Swami Answers Devotees' Questions

Shri Anil asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, some questions raised in internet discussion forum is presented below. Please grace Your response to the same. At Your Lotus Divine Feet-anil

1) If God created Adam and Eve, then why do we have different languages, skin, etc.?

Swāmi replied:- Even the children of the same family differ and this difference becomes more and more predominant as their lives progress. Similarly, in course of time after the creation, differences developed.

2) What's exactly the difference between nothing and God?

Swāmi replied:- God is standing for existence and created everything. There is nothing like nothing. Even the space is subtle energy.

3) Where do Christians go after death?

[Deep sleep while waiting for the second coming of Christ, paradise while waiting, or straight into heaven? Luke 2:52 says Jesus grew in wisdom. Solomon (a Prophet) prayed to God for wisdom. Why is the difference?]

Swāmi replied:- Every category goes to the same place corresponding to their stage. Religion and language is only different nomenclatures of the same place.

4) Why hasn't Jesus come back yet if Christians always say that we are living in the end of the times?

Swāmi replied:- Jesus is coming as human incarnation in every human generation and in every region of the earth with different names and in different human forms.

5) What is the difference between Bhagavad Gītā, Bible and Quran?

Swāmi replied:- They differ by their external languages and cultures. The contents are one and the same.

6) Is it true that when we sleep our soul leaves our body and roam everywhere?

Swāmi replied:- It is not true. Our soul remains in our body only creating every place in imaginary world based on past experiences.

7) How can we know where our loved ones are reincarnated or stuck in a place?

Swāmi replied:- The loved ones change from one birth to the other birth like the co-actors of an actor change from one cinema to other cinema.

8) In the Bible, does God refer to Himself as "We" because it’s heavenly language or is it because He's triune (trinity)?

Swāmi replied:- We represents the royalty of God. He is always one only. Father and Son of God are His external media only.

9) What does it mean in the Bible that no one comes to the Lord except through Christ?

Swāmi replied:- This means that no one can approach God without human incarnation. Unimaginable God can never be approached. Energetic incarnation is invisible. Only human incarnation is visible and hence, humanity can reach God through its relevant human incarnation only.

10) How can Moses (a Prophet came much before Jesus) go to Heaven if he was not born again?

[Jesus opened the way to be born again (John 3:3). Did not Moses die before Jesus opened up Heavenly life as an option? John 3:3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”]

Swāmi replied:- Even God takes human birth again and again to preach humanity. Even if you become God, you shall take human birth again and again because God does so. The ultimate goal is only to take human birth again and again to help the devoted humanity.

11) Was the Prophet of Islam violent?

Swāmi replied:- Violence of a Prophet shows the extreme seriousness about His divine program to be implemented on earth.

12) What did Jesus mean when He said "If you love Me you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15)?

Swāmi replied:- If any one says that he loves his father very much and the same time does not follow his instructions, how funny will be his statement. True love means obedience to follow the commandments of God, the essence of which is to follow justice and to reject injustice.

13) If Jesus is God why would He have to ask: Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. John 12:27 Could He not just ascend to heaven?

Swāmi replied:- The human incarnation of God always indicates the path of the devotee since Jesus said that He is path. This means that the human incarnation follows the divine path suggesting that the devotees also shall follow the divine path in the same way.

14) Why do we have religion? It’s just dividing us. Do You think God made religions for us?

Swāmi replied:- Fanatic mentality of the devotees is dividing the humanity and not the religion. All religions are one and the same as far as the contents of their scriptures are concerned.

15) How do You ascertain whether a particular commentary has been written by a God-realized soul or otherwise in the Holy books?

Swāmi replied:- If it is logical, it is written by God. If it is not logical, it means that somebody wrote it in the name of God.

16) Why do people think it was God who died for our sins when in John 3:16 says that God gave His Son Jesus to die for your sins?

Swāmi replied:- God and son are one and the same. The non-mediated original unimaginable God is the God. Son means the same God appearing in energetic body in the upper worlds or in the human body on this earth. God and Son of God mean only God and not the medium of God.

17) Is it true that Allāh by mentioning Jesus in the Quran again and again has elevated Him to the position of a God? By the way wasn't Allāh Himself committing shirk in this way which He had discouraged among His believers? Isn't this divine hypocrisy?

Swāmi replied:- Allāh means the only one original unimaginable God called by other names like Jehovah, Parabrahman etc., by other religions. Jesus means human incarnation, which means the unimaginable God merged with a devoted human body. There is no difference between non-mediated God (Allāh) and mediated God (Jesus). Hypocrisy, ego and jealousy are in us only and not in God.

18) Can we remove our bad karmas and sins by reciting Lalitā Sahasranāma?

Swāmi replied:- If your mind is reformed fully, all your sins get cancelled even before their punishments that are to be given to you. How this concept can be related to recitation of Lalitā Sahasra nāma? Even if such point is said in Her names, it is only to encourage your devotion towards God to be treated as Mother by you.

19) For what reasons did Buddha forbid the entry of women in the Sangha?

Swāmi replied:- When males and females live together, sex gets provoked leading to so many complications in the program of propagation of spiritual knowledge.