Posted on: 23 Mar 2016
Dr. Nikhil
Shri Datta Swami Sadguru
Abode of knowledge infinite ‘n true.
Shri Datta Swami Sadguru
You chose Your birth in a devout family
Cursed to childlessness by two sorcerers[1].
Seven infants[2] dead and the eighth to come
The family surrounded with fears.
Each night, Your mother had visions of sacred,
Temples when she was pregnant with You.
Abode of crores of deities—Dattatreya
Had already entered her womb.
With Your birth the evil sorcerers died[3]
Freeing the village from tyranny.
You, the Eighth divine child, as Shri Krishna bearing
Astonishing similarity[4].
The Child’s adorable beauty and pranks
Enthralled the home and village alike.
Breaking pots, stealing milk and butter, You
Relived the scenes from Shri Krishna’s life[5].
Seeing the similarities Your aunt named You
Venu Gopala Krishna Murthy.
At seven[6] was done the naming ceremony
And the sacred thread ceremony.
From the great Sanskrit epic Raghuvamsha[7],
Your father taught You just eight verses
From the ninth, You began expounding the meaning
Of the unlearnt Sanskrit verses.
At seven You composed Uttaranaishadham[8]
Of splendid profound Sanskrit verse.
Not a verse understood until You explained the
Meaning to the eminent scholars.
Your father thought that You had been possessed
By the soul of a scholarly ghost[9].
You replied that the Ghost was none other than
Dattatreya—the Lord of All Ghosts[10].
Extempore sweet Sanskrit compositions[11]
Inborn unparalleled erudition.
Wrote over a hundred spiritual books[12],
Astounding divine contribution.
The Lord of divine devotion-alchemy
You chose to study but chemistry.
In the famous Allahabad University
Doctoral studies in the holy city.
Submitting Your superb thesis in three months
Leaving Your professors without words.
University rules forced You to stay on longer
So, You just began a new chapter.
Before dawn You’d stand in the Triveni waters,
Making a Linga from the holy sand.
Standing on one foot holding it in Your palm
Bathing it with water by the other hand.
After hours of hidden penance, You’d go as a
Student to the University.
Instead of the Chemistry department, the G. N.
Jha Research Institute, You’d reach.
Studying rare scriptural Sanskrit manuscripts
The play of the Lord Omniscient
Revealing that spiritual knowledge surpasses
Any other knowledge in the world.
Replaying the old debate of Shankara with
Ritualist Mandana Mishra,
You debated with Dr. Umesh Mishra[13] till
He lastly accepted and signed.
Travelling to Varanasi so frequently,
Worshipping Vishwanath of Kashi
Debating with scholars on philosophy
You revealed divine spirituality.
For the fourth Brahma Sutra term ‘tu’
You gave meanings hundred and two.
Published in the Prabha magazine; stunning
Scholars by spiritual mastery.
Impressed with You, Karapatra Swamiji
Sought to give You the saffron robes
Though He offered to make You Pithadhipati,
You yielded to Your Father’s decree.[14]
At the Kumbha in Prayag You had a debate
With followers of Arya Samaj.
Believers of formless God they did not accept
God coming down in a human form.
They just fell silent when You explained to them that
Omnipotent God can come surely.
Responding to dear devotees’ call; He comes
Who can stop Him from incarnating?
As You set foot into the Shri Shailam shrine,
There stood Datta, His back turned to You.
Not displeased, but so overjoyed was He that,
He fell back and merged right into You.
Eye with eye, ear with ear and mind with mind,
He merged and became one with You.
The real sense of the Vedic verse[15] had
Actually been fulfilled in You.
One night Shri Dattatreya as Sathya Sai,
Entered and became one with You.
Exceptional knowledge flowed through You,
Confirming Datta’s entry was true.
You correlated the three schools of Vedanta[16]
Through the concept of Incarnation.
Solving the riddle of over a thousand years
A Vedantic unification[17].
On hearing Your matchless unification
The Paramacharya of Kanchi[18]
Challenged You to explain the meaning of the
Great Vedic statement tattvamasi.[19]
You explained that the statement “You are God”,
Only means “You will soon become God.”
The father’s blessing for the son Shwetaketu
Allowed by the Sanskrit grammar rule.[20]
The Paramacharya looked up and stared at You.
Gave a fruit basket and blessings too.
He advised You to propagate this knowledge.
Perhaps he saw Lord Datta in You.
Serving as a Professor of Engineering
You lived in Coimbatore city.
Making sweet even the sweetest Siruvani[21]
You, living Jnana Sammohini[22]
Holy Vijayawada on the river Krishna
Where Partha got the Pashupata
Permanent abode of Shri Kanaka Durga
Was blessed to host Shri Guru Datta.
Venerated Professor for college students
Guru Datta for divine servants
Both the banks of the mighty Krishna[23]
Overflowing with knowledge-torrents.
To the world shrouded in ignorance You revealed,
Unprecedented knowledge divine.
It’s the crest jewel of spirituality,
Bringing permanent world peace benign.
The Unimaginable domain You proved
Through the limits of the universe.
Also indicated through miracles it is
Called Brahman by the Vedic scriptures.
With this You unified spirituality
With science that studies creation.
Science proves all that’s imaginable isn’t God.
So, God is unimaginable.
The Unimaginable God incarnated
In all places and generations.
He gave the common spiritual knowledge
That forms various world religions.
The one impartial loving Father alone gave
All religions to humanity.
All valid paths to reach to Him. This is
Universal Spirituality.
Special, true and infinite knowledge marks the
Incarnation’s true identity.
This is the primary identification;
Miracles are but secondary.
You demolished misunderstood Advaita.
God’s ever unimaginable
No human soul is already God because the,
Soul is fully imaginable.
Yet each one has the chance to become one with
God as a Human Incarnation.
This is the true Advaita of Shri Shankara
Who Himself was an Incarnation.
Knowledge, devotion and service are the
Steps in true spirituality.
The three are essential and sequential; not
Separate paths to the Almighty.
Service means practical sacrifice of one’s
Action or its fruit, money to God.
Overcoming the bonds of wealth, child and spouse
Is the essence; for the love of God.
Culmination of knowledge is realizing
God is Supreme and greater than all.
Worldly bonds and even justice, the living
Incarnation surpasses them all.
The spiritual goal is to please the Lord by
Selfless devotion, proved by passing
All His tests through sacrifice and finally,
His eternal servant becoming.
Such peerless knowledge You have taught and brought
It down into our practical lives.
Though we failed in each test, it’s great satisfaction
To serve You O Lord of boundless grace.
Nothing more inspiring in all the worlds there is
Than the story of Your life holy.
The perfect embodiment of Your preaching, You
Yourself are the One and only.
No greater bliss than singing to You these holy
Praises rising and thrilling my soul.
For as long as creation stands I wish to be
Serving You with love—my only goal.
Shri Datta Swami Sadguru
Abode of knowledge infinite ‘n true.
Shri Datta Swami Sadguru
The Spiritual Program of Lord Datta
Unimaginable God
I am Lord Dattatreya, no doubt in this, due to this knowledge,
I will be so as long as He stays in Me till I do not get the ego,
I have come here on the line of a specific spiritual program,
Correlation of all religions to bring world peace is main point,
My arrival was predicted already by the famous Nostradamus.
If I was struck at Kashi-Advaita Peetham, I have to stick there
Only to Monism confined to the limited circle of Sanskrit scholars,
In such case, I can’t do this correlation of even Hindu philosophies,
Not to speak of establishment of universal religion for world peace.
Due to this reason, by My will only, My father strongly protested,
So that I shall not hurt the pious mind of the most pious Swamiji,
The present relevant work urgently required is union of religions,
Relevance is most important concept even in the spiritual knowledge.
Human incarnation is possible, they agree that God is omnipotent,
Then, God can become human incarnation since He can do anything,
If you say that He can’t, He is omnipotent, but, one power is missing,
Hence, He is no more omnipotent, self-contradiction attacks your side.
Devotees desired to see, talk, touch and live always with God closely,
These four are divine fortunes, to fulfill them, He came in human form,
Devotee desires, He can do so, why your finger between both like priest,
There is a saying that even if God gives boon to devotee, priest opposes!
Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Himself is the human incarnation of God,
Like Mohammed, both negated this concept temporarily for a purpose,
Which is to avoid immediate bad side effects for the necessity at once,
First aid treatment is an urgent step when society is wounded seriously.
Human birth is most unpredictable, today is better than tomorrow,
Recognition of the contemporary human incarnation is most difficult,
Don’t postpone spiritual issue, even if you postpone worldly issue here,
Nothing is lost, this world-stream has no beginning or end, Gita says[24],
You are always in middle stream only even with super most dynamism,
The middle stream is nothing but a revolving huge powerful whirlpool.
Total surrender by practical sacrifice in every step towards any direction,
Helping the Lord in propagation of spiritual knowledge, at least Pravrutti,
Both these are the two legs by which you can walk to the abode of Lord,
Both these are the two eyes by which you can see to recognize incarnation,
Both these are the two hands by which you can serve Him practically here.
Then, you shall enter the innermost close circle called as the family of Lord,
For a specific purpose here, the Lord shall choose you as His human medium,
The will to become so should be from His side only, not at all from your side,
The Lord will merge in you, which is entry of Lord as said byVeda and Gita[25],
Every soul has equal chance for this, provided such desire is never present.
Now, Lord, energetic incarnation will merge with you, His limbs merge
With your limbs as per the hymns of Kenopanishat, limbs work only
By the will of that Lord, not by the soul or awareness, which exists in
Every human being, then, why one is blind or dumb or deaf or lame?
Eye of eye is God, not imaginable power of soul, the Brahmasutra says[26].
Your attention and anxiety to know truth[27] are marvelous,
Miraculous knowledge-Gita and miraculous love-dance in
Brundavanam are far better than physical miraculous deed
Like lifting mountain, which is for the sake of atheists only,
Unimaginable deed proves existence of unimaginable God,
Theists, already believers, require first two to get divine grace.
Physical miracles have little significance in the spiritual path,
They are only chocolates for LKG children to go to the school,
Except introduction of theism, useless to bring the reformation,
Cosmic vision, biggest miracle, could not change the kauravas.
Shri DattaSwami also exhibited certain physical miracles for initial pickup
So that at least a few gems can be captured, main aim is to capture
The diamonds scattered everywhere in this world and illuminate them,
They in turn enlighten others to setup gradual chain reaction everywhere.
Divine knowledge is His beauty, divine love is His divine fragrance,
Scents of lotus, rose, sandal etc., emitted in plenty from Shri DattaSwami,
They were doubted as hidden chemicals of this chemistry-professor!
One critic of Me was drowned with scents for one month day and night.
Scents followed him even if travelled hundreds of kilometers of distance,
Doctors couldn’t find anything, still didn’t accept Me, human incarnation,
Became very weak, wife fell on My feet to withdraw scents, withdrawn,
She told “Swami! His rigidity is unimaginable, not God as told by you!!”
Shankara passed through bolted doors, not praised at all
By Vyasa and Jaimini, both can do the same, devils also do,
Buddhists sent elephant towards Shankara, who ran from it,
Asking “running from unreal elephant!”, Shankara replied
“Running is also unreal since I told that whole world is unreal”,
Even angels in sky clapped for this wonderful knowledge-miracle!
Standards of recognition of God have fallen from Krutayuga onwards,
When no special miracle was shown up to Parashurama, in Tretayuga,
Rama showed one miracle only, in the end of Dvapara, Krishna showed
Several miracles, in Kali, only physical miracles are real proof of God,
People gradually fell down to atheism requiring basic miracles alone.
Every human incarnation in Kaliyuga require physical miracles initially,
Otherwise even divine knowledge preached is viewed as poetic gossip!
Initial attracted crowd may contain some genuine devotees for whom
Miraculous knowledge can be preached, who will propagate it in world.
Miracles give you shock and astonishment only, if one is fond of them
To accept the basic existence of God, you are atheist in disguise of theist,
If you like them to solve your problems against doctrine of cycle of deeds,
You are worse than atheist since you are not seeker of truth, but selfish!
Miracles, Pravrutti and Nivrutti are My three divine eyes,
Miracle is My third eye of fire, Pravrutti-rule is eye of sun,
Nivrutti is eye of cool moon of love with background night,
The Tamas, which is firmness mistaken as unjust ignorance.
Miracle exhibits My designation like the official identity card
That is shown to the sinners as in the case of income tax raid,
This is Pravrutti, in Nivrutti the identity card need not be shown
Since devotees here already know that I have miraculous power.
In Nivrutti, the income tax officer is not going for any raid-duty,
He is going only to see the bride for his alliance, the bride knows,
Already that he is working as income tax officer, no need to show
The identity card, bride is anxious about his wisdom and love only.
Similarly, devotees of Nivrutti decide God by His knowledge
And His capacity in reciprocating love to the loving devotees,
Identification of God itself is an examination, passing it through
Miracles is like getting through with the help of copying slips,
Identifying through knowledge is like pass by writing answers.
River flows running long distance with high speed floods
To reach ocean, but ocean does not run to meet the river,
The love of the river by floods multiplied several times is
Tsunami in the ocean, crosses the boundary but no running.
When My flute song was heard, a few Gopikas ran from village
To reach Brundavanam, I also ran up to boundary of garden,
The speed in Me was very high, but, I did not cross the limits
Since Pravutti gets spoiled as many fools imitate Me, Gita says[28],
All eyes are on Me only to imitate Me in the name of following,
Hence, I asked them to go back, though My love was infinite,
This is not one side love, only hidden tsunami, for the Pravrutti.
In Nivrutti also, several stages exist, some opened their eyes only,
Some arose from bed, some got down from bed, some reached door,
Some came outside and stopped obstructed by their family members,
Very few only ran to Me throwing away those protests of their families.
I am just the reflection of the devotee by opening My eyes,
By getting down from the tree, by walking a few steps there,
Stopped by the obstruction of angel devotees, finally I ran
To the boundary of garden throwing away those invisible devotees.
Angel devotees told Me “running for black-uneducated-females
Of low caste!”, I replied “ I am also black and uneducated,
Belonging to their low caste, I am also in the form of Mohini,
Do you disrespect her? I am suitable to them in every aspect”.
Remember that caste is decided by qualities and deeds only.
Actually, Gopikas were male sages of high caste with white brilliance,
Participated in deep debates of spiritual knowledge for several births,
All were reversed to drop these four egos, I am also white actually,
As son of Kashyapa belong to the same caste of sages, I am called as
Purushottama, the best of males, as Sattvam, the source of knowledge,
I received them in the same plane as their perfect reflection here also.
Shiva is white Sattvam-knowledge, came as Shankara, preached knowledge,
Vishnu is black Tamas-firm devotion, came as Ramanuja, preached devotion,
Brahma is red Rajas-action[29], born as sacred red light between day and night,
Shiva is day and Vishnu is night, practical service of Madhva is top sacred,
Morning and evening are junctions of day and night, with sacred red light.
Out of thousand Gopikas, hundred were giving Me butter secretly,
Ten were giving Me total butter, ninety gave Me a portion of it only,
Feeding their children with rest, children of ten were very healthy
Since they know that My grace is million times stronger than butter.
I have to separate ninety from ten, both looking alike externally.
By My will, in-laws of ninety caught them and hence I told them,
Not to give Me the butter secretly and I stole their butter totally,
All the ninety opposed My stealing since total butter was stolen,
Hence, ninety joined rest to complain to the mother of the Lord.
All this drama was enacted by Me to filter out the real devotees,
Only ten were leftover, no compliant even if total butter was stolen,
Their complaint was that I have enough butter in house, why stealing?
I have answer, I stole to test them, not stealing to pacify My hunger.
I am posing the same question to the present people of Kali age,
Why to steal others’ money? You have money for ten generations,
Are you God like Me? Are others Gopikas? Prove by lifting the hill,
I will consider you as God as special case, not to equate with Ravana,
Since the devil Ravana also lifted the huge Kailasa hill like Krishna.
The unjust money-fire will burn your future hundred generations!
These hundred Gopikas were sages in forest trying to embrace Rama,
By becoming females, I postponed to next birth where they become
Real females, wives, so that full risk makes examination most serious,
God is husband of husbands and hence ultimate husband of all souls[30].
Gopikas ran from world to God, not from legal to illegal area,
World contains both legal justice and illegal injustice domains,
God is beyond world, beyond both justice and injustice planes,
Veda andGita say that on analysis both have to be rejected[31].
My wife, Golden Mahalakshmi was a stunning divine beauty,
Will any fool still argue that I ran for them for illegal contact?
They discussed in millions of lives and took a final decision,
After which no knowledge, only rigidity, Tamas, black colour,
The ignorant force that transforms knowledge into practice,
Know the blue or black Gopika-Yamuna and Krishna-ocean.
Neither analysis can be in emotion nor vice-versa of it,
Emotion or devotion should be after complete analysis only,
This is the meaning of analytical emotion or emotional analysis,
Pure analysis leads to pure emotion ending in pure practice.
The story of Krishna and Gopika is the most deepest concept,
The worst sin becoming most sacred act by intention diverted,
The bhakti sutra of Narada says that illegal dance of Gopikas[32]
Becomes the most sacred stage of the spiritual path, if analyzed,
The Bhagavatam is said to be the final test for the spiritual scholars![33]
Sixteen thousand daughters of kings loved Me deeply and hence,
No son of any king was getting married, Jaraasandha was furious,
Imprisoned all, I liberated them, they said that if I don’t marry them,
Only way is suicide, I married all, multiplying Myself equal to them,
But, ten Gopikas were greater than them due to the highest risk taken.
All this is Nivrutti though said as the highest divine fruit[34],
It includes the Pravrutti since you must have crossed it,
Which is the control of human behavior towards others,
If you have earned hundred, you must have earned ten!
Every human incarnation propagated mainly Pravrutti here,
Even Krishna, deity of Nivrutti said that He came for justice,
Propagate this basic concept all over world for all religions,
If one stops doing sin from today onwards, all punishments
Of his past sins are cancelled, tell basic logic for this point,
For, logical analysis supersedes blind portion of scripture,
That is created by exploiters and inserted into the scripture.
Basic logic is—punishment is not for vengeance on sin,
It is not tit for tat, only for reformation of soul forever,
If one stops sin permanently, it is a practical sign of soul
That it is reformed once for all, again its punishment is
Sheer wastage, aim of which is only soul-reformation,
So that the soul shall not repeat that sin once again.
A killed living being cannot be brought to life again,
Killer is hanged to death not for the sake of killed one,
Punishment is given to the killer so that the killer
May not kill a second living being in this world again.
Pravrutti is the first basic impression of God on anybody,
Nivrutti is a special impression of God, Nivrutti is impossible,
If Pravrutti fails, let Me clear this point with a cinema simile,
Heroine attempted to give her life for the sake of love of hero,
Hero married her, this beloved wife steals money from pocket
Of her husband! What is the real reason for this basic blunder?
Reason is that she only attempted and not committed suicide!
She is the queen of the entire property of her husband, silly!!
Today, we see this basic failure of Pravrutti in highest devotees,
Like saints, who steal money of devotees and exploit illegal sex,
The saint reached the climax of Nivrutti, God also blessed him,
What is the reason? – Reason is only that his effort for Nivrutti is
Only dramatic action and not real like her attempting for suicide.
God’s blessing on the saint is also unreal here, it is also acting,
For, God approaches anyone in the same way as approached,
Multistoried building is excellent, but foundation is cracking,
Their Nivrutti crumbles down like the building one-day or other.
These saints quote Krishna for their escape as Respondents,
If you ask them to lift a mountain and then act like Krishna,
One clever saint quotes Ravana saying “he also lifted mountain,
Why not treat him as God for stealing wealth and illegal sex,
Since he has passed the test of your stipulated requirement?”
The answer is - first of all, Krishna was requested by Gopikas
For stealing butter and dance in the night, no force was there,
Ravana did everything by force, then, the question comes that
If the other side is willing, can we treat it as not a sin at all?
The answer is- non-repetition of the sin by Krishna again
In His entire life cancels all the past sin as per general rule.
Ravana repeated the sin again and again by devil-nature,
I am not ending answer with single point of rule in Krishna,
The main point is that it is a special case of examination
Conducted by God for the ancient sages born as Gopikas,
That is why after test, sin was not repeated at all by Krishna.
The main characteristic to identify God is divine knowledge,
Not miracles, Krishna said Gita, Ravana did not sing any Gita,
Miracle is like the khaki color dress of a police officer here,
An actor in the same dress in a drama is not the real police.
The power of police is identified by his forcible capacity
To punish injustice and establish justice in the society.
Similarly, God uses the power of knowledge to transform
The souls for the real establishment of justice in world.
Knowledge alone can bring the permanent transformation,
Police force can bring the temporary transformation only,
But, if permanent remedy fails, at least temporary is inevitable,
Then, God also becomes the police to use His physical power.
God always puts total effort for propagation of knowledge
That can save generations of humanity forever in the world,
Miracle is only limited temporary effect, Gita is saving several
Present and future generations, lifting mountain by Krishna
Saved few in a place for just seven days only, so, Veda says,
That exceptional true and infinite knowledge alone is His sign.
One more clever saint may say that he will not repeat the sin
On one day after doing all the sins throughout the total life
Just before dying, the rule must apply,-Yes, the rule applies,
But, he will be punished several times more than all his sins
Since he has shown over intelligence dreaming to fool God,
After knowing the concept he is trying to exploit it wrongly!
As long as one is a human being, he should follow Rama,
Who came here to act as ideal human being in Pravrutti,
One can also follow Krishna after leaving Brundavanam,
Who followed Pravrutti perfectly dedicated to wives only,
In those times, ethics allowed kings to marry several wives[35],
Even today, ethics of some religions allow this procedure,
He never stole any wealth, He disproved even false allegation
That He stole divine gem of king Satraajit, so sincere afterwards!
Pravrutti means not doing injustice and following justice only,
Not doing justice is also injustice, hence both only make it full,
By this Pravrutti, human rebirth is always assured for any soul,
Apart from this, reward of heavenly pleasure after death, assured.
Some mad people feel that not doing injustice and justice is highest,
They shall be born as trees and stones that is their earnest desire!
The aim of the human birth is to follow Pravrutti for basic impression
And then follow Nivrutti to enter the dearest circle, family of God.
Lord inGita said that there are three main gates of injustice to hell,
First is anger, second is corruption for money, third is illegal sex,
Through these gates, souls are constantly dragged for punishment,
First is greatest, second is greater and third is great sin in Pravrutti.
The greatest sin is violence since greatest justice is non-violence,
To kill any living being for food or for blind religious belief followed,
Next, the greater sin is corruption for money, the first Upanishat says
That one should not steal the money of anybody by cheating here[36].
The third great sin is illegal sex, cheating the life partner after marriage,
The soul has taken the oath in the name of God, which is broken by this,
The fourth is wasting food by blind traditional faiths, the fifth is donating
The undeserving, who harms the society by the strength provided by you,
All these five are highest horrible sins called as ‘panchamahaapaatakas’.
Except that one test, Krishna did not repeat it either before or after,
That alone was done with good intention, no bad desire at all in it,
Non-repetition of that is only supporting evidential proof of ‘no sin’,
Your case is different, you did several similar sins with bad desire only.
In your case, non-repetition cancels punishments of all similar past sins,
For you bumper favor! For Krishna no favor at all as He never did any sin,
How lucky you are! Greatest sinner becomes equal to no sinner by this!
This offer is only given to souls in Kali age to stop sin at least from today,
My friend! Hurry up, don’t miss this golden opportunity, never comes again.
Final burning by ultra-violet energy to ash is just before your doors,
Temperature increases summer by summer and Govardhana hill sinks
Day by day, proportional to the progress of sin, if you miss this offer,
You are smashed here and there punished for all your past sins again.
If all use this offer, this Kali age is directly transformed into Kruta age
Without the intermediate final destruction, even if you are transformed,
You are protected in the final burning by My miraculous umbrella here,
Even though the entire ozone umbrella disappears by My final order.
Desire is the root cause of sin as propagated by Lord Buddha,
Desire is enhanced into ambition due to your worldly bonds only,
The bonds become weak by fear from hell as preached in Pravrutti,
Same disappear by Nivrutti, Shri Datta Swami preached lot of Nivrutti,
If Nivrutti is your target, at least, you will reach the Pravrutti here,
If Pravrutti is target, you will remain there only where you are now.
Miracles in knowledge were shown in plenty by this Shri Datta Swami
Like fundamental unimaginable God beyond universal boundary,
Human incarnation relevant to humanity, energetic incarnation
For departed souls, practical sacrifice alone yielding final fruit,
Karmasamnyasa-sacrifice of work, karmaphalatyaga-sacrifice of
Fruit of work, Gayatri means path of singing on God, Yajna means
Giving food pacifying hunger-fire, Vedaadhyana means knowing
The meaning of Veda and not blind recitation, analysis is the first
Authority that removes insertions of exploiters from the scripture,
Correlation between sub-religions in Hinduism, correlation of the
Concepts of world religions for universal peace and so on, so on.
Don’t you feel that I have finished the specific program allotted to Me?
I will come again to India thrice to reinforce concepts of this program,
Later on, I shall appear in all parts of world to preach this in their words,
For the welfare of believers and devotees, to convert atheists also slowly.
[1] The two evil black magicians were Shri Swami’s distant paternal uncles. Their wickedness knew no bounds and the whole village was terrified of them. They had killed some three hundred adults and children in the village using their black magic.
[2] In the joint family of the late Shri J. Veerabhadra Sastry (Shri Swami’s father) and his two brothers, totally seven male children had died owing to the black magic of the two sorcerers.
[3] The same day that Shri Swami was born, the two sorcerers died in an accident.
[4] There were many similarities between Shri Swami and Lord Krishna. Like Lord Krishna, Shri Swami was the eighth Child in the family. Lord Krishna’s maternal uncle was cruel and Lord Krishna killed him. In the case of Shri Swami, His two paternal uncles were wicked and they died on the day He was born.
[5]The villagers did not object to the pranks of Shri Swami since the wicked sorcerers had died on the day Shri Swami was born. So they believed that Shri Swami was special and had freed them from the clutches of the sorcerers.
[6] Shri Swami was not given a name until the age of seven. This was because the seven children in the family that had died previously, had died only after their naming ceremony. So the family was afraid of conducting the naming ceremony for Shri Swami. Finally, at age seven, due to the several similarities between Lord Krishna and Shri Swami, Shri Swami’s aunt named Him after Lord Krishna as Venu Gopala Krishna Murthy. Also at age seven the Upanayanam or the sacred thread ceremony, which marks the beginning of Vedic studies for a child was performed for Shri Swami.
[7] Shri Swami’s father started teaching Him Sanskrit. But to his surprise, even at that tender age, Shri Swami was an inborn scholar in Sanskrit, without any prior learning!
[8] The Uttaranaishadham is the sequel to the story of Nala and Damayanti. The story of king Nala of Nishadha, and the beautiful Damayanti appears in the Mahabharata. Based on this story, the twelfth century poet, Shriharsha, composed the Naishadha Charitam consisting of two parts Purva and Uttara, each consisting of eleven cantos. It is considered one of the six great poems (Maha Kavyas) in Sanskrit. The Uttaranaishadham by Shri Swami is the sequel to Naishadha Charitam and it consists of eighteen cantos.
[9] A Brahma Rakshasa is the ghost of a scholar, who has failed to pass on his knowledge to any disciple during his lifetime. Shocked by Shri Swami’s extempore compositions and scholarship at such a young age, without prior learning, Swami’s father thought that his Son has been possessed by one such ghost. So his father did lots of prayers to get rid of the ‘ghost’; especially the recitation of the Manyu Sukta in the Veda.
[10] Shri Swami told His Father that the ‘Ghost’ that had possessed Him was none other than Lord Dattatreya, who is the Parabrahman (God) Himself. Lord Dattatreya is known to appear in the form of a Ghost called Datta Digambara Pishacha and He is the Lord of all ghosts. Shri Swami also told His father that since Lord Datta is the Lord of all creation and also the composer of the Vedas, the Vedic prayers will be totally ineffective in driving Him out!
[11] Shri Swami was composing extempore poetry in Sanskrit from age seven. Upon being challenged by Sanskrit scholars, Swami once composed a hundred and twenty verses in the Shardula Vikriditam meter in sixty minutes.
[12] By the age of sixteen, Swami had written over a hundred philosophical books in Sanskrit.
[13] Dr. Umesh Mishra was the Vice Chancellor of the Darbhanga Sanskrit University and was a descendant of the great scholar Mandana Mishra. After several debates, Dr. Umesh Mishra accepted Shri Swami’s correlation of the three Vedantic philosophies and even gave his agreement in writing.
[14] Shri Karapatra Swami, the head-monk (Peethadhipati) of the Advaita Math of Kashi was impressed with Shri Swami. He offered to give Shri Swami saffron robes (formal sainthood) and make Him the next Peethadhipati (his successor). But Shri Swami’s father did not permit saying that since Shri Swami was his eldest Son, he wanted Shri Swami to carry on the family’s name. So Shri Swami did not become a saint and gave us the fortune of His company.
[15]The Kena Upanishad (1.2) describes Brahman as “the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind...and the eye of the eye.” Some people think that this ‘Brahman’ means nothing but the individual soul or Atman that is present in any ordinary person, since the Atman is what enables the sense organs and the mind to function. However, the following verses in the Upanishad indicate that this ‘Brahman’ is completely beyond imagination, whereas the Atman or soul is completely imaginable. This clearly means that the ‘Brahman’ being discussed in the Upanishad is not the Atman; it is the Parabrahman or Unimaginable God. That Parabrahman is not found in any ordinary person since an ordinary person is a completely imaginable entity consisting of the material body, energy and awareness. The Parabrahman is found only in a Human Incarnation of God. Thus, the Upanishad is only describing a Human Incarnation. The entry of Lord Datta into Shri Swami indicates this process of incarnation. The energetic Incarnation of Lord Datta (energetic body + Unimaginable God) entered the human body (material body + energy + awareness) of Shri Swami, thus fulfilling the real meaning of the Upanishadic verse.
[16] The three Vedantic philosophies namely Advaita (monism) given by Shri Shankara, Vishishtha Advaita (qualified monism) given by Shri Ramanuja and Dwaita (dualism) given by Shri Madhva have highly differing views about the relation between God and soul. Advaita claims that God and soul are identical. Vishishta Advaita or qualified monism says that the two are closely associated in such a way that God is the Whole and the soul is its part. Dwaita claims that the two are completely different and that the soul is the servant of God. No satisfactory reconciliation of these three widely differing views had been achieved for nearly a thousand years.
[17] Shri Swami has clearly and scientifically established that the soul, which is part of the imaginable creation, is fundamentally and completely different from God. Being the Creator of the universe and space, God is beyond this creation and beyond space. So, God is completely unimaginable since our thoughts and imagination can never cross the boundaries of space. Yet, any soul has the possibility of becoming one with God, when God enters the soul to become a Human Incarnation. Thus, only in the specific case of the Human Incarnation of God, both the total duality (separateness) between God and soul, as well as the identity (oneness) between God and that soul, simultaneously hold true. The soul in the Human Incarnation can also be considered to be very closely associated with God fulfilling the claim of Vishishtha Advaita. Thus, all three Vedantic philosophies namely Advaita (monism), Vishishtha Advaita (qualified monism) and Dwaita (dualism) simultaneously hold true in the case of the Human Incarnation. This is the gist of the unification of the three Vedantic philosophies.
[18]Shri Chandrashekharendra Saraswati (1894–1994), usually referred to as the Paramacharya or Mahaswami, was the 68th Jagadguru of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham and is considered as one of the greatest Indian sages of recent times.
[19] The great Vedic statement “Tatvamasi”, is the statement said by sage Uddalaka Aruni to his son Shwetaketu. It means “You are God”. This is interpreted by the Advaita school of Vedanta (monistic school) to which the Paramacharya belonged, as the soul in any general person is identical with God. So the Paramacharya asked Shri Swami how it was possible to interpret such a direct statement of identity in any different manner.
[20] Shri Swami explained that as per His unification of the three Vedantic philosophies, any person has the possibility of becoming one with God by becoming a Human Incarnation of God. So, by the statement “You are God”, sage Uddalaka, due to his love for his son, is merely blessing Shwetaketu to soon become God (Human Incarnation). According to the rule of Sanskrit grammar, the present tense of the verb “are” (asi) can be used to mean the immediate future tense “will soon become” (avyavahita bhavishyati lat).
[21]Coimbatore city gets its water from the Siruvani river which originates in the pristine Nilgiri Mountains. Its water is considered to be among the best in the world.
[22] The Enchantress in the Form of Divine Knowledge.
[23] Swami worked as a college Professor on one side of the river Krishna, giving worldly knowledge. Swami’s preaching of spiritual knowledge was on the other side of the river Krishna in the city of Vijayawada. Thus the two banks of the Krishna represent worldly and spiritual knowledge running in parallel. Swami’s contributions in both worldly and spiritual knowledge are exceptional. That is indicated by the allegory that both banks of the mighty Krishna were overflowing with torrents of knowledge.
[24] “Avyaktaadini bhutaani…”—Gita
[25] “Tadevaanupraavishat…”—Veda; “Manusheem tanumaashritam…”—Gita.
[26] “Netaronupapatteh”—Brahma Sutra.
[27] “Shraddhaavaan labhate …”—Gita, which means anxiety to know the truth gives knowledge.
[28] “Yadyaacharati shreshthah…”—Gita.
[29] The Gita says that the quality of Rajas generates action “Rajah karmani Bhaarata ….”
[30] The Veda says that all souls including males (husbands) are the wives of God (Striyah satih pumsah…).
[31] “Punyapaape vidhuya….”—Veda; “Ubhe sukruta dushkrute….”—Gita.
[32] “Jaaravatcha”; “Yathaa vraja gopikaanaam”—Narada Bhakti Sutras.
[33] “Vidyaavataam Bhagavate Parikshaa”—a popular Sanskrit saying.
[34] “Pravruttireshaa Bhutaanaam, Nivruttistu Mahaaphalaa”—Scripture.
[35]Ancient ethics say that a king can have several wives (Raajaano bahuvallabhaah).
[36] The Ishavasya Upanishad (Veda) says “Do not steal the money of anybody (Maa grudhah kasyasvit dhanam).