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[Remaining Questions of the Message on December 27, 2015] Dr. Nikhil asked: 3) How can the black nature (ignorance) be helpful in the spiritual path?
Shri Swami Replied: The black nature (Tamas) is very important in the spiritual field like the black hole in the process of creation. The importance of this quality comes in the final stage of spiritual effort. This creation including the three qualities is created by God only, which cannot have obviously negative sense that leads to rejection. Entire creation coming from God has always positive sense that is useful in the spiritual effort...
Shri Veena Datta asked: What is the significance of the negative qualities exposed by Lord Dattatreya, which bring difficulty in the progress of the spiritual effort?
Shri Swami Replied: All the items and qualities created by God are most auspicious and positive only. Is there any unholy verse in the Ramayana written by the holy sage Valmiki? Hence, this world created by God is as sacred as God. Fools only criticize and abuse this world. Of course, the negative direction of qualities came into picture only after the misuse of the qualities by these created souls...
Shri P V N M Sarma asked: Swami! Please dictate the message and I am ready to type it.
Shri Swami replied: The message shall be given to the question asked by any devotee. It is very difficult for Me to create the question since My brain is filled with answers only, which are the concepts that convinced My inner consciousness. The question arises only from the doubt coming out from the inner consciousness when it lacks the satisfaction due to absence of clarification of knowledge. When Lord Dattatreya...
Dr. Nikhil asked: What are the various main misunderstood interpretations in Hinduism?
Shri Swami replied: 1) Unimaginable God: a) This is a misunderstanding in all the religions including Hinduism. This space, which is subtle energy, is infinite. This infinity is not the absolute inherent characteristic of the space. It means that the space is not infinite by itself. The space is generated from the unimaginable God. If you reach the boundary of the space, you touch God like...
Shri Ajay:Today corruption has affected every walk of life. Corrupt people include politicians, officials, businessmen, doctors, teachers and even judges! What will be the fate of such souls?
Shri Swami: The money of the public is the wealth of the public, and it should be spent for the public alone, giving priority to the poor. Public money is very sacred and should not be enjoyed personally by any (well-to-do) person, unless he or she is extremely poor and is dying for want of food. In order to save one’s life, one might be forced to commit a sin...
Dr. Nikhil asked: 1) Gita says that Yoga is to have equality (Samatvam). Other widely quoted verses about equality from Gita are: i) Samaloshtashma kanchanah ii) Panditaah samadarshinah. Please explain these quotations also. You say that we should even reject the scripture by analysis. But, our analysis is very much limited. The scripture given by God is of very high level. In such case, can we do this?
Shri Swami replied: Samatvam means equality between two items. Yoga means equality as said by the Gita. But, equality everywhere is not yoga. For example, one dollar is equal to Rs.60/-. Here also equality between two items exists. But, this is not the context of Yoga. Equality is a general word that can be used in any context...
Shri P V N M Sarma asked: what is meant by Dhyana or meditation?
Shri Swami Replied: Meditation is the seventh step in the Yoga, which was divided in to eight steps. First of all, you must know the meaning of Yoga. Otherwise, the basic foundation is lost. Yoga means the fortunate union. Dhana yoga means to have fortunate union with wealth. Putra Yoga means the fortunate union with issues. Kalatra Yoga means the fortunate union to get wife through marriage. All these are related to Pravrutti...
All of us know that there is a prayer on the spiritual preacher, Guru, in which the third and fourth lines of each verse say: What is the use? What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use? If our mind is not fixed on the Lotus feet of the spiritual preacher i.e., Guroranghri Padme Manaschennalagnam, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim? Swami composed the first and second lines of eight verses to mean that such spiritual preacher is only Lord Dattatreya Himself.
1.Gurunaam GurorDatta Devasya Saakshaat
Mahaa Jnana Vaaraasi rupasya ramye
Guroranghri Padme Manashchennalagnam
Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim?...
[Following is a conversation between Dr. Nikhil and Shri Swami regarding human actions, the corresponding rewards and punishments and the role of astrology and vastu shastra.
Shri Nikhil: Padanamaskarams Swamiji. You have often reminded us of the statement in the Gita (Gahanaa karmano gatih), which means that the cycle of action-result is extremely complex and difficult to understand. However, in present times there is so much confusion regarding the correlation of one's actions and the suffering or enjoyment of a person in this life and hereafter, that some clarity is badly needed.
Shri Swami: The cycle of actions and fruits is very deep subject (Gahanaa). The reason is that the basic concept of this subject itself is misunderstood. The misunderstood basic concept is that the list of the punishments of a soul is in the hands of God and the punishments are given to the soul according...
Shri Veena Datta asked: Please give me a detailed account of visions.
Shri Swami replied: Visions are of two types:1) Internal: These visions are projections of your mind only. So many feelings are hidden in your mind from several births onwards. These feelings are expressed as visions and appear as real external scenes. This happens to be a mental illness about which doctors say that the patient talks with another person appearing before him. This is true since it is a scientific fact...
Shri Kishore asked following questions: Padmanamaskaram Swami: Humble request to answer my queries.
From the recent discussion and queries from Nikhil Sir, I got some basic understanding about the differences between Imaginable and Unimaginable(God) domain’s. From God’s perspective, the Imaginary domain(unreal) was created for his entertainment, but for GOD this imaginable domain is a dream or virtual or unreal. My query is for any kind of entertainment, you can get the happiness or entertainment through another source/thing which is also real. God being real(absolute truth) gets entertainment through the unreal domain/world which is strange and cant digest this fact? If so, it is true then why God is fond of the unreal domain for his entertainment, why can’t he get entertainment in his domain(unimaginable) itself?
Shri Swami Replied: When you are alone, are you not entertained by some imaginary scenes? Even the cinema on the screen is not as real as yourself. The drama on the stage is as real as yourself. The entertainment exists in all the three cases, but, it increases as the scene gains more and more reality. You cannot say that...
Shri Anil asked: Pada namaskaram Swami, 1) Please forgive me for asking the following question. If You are willing kindly give answer to the following question. Somewhere in Your knowledge, You have mentioned about Your three future incarnations (place/name etc). However in the main discourses; this topic is not covered so far. Can You please elaborate on this further for the benefit of all devotees.
Shri Swami replied: The human incarnations are always taken by the Lord Dattatreya, which are primarily for giving the spiritual knowledge to the hungry humanity so that the humanity gets the benefit both in Pravrutti and Nivrutti. I am only one of the several human media used by Him like the dress. When I said that I will incarnate...
Dr Nikhil asked: Can you co-relate the concept of cycle deeds to the concept of the astrology, which includes the study of horoscope, the auspicious time and the construction of house?
Shri Swami replied: Today, there is a large lot of humanity that believes in astrology based on the long period of time during which experiences were clearly supporting the concepts of astrology, which were mainly composed by the sage Jaimini and sage Parashara. The scientific logic certainly misses in the astrology...
Shri Anil asked: Cancellation of all the past sins is a wonderful program. Please enlighten this more.
Shri Swami replied: Yes. This is really an excellent program proposed by the Lord. This program is very much logical also and it is not like the business of favor for a festival given by a company in view of more sales. This is the best and highly logic based offer given by God for the humanity. This entire program has no trace of business and is fully based on the total benefit for the humanity, which is also totally logical...
Shri Ajay asked: What is the way out to resist this corruption for money, which is spread almost every area of this world?
Shri Swami replied: The reason for the disease must be known so that the treatment is at the level of the reason but not at the level of the effect. The present doctors treat the disease based on the symptoms and therefore, such treatment is only temporary. In Ayurveda, the treatment is at the level of the cause of the disease, which is called as ‘Nidaanam’. The root cause of all these diseases...
Shri Kishore Ram asked: You have given two powerful messages regarding Pravrutti. Is there any mistake on my side regarding pravrutti?
Shri Swami replied: I have given the messages to you because there is no mistake on your side in Pravrutti. The style of Lord Datta is to indirectly preach the people, who really need rectification in a specific line, by preaching directly the person, who does not need rectification in that specific line. If you preach a sinner regarding his sin, he will be hurt due to the basic inherent ego that is touched...
[Padanamaskarams Swamiji, My daughter Arsha, asked why the Lord is said to be Yajna Swarupa in the Shivapanchakshara Stotra (Yajnaswarupaaya jataadharaaya…). A number of possible explanations came to mind, I seek Your guidance on whether those ideas are relevant and how they could be correlated. Also, there might other relevant concepts that too need to be correlated. At Your Divine Feet,-Nikhil
Why is God said to be of the form of sacrifice (Yajna Swarupa)?
The possible explanations that came to my mind are: 1. In the Chhandogya Upanishad , King Pravahana had posed five questions to Shvetaketu. Neither Shvetaketu, nor his father Gautama had been able to answer the questions. Finally, the king himself instructed Gautama and provided the answers to the five questions...
Shri Swami replied: All the interpretations given by Dr. Nikhil to his daughter, Chi. Sow. Arsha are very good and acceptable. However, I am giving My interpretation in correlation with his explanation through analysis, which is more important than even scriptures...
Shri Anil asked: 1) Even Arjuna was caught by ego and jealousy in the end by not getting down from the chariot. What is the case of ordinary human beings? 2) How to transform a terrorist? 3) God is pleased with a perfect person in Pravrutti and is furious to a person, who is corrupt. Is not God affected by such feelings? 4) How about forming a spiritual university?
Shri Swami replied: 1) The example shows that ego and jealousy are the most serious deceases in the spiritual path. But, it is not said that they are incurable. Knowledge gives the diagnosis to identify the specific virus so that the subsequent treatment can proceed in the corresponding specific direction. Once you have identified the virus through the spiritual knowledge, the treatment...
[Evening Message] Shri Kishore Ram asked: Please explain the significance of the special rules followed by the devotees of Ayappa before reaching His shrine.
Shri Swami replied: The discipline to be attained by following the rules is very important in the spiritual path. The external body and the food habits should be disciplined by certain hard rules. The health of the body affects the nature of mind. The internal mind is the most important instrument to please God. The external bath of the body by cold water in the morning gives resistance to cold resulting in perfect immunity...
Shri Anil asked: What is the significance of death in the spiritual knowledge?
Shri Swami Replied: Death is spiritual and scientific requirement of the individual soul and its external body. Just like the dress on the external body, the body is also an external dress on the individual soul. Everyday, anybody leaves the dress for wash and the body is also subjected to bath. Similarly, death is the washing process of the body and after death the washing process of the individual soul takes place in the hell. The body is composed of...
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