Posted on: 08 Dec 2006
The atheist directly attacks the very foundation by asking ‘where is God or hell or heaven in this space? I am going even to the moon by a rocket.’ My counter question to him is ‘I agree that I am incapable of showing God or hell or heaven in this space, but can you also show Me the non-existence of God or hell or heaven in this entire space by taking Me in your rocket up to the boundary limits of the infinite space?’ In this situation there are 50-50 probabilities of existence as well as non-existence of God or hell or heaven. In such case, which side will be towards the safety? A blind man is walking in a direction. One says that there is fire just before him and the other says that there is no fire. If the blind man is wise, he will act bending to the side of the existence of fire and will go back. Even if the fire is non-existent, there is no loss to him. If by chance, the fire exists in such 50-50 probabilities, he will be burnt. Similarly, I will avoid doing the sins like corruption by believing the existence of hell in such 50-50 probabilities. There is no loss to me by not doing the sin. Moreover, by not doing the sin, there is an added advantage of avoiding the stress and tension of punishment here. By accumulating extra wealth through corruption, the luxuries will be more leading to several diseases. My children may be spoiled by these extra luxuries resulting through corruption. Therefore, even if the hell is absent, I have not lost anything and infact, I have several additional advantages here itself.
Such logic and sharp analysis will keep not only atheists but also most of the theists in the right direction even if the intelligent advocates are available to protect them from the punishments of the sins here. Most of the theists become psychologically atheists in practical situations. Therefore, the bright knowledge illuminated by sharp analysis (Prajnanam) called as Buddhi yoga can be given by God in the form of Satguru only (Dadami buddhi yogamtam… Gita). Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha etc. are such satgurus.
What We Were and What We Are
Pravrutti means the knowledge related to yourself, your family members and the society (creation). Nivrutti means the knowledge related to God (creator) and the path to please and get love of God. All the other religions concentrated much on Pravrutti so that the human being transforms from devilish or animal nature to human nature and the fruit for this is heaven. Here, one is expected to avoid injustice and follow the justice to maintain the balance of the society. If one disturbs the balance of the society following the injustice, God is displeased and gives punishments. In the Nivrutti, the human being is expected to transform from the human nature to the divine nature. Here, one has to even cross the justice for the sake of devotion because God is greater than justice. God is the protector and justice is the protected. Here, one pleases God to the climax and gets the eternal love from the God. In Pravrutti, one is like a good employee following the rules and the boss is pleased to give promotion. But, the promotion is not eternal (disappears on retirement), which is the temporary heaven only. In Nivrutti, one is like the family member of the boss to get his earned property forever. In all the other religions, the status of God is mentioned as the Father of heaven, which indicates that the main stress is on Pravrutti. In Hinduism, the status of God is the Lord of the eternal Brahma Loka, which indicates the stress on Nivrutti. All the other scriptures mainly concentrate on Pravrutti and limit the progress of the soul up to heaven only. If you examine the Gita, it starts with Pravrutti to establish the justice by destroying the unjust evil forces, but it gives stress on Nivrutti in the entire contents. Ofcourse, there are a few exceptional devotees of Nivrutti in other religions also like Abraham, who sacrificed his son for the sake of God. But, in Hinduism, the Pravrutti was limited to scriptures like Manu Smruti only. The Gita is a special scripture of Nivrutti (Moksha Shastra). This is the status of ancient Hinduism. But, today, in India if you see even Pravrutti is in the lowest state in practice with full corruption etc. This shows what we were yesterday and what we are today. The reason for this is the twisted interpretations of the scripture by the over-intelligence of the middle age scholars in India. Today, our status is far below even in Pravrutti compared to the other religions. In other religions, Nivrutti was not there but Pravrutti is well established due to lack of misinterpretations by over-intelligence. Therefore, there is a need to revive Hinduism filtering from the twisted misinterpretations and bring back the pure Pravrutti, which is the foundation for Nivrutti. For this purpose, Lord Datta entered this human body and is doing this divine work of establishing the original sense of the scriptures in India and also to develop Nivrutti in other religions. The original Hinduism correlates with all the other religions in the interpretations exposing the unity of religions. The unity in diversity is already the inherent characteristic of Hinduism, which contains several diversified sub-religions, which are united in the original sense and hence, Hinduism will never oppose the unity of world religions.
If the truth is perfectly realized, the misinterpretations will never arise unless the realized soul is subjected to high pressure of poverty or some other severe problem like danger to life. If the truth is partially realized, the misinterpretation is generated and maintained for financial benefit. Such a partial scholar can realize the full truth but becomes adamant to change the practice in case of financial loss. He will change personally but will not propagate the truth for the fear of loss of income. An ignorant person will never realize the truth and is adamant to change even his mind and does not want any disturbance in the system for the terrible fear of loss of revenue. But, one should understand that the realization and propagation of truth pleases God extremely and your income will never be affected by His grace. If God is pleased you will be happy in all angles because money is only one angle of life. What is the use of money if the mental peace is lost or if the health is lost or if the longevity is lost? Goddess Lakshmi is not in one form of money (Dhana Lakshmi) alone. Other forms like peace (Shanti Lakshmi), fearlessness (Dhairya Lakshmi) etc. are also equally important. I assuredly tell you that if you stick to the truth and propagate the truth, God will multiply even your income by several times. The same society will reward you in several ways and several times more because, after all, the minds of all the human beings are under the control of God only. Therefore, realize the truth, propagate the truth and practice the truth without any fear.
The unfortunate state of the present Hindu priests is pitiable. They are simply reciting the Veda without knowing its meaning. They never learnt Sanskrit language in which Vedas exist. The scriptures of other religions are in their own mother tongue and this problem does not exist. The ancient Indian sages expressed message of God as Vedic hymns revealed in their hearts through their mother tongue, which happened to be the Sanskrit language. The Vedic hymns are associated with the names of such divine sages. Therefore, there is no fault of those sages. Either you should learn Sanskrit to know the meaning of the Vedas or translate the Vedas in to your mother tongue and then recite. God knows every language and is not partial to Sanskrit language. Meaning is more important than language. Meaning leads to analysis and analysis leads to determination. The determination leads to practice and practice alone can yield the fruit. The very meaning of the Veda is to know (Vidul jnanee…). You should recite and also know the meaning (Adhyetavyo jneyascha…). Recitation of the Veda without knowing the meaning is worst (Anarthajno… Paathakadhamah…). In the olden days, when printing was not available, Veda was preserved through recitation. The recitation also served the purpose of protection of Veda from introductions and deletions by certain selfish people. But, now that fear does not exist because Vedas are published and are preserved in electronic media. We must thank the ancient priests, who protected Vedas from additions and deletions (pollution). Veda is the greatest among all the scriptures and is called as Brahman (Brahmakshara samudbhavam… Gita). The word Brahman means greatest among a category. Today, the time is wasted in unnecessary recitation because such fear does not exist now. The time should be spent in knowing the meaning and in doing the analysis of the meaning. For the analysis, all the Shastras should be studied (Tasmaat shaastram… Gita). The huge temple funds in India should be spent in teaching Sanskrit and Shastras and not for unnecessary recitation of Vedas. The temple funds are diverted to public works. The public works should be confined to public revenue only. The temple funds should be spent for God’s work. These funds are wasted in unnecessary constructions. The facilities of visiting devotees should not be much focused because the devotee is expected to face difficulties in devotion and not happiness. Devotion develops in difficulties and not in happiness. This is the reason why temples existed in forests and on the top of hills in ancient days. Distributing food to visiting devotees is also not correct. It only leads to commercial aspect. Distribution of food to the needy like beggars is more important for which God is pleased.
The sage Yaska says that the ritual performed without the knowledge of meaning of the recited hymns is waste and has no fruit like the process of cooking without fire (Anagnauviva…). Today, the rituals are done without knowing the meaning. Neither the performer of the ritual nor the priest knows the meaning due to lack of knowledge of Sanskrit and Shastras. It is better to recite the translated Vedic hymns in to the mother tongue. Priest should be a scholar of Shastras to explain the meaning and the inner meaning with the help of Shastras so that the gathering on the occasion of the ritual gets the direction of knowledge and true devotion to God. If it is done without knowledge and devotion, such ritual is called as Swadhyaya yajna. Strictly speaking even this word cannot be used because the word adhyayana means knowledge according to Sanskrit grammar. Hence, it is not yajna or ritual at all since it is a total wastage. Such ritual is done only due to imposed fear for difficulties or imposed attraction of some material benefits, which are totally false. Based on this fear and attraction, the ignorant priests are earning their livelihood and the ignorant people are doing rituals. If I am such a priest, I will prefer to commit suicide with hunger instead of continuing My life on such earned livelihood because it is total betraying God. Hence, the Hindu rituals need thorough reformation in the entire world. The case of ancient sages was totally different because their mother tongue was Sanskrit and they were excellent scholars of Shastras. In those days, the rituals were seminars of spiritual knowledge (Jnana yajna) developing the devotion to God (Tapo yajna). Today, the ritual is simply material work (Dravya yajna). The performer of ritual expects some materialistic benefits and protection from problems out of it and the priest gets some material out of it. The priest is really benefited by the material but the performer does not get any material. If any materialistic benefit happens it was either due to his present deeds or past deeds. The accidental coincidence of the benefit is attributed to the ritual and the priests maintain the ritual in this fraudulent way. If the ritual is done in its original sense, one will get the grace of God, which is the source of all types of benefits in the life. Therefore, ritual must be performed and the priest must be rewarded. I am not advising to stop the ritual and to condemn the priest like any atheist. I am only asking the priest to perform the ritual in real way so that the performer gets real benefit. In such case the performer will reward the priest in a better way. Even if the performer does not reward the priest in this way, God will certainly reward the priest in His own miraculous way because the priest is propagating the divine knowledge and devotion, which is related to God only. In the present way, the God is furious on the priest and the performer is also not rewarding the priest properly with due respect. The priest is expected to be in the position of God in human form (Satguru) and therefore, the priest in the ritual is called as Brahma. But, today the priest is actually abused. The word ‘Purohita’ containing the four letters pu, ro, hi and ta are considered to be the first letters of four words pureesha (excretory matter), rosha (anger), himsa (torture) and taskara (thief)! The following Sanskrit verse reveals this ‘Pureeshasyacha roshasya himsaayah taskarasyacha, aadyaksharaani samgruhya chakredhaata purohitam’. The same purohita (priest) was described in the first hymn of first Veda (Rig Veda) like this – Agnimeele purohitam yajnasya devamrutvijam hotaaram ratna dhaatamam, which means that purohita is like the sacred fire who gives us the gems of spiritual knowledge and he should be fed with praise since he is the presiding deity of the yajna. What was the position of the priest and what is the position now? The public should not be blamed for this, which is innocent and not properly guided in the right direction. Even the present priest should not be blamed because he is misled by the blind tradition. Certain middle age partial scholars who were blind with selfishness and ignorance should be blamed for the blind tradition, which is built-up by them.
If you see the process of homa or yajna, it represents the climax of ignorance of the blind tradition. A Satguru-priest (Brahma) with divine knowledge is called as Brahmana and is compared to fire or agni. The word agni comes from agri, which means that He should be worshipped first. He is compared to the sacred fire for His brilliant radiation of knowledge. The fire is in three forms. One is physical (Bhowtika or loukika), second is Vydyuta (electrical energy) and the third is Vaishvanara (divine form). The first form is lit in yajna in the beginning to cook the food, which is the material (Dravya) as instrument of yajna (Yajna saadhanam). This cooked food with ghee is indicated by the word ghee itself (Havis). When the doctor says to avoid oil, it means to avoid food prepared with oil because nobody drinks oil directly. This point is known by the word lakshana in tarka shastra. The ignorant priest has taken the direct ghee due to lack of knowledge of tarka shastra. Similarly, as per alankara shastra the figure of speech called rupaka (metaphor) should be known to understand that the word fire means the priest Himself. A member in the lions club is called as lion. The ignorant priest will bring lion from the forest in honoring ceremony of the lion of the lions club! Therefore, he took the physical fire by the word agni. If he has the knowledge of Sanskrit and Shastras, he will take the deserving Satguru as agni and the best food cooked by ghee as the meaning of the word Havis or ghee. He will feed the Satguru with such food so that the Satguru will gain energy to give a divine discourse. Instead of this real sense of Yajna, our illiterate tape recorder in the alive form (priest) has taken the ghee directly and poured in the physical fire! What is the result? The result is the environmental pollution, which stops the rains. Our priest says that it will bring rain! If the Satguru is fed all the angels will get satisfied because the Satguru is the abode of all the angels (Yaavateervai… Veda) and then the angels can help to bring the rains. Kapila in Bhagavatam says that a fool pours ghee in fire during Homa. The Satguru is treated as the divine form of fire (Agneyovai brahmanah… Veda). The hungry Satguru represents the vaishvanara form of fire (Aham vaishvanaro… Gita). Lord Krishna asked for the cooked food in yajna before burning it in physical fire for the sake of His hungry friends and thereby, He preached the sense of yajna is only to feed the hungry human being. He also stopped such yajna for Indra. The Lord is establisher of dharma, will He disturb the Vedic dharma? He only directed the correct path of the Vedic ritual and established the original sense of Vedic dharma. The misinterpretations of Vedas have started by the end of Dwapara age itself which extended in to the age of the present Kali.
In the above case, the misinterpretation harmed the world by wastage of energetic food like ghee and by environmental pollution. Ghee being the best food (Annam), should not be destroyed by burning and this is against the Veda (Annam na parichakshita… Veda). Recently the misinterpreted yajna is frequently done everywhere because the priests are connecting certain materialistic benefits to such burning of ghee in the physical fire. I am astonished to hear that some priests in a temple conducted Homa for the victory of India in the world cricket game! The ambition to the materialistic benefits in this Kali age is increasing day by day and such rituals attract people. Today, the Homa has become most prestigious ritual! Veda says that yajna is based on science only because cooking the food and feeding the deserving people does not involve any super natural power in it (Vijnaanam yajnam tanute…). Even the smoke coming out of the Homa, which is as good as any other smoke, can be scientifically proved to stop the rain. The creation runs by scientific principles and God only created such principles. God does not accept to violate administration of His own principles. Due to selfishness, the priest is imposing the name of God on such scientific administration of creation. To satisfy your selfishness, God will not use His super power so that the smoke coming from yajna can bring the rain while the smoke produced elsewhere stops the rain. This means that you are making God as a doll of your own will. Any super power to violate the nature functions only by the will of God. Since nature also is His own creation functioning on His own administration, generally God will not use super power, which only means violation of His own set-up of principles. Only in emergency, super power functions by the will of God.
The criticism of Homa should be applied in burning camphor and other materials to produce the so called smoke, burning oil in lamps, burning candles, burning wood in Dhuni etc. Sai Baba used dhuni in the old Masjid to avoid the poisonous creatures and the purpose was served. If you say that all these light and fire represent God and divine knowledge to experience the representative concept in such burning, burning once is sufficient and it need not be done everyday and in every function. Since you have known the concept by hearing this, even burning once is not necessary. You can experience this concept even by looking the light of the Sun everyday. The enormous amount of wood and oil can be spent for the sake of feeding the beggars, who die with hunger. If you save their lives and convert them in to devotees, God will be really pleased. God created the ghee and oil, which is the best food with proteins for humanity. You are burning such rich food and for proteins you are killing the innocent birds and animals to eat their flesh for proteins. Buddha started the revolution by opposing the killing of animals and He is the embodiment of love and kindness to animals and birds. He left the home on seeing a bird wounded by arrow. Jesus is seen with love on a lamb in His hands and this indicates the love on animals. Once, a devotee asked Mohammed for the way to please the God. The first thing mentioned by Mohammed (Sallam) to please God was not to kill any innocent living being like bird and animal. He told that if you kill one living being it is equal to killing the entire humanity. You cannot justify killing the animals for the purpose of eating protein-flesh because God, the capable administrator who created this humanity, already served the purpose by creating protein rich oils. Hence, your killing of animals is without cause and is not acceptable to the concept of Mohammed. In Hindu Manusmruti, lot of stress was given to avoid the non-vegetarian food. It imposes restrictions on place and time in killing the animals and finally recommends complete restriction called as the Mahavratam. It says that the greatest justice is not to kill any living being (Ahimsaa paramodharmah…). Veda says to kill the animal nature present in yourself but not the actual animal in yajna (Manyuh pashuh…). The tsunami in the sea and the quakes in the earth are only the anger of God in killing the life in water and the life on the land respectively. Even the modern medical education recommends the natural proteins in vegetables to be better for health than the synthesized proteins in the animal flesh. Science is the principle of nature, which indicates the will of God because nature is creation of God only.
The misinterpretations are welcome if they do good without any harm. The mother misinterprets to the child that if it eats the food, the moon will come down. This is not deceiving the child and there is no sin in this because the child is helped and not harmed at all. Such twists for good results exist in the tradition, which are created by the learned sages. These are called as Artha Vadas, which mean lies told for good purpose. For example, offering food and money to the deserving person gives good results (Punyam). Suppose a greedy sinner dies without doing any charity to deserving people. The rituals after death are performed which are nothing but prayers to God to protect the soul. On this occasion, the vast wealth of the dead person exists without any charity. The children are advised to do some charity so that such charity will help the departed soul. But, the greedy children also will not listen. An Artha vada is created here according to which it is said that if you feed a deserving priest here, the departed soul gets that food. Certainly the charity in such feeding will help the soul but the food eaten by a human being cannot reach the departed soul because the departed soul is in energetic body, which does not require this food. Though it is a lie, but still the charity by feeding the deserving priests will certainly help the departed soul in course of time because the charity is from the wealth of departed soul. But, the son will not do the charity unless it is told that the departed soul becomes hungry without food if such feeding is not done here. Here, the lie is not having any bad result in any side but it is having good result only. Such tricks are welcome to do good but at the same time, the tricks which have no good results should not be created for just selfish ends only especially, when such tricks harm the society as in the case of the Homa ritual done in a wrong way.
Therefore, to revive the ancient original Vedic tradition only, Lord Datta is radiating this divine knowledge through Me so that Hinduism should revive its original highest place and become the guide for the entire world. Due to the misinterpreted Vedic knowledge, the place of rituals has fallen to such low level from the sky. The Hindus have lost the benefits of spiritual knowledge and their country (India) is going down day by day. The present priest unable to know the value of the meaning of the Vedic hymns recited by him is compared to a labour, who is carrying on a bag of gold on his head just for a wage of one rupee and this is stated by the sage Yaska, who was the author of Vedic grammar (Swarna bhara harah…).