[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied:- Ms. Thrylokya! What happened to you? Recently, you are raising this topic often. Liberal spending is different from unnecessary spending. The soul commonly errs to distinguish between these two due to the predominance of Rajas and Tamas, provoking pomp and show. It is better to give Guru Dakshina in the form of money...
[Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: Padha Namaskaram Swami]
Swami replied:- Worship involves practical steps of service and sacrifice under the headline Karma Yoga, which means that Karma Yoga is the ultimate step. The practical service and sacrifice can be enjoyed...
[Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: Padha Namaskaram Swami]
Swami replied:- Due to your selfishness, depression is appearing like a tsunami in your ocean...
[Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: Padha Namaskaram Swami]
[What is the purpose of my existence? Swami, My Goal is You and I promise that I will do everything which pleases You but I feel that I am not useful because I don't see myself in consistent progress. Most of the time I am into worldly stuff and all my time...
[Shri Jayesh asked: Padanamaskaram Swami JI! How can someone who is unable to meet you offer an iota of Guru Dakshina to You? Below Your Feet.]
Swami replied:- You can contact Shri P Surya...
Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, when I read knowledge, I get to understand that God is real relationship of soul. So automatically some desires like speaking to God, etc., arises. At the same time, You have said that a devotee should always think that he/ she is undeserving to be in association of God and only then they will be deserving. How to balance these 2 opposite feelings? I.e., wanting the association...
[By Ms. Thrylokya]
My beloved Sadguru Shri Datta Swami,
To celebrate the joy of Your 77th birthday, I would like to pen down 77 qualities of Your divine personality, which I could recognize from my limited knowledge acquired from Your preaching of spiritual knowledge and little personal experience of Your priceless association. You are
1. My Datta:- You have given Yourself to the world of devotees, including an undeserving person like me. As You said, the word ‘Datta’ means ‘that which is given’. God Datta means the incarnation through which unmediated-unimaginable...
(A dedication to my Supreme Being on His birthday)
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Personality of Swami is just not thinkable,
It’s so great that it is indeed not even imaginable!
The more we put effort to know, the more we get amazed...
Shri Ganesh V asked: Padanamaskaram Swamiji, What is the real meaning of Mantra Pushpam, which is chanted at the end of every pooja? (Yo'pam pushpam veda) Does it roughly mean that there is interchangeability between different forms of matter and one who knows this gets some fulfilment in life. If yes, how can knowing the interchangeability between different forms of matter be the source of fulfilment...
Shri Jayesh Pandey asked: Padanamaskaram Swami ji! I hesitate very much to approach to You regarding anything. Is this a correct code of conduct? (Thanks to You and to the Devotees involved...
1 You advice to be always happy. But, Radha suffered a lot in the separation of Krishna. Does this also come under Your advice?
[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied:- Radha suffering in the separation from Krishna comes under the category of divine devotion (Bhakti Yoga, the second step). My advice to everyone to always be happy is related to worldly life...
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Swami, the direct incarnation of Lord Datta, You Yourself are the Parabrahman, the unimaginable God,
Descended down to this earth to uplift ignorant souls like us, mad about all worldly bonds.
We will remain ignorant forever even after getting Your knowledge...
[By Dr. JSR Prasad]
Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāram Swami!
1. The path of Pravrutti: I am born as a sixth child in a lower middle-class family that is semi-orthodox in tradition. I used to go to temples of Anjaneya Swami, Sri Venkateshwara and Shiva in my town. At the age of 13, my father sent me to the Sanskrit school cum college run by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam with lodging and boarding facility being run in Hyderabad. It was compulsory for all the students to recite Venkateswara Suprabhatam...
(Questions from Smt. Chhandaa and answers from Shri Datta Swami in the form of aphorisms. Questions are given in square brackets.)
Narāntima janma puruṣa iti cet na, tribandhamātrāt. |1|
[Smt. Chhandaa asked:- About the salvation of Vivekananda, I am feeling that it is not mandatory for the soul to be born as female in the last birth.]
Swami replied:- When all the three strongest bonds are tested, the final birth shall be of female because Daareshanaa can be tested only when the devotee is a married female. Arjuna was Sage Nara and Sage Nara
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, You told that climax devotees reach the abode of God (BrahmaLoka, Goloka, etc.) directly. Then, which souls reach the six worlds above earth? Since doing karma is possible only on earth i.e., Karmaloka, what is the saadhana they do for God when they cannot do karma?]
Swami replied:- The spiritual aspirants misled by certain ignorant thoughts...
[Shri Hrushikesh asked:- As per our discussion about the journey of souls to Urdhva lokas. Kindly elaborate on the journey from Marthyaloka or earth to Jana Loka and Tapoloka?]
Swami replied:- The completely liberated soul goes to Brahmaloka...
[Shri Phani Kumar asked:- Some people do only theoretical devotion, some people do only practical devotion and some other people do both theoretical and practical devotion. What is the reason for this variation?]
Swami replied:- If the worldly bonds are broken theoretically, the souls do only theoretical...
[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied:- Jealousy is always based on ego. If ego is crossed, as indicated by the crossing of ‘I’ in a cross, jealousy has no basis and cannot rise at all. Ego can be crossed by total surrender to God. In the process of total surrender, there are two steps:- i) In the preliminary step, you think that success in a work belongs to God and failure...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: What is the necessity of promising on God in the marriage if the husband and wife have true love to each other? The promise appears as a force to bind both together. True love does not need force. Please comment on this.]
Swami replied:- God has two sides. One is justice and other is love. Justice is related...
[A poem by Smt. Chhandaa Chandra on Shri Datta Swami]
Swami name itself brings bliss infinite,
I don’t know, for this grace, how long I had to wait.
He has given to me a very special honor...