Posted on: 30 Sep 2018
God Dattatreya gave Me the excellent concepts of spiritual knowledge based on which this spiritual knowledge is prepared. I was telling God Datta about certain concepts on which majority of humanity feel very much inconvenient, who may even strongly oppose such concepts and may even go away without reading other excellent and useful concepts. God Datta replied Me “it is none of your business to alter My concepts. I am not a business man concentrating on selling of My concepts to public and make profit on business. The priests are worried about such benefits through business since they have to earn something for their livelihood. Hence, they changed concepts and traditions in such a way so that majority of public like and offer some financial rewards to the priests. Due to this only, the real knowledge with true traditions disappeared in course of time as I said in the Gita (Yogo nashtah...). To restore the lost true concepts only, I am coming down to this earth every time since the concepts are getting twisted every time after I exit. These foolish priests don’t know that I will benefit them thousand times more in terms of finance, had they followed My true concepts and propagated them without any distortion. Finance can’t solve all problems, but, My grace solves all the problems. You are My devotee involved in the preparation of My spiritual knowledge. Are you doing this service for the sake of some benefit from public like money, fame etc.,? You are doing the divine service of preparation of My knowledge only for the sake of getting My grace and not for earning money or social fame. When you don’t bother about others except Me, why shall you bother about the marketing of knowledge as if based on which only My grace is showered”. The example I gave, which is against marketing was non-vegetarian food, which is taken by a considerable majority of humanity. But, God Datta did not agree to this by saying that I should not bother about the sales of His concepts in the public. He also told Me that I am only His servant taking the salary in terms of His grace and that I am not a partner of His business to worry about profit and loss. Therefore, the fundamental important point is that the concepts of God shall never be changed at any cost.
Once this fundamental concept of constancy in the concepts is fixed, the propagation of knowledge can be done in several ways because different people have different tastes. In fact, there shall be variation in the propagation of knowledge to suit various tastes of public. Propagation means different styles of different types of packing materials keeping the material inside as constant. Once the concepts are the same, different style of language also can be used, which is only a different packing material or different style of packing material liked by different people. No single packing material or style is fixed since different people like different packing materials in different styles. The levels of the people grasping the spiritual knowledge are also different and we have to cover all types of levels of receivers. In the knowledge presented by Me, fifty percent is related to below average level. Forty percent relates to middle average level. Ten percent relates to the high level of scholars. According to the percentage of level in the receivers, the percentage of presentation is also fixed. Presentation is also a kind of packing material in a special style only since the concepts of God Datta (packed materials) are same.
Therefore, My advice to My beloved devotees is to choose any packing material (in any style and mode of language of presentation) as they like since there is a certain percentage of devotees waiting, who like your packing material and your style only. Different receivers have different tastes of styles as said as a saying (loko bhinnaruchih). The four disciples of Adi Shankara preached the same philosophy of their preacher without changing His concepts in any way following different styles of presentation. All the four covered all different types of percentages of tastes of the entire humanity. One style can never satisfy all the humanity. Concentration of the concepts is liked by scholars. Dilution of concepts is liked by average and below average receivers. Both are necessary to cover all the receivers. Concentration or dilution never affects the basic concept. A sugar solution concentrated or diluted is always sweet in taste, but never becomes salty in taste. Dilution of the concept is very much welcome, which is not distortion of the concept. In fact, dilution is very much desired since even the scholars can understand the concept in diluted way just like that both big and small cats can go through the big hole! The only thing is that many scholars like concentration of representation of concepts. Many like to drink the juice of sugar cane given in a cup. But, some peculiar people like to eat the sugar cane directly even though blood is coming from their teeth! Such scholars develop a poor view about the preacher of spiritual knowledge, if the knowledge is preached in diluted way. I know several audiences saying that the speech is useless because they understand the concepts very clearly. If they don’t understand anything from the speech, they praise the speech as tremendously excellent. We can’t help this situation since it is the existing human psychology. Therefore, all types of styles and languages of presentation of spiritual knowledge are equally important and most welcome since a certain fixed percentage of the public is readily available for a specific style and language you select based on your liking. This is the philosophy of propagation having unity in the concepts and diversity in presentation, which is just like unity in the basic spiritual knowledge and diversity in the external culture of all the theistic religions in this world.
Hence, the honest advice of Swami to His beloved devotees is to follow whichever style of program is liked personally in propagating the spiritual knowledge of God Datta in this world. There is no trace of speciality in Me in preparing this knowledge since I am selected for cooking the food in hot and congested kitchen and you are selected for the catering of the cooked food in the royal dignified hall by keeping the food in different types of glass vessels to suit the taste of attraction of eaters. The cook and catering personnel belong to the same group or family engaged by God Datta and the remuneration of the service, which is His omnipotent grace, is given to all of us provided we don’t aspire for it.