22 Jun 2025
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God
[Satsanga was attended by devotees in large number. Some flashes of the spiritual knowledge radiated from His Holiness Shri Datta Swami are given below:-]
1. We must analyze our Hindu religion deeply and rectify our faults. Without rectifying our own faults, we don’t get the power to advise others. We must see the traces of our faults as huge hills and we must see our hill sized merits as small traces. But, everybody is doing reverse of this. Everyone sees his/her own traces of merits as hills and sees his/her own hill sized defects as small traces. Unless this nature is reversed, nobody can achieve spiritual progress in their life. We must see the traces of merits of other religions as hills and we must see the hills of defects of other religions as traces. Every religion and every individual in each religion must follow this advice. Then only, every individual and every religion will become purified and the peace in this world can be established forever.
2. Let us not bother about other religions whether they take this advice or not. Let us follow this advice and let us purify ourselves. If you say that you did not purify yourself since others did not purify themselves, God will say that you shall be punished in the hell along with others. Hence, this path of escapism is useless and you are not saved at all.
3. Let us not find faults with other religions. If we find our faults and rectify, others will also find their own faults and rectify themselves. If we find faults with others without rectifying ourselves, they will also find faults with us without rectifying themselves. This means that whatever you do, others will repeat the same. A cap-seller slept under a tree keeping the bunch of caps with him, which are to be sold. By the time the seller awoke, some monkeys from the top of the tree came down and took away all the caps. Every monkey was wearing a cap since the seller was also wearing a cap. The seller requested the monkeys for a long time and no monkey responded to his requests positively. Then, the seller, being very much vexed, took out his cap and threw it on the floor. Immediately, all the monkeys threw down their caps on the ground. The seller collected all the caps and went away. You must understand from this story that whatever you want others to do, you must do the same so that others will simply copy your action.
4. You may think that even though we analyze and rectify our faults, others may not do the same. Then also, we are benefited and others are in loss. When we rectify our faults, we get the grace of God. If others do not rectify themselves, God will be furious on them. Therefore, the best advice is that we should not point out defects in others or scold others for their defects without rectifying our defects.
5. Let us frankly identify our defects. Identification of the problem itself is said to be 50% success because if the exact problem is identified, its solution can be easily found out and on implementing it, the problem is solved. Before doing such analysis, we must eradicate our inherent ego completely. Then only, identification of the defect and subsequent solution is possible. If the ego remains as it is, one cannot even identify his/her defect because the ego opposes you to identify and accept your defect. The difference in the sub-religions of Hinduism (a micro model) reflects in the religions of the world (macro model) leading to lack of unity among Hindus and among the public of the world respectively. Shankara tried to bring unity of sub-religions in Hinduism for peace, whereas Swami Vivekananda tried to bring unity in the religions of the world for the sake of world peace. This defect of lack of unity can be rectified by identifying that the same unimaginable God got mediated in different forms (dresses) in various sub-religions of Hinduism and in various religions of the world writing different scriptures for different religions following different basic cultures in different languages maintaining the fundamental unity of God to be worshipped, heaven as reward for good deeds and hell as punishment for bad deeds. Even in Hinduism, there is fundamental unity among the three Vedantic Philosophers - Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva if their commentaries are deeply analysed (For details, we have to refer the website:- www.universal-spirituality.org).
6. The Veda says that God is one doing all the three divine works (creation, maintenance and destruction of the world). If you see God Datta, He is one personality only with three faces of Brahma doing creation, Vishnu doing maintenance and Shiva doing destruction. This Vedic definition for God is not applicable to any form of God. It does not mean that other forms of God are not divine because they are the incarnations of God Datta only. Parabrahman or Unimaginable God is the ultimate, but, cannot be meditated upon. For the sake of meditation of souls, Parabrahman created an energetic medium called Datta with which Parabrahman perfectly merged. After merge, Datta became God Datta, the first energetic incarnation of God or Parabrahman mediated with energetic medium. There is no trace of difference between Parabrahman and God Datta. Parabrahman is invisible and unimaginable like a naked person taking bath in the bathroom. God Datta is the same Parabrahman (naked person) dressed with energetic medium (cloth). This God Datta is called as ‘Father of Heaven’ in other religions. Hence, the divine form of every religion is the incarnation of God Datta (the Father of heaven) only. This will help the universal religion or universal spirituality that preaches that one shall follow his/her own religion without finding faults with the form of God of any religion. If one criticizes the divine form of any other religion, he/she is indirectly criticizing the divine form of God of his/her religion.
7. Hindus are in the sleeping state regarding the emergent problem of neglecting the spiritual line. The background reason is that Hindus always think that the soul is born again, dies again and will be born again by entering the womb of mother (Punarapi jananam, punarapi maraṇam, punarapi jananī jaṭhare śayanam - AdiShankara). People assume that the soul is born again and again in human form only so that the human lifecycles are continuously repeated. Hence, every Hindu thinks that the spiritual efforts can be put leisurely in some future human birth. My dear Hindu friend! In the above reference, the soul is said to take birth again and again, but, it is not told that the soul will take the human birth again and again. The soul will be born as an animal or a bird or an insect or a worm. In such births, the soul has no opportunity to put any spiritual effort. Moreover, it is very clearly told that human re-birth is very very difficult to attain. This means that the human re-birth is almost impossible (Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhamidam…, Manuṣyatvam… durlabham…). Very very difficult means almost impossible. Hindus think that even if they fail the examination in March, the supplementary examination in September and March will come again and again to write the examination again and again. The misunderstanding of the concept is responsible for this tragedy. Why did the scripture say that it is ‘very very difficult’ instead of telling it as ‘impossible’? The reason is that it is not completely impossible since God has the special power to sanction human re-birth in the case of a very very deserving devotee. Such a special sanction is very very rare and we are certainly not in such very very rare devotees. Therefore, in our case, getting the human rebirth is impossible. Moreover, why should we take such very very rare risk?
If we see the religions like Islam and Christianity, their scriptures do not speak about such very very rare case at all. They say that it is impossible to get human re-birth in the case of any soul. This resulted in wonderful benefit for the devotees by encouraging them to put sincere spiritual efforts in this human birth only. They are very very careful about the spiritual line without a trace of negligence and developed a lot of sincerity and faith in God. We must accept our defect and follow the merit present in other religions. By this, you should not feel depressed to think that we are defective everywhere and other religions are meritorious everywhere. We have several merits and others have several corresponding defects. Hence, others should not become proud and we should not be discouraged. Similarly, others also need to rectify their defects taking our merits as lessons. If they conquer their ego, they will also be benefited to great extent.
8. Let Me point out some other defects in our religion for our own benefit:-
a) In the beginning of Kali age, our Hindu Preachers started reciting the Vedic scriptures blindly without knowing the meaning. If a science or engineering student blindly recites the text book without understanding any meaning, will he/she be selected in the interview? A blind reciter of the Veda can be called as ‘Veda Paathaka’ (reciting the Veda like a tape recorder) and can’t be called as ‘Veda Pandita’ (a scholar of Vedic knowledge). In the ancient days, there was inevitable need of such blind recitation to preserve the Vedic text because there was no writing or printing technology. Now, the Veda is perfectly printed and millions of copies are distributed across the world. Hence, there is no necessity of such blind recitation now. Instead of wasting time in blind recitation like a tape recorder, it is better for the student to learn the Sanskrit language and other helping scriptures like grammar, logic etc., so that the meaning of the Veda can be studied by the student. The word ‘Veda’ itself means knowledge and not mere words without knowing their meaning. The Priest can recite the Veda from a printed text book so that he can explain the literal meaning and the implied internal meaning at length. In other religions, scriptures are read like that only and everybody understands the scripture since it is explained in their mother tongue. Neither is Sanskrit language is our mother tongue nor does a Hindu know the Sanskrit language. Either the Priest must explain the scripture or every Hindu must learn the Sanskrit language or at least the Vedic text must be correctly translated into all local languages. I prefer the second option because everybody can directly understand the scripture present in Sanskrit language since the Priest may misunderstand and twist the meaning. Such advantage is present with every member of other religions as well.
b) The caste system is to be established on the right basis. God Krishna clearly told in the Gita that the caste system is based on qualities and subsequent deeds and it is not based on birth (Guṇakarma vibhāgaśaḥ…).
c) Upanayanam is the ritual of putting a cross belt on the child and initiating him to chant a Vedic hymn present in the meter called Gayatrii. It is clearly told that the deity is Savitaa, who is the Creator or God Brahma (Gāyatrī chandaḥ, savitā devatā). Hence, the entire process of this ritual is completely wrong. Gayatrii means the process of protection from God pleased by the sweet song of the devotee in the praise of God. Even a cinema song diverted to God can become the topmost devotional song. This is not confined to any religion or region or caste or gender. Every soul has the right to undergo this ritual and the right to sing songs in his/her own mother tongue on any form of God of any religion. Thus, Gayatrii and Upanayam are universal, which are discovered by Sage Vishwamitra. The meaning of this word ‘Vishwamitra’ is that he is an universal friend.
d) Similarly, our priests say that the word ‘Upavaasa’ means fasting without taking the food. Actually, Upavaasa means living close to God through spiritual discussions, singing devotional song etc. By such immersion in closeness with God, if taking food is naturally forgotten, that is called Upavaasa. Hence, Upavaasa does not mean forgoing food forcibly. Similarly, the word ‘Jaagaranam’ does not mean forgoing sleep forcibly. When you are immersed in the subject of God, if sleep is naturally forgotten, that is Jaagaranam.
e) Since the Kali age started, the blind Vedic reciters developed these foolish ignorant practices confined to caste and gender since they were unable to study the Vedic knowledge with perfect analysis. Even though the Veda clearly says that no food shall be destroyed (Annaṃ na paricakṣīta…), they started burning the most precious ghee-food in the physical fire, which must be donated to poor people to develop their mental and physical strength. The sacrifice (Yajna) means to feed the participants in Vedic seminars with food associated with ghee. The food associated with ghee can be called as ‘ghee’ just like the seller associated with apples is called as ‘O apples’ (Ajahat Lakshanaa or the implied sense). The first type of fire is the physical fire lit by sticks called as Bhautikaagni or Laukikaagni. The second type of fire is the physical fire lit by electricity called as Vaidyutaagni. Bhautikaagni or Vaidyutaagni are the instruments to help the sacrifice (Yajna saadhanam) because ghee-associated-food can be cooked by this type of physical fire only. The third type of fire is the hunger fire present in the stomach of a hungry person called as ‘Devataagni’ (divine fire) or ‘Vaishvaanaraagni’. The Gita says that God is this Vaishvaanaraagni to be worshipped. The possessor of this Vaishvaanaraagni is called by the name ‘Vaishvaanaraagni’ based on the above said implied sense. The Veda says that a hungry guest is called as this Vaishvaanaraagni (Vaiśvānaraḥ praviśatyatithiḥ brāhmaṇo gṛhān). Finally, this means that in Yajna or sacrifice, a hungry guest called Vaishvaanara fire shall be worshipped with the ghee-associated-food. Our ignorant priests have mistaken Vaishvaanara fire as physical fire and mistaken the ghee-associated-food as ghee and even now, they are burning the precious ghee by pouring it into physical fire! The first hymn of the first Rugveda says that fire is both the receiver (Havaniiya) of ghee (ghee-food) and also the supplier (Hotaa) of the ghee (ghee-food). If you take the inert fire as the meaning of the word ‘fire’ (Agni), it is not correct because fire being inert can only receive the ghee supplied by some alive being, but cannot supply the ghee to itself! Hence, we should take the meaning of the word ‘fire’ as an alive hungry person, who supplies the ghee-food to his mouth with his hand and the same ghee-food is finally received by the hunger fire in his stomach (himself). If this first hymn of the first Veda is perfectly understood, the sacrifice or Yajna will be perfectly understood. Since this is misunderstood by our alive tape recorders (priests), everything got spoiled.
f) These ignorant priests have denied Upanayanam, Gayatrii and Yajna to lower castes by birth and females of all castes by birth. In fact, females are singing sweet songs on God while they perform worships to God (Vratams). Females cook the food and feed hungry people. Upanayanam, Gayatrii and Yajna are really with females only and not with men. Men denied these to females and they were denied by these rituals due to the divine administration of God! Hinduism lost unity everywhere from all sides and became very weak due to these splits.
g) Priests must preach the public that cancellation of sin is based only on one way, which is i) Realization of the sin done, ii) Repentance of the sin done and iii) Non-repetition of the sin in the future. By this procedure of reformation, God will cancel all the pending punishments of that particular type of sin done by the soul. If all types of sins are to be cancelled, all types of sins shall not be repeated in the future. Except this one way, there is no other path to cancel sins. Mere realization and repentance without non-repetition of sin is absolutely useless. The Priests shall not teach that any sin can be cancelled by the worship of God with a selfish intention in the background that the worship is to be done by them to cancel any sin by which the priest has hidden intention that they can earn money through the worship.
h) Miracles are done by God only for atheists to make them believe in the existence of unimaginable God (the source of unimaginable events called miracles). Theists do not require miracles. Theists must follow Jnaana Yoga (study the spiritual knowledge), Bhakti Yoga (developing theoretical inspiring devotion on God) and finally Karma Yoga (giving proof for the theoretical devotion) by doing practical service and practical sacrifice of fruit of hard work. Karma Yoga alone gives the divine fruit, but, other two are also essential. Karma Yoga is the mango plant that yields the mango fruit, whereas Jnaana Yoga is the water without which the plant dies and Bhakti Yoga is the manure without which the plant will not grow into a tree to give fruit.
i) God Krishna stealing butter and dancing with married cowherd ladies (Gopikas) are interpreted by our ignorant scholars as the divine sports (liilas) of God. Actually, Gopikas were the sages since millions of births doing penance to unite with God after attaining salvation (liberation) from all the worldly bonds. The three strongest worldly bonds (Eshanaatrayam) are bonds with wealth, issues and spouse. These three bonds can be condensed into two bonds:- a) Joint bond of wealth and issues since the earned wealth is always given to issues only, b) Bond with spouse. The first bond is tested by God Krishna by stealing the butter (wealth) preserved for the sake of the children of Gopikas. Almost all Gopikas complained seriously to the mother of Krishna. The biggest shock here is that all Gopikas know that Krishna is God!! (Sage Narada also told this point in his book called ‘Bhakti Sūtram’ – Tatrāpi na māhātmya jñāna vismṛtyapavādaḥ) The second bond is tested by God Krishna by dancing with the married Gopikas to test their strength of love towards their spouses. All these three bonds were tested in competition with bond with God. Hence, God Krishna conducted the tests of the three strongest worldly bonds and only 12 Gopikas passed in the joint bond test. In the spouse-bond test, all Gopikas passed. Only 12 Gopikas reached the Goloka, which is higher than the highest abode of God (Brahmaloka). Hence, the Bhagavatam is a test for the spiritual knowledge (Vidyaa) of spiritual scholars (Vidyāvatāṃ bhāgavate parīkṣā). It is not the appreciation of stealing and illegal sex, which are sins.
j) Every festival is meant for developing the devotion to God. On every festival, simple food must be taken so that your mind and body will be active without drowsiness to participate in the devotion actively. Such occasional devotion is expected to develop devotion on every day. In functions like marriage etc., also, you must give the special food to beggars and not to relatives and friends, who have sufficient food to eat. By this, God will be very much pleased. You must save the life of the poorest beggars by giving food, shelter, cloth and medicine by building beggar homes in the name of God. Once all the poorest beggars are completely served, then only you must proceed your services to poorer and poor sections of the society. By this, God is extremely pleased. This responsibility must be taken by rich individuals and all the trusts of temples etc. It is shame on the part of humanity if any soul dies with hunger. This is the basic emergent service, which is in the top priority in the eyes of God.
k) You must not ask anything from God since He is omniscient. God exactly knows what to give you, what not to give you, when to give you and how much to give you. If you are asking anything, you are insulting His omniscience. If God is unable to know your requirement, can He be omnipotent to sanction your requirement? Omniscience and omnipotency of God always interlinked. God must be worshipped due to your attraction towards the divine personality of God and not for fulfilling your worldly desires by exploiting the omnipotence of God for the sake of your worldly benefits using your talented soaping technology in the name of theoretical devotion by prayers and songs, which is called ‘Prostitution Devotion’. Even if you practically offer some service and sacrifice to God aspiring some practical boons, it is ‘Business Devotion’ only. The best type of devotion is to do practical service and sacrifice (Karma Yoga) based on your inherent love for God without expecting any fruit in return like parents offering their service and sacrifice of wealth through will to their children and this is called ‘Issue Devotion’. The unimaginable climax of the devotion is ‘Fan Devotion’ of the fan towards his favourite cinema hero or political leader without aspiring any benefit in return. The fan himself/herself spends his/her own money for the functions of the hero. On hearing the demise of the hero, the fan commits suicide while the family members of the hero burn or bury the dead body of the hero and start quarrelling for the properties of hero. A devotee must at least reach to the level of ‘Issue Devotion’ by keeping himself/herself in the place of parents and placing God Datta in the place of their child. But, the devotees are very clever and reverse the position by keeping God Datta in the place of parents so that they can be benefitted from God even though they are faulty!
l) By the order of God Datta, I have finished the preparation of spiritual knowledge-food, which is presented in detail through our spiritual website – www.universal-spirituality.org. Now, God Datta orders you all to cater this food throughout the world so that sub-religions of Hinduism, followed by religions of the world get united to establish the world peace forever. If you do this work, I assuredly tell all of you that you will get the eternal grace of God Datta.
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