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Past, Present and Future:- In worldly matters, you must not brood over past and must concentrate on present and future only. Of course, analysis of past is useful in learning practical lessons and for this purpose only, the department of History has practical value in educational institutions. Analysis of past is useful in examining your spiritual efforts also. In spiritual field, before God, you must always remember past and shall not touch your present and future. This means that you must remember always the past favours done by God to you and express gratefulness to God...
O cowherd lady! all your beauty became
subject of My entire song on My flute. (Chorus)
While the silver anklets sounded in your stylish walk,
The elephants migrated to forest for living there only...
Disciple of Datta (Datta Swami) spoke:- 1. O divine preacher! People in this world are always fond of happiness to be achieved from the relief of worldly miseries. In such case, how these people will approach You on hearing that You are giving further miseries to them in the form of severe tests? They will naturally approach You in other divine forms only with a view that they will be relieved from miseries if such divine forms are worshipped...
Songs of God Krishna On Cowherd Lady
[Once, Swami was explaining the devotion of Gopikas (cowherd ladies) to God Krishna quoting the Bhagavatam. Some devotees told Swami that the devotion of Gopikas is marvellous after Krishna leaving Brundavanam and settled in Dwaaraka. Swami told “we are seeing the devotion of Gopikas only, which is just a wave in the infinite ocean of the love of Krishna towards Gopikas. Since the love of Gopikas to Krishna is finite, it is expressed in the Bhagavatam. The love of Krishna towards Gopikas is infinite and hence, couldn’t be expressed by anybody. Nobody knows how much agony was undergone by God Krishna in Dwaaraka...
Classification of Creation:- Subtle energy or Mulaprakruti is the root source material of creation, which was created by unimaginable God through unimaginable link (mechanism). This original subtle energy is modified into matter and awareness through different imaginable mechanisms under the guidance and superpower of the unimaginable will of unimaginable God. You can say that God is intellectual cause (Nimitta) and subtle energy is the material cause...
To Aarshaa (D/o of Dr. Nikhil and Smt. Devi)
[Reply to her letter]
I shall be always with Aarshaa only, as desired by her,
Guiding by speaking to her from her heart every time...
Original Preachers:- Original preachers are always incarnations of God. They were not very much worried about the truth of knowledge. They were always worried about the change of a bad situation in which the innocent souls were caught. Unless the situation is changed, souls existing in that situation can’t progress further. In order to change the situation, the preachers did not mind to twist the true concepts. The followers without understanding the background of the original preacher follow their twists strongly...
Positive View of God:- Positive view of God must be understood by deep analysis so that you will say that every item created by Him in this world was created for a positive purpose only and not for any negative purpose. God is omniscient and will not create anything with negative view. Some things have become negative due to their misuse by human beings and are stamped as negative. For example:- i) Sex was created with lot of emotional intensity and the view of God is creation of future humanity through legal sex...
62) Service Needed:- Service needed is important whether you do it to God or to humanity (‘serve the needy’). Needed materials shall be served to poor if they are not reformed through spiritual knowledge since money may be wasted through vices by which they are caught. When you serve your preacher, who is not having vices, you can serve him with money since you don’t know his actual need. When God Rama is sitting...
53) Donation of Food:- Donation of food to a hungry person is the justice of emergency (Aapat Dharma) and analysis of deservingness of receiver shall not be done here. Even the life of an atheist must be saved from hunger death, which is the only shame on this entire humanity. If you save the life an atheist also, there may be a future opportunity to convert him in to theist. Instead of burning oil lamps, candles, sticks etc., the money spent in such acts can be saved to protect the life-lamp of a hungry person to preach him spiritual knowledge...
Defective Beginning:- Defective beginning is always justified and God also encourages the devotee without finding fault with the defect. But, to sit in the defect only throughout life is not justified. A child is given chocolates to go to school and the child is not criticized for its lack of interest in the school and for its interest for chocolates only. The defect is tolerated in view of its little age and huge ignorance in such age. But, as the child grows, the chocolates are withdrawn assuming that the grown-up child as young person must have developed...
Value of God: Value of God is generally mentioned as the highest in our prayers, which is a lie in practical light. We have given entire wealth to our issues and not a single rupee for God’s work. The value of God is not even a trace of the value of our issues. But, we mention the value of God as infinite in our prayers (theoretical devotion). Are we not trying to fool the God through our prayers when we know very well that God is omniscient?...
The Veda says that God is unimaginable and is beyond words, beyond mind, beyond intelligence and beyond even imagination. He is beyond form and formless. Earth is with form and space is formless. God is beyond both earth and space since both are created by Him. The objects with form and formless objects are present in the space. If God is imaginable, there is multiplicity in the imaginable items and hence, everybody is fascinated to a specific imaginable item. Somebody says that Sun is God, somebody says light is God and somebody says that space is God. This leads to different philosophies and religions resulting in quarrels disturbing world peace and sometimes ending in terrorism...
Caste and gender by birth must not be given any importance. Believing the gene theory in the caste, which only says that certain mannerisms are transferred in a dynasty, people confuse the mannerisms for qualities. God said in the Gita that caste shall be decided by qualities and subsequent deeds only (Gunakarma vibhaagashah). Gender is worse than caste since differentiation by gender is seen even in the same caste! Krishna is born in Yaadavas (BC caste) and the feet of His statue are washed by a Brahmin priest...
All the incarnations are same since the same unimaginable God exists in all the incarnations, human or energetic. Hence, the possessed power by all incarnations is one and the same. The difference lies only in the quality and quantity of the expressed power suitable to a spiritual program planed in the incarnation. Based on the difference in the expressed power, incarnations are classified as:- Kalaa or ray or a radiation of 1/16th part of total power expressed (sage Kapila)...
Astrology does not contradict the spiritual knowledge. Astronomy is science dealing with physical planets in the space, which are in the visible-imaginable domain only. Astrology deals with invisible-imaginable domain and explains about the deities of these nine planets representing the nine executive forces of God in the administration of the world. You shall not say that the deity of moon is not found on landing on the planet of moon. The deity is the owner and planet is his house...
Shri Balaji asked:- A devotee worshipping the divine mother is feeling disturbed that divine mother will become furious if some mistake happens as told by a highly devoted preacher.
Swami replied:- God is worshipped in different forms like parents, brother, issues, husband, darling etc., as per the personal taste of the devotee. There is no speciality of any bond and the speciality lies only in the weight of selfless love existing in that bond. Sweets are prepared...
Smt. K Padma Ram asked:- Why do you always speak to us as if you are a devotee of God Datta while we strongly believe that you are the incarnation of Lord Datta?
Swami replied:- Incarnation means that God Datta entered and merged with Me. This merge results in three ways:- (1) total merge or monism of Shankara. (2) Partial merge keeping basic dualism and external monism of Ramanuja and (3)Perfect dualism everywhere of Madhva..
Aravindadalaakshaaya, Govindaaya namo namah,
Kaalindiitatamandaara—muulasundaramuurtaye.
[Salutations. Salutations to Govinda (Krishna), who is having eyes like the petals of lotus flowers and who is the main beautiful figure standing under the Mandaara tree existing in the garden of Brundavanam situated on the bank of Yamuna river...
God-preacher Shri Datta spoke:- After hearing the knowledge, You must think and analyse it to get conformation. When You are confirmed in it, You must implement it in practice. Confirmation means digestion of knowledge. Propagation of the knowledge helps digestion like walking and exercises help digestion of food. More the digestion, more will be practice. More practice means more grace of God. Hence, don’t think that propagation is to help others. In such disguise, it is only helping Yourself...
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