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1. What happens if I couldn't be caught by You due to my bad qualities in future births? Please guide me.
[Smt. Sudharani asked: Question to lose self-centredness: Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for choosing me, and giving me Your Knowledge. Swami I find a lot of faults in the qualities that are not matching the true devotee, as explained by You. Obviously this birth is not sufficient for my practice. I worry about my future fate in the next birth as, what if I couldn't be caught...
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8. Please enlighten on the following argument.
[Swami, the same friend asked “If God had not allowed the first sin to happen, there would have not been a first victim-soul, who suffered for no fault on its side. Therefore, God becomes the reason for the first sin, which is the root cause for the subsequent bad actions. When God does not allow the fresh case of sin, there would have been no retort case at all. By allowing the fresh case, God is also allowing retort case. Instead of this, He can prevent the fresh case by saving every...
[Swami, my atheistic friends are asking the below questions. Please enlighten my friends through Your divine wisdom. – Ms. Thrylokya]
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1. How to overcome the idea of suicide in my mind?
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- One of my old friends said, “Many a time since childhood, I get a strong desire to commit suicide at soul level so that I remain permanently in peace without any activity. How to overcome such idea in my mind?” Swami, please enlighten my friend with Your answer.]
Swami replied:- By true spiritual knowledge, you can overcome such extreme pessimism. The aim of the life of any created soul is only to please God through devotional service by propagating spiritual knowledge...
[Smt. Chhandaa asked:- Swami, You told that the story of Radha was written in Bhagavatam by Sage Vyaasa and it was later on deleted by Himself with the fear of exploitation-based damage to the society in future. Please elaborate this point.]
Swami replied:- Sage Vyaasa wrote the story of Radha in the Bhagavatam. Actually, he did not delete this story by himself. Some of his followers...
QA:72-77
72. Is my following assumption correct?]
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Suppose all the souls in the creation follow sweet devotion or support sweet devotion without caring about justice, there would be no soul wanting God to follow justice and hence, God will be happy to have sexual union with every sweet devotee in His real form only without creating His illusory forms and there would be no need to create a personified embodiment of His own power as wife for the sake of dualistic entertainment. Isn’t it?]
Swami replied:- All this is theoretical assumption only, which never happened from the beginning of creation and will not happen in future also. Can you say that mother...
[By Ms.Thrylokya]
Paadanamaskaaram Swami, I would like to share the miracle done by You yesterday midnight. Last night, at 8 pm, I did Paadanamaskaaram to Swami at the house of Smt. Annapurna Garu and started travelling home by boarding a bus. Since many people were stuffed...
QA:69-71
69. How can You prove that God has a feeling of father towards His created souls?
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- How can You prove that God has a feeling of father towards the created souls of His creation when we practically see God Krishna having 1,77,188 children with His devoted souls as wives? Which father can even think of having married life with his daughters?]
Swami replied:- I have already explained previously that at the highest level of spiritual knowledge, all the bonds are unreal and the reality is only the true love present...
Shri Kenan Waked asked: Swami please guide me...Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba always insisted on not asking for material desires. But now I have become 35 years and because of my poverty, I started doubting myself and deservedness...
Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: Padha Namaskaram🙇🏻♀️🙏🏻 Bhagavan Shri Datta Swami, I wish to surrender these 16 Divine Kalyana Gunas at Your Sacred Lotus Feet—You, who are the eternal source of all goodness, knowledge, and compassion. Thank You, Swami, for holding...
QA:63-68
63. Swami, please comment on the following hypothesis.
[Swami, there is a proposal of hypothesis as follows: "Tattvamasi" is a Sanskrit phrase, which is one of the four Mahaavaakyaas (great pronouncements) of the Vedanta written in Chandogya Upanishad, where Svetaketu is told by his father Uddalaka...
QA:54-62
54. Why should God punish the souls involved in consensual sex outside marriage?
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Punishment by God for the sin of rape is justified since it hurts another soul. When sweet devotion is also a good line encouraged by God, why should God punish the souls involved in consensual sex outside marriage? It means that God encourages and rewards consensual sex outside marriage provided it is with Him and not with another soul. Is it not showing the double standards...
(Samnyāsa Tattva Yogaḥ)
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]
1) Na kāmecchā mamāhaṃ yat, Brahmānanda mahārṇavaḥ |
Ṛṣīṇāṃ dagdha dharmecchā - Tapognīnāṃ na ca priye! ||
[O Darling Rādhā! I am the infinite ocean of divine bliss and hence, I do not have the desire for petty-illusory sexual happiness...
(Śrī Rādhā Viṣāda Yogaḥ)
39) Vaidikā 'vaidikau mārgau, krīḍākarṣaṇa lālasāḥ |
Mucyante madvido jīvāḥ, arthavāda phalacyutāḥ ||
There are two ways of developing devotion to God:- i) The Vedic way:- By performing sacrifices (Yajnas) concentrating on various names like Indra, Agni etc., of God. These devotees like formless God having these names. The males are attracted by female heavenly dancers...
[Prof J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Saashtaanga Namaskaaram Swami. I heard a professor saying that the Sanskrit book ‘Gita Govindam’ is full of eroticism and for some time, it was banned from the general reading in the medieval times. She also commented that it had an impact on the later Bhakti movement in India. Kindly enlighten me on this point.]
Swami replied:- Everybody reads a verse at the end of the most holy ritual called ‘Sandhyaa Vandanam’, which is done three...
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked:- Swami, by revealing about God creating His illusory forms for the sake of sweet devotion, does God want Madhura Bhakti devotees to continue in this path or change it? I mean what is the final message for the Madhura Bhakti devotees from God?]
Swami replied:- There are two types of advices. First type of advice aims at your welfare and its taste is sour to your mind. Second type of advice is not bothered about your welfare and aims to give sweetness...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Sashtanga namaskaram Swami, Shankara fell on the feet of the untouchable and praised Him as the preacher. What is the lesson we have to learn from this situation?]
Swami Replied: In today’s world, if we show any defect in any human being, he/she will immediately project false logic to not only defend oneself...
Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Swami, can we extend the concept of real Krishna having romance with real Radha and illusory Krishna having romance with Gopikas to the case...
1. Did Krishna bear the punishment of the Gopikas who passed only the test of Dareshana or for the 12 who passed in all the tests?
[Ms. Swathi asked: Padanamaskaram Swami 🙏 Swami, did God Krishna bear the punishment in hell for all the Gopikas who passed only the test of Dhareshana (bond with spouse), or only for the 12 who successfully...
Smt. Anita asked: Swamiji Paada Namaskaram 🙏 Guru Datta Sri Datta Prabhu Datta 🙇♀️ Swamiji, Self-praise brings sin as well as ego. Your another statement says “Self-praise is inevitable...
[Shri. Hrushikesh asked: Dear Swami, Request You to kindly help us with the answers for the below questions asked by Russian friend Ingrid.
Question 1: I want to ask Your Guru Shri Datta Swami, can he can give the knowledge of Shruti Vedas? The understanding of meaning of the Vedas?]
Swami replied:- The Veda says that the Veda is infinite (Anantā vai Vedāḥ). The Vedic knowledge...
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