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1. Devotees are within certain boundaries whereas social reformers are unbounded. Please comment.
[Smt. Sudha Rani asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Thank You, Swami, for guiding us from darkness to light. Below is a question from a social servant. “In society, devotees are observed to be within certain boundaries, whereas social reformers are unbounded...
Shri Anil asked:- A question raised in an internet forum: Is it true that in Vrindavan, Radha and Krishna come to do Rasa leela at night and that if someone watches them doing so, then that person becomes blind or mentally disabled?
Swami replied:- There are concrete examples about this statement. The devotees, who wanted to observe the facts about God Krishna dancing with Radha and Gopikas stayed in Vrindavan (Brundaavanam)...
[Shri. Ajay asked:- Even though a devotee is associated with God, why such devotee is pulled back by the worldly bonds? Are the worldly bonds the strongest?]
Swami replied:- Let Me accept your assumption that the worldly bonds are the strongest. In such case, there should be no greater bond to pull the devotee towards its side since the worldly bonds are the strongest. I am giving an example of another bond that drags the human being from its grip of worldly bonds. For example, take the case of a drunkard...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami. When God is magnet, as soon as the iron object comes to it, it will be spontaneously attracted. In such case, why should there be initial effort on the path of the devotee to get attracted to God?]
Swami replied:- The magnet is always a magnet and always attracts the magnetic materials like steel and the iron objects spontaneously. But, a magnet will not attract other non-magnetic...
1. I request You to give the essence of the following verse.
[Shri Anil asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, few verses from Quran and Hadith are given below. I request You to give the essence of these verses. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil.
1. And [they] said, ‘Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah. But they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble...
1. What is the meaning of ‘He who renounced the pleasure of a wife has renounced the pleasure of the world and God is very near to him’?
[Shri Anil Antony asked:- What is the meaning of ‘He who renounced the pleasure of a wife has renounced the pleasure of the world and God is very near to him’? This is referring to the Gospel of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Let me tell you something. He who has renounced the pleasure of a wife has verily renounced the pleasure of the world. God is very near to such a person."]
Swami replied:- This means that if one has defeated the bond with spouse before the bond...
Shri Ganesh V asked:- Swamiji, what are the different problems that can be created if we end up thinking God to be awareness? One problem you have mentioned is that the soul might think to be God if both soul and God are awareness. To negate this erroneous assumption, the concept of unimaginable God is required. Are there any more problems...
Shri Soumyadip asked: Sastanga pronam Swami jee, "Kumati nibare, sumati ki sangi" is what one achieves from Lord Hanuman.
1. Is it called chittashuddhi? 2. Is it the pabitra mind required for worship of God? Or, 3. Is it the result of continuous...
Shri Surya asked: Namaskaram Swami. If the incarnation is believed to be Guru, He guides by giving true spiritual knowledge. But, if He is believed to be incarnation of God, He will make the aspirant walk on the path of God (Swami ga nammina nadipistaanu – Telugu Bhakti Ganga). What is the meaning of making the aspirant to walk on the path...
1. Is it not called crossing the Anahata cakra when the mother of Shankara allowed Him for propagation of knowledge?
[Smt. Anita S R asked: Swamiji Shatakoti Pranamamulu🙏🙇♀️🙏 Guru Datta Sri Sri Prabhu Datta 🙇♀️🌺
Q1)Swamiji You have stated many a times that till now nobody crossed the Anahata chakra. But, with the permission of His mother Sri Shankaracharya left home for Propagation of Spiritual...
1. I request You to give the essence of the following verse.
[Paadanamaskaaram Swami, few verses from Quran and Hadith are given below. I request You to give the essence of these verses. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil.
1. And [they] said, ‘Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah. But they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble...
Śrī Phani said:- Today, we are celebrating Guru Purnima, the birthday of Sage Veda Vyaasa. A Guru removes our ignorance. God Datta is also called as Guru Datta, who always incarnates on earth to remove our ignorance. Our beloved Sadguru, His Holiness Shri Datta Swami, is the contemporary incarnation of God Datta. He came down in human form to give us the excellent spiritual knowledge and remove our ignorance. He is showing the right path and taking us in the right direction. We all have...
13. Is there any pre-plan for the birth of every human being?
[Śrī Ravinder Reddy asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami! Is there any pre-plan for the birth of every human being? Is there any change in karma implementation in the human life? Can we escape from past karma? Swamiji, will there be any impact of the karma from previous life to the present life?]
Swami replied:- Everybody has a pre-plan. If you want to do something, you will have a pre-plan. If you want to build a house, you have to take the plan first. Is it not? Pre-planning is an inevitable step for any activity of a human being. When the human being leaves this gross body, the soul will go to the upper worlds of heaven and hell to enjoy the fruits...
26. Please explain about that ultimate aim of life.
[Śrī Surya asked:- But, Swami, we have to really keep the aim of life as God. Can You explain about the aim of life?]
Swami replied:- A true devotee thinks “My aim of life is to serve God only, but not to serve the world. I am maintaining my body only to serve God. I am not maintaining my body for my self-pleasure to enjoy the worldly pleasures. My aim of life is only to please God by practical service and sacrifice”. For such true devotee, God takes his/her personal and family expenses...
[Shri Ramakanth asked:-]
1. What is the role of ego and jealousy in Nivrutti?
Swami replied:- Ego and jealousy play a negative role in Pravrutti as well as in Nivrutti...
1. Why did Bhagavan Ramana not tell directly to meditate on God to a devotee, Annamalai?
[Shri Ramakanth asked:- Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi told to His disciple, Annamalai Swami, the below when he was repeatedly affected by sexual desire - “If you instead meditate ‘To whom does this thought come?’, it will fly away of its own accord. You are not the body or the mind, you are the self. Meditate on this and all your desires will leave you”. Here, by ‘self’, is He is referring to Atman...
Shri Lakshman G asked:- Paadanamaskaarams Swami. In Your reply to a question of a devotee, You had mentioned "It is not the question of desire. It is only the natural tendency to change the variety of enjoyment. Desire is the wish for something, which causes misery in its absence". Please clear my following doubt.
In the case of Parabrahman, the wish to create a second thing must have been a desire to kill His boredom (due to the absence of the second thing). Can this boredom be called a misery...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swamiji, please clarify an Advaita concept called ‘Bimba-Pratibimba Vāda’ (The argument of object and its reflection) about which I am questioned by scholars during my visit to Sanskrit University, Kalady.]
Swami replied:- The Parabrahman (unimaginable God) is beyond space. For a Bimba (object) to get reflected, it needs volume or the three spatial dimensions. Then, how can Parabrahman become bimba as per Advaita? Any Bimba belongs to the imaginable...
[Ms. Saatvika asked:- When both the creation and myself (being part of creation) are real due to the gifted reality from God, how can we say that bond with family is unreal?]
Swami replied:- Even though the world is real due to the gifted absolute reality from God, the world is inherently unreal whereas the absolute reality of God is inherently real. The reality of the world...
1. Can we say that Gopikas were also Sthitaprajna when God Krishna was in physical proximity?
[Ms. Saatvika asked:- Can we say that Gopikas were also Sthitaprajna when God Krishna was in physical proximity? Only when He left Brundaavanam, they became mad?]
Swami replied:- In situations like the separation from God Krishna only, the state of Sthitaprajna...
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