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Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked: Namaste Swami. You are always saying that God is real husband of all souls and all souls are His wives, then how could sex between Lord Krishna and Gopikas becomes illegitimate! I feel this was legitimate and sex between Gopikas and their husbands was wrong because both are wives of Lord Krishna. How could anyone say that sex between two ladies is legitimate. Please clarify. Thank You Swami.
Swami replied:- The word husband (Bhartaa) means maintainer and the word wife (Bhaaryaa) means maintained...
Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I offer the attached question at Your divine lotus feet. Why in the Māṇḍūkya Upanishad are the waker (viśva) and the dreamer (taijasa) said to be made of seven parts (saptāṅga), whereas the Prājña is said to be single and undifferentiated...
Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Blessed Swami, please enlighten me on a question to clear some worries I have at Your convenience. Realizing the human Incarnation seems extraordinary difficult under normal circumstances. Especially in today’s time where the population is relatively high compared to known historical estimates. From a few angles it seems very difficult...
Shri Phani asked: In one of Your messages, You said that God is past eternal. God is beyond space and time. How can we understand the past eternality of God as eternal means existing in all times like past, present and future? All the mediated incarnations (energetic or human) are eternal only existing in all the times. How can past eternal be understood in this context of mediated incarnations...
Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Hello Your Holiness Datta Swami, may praise be healed onto Your glory for all eternity. My question is pertaining to sin. It’s been stated by You that sin is a result of either force or fear. If you accidentally cause someone to fear you without intending to do so, such as say in the case of a person who you stumble into or you scare an animal while driving a motor vehicle, or you say something...
Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Praise unto Your Holiness, Hello Swami, In Your Sutras You mention that the 4 gates to hell are 1. Illegal Sex, 2. Illegal Acquisition of Wealth or Corrupt gain of Wealth, 3. Violence through Anger, 4. Over fascination to worldly bonds. You mention these as the major categorical sins, with the triggering factors being Force and Fear which are the ultimate driving initiator’s in all sin...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Paadanamaskaram Swami. I have found several videos on a discussion between Christianity and Islam regarding the point that whether Jesus is a messenger or the son of God. Please give me a clear picture on this topic.]
Swami replied: First of all, you must understand the basic concept in Christianity, which is the Divine Trinity. God, Holy Spirit and Son of God constitute the Trinity. You must clearly know the details of each item of this Trinity.
God:- God is beyond space because God is the generator of space. Space cannot exist in God before space is generated. If space exists in God before its generation, it means that space is not generated from God because already space is existing...
[Dr. JSR Prasad asked:- In the Veda, there are statements showing mutual contradictions like:-
1) Na karmaṇā… says that the action (karma) will not help in pleasing God and Kurvanneveha karmāṇi… says that the action (karma) must be done to please God and
2) Prajātantuṃ mā vyavacchetsīḥ… says that issues must be generated and Na prajayaa… and kiṃ prajayā karishyāmaḥ… say that issues are useless to lift the soul by pleasing God. How to resolve these two contradictions found...
[Dr. JSR Prasad asked:- If the path of action or work is so important in view of the sacrifice of fruit of work, why did Shankara condemn the path of action (Karmamaarga) supported by Puurvamiimaamsaa propagated by Mandana Mishra and supported only the path of knowledge (Jnaana maarga)?]
Swami replied:- If you carefully analyse your question derived from the answer given by Me for your first question, there is no need of opposition. The reason is that Shankara condemned the Karmamaarga...
With salutations at the Lotus feet of our Datta Swami, I would like to present a recent divine experience given by our contemporary human incarnation Shri Datta Swami. Every year we will be having LTC as a part of our service conditions. In my case three slots were pending and we decided to go on tour to Tamilnadu. I informed the same to Shri Datta Swami and Swamiji graced His permission to go on tour to Tamilnadu...
Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Hello Shri Datta Swami, blessings unto Your divine grace. Thank You always for answering questions. My question was how does one discern a good person from a bad person? We can only see what a person acts like in the little bit of time we interact with them. This isn’t to mention the time away from us, their thoughts, their intentions or especially their past...
Shri Lakshman asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Question 1: This is with reference to the newly added shloka (11) to the Jivatma Tatva Prakaranam, where You mentioned that the mediated God (God Datta) is also past eternal. So can we conclude that all human incarnations are also past eternal.
Swami replied: God Datta is mediated unimaginable God. Here, there is one energetic medium only. In the case of Krishna, above God Datta, a human medium exists. The first case is God with silk shirt and the second case is the same God...
Ms. Thrylokya asked: Paadanamaskaram Swami! You told that God merges with both the body and soul of a selected-devotee while forming human incarnation. The answers given by You to the questions of Shri G Lakshman in yesterday’s satsanga in the context of deep sleep, show that God merges with the soul only and not the body.]
Swami replied: When we are talking about deep sleep, it pertains only to the soul (loosely meaning individual soul that stands for awareness) and not to the body. Hence, the context of merge of God with the body is completely...
[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied: If the sinful money is already earned, it is better to spend it for God because God alone can digest the sinful money, which is a horrible poison that not only destroys the sinner but also his future dynasty...
Smt. Sudha T asked: Padanamaskaram Swami! Thank You Swami for protecting us at every moment. During difficult times, I am remembering You and worshipping You alertly. Other times, my mind is thinking about worldly people only and worldly issues only. How do I remember You and worship You every minute...
।।गुरुदत्त शरणाष्टकम्।।
।।Guru Datta Śaraṇāṣṭakam।।
(Composed by His Holiness Shri Dattaswami)
सकलं परचक्र परिभ्रमणं
मनुते परमात्म कथाश्रवणः ।
ननु यो विनुतस्तनुते स सुखं
भव दत्त गुरूत्तम! मे शरणम् ।।१।।...
Shri Durgaprasad asked: Paadanamskaaram Swami, You mentioned that even for a reformed soul, the punishments are only postponed (by keeping in cold storage for a very long time) and not cancelled. But, Gita says Jnanagni Sarvakarmaani... meaning the karma file is burnt whole together after reformation through knowledge. Kindly remove my confusion...
Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Dear Your Holiness and most excellent Swami, Blessings onto You and Your devotees. In the path of Nivrutti, You have explained very much about the importance of theoretical devotion and the importance of knowing the Divine personality of God. How are we to understand in-depth the personality of God? There are stories of You and we can spend time with the human incarnation, and we can read scriptures...
Shri Hrushikesh asked: Dear Swami, one of my friends asked the below question. Request You to kindly answer.
Question: Vasudeva and Devaki were Kashyapa and Aditi in their previous birth, they asked Lord Vishnu to grant a boon, that Lord Vishnu to be born as their child for three future births. Did Vasudeva and Devaki remember their previous births? Did they remember about the boon they asked? Did they know that their previous life boon is being fulfilled now? Did they know that Krishna was Vishnu? Also if they didn't know that they were Kashyapa...
Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, an eminent preacher belonging to the Advaita tradition claims that as per the Gītā, the step of karma precedes jñāna. I have formulated a question based on that claim and request Your kind clarification. Regards, Nikhil
Question: An Advaita preacher said: We agree that the paths of karma yoga (action of sacrifice & service) and jñāna yoga (spiritual knowledge) are not two parallel paths leading to the same goal, but sequential steps that lead to the same goal of mokṣa (liberation). So, in the spiritual path, one step leads to the other, which in turn leads to the final goal of liberation. This was explained by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Gītā...
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