Posted on: 31 Jan 2023
1. How to accept a defeat from an opponent in Pravrutti?
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give answer to the following questions-At Your Lotus Divine Feet -anil. How to accept a huge defeat from an opponent in Pravrutti? Please kindly elaborate.]
Swami replied: Who is right and who is wrong is the main point. The opponent sometimes is right and due to this reason only he got huge success.
2. Did Gautama Buddha spend a lot of His time just sitting and thinking? If so, what was He thinking about?
Swami replied: His thinking is the sharp analysis of all topics of Spiritual knowledge. Unless all concepts are correct, the right goal can’t be achieved.
3. How can I believe that the Vedas are from God?
[An atheist commented in the following way regarding the unimaginable nature of God and creation as entertainment for God. I request You to give a reply on this: Some human wrote the Veda. And you a human read the Veda and decided it was actually from God because everything was correct in the Veda. So, you decided it was correct that God created the universe for His entertainment. But how could you know that this was the case, given that God is unimaginable? You had to trust your imagination about God, to recognize that the Veda was correct. But you don't seem to want other people to talk about God and His attributes since He is unimaginable, unless they quote the books you have decided are correct. So, we have one human telling other humans not to do as he does.]
Swami replied: On the Vedas, several commentaries exist with very deep sharp analysis and scholars decided that Vedas must be the works of the Omniscient God. Without such deep analysis, this fellow commented just superficially to expose his deep ignorance.