Posted on: 22 May 2017
Presented By: P. V. N. M. Sharma
10th Chapter
12—08—1994, 04.00am
You think that a specific area on this earth is especially pious because a deserving sage has seen Me in that area. I surely tell you that there is no specialty in that area to treat it as very pious place to be visited as pilgrimage. I appeared in that area because the deserving sage was living in that area. You can attach importance to Me and that sage but not to that area. People come to that area in crowds thinking that that area has My special grace. This is the climax of ignorance. Priests have stressed some importance on that area to attract crowds so that they can be benefited by their offerings. It is all false commercial propaganda. Of course, the pilgrims coming with faith may be benefited in developing their theoretical devotion to God. But, the priests are lost for their double game before God. You may fool the innocent public, but, can you fool the omniscient God and escape punishment from the same omniscient God? All the false God-men and false human incarnations of today must note this point and avoid fooling public for benefits remembering the omniscient and omnipotent God standing in the background of the whole scene. An owner awarded a sincere servant in a place. If you also do sincere service, you will be also awarded in the same place or in some other place. Without doing the service, if you stand in the place in which the sincere servant was awarded, will you get the award due to the power of that place? The owner might have awarded the sincere servant on Monday. You think that Monday is a very pious day, which can bring award to you. For your sincere service, God may award you on Monday or on Tuesday. Hence, leave the illusion of place and time in spiritual efforts.
Always estimate your own devotion to Me by imagining that your service and sacrifice to Me are waste due to absence of any fruit in return and then observe the devotion leftover in you. Generally, after this no devotion is seen at all since it evaporates completely. However, if a trace of devotion remains in you that trace is the devotion present in you. This is the quarterly test of Brahma. If a trace of devotion still remains, conduct the next half yearly test of Vishnu by imagining that God has stolen away whatever you had already. That trace must have also disappeared. However, if a trace of that trace still remains in you that is really the real devotion. Then, conduct the third annual test of Rudra by imagining that God is subjecting you to intolerable suffering and now you can see that trace of trace must have also disappeared. However, if a trace of that trace of that trace remains, that is really and really the real devotion. These imaginary steps are useful in estimating your real devotion. If these imaginary steps happen to be the practical steps, it becomes the real practical spiritual effort and Datta will appear before you to embrace you and to merge with you finally. The essence of all this is only that the practical devotion alone is true provided it does not have aspiration for any fruit in return. Do you say that such real love is impossible? If you say so, it is utter lie. You are having such real love on your own issues. Think patiently with careful analysis and then say what I told is true or not. I am not asking you to change your true love from your issues. You are showing true love on your ignorant issues. But, you are showing false love on omniscient God and say that your love on God is true. Either stop telling this lie to God or extend a trance of your true love shown on ignorant issues to the omniscient God also. For God’s sake (this is the issue of God only) stop your trial to fool the omniscient God. This is the fundamental issue in the spiritual knowledge.
The real love has no importance for place, time and procedure. You are not showing your true love on your issues in a specific place, in a specific time and through a specific procedure. Then, why do you worship God in a specific place, in a specific time and through a specific procedure? You are doing so because your love on God is not real. It is artificial only aspiring for some fruit in return. Are you repenting that you have not shown your true love on issues on some day? Then, why do you repent so much if you have not worshipped God on someday? Again the reason is that your love on God is not real. The real love is always beyond all these parameters and should be spontaneous and natural in expression. You must express your real love on God in any place, at any time and in any manner as is done in the case of your issues. If such real love exists, whatever qualities may exist in the devotee, such devotee is dearest to Me since there is truth in his love. Saraswati has rajas. Lakshmi has Sattvam. Parvati has tamas. Irrespective of these three qualities all the three are dearest darlings to Me. Always concentrate on achieving reality in devotion and don’t bother about your qualities. You may divert any quality to Me, it becomes sacred. Similarly, any quality diverted towards world becomes unholy. Even a thorny stick submitted to holy fire becomes holy ash. Even sweet sugar poured in drainage becomes unholy and useless.
13—08—1994, 05.00 am
In olden days the places of pilgrim existed on hills and in forests so that many people don’t visit. Such places were congenial with peace and good nature for developing the theoretical devotion. These foolish priests spoiled everything by saying that if one visits such place, their desired fruits are granted. This resulted in crowds visiting these places, spoiling peace and nature. The priests did like this for their personal earnings! The aim of development of theoretical devotion is totally lost. You can develop your devotion in your worship-room present in your house occupied by a few people only. Today, your house is better than the pilgrim-place. A newly invented lonely place is better than your house. Sages preferred forests for this spiritual aim only. Thank God! The priests then did not say that those forests are pious to fulfill the desires of the public! Had they told so, the forests might have disappeared with full crowds of people! The real pious place is that, which has perfect peace and pleasant nature congenial for concentration provided such place is not visited for fulfillment of any desire. Today in these pilgrim-places desires, businesses and hypocrisy pervaded everywhere. Even a real devotee (Yogi) will not be there, can you expect God (Yogishwara) to be there? Once upon a time these places were really pious and these are not pious today. You may think that at least some good old scent must have remained in these places. Such trace of scent disappeared long back due to the accumulated bad scent of crowds.
17—08—1994, 01.00 am
(Shri C B K Murthy asked the meaning of “Ahamityeva vibhaavaye bhavaanim”)
Swami replied: The meaning of the line recited by you is that you should think that you are Goddess Parvati, who is Shakti. Every soul is called as Prakruti or Shakti. Shiva and Shakti represent God and devotee. This should not be taken in the sense of gender. The Veda says (Striyah satih…) that God is male (Purusha) and all the souls are females (Prakruti or Shakti). God is the husband of all souls. Husband (Bhartaa) really means maintainer and wife (Bhaaryaa) really means maintained. In this real sense God is husband and soul is wife and this is the exact meaning of the Veda. Hence, the ego of gender in the souls is meaningless in the spiritual field.
16—12—1994, 04.00 am
If you recognize the contemporary human incarnation, there is no need for you to go to any temple. Any temple contains an inert representative model of the unimaginable God mediated either in energetic body or mediated in human body in the past time. The contemporary human incarnation means the unimaginable God mediated in alive human body. Spiritual aspirants in LKG class only go to temples. Spiritual aspirants in PG class approach contemporary human incarnation. The difference between these two types of spiritual aspirants is the gap between sky and earth.
17—12—1994, 04.00 am (Datta Jayanti)
Today is the festival of “Datta Jayanti”, which means that this is the pious day on which the unimaginable God is given to humanity in human form. Today, the tradition is to bite the bread and throw it to a dog. By this, it is said that the poison in the teeth of dog gets pacified. What is the meaning of this? Even if the pleasures approach you for enjoyment (bread approached your mouth for eating), if you sacrifice those pleasures, the poison of dog or Maya gets pacified. If the dog with poisonous teeth bites you, you will become mad. Similarly, when Maya bites you, you become mad. This tradition preaches you that sacrifice of pleasures is divinity and enjoyment of pleasures is death. You are involved in the worldly affairs like a mad man not knowing that he is mad. This is the message of Datta Jayanti.
(Swami sang the following song composed by Him on the spot.)
O soul! Abode of God is far still,
More and more far still, O Soul! (Chorus)
Kill your eyes, Kill your ears today,
Kill your tongue, these are enemies,
These senses attracted by the world
Disturb your mind fixed on Datta.
Your goal is to reach My abode,
But, your effort is quite opposite,
You want to lit fire on the sticks
But, you drench these with water!
Whatever you hear, whatever you see,
Whatever you speak, it is your blood,
If your blood is flowing towards Me,
I become yours, think well, think well.
Don’t bend to traditions, be firm always,
Follow the true path after analysis only,
Always see Me only, always hear Me only,
Always speak about Me only in the world.
Those are mad people, who call you as mad,
The scene in this world gets reversed there,
These mad people will cry and cry in hell, Who is mad? It is decided in proper time.
Control your senses, do sharp analysis,
Let your intelligence be active always,
Your love to Me proved in your practice,
Without desire for any fruit is the path.
Salvation means detachment from world,
It is a consequence of attachment to Me,
Don’t try for detachment, always try
To attach yourself to Me everywhere.
Even if you control your mind, the senses drag the mind towards worldly items. The senses are like bottles of wine that drag your mind. If you are controlled by your senses, it is impossible to reach Me. In spite of this, if you think that you can reach Me, it is only deceiving yourself. Don’t postpone spiritual effort for tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. Only today is the truth. Yesterday will not come back. Today, now itself, get yourself attached to Me.
15—04—1995, 05.00 am
The style of life is not different from spiritual effort. The qualities attained in the life style get reflected in the spiritual effort. The life style is rehearsal of dance. Spiritual effort is the actual performance of dance. If you have ego and jealousy towards co-human beings in your worldly life, those both reflect in your spiritual life also and you will miss contemporary human incarnation. If you are greedy in the worldly life, same reflects in spiritual life also and you will worship God theoretically only and not practically. When some friend helped by you harms you in return, you are losing patience in the worldly life. Same attitude is reflected in spiritual life, when God harms you in return for your practical devotion to test you. Your Pravrutti reflects in toto in your Nivrutti. Hence, love your enemies also in the worldly life. This will help you in your spiritual life when God acts as your enemy in testing you. Such patience must be developed by you in the worldly life. If you do not hate any human being, you will not miss the contemporary human incarnation. The process of learning a subject needs training for one year. But, the examination in that is done in one hour only in the end of the year. Your long worldly life is your long training period and your spiritual test takes very short time only. If you understand this point, all your worldly life becomes related to your spiritual effort. Spiritual effort is nothing but the test conducted by Datta. Training to succeed in the spiritual test is your long worldly life. If your concentration is on the test and on its result only, you fail in the test. Let your concentration be on the training only by which you will certainly pass the test. Without understanding this main point, what is the use of all these worships? Today is the day of moon-eclipse. You are not understanding this main point because your minds are also eclipsed by ignorance. Always be careful about Pravrutti or worldly life since it will exactly reflect as the background of your Nivrutti. If you are greedy in Pravrutti, you will always stress on theoretical devotion saying that God, the giver, doesn’t need any sacrifice from anybody. By this you will avoid practical sacrifice done in the temples also. For this, you will accept that God is not in inert models to receive our sacrifice! If it is said that human incarnation receives your sacrifice, you will eradicate the concept basically asking how the unimaginable God can become the imaginable human being! Hence, all your philosophy is not based on real logic and scripture, but, it is based on your hidden background that got transferred from your Pravrutti! If your background is ego and jealousy and not greediness, you will sacrifice to idols in temples, but, never sacrifice to human incarnation based on the above said eradication. If your background is full attachment to family, you will shout against sacrifice to God that leads to detachment from family! Hence, God always comes down for cleaning the Pravrutti only by which Nivrutti is also indirectly cleaned. The Gita says that God comes down to establish justice in Pravrutti (Dharma samsthaapanaarthaaya), but doesn’t say that His arrival is to establish spiritual knowledge or devotion.
The creator, ruler and destroyer of this world is only one unimaginable God. He gets mediated by energy or matter for the sake of devotees to see, to talk, to touch and to live along with Him. The names and forms of the media may be different, but, the unimaginable God pervading all these media is only one and one only. The oneness and universality of God can be realized by any devotee in the state of ripened spiritual knowledge. None and nothing is equal to God and not to speak of more than God (na tat samah… Veda). Identifying contemporary human incarnation takes place only in the final stage of spiritual effort. Practical devotion without aspiration for any fruit in return is the only spiritual path. Throughout the Gita, Krishna used first person indicating Himself as Krishna or contemporary human incarnation only. He didn’t use third person, God. “My devotee (mat bhaktah)” means Krishna Himself in first person. He didn’t use “Devotee of God (Daiva bhaktah) in third person. He stressed on the concept of contemporary human incarnation since He told the Gita while He is alive.
01—10—1995, 05.00 am (Durga Ashtami)
Durga means the palace surrounded by big compound-wall with closed gates. People living in such palace have full protection. Similarly, devotees living in Me get full protection here as well as there. The protection is given for the real love of devotee. Today is the day on which I destroyed all the evil forces of devils and demons. I suppressed king Bali with My foot since he prayed Me to keep My foot on his head. King Bali represents ego. If you surrender to My feet, I will suppress it down forever so that it will not come up again. A demon called Somaka stole the Veda and got immersed in ocean. I became the fish to kill him. Somaka means wine, which is worldly attraction that steals your spiritual knowledge and you are immersed in the worldly ocean. Fish is in the form of eye, which is the third eye or eye of knowledge (Jnaana Netra) and its power is analysis that kills the ignorance-demon. I became tortoise to uplift the mountain in the sea. This is My support to you in this worldly sea. Like this, you have to take the internal meaning of every story, which alone helps you in your spiritual effort.
Eating excess food and earning excess money will certainly spoil you. Have faith in Me that I will give you whatever is required for you. A devotee having faith in Me eats little and earns little since he knows that I will give him always the required food and required money like ATM card. If you draw lot of money from Bank, it may be stolen and you will suffer for long time. If you have no money, suffering is little. Such devotee having faith in Me that I will attend him whenever necessary, lives without diseases and without mental tensions.
Your worship shall be for My pleasure and should not be for your pleasure by achieving some fruit. My pleasure shall be your pleasure.
30—10—1995, 08.00 pm
Realize the value of time, which is very little available for you. The ignorance does not allow you to note the value of time. Past will not come again. Future is not certain. Only present is yours. The deity of death is always following you and you are not sure of any minute in which the death is going to swallow you. This point will provoke you to concentrate on spiritual line as early as possible due to uncertainty of lifetime. If you are involved in spiritual line, God will extend your lifetime to help you. If you are living like an animal in the worldly life only without any hope of spiritual side, your lifetime is cancelled by God to throw you into births of animals. Eating, drinking, sleeping and sex are the common factors for an animal and a worldly person. If you are confined to these four activities only, you are already an animal in human form. In such case, this human form is unnecessary and you are given the form of animal since you are living like it only. One may argue that some people living like animals are seen having long life. Such exceptions are seen because you have not seen all the background of such people. They might be helping God’s program through some physical service or some practical sacrifice, which is not noted by you. You should not generalize your limited knowledge and misunderstand the concept.
06—11—1995, 01.30 pm
I appear in drunken state and associated with a prostitute. I repel majority of devotees in this way. Only one selected devotee recognizes Me and surrenders to Me. I preach the inner meaning of My vision in such state:- A fellow attracted to wine does not leave it even though it spoils health, wealth and social prestige. The prostitute is also exactly similar to wine. From this, you must also learn that a devotee attracted to God is unable to leave God even though God gives several losses and difficulties. I am preaching this important spiritual concept through such vision. Devotees do not take this message and leave Me after scolding Me. I am always in the state of preacher of spiritual knowledge (Sat Guru) only to humanity.
11—11—1995, 06.00 pm
You pray addressing Me as ‘Datta father’. Datta father may also mean the father, who adopts a boy giving him his property. The boy came to him only for the property calling him as father. When you address Me as Datta father, the address can be taken in two ways: 1) it can be taken as O Datta! O Father! Here Datta indicates My name and 2) it can be taken as O Datta-father! Here Datta-father means adopted father to get property and Datta is adjective here. The first type indicates the real father, who is approached with real love. The second type indicates the adopted father, who is approached for getting property. The second type devotees are those, who worship Me for fulfilling their desires. The first type devotees are those, who worship Me to do service to Me without any aspiration for My property. Both utter the same, but, in different senses. You need not ask Me to which type you belong since you know the truth in your consciousness.
06—12—1995, 08.00 pm
Both of you have heard all important points of spiritual knowledge. If you propagate this knowledge to other human beings, who are your brothers and sisters, you will be blessed by God Datta. If you analyze sharply, this propagation is neither the work for God nor the work for others. It is the work for your sake only. While speaking these points to others, these get digested by you and penetrate into your general consciousness and sub-consciousness also to purify your souls and reform you completely bringing eligibility for divine salvation. In every propagation, you must stress on two points: 1) Practical devotion alone is true love and 2) In the plane of your internal theoretical devotion, you must not have aspiration for any fruit from God. These two points confirm that your devotion is true.
You must preach about the highest place of God, which is higher than even justice. Anasuya and Sumati (mother of Shripadavallabha) got Me as their son since they voted for God against even justice. A true devotee treats Me greater than even social service and welfare of the world. Rama tested Hanuman in this point. Rama is expected to kill Ravana, who is disturbing the world and He was expected to do service to society and bring welfare for the world. But, on first day of the war, Rama told Ravana that He will go back if Sita is returned. It means that Rama is not bothered about the welfare of the society and is bothered only about His selfish family life! Hanuman should have left Rama, if He joined Rama for the welfare of society. Hanuman did not leave Rama because the creator of world is mostly concerned regarding the welfare of His creation. Hanuman understood that Rama spoke in that way only to test Him. The tests of Datta are always very subtle and very severe since the ultimate truth is brought out.
One day, Krishna got severe headache. Krishna told sage Narada that His headache has only one medicine, which is the feet-dust of a true devotee. When Narada asked for the feet dust, the wives of Krishna told “how can we give our feet dust to God? If we give, we will go to horrible hell”. When Narada approached Gopikas, they gave their feet-dust immediately. Narada said that they will go to hell for doing so. Gopikas told that they are prepared to go to hell if Krishna is relived from headache. This is the real devotion of Gopikas to Krishna!
I am in the cooking section and prepared the food, which is this spiritual knowledge. You are in the catering section to distribute this food to your brothers and sisters. Both of us are involved in the work of Lord Datta as allotted by Him and He will bless both of us. Unless you become a sincere servant like DOG at His feet, you can’t become GOD. You are totally reversed in the fruit. Kaalabhairava in the form dog surrendered to His feet as servant and He is now worshipped as God in a separate temple in Kashi. If you think due to ego that you are already God, you are not different from demon in this aspect. One can become God through service and sacrifice by the will of God, but, one is not already God. Such concept added with ego to do all atrocities leads the soul to become demon. The same concept of Shankara resulting in not doing sins (because God never does sins) leads the soul to become God in reality. Monism is double edged knife to cut your throat in suicide or to cut the throat of enemy in war. Monism used for such good purpose shall not be misunderstood and shall not be condemned misinterpreting it in wrong direction as ego and demonism.
07—05—1997, 11.30 pm
The cow behind Me is justice or Yama, the deity of hell. He is standing behind Me for My protection from sins. The ferocious dog before Me, Kaalabhairava is with full courage for the protection of justice. The form of Kaalabhairava is very much threatening. In one hand He holds a vessel with liquid fire that burns the rigid sinners. In the other hand there is broomstick with which all the bad qualities from the soul are swept away. When the soul is not reformed with the punishments in the hell, it is forwarded to another superior and horrible hell for which the deity is Kaalabhairava. Both these come into picture when the soul is not reformed by the spiritual knowledge given through My preaching. Hence, first, I make a trial to bring permanent reformation through My spiritual knowledge. In the case of souls in which the spiritual knowledge has no effect, such souls are sent to Yama first and then to Kaalabhairava next.
29—03—1998, 04.00 am
Yama and Kaalabhairava are in My divine service. I am always the servant of My servant. There is no difference between Me and My servant. Yama is black in color in the hell. The same Yama is in golden color in the next upper sub-world called as Pitruloka. The gold colored Yama is Myself present inside the black Yama. Kaalabhairava looks as a cruel dog for external looks. The same dog appears as Holy Scripture (the Veda) for inner looks. I am that inner spiritual knowledge of scripture. Hence, both these are My incarnations only.
You are always uttering “protect me, protect me”. I have not protected any other soul as much I protected you, the human souls. If you recognize the quantity of My love on you, you will become mad and hence I am hiding My love on you. Service to Me makes you to become servant in the beginning stage. In the latter stage, the same service makes Me to become your servant. Can you tell Me if there is any higher stage than this? My servant has full faith in Me and hence will never ask Me to protect him/her. Those, who don’t serve Me only utter such words. I surely tell you that I will not protect you since you have uttered these words.
22—04—1999, 05.00 am
Detachment means only mental detachment from worldly bonds and not practical detachment form worldly bonds. Performing duties to family and responsibilities to society is not attachment to the world. Performance of these without mental attachment is the real detachment. This procedure shall continue unless God tests you for your vote by competing with these duties and responsibilities also. That test is very rare in the case of a rare devotee of Nivrutti and not general. Such mental detachment from worldly bonds will help you to pass the divine test even if you are in Nivrutti. This point is secondary. The primary advantage of inner mental detachment from the worldly bonds is that you will never face mental tensions by which you can be always peaceful and healthy. This primary advantage is for your welfare and don’t shout against God for the associated secondary advantage. You can attach your mind to God because you are already detached form world for your welfare only. Again, don’t shout that you are detaching from world due to attachment to God. My Lord! This is totally wrong. You have detached from the world for your welfare only and since mind can’t remain silent without any attachment, please attach your mind to God. By this, you are having additional advantage that God will protect your family and your surrounding society for your such valueless mental attachment also! You may say that your family is hurt if mind is not really attached to it. Your mental attachment need not be expressed so that the family is unaware of the truth. Externally you can also act as if your mental attachment to family exists. Now, your family is not hurt. By this, all the losses are avoided and all the advantages are obtained. If you don’t agree with this technique, alright, really attach yourself to your family and get all disadvantages since none can save you! This technique is preached in the Gita, which says that a scholar shall act as if attached to family unlike the ignorant, who is really attached to the family (kuryaat vidvaan tathaa asaktah…).
You shall not attach Me to your cycle of deeds on which you are rotated as per the divine constitution (Bhraamayan… Gita). You are enjoying the fruits of your deeds only. Why do you drag Me in to this topic? In fact, I arranged good and bad fruits alternatively in your cycle overlooking the sequence of time in which the deeds are done. By this, you will have the alternative enjoyment of both hot and sweet dishes, which alone can make you really happy in your life. You are pressing Me to remove your difficulty (fruit of bad deed) and to give you happiness (fruit of good deed). How can I cancel your bad fruit and create good fruit? First is not possible since you have done bad deed. Second is also not possible since you have not done a good deed. When you press Me still, I postpone your bad fruit and draw the good fruit in premature state from your cycles. The result is in some latter life cycle, you are leftover with all postponed bad fruits with huge accumulated interest. Then, you are suffering throughout your life and you are scolding Me every day. You are responsible for this situation. Some ignorant fellow observes cases like you and starts criticizing Me and My administration. He even blames Me as sadist entertaining by your difficulties! Scholars never pray Me to remove their difficulties or to grant happiness. Their prayers are only with the background of only attraction to Me. Remember that I have already done My best to you in the beginning of your life itself and I can’t violate the divine constitution due to fascination to issues. Krishna killed His own son Samba for the sin done in mocking the divine sages. In the world if a judge favors somebody with partiality, you are criticizing him, but, you are expecting Me to do the same partiality!
My divine qualities are expressed to attract you and thereby to lead you to the highest spiritual state. This is possible only if you conquer your ego and jealousy. My divine qualities are kindness, softness, generosity, dignity, beauty, scent, courage, valor, knowledge, strength, energy, radiation, style, miracle, potency etc. If I exhibit fully all the divine qualities, no soul will be leftover without jealousy. Hence, I exhibit a few only in their lower potency. I sometimes exhibit negative qualities of Rajas and Tamas also to neutralize the jealousy of My beloved issue!
25—04—1999, 04.00 am
You need not try to increase the quantity of My worship. I am attracted only by the quality in it. The quantity is related to your selfish desire to be fulfilled through the worship. The quality is related to absence of your aspiration for any fruit in return. If the worship is qualitative first, the quantity will increase spontaneously without your effort. If the worship is without quality, its quantity can be increased by your effort only. Hence, the quality decides spontaneous development of quantity without effort. Therefore, you always concentrate on the quality of worship.
Don’t mix spiritual knowledge with the worldly desires. You can achieve the worldly fruits by your effort itself. If the worldly fruit is justified, I will help your effort even without your request to Me. If the fruit is unjust, even if you request Me, I keep silent. Therefore, there is no need of connecting the worldly fruits to Me. If justice is on your side, I will run and come to you to stand by your side. You are attaining God just by standing by the side of justice. Sages couldn’t attain this God even through long penance. Krishna stood by the side of Dharma Raja. If you are opposing justice and stand against it, God will stand on the opposite side to punish you.
The contemporary human incarnation appears as per the color of spectacles on your eyes. Krishna appeared as God for Gopikas. Same Krishna appeared as divine person or son of God to Bhishma, Dharma Raja, Arjuna etc. Same Krishna appeared as servant of God to villagers of Brundavanam. Same Krishna appeared as a devil to Kauravas, Kamsa, Shishupala etc. The behavior of God is according to the color of the sight of spectator. You are also appearing and behaving differently to different bonds like father, brother, son, husband, employee, employer, friend etc. Whether you are for Me or against Me is the real background.
09—09—1999, 04.00 am
I am attained by Atri and Anasuya. Atri means ‘no three’. Atri stands for the devotee leaving the three types of ego:- 1) Ego of Sattvam means the ego regarding knowledge, good qualities etc., 2) Ego of Rajas means ego of wealth, relatives, ability to do works etc., and 3) Ego of Tamas means ego of the beauty, energy and potency of own body. Anasuya means ‘no jealousy’. This means that the devotee, who conquered ego and jealousy, alone can attain Me in human form. Devotees with ego and jealousy are confined to the non-attainable 1) unimaginable God (without medium) and 2) God in energetic medium.
Attraction towards My personality without aspiration for any fruit in return is called as real penance. Sitting in forest without food and water and closing eyes to think Me is artificial penance. Real penance has no effort and is natural and spontaneous. Artificial penance results only by hectic effort. Penance is another name for theoretical devotion. It can be obtained from the right spiritual knowledge that projects the personality of God everywhere. The fruit of this real penance is the practical service and sacrifice. You may think that the fruit should benefit you. In such case the cause of such fruit is only artificial penance as done by demons. You must understand that the opportunity is given by God to you. Service with sacrifice itself is the divine fruit. Only selected souls attain such fruit. Rukmini came to know the details of God Krishna from sage Narada and this is the first stage called spiritual knowledge (Jnana Yoga). Narada means giver of knowledge. Then Rukmini developed attraction towards the divine personality of Krishna and this is theoretical devotion (Bhakti Yoga). After this she made all practical efforts to reach Krishna and served Him by pressing His feet (She being incarnation of Lakshmi) and this is the final stage (Karma Yoga or Prapatti Yoga). She didn’t marry Krishna to sit on the throne like a queen and this is absence of aspiration for any fruit.
16—09—1999, 06.15 am
Datta means ‘given’. It means sacrifice. Sacrifice should be done to deserving with discrimination. God is called as Datta for sacrificing Himself to Atri and Anasuya, who deserve to receive the sacrifice due to absence of ego and jealousy. Atri and Anasuya stand as highest devotees since they recognized God in human form given to them as son. They never showed any ego of parents to command their son. The next higher type devotee is Kartavirya, who happened to be devotee of Datta, but couldn’t recognize same Datta in different form called Parashurama. The demon Jambhaka was killed by Datta, who belongs to the third high type. The demon believes in energetic form of God and he got boons through penance to God Brahma. But, he did not believe the human form like Ravana disbelieving Rama. Even Indra failed to recognize Datta in drunken state associated with prostitute. Only Vishnu Datta, the highest devotee could catch Datta in spite of all His negative qualities exhibited during tests.
20–09–1999, 4.00 a.m.
Pravrutti and Nivrutti are the two portfolios of the same God. In Pravrutti if you go against justice, God becomes displeased. In the Nivrutti, if you exhibit false devotion (becoming zero in practical devotion), God becomes equally furious. Since this point is not realized by devotees, today, we find several devotees, who are excellent in the Nivrutti do simultaneously unjust sins in Pravrutti. The devotee sacrifices a lot for God in the Nivrutti. But, the same devotee is doing several sins by stealing other’s wealth (corruption) in the materialistic life or Pravrutti. Lot of sacrifice of a devotee in Nivrutti, while simultaneously doing several sins in Pravrutti is explained, which means that the sinner in Pravrutti is doing lot of sacrifice which is only an investment in God for getting it back in many fold multiplied way. This is not real sacrifice, which is always without aspiration for any fruit in return. Since God is one and the same in both places, God displeased with you in Pravrutti can’t be pleased in your Nivrutti also. Devotees are neglecting the life in Pravrutti as if it is not related to God! They think that God is confined only to Nivrutti. If you have beaten your father in one room, will he be happy with you in another room? A true devotee of God doesn’t differentiate Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Your greediness in practical devotion to God is only the reflection of your greediness in your materialistic life. Similarly, your ego and jealousy shown towards co-human beings (Pravrutti) gets reflected in Nivrutti also by which you neglect the human form of God also. An impure person in Pravrutti continues to be impure in Nivrutti also.
God emphasized on three sins in the Gita, which are the three main gates of the hell. The first is violence (Krodha) in killing the soft natured living beings. You must take Lord Mahavir as your guide in this issue. The second sin is greediness (Lobha) and the basic reason for this is fascination (Moha) towards yourself and your family members. This fascination is nothing but your selfish desire. You worship God also for this fascination only. You never do service (Karma samnyaasa) and never sacrifice anything to God (Karma phalatyaaga) without this fascination. You must take Lord Buddha as your guide, who emphasized on the destruction of the desire. The third sin is illegal sex (Kaama), which is deceiving husband or wife. You must take Rama and Sita as guides in this issue. If you succeed in Pravrutti, you will succeed in Nivrutti also because Nivrutti is exact reflection of Pravrutti. If you are not originally beautiful, your image in the mirror will not be also beautiful.
If you serve God through practice or Karma yoga (which is two fold i.e., Karma samnyaasa and Karma phalatyaaga) without aspiration for any fruit in return, an accountless bond is established between God and yourself. Draupadi tore her new sari and wound it around the injury on the finger of God without aspiration for any fruit in return. This is the two fold practical devotion in which service of winding the cloth around the injury and sacrifice of the new sari exists. Had Draupadi aspired some worldly fruit in return, God must have given a new sari at the maximum, adding its interest. But, Draupadi didn’t aspire any fruit in return for this service and sacrifice. An accountless bond was established between God and devotee. God multiplied this piece of cloth into infinite number of saris as per her requirement. Krishna’s injury required only a piece of cloth. The requirement needed is always fulfilled in the line of this accountless bond without account. You can find such bond between you and your family members exactly. Hence, you shouldn’t argue that such bond is impossible in practice.
21-09-1999, 5:30 a.m.
There are five points to be known in the spiritual line (Jneya panchakam):-
1) About yourself (Aatma Swarupa):- You must know that you are a part and parcel of the created creation only and not the creator. This is the reason for the rest of the world to appear as equally real to you and hence world is not unreal for you.
2) About the Goal (Parmaatma Swarupa):- God, the creator, is unimaginable, but becomes even visible on getting mediated. Since the God identifies totally Himself with the medium, you shall not differentiate non-mediated God and mediated God. While you are alive here, human incarnation is relevant to you. After the death, when you go to upper worlds in energetic body, energetic incarnation is relevant to you.
3) About the Path (Maarga Swarupa):- The true path to please God is practical devotion or Karma yoga without aspiration for any fruit in return (Karmasamnyaasa and Karmaphalatyaaga) aided by spiritual knowledge (jnaana yoga) and subsequent devotion (Bhakti yoga). Karma yoga is like the plant, which alone can give the fruit. Jnaana yoga is like water and Bhakti yoga is like fertilizer used for the growth of the plant to yield the fruit. Jnaana yoga of Shankara yields Bhakti yoga of Ramanuja and both these finally yield Karma yoga (Prapatti) of Madhva.
4) About the fruit (Phala Swarupa):- The fruit is to participate in the service of God following always the human incarnation through human births. Absence of rebirth means only absence of rebirth entangled in the family bonds. Such a follower becomes human incarnation on the will of God or becomes the master of God even while remaining as a devotee.
5) About Hurdles in the path (Virodhi Swarupa):- The fascination towards yourself and your family members is the hurdle in the path. In such case, you can’t have the single fascination towards God, which is the final goal. Ofcourse, a part of fascination to God is appreciable during the journey since something is better than nothing. The total fascination to God in theoretical phase doesn’t contradict your duties to be performed to your family. Ofcourse, even in the final stage, in which your theoretical and practical devotion get concentrated only on God, there is no damage to your duties since God will take care of all your duties in the case of such fully ripened devotee.
Unless the above five points are thoroughly known after sharp analysis, your theoretical and practical devotion may lead to a wrong goal.
21-09-1999, 5.00 a.m.
When you say that God is real and this creation is unreal, such a statement is not true in the light of the view of the soul. It is correct in the light of the view of the absolute unimaginable God. For the soul, the creation is always remaining real because the soul is not touching the absolute God at any time. Since the soul is a part and parcel of the creation, in the view of the soul, the creation is equally real. For unreal soul, the rest unreal creation must be real. The unreal creation including unreal souls becomes unreal only in the view of the real and unimaginable God. If a soul tries to imagine the unimaginable God, it becomes impossible because if the unimaginable God is imagined, the entire imaginable creation including all souls gets disappeared! The false snake exists only as long as the true rope is not realized. Once the true rope is realized, the false snake disappears in the simile. The unfortunate side of the concept is that the seer is also a part and parcel of the false snake! All this is the explanation of the statement of Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, which is that the salt doll entering the sea for measuring the depth got itself dissolved in the sea! Since the absolute God is the ultimate reality, God can create, control and destroy (destruction means the total disappearance) the unreal creation. If both (God and creation) are equally real, these three activities become impossible since one reality cannot create or control or destroy another equal reality. This is a case of unimaginable God before which creation is unreal. If the same God is mediated, the medium becomes God due to total identity with the God. Before such mediated God, the creation is equally real. Hence, for philosophers like Shankara saying that creation is unreal before God, God, here means the unimaginable God. In the philosophies of other preachers, who say that God, soul and creation are equally real, here, God means mediated God or the medium itself due to total identity. By this way, you can solve the difference between philosophies.