Posted on: 29 Dec 2023
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[Certain flash concepts radiated from Shri Datta Swami from 24/12/2023]
1) When a Hindu can find unity in hundred forms of God recognizing the underlying unmediated-unimaginable God called Parabrahman, why don’t you extend the same concept to other half a dozen forms of the world-religions of same God? You have already established universal spirituality by uniting sub-religions like Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shakteya etc., are you incapable of uniting Shiva, Vishnu, Shakti etc., with the forms of God of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc., in the world? You are already thorough with the process of the union of various forms of God in Hinduism. Apply the same process of union, which was adopted by Shankara. A Hindu must be the first person to be enrolled for universal spirituality. If any devotee does not follow the universal spirituality, which is the gate pass to enter the world of God Datta or Father of Heaven, such devotee is condemned from the spiritual field and by this, you can understand the importance of the concept of Universal Spirituality.
2) The concept of contemporary human incarnation is the most important practical aspect of spiritual knowledge. The devotee who is convinced with the concept of contemporary human incarnation is very very near to the attainment of God. To become close to the contemporary human incarnation, true love must be dedicated, and true love is always proved by practical devotion only. This concept applies not only in the case of God but also in the case of any worldly matter. You may go on describing the beauty of your wife through several poems every day, she will be bored by your theoretical love and will ask you to bring flowers for atleast one rupee on one day. Hence, it is a universally proved fact that mere theoretical devotion without the proof of any practical devotion is useless and such love is false only. The Scriptures also say that the sacrifice of practical wealth confirms true love. All parents are sacrificing their wealth to their issues and by this, we can say that parents have true love on their issues. Issues are alive human beings. Therefore, if you want to prove your true love on God, you must sacrifice to the human form of God. Even if you sacrifice to statues in temples, your sacrificed amount is taken by alive human beings only like the priest or the management. You offer food to the statue and eat the entire food yourself, and this is most convenient to any devotee. If you offer the food to the contemporary human incarnation, It will eat away the food, which is highly inconvenient to you. If you put a jewel in the neck of the statue, you can take it back the very next day but if you put the jewel in the neck of the contemporary human incarnation, It will not give back the jewel to you and this is a heavy financial loss to you. Based on this spiritual economics, the very concept of contemporary human incarnation is refused by the majority of human beings. The highest wonder is that the same human majority reads the Ramayanam, the Bharatam and the Bhagavatam with highest devotion in which only the contemporary human incarnation is projected. Hanuman is the incarnation of God Shiva and Gopikas are sages who did penance for millions of births. Hence, the devotees are the best. They worshiped the contemporary human incarnations called Rama and Krishna who are said to be the highest (Purna and Paripurna) incarnations. The fruits obtained by the devotees are the highest Brahma Loka and Goloka respectively. Is humanity not foolish and mad rejecting the concept of the contemporary human incarnation on one side and worshiping the Ramayanam, the Bharatam and the Bhagavatam as the most holy spiritual books? Every devotee recites the Bhagavad Gita every day in which the contemporary human incarnation, the Son of Vasudeva speaks in every verse that He is God. They worship the Gita and refuse the contemporary human incarnation in their practical life. It is like worshipping Nandi in the temple and beating the bull with a stick outside.
3) God has provided the facility of His direct worship through the contemporary human incarnation. Assume that you are a human being living in the time of Krishna. If you want to worship God directly, you must go to Dwaraka and worship Krishna directly. If you are unable to do that due to ego-based jealousy and repulsion between common human media, then, there are several temples in Dwaraka. Go to a temple and worship the statue of God you like and this is indirect worship. The former is called as Saakshaat Upaasanam, which is directly worshipping God. The latter is Pratiika Upaasanam, which is indirectly worshipping God, because God is not in statues. In the line of direct worship, you should not extend the concept everywhere, thinking that since God exists in a human being like Krishna, God also must exist in every human being, and think that you are also God. This will give some temporary satisfaction for your ego-based jealousy, but it is not true.
4) God created this world for His entertainment. God is the producer, director and hero of this world-cinema. We hate the villain in the cinema to the highest extent because we are trapped by the illusion of the cinema. The producer-cum-director God does not hate the villain and pays the renumeration facilities like powers to the villain. As strong as the villain is, so famous becomes the hero. Hence, the hero (God) Himself gives many powers to the villain so that the hero becomes most famous. The topmost scholar of spiritual knowledge will always say finally that this is the entertaining drama (Lilaa) of God. This is the highest angle of spiritual knowledge.
5) You should not make a generalization by seeing Shishupala scolding God Krishna and attaining salvation by merging with Krishna straight in presence of all that one can reach God by scolding as an enemy. Shishupala is a split personality. As an actor he is Jaya, the gate keeper of God and the highest devotee to God. As a role only, he is enemy to God. You cannot equate Kamsa with Shishupala. Kamsa is a demon as actor as well as role. Kamsa is a single homogeneous personality and is the strongest enemy of God in and out. Therefore, it will be dangerously misleading to think that one can reach God even as enemy taking the special examples like Shishupala, Ravana etc.
6) The importance of Guru Dakshina lies in expressing your real internal stuff. You go to a cinema by purchasing a ticket, which shows your real interest on the cinema. Even if some scholar is giving a lecture on the Bhagavatam without any ticket, you neglect to go there, which shows your lack of real interest on that divine lecture. If you take meal in a choultry (dharmasala), you will not enjoy the taste of meal since it is given free. If you take meal in a hotel by paying a lot, you will eat it very carefully and enjoy the taste throughout eating. If you purchase an item from the market by paying a huge amount, you will keep it very carefully with high attention. If the same item is presented to you as a free gift, you will not bother about it so much. Therefore, Guru Dakshina is emphasized when you go to the Sadguru to learn spiritual knowledge. When Rama approached sage Vashishta to learn spiritual knowledge, sage Vashishta asked Rama to pay first Guru Dakshina (Dhanamārjaya kākutstha…).
7) Faith must be always followed by firm determination, especially when the initial stage of jnaana yoga is over. Since jnaana yoga is completed, the faith will not be wrong. If the jnana yoga is not completed, the faith may be wrong. Wrong faith associated by firm determination will lead to failure. The determination of Rama always led to success because Rama used to take the decision after jnaana yoga (learning the knowledge from Sadguru) and hence, His faith regarding a decision is always correct. Now, if the determination is associated with this faith, the journey is in the right direction resulting in success. If you take Ravana in the place of Rama, his jnana yoga (learning from a great Sadguru called Shukraacaarya) was not correct because his ego diverted the direction. Now, the determination associated with his decision led him in a wrong direction resulting in his failure. Therefore, the decision or faith shall be taken only after completing jnana yoga and completely suppressing ego and then only firm determination must be associated with the faith, which will certainly give the success in the correct path. You might have taken the correct decision. But if your firm determination is absent, there is no use of your faith, which is never implemented. Once you take the correct decision, the firm determination to implement it must also exist so that you can attain the complete good fruit in your favour.
8) God Brahma stands for preaching the true spiritual knowledge because He is the author of the Vedas and Goddess Saraswati stays on His tongue. God Vishnu stands for devotion or true love, who has created Goloka for the Gopikas above His own abode. God Brahma represents jnaana yoga and God Vishnu represents bhakti yoga. The third final stage is karma yoga or practical devotion. The knowledge (jnaana yoga) is transformed into practice (karma yoga) through the inspiration called devotion (bhakti yoga). In implementing the theory into practice, a lot of firmness or rigidity or determination is needed, which is the quality of tamas. God Shiva represents tamas and without His grace, you cannot get this quality of determination in the end that alone can give you the fruit. You need not worry about any false direction in the path because you have already completed jnaana yoga, which already gave you the right direction. This means, when you have reached the final stage (karma yoga) in the spiritual path, you must not get foolish doubts due to the influence of other normal worldly people. If you don’t have determination, you will be influenced by the other worldly people and get doubts so that you will leave the path in the final stage just before you are going to receive the fruit. Hence, firmness is very important. Shankara left the house and His old mother with firmness for the sake of God. Prahlada opposed his father with firmness for the sake of God. Buddha left His wife, His only one son and the kingdom for the sake of God. In all these cases, you can find that firm determination alone helped them in the final stage to reach God.
To be continued...