Posted on: 05 May 2018
Mr. Mathew asked: Hello. Nice to talk to you. I found some of the Swami's responses on Quora. I have few questions, and it will be helpful if these will be BRIEFLY answered. Detailed explanations are not needed.
Swami Replied: You shall not put the condition that I shall be brief in My answer without detailed explanation. Sometimes, brief answers will mislead and do not represent the truth from all sides. Generally, I will follow the briefness as far as possible because I also don’t like to waste My time in unnecessary things. Spiritual concepts guide the soul in all the present and future births and hence, are very very important. Wherever detailed explanation is essential, I shall give it. Otherwise, I will be misrepresented and My concepts get twisted. Kindly excuse Me wherever detailed explanation is given and I request you to read it fully taking intervals of time, if necessary.
1) Why do you have positive thoughts on Islam?
Answer: I have positive thoughts on any religion except atheism. Once, God is accepted, any religion is towards God only and hence, must be positive only.
2) Some Hindus tried to prove that Muhammad was devil according to hindu scriptures, since a devil named 'Mahmata' or something similar existed. Perhaps have you come across with on this? What's your opinion on this?
Answer: Even if you see the sub-religions of Hinduism, such nonsense exists. A sub-religion says that Shankara is a demon wandering on the earth propagating atheism by saying that every human being is God and that there is no separate God (Kaaladiigraamajo...). The conservatism with ego and jealousy is common everywhere.
3) You love all the major religions and consider them as truth, however you look to be more a Hindu? Why? You have pictured yourself as Krishna, and as a Swami too. Although they are totally different figures, they still belong to Indian beliefs. Aren't two Indian figures a lot?
Answer: I am born in Hinduism just like any one is born in some religion. I never claimed that I am Krishna or Swami. Various devotees following My spiritual knowledge might have some experiences and called Me so. Datta Swami is also the name given to Me by a devotee only. Seeing the exceptional knowledge that is coming out from Me, I claimed to be the incarnation of God in the sense that God merges with a selected human being as His medium and speaks through that medium. Incarnation means that God is speaking through the medium and not that the medium is God or medium is speaking like God. My statement means that I am not speaking whereas God is speaking through Me. All the merits of My knowledge are from God only and if any defect exists anywhere, it is from Me. I hope that there is no defect in My knowledge since God has charged and took over Me. In fact, it is the will of God to preach this excellent spiritual knowledge through Me and it is not My will at all. When God appeared before Me and asked Me to propagate the excellent spiritual knowledge, I denied the offer made by God by saying that God can select better souls for propagation of knowledge than Myself. But, God said that the best spiritual knowledge will come through Me only and insisted for the propagation of this best spiritual knowledge. He, as energetic form, merged in Me in the time of sunset and throughout the night My body was emitting huge heat. He showed some miracles through Me to My devotees. The main point is that I (imaginable soul) did not become God (unimaginable) since My power is imaginable and very little. Actually, God became Myself due to His unimaginable power. This is not My will and I sincerely opposed it for a long time since I felt that I am not competent to do this wonderful spiritual program. I told God that I am the incarnation of all bad qualities and that I don’t deserve for this work. I told Him that there are several saints and scholars, who are incarnations of all good qualities and that they deserve this work. God replied that He likes only one good quality that is sacrifice and dislikes only one bad quality that is selfishness. He told Me that I am like a hut with all defects, but with one good scent that is sacrifice for the sake of other souls. He told Me that all other saints and scholars are like beautiful palaces with the bad odour that is selfishness. He told Me that for this reason, He wanted to merge with Me and do the program. I accepted His proposal on realizing that the actual doer of this work is only God and not Myself. He is the speaker and I am the inert mike. When I say that I am the incarnation of God, it only only only means that God is speaking this excellent spiritual knowledge through Me and this is projection of God. If I don’t say that I am the incarnation of God, it will mean that I am speaking this excellent spiritual knowledge and this will be My projection which is totally false. Hence, you please take the sense in which I made this statement.
i) God becomes the medium through perfect monism for the sake of a very few climax devotees, who invited Him to come down in human form to clarify their doubts (perfect monism of Shankara). ii) Same God will be basically different from the soul, but monism exists because God and soul are inseparable. Electricity is a stream of electrons and wire is a chain of metallic crystals. Both are basically different. But, the electrified wire gives the shock of electricity. Similarly, God (unimaginable) and soul (imaginable) are basically different. But, monism between two exists since God and soul are not isolated from each other and the soul speaks the spiritual knowledge of God. This state is for devotees having some ego and some jealousy towards co-human form (monism due to inseparable dualism of Ramanuja). iii) God and soul are always totally different from each other and this state relates to devotees having extreme ego and jealousy towards a co-human form (perfect dualism of Madhva). You can take Me in one of these three states, whichever is congenial to you because God exists in all these three states simultaneously to different devotees due to His unimaginable power or omnipotence.
4) Have you ever considered Judaism? Perchance another portrait of yourself representing Moses?
Answer: You can have your opinion as per your experience about Me. These concepts are very much important in these days to bring world peace.
5) Are Guru Nanak, Swaminaryan, Bahaullah, Mirza Ghulam, and Mormon as divine incarnations too? I regard Swaminaryan as a liar, who tried to corrupt vaishnavism. Thanks for your time. Take care your holiness. By Mathew
Answer: You must explain to Me about your basis of your comment on that Swami. Different incarnations of God have come in different situations to tackle the different problems. Since we are now in a different atmosphere, we can’t understand the behavior of the incarnation congenial to that atmosphere, in which the incarnation existed. Situations change and accordingly incarnations change. It is not good to use harsh words like ‘liar’ towards an incarnation without properly understanding the atmosphere surrounding that incarnation and the context of His statement.
Shri Bhargav D B asked: To Get the divine blessing of Datta:
6) Shree Datta Sharanam mama!!! Hello sir, My self devotee of datta read about shri datta swami in speaking tree blogs. Please let me know how to get the divine blessings from swami. Thanks. By Bhargav D B
Answer from Swami: Involve in the service of propagation of knowledge given by God Datta.
7) How can I repay back. Regards, Hrushikesh
[Dear Sir, Please share the below lines with Swami. I have felt eternal bliss for sometime after reading his knowledge. I wanted to express the gratitude towards Swami. Swami I can't express my gratitude to you in words. I think nobody in this creation can reciprocate the love that you show. No words,actions and songs are sufficient to describe your love. Why do you express so much love towards us Swami! Your are more than a mother to the child. You have created this beautiful earth. How can you create such amazing planet with Beautiful landscapes, Tasty food, beautiful feelings and what not. You bless us with blissful knowledge that gives eternal happiness.
How can you give us everything but don't expect anything back from us? You want us to live in peace and harmony. You ask this only this not for your selfish desire but for our own good.
Swami Swami Swami How can I thank you for giving this sinner the opportunity. In this world of more than 7.5 Billion people. You have chosen me to give me this beautiful knowledge. What else could be a better gift for me than this? How stupid I am to ask you for anything more? Forgive me for my greed in life. Can any lender give 100 million dollar to a rickshaw puller like me? I request you not to sanction anything I ask for. Because I don't deserve anything more. You have given me the 100 million dollar loan in the form of knowledge, facilities and life.]
Answer: - I read whatever you have written here. Your feelings are having the flavor of divinity based on gratefulness to be expressed to God in every minute of human life.
[Shri Balaji asked: Namaste Swamiji, Kindly clarify the following points raised by my friends Shri Chandan Kumar and Shri Shriram on the topic on conversion on the basis of money. Sincerely, Balaji]
8) Is conversion for the sake of money really useful spiritually? The poor person's concentration is mainly in solving his current economic problem. Further, the person converting might abuse the poor person's beliefs and form of God, and pressurize the poor person to leave his existing way of worship.
Swami replied:- Real love is proved only in money and this is the truth in the worldly domain also. The Gita makes lot of stress again and again on the sacrifice of fruit of work or Karma phala tyaaga. The Veda says that sacrifice of money alone proves the real devotion. The Yogavaashistha also says the same. We should not hesitate in projecting the naked truth fearing that somebody will misunderstand us. We shall not alter the basic truth. Rich and poor are not differentiated because the sacrifice of percentage of total possessed is the criterion in giving value and not the magnitude of the sacrifice. The practical philosophy is important than theoretical devotion. Rich shall donate to the poor without analyzing deservingness as emergent justice. The poor need not be discouraged in this setup since poor is benefitted by the donation from rich. You can’t alter the practical truth. You can alter the theoretical concepts that side and this side. Rising of Sun on East can’t be altered based on likes and dislikes.
A poor person is also doing the sacrifice of fruit of work (karmaphalatyaga) to his issues in his own level of earned money or wealth. Hence, you cannot restrict this concept to rich people only. In fact, greediness increases as the wealth increases. Hence, Jesus told that even a camel may pass through the eye of the needle, but a rich man can’t get salvation. When all the devotees were sacrificing money for God in a Church, a poor widow sacrificed just one coin whereas several other rich people sacrificed coins in hundreds and thousands. Jesus told that the poor widow is the highest donor to God! Hence, the magnitude of the sacrificed wealth is not at all the criterion whereas the percentage of the sacrificed money in the total possessed wealth is the criterion. The poor lady has one coin only and she sacrificed that resulting in 100% sacrifice whereas, the sacrificed money by rich people is not even 1%. Lord Krishna also blessed Kuchela with infinite wealth since that poor person gave a handful parched rice brought from neighbor as loan. When he was returning, Lord did not give a single paisa to him to test whether the sacrifice was done with an aspiration for any fruit in return or not. Both these examples show that God honored only the poorest soul and not a rich person. The attitude to sacrifice is proportional to theoretical attitude, which is nothing but digested spiritual knowledge and not possessed spiritual knowledge or possessed wealth. One eats a lot but digests very little of it. One eats very little and digests it fully. Both these examples apply to east and west respectively. The reason for poverty in our country is due to more possessed knowledge and least digested knowledge, which alone results in practical sacrifice. The fruit of any sacrifice to God must be only to please God and not to aspire even the grace of God. One rupee of a poor person earning 10 rupees is equal to 10 rupees of a rich person earning 100 rupees.
9) Many western countries are many times richer than India. You have said that God values the proportion of charity compared to earnings rather than the actual amount given. Even if Indians increase their proportion of charity compared to earnings by a few times to help other poor people, India can never catch up with donations given by western countries for the sake of religious conversions since they are many times richer. What is the solution in this case?
Swami replied:- The solution is not based on quantitative considerations in the practical sacrifice. The attitude is most important, which is the mother of practice. The defect in the level of attitude itself is the root problem. Intelligence is strong in India. Mind and heart are strong in west. I am speaking about the general nature of majority and not about some minor exceptions in both East and West. West shall learn the analysis of spiritual knowledge from East and East shall learn the practical philosophy from West.
10) Before the British rule, India had an excellent system of food, medicine, education and employment which was destroyed by the British rule. This is documented in the works of freedom fighter Shri Dharampalji who compiled this from British records itself. The current situation of chaos such as poverty in India even after so many years is the result of British rule. What is the solution for these problems?
Swami replied:- We must see always at the root. Nothing will happen without God’s will. We must rectify our defects without blaming the intermediate agent provoked by God. If we change our attitude towards the importance of practical philosophy than go on spending whole life in theoretical analysis only, God’s grace will come on us and we will be on the top of materialistic development also. Search for our defect is the most important than searching defects in even enemies. Nobody can spoil anybody without the notice of God. Division becomes more intensive when we are based on intelligence alone without considering the heart. Such lack of unity was responsible for others to invade and rule us.
Shri Kartik asked:-
11) The marriage function (Kalyaanam) of Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy has taken place in our house. How shall we view it? Shall I take it as the union of unimaginable God with His unimaginable power to create this creation?
Swami replied:- You can’t take unimaginable God and His unimaginable power as separate items because any number of unimaginable items result in one unimaginable item only. You can take the qualified God or mediated God or Eshwara as the groom and the subtle energy (space) created by unimaginable God as the bride. The mediated God with whom the unimaginable God merged totally creates further items of the world with the help of this subtle energy or Mula Prakruti. A more important internal meaning of this is to understand this marriage function as the formation of bond between God and soul. Soul is prakruti (para or awareness with aparaa or body) and it is treated as female and wife of purusha or God. The Veda says that even male souls are females and wives of God only (Striyah sateeh pumsah...). If you feel that you have become the wife or Bhaaryaa (means maintained soul) on this day for God or Bhartaa (means maintainer) and the marriage function is the formation of such bond between you and God, it is more useful for the soul, by which the male ego is destroyed. The negligent view about females also disappears. You become a total surrendered chaste wife to God and God will take all your responsibilities from that day onwards.
12) Is a demon scolding God always reaches God since he remembers God always?
Swami replied:- Certainly, the demon reaches God in the next birth also since he was always thinking about God. But, he comes in contact with God in the same way, which is scolding Him with enmity. The case of Jaya and Vijaya is different, which has a special background. When both were cursed by sages, God asked them whether they will reach Him in three births as enemies or in seven births as devotees. God is testing them for their true devotion. They told that they can’t stay separated from God for seven births and want to reach Him quickly in three births. This proved their true devotion. They became demons, scolded God for three births and reached God as devotees again. The other demons, who scold God, don’t have this special background and hence, will not become devotees of God in the end of any birth. They will certainly reach God, but, remain as enemies of God only forever.
Shri Kishor Ram asked:
13) We are seeing recently the horrible rape cases and government tightening the punishments more. What is the solution for this crime?
Swami replied:-Any crime or sin is done by a human being with one point only. In the time of doing crime or sin, the human being thinks that he/she can escape the punishment since he/she is doing it secretly without the notice of anybody. In fact, several sinners are escaping the punishments also here as per this point. Ofcourse, they can’t escape omnipotent God. Several other sinners are escaping the punishments here by taking the help of corruption, talent of advocates etc. The solution lies on this point only. If every human being feels that the punishment for the sin is inevitable since the sinner can’t escape the observation of unimaginable God, who gives punishments through unimaginable ways, the sin is controlled in the root itself. Another important promoting factor of sin is the wrong propagation of priests that sin can be destroyed by the worship of God. This is totally wrong and the priests have propagated this wrong concept to earn money through the worships. The worship, if genuine, may give some good fruits separately but will not cancel the punishment of any sin. The scripture says that enjoyment of fruit of a good or bad deed is inevitable (avashyamanubhoktavyam). If a student got gold medal, but was arrested by police for a theft, will the police be convinced if the student says that his arrest can be cancelled since he is prepared to forego the gold medal? The police will say the student to take the gold medal in the convocation and come back to the jail! Hence, both these factors (i) Lack of faith in the existence of unimaginable God, who punishes the sin through unimaginable ways and ii) The worship of God will not cancel the punishment of any sin) are very important in controlling the sin and shall be well propagated, which shall be also stressed in the education system from the childhood. If this concept is digested by every human being in this world, no sin will take place by itself and then, there is no use of police, courts etc. The spiritual knowledge is totally missing in education system and the Government is concentrating on materialistic education only. The spiritual knowledge is reduced to a tiny department (philosophy) only in which hardly half a dozen students exist! The spiritual knowledge must be a compulsory subject in every class in every educational institution so that every citizen must build resistance towards sin. Ancient kings gave lot of importance to spiritual knowledge with this view only and conducted their administration in very easy way. The Government will fail utterly in controlling any sin through expanding and strengthening the controlling systems like police, courts etc., without taking care about the development of spiritual knowledge through formal and informal education lines. The inbuilt idea that nothing will happen if the sin is not caught here by the controlling departments, must vanish by the powerful spiritual knowledge, which alone is the rectification.
If you see the statistics, males involved in raping females are heard much than females raping men. What is the reason for this difference? A male has always some basic ego and courage. A female relatively has lesser ego and more fear. Ego makes the soul to do the sin without fearing for God and the punishment of sin. A male should always think that he is not only a female but also the wife before God as said in the Veda (striyah satiih…). The sages surrendered to God Rama, but God asked them to take birth as females in the next birth, in which only salvation was given. Shri Paramahamsa wore the dress of a lady for one month in Brundavanam feeling Himself as Gopika before Lord Krishna and this was an important spiritual effort to suppress the ego of the male soul.
14) I was talking with Shri Phani and came to know about the tests of God Datta. Can you please give the main background of these tests?
Swami Replied:-In the educational system, every class has a final test in the end of the year. Even during the year, quarterly and half-yearly tests exist. While applying for EAMCET coaching, you will see which institute is conducting more tests like monthly, weekly and even daily tests. All this means that the education or knowledge is full with pattern of tests. God Datta’s main portfolio is spiritual knowledge, which is the specifically selected portfolio by the prime minister. Other portfolios are given to other cabinet ministers, who are also working under the supervision of the prime minister only. Hence, Datta became famous for tests due to His specific portfolio.
The background of these tests conducted by God Datta is only one specific point, which is that the preacher (God Datta) wants to show the actual step in which a soul is exactly situated, which is thinking that it is in the higher step. In EAMCET tests also, the main aim is to show the strength of a student in each subject. A student may be thinking that he is very good in chemistry. But, the three tests show that he is weak in chemistry whereas he is strong in mathematics and physics (or biology for a medical student). The tests alarm the student to concentrate more on chemistry and not to have overconfidence in that subject. Hence, the tests indicate the actual position of the student in each subject so that he/she can concentrate more in that subject specifically in which he/she is weak. This is for helping the student only and not to insult, mock and discourage the student through low marks achieved by the student in a specific subject. The aim is not towards negative side, but only towards positive and constructive side.
You need not feel that you are unnecessarily tortured by the tests. Each test is based on the punishment of your sin existing in your future cycle of deeds and fruits. Even if you fail in the test, the torture of the test need not be considered as an extra pain unnecessarily taken by you. If you succeed in the test, it is good since it shows your spiritual progress. If you fail in the test, even then, you are not in loss in any way. Your future punishment is dragged forward with reduced value and got exhausted by this test. Kartaviirya came to God Datta with his defective hands. God Datta thrown him away by beating him with His leg. Both the defective hands of Kartaviirya were cut and fell away. Kartaviirya told that His beating is only the grace shown by Him and served Him with his head. He was blessed with thousand strong hands. Even if Kartaviirya fails in this test by leaving God Datta with anger, there is no loss to him because in the same time he has to fall from the top floor of his palace and should lose both the hands. Hence, even in failure of the test, the soul is not put to any extra loss. Without understanding this background, souls scold God Datta as the sadist putting severe tests by which a soul should unnecessarily undergo the torture of a test.
The quarterly examination is the test of Brahma Datta. In this, you pray for 10 rupees from God. He will keep silent without answering your prayer. 90% will leave God thinking that the useless God shall be left. The remaining 10%, who passed the test will not leave God even in the absence of answer for the prayers. This passed out 10% goes to half-yearly examination, which is the test of Vishnu Datta. When you pray Him for 10 rupees, He will not give you the 10 rupees. Instead, He snatches 10 rupees from your pocket. 90% of the 10% will leave God since the effect is reverse causing loss for asking profit! The remaining 10% of the total 10%, which means only one devotee goes to the final examination, the test of Rudra or Shiva Datta. The remaining one devotee does not leave the God even if his 10 rupees are snatched by God. Still, he maintains the devotion to God. In this final test, Rudra makes the devotee to weep terribly through the horrible violence created by Him (Rudra means He, Who makes others to weep (Rodayati iti Rudrah)). If this one student passes out the final test also, God Datta gives Himself to you (Datta means giving) and you become the incarnation of God Datta in which God Datta gave Himself to you and became yourself.
Hence, the tests should not be taken in negative sense and you should not run away from God Datta. Ignorant people say that God Datta breaks the worldly bonds (Dattam Chhinnam). This is also a wrong interpretation. Datta is the divine nectar tasted by you. Worldly bonds are coffee that was taken by you every day so far. After tasting the divine nectar, spontaneously you don’t like to take the coffee. Will you scold the divine nectar as the cutter of coffee? In the same way, you are scolding Datta as cutter of worldly bonds! Dropping of coffee and cutting of worldly bonds are spontaneous processes, which are not done by any force.
15) What is the difference between happiness obtained through worldly affairs and the bliss attained from spiritual side?
Swami Replied:-The qualitative difference is that the happiness from worldly affairs is not eternal and also not very high in quantity also. The bliss you get from spiritual knowledge is eternal and also very high in quantity. The eternality of happiness is the bliss. The word ‘Aananda’ or bliss means continuous happiness and not higher quantitative happiness since the prefix ‘Aa’ or ‘Aanj’ means continuity of the time and not higher quantity. The little higher quantity in the bliss is not of very much significant because a human soul can’t withstand the power of happiness beyond a certain limit. Hence, the little quantitative difference is not of much importance. But, the qualitative difference is significant because the worldly happiness is often broken by worldly miseries whereas the bliss from spiritual knowledge always exists without any break. In such case, why kind divine Father did not make us to be in the eternal spiritual bliss only avoiding these worldly affairs, which generally give mainly miseries only. God has created these worldly miseries, which will touch you as intervals in the continuous spiritual bliss so that you are not bored with continuous bliss. If you know the art of yoga, which is enjoyment of worldly miseries also like the hot dishes during eating continuous sweet dishes, you will have continuous bliss (because the enjoyment of sweet and hot dishes is one and the same and continuous also) without boredom since the enjoyment is also changing alternatively by bliss and miseries without continuous bliss or continuous misery. Hence, you will understand the unimaginable affection of God towards the created souls by Him for which, you will become grateful to Him with tears. By such alternative arrangement of miseries and bliss, the life cycle of each soul becomes continuous enjoyment provided every soul learns the talent of yoga from God Datta. Yoga means equality in the enjoyment of miseries and bliss and not the equality of misery and bliss (samatvam yoga uchyate – Gita). Even if the soul is not spiritual and is unable to get bliss from spiritual knowledge, in the place of bliss, worldly affairs giving happiness can be fit. By this analysis, you must have understood that there is no much difference between extreme happiness and bliss. In such case, why shall we concentrate for bliss without satisfying ourselves with the worldly happiness?
Happiness or bliss shall not be the goal of a soul truly devoted to God. Aspiring happiness or bliss in the service of God is also selfishness only. In the service of God, your aim shall be the happiness or bliss of God and not your happiness or bliss. You must behave in such a way that God is pleased and is always happy with you. If you are not doing any sin, God is happy with you. If you are doing good deeds in addition to this, God is more happy or blissful with you. Hence, aspiring for bliss of self is not the ultimate stage. Aspiration of the bliss of God shall be the ultimate stage of aspiration of a spiritual devotee. In such divine service of God, even if miseries come, you must enjoy those miseries through the concept of yoga. Irrespective of misery or happiness that is gained in the way of divine service, you have to concentrate on the way in which God is always pleased with you. This is the ultimate spiritual stage and not attaining self-bliss. When sage Narada asked Gopikas to give their feet-dust as a medicine for the headache of Lord Krishna, they immediately gave it. Then Narada told them that by such act they will go to hell. Gopikas replied that they are prepared to go to hell if their feet-dust cures the headache of Krishna and thereby if Krishna becomes happy!
Ms. Purnima asked:
16) All of us are planning to start a school in Hyderabad for children to preach the real spiritual knowledge given by God Datta through You. What is your advice to us?
Swami Replied: -The true spiritual knowledge spoken by God Datta through Me is related to a minority of the devotees, which is scattered throughout the world like gems. The majority of the devotees is related to false spiritual knowledge, which is abundant in every place. i) The true spiritual knowledge means that you should have the correct direction in the theory, which on transforming into practical service and sacrifice shall have the single aim to please the God only and not to aspire even the grace from God, not to speak of aspiring selfish worldly fruits. ii) The false spiritual knowledge means that you can have the practical worldly fruits from God through exchange with practical service and sacrifice. iii) The worst spiritual knowledge means that you can aspire for practical worldly fruits in exchange with just theoretical devotion like prayers, songs, meditation etc. The true spiritual knowledge is called as issue devotion, in which you are doing practical service and sacrifice to issues without aspiration for any fruit in return. The false spiritual knowledge is called as business devotion, in which you are exchanging your practical devotion with practical boons from God like a customer in sales business. The worst spiritual knowledge is called as prostitution devotion, in which you are trying to exchange your theoretical devotion with the practical boons from God like a prostitute trying to grab money from a person by showing just theoretical love through sweet words and songs.
If you want to run the institution for true spiritual knowledge, a localized area is unfit at present because the aspirants of issue devotion are very rare and are scattered in the world like valuable gems. Hence, for the true spiritual knowledge, a localized institution will fail. If you start your institution with false and worst spiritual knowledge, you can start institution in any area you like, which will flourish tremendously. In such false and worst institution started for children, you have to preach that God will practically help your education and career if you practically serve Him (false). If you want more rush in the admissions, you have to start worst institution, in which you have to preach the children that God will help you in your education and career if you recite the following prayers every day. You can start false and worst institutions to any category of students (young and old also) by preaching that God will grant their practical boons for practical sacrifice or for theoretical prayers. You can start a number of institutions in one localized area itself since every human being irrespective of age, caste, gender, religion is terribly interested in fulfilling the selfish desires using the miraculous powers of God! In such false and worst institutions, you can add astrology also as a side branch, which predicts your future and offers some worships and prayers for nullifying the punishments of your sins. Such courses in such institutions are highly professional courses because after studying these courses, one can earn a lot like an engineer or doctor or auditor.
The best institution for the true spiritual knowledge is informal spiritual knowledge meant for a very few gems in each category. There may be one or two in children, there may be one or two in youth and there may be one or two in the older generation. You can have six to ten students only in a localized area for a true spiritual institution. If you spread the institution to the entire world like distant education program through sending published material, you can have some sufficient number of students throughout the world. Of course, our aim is that all the people shall be transformed into gems and become the students of this true institution, which takes very long time for materialization, when only, you can have several localized true institutions. The Gita speaks about the extreme minority in such a real spiritual institution, which is that one of millions tries to know God in real sense and one of such seekers knows God really (kaschit maam vetti tattvatah).