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Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for always driving us towards enlightenment. Swami! Being a language teacher of high school students in Telangana, I feel the syllabus is not capable of guiding these age groups for Pravṛtti. Please remove my ignorance and show the path with what the contents to be taught, and how the schooling is to be done to a child under...
1. How can one deal with Mockery?
[Shri Jayesh Pandey asked: Padanamaskaram Swami Ji!]
Swami replied:- By becoming serious and neglecting the mockery...
[Shri Durgprasad asked: Paadanamaskaram Swami, In a Gita verse, while encouraging Arjuna (Paandavanaam Dhanunjayah), Krishna also equated Himself to Shukracharya. Why did He mention Shukracharya who always sided with demons?]
Swami replied:- God Krishna told twice that He is Shukracharya...
[By Shri Phani]
Swami, with Your permission, I would like to present one of my miraculous experiences.
This miracle happened when Swami came to Vijayawada last time. As usual, some devotees came to see Swami and they offered some Guru Dakshina to Swami in the form of cash. He gave all of that money to me and asked me to deposit...
1. Can salvation be obtained by a soul without any reference to God?
[Smt. Priyanka, Ms. Thrylokya and Shri PVNM Sarma asked:- In the Satsanga on Maha Shiva Ratri, You told that if a soul has only external bonds with the worldly bonds and not internal bonds in the mind, such a soul need not be tested and gets spontaneous salvation. Here, there is no reference to the devotion with God. Hence, it means that salvation can be obtained by a soul without any reference to God. Please comment.]
Swami replied:- How dare you people ask like this? One may eat food in a vacant plate...
[A question by Shri Abhiram]
Swami replied:- If you take the unmediated unimaginable God, His process of thinking to create universe was based on His omnipotency and not on the presence of awareness in Him. The reason is that before creation, there was neither inert energy nor a materialized nervous system in the unimaginable God. When awareness itself is absent in the ultimate God, you cannot say that the awareness...
Shri Kishore Ram asked:- Paadanamaskaaram, Swami. The word ‘Valour’ was explained by You (in the answer given to question by Jayesh Pandey) in three ways - in the cases of divine personalities, ordinary human beings and demons. Please explain this point in detail...
[A question by Shri Kishore Ram]
Swami replied:- Shunyavaada means that the entire creation is always unreal. This concept was established by a Buddhist called Naagaarjuna...
Shri Kishore Ram asked:- You told that we can criticize the God of another religion when the devotee of the other religion scolds the God of Hinduism. In such a case, are we not scolding the absolute God...
[A question by Shri Kishore Ram]
Swami replied:- The person criticizing Sai Baba is not seeing the common real and absolute God present in all divine forms. He is seeing only the external dress (form of the God) and is criticizing the form only. We accept the divine form worshipped by that devotee...
[A question by Shri Kishore Ram]
Swami replied:- Arjuna is the incarnation of sage Nara, who is always closely associated with sage Narayana. God Dattatreya is sage Narayana because God Dattatreya being the son of sage Atri is always a sage. Arjuna is acting in the role of an ignorant soul while hearing...
[A question by Shri Kishore Ram]
Swami replied:- The two gatekeepers of God Narayana were cursed by the Sages for their misbehavior. Then, God Narayana asked the gatekeepers...
[A question by Shri Kishore Ram]
Swami replied:- Unimaginable God is beyond creation. Love is a quality found in the creation. Hence, love cannot be the inherent quality of the unimaginable God. No quality is inherent for the unimaginable God. When the unimaginable God is mediated with a medium that belongs...
[Gopikas approaching Krishna as darlings is injustice. Ordinary people will say that they can do the same since it is God Himself. What is the answer for this?]
Swami replied:- i) God never preached the knowledge of the three strongest worldly bonds. It is the only the sages, who investigated these three strongest worldly bonds. Since their investigation is true, God has to accept their concept...
Shri Kishore Ram asked: Why did the sages go to Rama requesting for the test for the bond with spouse only? What about the tests for the other two bonds?
Swami replied:- The sages thought that the tests...
[By Shri Satthireddy]
Mee Paada Padmalaku naa Namaskaram Swamiji, On Bhogi Day, which is January 14, 2024 (Sunday), a satsang was organized by Swamiji in Sharmaji’s house during evening time after our usual weekend online Satsang. I started on my bike reached Sharmaji’s house before the online satsang ended. Once the online satsang ends I thought of going inside the house at least after sometime so that Swami takes some rest. So, I sat on the steps of Shree Narayana...
1. Is it because of God's grace or past samskaras that a soul turns to God?
[Ms. Swathika asked:- Paadanamaskaaram, Swami. Swami, thank You for giving me the confidence and breaking the hindrance to ask questions. Please forgive the mistakes in the questions, Swami. Swami, please enlighten this ignorant soul on the following:- A soul is turning to God in terms of showing initial interest to know about God. Is it because of God's grace or past samskaras or the influence of surrounding environment...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- In the answer of the 4th question of Ms. Swathika, You told that the path and reverse path involve equal strain in the effort. In the 10th question-reply, You told that the effort in the reverse path is very less since the attraction is more. How to correlate these two?]
Swami replied:- The topic of the 4th question is different from the topic of the 10th question. The first topic is related...
1. There are many references to Human Incarnation in Hindu scriptures. But, are there any references in Christian scriptures?
[A question by Ms. Adweeka]
Swami replied:- Jesus Himself is the human incarnation of God...
[Ms. Deepthika Venna asked:- Are girls not allowed to sacred places during periods because they give out negative energy at that time?]
Swami replied:- They are prohibited to temples during the period of menses because they are almost patients with bleeding, etc. From the point of hygiene, they are restricted and not that they are personally not eligible. When one is happy...
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