Posted on: 04 Jun 2021
(A question by Dr. KV Rao)
Swāmi Replied:- Every concept has both obverse and reverse sides of a coin. All visions are not false and all visions are not true. Generally, people will not tell lies in the case of Divine visions. But, there are some people, who tell lies in order to get some fame by drawing special attention of public in the society on the point that they were blessed by God due to their special deservingness.
Let Me take My own example. In Śrīśailam, I used to preach Spiritual knowledge to Śrī CBK Murthy and his wife Smt. Bhavānī everyday saying that God Datta appeared before Me and told this excellent knowledge. They were appreciating the knowledge, but, were having a doubt in their innermost hearts. I knew that they have that doubt by the grace of God Datta in spite of their maintenance of very very deep secrecy about this doubt. One day, I told them that God Datta appeared before Me and merged with Me. About this vision also, they had a secret doubt in their hearts even though they were not expressing even a trace of such doubt. But, next day itself, a miracle happened before their eyes only and hence, they believed about this merge of God Datta with Me and also about the earlier Divine visions. The miracle is:- Next day itself, one Saint standing back far from Me saw Me in the temple from a distance and thought that if I was incarnation of God Datta, I should walk back in the row of devotees and jump up to ring a condemned bell tied up in the temple. That bell existed at a very height also and a new bell was hanged at reachable height, which has been rung by the devotees. As soon as the Saint thought like this, I looked back into his face, smiled, went back, jumped up to such height and rang the condemned bell. After this, I looked back at him and smiled again. The Saint came to our residence and told us (the old couple and Myself) about this incident.
Shri CBK Murthy told the Saint that God Datta appears before Me and talks with Me every day. That Saint took an unexpected wrong twist and shouted at Me saying “Datta appears before You? It is not Datta, it is a ghost because in this Kaliyuga, Datta never appears to anybody”. Then, I became very angry with red eyes and told him with anger “You petty fellow! You know some black magic and you tried to use it on your preacher and your preacher slapped you and necked you out from his asylum. Since then, you are roaming here and there”. The Saint shouted back at Me saying “You are speaking lies” and went away. Next day, early morning at 4 AM, the Saint ran to our residence and fell on My feet saying “All the last night I tried to do black magic on You. The divine mother appeared before me and knuckled on my head with her folded hand. With that, all stars appeared before my eyes! What You said about me and my Guru was exactly true. I will go back to my Guru and please bless me so that my Guru will accept me”. I told him to go back to his Guru and promised him that his Guru will receive him back without any anger. When the old couple (CBK Murthy and Bhavānī) saw all this, they developed full faith on My daily visions of God Datta and the vision in which God Datta merged with Me. From that day onwards, several miracles happened almost daily, which stood as proof for the merge along with the main proof of the excellent quality of this true Spiritual knowledge.
Recently also I told My devotees that they should not believe if I say that I had visions of Datta or that Datta merged with Me. Anybody can tell such stories to exploit the innocent public. When I say that the knowledge spoken by Me is from God Datta, they should believe it based on the quality of the excellent true Spiritual knowledge spoken by Me. The vision must have confirmation to believe it as true. Why I told about these visions to My devotees? My actual idea was that devotees should not attribute even a trace of credit to Me for this excellent Spiritual knowledge or for these unimaginable events called miracles. Repeatedly, I said that the entire credit goes to God Datta only and that I am just a medium for Him. By telling like this, I exposed My human side so that none will be affected by ego-based jealousy, due to which, he/she shall not miss the benefit of this excellent true Spiritual knowledge.