Posted on: 19 May 2023
1. What is the use of reading knowledge when God cannot be understood?
[Ms. Thalla Bhanu Samykya asked: Padamaskaram Swami, what is the use of reading knowledge when God cannot be understood?]
Swami replied:- The unimaginable-unmediated God alone is not understood. But, the mediated unimaginable God can be understood very easily. Such statements are valid in escapism.
2. Is it okay to serve God when mind is not totally absorbed in Him?
[Padanamaskaram Swami, it is okay to serve God in action when the mind is not totally absorbed on God? Is there no importance of mental attraction to God?]
Swami replied:- As the mind goes on absorbing God step by step, the use also comes step by step. In this gradual process, God is gradually absorbed and finally is totally absorbed when the final stage of total absorption comes.
3. Is person serving God with a sense of duty equal to the one serving God with love?
[Padanamaskaram Swami, is a person serving God with a sense of duty equal to the one serving God with love?]
Swami replied:- Service is only the practical expression of true love. Service without true love is like a dead body without life. Service with aspiration for some fruit in return is like a suffering alive body with cancer disease knowing that it will die shortly.
4. Is there no importance to attraction towards God in practical plane?
[At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhanu Samykya.]
Swami replied:- Already I have told that the service with true love based on the spontaneous attraction to God must be present.