Posted on: 05 Dec 2023
1. Swami, please give me more strength to consume true spiritual knowledge completely.
[Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Swami, Fascination towards worldly bonds: Swami, Changing the fascination from worldly bonds to God (Shri Datta Swami). Only His love is unconditional, and He loves us for our wellness. He was also suffering for His true devotee out of love. Knowing and experiencing all these facts, I am referring to myself (my mind) as deviating easily, looking for worldly bonds, and being unstable. Even though I have a desire for Your physical presence, I feel that it is not because of true love without aspirations. I feel its selfishness. Acquiring complete spiritual knowledge is the only solution for my disease, but I am consuming drops of it. I know that I am able to consume it because of Your strength. Swami, please give me more strength to consume true spiritual knowledge completely.]
Swami replied:- Devotion and interest on spiritual knowledge must be developed by yourself and Swami will not put His hand in this matter. Devotion is always developed by the devotee and Swami puts many hurdles to know the strength of that devotion. If you ask Swami to develop devotion, it is an insult to Swami. If a boy goes to a girl telling “I am not getting love on you however much I may try. Please strengthen my love on you”. Is it not insulting the girl? Interest and devotion must be spontaneous from the side of the devotee. If any devotee prays to God for developing devotion, it means that natural devotion is not happening by itself.
2. Will the pariharam, in the form of sacrifice based on astrology, cancel the bad deeds?
[Astrological remedies: Swami, On performing pariharaham – my understanding is it will come under good deeds, and that doesn't mean canceling the bad deeds. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong, Swami.]
Swami replied:- The Parihaaram postpones the punishment to future. If you are reformed by that time, all the future punishments get cancelled. In this way, the Parihaaram helps you by giving a chance to you to escape all the punishment of sins.
3. Swami, please make me do only what pleases You.
[Recent discussion with Smt. Devi Mother: Swami, I was discussing my ignorant behavior with Smt. Devi Mam. One is related to the miracle experiences of Shri Phani Anna. My mind was not able to accept it. Another is my lack of chanting and pariharam, as per Your advice. Smt. Devi Mam conveyed and questioned as below: 1. I should consume spiritual knowledge; who are we to decide what God should do? 2. At least be an obedient devotee. These two points primarily influenced my mind. I am sorry Swami, for not being obedient and taking things the right way. Please forgive me, Swami. But Swami, please make me do only what pleases You. I don't want to do anything that displeases You. Please give me these boons, Swami. I want to be an obedient dog to my Master (Sadhguru Shri Datta Swami). Note: The above two questions are relevant to the below wonderful discourse. Source: https://www.universal-spirituality.org/discourses/datta-jayanti-message-2023-the-soul-the-goal-and-the-path--4236--4631--ENG Padha Namaskaram Swami 🙇🏻♀️🙏🏻❤️]
Swami replied:- You must do that only, which pleases God. This is totally your responsibility. Can God get pleasure by making the devotee to do that only, which pleases God ? If God does so, will He have any natural type of pleasure? A politician draws a huge crowd of the public for his speech by paying some money to each member of the public. By doing so, will he get natural pleasure that comes when the public attends the speech by themselves with a lot of interest? Hence, such type of desire is wrong on the side of the devotee.