01 Oct 2025
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God
(Many local devotees have attended this Satsanga given by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami)
Health is the real wealth. The essence of the ancient science of ‘Ayurveda’ is that a healthy person attains longevity in life and this longevity must be utilised in the service of God to please God and earn His grace so that the soul is protected here while alive as well as in the upper worlds after death. God’s grace is important not only to attain salvation in spiritual life (Nivrutti), but also to attain materialistic prosperity in worldly life (Pravrutti). God is called as ‘Bhoga Moksha Prada’ meaning the giver of both materialistic prosperity that helps the worldly life (bhoga) and permanent salvation from all the worldly bonds and worldly fascinations (moksha). But, God approaches us in the same way as we approach Him (Ye yathā mām… - Gita). God gives us practical fruits for practical sacrifice and theoretical fruits for theoretical sacrifice. If we sacrifice prayers and sweet songs for the sake of God, God also blesses us with sweet voice. If we meditate on God with focused intelligence in revealing spiritual knowledge, God also blesses us with a sharper intellect. In case a devotee does practical sacrifice of wealth and practical service to God, God will also bless that devotee with immense practical fruits necessary for worldly life as well as spiritual life whenever the devotee is in need. To earn the practical grace of God, practical service and sacrifice are inevitable. Hence, a strong mind in a strong body is essential for every human being to make special efforts to attain the grace of God for worldly life as well as spiritual life.
The biggest threat to our body is diabetes, which is the result of increased sugar levels in our blood. Diabetes is not a particular disease, but the root cause of all diseases. Diabetes weakens every organ and every single cell in the body, causing the major negative effect of weakness or tiredness and resulting in the damage of all vital systems of the body. Diabetes affects nearly every organ because high blood sugar damages blood vessels and nerves throughout the body, leading to poor oxygen supply and impaired function of tissues and organs. The best way to control this dangerous diabetes is by eating brown rice in meals. White rice is highly dangerous because it gets digested quickly and the resulting glucose gets released into the blood stream at once causing a high spike in blood sugar. But, brown rice contains an outer layer of fibre due to which its digestion happens very slowly. Due to slow digestion, glucose also gets released into the blood slowly. Since we keep doing some little activity throughout the day, this slow release of glucose gets consumed immediately resulting in no increase of the sugar level. This outer layer of fibre contains B-complex vitamins that are essential for numerous body functions and to avoid weakness that is a by-product of the disease of diabetes. Leaving this natural B-complex given by God, we are foolishly buying the tablets of B-complex from medical pharmacies! Unlike white rice, we cannot eat more brown rice at once in a single meal resulting in controlled intake of food.
Controlling the quantity of food controls the weight of the body giving good health. Moreover, the taste of brown rice is much better than white rice. A person, who starts enjoying the taste and flavour of brown rice, cannot go back to white rice. Therefore, the first step to protect ourselves from diabetes is by taking brown rice. The second step is to walk for 30 minutes after every meal. Walking helps to control the sudden spike of glucose levels just after the meal. The third step is to keep moving the two legs, two hands, head, neck, chest and stomach (total eight limbs or parts of body and their movement is called Ashtaanga Vyaayaama that can be done even while sitting or lying) throughout the day whenever possible. Even while sitting at work, you can move all of your limbs or parts of the body as much as possible. Movement of the body consumes glucose thereby reducing the blood sugar levels. These three steps will give your body complete protection from diabetes, which is the biggest danger to the health of your body.
1. One devotee, who came from Malaysia, asked about diseases based on allergy.
Swami replied:- The biggest threat to your mind is allergy (phobia), which is a psychological feeling of hatred towards something or somebody. If you don’t like something or somebody, you will develop allergy towards that something or somebody. Therefore, one must not hate anything or anybody since God has created everything and everybody. This hatred or allergy is the source of all diseases based on allergy.
Some people don’t like excreta and they also don’t like the pigs that eat human excreta. I want to tell them that even the delicious curd that you eat every day is the excreta of bacteria, which are more insignificant creatures than even pigs, not to speak of human beings! The bacteria drink the milk and excrete the curd. If their excreta is thick, you get thick curd. If they are affected by loose motions, you get loose curd. Therefore, do not develop hatred towards anything or anybody in this world and protect your mind from the biggest threat of allergy. If allergy is absent, all diseases based on allergy will disappear. Body and mind are related to each other. Both body and mind are generated and developed from the essence of food only. You may not love somebody or some substance in the creation, but at least don’t hate that person or that substance. If you develop this quality perfectly, all diseases based on allergy will not touch you. Hence, regarding body, you take care of avoiding white rice and regarding mind, you take care of avoiding hatred or allergy towards any substance or towards any living being.
2. The devotee from Malaysia further asked about the inner consciousness.
Swami replied:- The inner consciousness is the divine cell phone given to you to talk with God. Then, what is the mobile number of God so that you can phone to God? The mobile number is any prayer to God. In order to connect with God by the inner consciousness – cell phone, first you must be peaceful. Otherwise, if the atmosphere is disturbed, you will be out of network coverage area. This is the first condition that is required to connect with God. Some people think that by getting perfect mental peace, they can connect to God automatically. This is wrong. You must phone to the specific phone number of God. The specific phone number is a sincere prayer to God in your own mother tongue. By getting mere peace, you cannot connect with God. By getting mere peace, you can connect to yourself. In such case, the answers are given by yourself in the phone. It is just like that sometimes, you hear the echo of your own voice through the phone. Some ignorant people think that they are God and do not pray God to get answers for their questions. In such case, your own ideas are heard by you through your consciousness and not the ideas from God. If you learn this technology, you need not ask your doubt to anybody else. Your inner consciousness is very close to God. But, unless you dial His number, He will not respond to you.
Sometimes you may think that the God, who answered you, is yourself, in which case you are following the monism of Shankara, which is misunderstood by most of the people. Shankara used this technique of monism to bring the atheist into spiritual-devotional path. He told the atheist that he (atheist) is God. Then, Shankara told that he (the atheist) exists. Finally, Shankara told that the atheist is existing means that God is existing. For this good purpose, Shankara used this arthavaada technique (which means telling a lie for good meritorious purpose). Without understanding this background, people thought that Shankara told that every soul is God and mistook their own voice through consciousness as the voice of God.
You can hear the voice of God only when you become extremely peaceful and when you do a sincere devotional prayer to God requesting Him to speak through your consciousness. However, if you are confused that whether you heard your own voice or God’s voice, then, you go to Sadguru, who is the contemporary human incarnation of God. You will get the correct answer from the Sadguru, which is the voice of God. Sometimes, even if you hear the voice of God, your ego and your fascination towards the sin will not allow you to think that you heard the voice of God through your pure consciousness. In such case, you will neglect the voice of God coming through your consciousness and follow your own sinful path liked by you. Duryodhana was advised not only by God through his consciousness, but also was advised through Sadguru Krishna. Similarly, Ravana was advised not only by God through his consciousness, but also was advised through Sadguru Hanuman. In both these cases, both God and Sadguru were not heard due to their highly concentrated demonic nature of Rajas and Tamas.
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