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1. Kindly guide us if it is a sin to drink non-veg. milk.
[Shri Hrushikesh asked: Dear Swami, Request you to kindly answer the below question.
In the recent past there has been a lot of debate about the Non-veg milk. Non-veg milk refers to milk from cows that have been fed feed containing animal byproducts like bone meal...
(Pravṛtti Nivṛtti Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
Jīvena tyajyatāṃ preyaḥ, kimarthaṃ lokabandhanam? |
Saha tena ca Daivasya, parābhaktiḥ prayujyatām ||
[Why should the soul leave these worldly bonds, which are called ‘preyaḥ’ (dear) because along with the love towards these worldly bonds, even the climax devotion to God can be maintained simultaneously?]...
QA:87-98
87. What is the real intention in the heart of God Datta?
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, God Datta can satisfy Anaghā by saying that His unimaginable love on her is stopping Him from diverting His romantic love to sweet devotees. The same God Datta...
QA:78-86
78. Why is God interested in Nivrutti and encouraging sweet devotion?
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, please explain in points why God is interested in Nivrutti and encouraging sweet devotion. Also, I still feel that Radha is totally fruitless since she is neither a progressing Gopika nor a complete Sadguru. Please enlighten me.]
Swami replied:-
1) Radha/Anaghā does not require salvation (Moksha) from worldly bonds to unite (Yoga) with God because she is already relieved from all the worldly bonds and is unimaginable...
(Māyā Śakti Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Māyāvināṃ Mahārāja!, rūpamekaṃ rati priyam।
Tvameva sarva gopīnāṃ, manye priyapatissakhā॥
[O Emperor of the creators of illusions! The duplicate forms created by You have Your form only. The enjoyment attained by any Gopika in the union with Your duplicate form is also the same as we both get in our union...
(Samnyāsa Tattva Yogaḥ)
42) Premeti kathyate laukye, bhaktir bhagavatīśvare |
Hatvā dātuṃ punar janma, na sādhyaṃ sukhamarpaṇam ||
[We use the word ‘love’ in worldly affairs and this same love is called by the word ‘Bhakti’ in the case of God, who is the Lord of this creation. It is impossible to kill the worldly fascination and give new birth to divine fascination. Instead of this impossible effort, it is very easy to divert the same worldly fascination towards God as fascination for God.]...
(Samnyāsa Tattva Yogaḥ)
Verses 9-41:
9) Kantā kāñcana kāṣāyāḥ, guravo lokadūṣitāḥ |
Sadguruśca tathā magno, hema hemāvṛteṣviva ||
[Although the human spiritual preachers (Gurus) wear the orange robes externally, they are internally fascinated towards money and illegal sex. These gurus are criticized by the public. Since the true divine spiritual preacher wearing orange robes also exists in this same world, He also gets...
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]
Part-1
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...
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