Posted on: 18 Jan 2017
Chapter 4 (By P. V. N. M. Sharma)
[Spiritual Preachings of Shir Datta Swami at Srisailam,31-03-1993, 4.00 am.]
God Brahma is in the upper most world called as Satya loka or Brahma Loka sitting above 1000 petal lotus flower. Brahma is said to be the creator existing before creation. This means that Brahma represents the unimaginable God existing before creation as creator. Such God is the unimaginable God present above the intelligence (lotus flower), which conducts logical analysis in thousand (many) ways (petals). This means that you have to first recognize the unimaginable God, who created the entire world, by many ways of analysis in rejecting every item of creation not to be God. The first energetic incarnation of unimaginable God is Brahma Datta, who continues forever even if the creation is over.
After this, you have to recognize the mediated God in energetic form called as Vishnu Datta or Narayana existing on thousand headed serpent. You have to decide the mediated God (energetic incarnation) also as the same unimaginable God merged with energetic form. The thousand heads again represent thousand (many) ways of analysis to discuss the identity of unimaginable God with the energetic incarnation in the same way. You have to also discuss in many ways to believe that the human incarnation (like Krishna) is also the same merged unimaginable God with a selected devoted human being (Vaasudeva) as in the case of energetic incarnation.
At last, you have to come to a single perfect decision that the energetic incarnation as well as the human incarnation is the same unimaginable God only. Such solidified single decision indicates the single headed serpent present in the neck of God Shiva Datta. God Shiva honored this single headed serpent by making it as His garland near heart. He sits on the white hill, which indicates the firm stony decision of knowledge (White sattvam).
Goddess Saraswati is on the tongue of God Brahma indicating the word. Goddess Lakshmi is in the heart of God Vishnu indicating the mind. Goddess Gowri is in left half of the entire body of God Shiva indicating the work done by the body. Word, heart (mind) and body (work) indicate the three instruments of knowledge, devotion and service. Saraswati is the preaching of knowledge. Lakshmi is indicating real devotion, which is sacrifice of wealth. Gowri or Kaali is the power of Tamas or inert energy indicating its form called as work or service. If the devotee worships God through these three instruments (Trikaranams), God will protect the devotee like a husband protecting his wife. White color indicates the quality of Sattvam, which is the obedience (Vinaya), the fruit of knowledge. The white swan, the white eagle (Garuda) and the white bull (Nandi) as three vehicles of three forms of God indicate the contact of Sattvam with God. The swan separates milk (good) and water (bad). The eagle kills serpents indicating killing the bad sinful thoughts. The bull eats only vegetarian food, which is grass only indicating that finally the devotee should accept only the path of non-violence. The milk-sea and white hill of God indicate the quality of Sattvam. The white milk-sea (Vishnu) is with several waves (thousand headed serpent) indicating the wavering quality of Sattvam to become single, strong and solidified decision (single headed serpent), the white silver hill. The thousand heads of serpent in the liquid sea indicate the wavering stage. The single headed snake on the solid hill indicates firm decision. In the time of analysis in many ways, the many headed serpent (intelligence) bears God (Vishnu) on it. When it becomes single headed (single firm decision), God (Shiva) bears it (devotee) as garland near His heart.
The Internal Meaning Guides the Spiritual Journey
31-03-1993, 8.00 am.
In the night, when you are in deep sleep, you can’t worship God and at the same time there is no contact with the world also. In this rest time, the nervous energy is conserved and nervous system also takes rest to become fresh and efficient. There is a water tank with several small taps here and there along with a main tap in front. All the taps are closed and tank is filled with water. This is the deep sleep. When you awake in the morning, you open the main tap only (worship of God) while closing all other small taps (while controlling the other worldly channels of expenditure of energy), the stream through the main tap is thick and powerful (worship of God is concentrated). After the morning, during the further time of day, the other taps are also opened (spending mind in the worldly affairs), the main tap is closed by you (worship is completely stopped) or very thin stream of water comes through the main tap (worship is continued without concentration).
If you have the worldly responsibilities to be fulfilled, your activity should be 1) To spend energy for responsibilities, 2) You must take the stipulated rest and 3) Worship God. Worship should not be confined to mere theoretical devotion like recitation of prayers, singing songs etc., but, should be mainly to arrive at right conclusions through spiritual knowledge and to do practical devotion like sacrifice and service with pure theoretical devotion in heart. If people extend the name ‘responsibility’ to unnecessary activities for unnecessary souls also and waste the entire time and energy, such people have cheated themselves only!
All the disciples are not in the same level. Raining knowledge in uniform level to all disciples existing in different levels is the way of a scholar, who cares for the truth only and not level of receiving capacity for the uplift of the disciples before him. The preacher is very practical and decides the technique of uplift of disciples from the present lower step to the immediate upper step, in which the knowledge of further upper steps may be hidden or twisted, if necessary. If you have full faith in Me I can take you to the final step preaching you whatever is required at each step. You simply follow what I say without even a trace of doubt. Even a trace of doubt seen as a small spot of leprosy (doubt) on the foot of beautiful and totally decorated bride makes Me, the bridegroom, to reject you at once cancelling your selection. This simile is stated by scholars as “Sarvaanga sundari kanyaa, svitrenaapi pradushyate” your faith in Me alone makes Me even to become your vehicle in the spiritual journey, if necessary.
If any merit is expressed by you, people praise you. Pass on the credit to God. If any defect is expressed by you, people scold you. Own the defect. You are doing reverse of this in the practice. Make a revolving fan as your preacher. It is saying that itself is the zero, zero … by continuously drawing circles in space and passing on the credit to current for your praise for giving comfortable air. Even a single rotation of fan is due to current only. When there is a harsh sound, the fan should own it because of its defective bearings inside and should not pass on the defect to the current.
I start testing you at every step in the spiritual journey (Nivrutti). When Shankara wanted to leave the house for propagation of spiritual knowledge, His mother obstructed Him. Similarly, when Parvati started her penance, her mother obstructed her and hence she was called as Uma (U= O Parvati! Ma = don’t go for penance). She did penance for Shiva and she was called as Aparna in the climax since she stopped even eating the dropped leaves (A = not even, Parna = dropped leaves). You shouldn’t leave food and sleep by force, which are of no use. They should be dropped spontaneously without any effort. When you are immersed in God, if you forget taking food, it is real fasting (Upavasa). Due to the same reason, if you do not sleep, it is real awakening in night (Jaagaranam). Why should God be pleased with you if you leave food and sleep forcibly? God is pleased only by your practical sacrifice and service, the source of which should be pure theoretical devotion in climax making you forget food and sleep! I will be happy if you serve Me and sacrifice to Me. Why should I be happy if you fast and not sleep by force for Me like in hunger strike? How I am benefited by such foolish activities, which are in no way connected to Me or to My happiness? Upavasa means foregoing meals spontaneously without any effort due to absorption in nearness to God (Upa = near God, Vasa = staying or absorbed by mind) due to which food and sleep are forgotten in a natural way without any effort!
Parvati means born to inert hill indicating that the soul or awareness is born from inert five elements (matter and energy). Every soul is a female and also wife of God as said in the Veda (Striyah satiih pumsah…). The reason is that the soul along with body is only Prakruti (soul is para and body is apara). The entire creation along with all human beings is maintained by God only. Husband (Bhartaa) means maintainer. Wife (Bhaaryaa) means maintained. God alone is called as Purusha. If you call soul as Purusha and body as Prakruti, God is Purushottama. Meera treated God alone as Purusha (male) and all the human beings as prakruti (female). When Meera asked her preacher, Tulasidas, for some place to sleep in the night in his asylum (aashrama), the preacher told that the asylum is only for males (purushas). Meera asked him “is there purusha (male) in human beings also?” Just imagine her level in the spiritual uplift! Parvati became half of body of Shiva through penance, which indicates that God and soul become equal since soul is called as God in human incarnation. Parvati became Kaali and Kaali indicates climax of black Tamas or very strong determination in devotion to God, by which Kaali (master) dances on Shiva (servant) under her feet, which indicates a higher stage of strongest practical devotion. Parvati is also called as Gowri or white sattvam indicating knowledge and theoretical devotion. Parvati means issue of inert hill. Gowri means white Sattvam of knowledge and theoretical devotion. Kaali means black tamas, which is the highest strength of firm decision resulting in practical devotion. These three names one after other indicate how a soul (awareness) born as just a modification of inert energy and inert matter to become body and soul (Parvati) climbed to the higher state of equality in human incarnation (Gowri) and then to the highest state by making God as its servant (Kaali)! Even Satyabhama hitting the Lord with her foot indicates this highest stage. Lord applied the foot-dust of Gopikas on His forehead and this also shows this highest state only.
You will be benefited in your spiritual effort if you take the internal meanings. If you take only external representations, the fruit is only some entertainment with names and forms.
From Adi Shankara to Shri Datta Swami
31-03-1993, 10.00 am.
A devotee is willing much to talk with God Shiva in Shiva Loka. Shankara told him that if he walks just ten yards, he can reach Shiva Loka. The devotee walked ten yards very easily and could neither reach Shiva Loka nor could talk with Shiva. Then, he sat down, discouraged. Then Ramanuja came and told him that Vishnu or Shiva (Shiva Loka) is one mile far. The discouraged devotee somehow walked one mile and found nothing there. Then Madhva came and told the devotee that he has to walk ten miles for that. The devotee got further discouraged and could walk ten miles with all difficulty and could reach the Kashi city only to find the Shiva Linga there with which he can’t talk. Finally, Datta Swami met him and told that Shiva Loka is in the upper direction at infinite distance up to which this human body can’t even fly! Datta Swami also told him that the first guide (Shankara) met him was actually God Shiva in human form, who came to his house and talked with him! He also told that one can reach Shiva Loka by the will of Shiva only and Shiva Linga is only representative model of Shiva in which Shiva is not actually present. He further told that his house became Shiva Loka since the first guide Shankara (Shiva) stayed for some time in it. Any place where Shiva stays is the real Shiva Loka!
The above story indicates the philosophies about God. Shankara told that the soul itself is God and soul has to just know that it is God. This encouraged every soul to jump into the spiritual field. The atheists were converted into theists since everybody is interested in getting one crore free lottery just for one rupee ticket (even today you can find some of these people dreaming lottery! O ambition! Hats off to you!! Everybody was told that every ticket gets the lottery! Then, Ramanuja came and told that every soul is just a tiny spark of big God-fire, which now became cold particle of charcoal. The particle can become hot glittering spark (with ten rupees as lottery prize and not one crore!) through devotion to that big fire-God. He told that even after becoming spark, there will be qualitative monism only along with quantitative dualism. The souls jumping into spiritual field believing that each will become God just by knowing (knowledge) that truth as provoked by Shankara were fully disappointed. But, many were consoled that at least they are parts of God and at least such whole-part status (at least ten rupees lottery if not one crore) can be attained by devotees in future. They were turned in to devotees in course of time. Then Madhva came and told them that they are always cold and black tiny charcoal particles only and can never become the fire (God) even though the burning material of fire is also the same charcoal (awareness). At the maximum, the charcoal particles can become hot by the grace (nearness) of the God-fire. The God and soul are made of same awareness (charcoal), which is just the process of thinking only. The external soul (which is never a part of God) can attain some small power (heat) by the grace of God through practical sacrifice and service. The consolation given to them was the common charcoal material (awareness) in spark (soul) and fire (God). Having come to such a long distance, the souls can’t go back and were satisfied at least with the possibility of such temporary benefit of tiny power. Then, this Datta Swami comes now and is telling them “there is no common point at all between God and soul because God is unimaginable creator and soul is part of imaginable creation. God in human form is very much relevant to all of you. God can enter you also to make you God provided you attain the knowledge of the actual reality, recognize human incarnation, develop theoretical and practical devotion towards it like Hanuman. You can become human incarnation only if you don’t aspire for it, which is given by God for some valuable work here. Even while remaining as devotee only, you can still attain even higher position in which God becomes your servant”. Datta Swami opened the total reality since the people in these times are mentally developed much in scientific reasoning. What Datta Swami said now was also known to all the past human incarnations, which revealed the truth partially as per the ability of receiving power of devotees in their corresponding times. The credit to reveal the highest truth goes to the world of devotees and not to Datta Swami because some may think that this highest truth was not revealed by previous incarnations due to their ignorance!!
Ignorant ladies think that female Kaali won dancing on Male Lord Shiva and may say that at last the male domination is smashed! Communist devotees may think that God Rama was defeated in the hands of slave-devotee, Hanuman, and this is at last the release of permanent slavery to God!! The back ground truth to be understood in these cases is that in these cases God became the servant of the topmost devotees and showed the value of the climax of devotion. This brings the facility to devotees to worship such a topmost devotee like Shakti, Hanuman etc., who can make God respond to the devotees quickly due to sympathy of the topmost devotees towards the praying devotees based on the principle of common race (as devoted souls). Based on this, the worship of Shakti became more prominent than the worship of God especially for the devotees craving for the worldly benefits! Soul is imaginable power whereas Maya is the unimaginable power inseparable from God (Maayinam tu… Gita). The human incarnation is the soul turned to God whereas the topmost devotee controls God! The disadvantages in the human incarnation are that the soul may be affected by ego due to praise from devotees and also can’t enjoy the bliss in the worship of God due to monism. The advantages of top most devotee are that there is no possibility of ego and also the devotee can enjoy divine bliss in the worship of God due to dualism. It is better to be ant to bite the sugar than to be sugar bitten by ants as Paramahamsa told! I am called as “Shri Guru”. Shri is Maya i.e., inseparable from Me performing miracles indicating unimaginable God (Bhagavan) representing My left best half. The right half is Guru, preaching the spiritual knowledge to humanity for right direction.
Tests of Datta
01-04-1993, 2.00 am.
In the case of worldly items, you can say that the possessor of power (sun) and the power (sun light) are separate items because both are imaginable. I and My power are one and the same since both of us are unimaginable. When you worship My topmost devotee in whose heart I exist, your worship becomes My worship only. Some devotees worship Me in the form of this entire world (Vishwarupa). Since this word is real for them, they consider Me also as real and they have no knowledge of My absolute reality and the relative reality of My creation. This world can be taken as representative model for Me in the worship. This world is without beginning and end and is infinite for you, though imaginable since you can’t imagine the point of beginning and point of end of this world. Keeping these two points as unimaginable, you can be reminded about My unimaginable nature. You can worship this world as a representative model of Myself since this world is My creation only and is dear to Me like an epic to the poet. Those, who treat this world in negative way, hurt Me like the poet is hurt if you scold the epic composed by him.
If anyone says that he knows Me, he does not know anything about Me. If someone says that he came to know Me as unknowable to anyone, such person can be treated as knower since he knows at least one point about My unknowable nature. If you say that you have known Me, it is your ego only. If you say that I am unknowable to anyone, it reflects your obedience, which is the fruit of true spiritual knowledge. The only one aspect that you can know about Me is My existence. It means that you came to know that the unknowable God exists through the observation of unknowable events called as miracles in this world and also from the unknowable end of the boundary of this world (since unknowable God is around the boundary). You may throw away these miracles as magic. Does it mean that whatever exists is known to you or whatever known to you alone exists? The beginning and end of the universe exist, which you can never know. You have to accept the existence of unknowable. You know that the velocity and position of an electron simultaneously exist with specific values, but, you can never know both simultaneously due to crudeness of your equipment. Similarly, due to limitations of the capacity of your brain, you are unable to know the unimaginable nature of the God even though He exists. God is imaginable to Himself and is unimaginable to your crude brain only. God, being beyond the space, can never be imagined since your brain can imagine anything having at least the least spatial dimensions. This unimaginable nature continues forever so that ego is always suppressed in you, which helps your spiritual effort. Hence, this is not sadism, but, this is only to help you in your spiritual progress. Similarly, you can’t attain Me by the efforts, which only bring deservingness in you. I will be attained by you whenever I like and My attainment is not a fruit that must be attained by an effort. Hence, you should go on worshiping Me through real love, sacrifice and service without aspiring any fruit in return. Only such devotee will attain Me whenever there is a need in this world for human incarnation.
Devotion must be spontaneous
Some beg Me to give devotion to them. This is most horrible! Do you request your issue to give you love on that issue? If you ask so, it means that you don’t have real love on Me in spite of your efforts to achieve it! That clearly shows that you do not have real love from your side and hence you ask Me for that! When you don’t ask so your issues, why do you ask Me for that? This proves that you get real love on your issues only and not on Me in spite of your hectic efforts! (Hence you are asking Me for it!) In fact, I oppose your real love on Me, which should grow more and more against My opposition. How can I encourage it, which should be spontaneous from your side? The reality of your love is tested by the fire called practice in sacrifice and service. I love all your theoretical love in your heart, provided it is proved as real in practice. If it fails in practice, all that theoretical love is only unreal like that of a prostitute aspiring for practical fruit (money) for her theoretically exposed unreal sweet love! Even if it is proved by practice, it is still unreal if you aspire any fruit in return from Me like exchange business between practical love and practical fruit! Some clever spiritual merchants, doubting My existence or doubting My ethics in business (even if I exist), propose their payment of practical devotion to Me after receiving practical fruit from Me! They follow the general norm in shops to pay the cost only after receiving the item from shop-keeper!
Associate with few devotees
The surrounding atmosphere is always important. You should be neither alone (your mind jumps here and there when you are alone) nor should be with many people. Association with limited number of devotees is always the best. Those few associates will help you because large number of associates is always dangerous due to possibility of more variation in increased number. You must always select few diamonds in your association instead of a huge heap of gravel stones. Both loneliness and large crowd are dangerous extremities. Association with little number of real devotees is the best for your spiritual progress. Both drought and flood are dangerous.
Your constant association with worldly atmosphere changes you a lot. How can you be sweet when you are soaked in salt solution? Hence, you must be careful about the quality of your association and quantity of time for you to exist in it. If you ask, I will give that much only and I am not responsible for its good or bad developments. You know neither the required quality nor the required quantity of anything you are asking. You don’t know what is good and what is bad for you. If you don’t aspire for anything and serve Me, I shall give you all that are good for you.
Tests of Datta
You have three tests in education during the academic year, which are quarterly, half yearly and final annual examinations. My first quarterly test is by Brahma, who keeps silent neglecting your prayer. 90% of devotees slip and only 10% remain. You ask for wealth and Brahma keeps silent and starts preaching you the spiritual knowledge! You will feel that it is sheer waste to worship Me and hence walk away fast! The remaining 10% devotees come for the second test to Vishnu. Instead of giving you wealth, Vishnu starts stealing your wealth (Tasya vittam haraamyaham)!! 90% of this remaining 10% run away so fast that they get gold medals in the competition of running! The remaining 10% in the second test come for the third and final test to Rudra (Shiva). In spite of losing your wealth, you come to Me still to sacrifice and serve Me because even a beggar gives his little earning also to his issues and this is true love. Now, in this final test, I will give you such horrible trouble that you will weep forever, unable to withstand it. The name Rudra means He who makes others weep (Rodayati iti). Hardly, there may be a single candidate passing this final examination. To such devotee, I shall donate Myself and merge with him. People think in reverse that the devotee merges with God and this never happens. I Myself merge with such devotee. Datta means He who donates Himself to the devotee hiding His divine name and divine form to expose the name and form of the devotee to become famous in this world (Bhakta kirti vivardhanah).
03-04-1993, 4.00 am.
Hanuman and Radha are My incarnations only and hence could succeed in the spiritual path. Both are incarnations of God Shiva. Radha is incarnation of sage Durvasa, who is the incarnation of God Shiva. I have shown the real path of the devotee and success in it. It is very difficult for a human being to succeed in the Nivrutti path. Leaving My incarnations appearing as devotees, the devotees so far succeeded in this Nivrutti path are very few, countable on your fingers. Even they could not get 100/100 marks. The maximum range of marks achieved by these very few devotees are only 80 to 90 per 100. I added the rest marks as grace marks since they are souls and made them to gain 100 marks. Therefore, if you put sincerely the effort, certainly My grace will lift you to reach the goal. Don’t say that it is very difficult to get even these 80 to 90 marks. Do you know the truth that you are getting 100 per 100 marks in your love shown towards your family in which there is no need of any grace and you are reaching your goal (100 marks) in a fraction of one second! In My case, you get 80 to 90 marks by your effort in millions of births! This is difference between the true and spontaneous love on family and the false love on God. People mistake that God Datta is against the family life and call ‘Dattam Chinnam’, which means that God Datta destroys family bonds. Is this comment justified? On one hand, you praise Me every day that I am above everything and everybody. It is My responsibility to verify this statement. Whatever I am telling about real love to family is true or not - you yourself decide. Since you are telling lies to Me, it is My duty as your Guru (preacher) to show the truth to you through knowledge.
I shall preach you two verses. Daily read both these for ten times so that you will succeed in your spiritual effort:
1) Yebhyo me jivitam sarvam, nitam te naadya rakshakaah
Amato rakshako naiti, maamiti jnaanamantyajam.
yebhyo me jīvitaṁ sarvaṁ, nitaṁ te nādya rakṣakāḥ
amato rakṣako naiti, māmiti jñānamantyajam
Meaning: The human being in the last minutes of death, blessed with the last knowledge given by God thinks in the following way—I have wasted all my life for these family members standing around me (to know my bank accounts), who can’t protect me at all after death. I never thought about that one God, who alone can protect me now and He is not coming to me now. Those, who were thought by me are around me, but, unable to protect me now and that single God, who is able to protect me is not coming to me now since I never thought about Him!
2) Samaye sati na jnaanam, Jnaane tu samayao na cha
Iti mounavyathaa bhuyo, Jaataa maranavedanaa.
samaye sati na jñānaṁ, jñāne tu samayo na ca
iti maunavyathā bhūyo, jātā maraṇa vedanā
Meaning: Subsequently the dying person thinks like this—When there was ample time, this point never struck my brain. When this point is struck now, there is no time for even a minute. Even if I reveal this pain to these people surrounding me, what can be done even by them?—like this, the dying person undergoes silent pain in his heart and this is called as death agony.
Every human being is blessed by God with these two points at the end called as 1) last intellectual flash and 2) last agony. If you read these two verses everyday with meanings, certainly, you will put spiritual effort and there is no need to face these two in the end.
If you surrender to Me totally with total faith in Me, your total responsibility is on Me. Every soul has love to Me simply for the fulfillment of his/her desire only. Even the oldest person is suffering with a desire related to the upper world, which is protection in the hell. Some people express desire (Samkalpa) before prayer. Some people express desire at the end of the prayer. Some people don’t express in words, keeping the desire in their heart of hearts. Some people pray without any desire in their heart also because they know that worship without desire for any fruit in return will fulfill all the desires! One desires for petty worldly boons like a small pick-pocketing thief! Somebody else says that these worldly desires are momentary and not eternal and desires to get My eternal status like a big robber planning to loot a bank itself! I am unable to find a devotee in My search, who does service and sacrifice without any desire as in the case of parents to their issues! The selfless love on your family should be kept as standard reference while estimating the quality and quantity of devotion to God.
If you are limiting yourself to worldly affairs only like earning food, eating, drinking, sleep, sex etc., you will get the births of birds and animals only after this birth since these are common to both human birth and birth of animals or birds. The human birth is very very rare and if you are not using this birth for spiritual line, there is no need of human birth for you again. When you are born as animal or bird, at least you will decrease the quality of storing wealth through unlawful earnings because the bird or animal works just to earn food for that day only. After some births in animals and birds, you are again given birth in humanity to see whether your selfish nature is reduced or not. If there is no effect on your selfish nature even after repeating these life cycles for some more time, you are thrown in to the cycle of births of animals and birds forever and human rebirth will not be granted to you again. I praise the foreign religions, which say that this is the last human birth and that there is no rebirth. The human being becomes very alert in the spiritual line feeling this life as the last chance, failing which it will be thrown into liquid-fire of hell forever! The young human being postpones spiritual life to the old age and the old person postpones this to future human births! This human psychology is forcibly arrested by the above concept. In spite of such serious effort (due to absence of rebirth), if a soul concentrating on the process of continuous effort needs another human birth, it is certainly sanctioned by the omnipotent God and Hinduism speaks about this special case only, which is diluted by generalization resulting in misinterpretation. Hence, the real spirit of Hinduism is complementing the foreign religions and actually there is no interreligious split. The generalization of a specific concept is not new in Hinduism as you see that if human incarnation is God, every human being is God!
If you restrict wastage of energy and time in unnecessary or sinful worldly affairs, you will have sufficient energy and time along with peace also for spiritual path. The energy is going out from you through three channels: 1) Mind, 2) Word and 3) Body (work). You have to control these three channels in unnecessary expenditure of energy after spending it for inevitable and justified duties and responsibilities. By this, the preserved energy remains constant and such stage is called as ‘Sthitaprajna’ which is very much essential for spiritual path. You must also have balance in spending the energy in these three channels so that all the three channels are equally used. If you use one channel only, the other two channels become lazy and diseased also after sometime. In spiritual path, you need the usage of all these three channels. Mind is used in spiritual knowledge and also in developing theoretical devotion. Word is used in the discussions (knowledge) and in payers and devotional songs. Body is used in divine service. Mind is the most important channel in discussing spiritual knowledge to arrive at correct conclusions to be implemented in practice. Word and body follow the decisions of intelligence to which mind is a related faculty. Balanced work between these three channels and control of expenditure of energy through these for unnecessary issues and sinful activities are the characteristics of a Sthitaprajna-person. Due to excess fascination (Moha) to family members, often, you develop tension for them. In tension, energy is spent in very fast way so that you become weak and easily attacked by diseases. There is no benefit to you or even to your family members in their problems by tension. Instead, there is a lot of damage to you. You are forgetting one basic point that whenever a difficulty comes to you or family members, you must welcome it since the human life cycle of any soul here is arranged by God with alternative happiness and misery so that you are not bored with one alone throughout your life like with a meal consisting of only sweets or only hots. A meal with alternative sweets and hots alone gives you continuous enjoyment without boring and hence you see difficulties even in the life histories of human forms of God. Boring with one continuous item only is the climax of misery about which you are practically inexperienced so far! Even in happiness, excitement is also unnecessary expenditure of energy only as in tension as said in the Gita (Na prahrushyet…). Do your duties in a detached way without excitement or tension. You realize that all your family members were just money lenders to you in your previous births and their loans were not cleared by you in those births. With the help of divine administration conducted by deity of justice, they became your family members to collect their back loans with compounded interest (Runaanubandha rupena, pashu patni sutaalayaah)! This thought felt by you everyday will develop some detachment in you to control at least excitements and tensions, if not the fascinations in their case. In fact, your duty is to clear their loans with love and respect and not with hatred because you are the past criminal in escaping from their due loans and don’t get ego feeling that you are patronizing them. What is the use of fascination, excitement and tension for them, which in no way clear their loans? Moreover, these cause loss of energy to you. The preservation of energy is the most precious health because energy is created in you in limited quantity only. You can’t eat and drink continuously to generate continuous energy due to the limitation of efficiency of your digestive system! Hence, limit the expenditure of energy to earning only for subsequent clearance of their loans. The rest preserved energy (which is spent unnecessarily in fascinations, excitements and tensions for family) be dedicated to God so that you will save yourself once for all. With this knowledge, you observe every thought, every word and every physical activity to avoid wastage of energy and this is the main principle of Yoga at higher level. Maintaining health through exercises is the fundamental level of Yoga since without health you can’t have efficiency to preserve energy.
Sages in ancient days avoided sex after getting issues because over sex ruins mind and body. Hence, you must at least control sex as far as possible. A saint spends all the energy to spiritual line only avoiding family and even earning for food. The duty of a saint is propagation of spiritual knowledge to the entire humanity. Hence, it is the duty of house-holders to give food to saints, which is very holy called as ‘Bhikshaa’. The identification of a saint is the holy spiritual knowledge propagated by him/her and not the external saffron cloth. Saffron color stands for maturity as you find in ripened fruit, which should be seen in the knowledge and not in the cloth. You need not leave your family and house for becoming saint. If you reduce your fascination to your family, you can avoid excitations and tensions for it and confine to the justified duties only, you are a real saint even without leaving the house and even without saffron cloth (since you preserved some energy for propagation), if you are involved in the propagation of spiritual knowledge. Let your selfishness also get satisfied since propagation is mainly strengthening right knowledge in your mind. God blessed you with the technology of the computer by which you can travel any distance and propagate the spiritual knowledge. Such real saint is doing the real service of God more efficiently in simplified way. Even human incarnations did only this divine work because today the direction in the life in every spiritual practice is really needed, which can be given by right spiritual knowledge only. There is no dearth of devotion, sacrifice and service in this world. In fact, they are improving day by day, but, in wrong direction to fulfill worldly desires. What actually missing is correct direction to God to be given by correct spiritual knowledge. Some are running in wrong direction and some are running without direction!
You must read all these points in a language known to you so that these are impressed on your mind and affect your practical life that gives you the fruits. An old lady gave Me meals and Guru Dakshina (offering) along with a copy of the Gita, falling on My feet and praising Me as Datta. She told Me that she recited the Gita everyday throughout her life and that she is doing the final celebration of such spiritual practice. I asked her that whether she understood any verse in the Gita. She told with some dignity that she recited the original Gita in Sanskrit only even though she does not know Sanskrit. I told her “all your practice of reciting the Gita in Sanskrit is sheer waste. What is the use of recitation if you don’t understand any word? Without understanding the meaning, you can’t implement anything in practice and without practice there is no fruit. You are just like a priest reciting the Vedic text without knowing a single word of it”.
In ancient India, the mother tongue was Sanskrit. Hence, sages wrote scriptures in Sanskrit just like scriptures of foreign religions were written in their corresponding mother tongues. In the foreign countries, the mother tongues continued because the times of scriptures were not very ancient as in the case of Hinduism in India. In India, the mother tongue was changed in course of long time and today Sanskrit is not understood by anybody. Hence, the recitation of scripture continues in Sanskrit and nobody including the priest doesn’t understand any word of the scripture. These priests also recite the scripture blindly for years together without understanding anything. There is no need of blind recitation of scripture by spending so much time since the scripture can be read from the book (as is done in the case of other religions) because knowledge is very important aspect of the Veda-scripture. The funniest unfortune is that the scripture is called as the Veda, which means knowledge! Any ritual is a special occasion to know the scripture and attain spiritual knowledge. To support their blind recitation of scripture in the ritual, priests say that the sound itself has miraculous power. All this is false, which is just to support their blind recitation. If their interpretation is correct, the scripture should not have been named as the Veda (the knowledge). Neither scripture is translated in to mother tongue nor do people (reader and audience) know Sanskrit language to understand it. It is the duty of the priest to learn the meaning of the Vedic scripture and explain its meaning in mother tongue so that people improve their spiritual knowledge through the process of reminding concepts in rituals. Words shall be understood to get the meaning. Meaning gives the secret and sacred concepts, which develop attraction to God called as devotion. There is no use if the primary step of knowing (the meaning) itself fails!
A demon is also doing penance dedicating total energy to God like a saint. But, the demon is worst because such dedication of total energy is for fulfillment of his desire, whereas the saint is doing the same without any desire and only for the attraction to God. Hence, God destroys the demon finally and uplifts the saint. Even saint will be tested since examination is inevitable formality of the university to give degree. God becomes servant of such divine saint. But, the saint should never desire to make God as his servant! Desire is a normal pulse emitted by the inner pattern of psychology (Samskara or Vasana) that was set by millions of past births. The right knowledge is the only solution. You have to take necessary steps like memorization and discussion of concepts by frequent thinking, discussions and propagation for impression of new pattern of psychology. The practical steps and precautions for such strong impression of right knowledge constitute Yoga. I am Guru Datta (preacher of concepts) as well as Yogi Raja (practical instructor), which mean that I give right spiritual knowledge as Guru and practical steps for its strong impression as Yogi. If your fascinations, excitements and tensions become inevitable, turn them to God. Try to have fascination to God. Try to be excited in His devotion. Try to face the tensions in doing His service. The tension of Hanuman went to climax in the service of search for Sita when Hanuman thought even to commit suicide! In this way, your inevitable habit gets satisfied. In such case, the expenditure of energy becomes the dedication of energy towards God. Be angry on God for not showing grace on you. You can embrace the statue of God and kiss it to divert your feeling of sex to God. Even a male should realize that God alone is the only male (purusha) as thought by Meera. According to this only, sages requested for His embracement. Ego of gender should be destroyed before God and hence sages were born as female Gopikas in the next birth to attain final salvation. Save your money, energy, work and time from the world like a greedy person for the sake of God. Concentrate all your fascination towards the divine personality of God. Feel proud that you love God and that God loves you. Develop jealousy towards great devotees, which can be used in your personal development in the spiritual line. Jealousy should be positively used in your development to become equal with a great person (Spardhayaa vardhate…). It should not be used in negative way to suppress them so that you can become equal to them! In this way, you can divert all your vices to God instead to the world. To destroy these vices, which are like six huge hills formed from very long past, you need not even dream since you can’t even shake them by the effort of this total life! But, if you receive and assimilate the true spiritual knowledge, these hills can be destroyed by the power of truth of knowledge. Darkness staying in a closed room for past many years shall run away by the just entering fresh sunlight through the window just opened! But, you have to create fresh hills again towards God in the spiritual path. Instead of this, you can directly convert those hills into these hills. Such diverted conversion is seen in the songs of Jaideva and Meera. The goal decides whether the path is pure or impure. Even dirty matter burnt in fire becomes sacred ash. Even sugar poured in drainage becomes impure. When God is goal, any path becomes holy and when the world is goal any path becomes unholy. The direction of the key rotated in the lock decides locking or unlocking and remember that the material (lock and key) remain the same! This is preached by the Lord in the end of the Gita (Sarvadharmaan…). These four dogs are at My feet showing the place where I stand. These dogs are the four Vedic scriptures indicating the right spiritual knowledge without which you can never find My place.
The word ‘Bhartaa’ (maintainer) or husband ultimately indicates Me only. The tree is on the hill and hill is on the earth. Hill bears the weight of tree and earth bears the weight of hill. Which is bearing both tree and hill? Only earth is the ultimate bearer. Hence, males should not have ego of gender. Ego of caste is also bad. The sages, who were Brahmin-males, were born in the cowherd caste as females to get salvation on removing both these egos. The four scriptures, the Vedas, meaning knowledge at My feet indicate that I am the essence and goal of the highest spiritual knowledge.
“Antarmukha Samaaraadhyaa” is misunderstood as silent meditation. It means that you have to withdraw from the external atmosphere (Bahirmukha Sudurlabhaa) and attach yourself to God, who must be hidden in your mind. Otherwise, the external atmosphere competes with God to divert you from God. No second soul can protect you either here or there in reality. You must be alert in controlling the wastage of even your trace of energy in very small incident also because the incident repeated again and again will result in the loss of huge energy. You must value even one paisa since the rupee is only result of addition of paisa only like the ocean is the result of addition of drops. Rest for mind and body should be in required quantity, which should avoid both extremities. You will become lazy by long rest and you will become diseased by rest for very small time, which may lead you to eternal rest! Deep sleep alone is real rest. States of awakening and dream are not rest. Dream comes for two reasons: 1) The impressions of your states of consciousness (of present birth) and sub-consciousness (of past births) appear as dreams, 2) God uses dream as a medium to give message to you. You must analyze the dream patiently and decide the reason. You must have limited food and limited journey for good health, which supports very much the spiritual line as said in the Gita (yuktaahaara vihaarasya…). You must identify the person in whose association you are wasting energy and you must delink with him/her as early as possible. If his/her association is inevitable, act as if you are hearing that person and meditate upon God internally. If they provoke you to talk, just give a smile saying ‘nothing to say after you have said everything’!
As far as possible, be in constant association of a correct spiritual preacher. You must decide the knowledge of preacher through sharp analysis and then only select him. If they come to your house, show real respect by doing some service like facilities during their stay. Don’t be greedy in your service giving all your earnings to your family members only for clearing their past loans. You needn’t be so fast in clearing the loan at once. The judge in the court also gives reasonable time to clear the loan! Never insult the spiritual preacher, which hits Me only. Money (matter) is also a form of your energy. Work is a form of energy and money is the fruit of work. Work is in the form of kinetic energy and money is in the form of potential energy. If you are careful in the expenditure of energy in Yoga, care the expenditure of money also in Yoga. You are spending most of your energy for the three strongest steel chains (Eshanaas), which are life partner, issues and money. You are often excited in expression of love in the case of the two prior chains. In the case of third chain, you are spending almost all your energy in its earning even going to unlawful ways. If one wastes all the energy for these three chains only, such soul will certainly go to the births of birds, animals, insects, worms etc., immediately after this birth as condemned and banned from humanity. There should be at least an equal place for God, the fourth gold chain. At least, at least… a small place as humble beginning. Shankara dedicated Himself to the gold chain only throughout His life. Buddha spent some part of life for the steel chains and left those for the sake of gold chain in the later part of life. You must be Shankara or at least Buddha. Buddha came to spiritual path in the youth itself just after birth of one son. Dhrutarashtra couldn’t come to God even in old age even after getting 100 sons! He refused the justified request of God in human form for the sake of those bad issues! He is not only blind externally, but also internally! Don’t criticize any spiritual preacher even if you don’t like that spiritual knowledge. You praise and leave him/her. It is not a sin to praise the stone as gem. Really, that preacher may be very correct and you may not like because of your fascination to worldly bonds or due to your different level in spiritual progress. You must decide the knowledge only by analysis. In your ignorance and wrong fascinations, you should not scold the preacher, who might have been correct and not seen by you due to your blind worldly fascination or due to your different spiritual level. It is a sin to scold a gem as the stone. This is stated in the Brahma Sutras.
You must revise all the important spiritual points every day. Revision alone gives strength to the impression of knowledge. Propagation is the best revision for your benefit only, which is in disguise of introduction of knowledge to others for their benefit. Don’t believe any old tradition blindly without thorough analysis. Good traditions from sages are mixed with bad traditions of middle age scholars like sugar mixed with sand. You have to separate both by dissolution in water, filtration by fine cloth and evaporation of the filtrate to separate both. Similarly, you have to do analysis in several steps and angles to separate good from bad.
Fourth chapter is completed.