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[By Ms. Thrylokya]
My beloved Sadguru Shri Datta Swami,
To celebrate the joy of Your 77th birthday, I would like to pen down 77 qualities of Your divine personality, which I could recognize from my limited knowledge acquired from Your preaching of spiritual knowledge and little personal experience of Your priceless association. You are
1. My Datta:- You have given Yourself to the world of devotees, including an undeserving person like me. As You said, the word ‘Datta’ means ‘that which is given’. God Datta means the incarnation through which unmediated-unimaginable...
(A dedication to my Supreme Being on His birthday)
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Personality of Swami is just not thinkable,
It’s so great that it is indeed not even imaginable!
The more we put effort to know, the more we get amazed...
Shri Ganesh V asked: Padanamaskaram Swamiji, What is the real meaning of Mantra Pushpam, which is chanted at the end of every pooja? (Yo'pam pushpam veda) Does it roughly mean that there is interchangeability between different forms of matter and one who knows this gets some fulfilment in life. If yes, how can knowing the interchangeability between different forms of matter be the source of fulfilment...
Shri Jayesh Pandey asked: Padanamaskaram Swami ji! I hesitate very much to approach to You regarding anything. Is this a correct code of conduct? (Thanks to You and to the Devotees involved...
1 You advice to be always happy. But, Radha suffered a lot in the separation of Krishna. Does this also come under Your advice?
[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied:- Radha suffering in the separation from Krishna comes under the category of divine devotion (Bhakti Yoga, the second step). My advice to everyone to always be happy is related to worldly life...
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Swami, the direct incarnation of Lord Datta, You Yourself are the Parabrahman, the unimaginable God,
Descended down to this earth to uplift ignorant souls like us, mad about all worldly bonds.
We will remain ignorant forever even after getting Your knowledge...
[By Dr. JSR Prasad]
Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāram Swami!
1. The path of Pravrutti: I am born as a sixth child in a lower middle-class family that is semi-orthodox in tradition. I used to go to temples of Anjaneya Swami, Sri Venkateshwara and Shiva in my town. At the age of 13, my father sent me to the Sanskrit school cum college run by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam with lodging and boarding facility being run in Hyderabad. It was compulsory for all the students to recite Venkateswara Suprabhatam...
(Questions from Smt. Chhandaa and answers from Shri Datta Swami in the form of aphorisms. Questions are given in square brackets.)
Narāntima janma puruṣa iti cet na, tribandhamātrāt. |1|
[Smt. Chhandaa asked:- About the salvation of Vivekananda, I am feeling that it is not mandatory for the soul to be born as female in the last birth.]
Swami replied:- When all the three strongest bonds are tested, the final birth shall be of female because Daareshanaa can be tested only when the devotee is a married female. Arjuna was Sage Nara and Sage Nara
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, You told that climax devotees reach the abode of God (BrahmaLoka, Goloka, etc.) directly. Then, which souls reach the six worlds above earth? Since doing karma is possible only on earth i.e., Karmaloka, what is the saadhana they do for God when they cannot do karma?]
Swami replied:- The spiritual aspirants misled by certain ignorant thoughts...
[Shri Hrushikesh asked:- As per our discussion about the journey of souls to Urdhva lokas. Kindly elaborate on the journey from Marthyaloka or earth to Jana Loka and Tapoloka?]
Swami replied:- The completely liberated soul goes to Brahmaloka...
[Shri Phani Kumar asked:- Some people do only theoretical devotion, some people do only practical devotion and some other people do both theoretical and practical devotion. What is the reason for this variation?]
Swami replied:- If the worldly bonds are broken theoretically, the souls do only theoretical...
[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied:- Jealousy is always based on ego. If ego is crossed, as indicated by the crossing of ‘I’ in a cross, jealousy has no basis and cannot rise at all. Ego can be crossed by total surrender to God. In the process of total surrender, there are two steps:- i) In the preliminary step, you think that success in a work belongs to God and failure...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: What is the necessity of promising on God in the marriage if the husband and wife have true love to each other? The promise appears as a force to bind both together. True love does not need force. Please comment on this.]
Swami replied:- God has two sides. One is justice and other is love. Justice is related...
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Swami name itself brings bliss infinite,
I don’t know, for this grace, how long I had to wait.
He has given to me a very special honor...
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give Your responses to the following questions, at Your Divine Lotus feet-anil.]
1. When some guest comes to the house, will it be better if the system of buffet for food serving is followed. Please kindly elaborate this point.
Swami replied:- The buffet system is the best because the eater will select an appropriate...
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give Your responses to the following questions from internet forum, at Your Divine Lotus feet-anil.]
1. Why is Lord Rama praised more than God Hanuman?
Swami replied:- Both Rama and Hanuman are the incarnations of God Datta. But Rama acted in the role of a master and Hanuma...
[A poem by Ms. Thrylokya on Shri Datta Swami]
My beloved Lord,
I worshiped God Shiva in the temple of my heart, and imagined that
every raindrop falling on earth was coming from His matted hair.
(matted hair:- thick hair twisted into a dense mass)...
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Bramha, Vishnu and Maheshwara, known as the Trinity,
When the three unite, it becomes the Almighty.
Infact, Almighty incarnated as this divine Trinity.
The Almighty is omniscient - be it knowledge or time...
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1. Can You explain the difference between a trinity and a triad? Is there any significance to these terms?
[Questions from internet forum]
Swami replied:- Triad means three different items co-existing. Ex:- Eshanaatrayam that is the three strongest worldly bonds. Trinity means the same personality appearing in three forms with simultaneous existence. Ex:- God Datta appearing as God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva.
2. If Gautama Buddha is considered to be the ninth avatar of Vishnu, then why is Buddhism a separate religion from Hinduism?
Swami replied:- Buddha is the ninth incarnation of God Vishnu. Buddhism means the misunderstood philosophy ...
Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Mr. Jiddu Krishamurthi says, “A mind which has committed itself to the Gita or Bible or Quran or to some belief, can never learn and it can only follow. It follows because it wants security. As long as the mind desires to be permanently secure, undisturbed, as long as it is seeking its own perpetuation through a belief, it is obviously incapable of finding out what is God, what is truth...
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