Posted on 28 Mar 2026. 
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Shri Anil Antony asked:-
11. In Hinduism, what is the meaning of seeing a lizard constantly in the wash?
Swami replied:- There are certain traditional believes about the falling of lizard. Different places of the body touched by the lizard are said to be associated with different results. This is not an important topic because this is not related to the subject of God. Lizards stay in bathrooms, perhaps, due to more suitable environmental conditions.
12. What's the significance of the Mahapuranas and why are there so many volumes for texts like the Skanda Purana?
Swami replied:- The Puranams explain the concepts of spiritual knowledge through different engaging stories. There is no difference between the Vedas and the Puranams because the spiritual knowledge is told directly in the Veda, whereas the same spiritual knowledge is told indirectly through stories in the Puranam. Those, who are unable to study the Vedas because of their complicated language, can study Puranams and get the same spiritual knowledge without any difficulty. The study of the Veda is like enjoying the sugarcane juice by eating the sugarcane directly, which involves damage of teeth and gums in various ways. Learning the same spiritual knowledge through the Puranams is like drinking the same sugarcane juice extracted from sugarcane like crushing it with the help of a squeezing machine.
13. What happens if someone died in Brahma Muhurtam?
Swami replied:- Brahma Muhurtam indicates the peaceful mind and not the peaceful external atmosphere. Death with peaceful mind is important and not the death in peaceful external atmosphere. When the soul thinks about God in the last minutes of life while leaving all the worldly affairs, spiritual peace exists in the mind of the dying soul.
14. Why do Hindu Gods have 4 heads (Bramha), 3 heads (Datta) and heads of animals (Ganesh, Narasimha)?
Swami replied:- The head represents the attitude of awareness. The heads of animals also represent certain appreciable qualities. The head of the lion represents the anger of the supreme king associated with highest capability. The head of the elephant represents the mighty strength that is controlled by submissiveness. The four heads of Brahmā represent the knowledge of the four Vedas. The three heads of Datta represent creation, maintenance and destruction of this creation.
15. Who gave birth to God's mother?
Swami replied:- Maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother of God gave birth to God’s mother! Your question is answered. You must ask questions with clear spiritual background.
16. What does it really mean to surrender to Krishna and how does it ensure freedom from sins without performing other religious rituals?
Swami replied:- All the essence of all religious rituals is only to surrender completely to God proved by one’s practical sacrifice of wealth and one’s practical service in the mission of God. This total surrender to God is the practical aspect and the theoretical aspect of the same is love to God.
17. Who is more powerful in India, Modi or Bhagawan Shri Satya Sai Baba?
Swami replied:- Which is more powerful between ant and elephant?
18. Why is it important in Hinduism to respect both Goddess Durga and Lord Krishna equally for spiritual liberation?
Swami replied:- All these are external dresses of the same one God. Liberation is graced by God and not by His dress.
19. How does Jesus fail to protect Himself? How can He protect others? Is it logical that He will protect others?
Swami replied:- Jesus told that if He wished, God will send millions of soldiers to protect Him. The crucifixion of Jesus has lot of deep meaning in the spiritual knowledge. Jesus deliberately underwent the crucifixion to kindle the divine quality of kindness in the rocky cruel hearts of the rulers and priests. In a cinema, a role is shown dying by the bite of an ant. Neither the actor really died nor it is the aim of the writer of the cinema story that any man can die with the bite of any ant. The aim of such scene is that if God wishes, any man can die even by the bite of an ant.
20. What did Jesus really mean when He said, “Whatever you ask the Father for in My name He will give it to you”?
Swami replied:- The meaning of the statement is that Jesus is the human incarnation of God. Jesus is the dress of God. When we ask the dress for something, the bearer of that dress will grant the boon and not the dress. When you are asking the dress for a boon, your prayer is heard by the bearer of dress and not by the inert dress. It may appear as if two independent alive items are existing separately, which are the dress and the bearer of dress. Therefore, only the bearer of dress is existing in all different dresses of different religions. This is the deep meaning here.
21. Why does Jesus tell people to eat His flesh and drink His blood if they want to get into heaven?
Swami replied:- The flesh and blood constitute the physical personality. The spiritual knowledge of the personality of God is ‘flesh’ and the infinite divine love of the personality of God is ‘blood’. Therefore, this finally means that you should approach God to get the spiritual knowledge and devotion directly from the divine personality of God and not to approach the incarnation of God for fulfilling any worldly desire (instrumental devotion). This is the deep meaning here.
22. Why did Jesus say not to hold on to Him?
[After raising from death, Jesus met Mary Magdalene. Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward Him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). Jesus said, “Do not hold on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and Your Father, to My God and Your God.’” John 20:16–17. Why did Jesus say not to hold on to Him?]
Swami replied:- Holding onto God at all the times will not allow you to serve Him and to propagate His mission to the world. Always sitting in the meditation of God is not the path to get His grace. This is only theoretical devotion (Bhakti Yoga). Practical devotion is practical sacrifice, which is propagating His spiritual knowledge to the entire world (Karma Yoga).
23. Why did Allah, the merciful, tell Muhammad's followers that it is a sin to eat pork? Why did Jehovah, the benevolent, tell the Jews that it is a sin to eat pork?
Swami replied:- Pig is the highest Tamasic (predominant of tamas quality) animal. Its flesh is another form of human excretion, which is the rejected mass by the human body. Hence, pig is the rejected animal. At least, by this advice of God, one type of animal is saved from torture and killing. Similarly, in Hinduism, cow is very holy animal and at least one type of animal is saved from torture and killing. Both are extreme ends of unholy and holy concepts. I really like such concepts very much since they save people from climax sin (Ahiṃsā paramo dharmaḥ) and save the animals from their killing. I like it if people can develop such stories on every living being so that every living being is saved from killing. At least non-violent living beings should be saved.
24. Why did Allah stop sending prophets?
Swami replied:- Because even Allah was unable to even dream the reformation of human beings!
25. What might be the deeds done for the below given miseries?
[Padanamaskaram Swami. Please give Your answers to the following questions. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil antony. Punishment Indicates Equivalent Sin Committed. Based on this a devotee (Shri Uday) asked the following question: Can You please explain help me how to analyse following situations –
a) One’s wife being infertile due to some reproductive abnormalities
b) One is suffering from discrimination regarding caste and gender
c) One lost one’s parents during early childhood.
What might be the actions which caused above miseries? How to analyse these cases?]
Swami replied:-
One can infer the previous crime based on the nature of the present punishment (Phalānumeyāḥ prārambhāḥ, saṃskārāḥ prāktanā iva- Raghuvamsha).
26. What is the difference between 16 kalyana gunas and 16 kalas possessed by Human incarnation of God?
Swami replied:- Kalā means inert energy. Guna means nervous energy. Inert energy turns to a mode of awareness by entering the brain-nervous system and becomes a specific work form of inert energy called awareness, which is a specific thought (pulse or sphota). In the form of the specific thought, it is called guna. In the form of original portion of inert energy, it is called as Kalā.
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