Posted on: 04 Apr 2017
[April 04, 2017] 9th Chapter (By P. V. N. M. Sharma)
[09-04-1994, 9.00 p.m.] On this day a special festival of worship was done to goddess Bhramaramba in Her temple. The doors of the temple were closed. In the external extension of temple (Veranda), Swami, Shri CBK Murthy and Smt. Bhavani were sitting. Shri CBK Murthy closed his eyes and was chanting the name of Shiva using a garland of beads. Little far from him, Swami was sitting reciting the 100 verses written by Shankara on Goddess Shakti (Soundarya Lahari) and Smt. Bhavani was sitting near Swami hearing the verses. It was 9 pm in the night. Suddenly, a 10-12 year old stout-black girl with round face having white ash on forehead with a central round red mark in traditional dress of red colour, ran out of the bolted inner temple and kissed the right shoulder of Swami with smile and ran back again into the temple. Smt. Bhavani was dumb stuck seeing this scene. Shri CBK Murthy was also made alert by her, who was speaking about the miraculous scene. Swami showed His right shoulder, which was marked with red blooded wound. Swami told “See the love of the Divine Mother to Her son. She bit with Her teeth in the kiss!” Swami told that the Goddess was highly pleased to hear the prayer of Soundarya Lahari. Swami told that the Goddess became very much pleased because He made two corrections while reciting a verse “Kalatram Vaidhaatram…”. The meaning of the existing verse is “How many poets are not becoming husbands of Goddess Saraswati by their poems? How many rich people are not becoming husbands of Goddess Lakshmi by their wealth? In the case of Goddess Parvati, Lord Shiva alone is her husband.” Swami felt deeply pained by this verse. Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati are one goddess only since Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are one God. Will Shankara say such nonsense? Swami told that the original version of Shankara is “Can any poet become husband of Saraswati by poems? Can any rich man become Husband of Lakshmi by his wealth?” This corrected version can come out by making two small changes in just two letters. The present versions are 1) Bajante Na Kavayah and 2) Na Bhavathi patih. The corrected versions by Swami were 1) The word ‘Na’ is changed to ‘Nu’ and 2) The word ‘Na’ is changed to the word ‘Pra’ so that ‘Na Bhavati’ becomes ‘Prabhavati’. Now the above corrected versions came. Swami told that if one abuses Saraswati and Lakshmi, such fellow is simultaneously abusing Parvati also. Goddess became very happy with these two corrections and came out expressing her happiness through the kiss. What a wonderful miracle is this and all the devotees are reading this verse with wrong versions only. Swami told “Shankara pacified this Goddess, who was very furious at false devotion of devotees. After Shankara, Goddess became again furious by these wrong versions. Now Swami pacified Her again”. Swami told “the verse told by Shankara originally was with correct versions only. A blind fanatic devotee of God Shiva only created such a wrong version”.
10-04-1994, 5.00 a.m.
Swami was explaining that Lord Shiva today is in the form of the morning red Sun. Swami was quoting a Vedic line for such idea (Aruna uta Babhruh). Suddenly the first cassette played in the temple of God Shiva was Aditya Hrudayam, which is a prayer on Sun. The couple was shocked because every day the first cassette played is only on God Shiva! As soon as Swami stated that God Shiva is in the form of Sun, immediately, the cassette on Sun was played! The couple suddenly rushed to the temple asking the reason to play such first cassette. The manager told that a new person came on that day and played that cassette due to ignorance. Swami told that a miracle can be interpreted in the form of an accidental event also by the people having less faith.]
22-06-1994, 4.00 am
Try to not think about the worldly affairs as far as possible because these affairs have neither beginning nor end except some middle portion coming in touch with you (Tatrakaa paridevanaa?... Gita). You will be always rolled in the cycle of these worldly affairs finding no use at any stage. By such repeated cycling, the mind becomes very weak and this is only the final fruit achieved by you. The network of these worldly deeds and fruits is a three dimensional complex (Gahanaa karmano gatih… Gita). When your mind becomes weak, you will not be capable in your valuable spiritual efforts also. You can do neither any useful worldly work nor the ultimate spiritual work. Hence, stop the thinking process of mind, unless it is very essential and important work as concluded by your analytical faculty. Your intelligence must give permission to allow the process of thinking. Mind is like the vehicle and intelligence is like the driver. It means if mind is under the control of intelligence, you are saved a lot.
Try to control grief and happiness. Both are the ways of severe expenditure of energy. Little grief and little happiness for the sake of others are the ways of a realized soul. By these two, you are conserving your energy.
Energy and time are Goddess Parvati and God Shiva. Wealth and the knowledge are Goddess Lakshmi and God Narayana. Word and intelligence are Goddess Saraswati and God Brahma. When you use all these six faculties in the divine service of propagation of knowledge and devotion of God, you are doing the real worship of these three divine couples. Such dedication in six ways is the true worship of God Shanmukha (Six faced Lord) or God Subrahmanya.
While doing the divine service of God, you must take lot of care about your health because any disturbance in your health will result in disturbing the divine service of lord. While taking care of your health, you must concentrate more on taking precautions for prevention of illness than concentrating on cure of the attacked illness. If you are involved in worldly life only, even if some time is disturbed in the cure of your illness, much is not lost. But, in the divine service, every iota is valuable. Proper quantum of sleep is also important because this biological system has limits in efficiencies of its systems. Vihaara or external movement should be well thought of since it is going to consume a lot of your energy. You must have control on your external movements and you must think several times before entering into an external movement.
29-06-1994, 2.00 am
(Swami awoke and made the couple also awake.)
Awake! Awake! Don’t be surprised. I awoke you both to tell you a most important point. This entire world is My movable and immovable property. You are one among the movable property. Hence, don’t think that you are the owner of any movable or immovable property of this world because you yourself happen to be My property. Hence, leave the idea of ‘my’ in your worldly life. Participate in My service by doing propagation of what I teach you. This world is always in the wrong path due to the preaching of preachers with little knowledge. There is no direction except devotion and service to God based on the aspiration for some fruit in return. This is a most dangerous situation, which is more serious than even the final dissolution!
29-06-1994, 8.00 am
Some people say “I don’t know what sin I have done in the previous birth, the fruit of which is now appearing in the form of this tragedy!” This is the funniest statement, I have ever heard. The human being born in this world is not subjected to any punishment of the sin done in the previous birth. When the soul comes into this world from the hell, all the punishments of previous sins were completed and the soul is temporarily reformed. The soul entering this world does not undergo any punishment of the previous sin. In this world, the soul is given full freedom to do good or bad deeds. This world is called as Karmaloka or world of deeds and not world of enjoyment of fruits (Bhogaloka). Ofcourse, the fruits of intensive deeds (Atyutkatapunyapaapa) done here are surely enjoyed at once in this world itself. This particular person, who is saying that he/she is enjoying the punishment of past sin, is actually enjoying the punishment of intensive sin done in this world itself. Actually it is also not an ordinary sin. Had it been ordinary sin, its punishment could have been postponed to the hell after death. Having done intensive sin in this life itself, the person is posing as if he or she has not done any sin in this life and the tragedy is falsely linked to the punishment of sin done in the previous birth! Even Sita did this mistake. When Rama sent her to forest, she says “Punishment of some great sin done in my previous birth is this result! (mamaiva janmaantarapaatakaanaam)”. Actually, in forest, previously, Sita scolded Lakshmana with ill intention on her, when Lakshmana was insisting to stay with her for her protection. The punishment of this intensive sin resulted like that.
Always try to avoid unnecessary process of thinking. Thinking is expenditure of very precious form of nervous energy. Ofcourse, necessary thinking for performing routine duties should be done since we have not reached such highest spiritual level, in which God Himself performs our duties also. But, unnecessary thoughts should be controlled with most serious effort. These unnecessary thoughts mainly involve the process of very deep thinking of the past and based on which very deep thinking of future plans is maintained. You need not give so much time and spend so much precious nervous energy for such unnecessary thoughts because I surely tell all of you that all these thoughts are going to fail! Infact, there is a logical reasoning for your failure. By over thinking, you become very weak in your mind and also in your physical efficiency. Over thinking makes you become physically weak also. Due to this, your efficiency goes down and you are failing in your practical efforts. Instead of wasting the precious nervous energy for these unnecessary thoughts, spend that in thinking about God. In such case even without your proposals of plans, by the grace of God, you will suddenly dash with the wonderful fruit of success without its previous efforts! Don’t believe Me. You experience this truth by practicing it for some time. Atleast, you should develop touch with God theoretically in the fundamental level. The ladder of sacrifice, service and recognition of God in human form etc., shall be thought off at a later stage. When you are always thinking about worldly affairs only, without thinking about God, you are almost an atheist in the disguise of a theist!
30-6-1994, 5.00 am:
There are six vices: 1) Anger or violence, 2) Greediness or corruption, 3) Illegal sex, 4) Fascination to world, 5) Ego and 6) Jealousy.
Out of these six, the first three are very serious leading the soul certainly to hell since these three sins are harming others. The latter three sins do not lead to hell provided there is no damage to others. If you have fascination to world, you need not go to hell if your fascination to your wife/husband or issues or money does not harm others. Similarly, your ego will not take you to hell as long as your ego doesn’t hurt others. Similarly, your jealousy towards others will not give any punishment in hell if it is not harming others. Sometimes, jealousy also helps you in your development. If you examine the first three sins, your anger/violence will certainly damage others. Similarly, your greediness for money is resulting in corruption by which you are stealing others’ money by which others suffer. Similarly, your illegal sex will certainly cause suffering to others. When Dharmaraja asked his grandfather, Bhishma, about the essence of justice, Bhishma replied that the essence of justice is that one should not do that to others, which, if is done by others to him results in hurting himself. Therefore, the criminal nature of the sin resulting in punishment is always due to only damage done by yourself to others. Hence, God in the Gita mentioned that only these three sins are the main gates to hell, which are violence, financial corruption and illegal sex.
The foremost sin is violence to kill other living beings for the sake of food or some other personal grudge. God Brahma becomes furious by this sin because He alone is the authority to grant longevity. When you do not have power to give life to a killed living being, you do not have any right to kill any living being. The death sentence given by a judge should be ultimate. It means that before implementing death sentence to a living being, you should give several chances to the soul for rectification of sin by reformation. Reformation is the real aim of any punishment and not vengeance. You are hanging a person to death for the only reason that the criminal may kill another human being. If reformation is achieved and the sin is not practically repeated, there is no need of punishment. Similarly, killing a living being for food is the top most level of this first sin. You must always imagine that you are captured by a demon, which is going to eat you! Whatever agony you feel in that time and during the time of cutting your body by the jaws of the demon, the same agony is felt by that living being, being killed for the sake of your food! God Brahma represents the quality of Rajas and the anger in violence is also due to Rajas only. This is the qualitative link.
The second type of sin is stealing by cheating or robbing others money by force. Money is Goddess Lakshmi and hence this type of sin makes God Vishnu to become furious. Today, almost everyone is a victim of corruption. Before cheating somebody for the sake of money, you should analyse the damage done to others especially poor people. You must at least avoid corruption in the case of poor people. If you rob the wealth of a sinner, that money should not be enjoyed by yourself and your family members. That should be spent to serve the beggars or should be spent for spiritual purpose. You may digest even most dangerous poison but not the sinful money, which will destroy yourself and your family. It is said that the sinful money earned by you comes like a railway engine to carry away by linking with your earned money through justice also, which is like a series of compartments standing on the track by the side of a platform (Anyaayenaarjitam vittam sahamoolam vinashyati). Vishnu stands for the quality of Sattvam, which is knowledge and analysis. You must analyze carefully whenever you earn or spend money. Most of the people spend money in the way that leads them to hell only. Expenditure or donation of money also leads you to hell. Everybody is spending lot of money on functions donating to relatives and friends, who have enough food in their homes. You spend lot of money on a function due to your desire to expose yourself based on ego. You deny food to a beggar dying with hunger. You calculate to give food to a devotee or spiritual preacher coming to your house, who helps you in elevating your spiritual knowledge or devotion. Money is never wasted because its expenditure will either bring good (Punyam) or bad (Paapam). Even if you throw money into river to call it as wastage, such act is also a sin. Hence, you should be very careful with deep analysis while earning or spending money.
The third type of sin is illegal sex, which is based on blind lust linked to the quality of Tamas. God Shiva stands for Tamas and becomes furious due to this sin. Just you observe Lord Shiva, who burnt the cupid enraging lust in any living being. You must always meditate upon Lord Shiva to avoid this sin. If you are cheating a husband by going with his wife or cheating a father by going with his daughter, imagine yourself standing in the place of such husband and father! By which you are hurt, you should not do the same to others as said above by Bhishma.
God created this world and is very particular of the justice, peace and balance of this society. You must avoid these three types of sins at least due to fear to hell created by God. This is the minimum and maximum expectation of God from a human being. God is not furious even if the human being is an atheist provided the atheist avoids the above three types of sins. Even an atheist is granted heaven if he/she follows the justice avoiding the sins. In fact, God maintains the atheists because they are also in Divine service. They do the service of God by acting as examiners to devotees. On hearing the criticism of God from an atheist, whether the devotion of a devotee is shaken or not is the test. They criticize theists doing sins and this develops alertness and care in devotees. They disprove the false miracles done by exploiters, which is very much essential to save the devotees from false trap of false devotees and pseudo human incarnations.
If you are living as per this minimum and maximum expectation of God, He is pleased with you even if you are an atheist. He never encourages devotion. Devotion is the field started by human souls only and not God. God creates several obstructions to the devotion in the name of tests as we see the life histories of several devotees.
30-6-1994, 8.00 am:
There are 5 levels of human souls. The first two levels belong to Nivrutti. The third level belongs to Pravrutti. The fourth level belongs to Pravrutti (theism) and atheism mixed. The fifth level is perfect atheism.
Nivrutti level of Theism:
First level: The devotee always remains as servant of God only and becomes even the controller of God. Such devotee is born again and again as devotee propagating the path of devotion to God. Ex: Hanuman, Radha etc.
Second level: One of the first level devotees is selected by God to become human incarnation in this world for the sake of propagation of right spiritual knowledge. Since God merges with the devotee, the devotee and God become one, which is Monism (Advaita). The human incarnation results only by the will of God and not by the will of the devotee. In fact, the devotee has no such desire to become God. The devotee is compelled by God for the sake of welfare of the world. The devotee stands as human being-component along with God-component in a single phase of human form. Ex: Rama, Krishna etc.
The devotee in this Nivrutti level follows justice not due to fear from hell, but, due to the love or devotion to God. The devotee rejects injustice because it is not liked by God. Hence, love or devotion is the entire basis of Nivrutti and not fear to hell or attraction to heaven. The devotee is avoiding injustice simply because God dislikes injustice and is doing justice because God likes justice.
Pravrutti level of Theism:
Third level: The devotee follows the justice since he or she fears for the hell and has attraction to heaven. Injustice is not done due to fear from the punishment in the hell. Justice is done because of the attraction to heaven. Hence, fear to hell and attraction to heaven are the main basic fields of Pravrutti. If the competition between God and justice comes, the devotee votes for justice only. In this level, concern to self or selfishness exists as the root. Ex: Dharmaraja etc.
Fourth level: This is the mixed level of theism and atheism. The theism is followed so that the devotee can achieve the position of God. There is no point of devotion to God. The devotion is not towards God but is towards the position of God. Ex: Ravana worshipped the energetic incarnation (God Shiva) and repelled against human incarnation (Rama). The devotion of Ravana to Shiva is also not real because in one time Ravana wanted to become the husband of the Divine mother Goddess Parvati! This level is a mixture of false devotion to God and atheism. Here, atheism doesn’t mean absence of God. The atheism here means only that the false devotee wants to become God. Hiranyakashipu worshipped one energetic incarnation (Shiva) and repelled against another energetic incarnation (Vishnu). All demons come under this category.
Lowest level of Atheism:
Fifth level: In this level, perfect atheism exists. The soul neither claims to be God nor allows any human being to be God. The very existence of God is denied here. These souls are born as animals etc., and the soul in such birth lives with enjoyment of worldly needs (pacifying hunger, thirst, sleep and sex) only without the concept of God. However, the atheists following justice avoiding injustice completely are born as human beings again in this world. However, this type of atheism is highly impossible because once the absence of God is fixed, atheist will not keep silent without doing sins since there is no harm if a sin is done in a talented way to escape punishment in this world. At the same time, the theistic souls doing injustice are also born as animals, birds, trees and stones. In such births, the theistic sinners are rectified by adopting such life in which the worldly fascination is minimized. In the birth of animal or bird, the illegal ambition of earning and storing is minimized since animals and birds earn food for that day only. The life of a tree will give training to sacrifice stored wealth to others in the form of fruits. The life of a stone is a coma stage in which the intensities of negative qualities (of course, positive qualities also) get minimized.
Re-birth of any living being is inevitable as said in the Gita (Dhruvam janma mrutasyacha…). However, human re-birth is not sure. The human being must treat the present human birth itself to be the last and concentrate on spiritual side.
30-6-1994, 2.00 pm:
God Brahma gave place to Goddess Saraswati on His tongue and not in the heart. God Shiva gave place to Goddess Parvati in the half of His body, which means in the half heart only. God Vishnu gave place to Goddess Lakshmi in His full heart. What is the reason? God represents the Divine Lord, who is the goal of entire humanity. I surely tell all of you that a beggar suffering with poverty is not the real poorest soul in this creation. The person, who did not recognize the existence of God and did not enjoy the bliss in getting the grace of God, is the poorest in reality. The Goddess mentioned here represents the devoted soul trying for God’s grace. In the ancient Indian system, male is given dominating place of master and female is given the place of servant. All the forms of God based on this tradition indicate the ultimate Lord to be served as husband and His wife indicates the devoted soul serving Him. This tradition exists in all our old scriptures, which should not be misunderstood in the present light of male and female being place in equal status. The status of the simile is not important since the important concept is that God is the Master to be served and devotee is the servant serving the Lord. The source of practical devotion (service) is the theoretical devotion (prayer with words (1), love in mind (2) and knowledge by intelligence (3)). Mere theoretical devotion is very pleasant but has no value due to absence of practical fruit. Mere practical devotion without theoretical devotion is surely unpleasant but has the same constant practical value of the fruit. If you take scented gold to shop to sell, the shopkeeper is very happy to weigh the gold, but, no extra money will be paid. If you take gold without scent or even with unpleasant odour the shopkeeper weighs it without happiness, but does not reduce the cost of it to be paid to you. The practical devotion or service is in two ways:- 4) Sacrifice of work and 5) Sacrifice of fruit of work. If you offer the devotion in all these five types, God is very much pleased like Lord Krishna when all the five Pandavas surrendered to Him.
Let us see a devotee in the name of Goddess Saraswati. She is the deity of knowledge and words. A devotee, who is great scholar in philosophy and always praising God through beautiful poems and songs, represents this stage. Such devotee finds tongue of God as his place. In return, God also keeps good knowledge of the devotee and praises the devotee by tongue. No place in the heart is given because of absence of practical devotion or at least love in mind. In the theoretical devotion, love is the actual item that generates practical devotion.
Let us take the second case, Goddess Parvati, who did severe penance due to extreme love on God. This represents a devotee having extreme love in mind, but confined to the boundary of theoretical devotion only without entering into practical devotion. Since the source (love) of practical devotion exists, which has a future possibility practical devotion, half of the real place, heart, is given to such devotee. This is a better stage than the above mentioned first stage.
Finally, let us take the case of Goddess Lakshmi, who is the original form of wealth (money is called as Lakshmi) and is always pressing the feet of God. She dedicated herself to God and this means sacrifice of fruit of work or wealth (Karma phala tyaaga). Her constant pressing of feet is sacrifice of work (Karma samnyaasa). She represents both parts of practical devotion of service. A devotee, who serves God with practical devotion, gets the fruit also practically. To please God is one thing, which is by theoretical devotion. To get practical fruit from God is another thing, which is by practical devotion. The total devotion (theoretical and practical) gets practical fruit from the pleased God. Demons also get practical fruits (boons as powers) from God for their practical devotion. But, God is not pleased with them due to the absence of the main component (love) of the theoretical devotion. Even if the demons express love, such love is not real but artificial, since, all their devotion is based on the aspiration for fruit in return. In real love, there shall be no aspiration for any fruit in return and full devotion (all the five parts) is dedicated to God. For the sake of pleasure of God only, devotion is dedicated and not for the sake of any selfish pleasure.
30-6-1994, 4.00 pm:
Several devotees ask God for money only because they think that money is everything that solves all the problems. A person is detected with cancer in the final stage. Will any extent of money save him? Therefore, protection from God in whatever form and wherever it is necessary is the most important thing. Practical protection from God comes only from practical devotion, since, God said in the Gita that in whatever way you approach Him, God will approach you in the same way (Yea yathaa maam…).
Some give rice, pulses, vegetables etc., to a deserving priest in the place of giving food. This is only sacrifice of fruit of work (Karma phala tyaaga). If these materials are cooked well with good taste and served, it stands for sacrifice of work also (Karma samnyaasa). By these two, the practical devotion is complete. Hence, sacrifice of cooked food (Anna Daanam) is considered to be the best donation. Of course, it depends on the convenience and health to do sacrifice of work. In such case, sacrifice of fruit of work stands for the sacrifice of work also because the fruit of work is achieved by work only. If you have stolen the money of some innocent good person and donate it to a deserving priest or preacher, it is only sacrifice of wealth but not sacrifice of fruit of work. The Veda simply says about sacrifice of wealth or money (Dhanena tyaagena…). But, the Gita says that the sacrifice of wealth should be the sacrifice of fruit of work. You may not have attachment to stolen money and moreover you may have fear also that it would harm you, if enjoyed! Due to such fear, you may sacrifice that sinful wealth to God since God is unaffected. But, such donation is not pious from your angle due to lack of your attachment to it. If it is the fruit of your hard work, you will have full attachment to it. Hence, the Gita speaks about sacrifice of full and real attachment for the sake of God. If the Veda is cow, the Gita is its milk, which means that the Gita is the real essence of the Veda. The Gita is refined Veda.
30-6-1994, 8.00 pm:
A cinema fails without break dances. Even in fully devotional cinema the dance of heavenly dancers in the court of Indra is compulsory. A break dance is very bad sinful item since it provokes illegal sex. But, it is inevitable without which the total cinema becomes a flop without audience. Similarly, a vegetable without oil and masala is not tasteful, even though, oil and masala spoil the health. But, it is inevitable because nobody eats pure vegetable. Hence, even if it is bad, it becomes inevitable. Hence, it should be introduced in small quantity wherever it is very much necessary. Similarly, a spiritual program fails without exhibition of miracles because even the initial assembly of devotees towards the human incarnation becomes impossible. These miracles are very harmful to the devotees as well as to the human being-component of the human incarnation. Devotees accept you as God only on the exposure of miracles. This is done because the devotees want to know whether you have the miraculous power or not. The miracle is not aspired to know whether you are God or not. If they detect the existence of the miraculous power with you, the next stage is application of your miraculous power to solve their personal problems! That is the reason for devotees going to even evil people performing black magic showing miraculous powers. Thus, the miracles are only for the increase of selfishness of devotees, which is actually to be sacrificed in the path of devotion. By this, devotees are spoiled. They will praise the human incarnation by soaping Him through worships and songs etc. The human being-component of human incarnation is also a human being acting as medium of God. This medium has all natural properties like hunger, thirst, illness etc. Naturally, it can be attacked by ego also. When devotees praise, the human being-component of human incarnation gets ego as we see in the case of Parashurama. Thus, the miracles spoil both sides. Hence, the miracle should happen spontaneously by the will of God-component present in the human incarnation and not on the will of human being-component. Hence, you must always worship the human incarnation as God and not as human being. God performs miracles in very limited quantity whenever and wherever the situations are genuine. In such case, there is no damage on any side. A real spiritual aspirant will never give value to miracles but gives value only to the spiritual knowledge that will help him or her in right direction to attain the grace of God. When a saint walked on the river Ganga telling that he got the power after spiritual practice for 30 years, Shri Paramahamsa told that the cost of his long practice is only Re. 1/- since anybody can cross the river by paying Re. 1/- to the boat!
[May 19, 2017] 9th Chapter Continued …
01—07—1994, 04.00 am
If the eyes are blind due to ignorance, the soul can never recognize the human incarnation. If the eyes are partially blind due to partial ignorance-cataract, the soul recognises the human incarnation through miracle and exhibits devotion for the sake of solution to selfish problems. If the eyes are fully opened by the spiritual knowledge, the soul recognises the human incarnation even without any miracle and becomes its servant doing service with sacrifice without any selfishness. One should not decide the human incarnation by the exhibited power. Based on the context of requirement in the program, the power may be exhibited fully or may exhibit partially or may not exhibit at all. In all the human incarnations, the same unimaginable God exists possessing fullest unimaginable power. Due to absence of expression of power, don’t insult the human incarnation, which is the insult of the absolute unimaginable God only. If you avoid insulting any human being, it is the safest path because the human incarnation without exhibited power looks like an ordinary human being. Such human incarnation is hidden in the humanity. When you insult a human being, there is every risk of insulting God in human form.
If you give food, cloths, shelter and medicine (if required) to the needy, you will certainly reach the heaven. Apart from these, if you give spiritual knowledge, you will first go to heaven and from there you will go to the abode of the God. Without the above mentioned basic needs, a soul cannot understand the spiritual knowledge. Heaven is the intermediate station in the journey to reach the abode of God.
Detachment from worldly bonds without attachment to Me is useless. A stone is detached from all the worldly bonds. A fellow trapped by a prostitute is also detached from all the justified worldly bonds. The salvation of the stone and such a trapped fellow is meaningless. The salvation means detachment from world, which should spontaneously come without any effort due to the attachment of the soul to God. All the effort should be for the attachment to God and no trace of effort shall be done for the detachment from the world.
Milk is offered to Me and butter is offered to Krishna. Butter is generated from milk and Krishna came from Me only. There is nothing wrong to think that you are God provided such thought helps you and the world. Due to such thought, you can be devoid of all bad qualities and bad deeds since God is never bad. This helps you and the world also. If the monism of Shankara brings such reformation in the soul, it is really appreciable. But, if the same monism brings ego and bad deeds claiming that you are above the sins (being God), such monism is worst. Monism must be decided based on the result. If monism helps the spiritual journey, it is appreciated. Keeping such good results only in the view, Shankara propagated monism for the reformation of humanity.
The detachment from world even before attachment to God helps the soul to conserve its energy without wasting it in worldly attachments, which is called as Yoga. Yoga means attainment. Here, the attainment of conserved energy avoiding all wastages is Yoga. This conserved energy can be used in the attachment to God in strong way. The strength of the attachment is always proportional to the conserved energy.
Harming other souls is sin. A greater sin is carelessness towards God. Still greater sin is atheism. Still greater or greatest sin is scolding God. Kaali is seen drinking the blood of devils, who scold God. This is actually the transmission of sinful blood with new good blood or spiritual knowledge. She is the power of the hell. The soul must be reformed by spiritual knowledge and this alone brings permanent solution. However, in absence of permanent solution, the sinful attitude is suppressed by punishments and hell represents this concept. When the soul takes a new birth in this world, God gives ignorance of all the past so that the soul is with fresh mind to receive spiritual knowledge. If the soul is filled with all past memories, the soul has no fresh mind to receive the spiritual knowledge. If the past memories exist, the soul may get temporary reformation through fear for some time and the soul has to go to hell continuously.
02—07—1994, 05.00 am
Monism means the union (Saayujya) of soul with God, which shall happen after death. God is not increased by such union. This means that the soul must disappear. Such union is loss to soul. But, this is the concept of several ignorant people. The actual union is the union of unimaginable God with the imaginable soul while the soul is alive in a human body and this is called as Jivanmukti (attaining the union of God before death). The second type of salvation is meaningful and is always given by Me. This is real monism and the result is human incarnation. The first and foremost eligibility to become human incarnation is not to aspire for it at anytime. It always depends on the will of God only. The human incarnation results when He wants to do some good work helpful to the world through you as His medium. You must be always aspiring to remain as devotee only in His service. If you are leftover with this aspiration only, you will become human incarnation and also receive even higher fruit, which is to become the master of God!
Jnaana and Bhakti are theoretical. Karma is practical, which is also called as Prapatti. Theory alone has no fruit, but, theory is the mother of practice. When practice is associated with theory, the sacrifice and service are devoid of selfishness. Hence, theory is essential as it generates practice and purifies it from selfishness. You must understand the limits of every step in the spiritual journey. Yoga makes the journey fast due to accumulated energy.
Due to My union, you can become Parabrahman in this life itself. In this, neither death nor your dissolution is needed. The only hurdle in the spiritual journey is selfishness that provokes you to aspire for some fruit in return for your service and sacrifice. If this single hurdle is crossed, surely you will attain success in your spiritual effort.
03—07—1994, 01.00 am
You can never recognize Datta, the unimaginable God in human form, unless you cross ego and jealousy towards co-human forms. Your negligence, carelessness, jealousy and insulting attitude towards co-human beings shall disappear, which alone reflect towards human form of God also. You must develop respect towards every human being, which will help you in worshipping the human form of God. Your behaviour towards humanity is very important in the spiritual path.
You remain in the discussion about God (Satsanga) as for as possible. The intervals involve you in the worldly issues. If the intensity of Satsanga is more, the spiritual journey becomes more fast. The Satsanga is always granted by Me for your spiritual welfare. I always repel the worldly people by exhibiting negative qualities so that they go away from Me due to misunderstanding. I always attract the people having interest in the spiritual path. Even such spiritual people try to leave Me due to the influence of worldly attractions. But, My attraction is always more powerful and they will come back to Me.
If anybody praises you, pass it on to Me since every merit is always from the grace of God. Submissiveness is the best quality in the spiritual path. Propagation of spiritual knowledge is for your development only since I don’t need help from any human being for the propagation of My spiritual knowledge. I am asking you to propagate My spiritual knowledge for your welfare only. Hence, My service is your service only. When you are involved in spiritual discussions (Satsanga) and in propagation work, only you are benefited. For propagation, you should not aspire for any fruit in return since you are serving yourself only. As long as you are in the propagation, ignorance can’t appear just like the darkness can’t appear as long as light shines. Sages were always involved in such work only by which they were elevated to very high level. Darkness means absence of light only. Ignorance means absence of true knowledge only. The human incarnation of God is the infinite ocean of spiritual knowledge. The Veda says that God is the infinite and excellent true spiritual knowledge. It means that the main inherent characteristic of God is the spiritual knowledge, which alone gives right direction.
07—07—1994, 06.00 am
The individual soul is made of awareness, which is the product of inert energy and inert matter. I am beyond awareness. Even though I am not awareness, I can think due to My omnipotence based on My unimaginable nature. I can burn anything even though I am not fire. Awareness is the modification of food. If food is stopped, awareness does not exist in the body. Hence, individual soul is born from food. Such individual soul is never God. But, it can become God if I wish. Such soul becomes God for all practical purposes just like the electrified wire is electricity for all practical purposes. Neither electricity really becomes wire nor vice-versa, but, electricity and wire are treated as one item only. Both monism and dualism co-exist in one place at one time due to My omnipotence.
Penance is the real path to attain Me. Penance means the real and continuous interest in Me without aspiring anything from Me. The attraction becomes real only when no advantage is aspired from it. Such attraction without any selfish reason is called as penance by which spontaneous detachment from the world results without any effort. Without such attraction to God, detachment from world by force is not real penance. Such detachment is not related to Me in anyway and hence I am not bothered about it. Such natural attraction shall continue not only in the absence of any selfish fruit from Me, but also in the presence of even selfish loss from Me. Then, it becomes climax of penance resulting in attaining Me. Even the worst activity with such attraction is liked by Me. Even the best activity without such attraction is not liked by Me. I felt the water poured on Me by the mouth of the hunter (Kannappa) as the best bath since the starting of creation. His attraction towards Me is unimaginable because he plucked his own eyes for the sake of My eyes shedding blood! The bath with water of Ganga River given by the priest was almost nothing before the above best bath! The theoretical devotion of any devotee is always tested by Me, which is proved by practical devotion through service and sacrifice. Theory (knowledge and devotion) without such practical proof is useless just like the artificial theoretical love exhibited by the prostitute for her selfish practical benefit. The practical proof is the truth of devotion. The practical devotion done aspiring some fruit in return is also useless, which is the business done by a merchant. You can test yourself regarding the truth of your devotion. Forget every fruit in return from Me for some time. Then, you see how much theoretical and practical devotion exists in you. Then you will understand the reality of your devotion. If you find devotion in you even in the absence of any fruit in return, imagine that I am giving you difficulties. Now, see how much devotion exists in you. If still you find devotion in you, imagine that I am giving agony to you. If you still find devotion in you, such devotion is true. If all these imaginary steps exist in real practical world, your devotion is in climax and I totally dedicate Myself to you. Datta means such final dedication only. In the initial stage, I fulfill your desires so that you will gradually become My true devotee in the final stage. Most of the devotees say good bye to Me after such initial stage thinking that they have fooled Me. I have given the fruits of their good deeds only as pre-matured fixed deposits and they have fooled themselves only.
This present world is called as Martya loka, which means the place of death. You must remember this name always to know that you have to leave this world one day or other through death and that you are not eternal to stay here permanently. Whenever you lie on the bed for sleep, imagine every day that you are on the death bed. This will bring some sort of detachment from the world and also some attachment to God. You must always be careful in all activities like eating food, doing exercises of body, quantity of sleep, avoiding tensions etc., to protect your health, which helps your spiritual effort. Disease always steals some time causing loss to effort.
Never say that everything happens as per will of God. It is true, but, the direction of everything is as per your will only, which decides the fruit. Freedom is given to soul to decide the direction of any action. Hence, you are responsible for everything as I am not responsible for any fruit attained by you. You should not throw responsibility on the cycle of deeds (karma) also. Your past balance (Sanchita) is put in the closed cover. The reason for the present birth (Praarabdha) is exhausted after giving this birth. The fruits of present deeds to be enjoyed by you in the future (Aagaami) are entered in a list, which is also kept in another closed cover. No form of the deed (karma) is interfering with you in your present life. You are existing in full free state in this world to receive the spiritual knowledge and reform your soul without any disturbance from any external factor. This is the golden opportunity given to you to change your destiny in the state of full freedom. You are responsible for your future uplift or fall.
22—07—1994, 04.00 am
God and love are inseparable like sugar and sweetness. If one attains the love (devotion), God is spontaneously attained. Sage Vyasa got satisfaction of mind only after writing the Bhagavatam, which describes love of God and love towards God. Such love is attained from spiritual knowledge that gives various details of personality of God. Some stony hearts don’t develop devotion even from spiritual knowledge because of lack of grace of God on them. Devotion is the force that transforms theory into practice. Mere knowledge without the grace of the God develops neither devotion nor practice. Practice alone gives the fruit. Either knowledge or devotion or practice based on selfish fruit yields very less fruit. All these three based on selflessness yields eternal fruit in which God takes the total responsibility of the devotee here and there.
Fasting doesn’t mean avoiding food totally. It means only taking good food that helps the health, which is necessary for spiritual effort. If the total food is avoided due to immersion in the knowledge or devotion of God, such fasting is real. Fasting should be natural but not by effort and force. Love leads to bliss. Hence, love and bliss are inherently associated characteristics of God in human form. Both these are always with awareness only. This means that the incarnation of God is always through a living being only and not through inert items. The test done by Datta is only to see whether your love is on some selfish fruit or on God. The knowledge of Sage Vyasa can be seen through his Brahma Sutras and his love to God is seen through the Bhagavatam. Both these generate practice that gives the divine fruit.
25—07—1994, 12.30 pm
Whatever you hear enters the mind and gets reflected through your words. Avoid talking and hearing the worldly people. Always engage yourself in the association of spiritual people. Food also affects the mind and hence you should analyse the food also. Both association and food are to be cared upon. Similarly, if one confines to wife/husband only, such person is said to be a bachelor. The sage Durvaasa, who was taking pure food from the hands of Arundhati was said to be fasting always (Nityaupavaasi) and sage Vashishtha, who got several children through Arundhati was said to be the permanent bachelor (Sadaabrahmachari). You must be always very careful about your life in this world (Pravrutti), which is the foundation for your spiritual journey (Nivrutti).
28—07—1994, 01.00pm
You must always analyse food you take regarding its effects on your body. The food also affects your mind and intelligence. Food is the source of good health as well as disease. The qualities of food and its quantity should be always analysed. You take food through your mouth and similarly you hear the sentences through your ears. You must analyse the quality and quantity of speech grasped by your ears. Both these decide your spiritual future.
God does not require anything from you except your real love, which can be proved through practice alone. Service and sacrifice in practice are only considered as practical proof for your real devotion. The practical service and sacrifice are required as proof only and God really does not need your service or sacrifice. If the proof is absent the real love and false love look alike and can’t be discriminated. A devotee showing false love also argues that his/her love is also true. Then, spectators will blame God with partiality for favouring the love of one devotee and rejecting the same love of another devotee. For this purpose only, the practical proof is shown to find out the reality of devotion. You misunderstand God that He is in actual need of your practical service and practical sacrifice. Even if both these are expressed practically as proof of real love, sometimes, this proof also fails because sometimes you are doing both these aspiring for some selfish fruit and in such case the love is not real. Hence, practical proof of love without aspiration for any fruit in return alone is the real devotion.
Do all your responsibilities to the family and never hurt or harm them. If a family is not co-operating with you, maintain secrecy throughout spiritual effort, which avoids hurting them. Anyway, you are not harming them since you are doing all the responsibilities without any effect from your spiritual effort. You show all love externally on your family like any other ordinary human being. Your love on God is maintained internally without any expression of it before the family. This is not cheating your family. This is only avoiding the hurting your family. If you have love on your family externally as well as internally, proceed as a true devotee of your family without caring for God. Who is forcing you to come to God? At least don’t hurt the devotees by speaking against God. Similarly, devotees to God should not hurt a true devotee to his/her family. You must know one important truth, which is that even God is not interested in encouraging devotion. In fact, He discourages the devotion by creating several problems and hurdles. He only encourages the Pravrutti (your justified behaviour in this world) and discourages the Nivrutti (your personal behaviour to God). The minimum and maximum expectation of God from you is Pravrutti only. God discourages your excessive attachment to family because such extreme family-bond alone is responsible for your sins in looting the society. God never objects your responsibilities to your family. God says that it is the greatest sin if you avoid your promised responsibilities to your family. He is only advising you to detach from the family in mind to avoid the social sins and to avoid your mental tensions to save your health. The detachment from family is not a pre-requisite for attaining love to God. It is only a spontaneous consequence. Nivrutti is the total effort from the side of a specific devotee only and not from the side of God in anyway. You should never blame or criticise God even in dream in the context of Nivrutti.
Your theoretical devotion should be without aspiration for any fruit in return. Your practical devotion is a must to prove your theoretical devotion. There should be no lagging behind in theory as well as in practice. God always tests you in that one thing, which can’t be sacrificed by you. A sacrifice should be full because you must realise that God is not in need of any sacrifice from you for His personal purpose. Practical sacrifice is only to test the quality and quantity of your theoretical devotion. Welfare of the world is in the aim of God better than yourself because world is created and maintained by God only. You must serve the world for its welfare as a servant of God to please Him only. World shall not be greater than God. Nothing and none should be equal to God, not to speak of greater than God. You must follow Pravrutti supporting justice and opposing injustice because God has commanded so. Every action shall be to please God only.
You want to see Me, but, you refuse Me when I am seen. You want to see Me in the energetic body, which is relevant to upper worlds only. When I appear in human body, you get repelled from Me due to repulsion between common media and also due to your ego and jealousy. When you leave this gross body and go to the upper worlds in energetic body, the story repeats again there also and you reject Me in the energetic body due to same repulsion. You are missing Me everywhere. If you can’t attain Me in your life here, you can’t attain Me there also after your life. You can attain Me anywhere at any time as incarnation only since the absolute God can never be attained being unimaginable.
Aspiration for salvation is also to be avoided. Salvation is liberation from worldly bonds to attain bliss and to avoid grief from tensions given by worldly bonds. Hence, salvation is also a selfish desire. The only aspiration in you shall be to serve Me in My program and to sacrifice anything or anybody for My sake. You must always remember one important point, which is that I don’t need anything from anybody except to test the devotee claiming himself/herself so. You must also know that your love on Me is a drop and My love on you is infinite ocean. Hence, I enjoy even your scolding like a hot dish served to Me in meals.
Leave fear for death. It is a process of very short time. You will experience it as removing a tight shirt from the body. An individual soul is tied to the body strongly and it undergoes the experience of tightness for some short time while leaving it. You must fear for the scene after death that happens in the hell while implementing severe punishments for your severe sins. When you are going for an interview in the next city, you should not worry about the short inconvenience experienced during journey in bus or train and you should bother about your interview you have to face after the journey. If you have not done any sin, you need not care for God. Even in such case, you should be always careful because any slip will lead you to hell. If you have become the servant of God participating in His program, be sure that hell is postponed by the order of God. If you are transformed due to the propagation, the hell is avoided forever since all your sins are burnt. Either you should be careful about any slip in all the times or you must become the servant of God. The first is the child catching the mother-monkey (Markata Kishora) and the second is the mother-cat catching the child (Marjaala Kishora). An atheist slips from both the ways.
12—08—1994, 05.00am
(Shri C B K Murthy asked about the explanation of Kriyaa Yoga and Swami gave the explanation)
Let us take a sentence “Rama approached Krishna”. Here, Rama is subject, Krishna is object and ‘approached’ is the verb. Kriyaa means the verb. The verb speaks about the practical effort need to reach God. Yoga means attainment of God. Kriyaa Yoga means attainment of God through practical effort. Knowing God through knowledge and thinking God with emotion (devotion) are also verbs only. Hence, you must put the practical effort to know God and to love Him subsequently. After these two steps, the third step is service with sacrifice, which is relatively more practical. All these three steps are denoted by Kriyaa or verb. The subject is the human being having awareness and not any inert item. The object is God, who is unimaginable and can never be attained. But, the same God, when gets mediated is attainable. During the life period of human being, human incarnation can be attained. After death, the same human being present in energetic body can attain energetic incarnation in the upper world. Hence, we must understand all the possibilities and limitations through scriptures and sharp analysis. The entire creation is only action or dynamism of God. Hence, the subject (human being) as well as the medium of God are also verbs only. The unimaginable God alone is beyond all these verbs, which are subject, medium of object and practical effort done. The alternative word for Kriyaa used is karma or practical action. In this view, Kriyaa yoga means attainment of practical effort (service and sacrifice) after attaining the two prior theoretical steps called as spiritual knowledge and emotional devotion. In this way, Kriyaa yoga means karma yoga that is described in the Gita.
My wife is called as Madhumati. Madhu = sweet and Mati = mind. This denotes the soul having emotional devotion towards Me. This word is not related to gender so that you can treat Madhumati as a female soul. Every soul is female only since it is a part of Prakruti. God is called as Purusha or Male. Husband (Bhartaa) means maintainer and wife (Bhaaryaa) means the soul maintained by God. The word Purusha ultimately means the unimaginable God only. Any incarnation is the mixture of Purusha and Prakruti. The Prakruti part of the incarnation is neglected and the incarnation is treated as the unimaginable God in mediated condition. The wife sitting by the side of mediated God represents the devoted soul or Prakruti or Shakti. The devoted soul can even command the God. Hence, approaching God through a soul is called as worship of Shakti. Shakti being a soul can understand the problems of another soul and hence is treated as mother. Purusha is treated as father. Madhumati is Saraswati (word), Lakshmi (materialised body) and Parvati (mind or awareness or energy). Madhumati means the soul approaching God with devotion in word, body and mind (Trikaranams). One should always understand the implied knowledge, which alone helps the effort (saadhana). In the word ‘Madhumati’ mind is given importance based on which only the word and body function.
When the fruit is given to you by God, your eligibility is the most important factor and not the procedure. For one devotee the fruit may be kept in his hand. Another devotee may be searching his hand for the fruit. For one devotee the fruit may be kept in his pocket. Another devotee is searching his pocket for the fruit. Your eligibility brings the fruit and not the procedure of attainment of fruit.
Saraswati is praising Me through sweet words. Lakshmi is serving Me by pressing My feet with her hands. Parvati is doing penance through concentrated mind. All these three are various forms of My wife called as Madhumati or Anagha. My wife gives coffee and Tiffin (worldly boons) to My devotee on arrival to My place. She does so on My instruction only. If you ask her for some money (miraculous powers), she advises you ask Me. Coffee, Tiffin and money are fundamentally My property only. Hence, you concentrate on Me only.
(7th chapter is completed.)