Essence of Religious Scriptures (Part-1)

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O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[This is telephonic Divine Discourse given by Swami in response to questions asked by devotees from various places in the world. Swami has answered the questions based on the essential message of all the religious scriptures of the world such as the Veda, the Bible, the Gita, the Quran, the Puranas and the great epics.

Mrs. Bhargavi (USA), who created a website on the human incarnation and a devotee of Sai Baba, bombarded Swami with a question. “Why have You advertised the miracles in Your website and propagated about Yourself? We are in search of a Guru, please guide us”.]

Swami replied: “If you are giving Me the appointment order to join the duty as your Guru, I shall join at once. I shall be very happy if you select Me as your Guru after conducting an interview and analyse Me patiently.”

A saint from Varanasi came to see Sai Baba. On his arrival, he found a procession in which Baba was walking to take rest. The saint bombarded Baba for such publicity. Baba told him that the procession was for the sake of satisfaction in the hearts of devotees and not for any personal publicity.

Miracles are the chocolates offered in the lower kindergarten (LKG) class for kids in the spiritual institution. If one joins the post graduate (P.G.) class directly, such chocolates are not necessary. It depends on the level of class into which you are admitted. The Gita speaks about the four different classes. The LKG class is ‘Arta’, which means a person hit by worldly problems. He comes to God for help. God solves his problem once or twice to introduce Himself to that person. For a few days only the chocolates are given to the kid, as initial attraction. The Lord transfers the punishment on to Him and suffers in solving the problem. It is hoped that the devotee develops gratefulness to the Lord, which may lead to selfless love. If that happens, the devotee is entering into higher classes.

[Mrs Bhargavi asked: Which class am I going to be admitted?”]

Swami replied: That depends on your application mentioning the class, you like to join. In the entrance test, if you score low marks, you will be advised to apply to the lower entrance test. If marks are very high, you will be asked to apply to higher test. You are also convinced about yourself by such procedure. Otherwise, if I straightly tell you, you may refuse thinking that you are eligible to higher class.

Suddenly the phone stopped functioning. But the phone of Bhargavi was in function. Lot of time passed. After sometime, the phone started functioning. Bhargavi told Swami “We are waiting to hear You without cutting our phone all along this time”. Swami told, “You have good lot of patience. Patience (Sama) is the first requisite for Brahma Jnana according to Shankara. This shows your spiritual interest (Shraddha). You have passed the preliminary test. Contact Dr. Nikhil and get all My divine knowledge. Study it patiently and then evaluate Me for appointing as your Guru. The knowledge is the real form of Guru, by which only you have to assess the candidate in the interview. You should not decide a Guru in a short time by momentary emotional appreciation. Studying the knowledge is like written test for Me. Then talk with Me, which will be the oral interview. Then only decide about My appointment as Guru.”

How to participate in this mission of the Lord?

[Reply to a Devotee from U.K. (through Anil Antony, Mumbai): You have asked Me how to participate in this mission of the Lord.]

The answer is very very simple. Think the Lord as your son and He is after this work of propagation of this divine knowledge on this earth. Your son (God) has given out this knowledge and is willing to spread the knowledge. What will you do? Will you not yourself plan and implement? Your participation in this mission starts even from your application of mind to this program. The plan will lead to the execution of the program. You will sacrifice your mind, intelligence, words, work and your money for the sake of your son. Just replace the Lord by your son. You will understand everything. Before sacrificing the hard earned money (fruit of work), which is called “karmaphala tyaga” in the Gita, you must plan well. You can co-ordinate with Dr. Nikhil (webmaster), who is the President of the mission started for this purpose in Florida (USA). You do whatever possible to you, thinking that this is the work of your son, who is also the son of God and He came down for this divine purpose. Every devotee is independent by himself or herself and mutual discussion is the better way of planning. Every devotee should feel that he is the leader of the work, taking the help of other devotees. When a group of monkeys went to South, to search Sita, Angada was the leader of the group. Jambavan was the co-ordinating leader. Hanuman did not have any position in the group (Jambavan yatra Neta Syat, Angadascha… Valmiki). But all the work was done by Hanuman, who received the reward of Brahma-Post from the Lord. It is the work that is judged by the Lord.

Jesus preached His disciples to go and spread the knowledge. Except this order, He did not give any guidance to them. The urge in them will get the divine guidance spontaneously as one proceeds in the work. The guidance will come from the Lord at every step of the work. Simply spending all the time in planning is of no use. Some planning can be done and some time can be allotted to it. If you spend all the time and energy in planning only, no time and energy will be leftover for implementation. Such a theoretical fellow will not achieve any fruit (Diirgha Suti Vinashyati). Work without pre-planning and planning without work are extreme lines. Both theory and practical are important.

Sacrifice is the only path to get the grace of the Lord. But, what sacrifice gets the grace of Lord? Sacrifice of everything is stated in the Gita (Sarvakarma phalatyagam…). Everything means anything that is required to the context and this does not mean blind sacrifice of everything. Planning decides the requirement. Sacrifice of that particular required item to the context of implementation of planning is true sacrifice. If you just keep the Lord as your son, you will understand everything, because the love on the child is strongest among all the worldly bonds. For the sake of your child, you will sacrifice anything without aspiring any fruit in return. God created this bond in this world to preach you practically regarding the bond you should have with the Lord. It is a simile created by God for preaching you practically. There are some devotees in Christianity and Hinduism, who sacrificed their sons for the sake of Lord, when tested. This means that the bond with the Lord should be greater than the bond with your child. Atleast, give equal importance, if not more.

When Hanuman was going to search Sita, Rama did not give any guidance. Hanuman faced several problems on the way but all were solved by the intelligence of Hanuman, which was associated by the grace of the Lord. At this point, sacrifice of intelligence is needed. Hanuman did not simply pray “Oh Lord! This is Your work. Please solve this problem.” The intelligence also should have the fortune of participation in the divine service. Do you advise your son “Whenever you get some problem, pray God, it will be solved?” When your son comes with a problem, you are applying your intelligence to solve it. Do you start praying as soon as you hear his problem? The Lord wants to see the extent of your sacrifice in the mission. When you have sacrificed all your efforts by all means, the Lord is pleased and gives guidance at that point, since the success in the work is not important for Him. He can finish the work in a fraction of second. The finishing of work is not important for Him, which takes no time. He gives all the importance to the sacrifice of your efforts by all means, which is a proof of your real love towards Him. God can excuse all the sins without Jesus. What is the use of that cruel crucification? It shows the sacrifice of Jesus for God, which will be an example for other devotees in the spiritual path. You should not expect any help from God even in the last moment. Jesus sacrificed everything irrespective of any help from God even in the last moment of crucification.

Jesus died in the propagation of right knowledge of God and it appears that He was not supported by God even in the last moment of crucification. In one way, the work failed at that moment and it was the victory for the priests. Therefore, the work is not important for God, because, it got completed later on. The concentration of God was on the sacrifice of Jesus for the sake of God and not on the success of work at that moment. The faith of Jesus did not shake even in the last moment of crucification and He was working for the divine mission irrespective of its momentary success. The war of Kurukshetra was the work of Lord, which was to destroy the evil forces. But, still the Lord says that Arjuna should fight and try to do the divine work irrespective of the success and defeat. He shows both possibilities at the end of the war (Hato vaa… Gita). For the Lord, the completion of work is not at all important. Work is only the plain answer sheet supplied to examine the answer you write on the paper. The work of the Lord is only a basis to test your sacrifice. Success or failure of the divine work is not at all important for God. If you conclude everything with crucification only, it is a tragedy showing the failure of divine work at that moment. Atleast for the eyes of living Jesus, the divine mission failed, as mocked by the soldiers there. But in course of time, the divine mission was finished with tremendous success.

Therefore, do not bother about the success or failure of this mission, today. When Jesus was alive, the propagation was very negligible and in fact, it failed, then. But Jesus never deviated and never doubted the knowledge of God. Generally, as long as the human incarnation is alive, the propagation will be very slow, due to the egoism and jealousy of majority of human beings towards a living co-human form. The appreciation will come out as ocean if the human form goes away from the eyesight. Only a few blessed souls appreciate and participate in the work of the Lord, while the human form exists before their eyes. Such blessed souls are not ordinary human beings and their special behaviour is attributed to their inward stage. They are liberated souls, who accompanied the Lord and therefore, their recognition of the Lord will be exceptional. They are the angels of the Lord that accompanied Him. Egoism and jealousy cannot touch their eyes even for a moment. Even in your personal work, you shall not bother about the fruit. You should concentrate only on the work (karmanyevadhikaraste – Gita). The runners-up also get prize along with winners. You are congratulated for playing the game well and not for the success or failure, which is by chance. Even if you put hectic efforts, sometimes, the work gives negative result due to the cycle of deeds or due to the will of God otherwise.

If Rama wishes, Ravana will be turned into ash and Sita will be by His side in a fraction of a second. Rama did not do like that, since the aim of Rama is not to get Sita but to see the dedication and devotion of Hanuman and Lakshmana. Similarly, Bharata was tested by the sudden twist given to the role of his mother. Even in the last minute of hectic torture in the crucification, Jesus did not change His mind and faith, who finally cried that He is submitting His soul in the hands of God. He sacrificed His life for the work of God and He was never worried about the final result of work. The aim of Rama was not to get back Sita, because He left her within a short time. His aim was different.

The same category of priests of church, who are appreciating the knowledge of Jesus today, insulted and killed the same Jesus some time ago. What is the reason? The only reason is that at that time, Jesus was alive before their eyes in the same human form as they were present. Today, Jesus does not appear alive, who is reduced to a statue on cross or to a photo. When a co-human being does some great work, jealousy and egoism affect the hearts immediately, even though people appreciate the great person externally. Those priests, who killed Jesus, were appreciating the Old Testament of old prophets, because those prophets were not alive at that time. If the Prophet is dead, the appreciation of His knowledge bursts out. Today, thousands of temples of Sai Baba appear. But when Sai Baba was alive, not a single temple was built for Him. The present temple where He was cremated was built for Lord Krishna only when He was alive. Infact, Sai Baba commented to the builder of the temple by asking “Am I not your Lord Krishna at present?” Still the bulb did not glow in the mind of the devotees. Therefore, the greatness of even any human being cannot be tolerated. Can people tolerate a human being to be called greatest, meaning God? If one says, “He is as great as yourself” nobody tolerates. Can he tolerate the statement “He is greater than you?” Then, it is impossible to tolerate the statement “Here is a human being, who is greatest, the God in human form”. The jealousy will exceed even its climax and people will just laugh at the statement. The appreciation exists even now in the hearts, but it will come out only when the human form disappears from the eyesight.

The spiritual knowledge given to you by God through Me is like food that should be offered to a hungry man. If he is not hungry, he will reject it. But, certain portions will create hunger like the pickle of ginger, which is an item of food as well as the medicine. For an atheist also, there is food, which acts like medicine as we see Unizyme capsules. Some people have another type of illness. They can digest only certain items of food like the Hinduism or Christianity etc. When they see the scriptures of other religions, they become allergic to certain food items. For such people, there is Digeplex tonic in this spiritual knowledge. You have to pick up the right medicine. Certain items of food act as medicines. Thus, this is food and medicine. I like every human being in this world to be prepared to eat all types of food items with good hunger. This means that every human being should have immense love for God and should love the scriptures of all religions. Then you like the same God in different human bodies, which are just different dresses only.

Why did not this wonderful spiritual knowledge come in the past?

[When the same God incarnated, why did not this wonderful spiritual knowledge come in the past? – This question was asked by a devotee (Ramnath) from Mumbai.]

The straight answer is that the time and the standard of the receiver are ripened now only and so God is giving this knowledge today through this body. The teacher is teaching the final lesson to a class and on that day, he is in a particular dress, because he has to be in some dress. Therefore, the delivery of the final lesson to the class shows the appropriate ripened time of the class. This final lesson can be understood after teaching the previous lessons only. This final lesson cannot be delivered in the previous classes. Thus, the delivery of the final lesson has no connection with that dress of the teacher. Thus, there is no speciality of the human form and the same God exists here also.

Science has developed tremendously and faculty of logic improved a lot. People used to reject the existence of an unimaginable item. They refused God, who is unimaginable. But today in Science, Heisenberg proves the existence of uncertainty or unimaginability, owing to the limits of human capability. Today is the right time to introduce the unimaginable concept of God. Buddha kept silent about God because He did not like to introduce God through some unreal concepts. But, this led people to misunderstand Buddha as an atheist. Shankara introduced God as almost unimaginable by representing God as awareness. Awareness is almost unimaginable to an ordinary person. Mohammed introduced God as power or energy. Awareness is energy only. Thus, there is no fundamental difference between these two incarnations. But a common man cannot imagine God through that concept. God is represented by the energetic form as Narayana by Ramanuja or divine Father in heaven by Jesus. The awareness or the energetic form is charged by God and thus, there is no lie even if it is considered as God just like the electrified wire is considered as current. But the entire awareness or energy or all the energetic forms are not charged by God. All the wires are not electrified. Angels, who are servants of God, are not God. Indra, an energetic form, was not God as proved by Krishna in the Bhagavatam. The energetic form is imaginable but not perceivable. It appears only to the mind. It appears to the eyes also, but very rare. Even if it appears to eyes, the time of appearance is very short and so it is not congenial for preaching the knowledge. Therefore, the materialized form is necessary. The human body is the best suitable form for such purpose. A statue or photo can be also perceivable and God can charge it also. But such photo or statue cannot preach. It can preach also by the superpower of God. But it becomes quite unnatural. The unnatural means create tension and fear, which are not good background or conducive for receiving the knowledge. Such form cannot mix with humanity freely to preach the knowledge. Therefore, the concept of Krishna as human incarnation (Manushiim… Gita) was more stressed by Madhva through Rama and Hanuman. Krishna, a human form declared that He is God based on the concept of electrified wire. The same concept of “God in flesh” was introduced by Jesus, who stated that He and His Father are one and the same.

Suppose you have started a school with first standard and you are not admitting anyone into the next second standard from outside. Then you are teaching only to the first standard, though you are a postgraduate and can teach up to the 10^th standard. To start the second standard in that year, majority was not available. You will teach the same students next year in second standard in another full section. Meanwhile if one or two students worthy of second standard approach, you will guide them personally. Same was the situation. Whenever the human incarnation came, it was dealing with the majority as a section and the lesson pertaining to that standard was only taught. He taught a few devotees of high standard personally but that was not carried on. Therefore, today you think that the preaching of God in the human form on that day was only the first standard. Today, majority is available due to the development of logical faculty and so the high standard is opened as a section.

The final Truth of God is that He is fully unimaginable and beyond the limits of intelligence as He is beyond the four-dimensional space-time model of the Universe. One should digest this truth, which is the final. Earlier also, some Prophets might have told, “this is final”, which means that the limits of the subtle nature of medium is final. There cannot be anything more than “unimaginable” item. But, among the media, there can be also a stage where the medium cannot be more subtle, in which God exists. Let Me make this point clear. The human body is imaginable and perceivable easily. The energetic form or formless energy is perceivable for a short time and imaginable on concentration. The awareness is not at all perceivable and imaginable on concentration (Drushyate tvagrayaa Buddhyaa… Veda). Thus, as you travel from matter to energy and to awareness finally, the subtle nature is increasing, which is gradually indicating the unimaginability. Thus, the awareness is the best representative item to preach the real nature of God. Shankara used it for preaching the real nature of God. God need not be awareness or need not enter the awareness to wish something. God can wish even without being the awareness or even without taking the aid of awareness. When we say “God wished like this”, it is only for the convenience of our sake to understand, we assume God to be awareness or entered the awareness as the medium. For our requirement of understanding only, God charges awareness. But, all the awareness is not charged by God. Moreover, the awareness is not continuous like the inert energy. Awareness exists only as discontinuous bits. All these bits are not God and also not charged by God, because in such a case, no bit (human being) needs any spiritual effort. If you take God as the continuous and homogeneous inert energy, pervading all over the cosmos, there also the above problem is not solved, because any bit of energy (bit of awareness i.e., human being) is already God! Therefore, a particular bit of energy (bit of awareness) is charged by God, called as Father of heaven or Ishwara.

There is a requirement for human beings for such God-charging of a limited energetic form with a bit of awareness in it after the human beings leave this gross body and enter into energetic bodies. For such energetic bodies of souls, which are also limited energetic forms with bits of awareness, a similar bit of awareness limited to an energetic form charged by God is required for worship or preaching in the upper worlds. The similar requirement exists in this world for souls limited to materialized human bodies. The human incarnation is formed to meet such requirement for the same purpose. Therefore, formless – all pervading – energy need not be charged by God, to pervade all over the world for controlling the world, because the unimaginable God can control the world without pervading all over the world. All pervading awareness is not at all acceptable, because, it is against to the practical experience. All pervading inert energy is possible but it is also not required, since the unimaginable God pervades all over the world without being the energy, in an unimaginable way. God can do anything without being the power. Therefore, the awareness or energy are only the representative items used for our understanding of God in the earlier stage. But a limited energetic form or a limited-materialized form (human body) with a bit of awareness in each is charged by God, called as divine Father or human incarnation respectively to preach us in a natural way without using any superpower unnecessarily and unnaturally also to avoid excitement in us. Awareness and matter are also forms of energy only. Energy is the final and the only item of medium for God. From the point of medium, Mohammed told that it was final. From the point of real nature of God, unimaginability is final. Every Prophet said that it was final for that category in that time. The teacher says, “This is the final lesson”. It means that it is final for that year and for that standard. It does not mean that that year is final in the stream of time or that standard is the last standard.

The unimaginability can be final for all times and for all standards, because there can be nothing further than the unimaginability. Even the most difficult-imaginable item cannot be the unimaginable item. No great number can be infinity. In that case, what is the use of catching the most subtle and inconvenient medium, which will not serve your purpose fully? Why to select very very thin wire, when such wire is also a medium for the current and not the current directly? Why awareness or energy, which are also media only? Why don’t you accept the most convenient medium, which is the human form? You are only catching more and more subtle medium, which is only a created item, but not the creator. You are neglecting the cotton shirt and catching a costly silk shirt, which is also not the person wearing the shirt. You are catching an angel and sometimes a ghost also, which is simply the energetic body and feel that you have caught the real God. People neglected the human form of God, Krishna, and started worshipping the simple energetic form without God, called as Indra. You leave Me in the cotton shirt and worship My silk shirt without Me, hanging from a hanger! Some worship the silk threads or the silk wool as Myself and these are those who worship the formless energy or power or awareness as God. Some people worship My cotton shirt only (without Myself) as Myself. These are those, who worship statues or photos as God. All these are the representative items for God and act as good teaching aids for ignorant people in the beginning stage as said in the Gita (Sarvaarambhaahi…).

Therefore, you like Me either in the silk shirt or the silk shirt alone or cotton shirt alone but never like Me in the cotton shirt, because you are in the cotton shirt, due to the principle of repulsion of likes. But there is no other way than to come in the cotton shirt only like you, to preach you without causing any tension or fear of excitement in you, which is an essential pre-requisite for good transmission of knowledge. My superpower is exhibited if I come in any other way, in which case, your attention is diverted to exploit Me for momentary boons. In such case, your devotion to Me gets poisoned by selfishness, which cannot generate grace on you. My friend! What can I do? I am sorry because there is no other way than the path of human incarnation. This is the meaning of the statement of Jesus “one can reach My Father only through Me”. The word “Me” means the then human incarnation. My dear friends! My dear devotees! Some generations back, I started this school and you are coming up year by year. I was coming in different dresses named as Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Mahavir etc. and today, this present human body is called as Datta Swami. Those, who were in My contact in the previous generations, can only appreciate Me while I am alive. Many will appreciate Me when I leave this body. This is not new, because this is the same old history that repeats in every generation. At last, all of you be happy because I was not cursed by people like Gandhari as in the case of Krishna, or not killed like Jesus by crucification or not killed like Shankara by black magic.

Method of Propagating this Divine Knowledge

The Trusts of this mission will be extensively supported in future beyond your imagination. Rome was not built up in one day. Dedicate yourself to the work and do not worry about the result. All the students of the same class taught by the same teacher are not getting the same rank. Some pass with distinction, some pass with first class, some pass with a third class and some fail. The heterogeneity will be continuous in this system of universe like various roles fixed in a picture for a better entertainment. The entertainment is only secondary and incidental, because we are always putting efforts continuously to uplift the entire humanity as the primary aim.

When the Trusts of our mission get full support in future, you must do everything with full analysis. You welcome anyone to support our mission in anyway convenient to him or her either in the form of sacrifice of work or fruit of work. The sacrifice should be without aspiration of any fruit in return and without any force or fear and without any emotional decision. If the sacrifice is based on the result of convinced intelligence, such sacrifice will be permanent. Emotional sacrifice is momentary. Peter was emotional before Jesus and could not stand firm at the end with Jesus. Judas was attracted and deviated by the conventional priests, who opposed the then human incarnation of God present before their eyes due to jealousy and harmed Jesus. He was also personally hit by jealousy, even while staying with the Lord in human form, which was expressed when a lady was worshipping Jesus by applying the scent. The hidden jealousy and egoism in Judas was exploited by the then conventional priests, who always liked dead prophets and never liked a living prophet due to egoism and jealousy. They wanted their fame and worship in the name of invisible God or invisible dead prophets.

Therefore, one should follow the path only after thorough analysis and should not jump suddenly. Sacrifice should follow the determination by the intelligence, which is called as “Buddhi Yoga” in the Gita. Do not appeal to mind or heart, which will be momentary. Always appeal to intelligence (Buddhi). Mind gives thought (Sankalpa) but shortly you will find deviation (Vikalpa). But Buddhi (intelligence) gives determination (Nischaya) after thorough discussion with logical analysis. Determination will lead to permanent practice and no deviation can take place. Appeal to the intelligence is the royal dignified path. Appeal to the mind or heart by some pitiable kindness is the path of a beggar. Do not kindle the kindness and emotional love for propagation. Do not show some fruit in return from God for the propagation. Do not attract them by offering food or money for propagation. Help the beggar of any caste or any religion, if he or she is incapable like a child or an old person or disabled or diseased. Save the life of even an atheist by giving food because if the life is saved, he may change later on. Help the capable poor people including atheists by a job or technical education for their livelihood because the human life is precious and has a chance of change or betterment in spiritual path once a peaceful life is attained. Propagation of spiritual knowledge should be primary and helping the poor is only a secondary item like providing boarding and lodging to foreign students in a college where the academic program is primary. All the souls are eligible for the spiritual knowledge whether poor or rich. All the students go to the class, whether they are day scholars or hostellers. Poverty and problems are only to mould the sinners and not for revenge. The good side of punishment must be realized. The poverty and problems disappear once the grace of God dawns, since their purpose is over. The grace of God comes only by practice in the right spiritual path and this is possible only by the right determination of buddhi and which in turn is possible only by the right spiritual knowledge. Thus, the root source of all solutions lies only in the right spiritual knowledge. If the same is misinterpreted and poisoned by selfish scholars and selfish priests, the same knowledge leads to wrong practice and subsequent punishment for change. Therefore, God shall be pleased, if you can put up all your efforts in propagating the right knowledge by logical interpretations and I assure you that everyone of you shall sit on the right side of God on the divine throne in future in this world as well as in the upper world.

An atheist should not become theist just for food or money or the job offered by you or the professional education offered by you to get a job. Such conversion is not real and permanent. Do not kindle the emotion by showing or explaining the story of the crucification of Jesus. Do not kindle the attraction towards the physical appearance by showing the beautiful photos of Krishna etc. Such means used for conversion are not real and permanent. The conversion of mind or heart is not real and eternal. Do not attract a person in problems by offering solutions through prayers and songs and using the superpowers of God for solutions. The faith developed by such ways will not stand forever because God will not answer always for the prayers and songs and crying with tears. People become addicted for such ways. The child will weep every time for the chocolate, which is habituated for that path. The child intensifies the process of weeping if the chocolate is delayed! Initially, the child is attracted by chocolates to go to the school for some days. The child has become young person but did not cross the first standard of the school, because the child concentrated only on the art of weeping to get the chocolates. The person became postgraduate and even a Ph.D. degree holder in the course of begging and weeping for chocolates. The person became an exceptional scholar and developed several talents in praising the Lord, crying for the Lord, singing and music on the Lord, meditation and concentration on the Lord with mind, chanting the name for millions of times, writing the name of Lord for millions of times, chanting some letters (Biijaksharas or mantras), drawing some design diagrams on metallic plates (Yantras), doing worship following certain special ways of technology (Tantras) and so on. These discoveries and developments are tremendous and as many as the developments in Science and Technology! Ofcourse, all these are good psychological ways of solutions in treating certain psycho-patients with fixed notions to give mental relief of stress and confidence. All these ways are good, if the person is without aspiration of any fruit from God in return. Such love is real. But the real love is expressed in terms of sacrifice of work and sacrifice of fruit of work as seen in the case of your love on your children. If such practical expression exists, all the above theoretical expression of love through words and mind can be associated as a plate of meals is associated with a cup of drinking water.

Therefore, in propagating the divine path, you should appeal to anyone only through knowledge and logical analysis and systematic scientific approach. Avoid all the above means, which are theoretical and political ways of exploitation of one’s weakness. God is certainly above science and logic, because He is beyond creation and nature. But, God follows always the ways of nature, which are logical and scientific, following the path of justice. In a rare and exceptional case, He uses the superpower, which is also not against the justice. He suffers for your sin and thus, the justice of wheel of deeds is always upheld by Him even in the exceptional use of the superpower.

God - The Greatest Scientist

If you observe the logical design and scientific management of this creation, you will say that He is the greatest scientist. He will never violate His own rules of nature and science, which is His very psychology. The superpower (Maya) is also a deeper stage of science (Prakruti) only as said in the Gita (Mayamtu prakrutim…). A wonderful design with a logical plan (Maya) beyond our imagination exists as the basis of this nature, which is understood by us superficially (Prakriti). When you go deeper and deeper into science, the logic continues but at a stage, your capacity to understand it fails. That does not mean that the logic vanished at the deeper level. The capacity of your intelligence to grasp that deeper logic only is vanished. Maya is not failure of logic but a deeper and deeper subtle logic, which can be understood only by the God, who is the greatest scientist. The logic and science continue in more and more subtle way but the limits of grasping power of human capacity end at that level. A schoolboy cannot follow the quantum mechanics or wave mechanics dealt at P.G. level. The schoolboy says that the subject is beyond logic. According to a foolish student, there is no logic in that topic at that level. It is not true. His capacity of logic at his level failed to understand that and this does not mean that the subject dealt at Postgraduate level is without logic and that all the Postgraduate students are beyond logic! More and more revelation of divine knowledge comes out from God, as your capacity of grasping power increases more and more. God will not reveal the higher knowledge if your grasping power is low, because you will say, then, that God is beyond logic, which means God is mad. You should say that God is beyond your level of logic. God is quite logical at His level. The gap between your level of logic and His level of logic is called “Avyaktam” or unimaginability of logic, which is the unbreakable ignorance. The Veda says the same “Avyaktat Purushah Parah…”. The Gita also says the same “Maam tu veda na kaschana ...”

Scientists say that they will reach the level of logic of God (Maya) by tomorrow, but tomorrow always remains as tomorrow only. Scientists are egoistic due to jealousy at this point, because they are not accepting God as greater than any scientist. When Einstein presented his paper on Theory of Special Relativity, no scientist understood it except Einstein himself. But all of them respected Einstein. Then, why don’t they accept and respect God? A miracle done by the Lord is only the demonstration of existence of deeper level of science or logic. Just like conservative religionists discard other religions, conservative scientists discard the miracle as magic or illusion, because nothing should exist beyond their level of logic. For a school student of physics, a sophisticated electronic instrument is also magic or illusion because he cannot understand the level of science pertaining to that instrument. The uncertainty of Heisenberg also should be magic or illusion. All the great scientists believed in God, because of their lack of egoism and jealousy towards a greater concept.

Therefore, you should convince anybody through logical and scientific analysis only, which alone can bring out the true interpretation of all the universal scriptures and not by any other means of emotional and exploitation methods. Then only invite them to participate practically in this divine mission, which alone can please the Lord.

My dear devotees! I love all of you from the deepest level of My heart. I also like to wash the feet of all of you, as Jesus did on His last day. I like to wash the feet of all of you with My tears of love and gratefulness for your faith shown on Me. Never fall into the clutches of the egoism. Aspiration for fame is also a partial effect of egoism only. People will praise you as Gurus. Immediately pass on all the credit to God and take the defects on to you. God will be pleased with you.

[When I analysed the story of Saktuprastha, one person asked Surya (Mumbai) that whether he should not pay the phone-bill also and be on the road.]

Swami replied: This is a very long jump and it shows the fit of anger of that person by which the analytical faculty of intelligence is blocked (krodhat bhavati… Gita). Let him first realize that I have not created a concept and then created a subsequent story to support that. It is a famous story of the famous epic of the Mahabharata written by sage Vyasa. Let the person put this question to Vyasa. Moreover, I ask one simple question. Who asked you to be on the road? Did anyone compel you? You reject Brahmaloka and then the corresponding test is also totally rejected. You want to become IAS officer on one side. At the same time, you shout, “Should I read up to midnight without even sleep?” Fantastic. Who compelled you to join the IAS coaching? You want the fruit but at the same time, you don’t want the difficulty in the path. You want to go to heaven in the path of roses, which only leads to hell. The path to heaven is full of thorns. Choice is yours. No one compels you to join IAS coaching.

The concept I have drawn from the existing famous story is quite natural and is clear. This concept is the Veda, which is stolen by the mis-interpreter, who is representative of the demon Somakasura. I am killing the misinterpretation–demon and uplifting the spiritual knowledge from the Bharatam, the Ramayanam, which are considered as the Vedas (Vedah prachetasat, Bharatah panchamovedah) and the Bhagavatam, which is the climax of the Veda (Vedanta). Somakasura means the wine-evil. Selfishness and attachment to family is the wine that is stealing the spiritual concepts. By this wine, people are robbing the money of even poor good devotees of the society today. From the story, you have to fix the complete sacrifice (Sarvakarmaphala tyagam – Gita) as the goal. Then, you will be able to do some sacrifice atleast. If 100 marks is pass mark, everyone will secure at least 40 marks. If 40 marks are kept as pass mark, many score only ten or twenty only. Let the goal be highest. Highest is the only absolute truth. Atleast realize the highest goal in theory and put efforts to achieve it. At least in some births, you will achieve it. God grants re-human birth for any soul, who puts constant efforts. God will encourage you, if you are really trying.

You must realize that the sacrifice is of the fruit of work or work, which is practical. Sacrifice of words and feelings is of no use because God can never be fooled. I put one question to that person. Suppose in the place of God, your wife or child is present, will you not be on the road for their sake? Certainly, you will sacrifice practically to any extent for their sake. Boys and girls are sacrificing even their lives for their love. But, when God comes to the picture, all questions and practical difficulties come. Why? The answer is very very simple and straight. You do not have the real love on God. But, you want to get all the benefits from the Lord here and after death. For that, you show all sorts of arts of artificial love. Who asked you to love God? Did ever God ask you to love Him? He has created equal facilities to all the souls including atheists. He has created a cycle of deeds (karma chakra), which is the legal constitution and according to it, you will receive the results. He has not done any injustice to you for not loving Him. Sometimes, I hear some people telling, “I have no time to think of God. I do not bother about God.” Well. God is also not bothered about you. If you care a pin for God, He will not care even a millionth pin for you, because in His eyes, this entire earth is not equal even to a pin-tip. It is you, who is approaching God every time for some favour. It is you, who is bothering Him always to break the legal way and protect you. Yes. He does it. The kindest Lord pays for your sins through human form and protects you and the justice simultaneously. For doing that, He wants your pure and real love. You may plead that you do not have that much pure and real love. No. No. No. You have it, which is shown on your children. Give atleast a drop of it, proving that God is really to be loved, though not equal to your great child. Atleast stop this hypocritical love and stop asking Him for any favour. Follow the path of justice and still, if you can love Him without aspiring any favour from Him; that is real love or devotion. You love your child, even if it beats you. Don’t say that it is impossible. It is impossible only in the case of others including God. First you start loving and serving the people, who are other than your family, to get training in that path. Atleast do not grab the money of other people by cheating. Business is also a licensed way of cheating others. Even if you are not loving and serving others, do not grab their hard earned money by corruption. First, you stop harming others. Then, you start loving others. Then, you start serving others. Now, you are trained well and you are ready to love and serve God, like Saktuprastha.

Money is the root knot. It catches your throat. Therefore, the Veda says “Dhanena tyagenaikena…”, which means that sacrifice of money alone decides your love on God. Real love can be expressed only by money and work (karma samnyasa and karma phala tyaga). Without these two, other ways are only hypocritical. If these two also exist, then, other ways get life. Otherwise, they are dead items only. Guna is theory. Karma is practice. Theory should lead to practice. Otherwise, mere theory is only hypocrisy. The four castes in spiritual path are decided by theory and practice only (guna karma vibhagasah – Gita). Saktuprastha is the real Brahmana (or Brahma Jnani), who sacrificed all the fruit of his work for God. Dharma Raja is Kshatriya, who could only do partial sacrifice of wealth in doing Asvamedha. Dhritarashtra is Vysya, who has good theory but zero in practice. He recognized the Lord Krishna but did not give even five villages, even though the Lord is asking. He has full power to give but escaped nicely by pleading his false incapability in going against his son. Duryodhana is a shudra, who did not even recognise the Lord and was greedy for wealth of even his own brothers. Thus, caste is not by birth, but it is by the qualities and practice (guna karma). Swami Dayananda, who is also human incarnation, preached about this valuable concept. Every great preacher is incarnation of God because the Gita says the same (Yadyat vibhutimat…).

Buddha kept silent about God. This means that God is beyond words, mind and logic as said in the Veda. Buddha means the Buddhi or Jnana yoga that speaks about the absolute God. Thus, He is the greatest incarnation of God. If one thinks Him as atheist, there can be no better fool. Mohammed showed the formless medium in which God exists, which is energy and this is presented as awareness by Shankara, because basically energy and awareness are one and the same. The Prophet itself means human incarnation. Prophet is carrying on the message of God. The divine knowledge is in Him. Is He not greater than other human beings? Message of divine knowledge is the characteristic of God (Satyam Jnanam – Veda) and so we say God is in Him. Why do you deny it, when God is omnipresent? Then every human being should give the same message of God, since God is omnipresent. But, why Mohammed alone gave it? Because the power of God or knowledge of God is in Him only. Then, the power of God, in the form of knowledge, is not omnipresent. In any case, you have to accept that either God or His Power is only in Prophet Mohammed. That is what the human incarnation is. You are fighting with us, without analysing the concept of human incarnation. Thus Buddha, Mohammed and Shankara have preached the single phase, which was essential to the level of the followers at that time. The concept of human incarnation was well established by Krishna and Jesus. You can find all three branches of Hinduism (Advaita, Vishishta Advaita, Dvaita) in Christianity because Jesus told that He and God are one and the same (Advaita), that He is the son of God (Vishishta Advaita) and that He is the messenger of God (Dvaita). The stage of philosophy was expressed according to the required stage of the people of that time.

Just now, Lakshman (Mumbai) told Me that Surya told him that atleast once in a lifetime, the total sacrifice should be done. But, Surya has already done that. One day he removed all his earnings, which are in the name of his son and deposited in the bank of our Trust. His wife, who is a good devotee of Me, also quarrelled with him for that act. He did not even inform Me about his sacrifice! Only later on, it was known from his wife. Is he not Saktuprastha really? Unfortunately, I am not the Lord in human form. Had I been the Lord, I would have sent him to Brahma Loka. Atleast, I pray the Lord to give him Brahma Loka, when he leaves his gross body in course of time as per the rules of nature.

Do not bother that you are unable to practice the highest truth today itself. Atleast accept the truth in theory. That first step is sufficient. One day or other, either in this life or in some future life (human life is assured for anyone who tries constantly), you will succeed. If you accept theoretically, you have put your foot on the first step of right path. Journey and achievement of goal are inevitable. It is only a matter of time. But if you deny the truth even theoretically, you are in the wrong path. You want immediate fruit and so you want to lower the goal. You want to sleep at 8 PM and want to become IAS officer. You want 40 marks as pass! You think that you can get the 40 marks and pass. But My dear friend! If you keep 40 marks as goal, you will get five or ten marks only! Actually 100 is distinction and 40 is a pass mark. But, we have kept it as secret and say 100 marks is the pass, so that you will achieve 40 certainly while trying for 100. This is called as Arthavada (which means a statement created for a purpose) in the Veda. It means a spiritual secret like the business secret. When you get five marks only and feel discouraged by seeing at 100 mark goal, then, in your case, to encourage you, we shall say that 40 marks is the pass-goal. Therefore, Acharyas know to close and open the secrecy of truth according to the condition of the student. In some context, truth has to be opened and in some other context, truth has to be covered. This brought the difference in the preaching of the human incarnations, which was based on the difference in the stages of different people, they faced in their times. If you realize this practical problem, you can easily realize that there is only one God in all the divine human incarnations.

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