Posted on: 05 Nov 2016
Chapter 1 (By P. V. N. M. Sharma)
[Spiritual Preachings of Shir Datta Swami at Srisailam, 12-03-1993, 4.00 am.]
Pilgrimage is the body and experience is the mind in it,
What is the use of the body in the absence of the mind?
The experience in the pilgrimage reveals divine secrets,
Which are the main points of the spiritual knowledge.
There is no use of pilgrimage if spiritual knowledge is not attained in it. Mere pilgrimage without divine experience is just a picnic! Mind, word and action are the three instrumental forms of the spiritual effort or spiritual power (energy). Of course, you can use these three for the sake of essential needs and there is no objection here. But, don’t waste these three for unnecessary luxuries. At least, you divert these three (which are wasted in luxuries) to the work of God. Action is work or energy, which is inter-convertible form of matter or money. Hence, action or work or energy or matter stands for the same entity. I don’t ask for your rupee coin shaved in the expenditure of the basic needs of your family and yourself. I don’t ask for your saved rupee coin also to be spent in your old age. I am only asking for your wasted rupee coin in luxuries to be diverted to the service of God. Instead of throwing the third rupee coin in waste kundi (box kept for throwing wastes), divert it only to the hundi (box kept for offerings to God) of God. This is the first stage in the spiritual effort (saadhana).
In the second stage, you spend your time, energy (work) and money for all the essential and inevitable works. While doing these works, you can spend the forms resting in the worship of God. Example: you are cooking the food and using two forms for the cooking, which are mind and body (hands). The word (third form) is in rest. Use this resting form in singing about God. When you become expert in cooking, only your body is involved in cooking. Mind and word are taking rest and both these can be used in the worship of God.
In the third stage, which is specific for the top most exceptional devotees only, all the three forms are involved in the worship of God only. Neither you do cooking, nor you plan for cooking, nor you speak anything about cooking. The materials for cooking were created by God in the kitchen and God Himself cooks the food. This third stage is the final related to the devotees of Nivrutti in climax (Sati Sakku Bai was given a bag of wheat grains to be powdered in one night by her cruel mother-in-law. Lord Krishna appeared and did all the work in a fraction of second!).
Quality in Devotion
13-03-1993, 9.00 am.
The quality or power of worship is greater than its duration. You must improve the quality of devotion and then continue the devotion in that level of quality during the entire time. Your effort must be to improve the quality of your devotion, which comes only by removing your aspiration for any fruit in return. As the aspiration decreases the power of devotion increases proportionally. After attaining the climax of the power, you must continue such powerful devotion during your entire time. An example for this concept: There are three jobs 1) Rs.100/- per day (eight hour shift), 2) Rs.100/- per hour and the salary for the day is Rs.800/- and 3) Rs.1000/- per hour and the salary per the day is Rs.8000/-. In these three jobs the duration of the shift is same which is 8 hours per day. But, the quality or efficiency of the work per hour (or per day) is increasing from one job to the other. The increase in the salary is not due to increase in the quantity of time but due to increase in the quality of the work. Hence, all your effort must be concentrated to increase the quality or value of devotion.
Demons do penance continuously during day and night for years together and earn the grace of God due to increase in the span /duration and not due to increase in quality of devotion since their devotion in penance is of very low quality, which is aspiration for fruit (boons) in return from God. Such boons of demons destroy them in course of time unlike the same boons given by God to a devotee without desire. The demon, belonging to first job also earns Rs.800/- by working for 8 days and becomes equal to a selfless devotee belonging to second job earning the same Rs.800/- in one day. Both are equal in having the same miraculous power (Rs.800/-). The difference is that the money earned by demon destroys him due to misuse and the same money earned by the real devotee gives happiness and fame for using properly the miraculous power. Same miraculous power exists with both cases. But, it is for destruction in the first case and for construction in the second case. The above three jobs indicate the three folded spiritual effort.
Aspiration for fruit in return lowers the value of devotion. When I come to your house, you give Me food with special items because I am your guest. The number of food items increases for a more distinguished guest! The reason is that you know that I have come with love to see you and that you know very well that I have not come for food. When a beggar comes to your house, begging in a pitiable manner for the remains of your food, you are refusing him in bitter way. What is the reason? The reason is that you know very well that the beggar did not come to see you with love on you. He just came for food. He is praising and begging in the lowest pitiable level to gain your sympathy (this does not mean that he is speaking in pitiable level about himself due to lack of ego) for just remains of food only. If you are serving God with sacrifice and without any aspiration for fruit, God Himself will give you a feast of fruits!
The root cause of our diseased devotion is only aspiration for fruit, which is responsible for the negligence of God to devotees like our negligence to beggar. Unless the root cause of disease is cured, the symptom of disease appears again and again. There are two ways of treating disease in Aayurveda: 1) Nidaana chikitsa:- curing the root cause of the disease (the three root causes are Vaata or gas, Pitta or disorder of liver and Shleshma or cold) by giving the corresponding medicines and 2) Lakshana chikitsa:- curing the symptoms of disease by proper medicines. The second type of treatment may benefit the doctor because the patient will come to him again and again! But, Datta is a specific doctor treating the patient in the first way to attack always the root cause by His message-medicine!
Samadhi
14-03-1993, 3.30 am.
Samaadhi or Mahaabhaava should be understood as the final climax of your spiritual effort in yoga (attainment of grace of God). What are the characteristics of such climax? They are:- 1) It is both theoretical and practical love on God. 2) It should be born without reason. 3) It should not have any selfish desire for selfish profit. 4) It should be total dedication of body, word, mind, activity and life. 5) It should be ready to sacrifice anything and anybody for the sake of God. 6) It is wonderful and unimaginable attraction for God. This is the climax of devotion. There is no other way than this if He has to dissolve in you completely called as kaivalya. Saayujya is the process of dissolution of God in you and its climax is kaivalya. In this stage, ego can’t stand because the complete dissolution of God in you brings ‘I’ to zero. When there is no ‘I’ (ahankara), there is no ‘my’ (mamakaara). When both these are absent, ego can’t exist. The devotee thinks only about God and doesn’t think about anything or anybody. This is the total and complete detachment from world. Whatever may be the path, as long as the ego exists in you, My grace can’t appear. Devotion without ego leads you to the right path to get My grace on you. All actions, words and thoughts with such devotion become powerful worship of God.
Quality and Quantity of Devotion
14-03-1993, 8.30 am.
When you are serving ghee to the guest in the meals, the quantity of ghee given by you matters much and not the cup or spoon with which you give the ghee. When there is plenty of hair, in whatever style it may be folded, the lady looks beautiful. Similarly, whatever may be the form of God (statue or photo in the case of beginners) and whatever may be the mode of worship, the practical devotion involving service and sacrifice alone stands in reality. The level of devotion is important and not the form of God. In all the divine forms, I alone exist. All the forms are My dramatic dresses of different roles only. I am the single actor acting in all the divine roles. Some devotees think that worship of one form is greater than worship of different forms of God. The number of forms is immaterial. The quantity and quality of devotion matters really. Whether one liter of milk is in one vessel or in four vessels (1/4th liter in each vessel), the quality and quantity of the milk is one and the same. Whether you worship one form of God or different forms of God, there is no difference. The difference comes only by the difference in the quantity and quality of the milk or devotion.
Raja Yoga
14-03-1993, 10.30 am.
Raja Yoga means the action of king as a beggar. It is the scholar acting like ignorant. By this, the other souls having bonds with you get satisfied by your acting as an equally ignorant. You are detached internally, but, attached externally, just to satisfy the ignorant souls. You should be very careful in this acting. Sometimes, you may be bonded internally also without your knowledge. Then, you will become really ignorant and such slipped devotee is called as Yogabhrashta (devotee slipped from the spiritual path). Such acting is possible only for God, who comes down in human form and such human incarnation is called as Yogaaruudha (situated in the climax) becoming avataara (descending down for the sake of spiritual uplift of humanity).
You, first, start with diverting the time, energy and money that is wasted in luxuries to Me. Gradually, it will go to the climax on one day or other. You have to take care of the basic needs required for yourself and your family. Such care is also a part of spiritual path only because the basic needs are essential for every human being. Without the basic needs, this human body itself can’t stand in this world. In the absence of body, where is the worship? You try to divert your family members also to the spiritual path because your family members pay respect to your feelings and words since they are your dependents. If you can’t make your dependents as devotees of God, how can you make the outsiders as the devotees of God by your propagation? The outsiders are not your dependents and are totally independent. Hence, performing your duties for the sake of family members and simultaneous trials to turn them as devotees are included in the spiritual path. Even if you fail in turning your family members to the path of devotion, you can continue the propagation in the external world without getting discouraged. The reason is that a soul in your family might have been born to just extract the loan given by it to you in the past birth and might have been with negative attitude (samskara). You have to clear your loan also and that is also your duty. The scripture says that all the family members are only the loan lenders to you in the previous birth (runaanubandharupena pashu patnee sutaalayaah). Your association with your family is on the different ground of Pravrutti only and not at all Nivrutti. The co-incidence of spiritual attitude can be only accidental. Hence, even if they are not spiritual, don’t neglect them in your duties for them because clearance of loan in Pravrutti is also the basic part of Nivrutti. Be always grateful to them because they helped you in your previous birth by lending loans! But, how Jesus told His disciples to hate the family members for the sake of God? Jesus told this only in the context of devotee and God or family (nivrutti) and not in the context of devotee and his family members (pravrutti). Certainly, for the sake of God, the Nivrutti-devotee hates his family members, who do not come into the spiritual path. This is with reference to God in Nivrutti. The devotee staying in the family in Pravrutti has no reference of God since the family is against God. Hence, to satisfy those money-lenders in the previous birth, one can keep silent about God while staying in the family and satisfy them by doing all the duties while remaining very grateful to them always. They helped you by lending money to you in your difficulties in the previous birth and you died without clearing their debts ungratefully! Now they have come to you to get back their loans with interest with the help of the administration of God. Hence, you should be grateful to them without displeasing them by forcing devotion to God on their heads. Devotion should come naturally and not by force, which is not liked by God at all. Hence, you have to hate them with reference to the God in your mind only and externally you must always please them, which is the basic justice of Pravrutti.
You must take care of your health at every stage of your life. The reason is that you can serve God in a better way if you are healthy. Hence, God never wants you to spoil your health doing all the blind traditional activities that spoil your health. Taking cold water bath in winter, fasting without taking food, spending sleepless nights, taking long journey to see the statues representing God by spoiling your health are very much disliked by God. How all these activities are concerned with love or devotion to God? Your love on your issues is proved by your service and sacrifice of property to them. Do you prove your love on your issues by taking cold water bath or by fasting or by spending nights without sleep or by taking long journey to see their photos there? Even the child of these days will question you “in what way these activities benefit me?”! You must reduce Rajasic (sour, chilli, salt, masala etc.,) and Tamasic foods (cooked long back) to avoid illness. You must take Sattvic food (wheat and rice with husk along with vegetables having plenty of cellulose etc.,) for maintaining the health. You must have the required quantum of the sleep in the night. Go early to bed and rise early in the morning from bed to think and pray about God. Mind is interrelated with body. Keep the mind steady and stable without emotions of both happiness and tragedy. Emotion spoils the health. But, emotion regarding God will never harm you and moreover improves your health. You can act emotion for the satisfaction of others in Pravrutti, but, you should be perfectly peaceful in the mind internally and this is Raja Yoga.
Whatever may be the form of God or mode of worship, the fruit from God will be as per the level of your devotion in quality and quantity only. You may go to any shop in any path, you will get the item as per the money present in your pocket! I am all Gods. I am all sages. I am all planets. I am all the incarnations. I exist in three divine forms at the fundamental level. Due to the result of penance in several past births only, one can recognize Me as the one actor present in all these divine roles. My grace alone can give such realization. Unless I wish, none can realize Me. Unless I show grace, none can get devotion towards Me.
16-03-1993, 4.00 am.
I am only one as the Veda says “Ekameva advitiiyam Brahma”. I appeared as three by associating Myself with the imaginable energetic forms for the sake of creation, ruling and final destruction. I am unimaginable to anybody as the Veda says “Yasyaamatam tasyamatam”. None could see Me becoming three energetic forms since it happened before the creation and no soul existed then. Even the sage Atri got confusion about this since the three different forms can’t be one. To remove his confusion, I have taken this energetic form, which is one, but, with three heads indicating that the three forms are externally different but internally one and the same unimaginable God doing all the three works associated with three qualities. This form also is not the unimaginable God, but explains the fundamental concept that one is three externally but remains internally as one only. This form gives the concept of internal oneness because this is one form only and simultaneously shows three external forms by three heads to do three different works. When all these forms are thrown away, I am called as Avadhuta or the unimaginable God. Avadhuta represents the naked state, which is without dress. This means that the external energetic form is My external dress and I can be seen only when I am in some external form. Anybody dressed can be seen by anybody. Nobody sees a naked person since the eyes are closed at once. This means that none can see the unimaginable God, who is beyond even imagination. This is the concept and the simile of naked person and dressed person is given to clarify the concept. Ignorant people leave the concept and catch the simile! Without understanding the concept, the ignorant person removes the dress and becomes naked calling himself as Avadhuta! Can you imagine the difficulty in changing this ignorant world?
The unimaginable God is represented by the holy sounding one letter called as ‘Aum’. The alphabets in this single sounding letter Aum represent the three external forms and the single letter sounding represents the one unimaginable God existing in three forms. This letter Aum is associated in the beginning with the name of every divine incarnation as mantra. This indicates that the unimaginable God existing in the three forms called as Dattatreya enters every divine incarnation, whether it is energetic form or human form. It is said that remembering Aum alone gives unhappiness. It only means that trying to meditate or serve the unimaginable God is impossible leading to unhappiness (Avyaktaahi gatirduhkham— Gita). The sage Atri started uttering Aum only and was subjected to serious heat in his body representing unhappiness. Hence, I appeared in three different forms together. Atri was not convinced because the Veda says that I am one only. Hence, I appeared in one form only by uniting all the three forms. The new form is one only indicating the one unimaginable God. With the help of external forms only, I had to preach the internal concept clearly to him since I can’t be even imagined by him, not to speak of seeing Me! Each face with two hands resulting in three faces with six hands indicates that I am in each of the three forms. This new energetic form with three faces is called as ‘Atrivarada’ (blessed the sage Atri) or ‘Yogi Raja’ (the best form of the union of three forms) and is referred as Eshwara (Lord). Sages like the unimaginable God and worship this new energetic form called as Eshwara. Different people also worship these three forms separately. A devoted soul reaching the climax of Nivrutti devotion (Nivrutti means liberation from the aspiration of fruit in return) becomes My master, which is worshipped by a sub-sect called as Shakteyaas. Yadu prayed Me to be born in his dynasty called Yadavas. I was born as Krishna in that dynasty and showed this energetic form of Eshwara with several faces of various incarnations called as Vishwarupa (Vishwa means several or various). The middle three faces were those of the fundamental three divine forms (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) representing the new energetic form called as Datta or Eshwara. This form (Datta) is the source of all miraculous powers, which are just present in My hand. I give these powers to the preachers propagating My spiritual knowledge in this world. These are useful when the preachers face atheists. If any preacher misuses these powers with ego and craze for fame, his fall is certain.
Though My new energetic form is born in presence of sage Atri, I told that I am to be adopted as his son since I have no birth. Here I represent the unimaginable God, who has no birth being unimaginable. I am called as Datta since I am adopted by sage Atri. Datta means ‘given’. By this new energetic form I (the unimaginable God) am given to the upper world as imaginable God or energetic incarnation. When I am incarnated in human form, I (the unimaginable God) am given to the humanity of this earth. Hence, every energetic incarnation (for the upper world) and every human incarnation (for this world of humanity) is Datta only. Since Anasuya, the wife of sage Atri, was fond of Me to have Me as her son, I was born to her from her womb in 9 days treating the days as months. This human sage form of Datta is called as ‘Anasuya-Atri-Nandana’. This form gives the boons to devoted souls and all the miraculous Vedic hymns (mantras) are just in My hand of this form. Anybody in the upper world shall worship this energetic form of Datta (called as Father of heaven) only representing the unimaginable God, who can never be worshipped or served for the satisfaction of devoted souls in the upper world. Similarly, the human form of Datta alone can be worshipped by the devotees in this world since the unimaginable God is beyond imagination and the energetic incarnation also is almost invisible to any human being, being irrelevant to this world.
16-03-1993, 11.00 am.
You must remember Me due to your natural attraction towards My personality and not due to aspiration for boons. To drive away the undeserving devotee, I appear in bad modes of illusion (maya) so that nobody can exploit Me by exhibiting false devotion. If the undeserving devotee gets miraculous powers from Me, he will become a thorn to the peace of the world. I am sorry to say that many human beings are undeserving devotees only. Hence, the illusion covers Me deeply preventing Me to become famous to avoid human beings from exploiting Me. People captured by this illusion feel that I am a naked ghost and that I am against Pravrutti to destroy their family bonds! This illusory power keeps the undeserving majority of humanity away from Me protecting Me from their unimaginable talents of exploitation for the welfare of this world only.
I became three divine forms from whom three crores of deities came yielding thirty-three crores of angels. One salutation to Me goes to all angels becoming equal to thirty-three crores of salutations! All the sages came out from God Brahma. All deities and angles came from God Vishnu and God Shiva. Goddess Saraswati is on My tongue. Goddess Lakshmi is in My heart. Goddess Gouri is in left half of My body. Datta is three (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) in one. Durga is also three (Saraswati, Lakshmi and Gouri) in one. The word ‘Shri’ represents Goddess Durga. Devotees of all the divine forms worship Me alone in the internal sense. Ganapathi, Veerabhadra, Kumara etc., come from the face of Shiva. Rama, Krishna, Narasimha etc., come from the face of Vishnu. Divine sages come from the face of Brahma. Manikantha is from Shiva and Vishnu. Hanuman is from three divine forms. Any human incarnation coming from Me can exhibit all these forms. Brahma is not worshipped in this world, but, by worshipping Me, Brahma is also worshiped.
16-03-1993, 4.00 pm.
The initial ritual is called as Akshraabhyaasa before entering into the line of knowledge. Akshra means the God having no destruction. Abhyaasa means repeated memory of God. People take Akshraa as alphabets in this ritual, which is not correct. In this initial ritual a verse is recited, which means that the preacher of spiritual knowledge is Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Parabrahma (unimaginable God). This means that the real preacher is only the human incarnation of Datta, who represents the unimaginable God existing in all the divine forms. The next ritual is Upanayanam, which means taking the child close to God in human form. Upa= near to God, Nayanam = leading the child. The three threads of the holy thread indicate the three divine forms and the collective holy thread indicates the unimaginable God existing in the three divine forms. It is clearly mentioned that Savitaa is deity in Upanayanam and Gayatri is only the best mode of worship of God, which is singing the divine songs (Savitaa devataa, Gyatree chandah, Gayantam traayate). In this ritual, Guru is introduced, who is the light (knowledge) that removes darkness (ignorance). Gu = darkness; Ru = light that destroys the darkness. This ritual means leading the child to the divine preacher for the sake of true spiritual knowledge and this ritual is universal to every human being in this world. It only means leading the child to real divine preacher to get true spiritual knowledge and training the child to sing about God.
(Shri C B K Murthy asked Swami to give the meaning of the mantra of Datta Shodaaksharee (containing sixteen letters), which is ‘Aum Iym Krom Klim Klum Hraam Hreem Hruum Sauh Dattaatreyaaya Namah’).
You have asked Me to explain the meaning of this mantra (a statement in praise of God that attracts the mind) of Datta having sixteen letters out of which nine letters are called as Beeja aksharas. A Beeja Akshara is just a symbolic letter representing some item or concept and nothing else. Ignorant people attach unnecessary importance to Beeja aksharas thinking that chanting a specific Beeja akshara gives a specific miraculous power, which is the climax of ignorance! There are nine Beeja aksharas in this mantra, representing the nine executing powers of divine administration called as planets. Aum = Sun in heart, Iym = Moon in conch shell, Krom = Mars in wheel, Kleem = Mercury in Damaruka or musical instrument as tiny drum, Kluum = Jupiter in Kamandalu or tiny vessel of water, Hraam =Venus in the garland beads, Hreem = Saturn in Trishula weapon, Hruum = Ketu in the left foot, Sauh = Rahu in the right foot, Dattaatreyaaya namah = Salutation to Dattatreya.
Mantra means a statement, the meaning of which attracts your mind to remember the statement again and again. Such repetition is called as chanting or Japa. Mere recitation of a statement or Beeja Akshara without the knowledge and attraction to the concept is totally foolish and blind tradition of a chain of ignorant people! Mantra (mananaat trayate) itself means that the statement is memorized again and again due to the mental attraction towards its meaning. A Beeja akshra is a just symbolic letter representing an entity like E representing energy, M representing mass, C representing velocity of light etc. The yantra also contains the plan designs drawn as line diagrams indicating the relationships between these entities represented by Beeja aksharas like the diagrams of machine drawings in science. Ignorant people don’t take the knowledge of spiritual concepts conveyed by these diagrams and worship them as if these are the sources of miraculous powers. Miraculous power means only unimaginable event, the source of which is the unimaginable God only, who is always mediated by this energetic form called Datta or Eshwara or Father of heaven.
18-03-1993, 4.00 am.
Before creation of energy (first item) I was unimaginable God only, who is imaginable to Himself only and such unimaginable God was not mediated by any energetic form due to absence of any created item. This point is unnecessary forever hereafter because the unimaginable God will never separate from this energetic form called as Datta. Even if the entire creation gets dissolved, this energetic form never dissolves in future. You may argue that this energetic form can be dissolved if the unimaginable God wishes so. This point is theoretically true but practically false since it will never happen. The reason is that the unimaginable God is perfectly identified with this energetic form and never feels isolated. If the unimaginable God thinks that He should dissolve this energetic form, it means that He is thinking to dissolve Himself only since He is so much identified with this energetic form so that separation is never thought by Him. This is absolute monism between God and medium. Ramanuja and Madhva took this energetic form as the absolute God, who is a perfect homogeneous mixture of inert energy, awareness and unimaginable God. Shankara took this as mixture of formless awareness (awareness also is a specific work form of inert energy only) and unimaginable God. In all the cases, the medium is taken as substratum and the unimaginable God is reduced just to the unimaginable power! This represents the dance of Kali (creation) on God Shiva (creator representing the unimaginable God). The medium has to be given such importance since unimaginable God can be introduced to anybody by His medium only and not by Himself alone. Hence, this reverse concept resulted. Due to this unimaginable power, I remain as undivided one entity, though I enter different energetic or human incarnations.
You can’t imagine My purity or holiness. The Vedas are said to be topmost Holy Scriptures. Such pure Vedas look like the most impure dogs before My wooden chappals (Paadukas) through the sense of relativity. You can’t imagine even the holiness of My Paadukas, not to speak of imagining My Holiness and further not to speak of imagining Me! Hence, worship My Paadukas.
I am the source of justice and the deity of justice follows Me for her protection in the form of this cow. For her protection, I come here as human incarnations preaching the spiritual knowledge in different ways suitable to different mentalities to convert them in to reformed souls and sometimes I exhibit unimaginable powers to control the sinners at least through fear. I am represented by the holy place called as Prayag where the three holy rivers (Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati) unite like the three divine forms (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) uniting in Me.
The present spiritual program is correlation between different sub-religions in Hinduism and different religions in this world. This difference in the spiritual knowledge leads to splits resulting in even cruel fights! Those devotees, who help Me in the propagation of this correlated spiritual knowledge coming from Me shall be helped by Me here and there. Even if none helps Me, My work will not stop even for a fraction of second. If you don’t co-operate with Me in establishing peace in this world, you are only loosing in all the ways and I am not a loser in any way!
18-03-1993, 4.00 am.
You must eat to live and not live to eat! The food must be in limited quantity. If the food is eaten in limited quantity, it is eaten by you (adyate) and if it is eaten more, you will be eaten by it (atti) since it (unlimited food) brings illness to kill you! This is said by the Veda (adyate atticha bhutaani tasmaat annam). Only little food is converted into energy. All the rest remaining food brings disease only. More food is eaten due to ambition for self only. Limited food is converted into limited energy. Since the energy is limited, you should not waste your energy in luxuries and in killing the time by useless entertainments. The digestive system is not a machine generating endless energy since the system has limits of work and efficiency. You may be very rich to procure unlimited quantity of food, but, your digestive system has limit in its work-efficiency. Hence, whether you are rich or poor, you have to take care about eating limited food and preserving the limited energy generated. This limited energy should be carefully and precisely used in worldly activities so that as far as possible more and more energy can be available for divine service. Full meal gives sleep. It means that sleep is indicating the full meal. Exactly half of this full meal should be taken so that half vacant stomach is partly filled with water and partly filled with moving gas. The food must be suitable to your body (hitam), limited (mitam) and just cooked (hutam), which alone gives perfect health (hitabhuk mitabhuk hutabhuk). You must rest a little after lunch and walk a little after dinner in the night (katipaya padachamkramanah). You must never resist urine and motion for a long time (anibaddha mutra pureeshah). You must have little frequency of sex as far as possible (streeshu yo jaagarti). All these are tips of health science given by yoga scripture. Health is the real wealth not only in Pravrutti but also in Nivrutti.
21-03-1993, 4.30 am.
None is greater than the creator, ruler and final destroyer of this universe. I am the creator, ruler and destroyer of this creation. You can worship Me in different ways as per the convenience of your mind. Don’t go against your mind in selecting the mode of worship since all modes are one and the same worship. Reading divine books, singing divine songs, dancing with divine modes, saluting God, going round the statue of God, seeing divine cinemas, looking My photos, hearing My stories, participating in divine debates and discussions, writing about Me, speaking about Me to others and propagating Me and My knowledge in the world are the different modes of My worship. Do not insult any divine form of God including formless God since a formless lump has also a form. Formless God is also a lump form and is the medium of God only since God is unimaginable beyond form and formless media. Do not criticize any divine preacher or divine human incarnation in anyway. Think about your level before criticizing others. You should not criticize any mode of worship. Selection of mode of worship depends upon the specific liking of mind, which differs from one person to the other. If somebody is defective in the spiritual path, explain the truth by friendly discussion and don’t enter into hot arguments. Forms of God may be different and paths to reach God also may be different, but, God is only one and the same in every sub-religion or religion. The quantity (weight) of gold submitted by you matters for sanction of your loan by bank and not the variety of golden jewels submitted. How much fruit of work is sacrificed by you? How much energy is spent by you in the service? How much time could be allotted by you in His work?—are the various branches of your spiritual tree and the main stem of the tree is how much you are withdrawn from the aspiration of fruit in return from God?
Generally, mind requires variety because it is unstable in one mode. It is a flowing stream of nervous energy with constant motion of waves. It likes different forms of God and different modes of worship in different times. Since the ultimate value depends on practical service and practical sacrifice only, as long as the value is maintained, variety does not matter at all. For the same amount of money, you may purchase one item or many items as per their individual rates. As long as the mind is interested, you can continue with a specific form in a specific mode of worship only for any length of time. Whether you are towards north direction (God) or towards south direction (world) - is the most important point. In each direction (North or south) there are different sub-directions ranging from east to west and each sub-direction is in different levels. Variety doesn’t matter since change of variety is the nature of mind. If you maintain the quality of devotion (Non aspiration for fruit in return), quantity of devotion (allotting more time, energy and fruit of work), direction of devotion (theory transforming in to practice), relevance of devotion (concentrating on the relevant contemporary human incarnation) and level of devotion (ability to sacrifice anything and anyone for the sake of God), the spiritual path becomes fruitful.
Any path directed towards Me is the best and any path diverted towards the world is the worst. No path by itself is good or bad. The paths directed towards world may differ within themselves as relatively good (justice) or bad (injustice) and this relative difference is limited to the area of the world (Pravrutti) only as long as the direction to God (Nivrutti) doesn’t come into the picture. God is greater than even the welfare of the world and this point is tested by God in the case of divine servants working for the welfare of the world. You must work for welfare of the world since such welfare is liked by God. As a Nivrutti-devotee, you should not keep the welfare of the world above God. The Veda says that nothing and nobody is even equal to God and not to speak of more than God (Natatsamah…). In the earlier stage, try to serve Me adjusting yourself to the external atmosphere (your family and society) and the varying nature of mind. You should not hurt any soul for My sake and you should reach Me rejecting everything and everyone by not hurting anyone even a little. You can adapt the method of dramatic action for this purpose like anesthesia in performing surgery, which is not a sin at all since I am the goal.
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