11 Oct 2025
1. What are the 64 forms of Paramashiva and their meaning and the difference between relating to one form instead of the other?
[Mr. Kenan Waked asked: Jai Guru Datta... Pranams at Your lotus feet Bhagawan Datta Swami. Since I am from an Arab culture, I find it difficult to fathom the 64 forms of Paramashiva and their meaning and the difference between relating to one form instead of the other.]
Swami replied:- You need not strain your brain by the 64 forms of God Shiva, if you understand the basic concept that God appears in different forms, which are suitable to various contexts of different situations involving different levels of souls. A police officer will be in civil dress with jolly mood, when he is spending time with his family. The same police officer, while chasing the criminals will be in uniform dresscode showing lot of seriousness with a pistol in the hand. The police officer is one and the same, but, his moods and dresses vary as per the varying contexts. In all these forms, the same God exists and all these forms are His varying moods and outer dresses only.
2. What are my identities in the realms of multiverses and how to live from them?
[Question about parallel universes: Jai Sai Ram. Gratitude to You Bhagawan. May I ask about parallel universes and multiverses? What are my identities in those realms and how to live from them?]
Swami replied:- Different multi/parallel universes are like different cinemas played in different theatres at the same time. The same cinema is not repeated in another theatre at the same time (Actually, another reel of the same cinema may be played in another theatre simultanesouly. This may be possible in the case of cinema-simile, but not in the actual concept. Hence, this simile is limited simile. Generally, any simile is always limited to certain aspects only.). In two different universes, there is no possibility of the existence of same actor-soul in the same role at the same time. The actor-soul can exist in one role only at a time in any universe. The actor-soul may take a different role in the same universe or in another universe after finishing the current role. The world-cinema may be repeated in the same universe-theatre or in another universe-theatre without any changes or with some minor changes as per the will of God as told in the Veda (Dhātā yathā pūrva makalpayat). All these points are of no use when the main point is that a soul shall try its level best in the present available human life itself (since the human birth is very very rare) to earn the grace of God by pleasing Him through true devotion.
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