Posted on: 29 Apr 2016
Swami , Divine Nectar-Sweet
Dr. Nikhil
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet is Your form; Sweet is Your song.
Sweet are Your feet; Sweet Your voice.
Sweet the morsel You fed; sweet Your grace.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet priceless knowledge; Sweet discussion.
Sweet Your analysis; Sweet correlations.
Sweet final conclusion; Sweet confirmation.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet Your longing; Sweet Your company.
Sweet Your arrival; Sweet Incarnation.
Sweet revelation; Sweet divine devotion.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet life’s pains; Sweet Your graceful aid.
Sweet the ignorance; Sweet its removal.
Sweet the doubts; Sweet Your clarifications.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet the deviation; Sweet rectification.
Sweet worldly work; sweet Your service.
Sweet eternal servitude of my sweet Swami.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet Your friendship; Sweet parental care.
Sweet preaching; Sweetest Divine Preacher.
Sweet Your treatment of a slave as a prince.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet Your mission; Sweet Destination.
Sweetest Creator; Sweet Your creation.
Sweetest Magician; Sweet world-illusion.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet divine visions; Sweet fragrance.
Sweet cures and other sweet miracles.
Sweetest Your greatest knowledge-miracle.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet sleepless nights in Your memory.
Sweet Your dreams; Sweet blissful sleep.
Sweet waking with thoughts of Swami.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Sweet struggles; Sweet even troubles.
Sweet is depression; Sweet ecstasy.
Sweet delayed fruits; Sweet attainment.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Your mission was already complete
The very moment You wished for it.
For You are the Lord ever-complete.
But far from quenched is my thirst yet.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
Without You, this life’s a graveyard,
Desolate, lifeless, and full of sorrow.
With You it turns into nectarous paradise
For You are My Swami, Nectar-Sweet.
Sweet My Datta! Sweet You are, nectar-sweet.
O Lord Venu Gopala Krishna, I’ve Become Yours!
Smt. Devi
Without You my Lord Venu Gopala Krishna, how can I play Holi?
Without You I know not the language of colors, how can I play Holi?
How should I play O Lord Venu Gopala Krishna, without You this Holi?
All colors in life are due to You alone, Lord; Your words alone are the Rangoli.
O Lord, Your smile alone adorns this empty life of mine.
In Your love alone, O Lord Krishna, is my breath entwined.
The sweet tune of Your flute, O Lord as if calls me to You.
Hearing the tune, I’m drawn, as if the flute is talking to me.
You’re that Radha’s Krishna, Lord Venu Gopala Krishna;You the mind seeks.
Don’t know for how many births, [I’ve searched] in every city, lane and street.
O Lord, first You were in my imagination; with imaginary colors alone,
O Lord Venu Gopala Krishna, so far I have played with You Holi.
As the imagined form materialized before me, my whole life,
Itself became a rainbow, O Venu Gopala Krishna, God-Incarnate.
No colors exist without You O Lord; I am but the black Yamuna.
Without You each birth of mine is indeed a dark pitch-black night.
Without You O Lord, colorless is my life; I get colored only when You add colors.
You are the wonderful Painter, Lord Datta. Fill up fully and spray Your colors!
Your entry into this life feels, O Lord Venu Gopala Krishna,
Like the blue Krishna playing Holi in me, the black Yamuna.
With Your sweet voice O Venu, the senses get controlled O Gopala.
Getting dyed in Your color, attracted by You, Lord Krishna Murthy.
The mind wet in Your colors, O Lord; the colors tinting my soul;
Playing Holi with You alone; Lord Venu Gopala Krishna, I’ve become Yours[1].
Colours of the Spiritual Path
Unimaginable God
Sweet is His knowledge, His devotion and His service finally,
Everything related to Him is sweet, sweeter and sweetest,
Demon Shishupala after killed by Him said that even death
Given by Him was sweetest, if soul realizes all the problems
Coming from Him are also very sweet, the soul is sweetest!
Soul playing with other souls using colors is called as HOLI,
Lord playing with same souls using qualities is seen as HOLY,
HOLI and HOLY are same, for, colors represent the qualities,
Pink Love, blue Peace, yellow Divinity, mixed colors, so on,
Basic tricolored flag, white Sattvam, black Tamas and red Rajas,
With wheel, the cycle of deeds backed by the three qualities.
No person is blue, which is only pale black, mixed white-black,
Mixture of knowledge and devotion, former controls Devotion
To save Pravrutti especially in Lord to avoid misuse by others,
Lifting hill filters 99%, 1% like Ravana not hindering filtration[2].
Block of black Gopikas are firm in devotion, firmness is Tamas,
They became firm in right decision taken after several births,
Passing through sharp knowledge debates, white sages turned to
Black Gopikas in last birth, black only gives the final Divine fruit.
More black the devotee, faster the fruit, more the God pleased.
Block of black demons differ from Gopikas, as they were never white,
Past, present and future black only, never white knowledge analysis,
Their firmness in wrong decision only due to their ego and jealousy,
Firmness of right conclusion is devotion, same of wrong is devilish.
Demon’s psychology – Unimaginable is not any specific item as God,
Unimaginable is only adjective of power, denotes position or chair,
Such power is omnipotence, anybody omnipotent becomes the God,
Penance is path to become God, anyone eligible is in the post of God.
Exhibition of self is devilish omnipotence,omniscience is exhibition of
Love for the entire humanity to lead it to goal, the real Divine sacrifice,
God always exhibits omniscience and always hides His omnipotence,
Former is the knowledge miracle and latter is a physical miracle only.
Exhibition of omnipotence has negative side effects on humanity,
Devotees become more selfish to exploit it for personal problems,
It develops self not sacrifice, even the human being – component
Becomes egoistic gradually by constant praise that he is the God,
The other component, God, of human incarnation gets the blame!
Veda says that God is recognized by omniscience only, omnipotence
Becomes secondary, exhibited wherever a genuine need is existing,
Gita for omniscience is saving entire humanity till creation stands,
Govardhana lifted for omnipotence saved few for few days only.
Even Krishna, pale black, could not run from garden to village though
Love-tsunami exists, since black diluted by white, for the Pravrutti,
Pure black Gopika ran from village to garden, no analysis afterwards,
Several white births were over, last birth is firm black decision only,
Devotee not to imitate God in every aspect, God is the special case
Standing ideal for others, who quote and follow Him in every step.
Shiva, black Tamas, destroys entire world, firm devotion to God also
Destroys all worldly bonds, Tamas is the climax of emotional power.
Black hole generates galaxies of stars, it also dissolves all of them,
Background is knowledge, Shiva is said to be the form of Vishnu[3]
Vishnu, white Sattvam maintains entire world, worldly bonds exist
During the stage of knowledge – discussion, scholars not practical,
Only preparing list of items to be purchased from shop, no money
Or theoretical devotion, not going to shop, no practical devotion.
Knowledge and devotion only exist, knowledge given by Shankara,
Devotion in two steps, theoretical of Ramanuja termed as Bhakti,
Practical of Madhva called as Prapatti or practical implementation,
Ramanuja and Madhva are treated as two branches of devotion.
Shiva, black Tamas, is always worshipped by same black demons,
Difference is – Shiva became white, demons remained black only,
Devotion should not be blind like fast runner in wrong direction,
Even a walker in right direction will certainly reach the right goal.
Vishnu, white Sattvam, always worshipped by white angels only,
Standing in white knowledge always has no pragmatic direction,
White Vishnu became black, scholar should become devotee,
Angels always defeated by demons in practical fight for this.
Devotion is greater than knowledge and its vice-versa also is true,
Shiva is husband of Vishnu or Mohini, Krishna is husband of Radha,
Radha is incarnation of Sage Durvasa, who is incarnation of Shiva,
Both Vishnu and Shiva or knowledge and devotion are always equal.
When devotion or force of emotion, Shiva, black Tamas, unites with
White knowledge or Sattvam, Vishnu, red Rajas or practice, Brahma,
Appears, the three colors or qualities in the background rotates soul
Through practical dynamic force in right path called as ‘karma chakra’.
God merges with the soul as human incarnation in this world itself
So that the individuality of the self or soul is maintained as it is.
Vice-versa is not true, God is called as ‘Datta’, since He gives
Himself to the devotee for his fame, He is bored with fame!
Wife of Shiva called Gowri, white, becomes equal to the Lord,
By occupying half of His body, this is fruit of white knowledge,
Same Gowri on becoming pure black devotion called ‘Kaali’,
Becomes His master by throwing Him under her Divine feet!
Equality or monism of God and soul is concept of human incarnation,
Which is gained by soul through knowledge and theoretical devotion,
Practical devotion by dualism between God and soul, the reverse fruit,
Makes white God Shiva as servant and the soul, black Kaali, the master.
If one aspires monism, equality with white God, lesser fruit is granted,
If one remains in the dualism as black servant, he becomes His master,
Demons won angels in fight by their black devotion to God, no doubt,
But, finally got destroyed by absence of white knowledge background,
Kaali won even God forever due to her white background as Gowri.
Rukmini, incarnation of Lakshmi, power of white Sattvam, Vishnu,
Stands at the feet of the Lord, being the white knowledge always,
Radha, incarnation of Shiva, black Tamas, stands in the Goloka,
Above the head of the Lord, dust of her feet falling on His head!
Sitting always in white knowledge is of no practical use for soul.
VIBGYOR, all colors are existing in white light, Sattvam or knowledge,
This means information of all spiritual concepts exist in knowledge.
Complete and correct knowledge generates the force of devotion,
Just like after the white day appears the black night by time interval.
Lord uplifted black Gopika, Radha, to highest position called as Goloka,
Lord suppressed black demon, Bali, to lowest world called as Paataala,
Former is Purnima, night with full moon, devotion with God alone,
Latter is Amaavaasya, full dark night, love for worldly bonds only,
The devotion of Bali was for ego, saying that he is donor to Him,
Ego is never tolerated by Him, jealousy may be for good progress.
Sage Vyasa, author of Brahmasutra, incarnation of Vishnu,
Or white knowledge became black called ‘Krishna Dwaipaayana’,
As white Vishnu became black, sage Narada, author of Bhaktisutra,
Black devotion, became white, both are the equal requirements.
Right conclusion of white knowledge is single bond with God alone,
Firm decision on this bond is black devotion with white background,
Wrong conclusion of the black knowledge is multiple worldly bonds,
This discrimination between God and world is the basis of Nivrutti.
Bond with God is above good and bad, as Veda and Gita state[4],
In Nivrutti, no multiplicity, only oneness that is bond with God,
Pravrutti is below it, multiplicity is in Pravrutti, good and bad,
Justice and injustice, seen in Pravrutti only, not in Nivrutti.
If one stands in Nivrutti, Pravrutti is not in the mind at all,
Only word of God is ultimate, Arjuna killed his grandfather
On the word of Lord, if same is done in Pravrutti, highest sin,
Since the advisor is not God but a wicked human being,
In Nivrutti, none or nothing is equal to God, not to speak of
More than greatest God, this is stated by both Veda and Gita[5].
One should vote for Nivrutti against Pravrutti, this is the essence,
But, one in millions and that too after millions of births only
One can attain Nivrutti, this is very very rare, very difficult path,
Quite natural, bigger is the bread if more is the flour, as said.
Nivrutti is not propagated by the Lord at all, in fact, He discourages,
Due to this, the path becomes very thorny, it is only wish of soul,
It is only started by soul, God is pleased if one follows Pravrutti,
Heaven awards are given, God comes only to establish Pravrutti.
If one wins the gold medal, it is best, only one gold medal exists,
Otherwise, everyone should pass with first class, many are they,
Everyone should get success in Pravrutti, the first class, He wishes so,
Not second or third class, at least failure should not be in any case.
In Pravrutti, good and bad or justice and injustice exist side by side,
Dualism exists here, in Nivrutti, only monism, the bond with God.
Passing with first or second or third class is good or justice, but
Failure is bad or injustice in Pravrutti, which should never happen.
Failure is path to hell, first class for heaven, second and third classes
For this earth as human and animal births, Pravrutti is mandatory,
Which is the behavior of one soul with other souls in this world,
One is an employee in the world office of God, following rules,
Nivrutti is personal bond with God to enter into His inner circle.
Pravrutti and Nivrutti are complementary to each other, not at all
Contradicting mutually, in fact, Pravrutti is the basic foundation,
Which is the plinth beam above the underground circle of pillars,
Pillars being invariable belief in existence of unimaginable God,
Based on faith on God only, Pravrutti and Nivrutti-castle exist.
At least, selection of good justice should be done in Pravrutti,
No harming or hurting any soul, unless the soul is to be punished,
Principles of Pravrutti extend into the journey of Nivrutti also,
Like the strength of the plinth beam is the strength of castle.
The river drowns stones coming in the path by its force of flow,
So also weak worldly bonds are overlooked by soul in Nivrutti.
If a strong bond like hill comes in the way, river has no force
To neglect it and over cross it, which is not small heap of stones.
The force of the flood of river is not equal to Tsunami of ocean.
The river does not waste time in fighting with the hill to overcome it,
It takes a curved way and passes on without any struggle with the hill,
In Pravrutti, it is sin, since cheating one bond for other bond is unjust,
For the sake of God, it is not sin, since God is above both good and bad,
Kundalini, the mind, wave of nervous energy, crosses all the hurdles
Represented as six whirlpools, worldly bonds, chakras, like serpent
By taking curved path to unite with God, yoga means the union.
Buddha left His wife, Yashodhara, in the midnight, chariot took Him
Silently without any sound, avoiding arguments with His best half,
Gopikas gave butter to Him secretly and danced with Him in midnight,
Avoiding clash with family members, this is justified in Nivrutti only.
Gita says that one should meet God maintaining perfect secrecy[6]
To save time by avoiding clashes with worldly bonds if unaltered.
It says that secrecy is the best way, not only for saving the time,
But also, not hurting the ignorant bonds, no clash for Pravrutti.
Foundation and castle do not enter into each other creating confusion,
Concepts of Pravrutti and Nivrutti should not be mixed with each other,
Selection of sincere wife against cheating prostitute is the Pravrutti,
Selection of the God against even the sincere wife is the Nivrutti.
After preaching spiritual knowledge for a long time to devotees,
Which is the stage of white knowledge, Sattvam, phase of Vishnu,
Datta Swami indicated the next phase of black devotion, Tamas,
By showing two miracles representing Shiva to Ajay and Phani.
One day, the scent of sacred ash or vibhuti was emitted highly
By Datta Swami, which crossed house and spread in whole street,
Ajay was absent and felt deeply pained for not having the luck,
To smell the Divine scent of Lord Shiva, next day what happened?
He was coming to house on bike feeling this pain, suddenly
A powerful whirlpool of Vibhuti materialized around his head,
Unable to drive bike, stands on the side, laughing loudly for
The Divine scent of Shiva, the next stage of firm devotion,
People on road were amazed thinking that Ajay is a mad man!
Phani saw the illuminating wave form of Shiva called as Linga
On the chest of Datta Swami at midnight of Shivaratri festival,
He touched it and was salvated from all the worldly bonds,
Shiva, black Tamas, firm devotion alone transforms the soul.
Narada defined devotion – It is unidirectional towards God
By which all practical activities are totally surrendered to Him,
Even slight deviation towards world makes devotee to vibrate
With agony like a fish out of water[7], Gita also says the same.[8]
Datta Swami adds – the cause of such devotion is knowledge,
Which is complete and correct, by sharp deep analysis clears
All doubts and shuts the mouths of all bad critics projecting
His non-blamable personality to which alone attraction comes
Called as theoretical devotion leading to the practical devotion
Awarding gold medal to soul in every practical test posed by Him.
Narada gave a wonderful simile for such defined devotion,
Which is very dangerous in Pravrutti dragging soul to hell,
But, if properly understood is exactly perfect in Nivrutti,
Devotion is like the force of an illegal lover, highly daring
To face any hurdle, if not solved by the tactful diversion,
The example of this simile was given as the case of Gopika[9].
King Bhoja in disguise saw one incident in his capital city,
A lady on hearing the voice of a crow ran into her house
With huge fear in the daytime, but, she in the midnight
Awoke and walks alone, crossing Narmada river bravely,
By throwing grains to sides to divert crocodiles in the way,
Meets her illegal lover on the other bank, returns to home
Silently before her family members awoke from the sleep.
Poet Bhoja composed a verse[10] describing fully this incident.
The concept of this verse helps more the definition of devotion,
Fearing for crow is fear for sin and hell in context of Pravrutti,
Which is the daytime observed by all, night is the secret time
Indicating Nivrutti in which soul is very brave to walk alone
And returning home early is to avoid clash and also not hurting
Other worldly bonds, avoiding crocodiles by grains is tactics
To cross hurdles, lover on other bank is God beyond these bonds.
Buddha is human incarnation of Vishnu and hence the Krishna,
Learnt this path from Gopikas, in the stage of firm devotion,
God is serving student and the devotee is preaching master,
The wounded swan pained Him, the fear for sin in Pravrutti,
He cuts all three strongest bonds with wife, son and wealth
In one stroke, leaving in midnight secretly not to hurt others.
Illegal stealing of money and sex, greater and great sins respectively,
Both mixed with violence, greatest sin, robbing and raping respectively,
Become multiplied sins, due to the mixing, for which this normal hell is
Insufficient to punish, special hells like the Raurava, Kumbhipaaka etc
Equipped with advanced instruments exist separately for mixed sins.
Gopikas gave butter-wealth to Krishna with high secrecy,
Similarly, secret collection of money in corruption is negated
In Pravrutti, the politicians and officials should stand as ideal
For the sake of rest normal public, it is also a multiple sin only,
The special hells are waiting to receive such multiple sinners.
Pravrutti, general rule is not broken by a rare exception, Nivrutti,
Hot burning sun becomes cool fruit for exceptional Hanuman only.
Best in this Kali age is to stop sin from today onwards and get all
The past sins cancelled, a rare opportunity given by God, now only.
Extension of Nivrutti – concept into the concepts of Pravrutti
Like extending case of human incarnation to every human being,
Creates confusion since Nivrutti is beyond justice and injustice,
Pravrutti is bound by both, if you miss the Nivrutti – Gold medal,
Get first class heaven or at least second class human birth here,
Never third class birth of animal, at any cost no failure for hell.
Let every soul fix basic foundation of faith in unimaginable God,
Let every soul stand on Pravrutti, plinth beam above foundation,
Let every soul try for heaven or at least for human birth here,
Let every soul avoid the animal-birth and never go to the hell,
Let every soul try for Nivrutti castle to succeed in it in some birth
So that this entire humanity becomes the innermost circle of God
Thereby converting this present Kali age into that Kruta age directly
Avoiding hell, special hells and the interim horrible final destruction
[1]A play on words has been used here in the original Hindi poem. “होली(Holi)” is the festival of colors. But “हो ली (ho li)”, with the two syllables separated, means “I have become”.
[2]Ninety nine percent of human beings can be filtered by the test of lifting the hill. It is not a 100% filtration since 1% like Ravana lifting the hill stands as the least hurdle for total filtration. In such case, knowledge as test can be brought into picture to avoid that 1% also, which results in 100% filtration.
[3]“Shiva rupaya Vishnave…”—Scripture.
[4]“Punya paape vidhuyaa…samyamupaiti”—Veda; “Maamekam sharanam vraja…”—Gita.
[5]“Natat samashchaa bhyadhikashcha…”—Veda; “Ekabhaktirvishishyate…”—Gita.
[6]“Atmaanam rahasi sthitah”; “Rahasyamhyetaduttamam”—Gita.
[7] “Tadarpitaakhilaachaarataa tatvismarane parama vyaakulateti”—Narada Bhakti Sutra.
[8] “Bhaktyaatvananyayaa…”—Gita.
[9] “Jaaravatcha, yathaa vraja gopikanaam”—Narada Bhakti Sutras.
[10] “Divaa kaakarutaat bhitaa, ratrau tarati narmadaam, tatra santijale graahaah, marmajnaa saiva sundari”—Poet Bhoja.