Posted on: 25 Dec 2022
1. Please elaborate the explanation of dharma again.
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give answer to the following questions-At Your Lotus Divine Feet -anil. Swami, You gave an excellent explanation of Dharma during the Satsanga on 17-12-2022 by taking the example of Rama killing Vali, Krishna instructing Arjuna to kill Bhishma etc. and also mentioned Buddha as the next birth of Krishna who did not suffer for the killing of Bhishma etc through Arjuna. Kindly please elaborate this again.]
Swami replied:- A video is ready to be released.
2. Why did God not make sure that the scriptures reach every tribe and hermit?
[An atheist said: God is responsible, in your model, for a situation in which the scriptures will not reach some people. They haven't reached many, many people alive in places where the scriptures did not reach. Why, if the scriptures are so important, did God not make sure that they reached every tribe and hermit? Swami Kindly give a response to this.]
Swami replied:- If the scripture did not reach another country, such question has value. Even in such context, a question becomes meaningless because the same subject was explained in the scripture present in another country. Human beings must have some responsibility to enquire about God from the preachers. It is not like an election manifesto to be delivered at every door.
3. Did production of world have 2 stages?
[Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give answer to the following questions-At Your Lotus Divine Feet -anil. Did production of world have 2 stages (steps): 1. Mental plan in God’s mind (Subtle state) 2. Conversion of the mental plan into gross form? Or this happened simultaneously?]
Swami replied:- Even if it happened in one stage simultaneously, there is nothing wrong to divide it into two stages in comparison with our human mentality for the sake of convenient understanding. You can say that the planning and executing steps have no interval of time.
4. Why can’t it be told directly that world did not exist?
[Why can’t it be told directly that world did not exist, rather than saying that the world existed as non-existence(asat) before creation. Is it mere tautology?]
Swami replied:- It is not tautology because there is no play of logic feats. Anything before production is non-existent. If anything exists even before its production, it means that it is never produced and hence, it is beginningless. God is like that.