. Thus this is food and medicine. I’d like every human being in this world to be prepared to eat all types of food items with good hunger. This means that every human being should have immense love for God and should love the scriptures of all religions. Then you can like the same God in different human bodies, which are just different dresses.
Final Lesson
“When the same God incarnated, why this wonderful spiritual knowledge did not come in the past”? This question was asked by a devotee (Ramanath) from Mumbai. The straight answer is that the time and the standard of the receiver are ripened only now and so God is giving this knowledge today through this body. The teacher is teaching the final lesson to a class on a certain day. He is in a particular dress, because he has to be in some dress. Therefore, the delivery of the final lesson to the class shows the appropriate ripened time for the class. This final lesson can be taught only after teaching the previous lessons. This final lesson cannot be delivered in the previous classes. Thus the delivery of the final lesson has no connection with what dress the teacher is wearing. Thus there is no speciality of the human form and the same God exists here too.
Science has developed tremendously and the faculty of logic has improved a lot. People used to reject the existence of an unimaginable item. They refused God, who is unimaginable. But today, in science, Heisenberg proves the existence of uncertainty or unimaginability, owing to the limits of human capability. Today is the right time to introduce the unimaginable concept of God. Buddha kept silent about God because, He did not like to introduce God through some unreal concepts. But, this led people to misunderstand Buddha as an atheist. Shankara introduced God as almost unimaginable by representing God as awareness. Awareness is almost unimaginable to an ordinary person. Mohammed introduced God as power or energy. Awareness is energy after all. Thus there is no fundamental difference between these two incarnations. But a common man cannot imagine God through that concept. God was represented as the energetic form of Narayana by Ramanuja or as the Divine Father in heaven by Jesus. The awareness or the energetic form is charged by God and thus there is no lie even if it is considered as God just like an electrified wire can be considered to be electricity. But the entire awareness or energy or all the energetic forms are not charged by God. All wires are not electrified.
Angels, who are servants of God, are not God. Indra, an energetic form was not God as proved by Krishna in the Bhagavatam. The energetic form is imaginable but not perceivable [to the senses]. It appears only to the mind. It appears to the eyes also, but very rarely. Even, if it appears to the eyes, the time of appearance is very short and so such forms are not congenial for preaching the knowledge. Therefore, the materialized form is necessary. The human body is the most suitable form for this purpose. A statue or a photograph is also perceivable and God can charge it too. But the photograph or statue cannot preach. It can even preach but only by the super power of God. This becomes quite unnatural. The unnatural means create tension and fear, which are not a good or conducive environment for receiving the knowledge. Such form cannot mix with humanity freely to preach the knowledge. Therefore, the concept of Krishna as a human incarnation (Manusheem…—Gita) was more stressed by Madhva through Rama and Hanuman. Krishna, a human form, declared that He is God based on the concept of the electrified wire. The same concept of ‘God in flesh’ was introduced by Jesus, who stated that He and His Father are one and the same.
Suppose you have started a school with only once class of the first standard and you are not admitting anyone into the next level (second standard) from outside. Then you are teaching only to the first standard, even though you are a postgraduate and can teach right up to the 10th standard. To start the second standard in that year, enough students were available. You will teach the same students [who are in the first standard now] next year in second standard in another full class. Meanwhile if one or two students, worthy of the second standard approach you, you will guide them personally. It was the same situation. Whenever the human incarnation came [in the past], He was dealing with the majority as if it were a single class and the lesson pertaining only to that standard was taught. He taught a few devotees of a higher standard personally, but that was not carried on [propagated]. Therefore, today you think that the preaching of God in human forms in the past was only of the first standard. Today, due to the development of the logical faculty enough students are available so that the higher standard class can be opened.
The final Truth of God is that He is fully unimaginable and beyond the limits of intelligence as He is beyond the four-dimensional space-time model of the universe. One should digest this truth which is final. Earlier too, some prophets might have said, “This is final”, which means that the limits of the subtle nature of the medium is final. There cannot be anything more than an ‘unimaginable’ item. But among the media, in which God exists, there can be also a stage where the medium cannot be any subtler. Let Me make this point clear. The human body [is a medium in which God enters and] is imaginable and easily perceivable. The energetic form or formless energy is perceivable for a short time and imaginable on concentration. The awareness is not at all perceivable and imaginable on concentration (Drishyate tvagrayaa Buddhyaa—Veda). Thus as you travel from matter to energy and finally to awareness, the subtle nature increases, which indicates a gradually increasing unimaginability. Thus, awareness is the best representative item to preach the real nature of God. Shankara used it for preaching the real nature of God. God need not be awareness or need not enter the awareness to wish something. God can wish even without being the awareness or even without taking the aid of awareness. When we say “God wished like this”, it is only for the sake of our convenience and understanding that we assume God to be awareness or to have entered the medium of awareness as the. God charges awareness, due to a requirement of our understanding only. But all the awareness is not charged by God. Moreover, awareness is not continuous like the inert energy. Awareness exists only as discontinuous bits. All these bits are not God and are also not charged by God, because in that case no bit (human being) would need any spiritual effort. If you take God to be the continuous and homogeneous inert energy, pervading all over the cosmos, there too the above problem is not solved, because any bit of energy (bit of awareness i.e., human being) would already be God! Therefore only a particular bit of energy (bit of awareness) is charged by God and called as Father of heaven or Ishwara. There is a requirement for the charging of a limited energetic form containing a bit of awareness in it, by God for the sake of human beings who leave this gross body and enter into energetic bodies. For such energetic bodies of souls, which are also limited energetic forms with bits of awareness, a similar bit of awareness limited to an energetic form charged by God, is required for worship or preaching in the upper worlds.
A similar requirement exists in this world for souls limited to materialized human bodies. The human incarnation is formed to meet this requirement for the same purpose. Therefore, the formless, all pervading energy need not be charged by God, to pervade all over the world for controlling the world, because the unimaginable God can control the world without pervading all over the world. All pervading awareness is not at all acceptable, because, it is against practical experience. All pervading inert energy is possible but it is also not required, since the unimaginable God pervades all over the world without being the energy, in an unimaginable way. God can do anything without being the power. Therefore awareness or energy are only the representative items used for our understanding of God in the earlier stage. But a limited energetic form or a limited, materialized form (human body) with a bit of awareness in each, is charged by God and is called as Divine Father or human incarnation respectively. Through these forms God preaches to us in a natural way without using any super power unnecessarily and unnaturally, which would cause excitement in us. Awareness and matter are also forms of energy. Energy is the final item which acts as a medium for God. From the point of a medium, Mohammed said that it was final. From the point of the real nature of God, unimaginability is final. Every prophet said that it [his teaching] was final for that category in that time. When the teacher says, “This is the final lesson”. It means that it is final for that year and for that standard. It does not mean that that year is the final year in the eternal stream of time or that standard is the last standard in education.
Unimaginability can be final for all times and for all standards, because there can be nothing further than unimaginability. Even the most difficult imaginable item cannot be unimaginable. No great number can be infinity. In that case, what is the use of catching the most subtle and inconvenient medium, which will not serve your purpose fully? Why should you select a very very thin wire, when even the thinnest wire is only a medium for the electric current and not the current directly? Why [seek God in] awareness or energy, which are only media after all? Why don’t you accept the most convenient medium, which is the human form? You are only catching more and more subtle mediums, which are only created items and not the Creator. You are neglecting the cotton shirt and catching a costly silk shirt, which is also not the person who is wearing the shirt. You are catching an angel and sometimes even a ghost, who are simply energetic bodies and feel that you have caught the real God. People neglected the human form of God, Krishna, and started worshipping the simple energetic body and felt that they had caught the real God. People neglected the human form of God, Krishna, and started worshipping the simple energetic form without God called as Indra. You leave Me in the cotton shirt and worship My silk shirt, hanging from a hanger, without Me wearing it! Some worship the silk threads or the silk fiber as Myself and these are those who worship the formless energy or power or awareness as God. Some people only worship My cotton shirt (without Myself) as Myself. These are those who worship statues or photographs as God. All these are representative items for God and act as good teaching aids for ignorant people in the beginning stage as said in the Gita (Sarvaarambhaahi…).
Therefore, you like Me either in the silk shirt or the silk shirt alone or cotton shirt alone but you never like Me in the cotton shirt, because you are in a cotton shirt yourself. It is the principle of repulsion of likes. But there is no other way than for Me to come in the cotton shirt like yours, to preach to you without causing any tension, fear or excitement in you, which is an essential prerequisite for the good transmission of knowledge. My super power is exhibited if I come in any other way, in which case, your attention is diverted to exploit Me for momentary boons. In that case, your devotion for Me gets poisoned by selfishness, which cannot generate grace on you. My friend, what can I do? I am sorry because there is no other way than the path of the human incarnation. This is the meaning of the statement of Jesus “One can reach My Father only through Me”. The word ‘Me’ means the present [living] human incarnation. My dear friends! My dear devotees! Some generations back, I started this school and you are coming to it year after year. I came in different dresses named as Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Mahavir etc. and today, this present human body is called as Datta Swami. Only those, who were in My contact in the previous generations, can appreciate Me while I am alive. Many will appreciate Me when I leave this body. This is not new, because this is the same old history that repeats in every generation. At last, all of you be happy because I was not cursed by people like Gandhari as in the case of Krishna, or not killed like Jesus by crucifixion or not killed like Shankara by black magic.
Advice to Servants in the Mission
The Trusts of this mission will be extensively supported in the future beyond your imagination. Rome was not built up in one day. Dedicate yourself to the work and do not worry about the result. All the students of the same class taught by the same teacher do not get the same rank. Some pass with a distinction, some pass with a first class, some pass with a third class and some fail. The heterogeneity will be continuous in this system of universe like various roles fixed in a movie for a better entertainment. The entertainment is only secondary and incidental, because we are always putting efforts continuously to uplift the entire humanity as the primary aim.
When the Trusts of our mission get full support in future, you must do everything with full analysis. Welcome anyone to support our mission in anyway convenient to him or her either in the form sacrifice of work or fruit of work. The sacrifice should be without aspiration of any fruit in return and without any force or fear and without any emotional decision. If the sacrifice is based on the result of a convinced intelligence, such sacrifice will be permanent. Emotional sacrifice is momentary. Peter was emotional before Jesus and could not stand firm at the end with Jesus. Judas was attracted and deviated by the conventional priests, who opposed the living human incarnation of God present before their eyes due to jealousy and harmed Jesus. He was also personally hit by jealousy, even while staying with the Lord in human form, which was expressed when a lady was worshipping Jesus by applying the scent. The hidden jealousy and egoism in Judas was exploited by the then conventional priests, who always liked dead prophets and never liked a living prophet due to their egoism and jealousy. They wanted their own fame and worship in the name of an invisible God or invisible dead prophets.
Therefore, one should follow the path only after thorough analysis and should not jump suddenly. Sacrifice should follow the determination of the intelligence, which is called as ‘buddhi yoga’ in the Gita. Do not appeal to the mind or the heart, since it will be momentary. Always appeal to the intelligence (Buddhi). The mind gives thought (Sankalpa) but shortly afterwards, you will find deviation (Vikalpa). But Buddhi (intelligence) gives determination (Nishchaya) after thorough discussion with logical analysis. Determination will lead to permanent practice and no deviation can take place. Appealing to the intelligence is the royal and dignified path. Appealing to the mind or heart by some pitiable kindness [invoking pity and kindness of the other person] is the path of a beggar. Do not kindle people’s kindness and emotional love for propagation. Do not show some fruit in return [tempt people by promising some fruit in return for their acceptance] from God for the propagation. Do not attract them by offering food or money for propagation.
Help the beggar of any caste or any religion, if he or she is incapable like a child, an old, disabled or diseased person. Save the life of even an atheist by giving food because if his life is saved, he may change later on. Help the capable poor people including atheists by a job or technical education for their livelihood because human life is precious and has a chance of change or betterment in spiritual path once a peaceful life is attained. Propagation of spiritual knowledge should be primary and helping the poor is only a secondary item like providing boarding and lodging to foreign students in a college where the academic program is primary. All souls are eligible for the spiritual knowledge whether poor or rich. All the students go to the class, whether they are day-scholars or hostellers. Poverty and problems are [given to people by God] only to mold the sinners and not for revenge. The good side of punishment must be realized. The poverty and problems disappear once the grace of God dawns, since their purpose is over. The grace of God comes only by practice in the right spiritual path and this is possible only by the right determination of Buddhi and which in turn is possible only by the right spiritual knowledge. Thus the root source of all solutions lies only in the right spiritual knowledge. If the same is misinterpreted and poisoned by selfish scholars and selfish priests, the same knowledge leads to wrong practice and subsequent punishment for change. Therefore, God shall be pleased, if you can put up all your efforts in propagating the right knowledge by logical interpretations and I assure you that everyone of you shall sit on the right side of God on the divine throne in future in this world as well as in the upper world.
An atheist should not become a theist just for food, money, the job offered by you or the professional education offered by you to get a job. Such conversion is not real and permanent. Do not kindle emotions by showing or explaining the story of the crucifixion of Jesus. Do not kindle the attraction towards the physical appearance by showing the beautiful pictures of Krishna etc. Such means used for conversion are not real and permanent. The conversion of mind or heart is not real and eternal. Do not attract a person in problems by offering solutions through prayers and songs or by using the super powers of God for solutions. The faith developed by such ways will not stand forever because God will not always answer the prayers, songs and crying with tears. People become addicted to such ways. The child will weep every time for a chocolate, since it is habituated to that path. The child intensifies the process of weeping if the chocolate is delayed! Initially the child is attracted by chocolates to go to the school for some days. The child has become young person but did not cross the first standard of the school, because the child concentrated only on the art of weeping to get the chocolates. The person became a postgraduate or even a Ph.D. degree holder in the course of begging and weeping for chocolates. The person became an exceptional scholar and developed several talents in praising the Lord, crying for the Lord, singing and composing music on the Lord, doing meditation and concentration on the Lord with his mind, chanting the Lord’s name millions of times, writing the name of Lord millions of times, chanting some letters (Beejaksharas or mantras), drawing some design or diagrams on metallic plates (Yantras), doing worship following certain special ways of [occult] technology (Tantras) and so on. These discoveries and developments are tremendous and as many as the developments in science and technology! Of course, all these are good psychological ways of solving or treating certain psychological problems in patients with fixed notions to give mental relief from stress and gain confidence. All these ways are good, if the person is free from aspiration of any fruit from God in return [for such actions]. Such love is real. But the real love is expressed in terms of the sacrifice of work and the sacrifice of the fruit of work as seen in the case of your love for your children. If such practical expression exists, all the above theoretical expression of love through words and mind can be associated as a plate of meals is associated with a glass of drinking water.
Therefore in propagating the divine path, you should appeal to people only through knowledge, logical analysis and a systematic scientific approach. Avoid all the above means, which are theoretical and political ways of exploitation of one’s weakness. God is certainly above science and logic, because He is beyond creation and nature. But God always follows the ways of nature, which are logical and scientific, following the path of justice. In a rare and exceptional case, He uses His superpower, which is also not against justice. He suffers for your sins and thus the justice of the wheel of deeds is always upheld by Him even in the exceptional case of the use of His superpower. If you observe the logical design and scientific management of this creation, you will say that He is the greatest scientist. He will never violate His own rules of nature and science which is His very psychology. The superpower (Maya) is also a deeper stage of science (Prakriti) as said in the Gita (Mayamtu prakritim…). A wonderful design with a logical plan (Maya) beyond our imagination exists as the basis of this nature, which is understood by us superficially (Prakriti). When you go deeper and deeper into science, the logic continues but at a stage, your capacity to understand it fails. That does not mean that logic vanished at the deeper level. The capacity of your intelligence to grasp that deeper logic alone has vanished. Maya is not the failure of logic but it is a deeper and deeper subtle logic, which can be understood only by God, who is the greatest scientist. Logic and science continue in a more and more subtle way but the limits of the grasping power of humans ends at that level.
A schoolboy cannot follow quantum mechanics or wave mechanics which is dealt at the postgraduate level. The schoolboy says that the subject is beyond logic. According to a foolish student, there is no logic in that topic at that level. This is not true. His capacity to understand the logic of that level failed. That does not mean that the subject dealt at the postgraduate level is without logic and that all postgraduate students are beyond logic! More and more revelation of divine knowledge comes out from God, as your capacity or grasping power increases. God will not reveal the higher knowledge if your grasping power is low, because you will then say, that God is beyond logic, which means that God is mad. You should say that God is beyond your level of logic. God is quite logical at His level. The gap between your level of logic and His level of logic is called ‘Avyaktam’ or unimaginability of logic, which is the unbreakable ignorance. The Veda says the same “Avyaktat Purushah Parah…”. The Gita also says the same “Maam tu veda na kaschana....” Scientists say that they will reach the level of logic of God (Maya) by tomorrow, but that tomorrow always remains as a tomorrow. Scientists are egoistic due to their jealousy at this point, because they cannot accept God as greater than any scientist. When Einstein presented his paper on the Theory of Special Relativity, no scientist understood it except Einstein himself. But all of them respected Einstein. Then, why don’t they accept and respect God? A miracle done by the Lord is only a demonstration of the existence of a deeper level of science or logic. Just like conservative religious followers discard other religions, conservative scientists discard the miracle as magic or illusion, because [according to them] nothing should exist beyond their level of logic. For a school student of physics, a sophisticated electronic instrument is also magic or an illusion because he cannot understand the level of science pertaining to that instrument. The uncertainty of Heisenberg should also be magic or an illusion in that case. All the great scientists believed in God, because of their lack of egoism and jealousy towards a greater concept.
Therefore, you should convince anybody only through logical and scientific analysis. That alone, can bring out the true interpretation of all the universal scriptures; any other emotional or exploitative methods can never do that. Only then invite people to participate practically in this divine mission, which alone can please the Lord. My dear devotees! I love all of you from the deepest level of My heart. I also like to wash the feet of all of you, as Jesus did on His last day. I would like to wash the feet of all of you with My tears of love and gratefulness for your faith that you have shown on Me. Never fall into the clutches of egoism. Aspiration for fame is also a partial effect of egoism. People will praise you as Gurus. Immediately pass on all the credit to God and take the defects onto you. God will be pleased with you.
Total Sacrifice
When I analysed the story of Shaktuprastha, one person asked Surya (Mumbai) if Swami expected him to not even pay his telephone bill and live on the street [since Swami praised the total sacrifice of Shaktuprastha so much]. This is a very long jump and it shows the fit of anger of that person by which the analytical faculty of his intelligence is blocked (krodhat bhavati—Gita). Let him first realize that I have not created a concept and then created a subsequent story to support that. It is a famous story in the famous epic Mahabharata written by Sage Vyasa. Let the person put this question to Vyasa. Moreover, I ask one simple question. Who asked you to be on the street? Did any one compel you? You reject Brahma Loka and then the corresponding test [to reach Brahma Loka] is also totally rejected. You want to become an IAS officer [Indian Adminstrative Services] on one side and at the same time you shout, “Should I study until midnight without even sleeping?” Fantastic! Who compelled you to join the IAS coaching? You want the fruit but at the same time you don’t want the difficulty in the path. You want to go to heaven on a path of roses, [but the path of roses] which only leads to hell. The path to heaven is full of thorns. The choice is yours. No one compels you to join IAS coaching.
The concept I have drawn from the existing famous story is quite natural and clear. This concept is the Veda, which is stolen by the misinterpreter who is representated by the demon Somakasura [the story goes that Somakasura stole the Veda]. I am killing the demon of misinterpretation and uplifting the spiritual knowledge from the Mahabharatam, Ramayanam, which are considered as Vedas (vedah prachetasat, bharatah panchamovedah) and the Bhagavatam, which is the climax of the Veda (Vedanta). Somakasura means evil which is like wine. Selfishness and the attachment to one’s family is the wine that is stealing the true spiritual concepts. By this wine, people are robbing the money of even poor good devotees in society today. From the story, you have to fix the complete sacrifice (Sarvakarmaphala tyagam—Gita) as the goal. Then, you will be able to do at least some sacrifice. If 100 marks are declared as the passing marks, everyone will secure at least 40 marks. If 40 marks are declared as the passing marks, many students will barely score ten or twenty marks. Let the goal be the highest. The highest is the only absolute truth. At least realize the highest goal in theory and put efforts to achieve it. At least in some birth, you will achieve it. God grants human rebirth for any soul who puts constant efforts. God will encourage you, if you are really trying.
You must realize that the only practical sacrifice is of the fruit of work or of the work. Sacrifice of words and feelings is of no use because God can never be fooled. I put one question to that person. Suppose in the place of God, your wife or child were present. Would you not be on the streets for their sake? Certainly you would sacrifice practically to any extent for their sake. Boys and girls are sacrificing even their lives for their love. But when God comes to the picture, all questions and practical difficulties come. Why? The answer is very very simple and straight. You do not have real love for God. But you want to get all the benefits from the Lord here and after death. For that, you show all sorts of arts of artificial love. Who asked you to love God? Did God ever ask you to love Him? He has created equal facilities for all the souls including atheists. He has created a cycle of deeds (karma chakra), which is the legal constitution and according to it, you will receive your rightful results. He has not done any injustice to you for not loving Him. Sometimes, I hear some people saying, “I have no time to think of God. I do not bother about God.” Well. God is also not bothered about you either. If you care a pin for God, He will not care even a millionth pin for you, because in His eyes, this entire earth is not equal even to a pin-tip. It is you, who is approaching God every time for some favor. It is you, who is always bothering Him to break the legal way and protect you. Yes. He does it. The kindest Lord pays [suffers] for your sins through His human form and protects both you and justice simultaneously. For doing that, He wants your pure and real love. You may plead that you do not have that much pure and real love. No. No. No. You have it and you show it to your children. Give at least a drop of it, proving that you really love God at least a bit; even though not equal to your great child. At least stop this hypocritical love and stop asking Him for any favor. Follow the path of justice and if you can still love Him without aspiring for any favour from Him, then that is real love or devotion. You love your child, even if he or she beats you. Don’t say that pure love is impossible. It is impossible only in the case of others, including God. First start loving and serving people who are other than your family, to get training in that path. At least do not grab the money of other people by cheating. Business is also a licensed way of cheating others. Even if you are not loving and serving others, at least do not grab their hard earned money by corruption. First, stop harming others. Then, start loving others. Then, start serving others. Now you are trained well and you are ready to love and serve God like Shaktuprastha.
Money is the root knot. It catches your throat. Therefore the Veda says “Dhanena tyagenaikena…” which means that sacrifice of money alone decides your love for God. Real love can be expressed only by [the sacrifice of] money and work (karma samnyasa and karma phala tyaga). Without these two, other ways are only hypocritical. When these two also exist, the other ways get life. Otherwise, they are just dead items. ‘Guna’ is theory. ‘Karma’ is practice. Theory should lead to practice. Otherwise, mere theory is only hypocrisy. The four castes in spiritual path are decided by theory and practice only (guna karma vibhagashah—Gita). Shaktuprastha is the real Brahmana (Brahma Jnani), who sacrificed all the fruit of his work for God. Dharmaraja is a kshatriya, who could only do partial sacrifice of wealth in doing the Ashvamedha. Dhritarashtra is a Vaishya, who has good theory but is zero in practice. He recognized Lord Krishna but did not give even five villages, even though the Lord was asking. He had full power to give but nicely escaped by pleading his false incapability in going against his son. Duryodhana is a Shudra, who did not even recognise the Lord and was greedy for the wealth of even his own brothers. Thus caste is not by birth, but it is by the qualities and practice (guna karma). Swami Dayananda, who was also a human incarnation preached about this valuable concept. Every great preacher is an incarnation of God because the Gita says the same (Yadyat vibhutimat…).
Buddha kept silent about God. This means that God is beyond words, mind and logic as said in the Veda. Buddha means the Buddhi or jnana yoga that speaks about the absolute God. Thus He is the greatest incarnation of God. If one thinks of Him as an atheist, there can be no greater fool. Mohammed showed the formless medium in which God exists, which is energy and this is presented as awareness by Shankara, because basically energy and awareness are one and the same. A prophet itself means a human incarnation. A prophet carries the message of God. The divine knowledge is in Him. Is He not greater than other human beings? The message of divine knowledge is the characteristic of God (Satyam Jnanam—Veda) and so we say God is in Him. Why do you deny it, when God is omnipresent? Then every human being should give the same message of God, since God is omnipresent. But why did Mohammed alone give it? Because the power of God or knowledge of God was in Him alone. Then the power of God, in the form of knowledge is not omnipresent. In any case, you have to accept that either God or His power was present only in Prophet Mohammed. That is what a human incarnation is. You are fighting with us, without analysing the concept of the human incarnation. Thus Buddha, Mohammed and Shankara have preached the single phase [same concept], which was essential to the level of the followers at that time. The concept of a human incarnation was well established by Krishna and Jesus. You can find all three branches of Hinduism (Advaita, Vishishtha Advaita, Dvaita) in Christianity because Jesus said that He and God are one and the same (Advaita), that He is the son of God (Visishta Advaita) and that He is the messenger of God (Dvaita). The required stage of philosophy was expressed according to the stage of the people of that time.
Just now, Lakshman (Mumbai) told Me that Surya told him that at least once in a life time, one should do the total sacrifice to the Lord. But Surya has already done that. One day he removed all his earnings which were in the name of his son and deposited them in the bank account of our Trust. His wife, who is a good devotee of Me, also quarrelled with him for that act. He did not even inform Me about his sacrifice! Only later on, it was known from his wife. Is he not Shaktuprastha really? Unfortunately, I am not the Lord in human form. Had I been the Lord, I would have sent him to Brahma Loka. At least, I pray to the Lord to give him Brahma Loka, when he leaves his gross body in course of time as per the rules of nature.
Do not bother that you are unable to practice the highest truth today itself. At least accept the truth in theory. That first step is sufficient. One day or the other, either in this life, or in some future life (human life is assured for any one who tries constantly) you will succeed. If you accept theoretically, you have put your foot on the first step of right path. Journey and achievement of goal are inevitable. It is only a matter of time. But if you deny the truth even theoretically, you are in the wrong path. You want immediate fruit and so you want to lower the goal. You want to sleep at 8 PM and want to become IAS officer. You want 40 marks as passing marks! You think that you can get the 40 marks and pass. But My dear friend, if you keep 40 marks as goal, you will only get five or ten marks! Actually 100 is distinction and 40 is a passing mark. But we have kept it as a secret and are saying that 100 is the passing mark, so that you will certainly achieve 40 while trying for 100. This is called as ‘Arthavada’ (which means a statement created for a purpose) in the Veda. It means a spiritual secret like a business secret. When you only get five marks and feel discouraged by seeing the 100 mark goal, then in your case, to encourage you, we shall say that 40 is the passing mark. Therefore, the Acharyas know how to close and open the secrecy of the truth according to the condition of the student. In some context, the truth has to be opened and in some other context, the truth has to be covered. This brought the difference in the preaching of the human incarnations, which was based on the difference in the stages of different people, they faced in their times. If you realize this practical problem you can easily realize that there is only one God in all the divine human incarnations.
(To be Continued...)