God's Grace Is Greater Than His Vision

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Q. Am I wrong in not having the thirst of knowledge of the Puranas or Vedas?

[Smt. Bindiya asked: Shat shat pranam to almighty swamiji, my question is as follows. I have full faith and believe that you are the true human incarnation of Lord Datta. There is no doubt in my mind and this is a fact for me now. I established this truth after analysing your preaching’s and miracles which are not possible by any human being.

Now, I am not keen to know the ifs and buts of life and history. I am not intrigued why what happened in the past be it in the Mahabharata age or Ramayana age. I don’t want to know what happens after life or what happened before.

For me it is just important that you have chosen to reveal yourself to me and nothing can be bigger than that. My only desire is to have your saakshat darshan and live life on the path guided by you where I do not commit any sin.

Please let me know if I am wrong in not having the thirst of knowledge of the Puranas or Vedas? For me you are everything, the ultimate truth and divine unimaginable power and I cannot even attempt to understand you. I want to only remember you and do prayers in your name, nothing else.]

Swami replied:- To reply your letter, it becomes very complicated situation because your belief on human incarnation is the most perfect climax concept, which is the essence of the Gita in which Krishna told repeatedly that He is the God in human form to be caught. He can’t be misunderstood because God came as Krishna to speak about the nature of God in human form and based on this, He is called Liilaamaanushaavataara or the incarnation that came to show the nature of God. Krishna gave excellent spiritual knowledge in the form of the Gita, showed extreme love on His devotees and demonstrated several miracles whenever He found the necessity (not based on the desire of devotees for miracles to solve selfish worldly problems). These three are the inherent characteristics of God Brahma (knowledge), God Vishnu (love) and God Shiva (miracles). These three are the basic signs of God Datta, as seen in all His human incarnations, who Himself exists as God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva as seen through His three faces. Krishna stands for the exhibition of these three inherent signs of God Datta. The unimaginable God (Parabrahman) merged with the first energetic form to become Datta (means the unimaginable God given to the world of energetic beings for clear vision) or Eshwara (omnipotent like unimaginable God since there is no trace of difference between Eshwara and unimaginable God). This God Datta (means directly the unimaginable God mediated) merges with a selected human being, called Krishna (or Vaasudeva, the son of Vasudeva) becomes the human incarnation of Parabrahman or Eshwara or Datta. There is no trace of difference between Parabrahman and God Datta and there is no trace of difference between God Datta and Krishna. This means that Krishna is the unimaginable God, called Parabrahman. Hence, we salute to Shri Krishna Parabrahman (Shri Krishna Parabrahmane namah).

The same God Datta became Rama (even before Krishna), another human incarnation, which is called Aadarsha Maanushaavataara or the God coming in human form to be an ideal example for the human being at least in Pravrutti or worldly life. While Krishna frequently exhibited Himself as God, Rama frequently exhibited Himself as an ideal human being. Both Rama and Krishna indicate the dual behaviour of the human form of God. God has two aims to preach the humanity through the programmes of His human incarnation:- 1) to confirm faith in the existence of unimaginable God by exhibiting divine behaviour like Krishna and 2) to stand as an ideal human being to preach Pravrutti at basic foundation level to humanity like Rama. Every incarnation acts as God as well as a devoted ideal human being simultaneously. Krishna also behaved like a devoted human being by doing penance for God Shiva in order to get a child for Rukmini. Rama also behaved like God by turning the stone into Ahalya (wife of Sage Gautama). But, the major part of Krishna is only to give proof for the existence of unimaginable-omnipotent-omniscient God and His penance is only a rare incident. Similarly, the major part of Rama is only to exhibit the path of an ideal human devotee in Pravrutti and the miracle performed by Him was a rare incident only. Hence, the major program of human incarnation is always prefixed or pre-planned. The major program of Shankara was to propagate the real spiritual knowledge in the world converting atheists into theists. Apart from this major program of propagation of true spiritual knowledge, He performed some miracles also now and then. He made the rain of golden fruits for the sake of a poor lady with real devotion and this shows both His love to His devotee as well as His miraculous power. Similarly, the major program of God Datta through this Datta Swami is to project correct interpretations of various concepts in the spiritual knowledge and to correlate all the Universal Religions for world peace.

God in human form will always stick to His main program. Rama always tried to hide His divine personality because His main program is to act like an ideal human devotee to please God by not doing any sin and by supporting justice only in the worldly life or Pravrutti. When the sages in the forest praised Rama as God, He replied that He is only an ordinary human being (Aatmaanam maanusham manye). If He accepts Himself as God, His main program will be disturbed. You may doubt that Rama told a lie to sages while Rama is praised for speaking truth only (Satyavaadiicha Raaghavah). If we say that Rama forgot Himself as God, it is objected because God will never become ignorant since He is always omniscient (sa sarvajnah... —Veda). It is proper to choose the option that Rama is omniscient, but, told a lie to save His main program. In this angle, there is another point also. If the human incarnation says that it is God, even devotees will develop ego based jealousy towards the human incarnation in course of time and such jealousy is neutralised by telling such lie. The safety of the devotee is more important than speaking truth. The ethical scripture of Pravrutti also says that in order to protect the higher justice (not harming a good person) the lower justice (speaking truth) can be sacrificed. Hence, any incarnation of God Datta shows the dual nature by behaving as a devotee or path (Rama) and simultaneously behaving like God or goal (Krishna), but, one of these two behaviours becomes the main program. The jealousy of a human devotee towards human form of God is quite natural because of the repulsion between the two common human media of both God and devotee.

Another way of neutralising the ego based jealousy of a devotee is the human incarnation exposing dualism in it. It (human incarnation) will say that it is the human being-component only and the God-component in it only is telling the excellent spiritual knowledge and is doing miracles to help the devotees due to immense love on them. In fact, the God-component merges with the human being-component through perfect merge of monism only, which alone satisfies the few climax devotees, who wished to see and talk with God directly. But, for the sake of neutralisation of jealousy of devotees, a lie is told and this is not wrong. Guru or preacher always sees the welfare of the devotee and does not bother about truth or lie in His preaching. A scholar is never worried about the welfare of the devotee since he is always worried about truth in His preaching.

God Datta (through this medium, called Datta Swami or Swami) generated faith in you by saying that He is always present with you in your house by generating the divine scent of lotus flowers in your house as experienced by you as a proof for His stay with you. He also helped you to come out of your financial difficulties. Miraculous powers are used by God to help a devotee in worldly problems and to strengthen faith through miracle provided He has full hope about the devotee in his/her spiritual line. Hence, God will never do miracle as per the desire of the devotee.

When excellent spiritual knowledge (Prajnaanam) becomes your basis for your recognizing God in human form, you are in the most correct path towards God. The true spiritual knowledge alone gives the correct direction in worldly life (Pravrutti) as well as in the further spiritual life (Nivrutti). This is the most important advantage for a devotee from God and all other things are not necessary. Seeing the human form of God or even the energetic form of God Datta existing in human incarnation is of no use. Ravana saw God Shiva whereas Rama could not see God Shiva at any time. God Shiva blessed Rama and not Ravana. Seeing God is not at all important, but, achieving the grace of God by practically following His preached spiritual knowledge is the real benefit for a devotee.

Even though the human incarnation is the most convenient form of God (because we can see, talk to clear our doubts and serve directly), at the same time it has very high disadvantage. The disadvantage is that the external human medium repels with our common external human media due to common nature like birth, hunger, thirst, sleep, disease death etc. This repulsion damages our faith on the human incarnation. Without this external human medium, we can’t have the maximum adantage and with this external common human medium, we have maximum disadvatnage also side by side. This maximum disadvantage not only filters the undeserving devotees but also neutralizes the jealousy created in deserving devotees also in due course of time. Unless the devotee conquers the ego based jealousy rising due to repulsion between common human media, the human incarnation can’t be perfectly realized. The human being is attracted towards energetic incarnation due to absence of this common repulsion. But, the energetic incarnation is relevant to the energetic beings in the upper worlds and human incarnation alone is relevant to this humanity. Moreover, you may see and talk with energetic incarnation appearing for a very little time, but, you cannot serve it directly. The energetic beings in the upper worlds also face the same disadvantage of repulsion between common energetic media and wish to be born as human beings to worship human incarnation. The final result is that the human being is missing human incarnation here and after death, existing in energetic body is missing energetic incarnation there! Both the divine nectar (advantage) as well as the horrible poison (disadvantage) are simultaneously generated from the churned sea!

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