Swami answers questions of Shri Anil Antony

1. Does Sade Sati occur when Saturn transits the sign before the Moon, over the Moon and after the Moon?

[Shri Anil Antony asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give answers to the following questions. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil antony

What is Sade Sati of Shani? Does it occur when Shani (Saturn) transits the sign before the Moon, over the Moon, and the sign after the Moon? Or is it related to the transit of Shani before, on, and after the Lagna (Ascendant)?]

Swami replied:- Sāḍesāti is 7½ years period of Shani transiting 12^th, 1^st and 2^nd houses of the gocāra astrological chart subsequently. Sāḍesāti is effective only to Janma lagna (decided by birth time) and Nāma lagna (decided by first letter of the calling name). It is not taken based on Rāśi that is based on the position of the Moon.

2. How should a person prepare to face the Sade Sati period in life?

[How should a person prepare to face the Sade Sati period of Shani in life? What is Kantaka Shani? How is Kantaka Shani related to Sade Sati and in what ways are these two periods different?]

Swami replied:- Kaṇṭaka Shani means Shani giving troubles. The Sāḍesāti Shani gives troubles and hence, it is called Kaṇṭaka Shani. Shani in 7^th and 8^th places of the gocaara astrological chart also gives troubles. Shani will be pacified by distributing 19 til laddus to beggars on every Saturday till 19 Saturdays. Prayer to Hanuman also pacifies the planet Shani.

3. If someone approaches us with apparent affection but hidden intentions to deceive, how should we recognize and deal with such a situation?

Swami replied:- You should be the reflection of that fellow, who is approaching you. Recognizing the person depends on your intellectual analysis without which, you will terribly fail in this human life especially in the present days of Kali age.

4. What might be the deeds that cause the following diseases?

[Padanamaskaram Swami, what might be the actions which caused the following diseases. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil antony

1. Diabetes, 2. Heart disease, 3. Cancer, 4. Deafness and muteness, 5. Skin diseases, 6. Allergies, 7. Loss of eyesight, 8. Premature ejaculation, 9. Erectile dysfunction, 10. Divorce, 11. Betrayal by a lover, 12. Migraine, 13. Diabetes, 14. Blindness]

Swami replied:- Whatever may be the type of sin that is related to the type of disease, the commonality is seeking selfish happiness through the suffering of other living beings, this is called as injustice. If one gets happiness without causing suffering to others, it is called as justice. Justice will be rewarded by God and injustice will be punished by God. One of the ways of punishment is suffering with disease. It is said that the sin done by you will make you suffer with disease (Pūrva janma kṛtaṃ pāpaṃ, vyādhi rūpeṇa bādhate). The wise thing is not to do any type of sin and not to get any type of disease. By knowing the type of sin that causes its corresponding specific disease, I think there is no much use.

5. Do You send a ghost partner if an ordinary devotee asks You?

[Shri Phani Kumar is Your highest and topmost climax devotee. Out of special grace, You even sent a ghost to assist him with a task of washing his back during bathing. If an ordinary devotee were to ask You for a similar favour like ‘give me a ghost partner” etc., what would be Your response?”]

Swami replied:- Phani is the incarnation of Adi Shesha, the king of serpents. He can tolerate a ghost, but not other ordinary devotees.

6. St. Paul has the following opinion about married people and singles. What is Your opinion?

[St. Paul has the following opinion about people who have already married and people who are single. Swami, what is Your opinion about this in the present context. 1 Corinthians 7:25-35]

26 Because of the present crisis and future dangerous situation, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are. 27 Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

29 What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; 30 those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; 31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

32 I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs— how he can please the Lord. 33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— 34 and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. 35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.]

Swami replied:- It is better to marry than becoming characterless in the disguise of a saint or a bachelor dedicated to God. If you can control yourself from the chemical reactions taking place between hormones in your body without any force, you can remain unmarried in the service of God. What I mean is that you must have a natural resistance towards sex without any force on your senses. Such a resistance can come if you are completely absorbed in God. The absorption must be complete and continuous. You must be totally devoted to God and then only you can succeed in your efforts to maintain unshakable celibacy so that all your time, money and energy can be dedicated to God’s service. If you cannot succeed in controlling lust, you will fall into the unjust sinful life of Dushpravrutti, which is worst than justified married life of Pravrutti. In this sinful Kali age, it is difficult to remain celibate and the safest way to reach God is by following the justified life of Pravrutti so that you can put maximum efforts for Nivrutti and completely avoid Dushpravrutti.

7. Kindly explain the deeper spiritual significance of the following verses.

[[John 14: 1-7] 14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in Me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you really know Me, you will know My Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.” Swami, what is the meaning of the statements ‘My Father’s house has many rooms’ and ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’? Kindly explain their deeper spiritual significance.”]

Swami replied:- Father means the cosmic energetic incarnation of God Datta, the energetic mediated unimaginable God called as Father of Heaven (Viśvarūpam), in which the liberated souls after death exist in very small energetic bodies in the infinite ocean of energy and bliss like atom-sized sand particles in ocean. Many rooms mean a lot of space to accommodate the liberated souls. These souls either individually or in batches follow the incarnation of God to assist in His mission. Human beings can reach God through liberation only by worshipping the human incarnation of God on earth. The unimaginable God can never be worshiped externally and internally. The energetic form of God is not available to human beings since it is relevant form to the upper energetic worlds containing energetic beings. Human form of God alone is relevant to the human world.

8. What was the reason that Peter later denied Jesus?

[[John 13: 36-38] 36 Simon Peter asked Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, You cannot follow now, but You will follow later.” 37 Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.” 38 Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for Me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown Me three times! “What is the meaning of the statement, ‘Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later’? Also, what was the reason that Peter later denied Jesus?”]

Swami replied:- For final salvation, an energetic body is necessary for the soul to merge in the first energetic incarnation of unimaginable God called God Datta or Father of Heaven. The materialized body can neither merge with a materialized body of human incarnation nor merge with energetic incarnation. Videha Mukti is the salvation obtained by a soul after the death since the soul gets covered by a tiny energetic body. ‘Now’ means while alive, ‘later’ means after death.

[Padanamaskaram Swami, I request You to give the responses to the following questions-At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil antony.]

9. Why did God close His eyes when Jesus was crucified?

Swami replied:- When God in human body is tortured, it is the most sinful scene. The seers will also be sinful.

10. How does Jesus’ sacrifice benefit people who hope to live forever on earth rather than in Heaven?

Swami replied:- Benefit and loss shall not be in the eyes of any devotee while the devotee is serving and sacrificing God.

11. Why did Prophet Muhammad not reveal that He was also a human incarnation like Jesus? Was He afraid of crucifixion?

Swami replied:- Prophet Mohammad did not do anything for His selfish case. In general, to save the lives of all incarnations, He did this as a general permanent program for the future. Had He feared for Himself, He would not have been an incarnation of God.

12. Why did Prophet Muhammad not state categorically that He is the seal or last prophet for Muslims only and not for all other religions?

Swami replied:- He wanted to bring 100% reformation to worldly life first and then, proceed to spiritual life. If both lives are simultaneously followed, sometimes, people get confused by the interference of one type of life with the other type of life. He made a seal for worldly life at that point of time. Then only, He wanted the beginning of spiritual life.

13. Why could Prophet Muhammad not control those fighting people with divine knowledge, but He had to take a sword to do that? Is His preaching ineffective?

Swami replied:- At that time, the attitudes of human beings in that particular religion of society were very aggressive. To become a friend with those people (an incarnation shall mix with the people and become friendly with them so that their reformation becomes easy), He had to follow certain aggressive customs of that society like polygamy, violence with sword etc. Incarnation always postpones the reformation of very rigid concepts during the span of a single lifetime of the incarnation. If all the practically possible reformations are completed in one span of a lifetime of an incarnation, the most rigid bad customs can be dealt in future lifetimes of the incarnation. God Rama took non-vegetarian food and did hunting in the forest. Except this one rigid bad custom, He reformed all the other concepts. For prohibition of non-vegetarian food and killing animals, He came as Buddha and reformed even that leftover bad custom. This can be clearly understood by good administrators.

14. Why does the Quran allow more than one marriage when Jesus said that if one divorces and marries another, then that person is committing adultery?

Swami replied:- I have already told that the customs change from one place to another and from one time to another. As per the rigidity of the customs, the incarnation draws a systematic plan to bring all practically possible reformations at that point of time. If a bad custom is neglected at that time, it does not mean that the bad custom is supported by God. A very rigid concept is not mixed with all other concepts. For a very rigid concept like killing living beings for food, God spent one full lifetime as Buddha. This is applicable for all incarnations across the universe.

15. Why was the Hindu religion not propagated outside of India during the time of Jesus and Prophet Muhammad?

Swami replied:- A strict survey does not exist to announce such conclusions.

16. Suppose if Prophet Muhammad had come in place of Jesus and Jesus came in place of Prophet Muhammad, would it make any difference?

Swami replied:- A specific time and specific social conditions require God to behave in a specific way and show suitable qualities to befriend and uplift humanity belonging to that place at that time.

17. Do guardian Angels incarnate on Earth for training purposes?

Swami replied:- Any liberated soul called as Guardian Angel can incarnate on earth to assist the incarnation of God in His mission.

18. Why did Prophet mention the specific numbers of prophets and messengers?

[In the narration reported in Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Hadith no. 21257), where Abu Dharr al-Ghifari asked Prophet Muhammad about the number of Prophets and Messengers, He replied ‘124,000 prophets’ and ‘315 messengers.’ Why did the Prophet mention these specific numbers?”]

Swami replied:- Such concepts are not important from the point of the progress of the spiritual line of a soul.

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