Posted on: 04 Jun 2023
1. How can one fight with God?
[Shri Anil asked:Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give Your answers to the following questions-at Your lotus feet anil. Hanuman fought with God Rama for Yayati. How can one fight with God? Kindly elaborate this?]
Swami replied:- Hanuman is also the incarnation of God. So it is a play of God. The final message is that Nivrutti is greater than Pravrutti. For the sake of mother’s word Hanuman fought with Yayaati. In the next birth, Hanuman was born as Shankara, who left the mother for the sake of God. Justice, protected by God, cannot be greater than God. This is the final message preached by God.
2. Why is it told that God Datta was in the merged state with Sai Baba during 1 hr. of meditation?
[Swami, You narrated the incident of Shri Sathya Sai Baba in mediation for 1 hour in merged state with God Datta and hence a devotee who touched Him got a shock and due to the unimaginable love of God to the devotee, he was saved from becoming ash. Here I have a doubt, any human incarnation contains God Datta in merged state in all the time from birth to death, why it is told that God Datta was in the merged state with Sai Baba only during 1 hr duration in the above incident? Kindly elaborate on this.]
Swami replied:- The merge with the selected devotee to become incarnation is different from the state of Shri Satya Sai Baba in that incident. When God Datta merges, He merges with the selected human devotee in and out at the time of merge. But, God Datta withdraws from the body and confines to the soul only so that the body will not have the power unless the incarnation wishes for the expression as needed by a specific miracle. For example, God Datta expressed in the body of boy Krishna when the huge mountain is to be lifted by His finger. Shri Satya Sai Baba is already having God Datta in merged state confined to the soul like insulated electricity. When Shri Satya Sai Baba told that He is merging with God Datta, He meant the expression of God Datta in His entire body from His soul. Due to this, when the devotee touched His feet, he got a very powerful shock of the power of God Datta in the body of Sai.
3. Why did Jesus tell the following verse regarding marriage and divorce?
[Why did Jesus tell the following regarding marriage and divorce?
Mark 10:6-9: But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”]
Swami replied:- This means that the husband and wife shall live as one unit for the sake of integrated family without separating from each other. Such a strong family can also serve parents and God effectively. The son integrated with the parents shall separate from the parents and shall integrate with wife to become one unity so that this integrated unity will serve the parents. Unless the son is separated from parents and assisted by wife, he cannot effectively serve parents or God. Here, the word separation from parents is not abandoning them forever. Moreover, this separation is inevitable for the divine purpose of generating the children, which is again a divine purpose only.
4. Swami kindly give a response to the following comment of an atheist?
[Regarding the topic ‘creation for entertainment of God’ an atheist replied in the following way: I mean, life has no challenges for God. There is nothing left for Him to achieve. He doesn't have any sexual partner. He doesn't know what it means to read a new book, or feel the thrill of learning something new and exciting. He possesses His qualities to an infinite extent, which means that our human affairs must, to Him, appear infinitely trivial. When you think about it, God is to be pitied. He lives in a state of imprisonment with no hope of parole or reprieve. -Swami kindly give a response to it.]
Swami replied:- You may be right when He was alone since the Veda says that He was bored due to the absence of second person or item (Ekākī na ramate- Veda). But, when He created the second item, which is plural due to many souls and many items, He got entertained. In entertainment, what all you said exists as experience of different feelings. Even as a person, you are also entertaining yourself in this life in a similar way only. Hence, your objection is overruled.