Posted on: 13 Jun 2021
[Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, I am very grateful to You for gracing my life with Your divine knowledge and giving Bhāgya catuṣṭayam. I am very happy to read Śrī Pāda Śrī Vallabha Caritāmṛtam given by Smt. Padmaaram garu. As Avatāra of Śrī Pāda Śrī Vallabha, Your dynamism was in heights with marvellous preachings and miracles. You are very kind even to the hard core sinners. Guru tattva and Guru sāṇgatya phalam was clearly exhibited throughout the Avatāra Swāmi.Here are questions I wanted to clarify.]
Swāmi Replied:- The grandfather of Śrīpādavallabha was belonging to the cult of Vedic rituals as established by the middle aged blind tape recorder priests, who were just direct descendants of Pūrvamīmāṃsā that was condemned by Śaṇkara. These priests do not enquire into the background Spiritual knowledge of the ritual. They believe only in the blind performance of the ritual and aspire for certain result from the ritual. God Datta incarnated as Śrīpādavallabha to preach the true Spiritual knowledge, which is the background of every ritual. While preaching the Spiritual knowledge, even God has to preach in the language existing in the time of His incarnation. There is a saying that one has to speak with dogs in the language of dogs only. Then only, the dogs will understand the subject. That time was not this time because the present time is such that God can speak the background Spiritual knowledge of any ritual in the simple language running in the present time having very high level of IQ in the receivers of Spiritual preaching. The same contents spoken by God Datta through Śrī Paadavallabha are now being spoken by the same God Datta through Datta Swāmi.
Any sacrifice is only the preparation of lunch in the middle interval time of the day for the Sages involved in the debate of true Spiritual knowledge. The Yajña or Cayanam or Sacrifice involves practical service (Karmasaṃnyāsa) and practical sacrifice of fruit of work to procure the materials required for the lunch before cooking. The cooking of the food involves lit of physical fire in the beginning as usual and such physical fire is only the instrument of the sacrifice (Yajñasādhanam). The fire to be worshipped (Yajñaupāsya) at the end of cooking the food is the hunger fire present in the stomachs of Sages participating in the serious debate and discussion of Spiritual knowledge. This gives the picture of the practical side of the Sacrifice and the person involved in such practical sacrifice alone gets the total fruit of the sacrifice. Neither the labour involved on payment of their work nor the Sages participated in the discussion of the seminar are eligible for the fruit since the fruit is always for the practical service and sacrifice only.
Coming to the theoretical subject of the seminar of this ritual, the main deity worshipped here is Savitā or God Brahmā called as Hiraṇyagarbha. In the Īśāvāsyopaniṣad, this Savitā, called as Pūṣā is prayed to reveal the face of God Brahmā or Hiraṇyagarbha that reveals the true Spiritual knowledge through the speech (Hiraṇmayena pātreṇa…- Veda). The Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, a part of the Veda mentions Hiraṇyagarbha or God Brahmā as the deity of Savitā or Sun (Here, Savitā is taken in the sense of Sun.). Savitā is also the name of the special seventh ray of Sun, which means the unimaginable power of Parabrahman or the unimaginable God. It is this power of the unimaginable God that is the absolute entity standing as the central soul of theism because everything other than this Parabrahman is only the golden vessel that is covering the absolute truth. God Brahmā is the first form of God Datta, who is the author of the four Holy Scriptures (Vedas) keeping the power of His knowledge called Goddess Sarasvatī on His tongue that is used in preaching the true Spiritual knowledge to the devoted souls.
He is not only the creator but the first Divine preacher called Sadguru. The first Divine form of the divine preacher or Sadguru is God Brahmā, who is none other than God Dattātreya. All are worried in not seeing God Brahmā whereas God Viṣṇu and God Śiva are seen everywhere in temples. This is again another illusion. All the temples of God Datta are the temples of God Brahmā only. The Sadguru or the divine preacher of true Spiritual knowledge is God Brahmā or God Datta only. Hence, Śrīpādavallabha is the incarnation of God Datta or God Brahmā related to the above ritual. This does not mean that God Viṣṇu and God Śiva are not God Datta. God Datta is first God Brahmā as the creator and as the Spiritual preacher. God Datta Himself is the second God Viṣṇu as the administrator of the world rewarding the merits. God Datta Himself is the third God Śiva as the destroyer of the world punishing the sins. I have given this interpretation to remove the ignorance of devotees saying that God Brahmā is not seen in any temple for worship. The deity of the so called Gāyatrī mantra is also Savitā or God Brahmā only. I mentioned the adjective “so called” for the Gāyatrī mantra because Gāyatrī is not the deity of this mantra since Gāyatrī is only the name of the metre (Chandas) of this mantra. Gāyatrī means the mode of worship of God through sweet songs.