Posted on: 06 Jun 2022
1. Are there two unimaginable entities before the creation?
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, please give Your reply to the following questions. At Your Lotus Feet -anil
With regards to the state of the unimaginable God before creation, You mentioned “Loving His own self and being loved by His own self existed.” Here in this statement; it is as if two unimaginable entities are interacting. Please clarify.]
Swami replied:- Loving His own self and being loved by His own self involve only one unimaginable entity and not two unimaginable entities. When a person loves himself and gets loved by himself in the imaginary world, are there two persons?
2. Please give the essence of the verse ‘I am the gate, whoever enters through Me will be saved’.
[Questions from internet forum: I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved. Please give the essence of the above verse said by Jesus.]
Swami replied:- Gate means a medium of God. Only mediated God can be meditated upon. Unmediated and unimaginable God can never even be imagined. Therefore, Gate means a human medium for humanity. Jesus is a human incarnation of God and hence, He declared Himself as the gate for humanity. This applies to every human incarnation.
3. What must I do to have the Father (God) in me and me in the Father?
[Jesus said in John 14:11, “Believe Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.” What must I do to have the Father (God) in me and me in the Father?]
Swami replied:- This is explanation of any human incarnation. This does not mean that there is only one human incarnation. If you explain the dress of a police man, it does not mean that there is only one police man and his dress alone is being explained.
4. Since Jesus has no sin, why didn't He throw the first stone (in case of the sinner lady)?
Swami replied:- He will not throw any stone because He is the judge sitting in the throne of the Almighty. He is explaining about justice in humanity, which doesn’t include Him.
5. What does it mean that Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Swami replied:- Lower parts of earth mean lower levels of humanity.
6. Jesus said that no one but the Father knows the final hour. But what about the Holy spirit?
[When Jesus said in Mark 13:32 that no one but the Father knows the final hour, it is said that He didn't include Himself to know the final hour as well because He was in human form, but what about the Holy spirit?]
Swami replied:- Jesus is omniscient, but, behaved like an ordinary human being because a human incarnation always behaves like an ordinary being so that it can mix freely with the rest of humanity.
7. Why would a God sit on His throne and do nothing while millions of Jews were tortured and killed by Hitler's regime?
[Why would a God sit on His throne and do nothing while millions of Jews were tortured and killed by Hitler's regime? To my way of thinking, the reality of the past negates the reality of a loving all-powerful God about which we are told.]
Swami replied:- You are judging with your limited capacity of knowledge. When you see some victims penalized for their sins, you will get sympathy because you have not seen the actual crimes of those victims. You are seeing only a part of the cinema and concluding!
8. "Hindus are stateless orphans on the mercy of Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and secular states" Do You agree with this statement?
Swami replied:- I don’t agree with such irrational mad statements.
9. In the Holy Quran, Allah said, “His throne was on the water before He created the universe”. Kindly clarify.
Swami replied:- Water represents the stage of thoughts that are like waves. Before creation, the stage of the will of God was not yet materialized. Such theoretical phase is the meaning of the word water.
10. Why are people prohibited to visit temples for a certain amount of days after the death of a close relative?
Swami replied:- After the death of a close relative, it is a normal habit of society to be in a period of grief. When grief overcomes mind, spiritual things are not entertained because the mind is not fresh.
11. Why Milk is treated as Veg. despite the source is animal?
Swami replied:- When milk is taken (especially after feeding its child) the animal is not undergoing the agony of death.
12. Why do manglik girls first marry Lord Vishnu for material benefits and then are married to someone else?
[Why do manglik girls first marry Lord Vishnu for material benefits and then are married to someone else? Isn't it a betrayal to Lord Vishnu, as being His first wife, also isn't it unfair to use Lord as a medium to get material benefits?]
Swami replied:- The Lord is the real husband whereas the human husband is a photo of the husband. This is told by the Gopikas. The marriage with a photo is not real and an unreal will not bother the real.
13. During the time of Lord Krishna or Lord Rama, were there any social divisions? Like Hindus, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, etc.
Swami replied:- May not have been the same names, but differences existed from the beginning of creation.