13 Aug 2025
1. Knowledge is My true natural form –Love is My true natural beauty!
These two are identification marks to identify Me –The eight miraculous powers are My ornaments.
Even the sons of demons doing rigid penance
Attain from Me the eight miraculous powers here.
Those considering them as identification marks are ignorant.
They are greedy trying to satisfy their selfish desires.
2. Why are the eight powers necessary? – Why are ornaments needed for the beautiful?
Knowledge-Yoga is My form – The scholar recognizes the person
3. Without completing Spiritual Effort – After attaining some powers
Thinking as Incarnations, Gurus they say –‘Brahmāham’
Dattatreya, who is the Knowledge-Sun – when appeared in the logic-sky.
The darkness and the fraud gurus – scatter and run away.
4. Leave the illusion of eight miraculous powers – Magics and wonders are for children.
Reach the goal through the Jnana yoga – Jnana yoga means to know and teach
- (From Swami Bhajans)
The soul comes to believe that God exists because of the miracles. But gradually, the soul develops jealousy and hatred towards the incarnation who displayed those miracles and tries to attain those miraculous powers. He too wants to become God by attaining those miraculous powers. These miraculous powers are wealth of Swami. Even if the rigid demons obtain them through rigid penance from Swami, who is the Father of all, they cannot become Swami. They cannot attain the beauty of the form of knowledge and love, which cannot be separated from Him. Those possessing knowledge call the strong man possessing the strength of a tiger a tiger, but the ignorant children call one in the disguise of a tiger a tiger. The ignorant consider the miraculous powers as the identity marks of Swami. The angels who conquered the demons and Parashurama, who killed all the Kshatriyas, became egoistic, thinking that the miraculous powers were theirs and their ego was crushed. They could not realize that it was Shri Datta Parabrahman who performed those miracles through them!
It was the current that lit the light, not the wire. No matter how many miracles He performed, Shri Hanuman, the incarnation who always remained in the feeling of servant (Dāsa bhāva), achieved victory and fame on all occasions. Through miracles, to satisfy their selfish desires, the devotees pretend devotion like a prostitute aspiring money; the devotees gather in large numbers, like people aspiring money are taken to a politician's speech in lorries. What is the use of such heaps of gravel stones? Are four devotees like diamonds, like the disciples who came to Shankaracharya with interest in spiritual knowledge, not enough?
There are many incarnations of God Datta at the same time. There were incarnations of Parashurama and Shri Rama, Akkalkot Maharaj and Shirdi Sai at the same time. He who says, "I alone am Datta," is a fool. He who says, “I only have done the miracles” that were actually done by Shri Datta is ignorant. Through many incarnations at the same time, the same God Datta performs many kinds of miracles. The same electricity, flowing through many wires at the same time, lights up the lights, makes the radio play and turns the fan.
Swami
(Jannabhatla Venugopala Krishnamurthy)
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