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The infinite power of attraction of My knowledge is the truth in it and not My efficiency in the presentation. One type of false knowledge may be replaced by another type of false knowledge. But, the true knowledge can never be replaced by any type of false knowledge. That is the infinite power of the truth. The first adjective for knowledge is truth as said by the Veda...
[Kartika Purnima Message: Shri Swami attended a function in the house of a devotee, Shri Pavan, since today is the festival of Kartika Purnima. The Shiva Lingam, which is a stone in the form of a wave, is worshipped and behind it, a photo of Lord Shiva is placed. On the other side, there is a big shrine of Shri Satya Sai Baba and Swami also sat facing this shrine.]
Shri Swami: The Shiva Lingam is in the form of a wave indicating the energy since energy propagates as waves. The material of this Shiva Lingam is matter. Thus, Shiva Lingam denotes the medium in two forms 1) Energy and 2) Matter...
There is a famous song ‘Khelati Brahmande Yo Ramah Sa eva Khelati Pindande’. This means that the same Rama, who is playing in this world, is also playing in this human body. The Advaita Philosophers immediately jump often to interpret this to conclude that the same Lord entertained by this world is present in the human body of everybody as soul. This is wrong interpretation based on the ambition to become God without any effort. The only effort they like...
[A devotee raised a peculiar issue stating that some people of backward castes claim Narakasura as their ancestor, who was a good person and was killed by the upward castes in wrong way. They state that he was ‘Asura’ meaning that he does not drink wine. Hence, Deepaavali is a function of the victory of injustice over justice. Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
You believe that Narakasura was killed by Krishna on the basis of a Scripture that gives the life history of Narakasura. If you believe that Scripture for this point, you must believe the same Scripture for the other points also related...
In the entire spiritual knowledge meant for humanity, the most essential and the most complicated concepts are only two. One is the contemporary human incarnation and the other is the sacrifice of fruit of the work (Karmaphala Tyaga). The Gita gives stress on these two points projecting Krishna as the contemporary human incarnation in that time...
[Mr. Guna Darshana from Indonesia asked “When will God destroy injustice by stopping the people who find entertainment in gambling, cock-fights and so on?” Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
The creation created by God always consists of pairs of opposite items like day and night, summer and winter, justice and injustice etc. If one of the pair is absent, the other loses its significance and does not...
[Mr. Martin from USA asked “What does Shri Datta Swami say regarding Sathya Sai Baba leaving human form and the connection to devotees? Is Shri Datta Swami the new God in human form for devotees?” Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: If I accept your proposal that I am the new God, it will create new problems. It will hurt the minds of several devotees. Generally, human beings are reluctant to accept the alive human incarnation due to repulsion between external common media. Ego and jealousy are almost common in all the human beings that hinder the acceptance...
Mr. Moti Lal Dhiman: (via Speaking Tree, an online discussion forum). My question is based on your earlier writing, which I am quoting below: “The knowledge of God avoids crime and corruption in devotee. If individuals are transformed...
Shri Swami: When I say that the sin is fully controlled it does not mean in the absolute sense. The control is not 100% but 99% only. A trace can be neglected and the fullness can be claimed. Even in the ancient times the kings (governments), police and courts existed but in very small number...
[A letter by Shri Swami to the Group of Ministers (GOM) for the formation of Telangana State, New Delhi, advising them to make Hyderabad as the joint capital of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, after their division, instead of building a new capital for Andhra Pradesh.]
Our country is in financial crisis due to lot of loans and hence, every rupee must be carefully spent to achieve maximum utility avoiding even a trace of wastage. When a state is divided in to two or three...
[Shri Anil asked “God is the Father of all the human beings. The father is always selfish and partial towards his children due to excess love. Similarly, God must be also selfish and partial since He has infinite love towards His children, who are the human beings. Then, how to say that God is impartial and non-selfish?” Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: The main point is about the real love.The main point is about the real love. The father in this world does not have real love towards his children. The real love is always recognised in the purification of the soul. If the defects of the children are not given punishments impartially, such love is not real...
[Shri Phani Kumar asked, “How can the contradicting philosophies i.e., monism (advaita) of Shankara and the dualism (dvaita) of Ramanuja and Madhva help the same human being in the same time?” Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: The same human being should identify the human incarnation as God and simultaneously should identify himself as not the God, being the servant of God. The first view is possible by the concept of Shankara and the second view is possible by the concept of Ramanuja and Madhva...
[Dr. Nikhil asked: In the Gita, the Lord told that He does the work to keep the people involved in work (Lokasangrahamevapi…) since people take a great man as an example (Yadyadacharati…). The same message should be taken by all so that work can be done without any selfish motive. Such work can be treated as the work done without its related desire. Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: The work will never exist without its related desire. Desire is the cause and work is its effect. There can be desire without work as in the case of impossibility to do a work. But, once work is seen, its concerned desire must exist. Gold is the cause and ornament is its effect. There can be raw lump of gold without ornament. But, there cannot be ornament without...
[Guru Purnima Message] Mind always vibrates (Chanchalamhi manah– Gita) and the vibration indicates the continuous activity. If the mind becomes static or inactive, it is no more a mind, which becomes inactive and inert stone. The activity of mind is the nature of attraction by aspiring and attaching itself to something. Such aspiration for something to be achieved generates action or work. Hence, any living being having developed mind is always identified...
Smt. Sonia Gandhiji, Please consider the following suggestions regarding the issue of Andhra Pradesh. The peace of a state or nation or world is very important subject, which is concerned to God. We must rise to the level of Divinity in which we should fear about the basic injustice and basic sin for which we shall be personally punished by God. This level is most important than the levels of political angle of a party...
[Mr. Anil asked: ‘One person says that the details of human incarnation are given in the scripture itself so that we need not search for the human incarnation through our analysis’. Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: The scripture does not give the detailed address of any specific human incarnation since God is not bound by any official schedule and can incarnate anywhere and anytime as per the justified necessity. In the Gita, the Lord said that He will incarnate whenever there is necessity...
[Shri Anil asked Swami to give a message on the recent havoc followed by several deaths in the pilgrimage to Kedarnath. Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: The fundamental point that everybody should note is that God is not present in any inert stone or statue and hence, a specific place containing such stone or statue has no real significance. The spiritual significance is forcibly rubbed on such places and the stones and statues stand only as representative models of God. Such places certainly help...
The entire essence of all the rituals is missing today and as a result every ritual is a simple wastage. When the essence is lost, the ritual is like the body after losing the life. You must know that the essence of all the rituals is only acquiring the spiritual knowledge, developing the devotion to God and finally serving the deserving devotees. The ritual is both theoretical and practical. Knowing the right direction through right...
[Shri Surya asked since the father, the departed soul, gave his property to his son, the charity done by the son also must affect the father, the departed soul. Hence, the ritual performed for the departed soul must also protect the departed soul. Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
Swami Replied: It is true that in the ritual, the aim (Sankalpa) is revealed as that this ritual is done for the departed soul to attain the abode of God (Brahma loka) apart from the welfare of the self. But, on actual analysis, such effect is very little and can be considered...
Rituals After Death Help Children Only: Everybody is very anxious to know the post proceedings after death. Death is clearly understood by Science. According to Science, the human being is a composite machine comprising of several correlated instrumental mechanisms called systems like heart, lungs, kidneys etc. In a factory, you can see several machines working together in correlation with each other. The alive human being is such a functioning factory. When the total factory is shut down without the function of any machine, such a shutdown of all the systems...
The attraction for money is the strongest illusion of all the worldly illusory bonds. Generally, illusion disappears after realization. You approach the mirage due to your attraction for water. As soon as you approach it, it disappears and the immediate realization removes your illusion. But, in the case of money, you are realizing that it brings misery and problems based on the experience of several occasions. At the end of each event, you receive the realization of truth. But, the illusion is never dead and you run after money everytime. The realization dies at the end of each occasion. In the case of mirage...
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