Easiest Way to Attain God (Part-1)

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O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Mr. Anil Antony came to Vijayawada from Mumbai to see His Holiness Shri Datta Swami and asked some questions. The replies of Swami are incorporated here as the divine message.]

You have to live in this world according to the instructions of the Lord. Regarding your life in this world, the essence of His instruction is that, you should be deceived by others and not deceive others, you should be harmed by others but not harm anyone, you should not insult others, but you can be insulted by others and you should be abused by others but not abuse others. One cannot attain God by doing penance even for centuries. But there is one easiest way to attain God. When you are deceived by others or when you are harmed by others or when you are insulted by others or when you are abused by others, the Lord comes to your side. It means you have attained God. Therefore, you should thank the people who have deceived or harmed or insulted or abused you. They have helped you in attaining God by the easiest way. Therefore, you should not deceive or harm or insult or scold even such people in return. They might have passed on the punishment to you for your sins on the will of God. In that case also, they have cleared your sins at an early stage without further interest on the punishment. Even in that way you should thank them.

Some people say that even good people are unnecessarily harmed. They criticize God. You cannot decide any person as a good person. Did you observe him every minute from his birth? You also think yourself as a good person. Are you aware of your sins done in your childhood? You might have harmed an innocent insect in your childhood. Do you remember that? Even mental feelings are sins, which may not be expressed in words and actions. The feelings of the mind are the source of words and actions. Therefore, the feeling may not hurt others today. But tomorrow it will hurt others which will come out in words and actions. Infact, intention is given more importance in the crime according to law. The judge gives more importance to the intention in giving the punishment. You are walking on the road and the ant is killed by your foot, without any intention. There is no punishment for such sins. But when you kill the same ant with intention, you are punished by God. Therefore, mind is the source of action. If somebody harmed really a good person, then also leave it to God. You should not revenge. Why? The reason is that you cannot judge the exact nature and line of the case. You do not remember your own sins. Sometimes you do the sin thinking that it is good. You cannot be the standard in judging your own sins. Only the Lord can decide. Therefore, if somebody harmed really a good person, in the view of the Lord also, then the Lord Himself will punish him. You cannot take the law and order into your hand. You have to refer the case to the court. Let the Judge decide and punish the criminal. Therefore, the Lord said, “Revenge is Mine”. If the revenge is justified, the Lord will certainly punish. The Lord will not revenge if you pray Him to do so. The Lord will not excuse even if you recommend the unjust case.

You neither have the power to punish nor to excuse anybody. The reason for this is that you are not omniscient. If a sinner realizes the sin and repents, the punishment is reduced. After repentance if you do not repeat the sins, the punishment is cancelled. If the sinner does not repent, he will repeat the sin again and again. Such sinner can be controlled only by punishment. If this is not true the police department has no use. There are some sinners who can be controlled only by third degree treatment. If such punishment and revenge are not required and if everybody can be transformed by preaching, then what is the necessity of the existence of Hell and Liquid Fire? If such possibility of transformation by love and knowledge is there, then why the Lord mentioned the word ‘revenge’ at all? Therefore, this means that there are some sinners who cannot be transformed by love and knowledge. Some clever people criticize Lord Rama and Lord Krishna, who have resorted to punish the sinners. Such clever people should answer about the word ‘revenge’ uttered by the Lord and also should explain the mention of the liquid fire in the scriptures. If all the human beings can be transformed through love and knowledge such words should not have been mentioned in their scriptures.

The Lord is the Father of all the souls. Your love on another human being is only brotherly love. The love of the father is far greater than the brotherly love. You are criticizing your father for punishing your brother! The Hather tries His best to transform His son. On the first day of the war, Ravana was defeated by Rama. Rama could have killed him on the very first day. But Rama asked Ravana to go back and think that night. The Lord punishes anyone as last resort. Even then, the Lord does not have anger or hatred. The punishment is only the last method attempted for transformation. There also, the aim is only transformation. But when you punish your enemy, such aim does not exist. Therefore, the punishment by Lord is also reflecting His divine love and kindness on the soul. Due to such sacred aim the Lord is authorized to punish the soul. He is just like a teacher who punishes the student for his misbehavior. The teacher does not get any sin in such punishment. The reason again is that the intention decides the action.

Therefore, when you live in the world according to instructions given by the Lord, the Lord is pleased with you. The Lord will make you happy in this world. Your happiness in this world is an indication of His grace. Therefore, you will be happy in the upper world also. He is the only one Lord for both the worlds. Therefore, if you are unhappy in the worldly affairs, you will be unhappy in the spiritual matters in the upper world also. If you are blessed in this world, you are also blessed in the upper world. Therefore, you follow His commandments and be happy in this world.

When you are serving the Lord, you should be happy in the sacrifice. You should not sacrifice to the Lord with unhappiness. The sacrifice with unhappiness will make the Lord unhappy. The result of such service is unhappiness in the upper world. Therefore, it is better not to sacrifice if you are not happy. Why should you purchase the unhappiness with such sacrifice? Are you unhappy when you are sacrificing to your family members? Therefore, the sacrifice with force or unhappiness is not only waste but also brings negative results in the case of Lord. In the case of family members if you sacrifice with unhappiness it is waste. Therefore, the intention is very important for the Lord. You should not do any sacrifice aspiring something in return. Such sacrifice is only a business. The business done in the case of your family members may bring benefit or loss. But in the case of Lord, the business always brings loss. Therefore, live in this world according to the instructions of the Lord given to you with regard to other human beings. With regard to the Lord do sacrifice and service to the Lord to that extent only up to which there is no force or pain or business.

Some people say that the Lord preaches with love and kindness in the world for transformation. If the soul is not transformed, the soul will be thrown to hell permanently at the end of this life. They say that the Lord should not punish the soul in this world. This is exactly similar to say that you should preach the student and if the student fails, he should be hanged to death permanently at the end of the period. You are not allowing punishing with cane during the period. Therefore, before the final punishment, temporary punishment must be also given to the soul. Before the final examination, interim examinations are also conducted. If the student fails in the interim examinations, there will be a chance for the student to correct himself before the final examination. Therefore, interim punishments are part and parcel of the coaching before the final examination. The Lord adopts different procedures of coaching in different regions based on the psychology and attitude of the human beings. You should not criticize the procedure of the Lord which is different in some other religion and region.

The Lord is universal but the human beings in the universe differ in their attitudes. The same single Lord adopts a different procedure in a different region and such different procedure appears as a different religion. A few criticize the Lord of other religion. You are criticizing your own Lord of your own religion. The external behavior of the Lord differs due to different internal and external behaviors of the human beings in this universe. The external form, dress, language, food habits and culture of human beings differ from one region to the other. Accordingly, the external form, dress, food habits, language and culture of the Lord also differ to suit that particular region. The internal Lord and the internal essence of the same Lord is one and the same in His different human incarnations which have come in different regions or religions.

2^nd Divine Message

The human being is entangled in the cycle of deeds called karma chakra. The thought in the mind is the seed which when grows generates action. The action certainly gives its result. Even if you escape the result of your action in this world, you cannot escape from it in the upper world. Infact the result in the upper world is very severe due to the compounded interest. Therefore, blessed are those who are punished in this world itself. Jesus says ‘It is better to punish yourself for your sin in this world itself than to fall in the eternal hell’. The punishment reduces the thought to tiny state of seedling. The punishment cannot destroy the thought completely. The thought exists in a very microstate called ‘the state of subconsciousness’. Even you are not aware of your subconscious thought. When the soul comes down from hell to the earth and enters the new human body, the child contains all the previous qualities or thoughts hidden in the subconscious state. Therefore, the child is unaware of anything and appears to be the most sacred. In the child, the thoughts are like the seeds without germination. Whatever may be the external atmosphere in which the child grows, the strong thoughts will certainly germinate and the thoughts will be like tender plants if not strong trees. But if the external atmosphere is favorable this strong thought becomes tree and weak thought will become plant. These germinated thoughts will result in corresponding actions. The actions will give their own fruits whether here or there.

The fruits are the punishments, which will again reduce the thoughts to seeds. This is the cycle of the deeds. When it is said that you are enjoying the fruit of the action of your previous birth, it has to be understood following the hemisphere of this cycle. The action of your previous birth was punished in the hell which has reduced your thought to the seed. In this birth, the seed is grown and resulted in its corresponding action. Such action gave you its result in this world since you are captured here itself. The judiciary system in this world also functions under the direction of the Lord only. If you have escaped the judiciary system in this world, it is again by the will of Lord only. The Lord might have judged your case and might have given you a chance of transformation. Sometimes you are punished wrongly in a case. Do not abuse the court or God. Perhaps you are punished for some other sin. Do not think that you have escaped a punishment that you deserve in the court. Perhaps God is directing you for a severe punishment in the hell which cannot be provided by the court here. Therefore, do not think that you have fooled the court and think that the deity of justice is blind with a cloth tide on her eyes. This court is functioning according to the will of the Lord only because the Lord governs everybody and everything in this world. Therefore, do not blame God or do not say that God does not exist if some criminal escapes the punishment of this court.

Now the main point is how to escape from this cycle? You cannot escape this cycle by preventing the deed or punishment. If you are tied with a rope, you will not do the deed till you are tied. You will do the deed as soon as you are released from the rope. You may escape the result of your deed by some recommendations, but you cannot escape from it in the hell. The only way to stop this cycle is to destroy the thought which is the initiating seed. How to destroy it? The seed is the thought which is a living property or property of life. If it is inert property like light or heat, it can be prevented by physical methods. Only knowledge which is another living property can destroy this thought. Only a diamond can cut another diamond. The wrong knowledge which generates this sin is dangerous. Ignorance which is zero is better than wrong knowledge which is minus. Therefore, only right knowledge can destroy wrong thoughts. You can differentiate the right knowledge from the wrong knowledge through careful, patient analysis and discrimination. The knowledge of God alone can create even devotion in your mind and develop it. Thus, by knowledge alone you can get rid of this cycle and attain and please God. Shankara says ‘Jnanat evatu kaivalyam’, which means that the knowledge alone can give salvation. Jesus preached this spiritual knowledge throughout His life.

The atheist is always rigid and does not accept God even if a miracle is performed physically. He will attribute it to hypnotism and magic. When Lord Krishna showed the vision of His cosmic form in the court, Duryodhana became unconscious, but he attributed it to illusion and hypnotism. Therefore, a rigid foolish atheist can never be transformed and he shall be condemned forever like a student debarred by the university. One must have open mind to recognize the truth and must have the courage to come out of his conservative rigid circle. The atheist blames the devotees regarding these foolish conservative limits, but he himself is trapped by such limits! For a wise person even the subtle experience in small incidents taking place in his life is sufficient to realize the proof for existence of God. God is giving proof about His existence even in very small incidents that take place in every walk of your life. If you sit and analyse your past life with careful shrewd analysis, you can see the existence of God at every step who is trying to help you always.

Some say that God loves only His devotees and thus He is partial. This is meaningless. If all love Him equally and if He loves a few only, that is partiality.

[One devotee asked that God is having all good qualities only which are coming under a category of Sattvam. There should not be Rajas and Tamas in His qualities.]

Swami replied: You should not say that God is associated with good qualities. You should say that whatever quality is associated with God is good. Any quality directed towards God is good and any quality which is directed towards the creation is bad. Sattvam is knowledge. Rajas is work. Tamas is rigid determination. The knowledge of an atheist which opposes the existence of God is a bad quality even though it is Sattvam. The work in the divine service (Rajas) and the rigid determination in the faith of God (Tamas) are good qualities. The very knowledge is the process of work of mind and thus, knowledge itself is basically Rajas. When you believe your knowledge, such belief is Tamas. Thus, you cannot separate the three qualities basically in their original state. The scriptures (Shastras) say this. The three qualities are always in the inseparable equilibrium state when the pure awareness (Mula Prakruti or Holy Spirit) was created by God. When the equilibrium is disturbed, any one of these three qualities predominates and we call it by its name. The spiritual effort to attain and please God must contain these three qualities. The quality is neither in the God nor God is in the quality. Any quality must be associated with God only for its very existence. Any quality is created, maintained and is destroyed by God only. The creation is said to be Rajas. The maintenance is Sattvam. The destruction is Tamas. This entire Universe which is the asylum for all the qualities is created and is maintained by the God. In such case, how can you say that God is associated with some qualities only and is not associated with some other qualities? Nothing can exist without His association. He is beyond this universe and therefore, He is beyond all the qualities. He uses all the three qualities for His divine play.

[Where from Satan came? From which source Satan got power?]

Swami replied: The same producer and director of the film, who appointed one actor as hero, has appointed another actor as the villain. The villain is also remunerated like the hero. Sometimes the producer-cum-director can enter the film in the role of a hero and such a role is called as the Human Incarnation of the Lord. The villain opposes the hero in the cinema. The hero wins over the villain giving a good message to the spectators. But remember that the hero who is the producer has remunerated the villain and also directed every action of the villain as the director of the whole picture.

[Mr. Anil Antony asked that Swami came as Human Incarnation in Hinduism. Why not similarly the Human incarnation appear in other western religions also?]

Swami replied: The answer is very crucial and has to be digested by different people in different angles. First of all, whether I am the Human Incarnation or not I cannot say because, I should not say it, whether I am Human Incarnation or not? Let us assume that I am a human incarnation from the angle of My sincere devotee. Whether My sincere devotee is right or wrong cannot be decided by any other person who is also a human being like My devotee. I cannot be a standard to My devotee, which others cannot accept. Therefore, My answer to this question is completely limited to My sincere devotee only, because others cannot accept Me as the human incarnation. Therefore, My answer given to My sincere devotee only shall be the following:

The fundamental point in your question is that Buddhism is silent about God Himself and so the topic of human incarnation cannot arise. The Islam also does not believe in the Human Incarnation and treats even Mohammad as a Messenger of God only. Since Islam says that He is the last messenger, there is no place for another messenger. Holy Christianity accepts the concept of Human Incarnation as God in flesh. But it limits only to Jesus and there is no place for second human incarnation. Ofcourse they accept the second coming of Jesus. But they say that the second coming is only in the stage of final destruction of world only. Since now the world exists and is not facing the final destruction, I cannot fit Myself in the place of second Jesus. But, in Hinduism, the Gita says “Yadaa Yadaa Hi” which means that God will come in Human Form whenever it is necessary. Therefore, I can have place only in Hinduism. Ofcourse, such provision in Hinduism can be exploited by human beings who are not the real incarnations. But, for the fear of exploitation, the entire system cannot be rejected. For the fear of copying, the system of examinations cannot be abolished. For the fear of accident, the train journey cannot be avoided. Therefore, every system contains the possibility of both genuine and fraud cases. We have to carefully analyse and eliminate the fraud cases. Because of the fear of the rats, the house cannot be burnt.

Even if I want to come in other religions their doors are closed. Therefore, the only possibility is to come in Hinduism and establish the Universality of God. When the Universality of God in all the human incarnations of all religions is established, then it means that I have come in Human form in all the religions simultaneously. Except this one way there is no other way. I have no objection, to come in Human form in other religions also separately, provided you get the doors of the other religions opened for My entry.

[Mr. Anil Antony told that this question and the answer are the cream of light of the day. Everybody in the Satsang including Mr Antony told that ‘No one other than the Lord can answer this question in such wonderful way!’ Mr Antony told that his trip to meet Swami has become very fruitful. Swami told that even a trip to Kashmir cannot give such eternal bliss.

Mr. Anil Antony asked that Swami was mentioning major religions only and not other minor religions.]

Swami replied: The other religions whether major or minor are in the lines of the Major religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Science (atheism). Science is mentioned as a religion because atheism is mentioned as a religion under the headline ‘Nastika matam’. Religion means a line of thinking (matam). Jainism is almost similar to Buddhism. Their argument about seven-fold existence is discussed separately in different branches of Hinduism. The Persian religion concentrates on the worship of the fire which is similar to the branch of Hinduism called ‘Soura Matam’ in which the natural object, Sun, is worshiped as God. This concept is discussed in the topic of representative worship (Pratika-Puja).

[Mr. Anil Antony asked Swami about the greatness of a generous atheist over a selfish theist.]

Swami replied: The Gita says that the bad theist is greater than a generous atheist (Apichet Sa Duracharah…). The reason for this is that negation of God is -100. All the other good qualities are only +99. Therefore, a good atheist results as –1. The gratefulness to God is +100. All the other bad qualities are only -99. Therefore, a bad theist results as +1. Of course, a good theist is +199. A bad atheist is –199. You should aim at +199 and not just at +1.

[Mr. Anil Antony asked Swami about the cause of the fear.]

Swami replied: The cause of fear is only the ignorance about God. The complete knowledge about God removes the fear completely. You can neither protect yourself nor others. Any item of the creation cannot protect any other item of the creation. The reason is every item has production and destruction. Even the Lord in the human form has birth and death but has no fear. Jesus knows about His future crucification. He never feared about it before or during the crucification. He never feared for the soldiers who came to arrest Him. He never argued about His case in the court, because He knows that the crucification has to take place by the will of God. Therefore, when you have the knowledge of God and the knowledge of His will, you will not fear even about the death. The death proves that everything and everybody other than God gets destroyed. Therefore, Jesus asked the people to fear about themselves and about their children and not about His death. Lord Rama jumped into the river with smiling face, Lord Krishna was smiling while leaving His body. Shri Pada Vallabha and Shri Narasimha Saraswati merged in the Krishna River with smiles. Therefore, one will not fear even for death if the divine knowledge is attained. The Gita says that death is only changing the old shirt. Where the divine knowledge exists like sunlight, the fear vanishes like darkness. Even in the last statement of Jesus, no trace of fear appears as He said that He is surrendering His soul to the hands of God. The Veda says that the limited knowledge is cause of the fear (Atha Tasya Bhayam…).

[Mr. Anil Antony asked Swami whether a very brilliant person in the worldly affairs is blessed by God indicating his higher spiritual level for such exceptional grace of God.]

Swami replied: Suppose there is a talented person in running but he is running in the wrong direction. In that case, the talent is harming him more because by that exceptional talent he is running fast and is going away from the goal in a very short time. The person who is not talented is slowly walking. The absence of talent in his case is very good because he is not far away from the goal even after long time. Even a country for its welfare needs people with good character who are not corrupt. The public will be really benefited by non-corrupt officials even though they are less talented. The public will not receive the benefits from the corrupt officials even though they are more talented. Their talent is applied in their selfish growth. Ravana was a great scholar with exceptional talents. But the world suffered due to him. A devotee with good character and lesser talent will always be better to give good results. God will bless him with exceptional talent wherever and whenever it is needed. If the direction is towards God the exceptional talent is definitely due to the grace of God. The talent without divine knowledge results in destruction only at the end.

[Mr. Anil Antony asked Swami ‘What is divine knowledge’?]

Swami replied that the Knowledge given by the Lord in Human form like the Bible, the Gita etc., is divine knowledge. If the concept of Human Incarnation is realized, the divine knowledge is recognized. If the people can believe Krishna, Jesus etc., as the Lord in human form, the Gita, the Bible etc., is recognized as the divine knowledge. But the problem is that there are several interpretations of such divine scriptures. These interpretations are contradicting each other since these interpretations are given by different human beings and no human being can decide the correct interpretation. You yourself also cannot decide because you are also a human being. Therefore, the original author of that sacred scripture can alone convince you with correct interpretation. Such correct interpretation is called as the real divine knowledge. For this you have to recognize the human form of the Lord present in your generation.

The identity for such recognition is your inner self which gets convinced by such real interpretation, which is aided by your careful and patient analytical faculty of intelligence, called as buddhi. Even an illiterate person has such inner self and analytical faculty even in the absence of language.

Loving God above Family

Divine Message in Maha Satsang-II

 [Mr. Antony told that one of his friends asked the following question: “Lord Jesus stated that unless one hates his parents and children, he cannot be the dear disciple of the Lord”. Is this not the cruel statement of God to hate the old parents and just born baby?]

Swami Replied: The old parents look very pure because the qualities in them are just sleeping due to their weakness. Similarly, in the just born baby the qualities are in dormant stage, which are ready for germination and therefore, the baby looks pure. An old demon and a devil baby look pure and innocent because of the weak qualities or thoughts, which are precipitated in those souls for the past millions of lives. Due to the weak external atmosphere, which is their physical body, the qualities are just sleeping and they are not really pure. Can you love a sleeping snake? The real purity lies only in Lord Jesus or any other such human incarnation of Lord. Except the Lord and the liberated souls, which are top devotees, all other souls are impure by the qualities. Do you love your son only when he is a baby? Are you not continuing your love when he grows? Therefore, your love is on your son and not on his babyhood. Do you love all the babies and all the old people in the world equally? Therefore, Jesus (Human Incarnation) asks you to cut your bonds with your parents and not your bond with their old age. Similarly, you have to cut your bond with son and not your bond with their childhood. Actually, you have no bonds with old age or childhood. If you have real bonds with old age and child hood, you should love all the old people and children in the world with equal intensity. The old age and childhood are only a pretext to cover your blind bonds with your parents and your son.

The parents and children are not loved by you based on their good qualities and devotion also. Even if they have bad qualities and even if they are not devoted to God, you love them blindly because they are related to you by the blood of your body. The blood along with the body is buried or burnt after death. You body is merging with the five elements of this nature after your death. Thus, matter of your body enters some other body. Now analyse the meaning of your blood relationship. Jesus gave more importance to devotees than His mother. He told that the devotees are greater than His mother. Shankara left His mother for the sake of God. Prahlada allowed his father to be killed for the sake of the Lord. Buddha left His wife and one year child for the sake of God. Actually, God created you and the parental relationships is real in the case of God. The bliss you derive from the Lord is far superior to the momentary happiness you derive from your wife. These relatives cannot protect you except the Lord. If you analyse, these relationships are proved meaningless, which are illusionary. These bonds are dramatic and are not real. These bonds did not exist before your birth and will not exist after your death. That which did not exist in the past and that which will not exist in the future does not exist in the present also.

Two actors are acting like father and son in a drama. Before and after the drama the father-son bond is unreal. Therefore, during the time of drama also they are not really father and son. All the actors were, are and will be the employees of the manager of the drama. This employer-employee relationship with the manager is real and permanent in the case of any actor. Thus, the bond with the creator is only real. Jesus always remembered the creator as His Father. At the age of sixteen, He left all His people for the sake of God for a period of 14 years. Your relationship with God is reality and your relationship with your family members is false. Based on this analysis and knowledge you must vote for God, leaving the family. Thus, the love for God is based on reason and not based on blind love. Your family members are just equal to any other fellow human being. The dramatic father or dramatic son is as good as any other actor in the drama. Thus, you can love your family members as your fellow human beings. You can serve them because they serve you which is just business. From this angle, your family members are different from the outsiders. Your real love must be on the Lord in human form like Jesus and on the other devotees, who will help you to improve your divine love.

[Mr. Antony told that some of his friends asked ‘Why God needs a website? Why God needs money? He can do anything without the help of these things’.]

Swami replied: When the work is possible through the process that follows the laws of nature, supernatural power of God is not used. Only demons exhibit the supernatural powers even if there is no necessity. They want to draw the attention and attract the people for their name and fame. Their aim is not to uplift the humanity. Such attraction creates attention in the people. But it simultaneously creates tension also. The realization and natural love (devotion) cannot be created in excited state of tension. The devotion should be spontaneous and should be developed in the ground state only, which alone is sweet. This entire universe is created by the Lord only for tasting such real natural sweet devotion of devotees. The exhibition of miracles always creates fear and tension and a natural flexible state is not possible, in which only the sweet devotion can be tasted. The tension will block your mind and you will not dare to clear your doubts. It is not congenial for the growth and expansion of divine knowledge. Unless there is a bare necessity, the Lord will not perform miracles. When the work is not possible through natural phase, then only the supernatural power lightens. Even if the miracle is performed, the Lord will try to hide it so that the natural state is balanced. When Lord Krishna covered the sun with His divine wheel, He interpreted it as the cover of cloud. The intention of the Lord is not self-exhibition like a demon. The same supernatural miracle performed by a demon is used for his self-projection. The Lord likes to be loved by the devotees without exhibiting His supernatural wealth.

The son of a king who is good and humble likes to win the heart of a girl without exposing his identity. He does not like to exhibit his wealth to win her heart. Similarly, the God likes to attract the hearts of devotees by His divine knowledge which is His eternal divine beauty. If the son of the king has no self-merit, he tries to attract her by cheap exhibition of his identity and wealth. Thus, a demon like Satan tries to attract the human beings by cheap exhibition of the supernatural powers and tries to convert them as his devotees. Satan tried to attract Jesus by showing his kingdom. Jesus attracted people by His divine knowledge. When it becomes inevitable to do a miracle which cannot be hidden, the Lord tries to neutralize the tension by exhibiting strong negative qualities. Lord Krishna lifted the mountain and protected the villagers from the rain. Such miracles cannot be hidden and misinterpreted. To bring them to the normal state the Lord exhibited very strong Rajas and Tamas like stealing butter and dancing with girls. In the case of Lord Rama, there was no necessity of such exhibition of miracles. There was no need for Him to show the negative qualities. Thus, the Lord is associated with all the three qualities to be used wherever and whenever necessary.

All the discoveries of science are only due to grace of God. The computer technology is the gift from God to humanity. Some are earning their livelihood through this technology. Livelihood is essential and is the basis of the body, which is the instrument of all spiritual efforts. This technology is used for the spiritual service. Are you objecting the creator of this technology to use it for His own work? You must be grateful to the Lord. You can use it for your worldly purpose but you should atleast express your gratefulness by using it for His service also. Every scientific benefit is granted by God with primary purpose of using it in the spiritual line only. Majority of top scientists believe in God and accept their discoveries as the results of grace of God only. A discovery is always experienced as an accidental incident like a flash. It is not the result of the continuous hard work. During the hard work, a flash strikes to the brain of the scientist. The scientist gets disgusted during his hard work and suddenly a flash in the brain results in the discovery. If the discovery is the fruit of hard work, it should naturally come at the end of the hard work without any flash. Such flash is due to the grace of the Lord. Almost all top scientists agree to this truth. Only a few egoistic scientists do not agree to this.

Science is very helpful in the analysis of this creation, which helps to realize that no item of this creation is the creator. Science does not help to understand anything about the creator. Infact, even the philosophers and sages have not understood anything about the creator. The philosopher also analysed the entire creation. In this aspect, there is no difference between the philosopher and scientist. The only difference between them is that the scientist does not accept the existence of unknown creator beyond the creation, whereas the philosopher accepts Him.

For a philosopher, miracles are not necessary. He is very sensitive and recognizes the existence of God through the deep analysis of various incidents in his life. The scientist is not so sensitive. He needs the proof through physical miracles. Most of the scientists turn into devotees through such miracles visible to naked eyes. Such scientists have open mind and courage to accept the truth due to their wise flexibility. But a few scientists have very rigid mind and do not accept even the physical miracles attributing these to magic and illusion. Such people should not be called as scientists. Science means rational flexibility to leave the old disproved concepts and accept the new proved concepts. People, who are rigid in their old fixed concepts, are called as conservatives. These people mock the devotees as conservatives and the joke is that they are the original raw conservatives!

The bonds with wife, children and money are the strongest bonds and are called as the three ‘Eshanas’, which are the steel chains. The Lord competes with these three to test your love on Him. It is not the question of requirement. It is the question of identifying your love. Your son is well settled and does not require money. But still you are giving your wealth to him only. That shows your love on him, which is not related with his requirement. You are covering your absence of love on God with this pretext of non-requirement. By such cover you want the favour from God. You can deceive a human being by such intellectual coverage, but can you deceive the Lord, who is omniscient? Instead of such tricks God will be pleased with you, if you say frankly that you do not want to give money since you do not have love on Him. Truth is always better than trick.

A lady was applying scent to the feet of Jesus. One disciple told that it is waste, since Jesus does not require it. But Jesus objected the disciple and accepted the scent which signifies her immense love on Lord Jesus. It indicates the divine love of the lady and there is no point of requirement here.

[Mr. Antony told that some of his friends say that by Cloning if a human being is created, man can become the creator or God.]

Swami replied: God created space, matter and energy just by His will as you are creating a dream of your imagination by your will. The dream resembles qualitatively the universe. But the magnitude or power is infinitely large in the creation of universe from God. Therefore, your dream is not as real as the universe. But you are talking about the creation of items of the universe. Certainly, you are not going to create the human beings which are the items of this universe by your will. You cannot create even a real atom by your will. Therefore, the comparison with God is absolutely meaningless. Assuming that you have created the human being, you are creating the human being with the help of some living matter and energy supplied to you. Even there you are creating a living item from another living tissue only and not from inert materials and inert energy. The parents have also created a baby from the living tissue like sperm and ovum. In what way your present process of creation is different from the conventional reproduction as far as the basic point is concerned? Therefore, your dream of becoming God is far by millions and millions of miles.

You can represent the creator and the process of creation as a representative model when you are generating an imaginary world by your will and controlling that daydream by your will. Such representative model is also created by the Lord so that you will understand the concept of creating the universe by the Lord during His preaching the divine knowledge in His human form. A model only indicates the actual concept which should not be considered as another duplicate concept in micro level. Through this concept of dream, people have misunderstood that a soul is a spark of God since the dream can be considered as the same concept in the micro level. A diagram of power station on a sheet is only a model to explain the original concept. The diagram itself is not a micro power station and cannot generate even one milli volt of current.

To be continued...

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