Spiritual Knowledge Only for Rare Diamonds?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Phani asked:- Somebody says that if the spiritual knowledge of Datta Swami is for the rare diamonds scattered here and there only, let Him confine to those few diamonds only. Can You please give the answer to this?]

Swami replied:- This point is actually told by God Krishna in the Gita itself that out of millions of devotees one only tries to reach God and among those trying devotees one only recognizes God (Manushyaanaam…). Such devotee is rarest of rare. Even such rarest devotee recognizes and reaches God after trying through several births only (Bahuunaam... -Gita). Actually, the absolute God is unimaginable and can never be even understood by anybody since He is beyond imagination (Atarkyah… Veda). But, God Krishna is speaking about recognition and reaching God! How to reconcile this when God is unimaginable?

This means that God Krishna is speaking about the mediated God and not about unimaginable God. Mediated God can be identified since He can be seen with eyes. Of course, both energetic and human incarnations are mediated Gods. The energetic incarnation is relevant to the energetic beings of the upper worlds. The human incarnation is relevant to human beings of this earth. Since Arjuna is human being to whom Krishna is speaking, the present context is about human incarnation only. You may say that Arjuna is seeing Krishna, the human incarnation and hence, what is the problem? The problem is not about seeing the human incarnation, but, about recognizing the human incarnation. Krishna said that the rarest one devotee only recognizes Him essentially (Tattvatah...). Not only Arjuna, everybody sees Krishna, but, only the sages born as Gopikas (among them also very few only) recognized Krishna essentially as God and not as mere human being as appearing externally. What is the problem for everybody in recognizing Krishna essentially as God? The problem is repulsion between common human media of God and souls. The unimaginable God is appearing as a human being and due to repulsion between human beings, Krishna is slipping. Every human being has self-ego and jealousy towards any other co-human form. No human being can tolerate the greatness of the other human being. This problem exists in the upper worlds of energetic beings also (Pratyaksha dvishah— Veda). Every energetic being repels with the energetic incarnations like Vishnu, Shiva etc. Even Indra, an impartment energetic being, repelled with Shiva, an energetic incarnation and tried to kill Him with his weapon! The same human being, which repelled with human incarnation here becomes energetic being after death and goes to the upper world, where it meets the energetic incarnation. Again, there also due to repulsion between common energetic media of God and soul, the energetic being doesn’t recognize energetic incarnation. The Veda says that this is the greatest loss or the greatest tragedy for any soul because the soul misses God everywhere and every time (Mahatii vinashtih)!

Ego (Mada) and jealousy (Maatsarya) are the topmost among the six vices (Shatgunas) and no soul can avoid these two, which are the real cataracts on the two eyes. Your friend, who passed the above comment, is also not an exception to this. He is repelling with the other devotees, who are praised by Me as rare diamonds. He is unable to tolerate the greatness of rare devotees and passed this comment!

Added to this problem of ego and jealousy, another wonderful problem is that the soul must serve and sacrifice to the extent of climax to God hidden in such ordinary human form without aspiration for any fruit in return!! A soul, which does such selfless service and sacrifice is told to be the biggest fool! (Prayojanamanuddishya...). Basic recognition itself is a million-dollar question and service and sacrifice without any fruit in return is another billion dollar question! This is the essence of these verses told by Krishna, the human incarnation, in the Gita, who is not only the guide but also goal. Guru is guide only whereas Sadguru is guide and goal. Even Arjuna could recognize Krishna as guide only whereas Gopikas recognized Krishna as guide and goal. Apart from the general human repulsion between Krishna and Arjuna, there is a specific common gender-repulsion also between both! You need not doubt that how Anjaneya recognized Rama as goal in spite of common gender. Rama is in human form whereas Anjaneya is in monkey form and here even the general human repulsion is absent! We are trained by our elders from our childhood as tradition that we shall pray and worship God so that God will give all benefits and will protect us from all problems here and there. For a long time, we absorbed this poison like the pickle absorbing salt stored in the jar. Can we get rid of this poison by any effort done for any long time? It is almost impossible for any soul and hence, the words like rare and rarest are used in the Gita. Of course, in the beginning stage, for ordinary human beings fruit linked devotion is inevitable since every beginning is always defective as said in the Gita (Sarvaarambhaahi...). However, in childhood, such fruit linked concepts are not strong in the mind and hence, devotion shall be developed by projecting the divine personality of God through divine stories, which, later on, will lead to fruit delinked devotion. Since in the childhood, already personality linked devotion is well established, even if the child grows to become adult, the fruit linked devotion will not enter much in to the mind of such adult.

All teachers teach the class without any partiality to any student, but, one student only gets the gold medal! This is not to discourage any soul, but, every soul shall recognize this truth and shall try to become the gold medallist. Apart from Gold medal, there are several grades below it like distinction, first class, second class and third class. One shall be careful not to fail. Even a failed candidate shall try again and again to win the gold medal. We must pity the atheists, who have not joined the institution at all. Kohinoor diamond is top most among all the diamonds. Beware that there are artificial diamonds also! Below the diamonds, there are several grades like granite stone, marble stone, gravel stone and sand particles. All these grades are only the stages of efforts and no grade shall be looked down. The atheists are carbon particles without any shining whereas the above grades have shining. But, there are some atheists, who have become Kohinoor diamonds. These running atheists are very sincere and very rigid. If they turn to the right path, they will cross all the walking theists in that path. You need not worry that how black carbon can become the most shining diamond. You must know that diamond is an allotropic form of carbon only!

Some devotees treat Me as the incarnation of God Dattatreya and want to serve Me through propagation of My spiritual knowledge. Of course, I don’t know whether I am the incarnation or not. Of course, I got a vision in the holy place called Shrishailam in which God Datta (energetic form) appeared and merged with Me. Of course, that may be an illusion of My eyes! But, after seeing this unimaginable knowledge flowing out from Me, I also believed that My vision is true and not an illusion. By this I am not boasting about Myself to be incarnation. I know the technology of incarnation. Incarnation is just mediated God and here there is no importance to the medium at all. A diamond is hidden in a cover and what is the value of the cover? All the value lies with diamond only. God Datta is the speaker of this knowledge and I am only the mike before His mouth. If I don’t accept that I am an incarnation of God Datta, it means that I am the author of this excellent spiritual knowledge and that is climax of ego! Your jealousy will be more if I say that I am not incarnation (I become the author of this excellent knowledge) and you will suffer more! If I say that I am the incarnation, it means that I am zero since everything is told by God Datta only. If I say that I am not the incarnation, it means that I have told this excellent knowledge and not God Datta. The Gita says that whenever excellent true spiritual knowledge is seen, God only is the speaker of it (Jnaaniitvaatmaiva...) because knowledge gives the path to souls. Path is the total importance and neither journey (karma) nor speed of journey (Bhakti) is important. While doing a miracle, God can make others (even demons) to do the miracles, but, God directly speaks the most important spiritual knowledge. Hence, one shall not form a high opinion about the external medium of incarnation. By hearing the word incarnation, everybody feels jealous about such external human form of the incarnation. Sharp analysis reveals that such jealousy is based on false concept because all the greatness lies with the diamond or speaker and not with external cover or mike respectively. A climax devotee, who makes God as his servant is greater than the incarnation in which the devotee becomes equal to God. A non-electrified golden wire is more valuable than electrified copper wire!

In this context of propagation of My (God Datta’s) spiritual knowledge, I suggested to My (God Datta’s) devotees that I (God Datta) shall not be projected with My spiritual knowledge preached because My (God Datta’s) spiritual knowledge is mainly based on knowledge of Shankara, devotion of Ramaanuja (both are theoretical) and service and sacrifice (practical proof of devotion) of Madhva linked with lack of aspiration for any fruit in return. My devotees planned local propaganda with banners etc., and asked My guidance. I told them not to do such localized propaganda projecting My spiritual knowledge because the absorbers of such spiritual knowledge are rarely scattered here and there and not localized to any area. Even if such knowledge is propagated, localized people may adsorb (surface phenomenon) but not absorb (bulk phenomenon). If such knowledge is propagated through E-mails and TV channels, all the rare diamonds will certainly face it. If they want to propagate Me in a localized area only, I told that I shall be projected as an astrologer or a man of miracles. All the temples are flourishing because God in these temples is projected as the miraculous power to solve worldly problems. Only one Kohinoor diamond appreciates that the real devotion (love) is always selfless.

My friend, who passed the above comment, has misunderstood Me to be confined to diamonds only. That is a total misunderstanding. Propagation depends on the receivers of knowledge. Hence, the way of propagation (localised or universal) shall be selected in such a way to suit the level of receivers of knowledge. This is My actual point and My point is not to confine to the rare diamonds only. I have presented the overall picture of the process of propagation and various levels of audience.

The Kohinoor diamond absorbing or appreciating the selfless devotion is in the top most level and is the goal to be reached by all the devotees. Projecting the gold medallist is to encourage every student to put hard work to become such rarest gold medallist. At least one shall become the diamond (distinction), which is very near to Kohinoor diamond by reducing the aspiration for the fruits to the climax as far as possible. Hence, the spiritual knowledge is mainly meant for the majority of lower grades only and not at all for the Kohinoor diamond, which has already reached the highest level and does not require preaching from anybody. Diamonds also do not require much preaching except just reminding the concept already preached.

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