DATTA SANDESHA ASHTAKAM (Messages of God Datta)

1) Dharmo nityamavekshyataam cha narakadvaaratrayam tyajyataam,

Praarambhaat Paraamaatmani sthiramanobhaktih samaaniyataam,

Bandhaat bhaktivikarshitaat laghubalaat paapena naakrushyataam,

Pritaanugrahato nivruttiparamasthaanam param vindataam.

Concentrate on justice always.
Avoid the three gates to hell (illegal sex, violence by hurting and killing good living beings and greediness for illegal earning by corruption for yourself and your-family).
Follow only one path, the path of devotion to God from the beginning of Pravrutti (worldly life) till the end of Nivrutti (divine life).
Don’t be attracted by sin since your bond with yourself and family is weakened by the devotion started already.
Attain the climax of Nivrutti also by the grace of pleased God with you for not doing sins. This is the reason why God always gives importance to Pravrutti. Without success in Pravrutti, any extent of Nivrutti will keep you as a demon only.

2) Nohyaakaashadameyamaunaga paraBrahma tvabhijnaayataam,

Nohyaatkvaapi phalamvilanghanavataam martyaavataaro nrunaam,

Tat bandheshu virajyataam sukhakrute tyaagaih parah sevyataam,

Naahamyustvanasuyayaa paramitah tat taijasam priyataam.

The very fundamental concept that you have to know is that actual God is unimaginable being generator of space (God generated space, which can’t exist in Him before its generation, hence, God has no spatial dimensions or volume and hence can never be imagined), being inferred from perceived unimaginable events called miracles and being represented by silence.
You must know that unimaginable God can punish you for your sins by His unimaginable power anywhere at any time even if you escape the Law here (generally fruits of deeds are given in the upper world so that you are not disturbed here in trying for your reformation, God is all in all to give the fruit of deed even here for the sake of your reformation and as such intensive deeds yield fruits here only at once).
Catch always the human incarnation, which is relevant for humanity (unimaginable God takes energy as medium to become energetic incarnation for upper worlds. For humanity, He takes materialized human body as medium).
In the beginning, you have to put little effort for little detachment from worldly bonds so that you can try for the bond with God (once the bond with God is started, it will detach you from worldly bonds gradually. Little detachment or destruction of excessive fascination to worldly bonds is essential to prevent you from sins).
Remember always that sin is the cause for all your miseries here and there and avoiding the sin alone gives you peace and happiness (neither meditation-Yoga, which is temporary, nor worship of God relieves you from misery. Worship of God may give good fruit separately).
Worship of God means practical devotion involving sacrifice of your energy and fruit of work in His service.
If you can eradicate your ego and jealousy towards co-human begins, you can catch human incarnation here by avoiding repulsion between common media (your human form and human form of God).
If you succeed here in pleasing the human incarnation, you will succeed in pleasing energetic incarnation also in the upper world there after death. The repulsion between common media (your energetic body and the energetic body of God) there can be avoided due to previous experience here. By this, you are pleasing God always everywhere.

3) Pujaa naivatu varnalingavayasaa jnaanena samdhiyataam,

Kshudvahnih prashamaaya homavachanam saannam ghrutam jnaayataam,

Gaayatryopanayosya, gaanavidhinaa premapramaa samskriyaa,

Mudhatvam pashutaa kratau cha suguniprano na nishkaasyataam.

Respect and worship anybody based on quality of knowledge and not on caste, gender and age.
Know that fire means fire of hunger (Vaishvaanaraagni), ghee means food with ghee (by lakshanaavrutti) and ‘homa’ means feeding the hungry with food and doesn’t mean burning ghee in physical fire (fire by sticks called as bhautikaagni or laukikaagni).
Know that the real Gayatri means singing the prayer of God through sweet songs and not a specific hymn written in Gayatri meter. ‘Upanayanam’ means becoming close to God by the real Gayatri. Hence, this ritual is universal irrespective of caste and gender.
Know that every ritual means improvement of spiritual knowledge and devotion and not blind recitation of scripture without meaning.
Know that the stupidity (rigidity by ignorance) or animal nature is to be killed in the sacrifice (yajna) and not the actual animal as said by the Veda (manyuh pashuh). Never remove the life of a good soft natured living being.

4) Atmaa srushtikano jagattava hi sat dvaite prabhuh sevyataam,

Advaitam labhataam yadishvaradayaa lokaarthamicchaa na chet,

Naakaashaadiha langhatetvahamiti prajnaiva tat tarkyataam,

Tasya syaat nijasevatatvamapi yat dvaite sadaa vartataam.

Know that yourself is a tiny particle of creation only (neither you are God nor you are part of God). Hence, the rest world is real for you. Hence, worship the Lord or mediated God standing always in your relevant and real dualism.
You can attain true monism provided you don’t wish for it at anytime and provided God graces you as His medium to become incarnation for the sake of welfare of the world.
Analyze that ‘I’ is a form of awareness, which can’t cross the last unimaginable link between space and unimaginable God (by going back in the chain of process of creation from awareness to God) and hence can’t be attached to God.
Even when God becomes incarnation, God is crossing the first unimaginable link with space (since this link is imaginable to Him) and is called as ‘Descended God’ or Avataara and not called as ‘Ascended human being’ or Uttaara (since human being can’t cross the unimaginable link).
Even if you don’t get the opportunity of true monism through incarnation (even in the incarnation the human being-component shall be without aspiration for monism) and continue to be devotee only, no worry since you have every possibility of attaining super dualism in which God becomes your servant, which is greater than true monism!

5) No paathaat gurudakshinaapyadhanine dravyaatmanaa diyataam,

Yogyaayaiva pitrukratau tamayataam mandaarthavaadam krutam,

Tanmurtirna cha nindyataam sumanasetvaarambhadoshasmrutaih,

Advaitaadi matatrayamtvasurato murtitrayam drushyataam.

You must offer money to your spiritual preacher (Guru) for his maintenance (as per your capacity or shakti and as per his deservingness or Bhakti, whichever is minimum. If your shakti is 10 and his deservingness is 100 give him 10. If your shakti is 100 and his deservingness is 10, then also give him 10).
You must also offer money in the above way to poor also, but, your offering must be not in the form of money, but, in the form of required material (since poor being ignorant always misuse money for vices. Hence, social service shall be always associated with spiritual preaching so that the poor will not become poor in the future births).
Even in the ritual done for the sake of departed souls, you must offer money to deserving only (deservingness due to knowledge of scripture and lack of aspiration for money as said in the Veda—Shrotriyasyaachaakaamahatasya) and not for their blind recitation of scripture.
Know that it is said that in ritual if the priest eats food, it is eaten by the departed soul. This is not true (because departed soul in energetic body takes energy only as food), but, it is told so, so that even a greedy fellow will perform the ritual thinking that the departed soul will eat food and such statement is called as Arthavaada (a lie told for good purpose).
Never criticize the idol worship since idol represents God even though God is not in it as in the incarnations. Idol worship is inevitable for beginners, who can’t cross ego and jealousy to worship incarnations. Idol worship improves theoretical devotion, which is the mother of practical devotion. The Gita says that defect is inevitable in the beginning (Sarvaarambhaa hi).
Know that monism, special monism by inseparable dualism and dualism are gradually preached by the three divine preachers (Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva) to convert demonic atheists in to theists. The three divine preachers are incarnations of God Shiva, God Vishnu and God Brahma. The correlated and unified philosophy of these three (by Dattaswami) represents God Datta, who is unified form of these three forms of God.

6) Saadhutraanaduraatmadandanamato labdhohyashaktastatah,

Svaarthe na svayamikshataam Bhagavatah shaantikshaamaa bhaavyataam

Jnaatvaa taptahrudaa punastvakaranaat saktaat cha sammuchyataam,

Tatsevaasu niyujyataam pratiphalaapekshaam vinaa satprivayaat.

Know that good souls must be protected and bad souls must be punished always (Krishna did so.). Helping everybody and harming everybody is not correct (The context of Jesus is different because He wanted to melt the cruel souls by being good to bad souls also. Burning bad souls having no scope of reformation in liquid fire forever is already agreed by Him).
If you are incapable of punishing bad souls, be with patience leaving revenge to God and you will be tremendously compensated by God for this (you shall know that you are not compensated by harming your enemy and you will be punished for your attitude of revenge separately.).
You must understand the silence and patience of God towards your enemy (God will be silent if your enemy retorted back for your past crime in the previous birth. Even if it is not so and your enemy committed a fresh crime to you in this birth, God will wait for some time with patience to see whether your enemy gets reformed permanently by spiritual knowledge because after all, the aim of the punishment is reformation only, which is at least temporary by punishment. You should not weep if your enemy escapes punishment by reformation since you are not benefited in any way by punishing your enemy! Your punishment to your enemy is for your revenge, which has no compensation whereas punishment given by God is not for revenge but due to His love for reformation of bad soul. A ripened scholar in spiritual knowledge will leave the revenge to God since he/she knows that the administration of God is always perfect doing the needful in proper time. Such a scholar should not be misunderstood as supporter or neutral to bad souls. Such a scholar also opposes badness of the enemy and not the enemy in person as said ‘hate the sin and not the sinner’, but, leaves its practical rectification to God since it is ultimately the responsibility of the divine administration.).
Even if you are capable of punishing your enemy, you shall not take the law in to your hands since party cannot be the judge (if it is your or your peoples’ case).
You will be relieved from all miseries caused by punishments of sins, provided you realize your sin through knowledge, repent through devotion and don’t repeat the sin practically. By this, not only the pending punishments or Sanchita and future punishments or Aagaami to come in future (since future sins are not committed by realization) are cancelled, but also even the punishment that started or Praarabdha gets cancelled if you are true in your realization.
Always engage yourself in His practical service, which is a real proof for real knowledge and real devotion. If you don’t expect any fruit in return for your service, such love alone is true.

7) Bandhebhyo na nivartataam baladhiyaa bhaktyaa svayam yaanti ye,

Ye shatchakrasumaani shaktilahari saa kundalinyeva chit,

Jnaanaat bhaktiratha kriyaa phalakarityevam kramo jnaayataam,

Bhaavena kriyayaa cha naarthivadayam yat sadguruh priyataam.

Don’t try to detach from worldly bonds by forcible effort since these will drop by themselves when your devotion is ripened.
Know that in yoga, six wheels as lotus flowers are described, which are nothing but the worldly bonds only (worldly bonds are like whirl pools in the world-sea, which drag the swimmer and drown him/her. These are like lotus flowers attracting the black bee by sweet scent and bind it by closing. Black colour of the bee indicates ignorance or Tamas quality of soul. Escaping the attractions of these worldly bonds with talent is real yoga.). The ‘Kundalini’ is nothing but the awareness or soul or nervous energy travelling as waves like serpent. (The wave motion indicates the talent to escape these bonds.).
Know that the first step is knowledge (Jnana Yoga), next is the generation of devotional force (Bhakti Yoga) that is needed for the transformation of knowledge in to practice and final step is implementation of knowledge in practice (Karma Yoga). In this order of sequence only Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva appeared.
When you are serving God in human form (Satguru), along with practical sacrifice of energy (karma samnyasa) and fruit of work (Karmaphala tyaga), you must have pure theoretical devotion also as an equally important item. Satguru is not in need of your practical sacrifice only like the needy Guru or the needy poor man. Your practical sacrifice in the case of Satguru is only a proof for your real theoretical devotion. Satguru tests for your both theoretical and practical devotions.

8) Vijnaanena vicharyataam shrutamapi praamaanyamaaniyataam,

Veshyaavaishyavidham vihaaya pitruvat sonmaadavat gamyataam,

Satyajnaanasudipikaa trijagataam jiveshu samyojyataam,

Bhuyo maanushajanma durlabhamiti jnaatvaa param praapyataam.

Even if it is divine scripture, analyze it with sharp scientific knowledge (because insertions are possible). Then only the scripture becomes true authority.
Avoid prostitution-devotion (aspiring practical fruit for theoretical devotion like a prostitute) and business-devotion (aspiring practical fruit for practical devotion like a business man). Both theoretical and practical devotion must be done for God without aspiring any fruit in return. Such devotion is seen in the case of issues (sacrifice of work and fruit of work are done to issues without aspiring any fruit in return) and this is called as real love or issue devotion. You can see even devotion higher than the issue devotion when a mad fan of a political leader or cinema hero gives up his life on hearing his death! Such real devotions should be kept as theoretical goal at least for inspiration to achieve some success practically.
Give the torch lights of true spiritual knowledge to the souls present in this creation through propagation in this entire creation (devotees participating in the propagation of spiritual knowledge in this world are given the same duty after their death in the upper world also. Such devotees are not subjected to enjoyment of any fruit in the upper worlds since they are involved in the service of God.).
The human rebirth is almost impossible and hence try to earn the grace of God in this human birth itself.