Posted on: 07 Dec 2021
1. What are we supposed to do until God comes?
Swami replied: God is present in every human generation in human form because God is impartial to all human generations and this is based on the fact that no single specified human generation contains 100% good and deserving people so that you can justify God coming down in a specific human generation.
2. Can a "soul" choose to just be in heaven for a while without reincarnating?
Swami replied: Certainly, the soul will be in heaven till good fruit of its meritorious deed does not exhaust. (Kṣīṇe puṇye…- Gītā)
3. Which religion is the closest to truth? If I am an atheist which religion should I convert to, why?
Swami replied: You can choose any religion, but, before that, you join My religion called ‘Universal Religion’ that speaks about the unity of all religions.
4. When will Kalki’s avatar be born? Is it possible to predict it accurately?
Swami replied: In what way, this information is useful for your spiritual progress?
5. How can one find eternal peace?
Swami replied: By studying sincerely the entire knowledge presented in the website: www.universal-spirituality.org.
6. Is it true that the truth isn't true?
Swami replied: Truth is always truth. False appearing as truth is proved not to be true on certain occasions.
7. Does God have money and does He use it for His survival?
Swami replied: The human incarnation of God needs money for His survival and the human incarnation is the same God existing in human medium.
8. Are children losing their innocence too soon in the 21st century?
Swami replied: Innocence is the royal gate for ignorance.
9. How do I convince my mom to let me eat non-vegetarian foods?
[How do I convince my mom to let me eat non-vegetarian foods on days like Tuesday/Thursday? Being an Indian mom, it's not easy to convince her.]
Swami replied: You cheat her and eat non-veg. food continuously without her knowledge so that you can continuously stay in the hell in future.
10. How can I convince myself that I'm not worthless?
Swami replied: Have self-confidence and full confidence on omnipotent God. Worth comes just by His grace.
11. Is Lord Narayana beyond this universe?
Swami replied: Lord Narayana or God Datta is the first energetic incarnation of unimaginable God or ParaBrahman present in space called ultimate space (Paramavyoma) in this universe. ParaBrahman is beyond this universe.
12. How do You respond when someone abuses You?
Swami replied: Leave to God. If you have abused him in the previous birth, the case is closed and you have no right to retort. If it is a fresh case, God will punish him million times more than what you can punish him.
13. Is heaven an actual place or an inner feeling? What evidence do You have to back Your answer?
Swami replied: I have not shown you the presence of heaven in this infinite space. You have also not shown Me the absence of heaven in this infinite space by taking Me along with you to show the entire space within the boundaries of universe. In this 50:50 probability of the existence of heaven, if I do good deeds and do not go to heaven (in case, it is absent), there is no loss to Me. If you did not do good deeds and did not go to heaven (in case, heaven is present), you are at loss. Somehow, this is not much complex situation. There is another 50:50 probability dealing with the hell in which sins are punished. If I have not done sins and in case hell is absent, I am not put to loss. If you have done the sins and in case hell is present, you are at terrible loss (Nāsti cet nāsti me hāniḥ, asti cet nāstiko hataḥ). In 50:50 probability, it is better to choose the probability having least risk.
14. Does secular humanism allow slaughtering animals even when abundant plant-based food is available?
Swami replied: It is considered as the climax sin (Ahiṃsā paramo dharmaḥ).
15. What karmas or sadhanas could have been performed by Nostradamus etc., to have such divine powers?
[What karmas or sadhanas could have been performed, perhaps in a previous life, by Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Mother Shipton and Marie Anne Lenormand to have developed such phenomenal powers of divination?]
Swami replied: All their meritorious deeds are not only related to the welfare of the society, but also are related to the devotion to God.
16. What can a teenager do to save our Hindu dharma?
Swami replied: If he is fortunate, he shall meet a Sadguru and listen or read His knowledge. Sadguru means the human incarnation of God preaching the true spiritual knowledge. The truth of the knowledge can be confirmed by the inner consciousness of any human being (Pramāṇamantaḥkaraṇa pravṛttayaḥ).
17. Does God hit you because He loves you or does He love you because He hits you?
Swami replied: Both sentences mean the same provided your welfare is the ultimate aim.
18. Can God have an opinion without it becoming absolute truth?
Swami replied: God is the absolute truth and knows the absolute truth being omniscient.
19. Why do I feel lost in thought when I try to think about who created God, what has been before God etc.?
Swami replied: What do you feel when you observe genuine miracles performed by the human incarnation of the God? It is a practical proof. God is the beginning of this creation and there is no question of before God.
20. Why does the religious concept of God say that God made the men in His image and likeness?
Swami replied: God is unimaginable and has no form. But, such God gets mediated in human form to mingle with humanity and to preach it. Before the human incarnation, humanity exists.
21. Did Ravana literally have 10 heads or were they symbolic?
Swami replied: Ravana being a demon has miraculous power obtained by his rigid penance to have virtually ten heads that appear whenever he wishes. They also represent his erudite scholarship in the four Vedas and the six Shaastras.
22. What is the meaning of the word अच्युतं in the hymn अच्युतं केशवं कृष्ण दामोदरम्?
Swami replied: Achyutam means eternal.
23. Why did Lord Krishna not eat food at Duryodhana's place even after persuading him?
Swami replied: The food of a sinner is also sinful. Krishna is not fearing for the sinful food since He is beyond any sin. He only acted like this to be an ideal for good people.
24. Is there strong similarities between Sramana and Vedic teachings and those of ancient Greece such as Epicureanism etc.?
[Doesn't there seem to be strong similarities between Sramana (Sramanas were those who practice an ascetic or strict and self-denying, lifestyle in pursuit of spiritual liberation. They are commonly known as monks. The Sramana movement gave rise to Jainism and Buddhism.) and Vedic teachings and those of ancient Greece such as Epicureanism, Cynicism, Stoicism, etc.?]
Swami replied: Any spiritual practice shall come spontaneously and not by imposition forcibly. Hence, there are both real and false people in any category.
25. How should I pray to Lord Krishna when I am in extreme pain?
Swami replied: You will pray spontaneously if you are not beyond pain due to Yoga, which is enjoying both happy and tragic events.
26. Are there limits to God's relationship with humans?
Swami replied: Certainly limits exist in the bonds between God and devotee based on the intensity of the devotion.
27. How can I know which God is true?
Swami replied: God is only one and God is the absolute truth.
28. What do Hindu texts say on hating someone?
Swami replied: You have to hate bad and love good.
29. Among the Indian Epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana which is better?
Swami replied: Both are equally good because both speak about the control of sin in the worldly life of souls. Both these epics speak about the control of greediness and control of illegal sex respectively. Both these epics belong to prvrutti or worldly life.
30. Is there any similarity between Islam and Hinduism?
Swami replied: Where is the question of similarity when both religions are one and the same!
31. Does God speak through silence?
Swami replied: Silence indicates helplessness of God, when the soul is rigid in not following the advice of God. Silence also indicates that the non-mediated unimaginable God can’t be imagined by any effort.
32. How do You reconcile God's justice and human suffering?
Swami replied: Human suffering doesn’t mean that the entire humanity is suffering. Enjoyment and suffering are seen in the humanity like light and shadow. Both these depend on the merits and sins of the human beings.
33. Did Gandhari ever go to heaven?
Swami replied: Gandhari has to go to hell only because she neither understood pravrutti or worldly life nor Nivrutti or spiritual life. She tried to strengthen Duryodhana due to her blind foolish love towards her son. She cursed God Krishna for giving victory to justice and for destroying the injustice.
34. Does anyone who hates God loves death?
Swami replied: Certainly, the hater of God hates death and is afraid of death also.
35. How does loving everyone take You to God?
Swami replied: God is pleased if one loves everybody and helps to establish eternal peace in the world, which is the creation of God.
36. Majority of Hindus have not received any mantra diksha and don't have sadguru or spiritual guru. What should they do?
Swami replied: Mantra means any praise of God either in prose or in poetry or in song. It should attract your mind and make you to repeat it again and again even in the absence of aspiration for any fruit in return (Mananāt trāyate iti mantraḥ). There is no need of even Guru for this, not to speak of Sadguru. Sadguru is only needed to understand the true spiritual knowledge. Guru is the follower of the Sadguru, who preaches the same knowledge without polluting it based on his intelligence. What I mean is that Guru can give more examples and enlighten the concept of Sadguru to more extent, but, shall not spoil the concept of Sadguru due to over intelligence and misinterpretations resulting in misunderstandings.