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God-Preacher Shri Datta spoke:
Shri P. V. N. M. Sharma asked Shri Swami to explain the significance of the Ramayanam in the spiritual knowledge. Given below is the reply of Shri Swami.
The Ramayanam provides guidance in worldly life (pravrutti) and it internally shows the path of spiritual life (nivrutti) also because the name of Rama is recognized as the path of total salvation (Taraka Mantra). There are three levels of souls. These levels are linked with the qualities of the souls and not with the form of the physical body. These three levels are:
The most important point is unity among all the devotees to co-ordinate and support each other in the propagation work of God. Let there be difference in the approach to the program. This difference between the devotees must be diverted to the difference in the capacities of receiving and to the difference in liking the presentation of the receivers in the humanity. The unity of these devotees shall be confined to the unity of the concepts of God Datta. There are only two items:- 1) internal packed material, which is the spiritual knowledge containing the concepts of God Datta without any change and 2) external packing material, which is the presentation of the subject...
(On 28.09.2018 the judgement given by Supreme Court came in news papers, which says that the personal relationship between a lady and gent with mutual consent is not wrong since it is linked to mind and emotion. Several devotees phoned and requested Swami to analyze this issue and give a message. Following is the message given by Swami on that issue.)
When marriage-ritual takes place between a male and female, both promise before God that both will confine to each other only without any deviation. Such promise is done on God, who is omniscient, omnipotent and most holy personality. There is no second equal personality to God and not to speak of higher personality than God as said by the Veda (Na tat samaschaabhyadhikashcha...). For any believer in God, there is nothing and none higher than God...
God Dattatreya gave Me the excellent concepts of spiritual knowledge based on which this spiritual knowledge is prepared. I was telling God Datta about certain concepts on which majority of humanity feel very much inconvenient, who may even strongly oppose such concepts and may even go away without reading other excellent and useful concepts. God Datta replied Me “it is none of your business to alter My concepts. I am not a business man concentrating on selling of My concepts to public and make profit on business...
Dr. Nikhil & Smt. Devi phoned to Swami on 21-09-2018 at 9.00 pm., and asked the following questions for which Swami gave the answers. This spiritual discussion is presented as the Satsanga here.
1) Can you give the message on this occasion of Ganesha Chaturthii Festival?
Ans) God Ganesha is said to be creator of obstacles (Vighnakartaa) as well as remover of obstacles (Vighnahartaa). Both these adjectives contradict each other. This indicates madness of a person to do something in one time and to do the opposite in another time. Unless you find the correlation, there is no solution. A contradiction always indicates different references....
Shri Ajay asked:- Phani told me that You have explained about the seven divine gates of God long back while sitting in the chair in the north side on the early morning of the festival day of Lord Vishnu. That was excellent. Please repeat the message given on that day by You regarding the seven gates since that message was not recorded.
Swami replied:- On that day, I was made to sit on the chair placed in the north side gate of the house and devotees prostrated to My feet with the faith that the North facing gates are opened on that pious day of Ekaadashii.
Shri Balaji asked: Namaste Swamiji, Kindly clarify this query on nature of God’s love. God is the father of all the souls and has infinite love towards the souls. God also has immense love for His devotees. But souls are of different levels from lowest sinful souls to topmost devotees. So is the nature of God’s love different in some way in the varying case of level of the souls? Sincerely, Balaji
Swami replied:- God is Father of all souls in this creation and His love to souls is in uniform level only, which is the maximum most. But, the expression levels differ from one soul to the other as per the proper requirement and the difference in the love expressed may be qualitative or quantitative. I will explain this with the example of a wise father’s love towards his issues. Let us take a baby and an adult issue of the same father. The father or mother gives...
Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, A person in Quora forum asked the following question. Kindly give Your answer to this. According to Bhagavad Gita, the soul is immortal. According to this theory, who was Lord Krishna in his previous and his afterlife? At Your Lotus Feet, Anil
Swami replied:- Soul is a part of creation only. Creation is not immortal especially with reference to the unimaginable God or Parabrahman. The soul is not immortal in absolute level. It is immortal only in the relative level with reference to the mortal body and this is clearly told in the Gita (Na hanyate hanyamaane shariire). Of course, the souls are saved in the final dissolution (Mahaa Pralaya) also so that these souls having different compositions of the three qualities are preserved for the future cinema show (Punahsrushti)...
Ashtama Dalam—Eighth Leaf
31) Jaarashchora itiiritopi Bhagavaanasmaabhiraalokyate,
Saakshaat Brahma hi tena Dattacharamajnaanaarkachakshussphutam,
Bhuubhaaraprashamaarthamaagatamabhijnaatum sa necchatyapi,
Tatkaarunyavashaadvayam bhavamahaavaaraashimuttaaritaah.
[With the help of the sun like third knowledge-eye given by God Krishna only, we are clearly seeing Him as the ultimate God or Parabrahman, even though some say that He is the thief of butter and dancer with Gopikaas...
1) Krishno Giridharah kartaa, Gopikaa rushayashchiraat,
Eshanaa tripariikshaa saa, paratra tu satiikrutaah.
[Krishna, who lifted the hill on finger, is on one side. Gopikas are the ancient sages trying to reach God from several births are on other side. Whatever happened between both sides is the examination of the strength of the three strongest worldly bonds with money, issues and life partners called as eshanas, by which their salvation in those bonds is to be known. Stealing the butter preserved for their issues is testing the first two bonds (wealth or butter and issues). Dancing with Gopikas is the test for the third bond...
TO NIKHIL & DEVI
Recently, Nikhil and Devi felt deeply pained for the illness of Swami for the past two months and now Swami is maintaining good health. When I told Swami about the deep pain of the couple, Swami wrote the following verses to them. I felt that these verses have very good message for devotees in general also. Hence, I took the permission of Swami to send these verses to all our devotees. —S Phani Kumar
Several times, this Datta sang like any daughter-in-law,
“Mai maikii chalii jaavuungii tum dekhte rahanaa”...
1) Ayi sharadujjvala raatrivivartana vibhramanartana gopavadhuu-
Kisalayamandala chanchalakundala chaarushikhandaka venukalam,
Chalayamunaajala viichijhalatjhala kimkinikaakula lolaravam,
Bhaja bhaja pallavakomala mullasitasmita vallavavamsharasam.
[During the moon-light nights, in the moving circles of tender leaflets like shepherd ladies, who are twisting their bodies in the dances associated with the sounds of tiny bells of their anklets mixed with the sounds of the waves of Yamuna river, He is singing on the flute while His ear rings and His peacock feather on the head vibrate. Worship and worship such juice of Yadava dynasty, the tender leaflet, having shining smile always on His lips.]...
God-Preacher Shri Datta spoke:- The name ‘Maayaa’ of creation has two meanings: i) That, which is non-existent (Yaa maa) and ii) that, which is so wonderful that it is unimaginable (Maya-vaichitrye). The first meaning is with respect to the unimaginable God before whom all this creation including souls is non-existent...
Shri Phani asked:- In Your recent three verses, You ended with the concept of Pravrutti to be carefully followed and told that Nivrutti is not mandatory whereas You said several times that Nivrutti alone gives the highest fruit with perfect safety. Please enlighten me on this. What will be the fate of a devotee, who becomes a failure in the path of Nivrutti after some journey due to superseding attraction towards family bonds?
Swami replied:- What you said about all that I said is perfectly true. But, there is a special way of preaching based on the psychology of the receivers. If I say that a student must first pass the school so that he can get a post of teacher in elementary school without any difficulty, the student will setup that post as his ultimate goal and works sincerely to achieve the short and easy goal standing very near. If you say in the beginning itself...
Shri Anil asked:- Swami! What is the reason for this flood calamity in Kerala?
Swami replied:- Everybody will say a reason convenient and applicable to his liking. A father of a student may say that since his son is not given admission in the school, which is the highest injustice, it is responsible for this calamity! Hence, we shall go deep in the knowledge leaving all personal likes and dislikes to find out the actual and ultimate truth...
The whole concept of Shri Datta Swami is given below in condensed form in the following three verses:
1) Anuuhyam hi Parabrahma, tasya jiivajagat na sat,
Jiivasya sat jaagat Datto, drushyo Brahmaiva nohyate.
(The original absolute God is unimaginable. Before Him, this world and soul are relatively true and are non-existent. Soul is a part and parcel of creation of God and hence, world is real to soul. The unimaginable God created the first energetic form and merged with it...
God Preacher Datta spoke:- O Closest friend of Smt. Bhavani and Bala Krishna! Today, You can see awareness in scientific instrument connected to the brain of a human being in the form of waves of inert energy that transformed into awareness as a specific form of work in the functioning specific nervous system and brain...
Shri PVNM Sharma asked: I found a message in YouTube from Shri Jonnavittula Ramalingeswara Rao that the spiritual practices of various religions need not be mixed, which will bring unnecessary quarrels between religions. For example, in any temple prayers are done in Sanskrit only. Similarly, let other religions do their prayers as being done in their past tradition. What are your comments on this?
Swami replied:- Initially, there is some similarity between both of us since there is common initial word (Jonna) in both our surnames (Jonnavittula and Jonnabhatla)! It is a good suggestion as far as avoiding quarrels initially for some time...
Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Following questions were asked in Quora forum. Kindly give Your answer to it. At Your Holy Feet, Anil.
1) If Allah is omnipotent, can Allah have sex?
Swami replied:- If I say that Allah can have sex, I know that your next question will be ‘Can Allah generate issues without sex? If so, why Allah is having sex?’ Omnipotence does not mean that everything is done by God. It only means that He can do anything, but, He does something only, which is appropriate, logical and justified...
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