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[Mrs. Priyanka asked: Even when the unimaginable God comes down as human incarnation, He "knows" about the pot due to His unimaginable power only and not because of awareness of the human incarnation right?]
Swami Replied: In the case of the human incarnation, the unimaginable God merged with God Datta, and God Datta merged with the human being component. Finally, it means the unimaginable God merged with the soul and body of the human being. Whenever the unimaginable God wants to express Himself, the body or the soul of the human being component behaves with unimaginable power. Because there was a perfect merge of unimaginable God...
[Shri Bharat Krishna asked: The following question is from Shri. D. Subhas Chandra Bose.
Shri. D. Subhas Chandra Bose: I have everything in my life. Although I don't lack anything and live a sophisticated life, why am I still feeling restless and have no peace of mind? Kindly answer his question Swami.]
Swami Replied: Since you are very much attached to materialism, naturally, lack of peace is the fruit of worldly life. If you sit in a fire and ask why your skin is burnt, the answer is very clear even to a child. I don’t mean...
[Shri PVNM Sharma asked:- You said that God Datta and Parabrahman are one and the same. But, there are differences like: Parabrahman is having no beginning and end whereas God Datta has beginning without end. Is it not a significant difference?]
Swami replied:- Parabrahman is unmediated God whereas God Datta is mediated Parabrahman. When Parabrahman is mediated, you are using the word Datta to refer to the same Parabrahman, not to the external medium...
[Shri Ganesh V asked: Padanamskaram Swamiji, What is it that we can learn from the story of Lord Muruga or Lord Karthikeya and the fruit of knowledge? At Your Divine feet, Ganesh V]
Swami Replied: God Subrahmanya is an incarnation of God Shiva and contains God Datta along with ParaBrahman. He is the goal to be worshipped for His Grace. There is no difference between ParaBrahman...
Smt. Sudha asked: Jaya Guru Datta Swami. Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You. Swami for Your kind concern in every minute of my life. Enlightening me to understand the experience of Your kind grace in this life. To establish peace in the world, the establishment of Universal Spirituality is a must. Few traditions that You started in Islam like Jihad, Halal are misunderstood as the hurdles to establish peace and social integrity among two sects, I feel. Please explain the original concept...
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Which is more important in spirituality? Loving the goal (God)? Or loving the journey towards the goal? -At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhanu Samykya.]
Swami Replied: The path towards God is also precious due to the preciousness of God, the Goal only. Once, a monkey told Rama ‘You are unable to build the bridge on the sea. But, when we write Your name on the stones...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
[sa vedaitat paramaṃ brahma dhāma yatra viśvaṃ nihitaṃ bhāti śubhram.
upāsate puruṣaṃ ye hyakāmāste śukrametadativartanti dhīrāḥ
Here, kindly clarify if Brahma Dhaama refers to an incarnation...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Please give the true interpretations of the following verses from the Mundaka Upanishat?
In these important Mundaka verses
nāyamātmā pravacanena labhyo na medhayā na bahunā śrutena .
yamevaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhya-stasyaiṣa ātmā...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Swami Replied: The word Praana denotes Parabrahman or God Datta only because God is expressed as breath or life in the sense of simile expressed as metaphor. Madhva uses the word MukhyaPraana, which means...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
[If one has good savings, is it ok to take voluntary retirement? This gives the opportunity to practically propagate Spiritual Knowledge full-time as Karma Samnyasa. But the other way is to work hard as before even after needed savings but give Karma Phala Tyaga fully...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
[You have said that the Human Incarnation comes down to enjoy within the creation and hence due to self-imposed ignorance, He chooses to not know the future events in His life. But we see that He is simultaneously able to respond to devotees’ prayers...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Happiness is only a feeling in the mind. But humans seem to be craving for happiness all the time sometimes using even spirituality only as a means to attain happiness. Is it possible to get out of this craving for happiness and focus only on Love towards God like Sudaama whose Love for Lord Krishna was always High even in the time of extreme poverty? Currently, I feel if there is a difficult phase with...
Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
In a recent incident, one acquaintance (know him only through a business transaction) called me about his daughter in ICU and needing some money for expenses. He promised to give it back in a day or two. But even after several weeks after his daughter...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Swami Replied: For speaking spiritual knowledge, Laptop is not the criterion. A question is the criterion to make Me speak the spiritual knowledge. For marriage, the availability of a function hall is not the criterion...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Swami Replied: If people understand the figure of speech called metaphor (rūpaka alaṅkāra) as a concentrated form of simile (upamā alaṅkāra) alone, all these misunderstandings would not have come. God is compared to breath or life in the sense that just like all the inert (heart functioning etc.) and non-inert (activities of brain) activities of the body take place as long as breathing is going on...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Swami Replied: Karma Phala Tyaga means sacrifice of the fruit earned by your hard work. If you go to a shop to purchase an item, the shop keeper will not say that he will sell any item in the shop if you can pay only the fruit of your hard work. For the shop keeper, it is immaterial whether the money paid by you is the fruit of your hard work or the ancestral money got by you. God in the Gita...
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Swami Replied: Hanuman reached Brahma Loka and is given the boon that He will become the future Brahma (this means that God Brahma will merge with Him in the future since God Brahma or God Datta is the Eternal first energetic incarnation). Hanuman got monistic salvation because He is to become one with God. This is the highest fruit and Hanuman got this highest fruit...
Shri Divakar asked: Padnamskaram Swami, In the family, one person met with an accident and is undergoing severe pain and because of this incident, the remaining family members undergo mental pain. We can say that, physical pain the particular person is undergoing is nothing but fruit of his bad deed, but Swami, what about the mental pain the other family members undergo, is that also by fruit...
Shri Divakar asked: How to interpret Free will and Karma. Are these interrelated anywhere in the life of an individual? Your Servant, Divakar
Swami replied:- Whenever you do an action, you have the freedom to do it in one way or to do it in other ways or not to do it at all. Such freedom existing in the case of good and bad deeds is called free will...
Smt. Priyanka asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Can You please give us a discourse on the most important points from all the 4 Vedas...
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