The Absolute Truth

Several devotees ask Me about the truth of truth regarding Me and they are always bothered about others only and not about themselves. I do not know, how many of you can digest the truth of truth regarding Me in this minute. O.K. Let Me tell you the absolute truth regarding Myself. Did you hear about God Dattatreya? He is the energetic form into which the God (Parabrahman) entered. What is the difference between Him and Vishnu or Shiva or Brahma who are also energetic forms of God? The external energetic form of God Dattatreya reveals the full information about God, which is that God is the creator, ruler and destroyer of this entire creation. Of course, the same God is in Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva. But their external energetic forms reveal the partial duties of God separately, which may mislead the devotees to think that God is a multiple unit of three Gods together as a group. To remove this misunderstanding, the energetic form of God Dattatreya appeared before sage Atri and Anasuya. Then only the confusion was removed. Then only the sage became really Atri. The word Atri means not three but one. This is the specialty of Lord Dattatreya from the point of the external form but not from the internal God. Datta means, “Given to the souls for worship”.

The unimaginable God can never be worshipped directly because none can even imagine about Him. Such unimaginable God (Parabrahman) is given to devotees who are anxious to see, worship, touch, talk, live along with Him and get the spiritual guidance, which is the most important for the soul. The God is always given to the devotees through the same medium and form in which the devotee exists. The medium is energetic human form for the souls in energetic forms in the upper world. The energetic form has the same human form because the soul after death attains energetic human form only. For a devotee in human form on this earth, He is given through the materialized human form only. This is the best suitability. The specialty of God Dattatreya is that God has taken up the most important work of spiritual guidance as Sadguru and hence, is called as Guru Datta.

The Purpose of Swami’s Birth

Such God Dattatreya (energetic form) entered the womb of My mother and occupied this human body and soul for the main purpose of establishing the true spiritual knowledge to give the right direction for believers, scholars and devotees on this earth. He came to this earth several times for this main purpose and this is not a new program. But this time, the program has its specialty that the preaching of spiritual knowledge is done to the topmost intellectuals who have reached the climax of analysis through well-advanced logic, called science. The preaching is always according to the level of audience. Hence, the specialty of this program is due to you only. Therefore, the necessity of the human incarnation of God Dattatreya is very much needed now.

Swami’s Ancestors

At the same time, there was a need for the entry of Lord Dattatreya in a house in a village in Andhra Pradesh. The name of the village is Nagulavaram and the owner of the house was Shri Koteshwara Shastry who was a great devotee of Shri Rama. He was having three sons and three daughters. The entire family is very strongly devoted to God. Almost all the day is spent in the worship and songs of God only by them. All his sons and daughters were married. Two relatives, called Shri Brahmaiah Shastry and Shri Buchaiah Shastry, were in the village who were the incarnations of demons. They were exceptionally talented in doing black magic. If they become angry with any person, that person dies within one day! They killed about hundred people and about three hundred children in the village. When they walk in the streets of village, people used to run into the houses and bolt the doors. They were paternal cousins of Koteshwara Shastry and were very jealous about him since he was very much respected in the entire village for his devotion and character. Koteshwara Shastry was living on agriculture and earned about sixty acres of land by hard work and was having a big establishment of cows, bulls etc. He was the richest in the village and was treated as the head of the village. All this kindled jealousy in their hearts. The second son of Shri Koteshwara Shastry is Shri Veerabhadra Shastry and this human body is his son. All the sons of Koteshwara Shastry got married and got sons. The two demons were killing the sons and seven sons in that joint family were finished. An emergency arose in his house and all the persons in the house were worshipping various forms of God day and night to save their lives. The problems are the real friends, which alone can take you to the climax of devotion. The two demons challenged in the village that the dynasty of Koteshwara Shastry has to stop there and no son can be saved by any way.

The villagers were prepared to kill those two demons but Shri Koteshwara Shastry stopped them advising that devotees must have patience and wait for the will of God to take place. He was always chanting the name of Shri Rama and when he died, he was counting the name of Rama with his fingers. All the family members were crying for the grace of God. In that emergent situation, God Dattatreya wanted to enter the house and save it from the demons. He can do it just by His will but He wanted to do it directly and simultaneously give fame to the family by taking birth in it. My mother Smt. Hanumayamma was seeing often in dreams various deities in various temples with constantly ringing bells. Almost all the deities were seen by her in the dreams in every night. This indicates that Lord Datta is in her womb. All the deities are the incarnations of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva only.

Datta is considered to be the asylum for thirty-three crores of deities. When she gave birth to the 8^th son, on the same day, the two demons died. One died in accident and the other died with blood vomiting. Their deaths were very cruel. One of My aunts and the villagers called the boy (Myself) as Venugopala Krishna Murthy. One of their descendants, called Shri Narasimha Shastry was also knowing this black magic. But he was not so cruel. This boy (Myself) started pouring down poetry in Sanskrit spontaneously and Narasimha Shastry was fond of Me. Infact, on one Sun-eclipse day, he took Me to the water tank and asked Me to take bath. Then he gave the hymn (Mantra) of the black magic to Me. After two years, he wanted to kill somebody through the same black magic. But the mantra failed in spite of intensive concentration. Then, he told Me “The mantra fails only in the temple if uttered. Why did it fail after giving to You?” I replied like this “This human body is a moving temple and the soul in this body is God. Hence, your mantra will not work anymore”. I was just 10 years old. Thus, the black magic was removed fully from that village. Thus, this secondary purpose was also there for the visit of Datta to this earth.

Learning of Sanskrit by Swami

God is always a double-edged sword. Destruction of evil forces is done along with the uplift of devotees. The intensity of the devotion was excellent in that house due to that event. All My childhood went with lot of mischief like stealing butter etc., which suited to the name. Every day, My aunt was facing reports from villagers, who were tolerating Me due to their respect to that family. One day My father, vexed with My mischief started teaching Me Sanskrit in order to develop samskara in Me. He taught eight verses in the epic, called the Raghuvamsa. There was no necessity to teach the ninth verse. My age was 8 years and I was the 8^th child, who learnt Sanskrit language by 8 verses! All the Vedas, the Shastras and the divine knowledge entered My head spontaneously and I started telling poetry in Sanskrit spontaneously. The village was full of Sanskrit scholars. They were feeling difficulty in understanding the extempore Sanskrit verses composed by Me. By 16^th year of age, I was the author of more than 100 Sanskrit books on philosophy. Due to this unimaginable knowledge, My father feared that some Brahma Rakshasa (a Brahmin scholar after death) entered Me and was doing lot of worship of Hanuman to expel the ghost from Me! But the ghost is the most powerful form of Lord Datta (Datta is famous to exist in the form of a ghost also, called Pishacharupa.) and Hanuman is His beloved servant only.

Basics of Astrology

My father became a famous astrologer since he studied Astrology intensively in the pressing situation of the black magic. He wanted to teach Me Astrology. Then, I showed a book written by Me, which is a commentary on the Jaimini Sutra in Sanskrit on Astrology. He was surprised to see My interpretations in Astrology, which is nothing but the study of computerized information of the cycle of deeds and their fruits (Karma Cakra) based on the constitution of God. It only gives the information of the file in the coded language and the codes are the nine planets, which are the forms of the three qualities that govern the deeds of souls. Sun and Mars are Rajas; Saturn, Rahu and Ketu are Tamas; Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus are Sattvam. The twelve zodiates (bhavas) are the channels of various strong feelings (samskaras). For example, the seventh bhava is about the behaviour towards wife or husband. If Tamas-planets are strong on this bhava, he or she will have only lust; if Rajas, working together for fame exists; if Sattvam, cooperation in spiritual effort exists. Like this, it is only a file of information of the samskaras of the soul in various aspects of life. No change is possible without the will of God.

The remedies suggested by the astrologers are only for their earning like the rituals performed by the priests. The real spirit of Astrology and rituals is twisted and polluted by these astrologers and priests for their livelihood. It is a joint business of both these cults. Through Astrology, when you know the attack of the results of your previous bad deeds, Jaimini suggests the worship of the relevant deities who are also the different forms of God based on the three qualities. Through these worships, you are expected to realize the one God present in the deities. Thus, Astrology should lead into spiritual knowledge. The nine lights (Jyoti) are the nine planets, which are lit by the original light i.e., God (Param Jyotih… Veda). Thus, Astrology in its real sense means the spiritual knowledge of God. The followers of Jaimini (Purvamimamsa) misunderstood Jaimini as an atheist just like Buddhists misunderstood Buddha. The worship of the concerned deities indicated by Astrology involves the rituals. The tradition is good, which aims at God finally. It is twisted, misinterpreted and exploited for selfish earning by Astrologers and priests because the people became selfish to get materialistic benefits and to solve the problems only. This wrong direction can be allowed for some time in the beginning but should not continue for the whole life because the soul should not fall in the permanent hell.

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