18 Aug 2025
1. What happens if I couldn't be caught by You due to my bad qualities in future births? Please guide me.
[Smt. Sudharani asked: Question to loose self-centredness: Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for choosing me, and giving me Your Knowledge. Swami I find a lot of faults and the qualities that are not matching the true devotee, as explained by You. Obviously this birth is not sufficient for my practice. I worry about my future fate in the next birth as, what if I couldn't be caught by You due to my bad qualities, which I am unable to give up now. Please remove my ignorance and fear Swami, also apologise for self-centred (wrong) thought. I am unable to think better, forgetting myself. I want to soak in Your thoughts always, but next moment I would indulge in petty worldly thoughts. This attitude makes me very much frightened. Save me Swami. Always at Your Lotus Feet..Sudharani.]
Swami replied:- You are telling that you may not catch the human incarnation in the next birth. Apart from this point, another more important is that it is very very difficult to get the human birth once again. Christianity and Islam say that there is no rebirth and this birth is the final human birth. We must accept this point. This is the reason why Christians and Muslims are very very serious about God. If there is a rule that there is no examination again in September after the final examination in March, every student will pass the examination in the first attempt itself. In Hinduism also, it is told that human rebirth is very very rare unless God sanctions it, but, God sanctions only in highly deserving cases. The conclusion is that human rebirth is impossible for any ordinary soul. In view of this, we must take a firm decision to succeed in our spiritual efforts keeping Christianity and Islam as our guides in this point. The negligence on spiritual efforts is coming only due to the false concept of human rebirth available for every soul. If this false concept is not removed from the mind, the negligence will be continued, which develops the mentality that you are possessing now due to not understanding Hinduism in depth.
2. Please reveal one concept applicable to come out of the misunderstanding regarding sexual affairs of sages, angels and Godmen.
[Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for answering all of my doubts with utmost compassion as a great Scientist-father to his ignorant kid, though You know that all are petty questions, though Your heights of Prajnanam can never be understood by me. This proves Your Divinity and Thou, Rasovisah. Thank You Swami for giving Your Viswaroopa of Excellent Prajna. In Holy epics, we find certain cases of bodily relations among unusual partners like Lord Krishna- Gopikas, Sage Vyasa with wives of His brothers, King Sugriva with wife of his brother, one such case with Moon etc. Our mind goes on pinning on the next such event, though they are respected duly, without a trace of fault by the Writer of those Epics (as the will of God). We humans see all these cases within our boundaries of laws like coloured spectacles. Please reveal the single derivation or the concept that can be applicable to come out of this wrong understanding, regarding sexual affairs- conflicts of sages, angels, God forms and Godmen.]
Swami replied:- Regarding angels, they can’t have sexual ideas because they are in energetic bodies. The ideas of sex are generated only due to matter of the materialized body, which is due to the quality of tamas or matter. Sattvam is awareness and spiritual knowledge. Rajas is inert energy or work. Tamas is matter or ignorance, which is the basis of sex. When the materialized enzymes become active, the inert energy generates sexual ideas (Tamas based Rajas pollutes Sattvam). In angels, only Rajas based Sattvam exists, whereas in human beings, all the three qualities co-exist. The angels are immortal due to the drinking of divine nectar, which is nothing but the will of God. The angels are 33 crores in number and this number is always constant because due to the absence of sex, they don’t get children. Regarding the energetic or materialized human forms of God, the former don’t have sex and the latter can control sex. All the forms of God are omnipotent and have full freedom to do anything, but don’t cross the boundaries of justice for the welfare of human souls. Sometimes, angels and even the forms of God are involved in the divine plays to teach human beings about justice and also about the punishment of injustice. In such plays, there are roles of villains, which are also played by angels or even divine forms of God.
God Brahma is the energetic incarnation of God Datta, who is the mediated Parabrahman or the ultimate unimaginable God. In a divine play to preach that speaking a lie for selfishness will be punished by God severely, God Brahma in the role of a liar is punished by God Shiva, who is in the role of ultimate God. In fact, God Datta is God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva. Therefore, God Vishnu is God Shiva. Even though human incarnations exist in materialistic bodies, they have control on sex. All these divine plays are also for the sake of preaching Pravrutti and Nivrutti to human beings. Human beings may be false-Godmen or true-Godmen. Every devotee must have the efficiency in spiritual knowledge to discriminate true-Godmen from false-Godmen. Good and bad always co-exist like a couple similar to day and night, happiness and misery etc. Where is the significance of the hero without the role of a villain?
3. Is there any shortcut to reduce the culvert-like force of distractions in our path to reach You?
[Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for not giving up my upliftment, in spite of all my defective actions. Swami, is there any shortcut path like worshipping Mother Maya in order to reduce Her culvert like force of distraction in our path to reach You. Her force is directly proportional to our past sins. How to develop more and maintain consistency in my RRR path. How to be alert in every action to be righteous. What is the shortcut path to reach You. Kindly forgive and save from my disobedience and wrong assumptions. At Your Lotus Feet always, sudharani.]
Swami replied:- If negative Maayaa is absent, where is your spiritual effort and where is your success in the spiritual journey? When you succeed the negative Maayaa, the speed of your spiritual effort becomes double. In this stage, you call the same Maayaa as positive Maayaa. When water is obstructed by a culvert, you feel that the culvert is an obstruction for the flow of water. But, when water crosses the culvert by overflowing, the speed of the waterflow is double. Without effort, if you get any fruit that may be very valuable, you will not appreciate the value of the fruit. God is the possessor of Maayaa (Māyinaṃ tu Maheśvaram- Gita). Immense happiness comes only when anything appears like poison in the beginning and finally appears as divine nectar (Yattadagre viṣamiva…- Gita). It is like the human incarnation, which appears as human being in the beginning and in course of realization, it appears as the absolute God.
4. Are ‘willing to be in the righteous path’ and ‘attaining God in Human Incarnation form’ linear or intersecting paths?
[Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for Your cause less Compassion on me. Swami, are willing to be in righteous path and attaining God in Human Incarnation form linear or intersecting paths? What should be the approach of a soul in daily pravrutti life , after knowing You, and settled with a single goal to attain You. How to minimise or isolate pravrutti actions also maintaining it with righteousness?]
Swami replied:- There is only a single path to attain God for a human being. The Veda says that there is no second path to reach God (Nānyaḥ panthāḥ…). Both your concepts are two sides of the single path only. The ultimate aim of life is only to get the grace of God and finally reach Him. The only reachable form of God is human incarnation. Hence, there are no two ways. It is only one way, which is to recognize the human incarnation of God and please Him. You can fix an energetic incarnation in the upper world as your goal and start pleasing Him here to reach Him finally. But, here, you will doubt the existence of God throughout the process of pleasing God. If you fix human incarnation of God as your goal, you will reach Him first and then, please Him. In this way, there is no trace of doubt about His existence during the process of pleasing Him!
God always likes justice and God is always furious with injustice. Hence, in worldly life, you must always follow justice and leave injustice. Only when God competes with justice to test you, you must vote for God against justice.
5. How to eradicate the sinful and meaningless thoughts of ego & jealousy that enter into my mind?
[Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for giving me numerous experiences of Your care and attention wherever I am. Thus Your presence strengthens me to live in every situation with total happiness. Through all my efforts I may stop doing sinful actions, Swami. How to stop or eradicate the sinful thoughts, meaningless thoughts of ego and jealousy to enter into my mind. They threaten me that one day I may lose Your love and grace. Also how to control my selfishness, ego and jealousy. Kindly enlighten me, Always at Your Lotus Feet, sudharani.]
Swami replied:- The only way to eradicate ego and jealousy or any sinful thought of injustice is to develop devotion to God. This devotion can be developed only when your interest (Shraddhaa) on God increases. This interest increases through true spiritual knowledge about the personality of God. Spiritual knowledge (Jnaana Yoga) leads to theoretical devotion (Bhakti Yoga), which finally ends in practice or practical devotion involving service and sacrifice to the contemporary human form of God. This is the path, which is emphasized by Me throughout My spiritual knowledge.
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