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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...
Creation Sustained by Logic but not Creator: The absolute God is unimaginable since He is beyond the space. Such absolute God is omnipotent and hence, can do anything beyond logic. He is beyond space and logic. The space and logic sustain this entire creation. Hence, the creation is not beyond space and logic. Any item of the creation like a human being having spatial dimensions needs the association of awareness, which is a special form of energy called as nervous energy to do the process of thinking. Such nervous energy requires the presence of nervous system and the inert energy generated from
An atheist asked: Can God create a stone, which He cannot lift?
Swami replied: Your question indicates that God is defined as omnipotent. In fact, we define God so. For example - Assume that we have given a statement that a particular king can punish any citizen in his kingdom. You may put the same question, 'Can that king punish a citizen, whom he cannot punish?' Anybody can understand that this question is meaningless based on crooked logic. Logic can be good or crooked. We should base all the questions and statements...
[Shri Rama Navami Day] The life history of Rama was written even before His birth and was propagated during His life time through Kusha and Lava by the sage Valmiki. The life history of Krishna was written by sage Vyasa after His death only and was not propagated during His life time. What is the reason, which is based on the difference between Rama and Krishna? The main reason is that Rama always behaved as an ideal human being and Krishna mostly behaved as the unimaginable God. People can tolerate even God behaving as perfect human...
Padanamaskaram Swami, 1) A muslim devotee argues with following statements from Hadit and Quran that eating non-veg is allowed in Islam:[The Prophet (SAWS) said (Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad Nawawi's 40 Hadith 17): "Verily Allah has prescribed excellent in all things. So if you kill then kill well; and if you slaughter, then slaughter well....
Shri Swami replied: If you are emotional with very strong settled mind to eat non-vegetarian food by killing animals, you will always search for a supporting scripture only. For you only your favourable interpretation stands authentic. However, if you are searching for truth with open mind, you must go through My following comments without initial prejudice and bias.
There are three types of souls. The first type belongs to Angels made of Sattvam or complete Knowledge. Ramanuja, incarnation of Sesha angel and Madhva, incarnation of Vayu angel belong to this category. The second type belongs to human beings made of Rajas containing partial knowledge and partial ignorance. Arjuna belongs to this. The third type belongs to devils made of Tamas, containing full ignorance. Devils like Ravana, Ekalavya etc., belong to this. Let us analyze Arjuna and Ekalavya...
[This is Shri Swami’s reply to Mr. Anil’s query “You said that the money earned through sin like corruption etc., should be returned to God. What about hard earned money?”]
There is no compulsion that you should give the hard earned money to God. The rule that you should return the money to God applies only to the sinful money. If you return the sinful money to God, the punishment for the sin gets cancelled. Punishment is the fruit of your wrong action, called as sin. The money earned by sin also is the fruit of the sin. Money is one fruit and punishment is another fruit..
Today, forcible rapes of young girls and women is the burning issue for which the death penalty is vehemently suggested by the public. Remember, in ancient India, the ethical scriptures suggested the death punishment for the illegal contact. The scriptures say that any illegal contact, be it a forcible rape or be it a mutually consented illegal contact, should be punished with death only. In any case, only the sinner is punished and thus, in the case of rape, the male criminal is...
[Message on Datta Jayanti] Shankara told that the reality of various items of the creation is actually the reality of God or Brahman. We take Brahman as the world due to illusion just like we mistake the rope as snake in partial darkness. The reality of the snake is actually the reality of the rope. Similarly, the reality of the world is actually the reality of God. Such illusion was called as Adhyasa by Shankara. Therefore, God is absolutely real and the world...
[This speech was delivered by Shri Datta Swami at the First World Parliament on Spirituality on December 21, 2012 in Hall-3 (Socrates Hall) Session 1, at the Global Peace Auditorium, Hyderabad. It was webcast live between 11.00-13.00 hrs IST on the conference website(http://www.wpsconnect.org/home.php )]
The Human Incarnation is Most Suitable for Humans: God comes to earth to direct the spiritual aspirants to the correct path. Direction is very important. Hence, we find that the position of ‘Director’ happens to be the topmost position in any institution...
[This is the speech given by Shri Datta Swami at the First World Parliament on Spirituality on December 19, 2012 in Hall-1 (Babaji Hall), Session 9 Global Peace Auditorium, Hyderabad. It was webcast live on December 19, 2012 between 10.00-11.30 hrs IST on the conference website http://www.wpsconnect.org/home.php ]
The Veda says that God is unimaginable—beyond words, mind, intelligence and even imagination (Yato vacho…, Manasaa saha…, Yobuddheh paratah…, Atarkyah…). If God is thought to be imaginable, then due to the multiplicity in imaginable items...
In the spiritual path, the aspirant should be in the stage of a householder (Grihastha). Then only, God can test him or her whether the human being can practically sacrifice these three strong bonds (Eeshanatrayam), which are: 1) Dhaneshana: Bond with money and wealth, 2) Daareshana: Bond with wife or husband, 3) Putreshana: Bond with issues. When the human being is in the atmosphere of these three bonds, then only, the testing can be done by God. For this purpose, you should be a householder and not a saint, who is far from these bonds. You can evaluate...
[This was a ‘Special Contributory Article’ for the Souvenir of the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21, 2012 at Hyderabad.]
Modern people think that most of the funds must be spent on the development and applications of technical education, which supports the basic needs of materialistic life. Obviously, the Government also is in the same line of the people. These people criticize the ancient Governments, which have spent lot of funds on the useless...
[This is an abstract of Shri Swami’s speech at the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21, 2012 at Hyderabad. This speech is scheduled to be delivered on December 21, 2012 in the ‘Applied Spirituality’ session in Hall-3.]
The absolute God is unimaginable as per several statements of the Vedas and the Gita, which are the Holy Scriptures of Hinduism. The scientists should not reject the existence of any unimaginable item claiming that everything is explicable or imaginable by refusing the unimaginable miracles treating these...
[A Vedic Scholar, who presided over a meeting called as ‘Veda Vidvat Sabha’, stated that the reason for drought and floods is the non-performance of sacrifices in these days in which the ghee is poured in the fire. Swami ridiculed this view and gave the following message.]
Types of Yajnas: Burning ghee in the fire leads to environmental pollution, which causes the drought and flood. These ignorant people state that the cause and promoter of a disease itself is the remedial medicine. If you eat the sweet, the blood sugar will raise causing damage to heart and kidneys. The patient is already in serious...
[This is an abstract of Shri Swami’s speech at the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21, 2012 at Hyderabad. This speech is scheduled to be delivered in the session ‘Pure Spirituality’ in Hall-1 on December 19, 2012 between 10.00-11.30 hrs IST.]
God is said to be the generator of space (Aakasha) by the Vedas. It means that space does not exist in God before its generation. This finally means that God is beyond spatial dimensions. Since you cannot imagine anything beyond space, God must be accepted as unimaginable...
The human incarnation is constituted by three components. Two of these three components are common to any ordinary human being. These two components are: i) The visible and imaginable external materialized human body called as Aparaprakriti. ii) The invisible and imaginable internal special work form of inert energy, the awareness or soul, called as Paraprakriti. The third component, which is extra in the human incarnation and which is not found in ordinary human...
[This is an abstract of Shri Swami’s speech at the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21 2012 at Hyderabad. The actual speech is scheduled to be delivered in the ‘Interfaith’ session in Hall-3 on December 21, 2012 between 11.00-13.00 hrs IST.].
Hinduism is a mini representative model of the unity among various religions in the world. There are different philosophies within Hinduism as there are different religions in the world. Unity within Hinduism represents the removal of different walls in the house to make...
Relevant worship in this world means worship of the form of God, which is relevant to this world of humanity. Such a relevant form is only the human form of God. Irrelevant worship means worship of the irrelevant form of God for this humanity. Worship of energetic forms of God like Vishnu, Shiva etc. is irrelevant for the humanity. Such energetic forms are relevant to the upper worlds in which the souls existing in energetic forms...
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