[O Radha! Again, I am explaining the exact path to please God. This is very very important for spiritual aspirants. The path to achieve the goal is predominant among the three parts of ‘Tripuṭi’, which means the traveler, the path to be travelled and the goal to be achieved.]

[The main goal of sādhanā is to reduce egoism and jealousy, which prevent the complete recognition of human incarnations. Sādhanā actually means the analysis of the knowledge (Vicāra) by discriminative mind (Sadasad Viveka). It means that only by the boat of knowledge, can one cross this ocean of ignorance (Sarvaṃ jñānaplavenavia...). The true and complete knowledge given by the Sadguru (human incarnation of God) alone can give the final determination, which alone leads to practice and since practice alone pleases the Lord, knowledge (Jñāna Yoga) is considered to be the main part of the effort. Every devoted soul must realize that this worldly illusion (Māyā) will be running before the soul, like its shadow, so that the soul always fails to capture it. If the soul turns to opposite side towards Sun (since God and world are opposite), the same shadow will run after the soul like a pet dog. If one gets depression or fear or tension in the life at any time, that indicates his/her lack of faith in God. If you are a devotee of God, you shall always be brave, happy and fully contented. Many say that they are devotees of God on one side and on the other side, they fear and get depressed! Both these are mutually contradicting like light and darkness. The Veda says that a person limiting himself/herself by selfishness (meaning the person thinks that he/she alone exists without God by his/her side) alone fears due to lack of faith in the existence and dearness to God (Atha tasya bhayaṃ bhavati). A person having full faith in God always feels that he/she is the king/queen of this world (Āpnoti svārājyam… Veda).]

[When the unimaginable God merges with a human being, He appears like any other human being, externally. Eating, drinking, sleeping, disease, etc., are common to the human media. So, other human beings experience repulsion towards Him seeing this. Due to the repulsion, they fail to recognize the human incarnation of God like Me. This repulsion of the common medium is nothing but ego and jealousy. Every human being has an ego and hence, feels jealous of any other fellow-human being possessing more merits. No human being can tolerate the greatness of another human being. Hence, they cannot tolerate the greatest God, who mediates in human form. Although every soul is inherently defective with ego-based jealousy, the kindest God promises that His devotee will never fall (Na Me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati…- Gita). Although it is not inherently possible for a soul to conquer ego and jealousy, it is possible for God to protect the soul from those two dangers. A real devotee shall always sacrifice the doer-ship to God and retain only the enjoyer-ship of the fruit of bliss. If a devotee of God gets depression in life, which may have any reason, such depression is to be treated as an insult to the omnipotent power of God. A real devotee, who proved his/her devotion practically, shall neither fear in this world nor in the upper world. God promised His protection to such devotee in this world (kṣema) and in the upper world (yoga) also (Yoga kṣemaṃ vahāmyaham…- Gita).]

[This problem of common media repulsion is not only limited to human beings on earth, but it equally applies in the case of energetic beings in the upper worlds (Pratyakṣa dviṣaḥ— Veda). Every energetic being (angel) experiences this repulsion of the common medium for other energetic beings, including the energetic incarnations of God like Viṣṇu, Śiva etc. Even Indra, an important angel came under the grip of this repulsion for God Śiva, the energetic incarnation of God and tried to kill God Śiva with his weapon! When God Śiva glanced at Indra once, he became like a statue unable to move and realized the omnipotence of God Śiva. Therefore, this problem of common media repulsion exists everywhere. Even though this is the rule of majority, exceptional rule of minority also exists. The devotees of innermost circle of God like Ādi Śeṣa, Garuḍa, Nandi, Nārada, etc., are exceptional to this rule of common media repulsion. Hence, till the climax of Nivrutti devotion is reached, the nearness to God is not good for an ordinary devotee. The Veda says that if you are near to something, you will hate it and if you are far from the same thing, your love to it increases more and more (Parokṣa priyāḥ…pratyakṣa dviṣaḥ). However, if you are in the climax of devotion, this rule does not apply since the climax will neither go up nor will come down.]

[Nandi is bull, Swan and Garuḍa are birds, Śeṣa is a serpent. Deity of justice is cow. The Vedas are dogs. These are topmost devotees of God and not condemned souls thrown into animal lives. These devotees are topmost intellectuals and deliberately turned themselves into animal forms because they don’t want to be in the same level of God, who is mediated in human form. They decided to avoid this common media repulsion this way, but they take human form whenever they want. One should learn from these devotees that one should always put himself/herself in the lowest position to avoid ego and jealousy. Even when these climax devotees come down to earth, they don’t prefer to be in the level of their contemporary human incarnation of God. Hanuman is not the foolish monkey jumping on trees that is seen today by us. Hanuman is a human being with slightly projected mouth, retaining the tail in the process of evolution. Ādi Śeṣa is a lean and tall human being, very furious and always hissing with high emotion. The several heads in these two cases indicate the multi-talented intellectual brain capacities. Garuḍa and Haṃsa are human beings with long nose having rich capacity in walking with high and long jumps. All these are human devotees with slight deformations in the faces establishing the concept that real beauty is only the internal devotion to God and not facial features. Good qualities constitute internal beauty that is far better than external physical beauty. Among good qualities, the best quality is selfless devotion to God. Such devotion shall be taken as the climax of beauty.]

[Every human being wants to be born beautiful. Everybody also tries to become more and more beautiful as far as possible with the help of cosmetics. In such a situation, these climax devotees prayed God to be born without beauty so that they want to become inferior before the beauty of God! By this, these devotees wish to be servants forever and wish their God to be the master in every angle. These devotees do not want to be equal to God in any aspect. Their devotion to God is mind blowing! The lesson that we shall learn from this is that one must see any human being as beautiful by its excellent devotion to God and not due to physical beauty or other worldly good qualities. When the first four qualities (kāma, krodha, lobha and moha) attack the soul, the consciousness recognizes their birth and their subsequent growth. But, when ego and jealousy are born and grow subsequently, the consciousness fails to recognize their birth and growth. These two develop in the soul unconsciously. Even the final result caused by these two (ego and jealousy) does not bring awareness in the consciousness. This means that there is no recognition of even the damage done by ego and jealousy. Hence, especially in spiritual field, these two are like two black venomous cobras that kill the soul forever.]

[If one becomes fully aware of these two ghosts and take sufficient care in every minute of one’s life, his/her success in spiritual life to get the grace of God is very very easy and does not take much time. Since this care is not taken by human devotees, salvation and getting the grace of God are not achieved even for millions of births. Even after considerable progress in spiritual line, even a great spiritual soul is suddenly falling down due to the sudden attack of these two black cobras, called ego and jealousy. Added to this problem of ego and jealousy, there is another wonderful problem of greediness! The spiritual path necessarily involves the soul serving and sacrificing practically to the climax-extent to the mediated God, who is hidden in an ordinary medium of a human being. While serving and sacrificing, the soul must be free of the aspiration for any fruit in return! Who can do such selfless service and sacrifice? Commonly, in the eyes of the worldly society, any devotee doing such selfless service and sacrifice to God is said to be the biggest fool (Prayojanamanuddiśya...)! Through logical analysis and quoting scriptures, we can help the people, who are not recognizing the human form of God due to their ego-based jealousy. But, we cannot help those, who recognize the human form of God, but, pretend not to recognize the human form of God to avoid practical service and sacrifice to the human form of God. In order to escape from financial loss in worshipping contemporary human incarnation, devotees select formless God for their meditation!]

[Majority of devotees, being the embodiments of greediness, reject the concept of contemporary human incarnation and worship statues only. They believe the energetic incarnations and past human incarnations represented by inert statues and photos, which do not eat when food is offered to God so that after offering, the devotees can enjoy the full food. If it is the case of the contemporary human incarnation, it will eat the offered food! By worshipping inert statues, the greedy devotee feels satisfied that he has offered food to God every day and at the same time, the total offered food is saved for self-enjoyment. This is not possible in the case of the contemporary human incarnation, which eats the offered food! This is the hidden reason and they say outside that they are not accepting the human form of God due to logical analysis, but, the hidden real reason is greediness! Even the Veda says (Dhanena tyāgenaike…) that the sacrifice of wealth alone is the path to reach God. I give a better statement by saying that sacrifice of fruit of work is the only path because the wealth earned by hard work is better than wealth acquired from ancestors. The soul is more bonded to its hard-earned wealth than ancestral wealth.]

Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]

[When Identification of the contemporary human incarnation and selfless service to Him is the total essence of the entire spiritual knowledge, what is the reason behind establishing statue worship? O Contemporary Human Incarnation of Datta! Swami (Lord)! There is no knower of spiritual knowledge other than You.]

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[Temples and statues are necessary for low level people as said in the śāstra (Pratimā svalpa buddhīnām). Greedy people are the lowest level—devotees. It is a teaching model for a school student. But for a college or university student, it is not necessary. It is called as Pratīka (model). The Veda tells us to meditate upon the Sun assuming Sun is the Lord. The Sun is not actually the Lord. The Lord is not in the Sun either. The Sun-god is only a servant of the Lord. All these points are told in the Veda (Ādityaṃ Brahmeti, Nedaṃ tat, Bhīṣodeti sūryaḥ). The Veda says that the Lord is not in the statues (Na tasya pratimā…). The Veda also says that no inert object and no human being is the Lord because the object or the human being is only an item in creation (Neti, Neti). God comes only in the human form (Mānuṣīṃ tanumāśritam- Gita). The statue, which is in the human form is a model to teach the concept that Lord comes only in human form to preach the divine knowledge in every human generation, to avoid the partiality to a particular human generation (Yadā Yadā hi…- Gita). Once a devotee has understood this concept, the temple and statue are not necessary for the devotee. But, the temples and statues should still be protected and respected as models of divine knowledge for the future ignorant devotees.]

[There are four stages in the worship of God. The first stage is worship of the formless God. Actually, the formless God is only the formless power of God, which pervades all over the creation to run the divine administration. The light of the Sun is formless, but not the Sun. Thus, formless worship is an approach to God by worshipping His power, which is actually not the possessor of the power. The Veda says that Brahman is the possessor of the power and not the formless power (Brahma Pucchaṃ pratiṣṭhā). This kind of worship is most convenient to any soul and greedy people prefer to worship formless God because there is no trace of service or sacrifice involved in this worship. In the second stage, the possessor of the power is worshipped indirectly through idols and pictures. It is very difficult to worship the formless power of the Lord (Avyaktā hi gatir duḥkham…- Gita) because a form is required for the concentration of mind. Thus, idol worship is a higher and better step. The statues, which are only representative models of energetic incarnations and the past human incarnations, are worshipped by the beginners, who are not ripened to conquer ego and jealousy to worship contemporary human incarnations of God. Although the idol is only a representative model of God and is inert, idol worship trains the devotee to serve God with food, clothes, water etc. This involves service to God at least in the theoretical phase. The statues in temples serve the purpose of improving theoretical devotion of devotees, who form 99% majority. The people, who criticize the statue-worship maintain the photos of their kith and kin to see them often through the photos! The same concept is maintained in worshipping statues in temples catered for the majority of devotees. The devotees feel the statues as alive forms of God and such feeling must be present as the basis for such devotion. The overall essence of all the rituals is only offering food and money (Dakṣiṇā) to a deserving divine person or at least to a beggar. Through such practical sacrifice in ritual, the devotee is encouraged towards practical devotion to God, which is nothing but Karma Phala Tyāga (sacrifice of fruit of work) told by Me.]

[In the third stage, the human being, who is a mixture of inert body and living soul is worshipped as a model of God. Every human being is treated as God although they are not actually God. This is better than the previous idol worship because service and sacrifice are involved in this worship in practical phase. Actually, in this stage, the jealousy towards another human being due to individual egoism is removed. Every human being is considered as God and is worshipped so that when God in human form is achieved, He will not be rejected. When all human beings are worshipped, the human form of God is also loved and treated as God like all the other human beings. At least, there is no negative approach towards the human form of the Lord, even though the positive approach is diluted. The positive approach is diluted in the sense that all human beings other than the human incarnation of God are also considered to be God even though they are not really God. In this stage, egoism and jealousy are removed and this is a stage of psychological training to cure the inherent diseases, which are egoism and jealousy.]

[In the fourth stage, the actual human form of God is realized. In this stage, the devotee considers that human incarnation of God alone as God and loves that human form only. Only a blessed devotee can see, recognize and worship the contemporary human incarnation of God (Kaścit dhīraḥ pratyagātmānamaikṣat…- Veda). Hanuman and Gopikas, who are the highest devotees, are the best examples for the fourth stage. They never worship the formless Lord or the statues or all the human beings. Hanuman worships only one human being i.e., Rama. Similarly, the Gopikas worship only one human being i.e., Krishna. They never worshipped the statues of the previous incarnations. Hanuman did not worship the statue of Vāmana or Paraśurāma. The Gopikas did not worship the statue of Rama. Had they worshipped statues or images of past incarnation, they would have fallen to the second stage from the fourth stage. All these four stages are the steps in the right path and need not be criticized. Only atheism should be criticized.

For primary level of devotees, idol worship is needed, whereas for the final level, the spiritual conversation called Satsaṅga itself is needed. Don’t think that lower level is wrong. The lower level after sometime becomes higher level. The levels remain as they are and only people move from one level to the other. After passing high school and entering college, will you say that the high school shall be demolished? The lower-level high school will always stand as it is welcoming the students of lower standard. For final level of devotees, human form of God is needed because no soul is capable of giving complete spiritual knowledge except God since God alone knows Himself (Brahmavit Brahmaiva bhavati - Veda). God comes in human form in every generation to bless devotees, otherwise He becomes partial to only one generation. God can simultaneously exist in several human forms also, due to different programs in different places. Caste, sex and state have no relevance to either God in human form or to the soul in the human form trying to reach God (sādhaka).]

[When you say that God is omnipotent, it means that God has all powers. If He cannot come in human form, it means that He does not have that power. Then, He cannot be omnipotent! When He has the power to take a human incarnation, He comes in human form. Can a petty soul object God? He comes in human form for those devotees, who are fond of worshipping Him through real service. They like to talk with God and live with God. They like to serve God and see the pleasure in His face. They get full satisfaction by that. Therefore, God comes in the human form for such devotees only. Those, who do not like the human form will worship God through formless inert items like space, energy etc., or inert forms like statues. But, such worship is not the direct worship and it is only a representative worship. Neither space is God nor God is in the space. Similar is the case of a statue. Both formless space and the statue having form stand only as representatives of God. Of course, God is pleased with representative worship also, but the direct experience of God and the possibility of pleasing Him to the maximum extent are possible through the human body of the incarnation only.]

[Wealth is not meant for attaining power and prestige in the world, but it is only meant for the service of the Lord in His divine mission. The goal of the extra money is only service to God. The goal of the human life itself is to serve God to please Him. The Veda says that sacrifice of the money and wealth is the real essence of sacrifice and stands as the proof of real love for God. All the wealth in this world belongs to God alone. God tests the mentality of each soul and the soul has to leave this world after some time with God’s certificate of its mentality. After death, no soul can carry a single penny that it has earned. A true devotee must save the wealth by avoiding luxuries and use it in the service of God, which includes the service to poor in the name of God. The Veda says that one should enjoy the minimum required money and if one stores money, he/she becomes a thief (Tyaktena Bhuñjīthāḥ mā gṛdhaḥ kasyasvit dhanam). Whose money is all this? All this money belongs to God. I also fully emphasize on Karma Phala Tyāga in My preaching. The word ‘Karma’ in the case of a human being is also limited to the effort taken for earning of money for maintenance of oneself and family (Śarīra yātrāpi ca…- Gita). The Dharma Śāstras (scriptures) say that the sacrifice (Yajña) is a waste without sacrificing money (Adakṣiṇa hato yajñaḥ). Scriptures also tell us various ways to remove the effects of committed sins (Prāyaścittam), which mainly involve the sacrifice of money to deserving people (Dāna). Even Saktuprastha gets tested in the sacrifice of food (a form of money) for attaining salvation. Sai Baba often asks for Guru Dakṣiṇā to preach this important spiritual concept. Sage Vaśiṣṭha says that the root of all the worldly bonds is only money (Dhana mūlamidaṃ jagat). The most important Yantra or Cakra (mystic symbol) is the Śrī Cakra. Śrī means money. Śrī Cakra represents the most important whirlpool, which obstructs the swimmer in this world-ocean. One’s real color comes out only in the sacrifice of money. The bond with money (Dhaneṣaṇā) is responsible for the bonds with wife (Dāreṣaṇā) and children (Putreṣaṇā). Unless this root cause is cut, salvation is impossible and therefore, the above Mantra emphasizes this point, which is the main point for salvation.]

[Every soul is like a diabetic patient crying before the God-doctor to get a sweet to eat. The God-doctor has infinite number of sweets, but He does not care at all to give even one sweet to the patient. Every devotee cry before God, who is the Divine Father (Creator of all the souls) to give some wealth or to solve some problem. If God helps any soul, there will not be even a trace of any personal loss to God. Neither His wealth is finite nor His power is finite. His love for souls is not limited either. The only factor that guides God is seeing the future position of the soul after God helps the soul. If after receiving God’s help, the devotee is going to reach the climax of ego, God will prefer to keep silent and not answer the cries. Because He knows that after His help, the devotee will fall down even from the present level and then will cry again before God to lift him. If the doctor gives the sweet, the level of the blood sugar may go up and the emergent treatment required, also becomes the responsibility of the same doctor. Hence, the doctor will not give the sweet to his patients. The same doctor may give the sweet if he is confident of the patient’s health. Sometimes, the doctor gives you the sweet and then also conducts the emergent treatment to show you the truth. This is when you scold the doctor and call him unkind. The response of the doctor lies on his analysis of the situation and it is not the subject of the patient at all. A devotee-patient must have faith in the God-doctor that any response from Him is for your good alone. One must also realize that the soul-patient is ignorant of his/her own real welfare.]

[Jñāna means the knowledge related to God and not the knowledge related to the creation like Mathematics, Physics etc. Similarly, Bhakti means love for God and not love for the world. Similarly, Karma (seva) means service to God and not service to one’s own family or society. The earth (Bhū Loka) is actually the campus for doing the work of God and to achieve the grace of the Lord (Karma Loka). The word 'Karma' in philosophy does not mean ordinary worldly actions. It only means divine work, which is service to God. If you fully pacify your mind with devotion, the mind will not go for worldly affairs even if it is forced. A person taking hygienic tasty food at home will not eat unhygienic street food even if he is forced. When the devotee serves God practically, God will certainly be pleased and He will help the devotee throughout life. Regarding the case of devotees, who serve God in the present human form, without aspiring for anything in return, they will receive eternal love from God. The fruit of His eternal love is unimaginable! Depending on the various levels of the spiritual aspirants, the liberated souls also exist in various human forms to support the main program of God. One must study the stories of devotees because they are the practical procedures of spiritual path, which are like the laboratory manuals in which the student is more involved.]

[The root cause of diseases is anxiety and tension created in this world and its foundation is desire for things and souls other than God. The word ‘Yoga’ actually means one’s meeting with God in human form. The Yoga Śāstra of Patanjali uses this word ‘Yoga’ strictly in the attainment of Īśvara (God). To render service (practical devotion) to God, mental and physical health is needed. Therefore, Patanjali stresses on physical and mental health also. This does not mean that the main point of Yoga Śāstra is meant for attaining good health. After attaining good health, if you destroy the precious human life in earning wealth and enjoying worldly pleasures, there is no meaning in attaining good health. Instead, the suffering in illness is better since it takes the devotee closer to God. A true devotee prays to God “O God! If happiness takes me away from You, I don’t want that happiness. If misery takes me closer to You, I want that misery”. This level of climax attraction develops in the soul when the spiritual knowledge is completely absorbed by the soul. Such devotees have no doubt about God in their mind. Emphasizing the present alive human incarnation is to get the guidance in the spiritual path through clarifying all the doubts of the mind. Only the Sadguru can give the right direction in the spiritual path, which is the most important aspect of the entire human life since it decides the future eternal fate of the soul. Lack of direct divine knowledge from God in human form (Sadguru) is the reason for all spiritual doubts. Every soul will get one chance to meet the human form of God in their life cycles. If the soul misses that single golden chance, it is a loss forever.]

[When a devotee becomes a liberated soul through selfless service to God in human form, the devotee will attain the same state of God in getting full entertainment in the world based on the full involvement. As long as the devotee is in the selfless service of God, the devotee will always be with God in human form in this world to derive bliss from the entertainment continuously. Even for the continuity of peace by self-attainment, the grace of God is necessary. A liberated soul will enjoy continuously, whereas an ignorant soul is vibrated with happiness and misery. The enjoyment by getting bliss is not related to the external world, but it is related to the internal intelligence-illumination by divine knowledge and grace of God together. The liberated soul, who came down in a role to this earth along with God to enjoy this world-drama by participation, invites equality in both happiness and misery like sweet and hot dishes in a meal. Anything becomes boring if it is continuous. Continuous happiness or continuous misery gets boring like a person gets vexed by eating sweets continuously and eating hots continuously. But, eating sweet and hot dishes alternatively gives enjoyment. Entertainment does not get boring because God arranges happiness and misery alternatively. Everyone must remember that God gives free will to every soul at all the times. Anyone can enter into spiritual path at any time and they will be honored with divine love from God. Anyone in the heart of God is free to go out at any time and God is never unkind to him.]

[Although God is omnipotent, God will not solve all the problems in single instance of time because the humanity is not so flexible to accept the total change in single instance of time. Actually, the devotee need not ask God for anything. God is not only omnipotent, but also omniscient. He knows every problem of His real devotee. He is the creator of problems (Vighnakartā) and also the solution of problems (Vighnahartā). Problems are created by God to enhance the speed of your devotion like the culvert increasing the speed of the flow of water in a canal. Due to increased intensity of devotion, God solves the problem also. Once the water crosses over the culvert, the falling water runs with high speed and the culvert is already crossed over. The intense speed of devotion to God itself is the solution for any worldly problem. Problems are useful culverts and not opposing enemies. Problem is always the real friend to a devotee by acting like the culvert. Problems always help the devotee in his/her practical spiritual effort like the laboratory instructors in practical classes. The preacher is like the professor explaining the concept in the classroom, which is to be verified practically in the laboratory of the devotee’s worldly life.]