Posted on: 09 Jun 2016
Swamy ji,
1) Swami Pranamams. Vibhudi-its gives trigunatmaka. If so why the people wearing vubudhi on their forehead are under continuous suffering. Why?.
2) Bhasma dharma. It is said that bhaskar gives trigunatmaka. If so I used to see a lot of them wearing bhasmam on the forehead, but their problems are numerous in this physical plane. It is the doubt whether they are enjoying sachidananda internally and facing problems outwardly. If such is the case there is no scope for mumukshvu to experience happiness and sorrow as said above pl clarify with reference to upanishads
3) Pranamams Why the God will show disparity different from mother when the poor person suffers from various problems.
4) God stays with poor. He is fond of living with them. Then why does not God show mercy in Fulfilling their problems as just mother shows. Why this disparity.
5) Any human on this physical plane is under the influence of pravrurthi and nivruthi what is the way to get rid out of it.
With greatest pranamams to Lord Datta swamy
Peddibhotla Krishna Murthy]
Swami replied: Before believing the concept, its authority is very important. In Hindu religion the Veda is considered to be the best pure authority without polluting insertions since the Veda is preserved through recitation from one generation to the other. Even such authority is subjected to very deep logical discussions by Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva before arriving the conclusion. I do not find anywhere in the Veda the reference about the sacred ash (Bhasma) on the forehead. The word ‘Vibhuti’ stands for prosperity and not for this sacred ash. The second authority is Smruti in the form of puraanaas written by Sanskrit scholars in Sanskrit verses. Any human being knowing Sanskrit language can compose verses and hence smurti cannot be the independent authority. Smruti becomes authorised if the point mentioned by it exists in Shruti (Veda) also. Hence, you should not take mere Sanskrit verses as the authority. The third authority is logical analysis (Yukti). In fact, this is the highest authority since any scripture becomes authority only when it stands in the fire of sharp analysis. Even the Veda is subjected to sharp analysis by the three divine preachers. There is nothing wrong in examining even the Veda, which certainly came out without any effect like the divine mother Sita coming out of the fire test without any effect. By this, the doubt that we are rubbing purity on the Veda is removed in the eyes of the scholars of other religions also. Shankara considered four requisites for the path of spiritual knowledge, which are patience, no aspiration for any fruit here and there, sharp analysis to filter truth from falsehood and finally intensive desire for salvation. In these four requisites, only testing through analysis is taken as true authority and not even the holy scripture, the Veda. After Shruti, Smruti and Yukti, the final authority is experience of the concept practically in the world. This final authority is the highest ultimate and if you are not experiencing, the concept is not true at all. When we say that God is unimaginable, the unimaginable events called miracles seen practically and experienced by the human beings prove the existence of unimaginable God. Such God is experienced through inference just like the unseen fire on the hill is inferred by the evolved smoke coming out and seen by eyes. A few atheists may not agree with the experience of devoted scholastic majority of human beings and the minor experience cannot cancel the major experience of scholars. A few blind people may say that the Sun does not exist since he is not experienced by them.
In the light of the analysis of authority as mentioned above, the view that sacred ash applied on the forehead solving the problems has no basis at all. The reasons are: 1) there is no reference in Veda. 2) Even if it is referred in smruti, it is not valid since it is not supported by the Veda. 3) The sharp analysis clearly proves that the ash cannot have any miraculous power by itself unless God wishes so. Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba created sacred ash to give it to devotees for their welfare. In this case, the ash shows miraculous power due to the will of human form of God and not by itself. If the ash by itself has inherent miraculous power to solve problems, the ash given by anybody or collected from any place should show miraculous power. It is not showing so. The material, ash is not God to have the miraculous powers. Even if you say that miracles are shown even by others other than God like devotees and devils, this possibility is also ruled out since ash is an innocent inert material and not a living being like devotee or devil. Unless God transfers His miraculous power into a specific quantity of ash, ash by itself cannot show any miraculous power. The ash is just a specific inert material, which is as good as any other inert material. Every material including ash is composed of inert fundamental particles called as atoms. Every material is a condensed form of inert energy. Neither matter nor energy has miraculous powers even though both are the fundamental components of the creation. 4) You are also saying that you are not experiencing any miracle from the sacred ash. Even if I consider your minor experience to be neglected, I do not find even the majority experience of scholars regarding the miraculous power of ash. The ash that is applied to the body of Lord Shiva may be sacred and may have miraculous power. You cannot expect the ash purchased from the shop to have such powers. Even the ash applied to Shiva Linga worshiped by you does not have such power because the Shiva linga is neither Lord Shiva nor Lord Shiva is in it. It is only a representative model (Pratika) of Lord Shiva like the three coloured flag representing this Nation. Of course, one can have faith in the ash applied to Shiva linga to be sacred since his faith that ‘Shiva linga is Lord Shiva’ exists, which helps to develop the theoretical devotion in the case of the beginners. It is a good step for improving theoretical devotion and in such beginning state fruits cannot be expected since there is no objective reality except the subjective benefit based on psychological faith. Hence, the concept of the sacred ash solving the problems without the sanction of God is totally dismissed. If God wishes to solve your problems, this intermediate ash is not required like a priest between God and devotee.
Now, we have come to the second stage of the analysis, which is that God can solve the problems of devotees and there is no need of any ash here. The devotee cannot expect practical fruits for his/her theoretical devotion since the Gita says that God approaches you in the same path as you approach Him. If you approach Him through theory, He will give you theoretical fruit only. Does this mean that we should approach Him through practical sacrifice for getting the real fruit? Even this way fails because such interaction becomes business of exchange of items with currency. Then, does this mean that God gives a real fruit neither for theoretical devotion nor for practical devotion (service with practical sacrifice and surrender)? Then, what is the way to get the real fruit from God? The first requirement is that you should be detached from every fruit. The suffering due to problem is a punishment given by God—Judge here for your serious sins (Atyutkata paapa). You are trying to praise the judge through theoretical devotion and give bribe of practical service to him to cancel the justified punishment! Are you not totally wrong and how mean you are! Hence, you should never do anything to God for escaping the punishment appearing in the form of problems. Then, you may ask - why shall I pray or worship God since there is no use at all? Are you doing everything for use only? You love and give all your property to your issues without aspiring anything in return. Even if the issues scold and beat you in your old age, you are not changing your already written will in their name! The reason for this is that you have blind attraction above the reason towards your issues. In the case of God, you will have the highest real attraction to Him if you open your eyes and study His divine personality. Therefore, you must give at least the place of your issues to God. Every day, you pray that God is above everything and everybody for you. Is this prayer not utter lie? When this pure stage of love to God is attained by you without aspiration of any fruit in return and if you do practical sacrifice in service based on such reasonless true love, God will take care of everything regarding you here as well as there. When such pure love reaches climax called as madness, God merges with you sacrificing Himself to you (this is meaning of word Datta) making you the human incarnation. If the madness grows further to reach the climax, God becomes your servant treating you as His master (plane of Goloka) and there is no further higher fruit than this. The human incarnation itself is highest (Brahma Loka) and this master—servant state of devotee and God is higher than the highest.
If people say that the sacred ash is Trigunaatmaka, which means the common entity existing in the three qualities called Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas, this is the climax of fun. The common item in these three personified qualities (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) is the absolute unimaginable God (Datta Parabrahma). If such foolish idea is maintained, the applied ash on forehead develops negative reaction giving skin allergy! People do not make even the basic analysis before something is spoken. Innocent devotees are misled and enter in to confused thoughts.
You said that God favours poor only and again say that even poor are not helped by God. This also does not stand in the analysis. The punishments and favours come as fruits for bad and good deeds. In the Gita, God says that He takes away neither good nor bad fruits and people speak as they like due to ignorance (Naadatte kasyachit...). This is the subject related to the part of the administration of God called as judiciary system. As told above, God should not be approached in the line of business and bribe. God should be approached in the line of your issues and family members to do practical service and practical sacrifice without aspiring any fruit in return, which is known as Nishkaama karmayoga in the Gita. Without the background of deep spiritual knowledge of prayer, the devotion sometimes becomes blind and enters into wrong directions. A devotee should never find faults with the divine Government, which is indirect criticism of God. Infinite number of faults exists in human Government and you will not succeed in the search of any merit. Infinite number of merits exists in the divine Government and you will not succeed in the search of any defect.
A pure devotee like you is often misled by the false authorities like books written in Sanskrit verses by scholars having half knowledge. A full knowledge-scholar like full pot need not be argued since no change is required. A totally ignorant person like vacant pot also need not be argued since he will listen and change easily. A half knowledge-scholar like half filled pot making huge sounds is mixture of ego and ignorance. A little known gives ego and the rest unknown gives ignorance. Nobody should take blindly a Sanskrit verse quoted by anybody without analyzing it, verified by major experience.
[Padanamaskaram Swami
My humble request to please answer my queries.
6) Swami, how can a desire to achieve Pure Awareness/Salvation becomes selfish? For example if the goal to meet and serve Swami's mission is there the desire to attain Pure Awareness will actually help more in spiritual practice(sadhana). Please clarify.
7) Recently I had a discussion with Shri Surya Sir and he gave me some wonderful points on my query or dilemma. I have come across some Yoga/Pranayama workshops like Art of Living/Isha Foundation etc which will improve the quality of life and decrease one's weakness or some qualities which hamper daily life. My purpose to join the workshops was to improve my concentration and focus on worldly life and as well in Spiritual Practice. Kindly clear my confusion. (Question 1 and 2 are almost similar or co-related)
8) On the ongoing anti-national issues and sentiments, I request you to please give a elaborate discourse on real meaning of Secularism and how is has to be followed and respected in a country like India.
kishore ram]
Swami Replied: When pure awareness itself is yourself, wish to attain it is naturally selfishness, which is not in wrong sense. In actual sense selfishness means anything related to self. When we say that a person is selfish in earning, the word selfish means that the aim of earning is only to see the entire earned money comes to himself only. Here, there are two parts: 1) to see that the total earning comes to himself only and 2) doing justice/injustice in earning the money. The word selfishness is related to the first part only. The second part may be justified or may be unjust. We wrongly take the second part as unjust only and tag it to the word selfishness. Hence, there is no negative side in the word selfishness because the second part may be also justified if he alone is doing the total work. One need not feel even a trace of guilt to utter the word selfishness. It is ignorant tradition to feel the word in negative sense.
Certainly attaining pure awareness (self) is very good initial step for health that helps the divine service. In this Atmayoga process, you are detached from body and get attached to pure awareness. You get peace. The clue in this peace giving you good health by relieving from tensions is that you are concentrating (attached) to one item (self) from many items related to body. When you withdraw from many and attach yourself to one, the peace comes giving good health. Three points exist here: 1) to attach to one and withdraw from many by mind, 2) many to one avoids tensions giving peace and 3) peace gives good health needed in divine service.
That one item to which you attach from many can be anything in the creation except the unimaginable God. It need not be self only. It can be the imaginable mediated God also. All the advantages (lack of tensions, peace, good health and efficiency in divine service) are coming in toto even if that one item is God instead of self. To get all these advantages, there is no need of God or self since that one item can be anything like a tree, a hill, a river, a dot etc. There is no extra advantage if the self is that one object. But, if the object is imaginable mediated God like a statue or photo or imaginable visible mediated God like human incarnation, additional advantage is there, which is to solve other serious problems including a serious decease in the field of health also due to the miraculous power of unimaginable God (either by indirect worship of representative model of God or by direct worship of human incarnation). Such additional advantage is not possible in the case of any object including self, which is other than the God. Same concentration and same worship giving same fruits with unique additional advantage should favour God as object if the selecting soul is wise. Entire humanity is doing like this since from several generations. Only a few are seen interested in this Atmayoga due to over intelligence. I am specifically using this scolding word because it is foolishness to forego the additional advantage for no cause. Two companies are offering you a job. The second company is offering more salary for the same work with the same facilities. No person joins first company unless he has psychological disorder.
When the object is God, there is extra advantage added to the already existing additional advantage if the object is human incarnation receiving your direct worship as service instead of representative model. In representative model also God is pleased but is not receiving your direct worship. There is lot of difference in giving a sweet directly to you than offering the same to your photo and subsequently swallow it! God is certainly more pleased in the direct worship since He enjoys your service directly in which your sacrifice is real and practical. Apart from this, there is a ready reference of God with you so that you can directly clarify all your doubts and get convinced. You will be convinced totally since God alone gives the true knowledge. Others add their own thoughts and you will get the mixed sheruvani drinking water mixed with bore water in the way. Hearing God directly is like drinking the original sheruvani water going to western hills. Of course, this is a sub-division in one main point, which is concentration on God than self. Another extra advantage is that you are going to apply all the new health to divine service, as you yourself said. If so, you are already concentrating on God before doing His service and this will bring a good rapport with God to please Him in a better way. Even the goal of spiritual effort (Sadhana) is also pleasing God only, you have entered in to sadhana as soon as you started concentrating on God, which is continuously a homogenous form.
The present workshops are concentrating on Atmayoga just advertising peace by relieving tensions leading to good physical and mental health. Such workshops are hospitals only curing mental problems. In such hospitals, sedative drugs are given so that you withdraw from many to zero instead of one item. The tension is caused by the factor ‘many’ only and hence whether you withdraw from many to concentrate on one or zero, the result of peace is one and the same. In the hospital, a better peace comes since withdrawing from many is ending in no attachment to anything (sleep) so that the energy of the bond with one item is also saved in this process in hospital. Of course, the advantage in these workshops is that they serve even an atheist, who does not believe in the existence of God. Let the atheist loose the extra additional advantage since he is not prepared for this better line in the initial stage itself. But, why theist, who is ready for this better line, should be thrown into self concentration and loose additional advantage? Even an atheist should be convinced for the better line to have the additional advantage by presenting this argument: You have not seen the end of the infinite space and there may be something somewhere in this infinite space, which is not seen and known to you. It is better to come to 50—50 probability. It is better to take the probability with least risk and by selecting such probability nothing is lost. Nothing is also gained by selecting probability of higher risk. A blind man is warned about fire before him. Another man says that there is no fire. If the blind man is wise, he will select the probability with least risk, which is to go back assuming that fire is there. Nothing is lost by going back. Nothing is also gained if he goes forward except burns if the fire exists.
Secularism means believing God’s existence in various names and forms presented by various major religions in a country. Same medicine is in 3 different coloured bottles. Secularism means taking medicine of 1ml from each bottle, total 3 ml per day. Conservative religious tradition is to take 3 ml medicine from one bottle only to which we are rigidly attached as blind fans and criticism of the other two bottles saying that medicine is not correct in those two bottles. Secularism means correcting conservative fans by proving that same medicine exists in all the three different bottles and then to continue taking medicine from all the bottles every day preaching that the medicine is same and only colours of bottles are different. The present secularism is not to take medicine from any bottle and also not to take medicine from 3 bottles simultaneously. Simply people say ‘in the name of God’ and no name and form of God is mentioned. All the names and forms are God represented by different major religions should be taken as the name of God. The statement should have been expressed as ‘in the name of God, who is called as Rama, Jesus and Mohammad by the major religions existing in India’, is called as secularism. Even such mention of God is reducing slowly to please atheists to get their votes also! You can see the dollar note on which it is printed that they trust in God. But, such print is absent on our currency notes to please atheists for their votes. Any country should maintain at least the basic concept of God, good rewards given by heaven, and bad punishments given by hell. These three concepts should never be disturbed. Nationality means worshipping the motherland, which is the deity of soil (Bhudevi), wife of the Lord. Through mother you are approaching Father God only for blessings. It is the approach to creator through creation (Shakti). People living in the motherland also are part of the mother. True nationality is acceptance and praying God for the welfare of the public of Nation through following ethics and thereby avoiding natural calamities and prosperity be attained from the blessings of divine Father. There is no better nationalist than Mahatma Gandhi, who was always praying Lord Rama to bless people of India. Latter on, the leaders started taking egoistic modern style of caring for the welfare of the public of Nation without reference to God. Today, the state of political leaders is to pray God to get blessings from Him so that he/she can cheat everybody and swallow the public money as far as possible! God plus public welfare descended to public welfare without God and further descended to God plus self welfare in the name of public welfare. Leaders of first type go to heaven. Leaders of second type return to this middle earth. Leaders of third type will go to special hells there like special guest houses waiting for them here. Normal hell is not sufficient for them, which receives normal sinners, who did not loot public money. Any issue of Pravrutti or Nivrutti will have life only when it is based on God.
The art of living aims at better enjoyment of life here with more health. It is just a program of medical education only for which every human being is eligible. But, if the aim is not self enjoyment in this world, which is temporary and if the aim is to serve God and get lifted permanently, is it not better to gain health for the divine service directly concentrating on God instead of self? You are going to good health whether you concentrate on God or self. The good health gained from the concentration on God can be also used in the worldly enjoyment. The money or wealth given by God can be used for the sake of God only or for world or for both. In this choice, God or self is one and the same one object. It is better to select God in view of the above explained additional and extra additional advantages if you are theist. If you join God represented by ‘He’ to the ‘art of living’, it becomes ‘Heart of living’ since the entire centre of life is only He or God.
Non-entertained Quality Becomes Weak & Disappears
[Questions from Shri Karthik]
9) How can I practically serve God in the free time I have everyday after work? Since karma phala tyaga is also a valid way of serving God, then should I work even in my leisure time and sacrifice the fruit of that work to God? Or can I partake in God’s mission by say, creating a blog about spirituality or writing stories about God based on my limited knowledge.
10) “When you do good or great things, immediately give the credit to God. However, if you act stupidly and do bad things, then blame no one but yourself.” Can You please explain this statement further?
11) ‘Svabhavo vijayati, iti shauryam’. As per my limited knowledge, this roughly translates to ‘overcoming your nature, that is real courage’. Please explain this statement. Is it possible to overcome one’s animalistic nature by self-effort or is it possible only by surrendering completely to God? I ask this because even to surrender to God, one requires a certain level of faith. And as You’ve said before, this faith is possible to inculcate only by serving the human incarnation. Then how should an ignorant seeker like me go about trying to develop this faith, especially when I do not have a Satguru to guide me?
12) What is the right attitude to approach a problem in life? If self-destructive habits are only the outward symptoms/effects of underlying, inner conflicts, then how does one get to the root cause of such problems?
13) God is beyond both good and bad qualities. But people like me are an aggregate of good and bad qualities. Here, I look at bad qualities as those characteristics that drive one away from God. If the bad qualities that have been present since many births are interfering in one’s spiritual progress, how does one overcome their momentum and make the right decisions in day-to-day life?
14) It’s said that a curse is a blessing in disguise. So can I take the statement in a vice versa fashion? Which is to say, is a blessing a curse in disguise?
15) Many claim that it’s inauspicious to start a new project on a Tuesday. Is there any truth behind this statement?
16) There’s a story of how Lord Shiva gets angry at Lord Brahma for telling him a lie. He therefore cursed Lord Brahma that nobody would worship him in this Yuga while Lord Vishnu, who told Lord Shiva the truth, is blessed. Even today, there are maybe a handful of temples dedicated to Lord Brahma as opposed to thousands temples dedicated to Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. What is the inner meaning of this story?
17) In the last 500 years or so, humans have progressed rapidly in a scientific manner. In general, it can be said that human beings aren’t as barbaric or animalistic as they were 500 years ago. This observation supports the Darwinian theory of evolution. As per the Yuga system of evolution and involution, if we truly are living in the Kali Yuga, then how can the human intellect have progressed in such a manner?]
Swami Replied: The procedure of service to God is explained deeply only to avoid the misinterpretations and to project the truth of the topic of ultimate goal to all so that true path is known to everybody to get the same ultimate divine goal. The service is practical, which is the highest and real sacrifice and which alone can have the fruit of divine grace. Theory leads you to the apparent theoretical fruit and practical service leads you practically to true fruit. Work is energy and fruit is matter. Both are inter convertible and one and the same (karma samnyasa is sacrifice of work and karmaphalatyaga is sacrifice of fruit of work as said in the Gita). Both or one can be done as per convenience and availability. The decision to participate in the divine service should be spontaneous and natural without any force or exploitation. You can mix spiritual knowledge with worldly issues like sugar with flour of grains to prepare various sweet items. One may eat only sugar like sugar candy and other may like to eat a sweet in which sugar and flour were mixed. Someone may like to eat flour only like scientist or atheist. Krishna is related to both sugar (the Bhagavatam) and flour (the Bharatam) called as Nivrutti and Pravrutti. In Pravrutti God wishes the victory of justice over injustice and in Nivrutti God supersedes both justice and injustice.
Dedicating the service to God in some leisure time is a humble beginning for its steady growth in future. The Bhagavatam is pure sugar candy called as pure Nivrutti. The Bharatam without Krishna, only history of Pandava kings is mere tasteless flour. When Krishna joins this story it becomes a sweet prepared by mixing sugar and flour. A historical story of a dynasty of kings is simply flour without sugar. The Bharatam is the middle golden path, which is mixture of bonds with God and world called as Pravrutti. While taking a cinema both social story and miracle of God mixed is succeeding very much in these days. Such stories will please the modern public to a great extent since along with strongest worldly bonds, a weak bond with God is also maintained simultaneously. Pravrutti is related to the entire humanity whereas Nivrutti is related to very very few devotees countable on fingers. While doing prayers (theoretical devotion) we go to the highest plane of Nivrutti telling utter lies to God that our bond is with God alone (Tvameva sarvam mama... Gita). The actual truth is that the worldly bonds alone are real for us, but we say these lies that our bond is with God alone. What is the reason for this lie? We are in need of some boons from God that alone can help our dearest worldly bonds. By such lie in the prayer, we think foolishly that the innocent God can be easily fooled like the human being. God is omniscient (sarvajna) unlike a human being with limited knowledge (Alpajna) and in this issue the human being is totally ignorant without any trace of knowledge since it is not knowing at all that God is omniscient while doing that prayer. We should speak that which is really in our mind and that which we will do really. This is called as unity of three instruments (Trikaranashuddhi), which are mind, word and action. Before doing the prayer, we should understand and examine it carefully avoiding the blind recitation of the prayer written by somebody, which suited to the level of devotion of the poet of that prayer. Always pray God in your mother tongue and not in any other language like Sanskrit which you do not know.
Any victory observed in your deeds is only due to God and any defeat is due to your personal defect. One must take the revolving fan in space as the spiritual preacher since the imaginable circles of revolving fan drawn in space are the fast repetitions of feelings of the fan again and again that it is zero since it is revolving only due to electricity. By this, it is passing on the credit to the electricity without which it cannot even move at all. If there is noise from fan, it is due to its own defect and hence it owns the defect. Pass on the credit to God and own the defect. This will reduce the ego and increase the surrender to God. Such worship becomes more qualitative.
The nature of an item cannot be suppressed by itself. The salt will not lose its saltish taste by itself. The ego blows the soul and the nature of soul is increasing more and more only. Overcoming it becomes lesser and lesser by it. The taste of salt can be suppressed by adding more and more water. The dilution overcomes the nature of salt in course of time. Without the second item, you cannot overcome the nature of yourself. Courage attained by such self is another form of ego only, which is the concentration of self. Self-confidence slowly leads to ego and fall. The self has limited powers and self-confidence should be also limited within certain boundary. Confidence is good promoter for doing any work. Instead of confidence on self, you can have confidence on God. In both cases, the common confidence encourages you. The difference is that if the self-confidence crosses limits, it will become ego. But, confidence on God can grow infinitely since the power of God is unlimited and there is no danger of failure at any time. The confidence on infinite power of God can be infinite and hence the growth of such confidence to any extent cannot become ego. The advantages of God as human incarnation are already explained above. Every soul in every generation will meet the human incarnation, but, gets only as much as it deserves. The ocean is infinite. If one has a cup, only a cup of water can be taken. If one has a pot, a pot of water can be taken. God is impartial to bless equally every soul, but, the real need of the soul controls the magnitude of the process of receiving the blessing. Sometimes He may send His servants following Him in human forms for the sake of a soul based on the lesser level of requirement. A junior doctor, student of the professor—doctor with first aid box attends a patient suffering with a small wound. A cancer-patient is attended by the chief doctor only. The point is serving the purpose of the patient and not who treats him. Nearing approach of human incarnation need not be viewed as great deservingness of the soul since it shows only great seriousness of the illness of the devotee. A person told Me that God visited many times India as human incarnation than other countries and this shows the high level of spirituality of our country. I replied “Teacher comes to a class of dull students only again and again for repeated revisions of subject and not to the class of intellectual students”. We should not search for ego, which should be always avoided. Sometimes, God keeps the best devotees also far from Him since separation increases the devotion to reach climax. Of course, the inner circle of God is always associated with God like His family since the level of highest devotion of the inner circle is in climax and can’t be affected by association. No general policy can be arrived in this aspect, which varies from case to case and the decision of God is always best for devotee.
Certainly, the internal qualities get reflected in the external atmosphere resulting in the effects, which may be positive goodness or negative badness of the qualities deciding happiness or misery in the external atmosphere. Ethics explain this subject in the form of commandments from God. An ordinary soul trying for success and happiness should simply follow these Pravrutti-commandments and this stage itself introduces the first impression in the mind of God that is essential basis for Nivrutti. If you disobey His commandments in Pravrutti, how can you be His devotee in Nivrutti? Loyalty is basis of love. Hence, if the internal quality is to decide the external results, the commandment of God that a specific quality is good to be done and a specific quality is bad not to be done should be obeyed, which becomes the root of root.
Again and again I am showing you only one solution that only God is the ultimate (root of root) solution for any problem. If you have enough faith in the omniscience of God, you will not do any sin secretly. The court may not find it in the absence of proof of witness. But, God is the one witness whose eyes are never closed and see everything, everywhere and everytime. This itself controls the sins and related bad qualities provided the faith on God is full. God does not mind if you exploit His name to protect yourself from injustice, but, today, people are misusing His name to cheat others and do injustice. One must fear for the horrible hells and liquid fire after judgement. If you are diverted to God and His work, there is no leisure time and extra energy to engage in a sin and its related bad quality and a non-entertained quality becomes weak and disappears. If you don’t entertain the guest visiting your house, he will not come again to your house. Continuous engagement in God will control everything since God is omnipotent and also very kind, interested to uplift every soul. If you are interested in any other subject, you may be free from bad qualities in that span of time only, which will appear forcibly later on at anytime to revenge on you. Bad qualities or bad thoughts fear for God since there is nothing, which does not fear for the omniscient and omnipotent God. The Veda says that air, sun and even death fear for God functioning with perfect discipline (Bhishaasmaat...). If you surrender to God with sacrifice and service, I, assuredly tell all of you that even the problems will run away. No quality is good or bad by itself. Any quality becomes good if it is diverted and dedicated to God. Any quality becomes bad if it is diverted and dedicated to these illusory worldly bonds. Every soul will realise the truth in the last minute of the life by the grace of God. The vast knowledge of God presented now gives right solutions for all problems.
A curse in disguise is blessing and vice-versa. People pray God for blessings and to avoid curses. Lord Krishna asked His aunt Kunti after the Mahabharata war to ask Him for any boon. She replied “So far, I am in your memory always since I was surrounded by several serious difficulties. Now difficulties ended and happiness started. Now, I will surely forget you. Please give me a boon by which I will be continuously attacked by serious difficulties so that I can seriously memorise you continuously (Vipadah santu nah shashvat... Mahabharata). I once again very truly tell all of you that difficulties come by grace of God and happiness comes by His anger! You may get shocked and retorted to hear this at the outset, but you will realise the truth by patient analysis only. Suffering in sacrifice, surrender and service only leads the soul to the heart of God. All of us must learn this truth from holy Jesus.
If you are really attached to God by involving in sacrifice and service without aspiring any boon in return, again and again, I assuredly tell all of you that you are above the plane of astrology which is also meant to lead the soul to God.
We hear that Lord Shiva punished Lord Brahma for telling a lie and blessed Lord Vishnu for telling truth. There is no temple for Lord Brahma in this land, but there are several temples for Lord Brahma in some foreign countries. First of all, one should know that these divine forms contain unimaginable God forever, who is divided and yet undivided due to His omnipotence (Avibhaktam Vibhakteshu... Gita). Any story can be made up using these three divine forms to preach something good to humanity. These three divine personalities do not mind to act in any role for the welfare of humanity. By role, the actor is not affected at all. Anybody can create any story using these three actors for good purpose. Here Lord Shiva is in the role of ultimate God and Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu are in the roles of His devotees. You may have to tell lies to other human beings, sometimes, if situations are inevitable and if the ultimate goal is good, there is no sin at all. God forced Dharma Raja to tell a lie for the sake of establishing justice. Dharma Raja went to hell just for not obeying the word of Lord. Your story means that you should never tell a lie to God since He is omniscient and also omnipotent to punish anybody in the creation. Brahma stands for Rajas or ego that made Him to tell a lie that He has seen the head of Shiva expanding fast above and below. Vishnu stands for Sattavam or obedience that made Him to tell the truth that He has not seen the feet of Shiva below. Due to Rajas Brahma is flying above as swan and due to sattavam Vishnu is going down as pig. The lack of worship of Brahma indicates that He is the absolute unimaginable God, who cannot be worshipped at all by any soul.
Darwin’s view is that the evolution is a natural self-controlled process without any super control of God. Here the philosophy differs from science. If man is evolved from the ape by losing useless tail, why the tails of all apes did not disappear and why all the apes did not disappear since evolution must affect all apes as per scientific procedures? Why only certain apes were transformed to become human beings? What are the criteria of such selection? Therefore, the final truth is that evolution or involution is not a continuous inert process proceeding by itself. Both are controlled by God and are discontinuous. Whenever there is a need in this world of humanity, either evolution or involution takes place by the will of God. Computer science is a boon from God to science so that propagation of spiritual knowledge can take place easily and this is evolution. Environmental pollution is a curse from God to science for its endless efforts to improve the facilities to humanity and this is involution. A soul of old time having miraculous power by the grace of God is far superior than the present scientist, which is involution. Experimental proof for theoretical logic is evolution since some theoretical conclusions done in the past without experiments are rectified like sound travelling in space (Sound is propagated only by moving atoms and its medium is not vacant space. Ancient logic thought that sound is propagating in space being its characteristic.). Environmental science clearly says that results of discovery of science stand for generation of nectar and poison side by side. Many scientists believe and surrender to God inventing wonderful secrets of creation by the grace of God. One scientist was prepared to commit suicide since he was unable to invent a formula for a problem in his research. Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba appeared before him, told the formula and prevented his suicide! Einstein and Newton etc., were great philosophers also blessed by God in their inventions. Einstein wept for his discovery when Hiroshima was bombed. Both good and bad go together in science based on God’s grace and soul’s ego.