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For ScholarsPosted on: 26/02/2026FIFTH PART: Conclusions :-
A producer-director of a cinema came to see the cinema along with his servant. The producer-director saw the cinema from the beginning to end without sleeping. The servant saw the cinema up to the interval and slept after the interval. The cinema continued to run till end since the producer-director is seeing it. In fact, the cinema is put on the screen only for his sake and not for the sake of his servant...
For ScholarsPosted on: 23/02/2026FOURTH PART: Five Items in the Process of Knowing :-
Knowing is an action. In the context of any action, including the action of knowing, there are five items. They are the kartā or the doer of the action, the karma or the object on which the action is done, the karaṇam or the instrument with which the action is done, the kriyā or the process of doing itself and the kriyā phalam or the fruit of the action. Let us try to identify what these five items exactly...
For ScholarsPosted on: 21/02/2026THIRD PART: Enjoyer in all the three states :-
If you consider the bundle of thoughts itself to be the subtle body, it means that you are considering it to be the container. Who then is the possessor contained inside the container of the bundle of thoughts? You might argue that the possessor contained in the bundle of thoughts is pure awareness. That might be fine, but it leads to another problem. If the bundle of thoughts itself is considered...
For ScholarsPosted on: 18/02/2026SECOND PART: Interpreting the Four States for a Human Being
As per the theory of Śaṅkara, every human being is said to be Brahman (God) in an essential sense. So, every human being becomes an Incarnation of God. This, of course, is not true! Śaṅkara was forced to twist facts in His theory so as to encourage atheists to adopt His theory and become theists. So, in His commentary regarding these four states, Śaṅkara interpreted the Veda in the context of an ordinary...
For ScholarsPosted on: 16/02/2026Dr. Nikhil asked (on phone):- Advaitins say that the subtle body is made of thoughts (vāsanās) and the causal body is made of ignorance (avidyā). Can You please clarify this point?
FIRST PART: The Four States Analysis Applies Only to an Incarnation
Swami replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God! In the case of a human being, the gross body is made of the five elements or matter, the subtle body is made of inert energy and the causal body is made of awareness in the form of thoughts or qualities (Vaasanas). These thoughts (forms of awareness) are the cause of the entire behavior of the individual soul and hence, this body can be called...
For ScholarsPosted on: 23/01/2026Every Soul Has Equal Chance to Become Incarnation
Shri Datta Swami could easily bring this 1% monism to 0% since the difference is negligible and in this point all the credit goes to earlier divine preachers only, who paved the way to be very smooth. In this line, there is no danger since removal of ambition does not hurt the ego of any human being. But, in His philosophy, the most dangerous concept of contemporary human incarnation was projected very well. Generally, this concept results in terrible...
For ScholarsPosted on: 20/01/2026[Shri. Ajay asked: “Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba was repeatedly telling that every human being is God, which perfectly coincides with the Advaita Philosophy of Shankara. This philosophy is opposed mainly by the concept that a specific human being alone is God, which is contemporary human incarnation. Reconciliation of these two contradicting concepts is to be clarified and this is the basic necessity in the spiritual knowledge”.]
Shri Swami Replied: First, let us take the most important and most sacred epics like the Shrimad Ramayanam and the Shrimad Bhagavatam, which represent the concept of the specific contemporary human incarnation. Thus, we are starting from one side thoroughly...
For ScholarsPosted on: 17/01/20261. Is medium Kārya Māyā Śakti and internal form the Kāraṇa Māyā Śakti + Parabrahman in incarnation of God?
[Shri Ramakanth asked:- Swami, in the 11th verse of 17th Chapter in Radhakrishna Gita, it is written “Following the first meaning as product, Prakruti is having both inert and non-inert items. Both Anaghā and Datta bear Prakruti (product) externally as their media. Internally, both have Purusha (cause). Hence, both Anaghā and Datta have Prakruti (Mahā Māyā) externally as their media and Purusha...
For ScholarsPosted on: 13/12/2025(Jagajjīva Vicāra Yogaḥ)
31) Deho madhye pataś cāntye, bhrānti rādye na saṅgavān।
Mukta eva paraḥ kiṃ na?, traye 'pi ca samanvayaḥ॥
Ramanuja took the world as the external body of God and Madhva took the world as the shirt on the external body of God. The difference is that the bond between body and soul is strong, whereas the bond between soul and shirt is negligible and can be considered as non-existent. This difference is removed when both are correlated by saying that when even a liberated soul is detached from its body treating it as the shirt...
For ScholarsPosted on: 08/12/2025(Jagajjīva Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Sajiivaka jagat sṛṣṭaṃ, kimartham? rāsakelaye।
Ityajña bhāṣitaṃ kasmāt?, kiṃ jīvaḥ prakṛtiḥ parā?॥
[Why have You created the world with souls? Ignorant people say that You have created this world to enjoy this Rāsa-dance. Why such blame comes to You only? Is soul the best part of the world?]...
For ScholarsPosted on: 01/12/2025(Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Avatāro durguṇānāṃ,
bahutvaṃ varjayet puraḥ।
Svayaṃ doṣī krameṇāntyaṃ,
Sādhayen mā guṇabhramaḥ॥
[When Parabrahman incarnates, He will follow certain very bad rigid customs of the society in which the incarnation is present. When there are ten bad customs, there may be 8 customs that are easily repairable and there may...
For ScholarsPosted on: 23/11/2025(Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Verses 1-17
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Kiṃ Brahma Kiṃ Parabrahma?, ko bhedaḥ Kṛṣṇa! Caitayoḥ ?|
Divyāvatāra tattvaṃ kim?, kā vijñāna mata sthitiḥ ?॥
[O Krishna! What do You mean by Parabrahman? and what do You mean by Brahman? What is the difference between these two words? What is the essence of the divine incarnations? What is the place for logical analysis?]...
For ScholarsPosted on: 18/11/2025(Mahā Māyā Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Verses: 20-28
Jaḍaśaktir Mūla Māyā, Brahma kāraṇa śaktyabhit।
Anādyananta jagataḥ, Mahā Māyeti tadvacaḥ॥
[Mahā Māyā or Kāraṇa Śakti or Causal Power is not different from Parabrahman since both are unimaginable items even if you like to mention them separately due to your liking for dualism. The actual point is that we don’t know...
For ScholarsPosted on: 09/11/2025(Mahā Māyā Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Mahā Māyā'vatārā 'nte, Parabrahmaṇi līyate।
Kiṃ tathā sā yathā jīvaḥ, taijase tasya mokṣagaḥ॥
[At the end of the energetic or human incarnation, will the Mahā Māyā merge in the unimaginable God called Parabrahman in the same way as the soul after getting salvation merges in the energetic incarnation of God in the upper world?]
For ScholarsPosted on: 07/10/2025(Knowledge of the Analysis of Yoga)
1. So far the object to be attained, which is God (Brahman) and the subject or the item that is attaining object, which is soul (Jiiva), are discussed and now the way of attainment (Yoga) is discussed. The word Yoga comes from the root word ‘Yuj’, which means the way of attainment (attainer, attainment and attained make the triad or triputi). The word Yoga simply means attainment...
For ScholarsPosted on: 05/10/2025(Knowledge of The Qualities and Deeds Based on Ignorance)
1) Awareness has four functional faculties:- 1) Mind or Manah, which causes thinking in one way and in other way also. 2) Intelligence or Buddhi, which does logical analysis and arrives at conclusion. 3) Basic ego or ahamkaara, which indicates the individual soul as the central part of awareness denoted by a constant thought pulse ‘I’ and 4) Identification and memory or chittam, which grasps information of any external thing through senses (samjnaanam) and stores it for memory (smaranam) based on the root word...
For ScholarsPosted on: 26/09/2025(Knowledge of the Soul and Individual Soul)
1) Ramanuja told that the world is true but not eternal. It is like the flowing water, which changes constantly with the speed. If the truth of the world is taken as relative truth, there is no difference between Shankara and Ramanuja. Ramanuja spoke about relative truth only keeping silent on the absolute truth. Shankara spoke about absolute truth and the relative truth also. This is not any difference...
For ScholarsPosted on: 15/09/2025(Knowledge of The Essence of The World)
1) Jiiva means the individual soul whereas Aatman means soul. Individual soul is awareness and soul is the inert energy, which is converted into awareness existing in the form of specific work while functioning in a specific nervous system. When the electricity functions in a specific machine called cutting machine, the electricity is converted into a specific work called cutting work. When the same electricity functions in another specific machine called grinding machine, it is converted into a specific form of work called grinding work. The electricity is the soul...
For ScholarsPosted on: 25/08/2025Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I offer the following question at Your lotus feet for Your kind clarification. Your servant, Nikhil
According to many philosophies including Vedānta, only the unimaginable God (Parabrahman) is truly unborn (aja). His existence is absolute and spans the past, the present...
For ScholarsPosted on: 12/08/2025[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, how were You able to correlate all the spiritual philosophies based on the change of time and change of place?]
Swami replied:- The change of time indicates the next spiritual stage that is attained after doing some spiritual effort for some time. The present spiritual effort is related to both the present time and the spiritual stage that is to be attained...
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