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Correctness of Practice Decided by Correct Spiritual Knowledge Verified by Analysis

Posted on: 06/08/2016

Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible 5. True and False Prophets [Matthew 7:15-20] 15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.]

Swami replied: A preacher is called as Guru with little or half knowledge and is very dangerous like a wolf covered by leather of sheep. This leather of sheep is spiritual knowledge related to God and by this external leather, you get attracted and approach the false preacher. The Guru strictly following the knowledge of human form of God (Satguru) is not dangerous since he is sheep inside and outside, following strictly the text like sheep...

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First Part of Scripture Presents Severe Discipline and Firm Faith

Posted on: 06/08/2016

Shri Anil asked: [Q1) Some of the Muslim devotees says that their religions is the only true path because Quran says so. They quote the following verses in support of it. a. Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam. And those who were given the Scripture did not differ except after knowledge had come to them - out of jealous animosity between themselves. And whoever disbelieves in the verses of Allah , then indeed, Allah is swift in [taking] account. [Quran: 3:19] b. The Quran says (what means): "And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the life to come he shall be among the losers.” [Quran 3:85]. c. "This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favor upon you and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.” [Quran 5:3]...

Swami replied: Following a religion strictly and simultaneously following the universal spirituality of all world religions are one and the same concept. I illustrate this by an example. You have the required medicine for a specific disease in a single bottle. If you strictly take 4ml of the medicine per day from that single bottle only, your illness is completely cured, since the quality of the medicine is same in all the four bottles. 4ml per day from a single bottle or 1ml per day from four bottles stand to be the same in both quality...

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Ignorance and Half Knowledge Appear as Right Knowledge Based on Level Of Receiver

Posted on: 31/07/2016

Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, [Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible. 2. The eye is the lamp of the body [Matthew 6:22-23] 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!]

Swami replied: Here, the eye and sight referred indicate the highest faculty in the body called as intelligence doing analysis discriminating false and truth. The knowledge or awareness is the light. If darkness enters the light (awareness), such darkness must be greater than the light (awareness). Here, darkness means wrong knowledge. The wrong concept entering the awareness is denoted by the darkness entering light. It is said that the whole body will be filled with light...

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Reaction of God is Reflection of Your Action

Posted on: 30/07/2016

Shri Phani asked: It is said that if we move one foot towards God, God will move hundred feet towards us. What is the meaning of this statement?

Swami replied: The subject about the relationship between God and devotee is of two types: 1) Nivrutti and 2) Pravrutti. In Nivrutti, the devotee serves God practically with full knowledge and climax of devotion without aspiring for any fruit in return. This type of devotion is almost practically impossible in this world and is applicable hardly to one or two devotees, that too, after strenuous spiritual effort for millions of births as said in the Gita (Kashchitmaam, bahunaam janmanaam). In Pravrutti, the devotion means only for fruit in return from God. Almost all the world is based on this devotion only. If the aspiration of fruit is deleted, there will be no concept of God at all in this world and I very surely tell...

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Everyone Must Spend Some Money for Propagation of Spiritual Knowledge

Posted on: 17/07/2016

Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, [Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible written by St. Mathew. Some of the verses are stand alone verses giving enough understanding still Your commentaries on those are requested for the benefit of all devotees. 1. Treasures in Heaven [Matthew 6:19-21] 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.]

Swami replied: Treasures on earth clearly mean the money and wealth only. This money and wealth stored in world for worldly bonds or personal enjoyment is always attacked by theft resulting in destruction. Whenever wealth is stored, the immediate virus that attacks it is ambition to grow it more. Just like the food stored is bacterialized, similarly wealth stored is also bacterialized in so many ways. The wealth in heaven means devotion to God in theoretical and practical senses. If you take the devotion in theoretical sense only, does it mean that you should not earn and store the wealth practically in this world and get immersed in theoretical devotion only? In such case, if you are involved in theoretical devotion like worships, prayers and devotional songs etc., how to earn the livelihood...

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Solution of God Looks Odd Since Various Factors Involved Not Known

Posted on: 16/07/2016

Shri Anil asked: Kindly give some suggestion regarding the solution of issue of Kashmir. When you are asked about the issue of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana long back before its solution came, you gave the correct prediction and it happened.

Swami replied: First, you must have full faith in the administration of God. He is omniscient and omnipotent knowing what to do and when to do. His solution, many a time, looks odd to you. The reason is that you are not aware of various factors involved in that issue. Your information about the issue is just like newspaper giving information about a case. That is superficial. If the same issue is proceeding as a case in the court with cross examinations followed by arguments of lawyers and if you are regularly sitting in the gallery of the court hall following the case very carefully, your information is total and perfect...

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Parabrahma Gita-10: Selfless Sacrifice And Service

Posted on: 13/07/2016

Blessed Dependence

Dr. Nikhil

Often have I wondered, and so have other devotees of Swami,
With jewels of virtuous soulslined up, sages and angels holy,
For the rarest chance of serving God Incarnate of supreme glory,
“Why did You choose a dull stone like meas a servant,O Swami”...

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Merge of Son With God Referred Wedding

Posted on: 10/07/2016

Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible written by St. Mathew. Some of the verses are stand alone verses giving enough understanding still Your commentaries on those are requested for the benefit of all devotees. [MATHEW 1.    The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17) 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan...

Swami Replied: All the people do not know that Jesus is God in human form. Today, we both are knowing that truth. Your question does not apply to the present time. It applies to that past time and to that past region when and where Jesus was crucified even on hearing that He was son of God and not to speak of God in human form! There are three stages. In the first stage Jesus is just a human being born miraculously to His mother before His father met her. Certainly, the basis and the process of generation of Jesus is a miracle, an unimaginable event, which is beyond logic. Even though the basis...

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Even in Pravrutti be Grateful to God Since God is Awarding Fruits

Posted on: 10/07/2016

Shri Anil asked: Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible written by St. Mathew. Some of the verses are stand alone verses giving enough understanding still Your commentaries on those are requested for the benefit of all devotees. [2.     The Temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11) 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Swami replied: Jesus was in penance for God on the hill for 40 days without taking even a piece of bread. He was not hungry because He stopped taking bread not by force. He was immersed in the knowledge of details of God and subsequently in the love (devotion) to God. It was absorption by theoretical knowledge and theoretical devotion by which the hunger and thirst were not felt at all. Whenever you are strongly interested...

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Lives of Rama and Krishna Alike Excepting Incidents in Brindavanam

Posted on: 09/07/2016

Shri Ajay asked: Swami! Please explain the essence of Bhagavatam with elaborate analysis, which is very complicated to understand.

Swami replied: If the goal is highest, there will be highest complication in the path. If the goal is at certain achievable height, the path to it will not have so much complication. Therefore, the intensity of complication increases as the height of the goal increases. Pravrutti is at normal height and is selected by majority of humanity. Here, you have to vote for justice against injustice in this path of pravrutti. You are protected by God in this path as long as you follow justice avoiding injustice. God also encourages this path of pravrutti in many ways by granting several rewards. If you do not want highest complication, avoid the goal of nivrutti and confine yourself with the path of pravrutti, which is followed by majority. In pravrutti employer-employee relationship exists between God and devotee. As long as the employee...

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Parabrahma Gita-11: Uttara Parabrahma Gita

Posted on: 05/07/2016

Unimaginable God

If Nivrutti-sacrifices are impossible for humanity, why to preach those?

If highest Nivrutti is goal, higher Pravrutti goal is reached very easily,

If 100 marks are goal, at least 40 pass marks can be surely achieved,

Moreover, Nivrutti is achieved by one in millions and that too after

Millions of generations, as Gita says, Nivrutti is almost impossible...

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Path of Justice Means Not Doing Injustice in Practice

Posted on: 05/07/2016

Shri P V N M Sharma asked: If we worship God, past sins are destroyed directly. When the direct way is available, why should we reform our minds and follow non-repetition of sin to destroy past sins?

Swami replied: Worship of God is expected to purify and reform the soul. Reformation means non-repetition of sin in practical sense. If you say that you are fully reformed but you are repeating the sin now and then, it is absurd. It only means that you have not attained full reformation of the soul. Reformation is theoretical and non-repetition of sin is a practical step. Doing something is practical and also not doing a specific action is also a practical step. Even though you are expected to do something and if you are not doing that thing, it shows your practical resistance to do that thing. This resistance to do a practical thing...

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In Krutayuga Souls Were Bound to Word of God

Posted on: 05/07/2016

Shri Phani asked: The mind is always attacked with several ideas and due to this even the health gets spoiled. What is the remedy for this?

Swami replied: If one is in the mud pond in which lotus flowers also exist, he will get both the smell of mud and smell of lotus flowers. Both the scents reach one’s mind through nose and this process is unavoidable and inevitable as said in the Gita (Prakrutim yaanti bhutaani, Nigrahah kim karishayati?). The ratio of bad scent of mud and good scent of lotus flowers depends upon the ratio of injustice and justice in the world. In Krutayuga, only good scent was there since the pond is full of good water only and no trace of mud existed in it. The mud existed as soil outside of the water pond, which never entered the pond as mud...

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Fear Essential in Absence of Reformation as it Controls Soul to Some Extent

Posted on: 05/07/2016

Shri Anil asked: Recently you mentioned a case of devil in Parabrahma Gita. Could he not be reformed by the process of repentance?

Swami replied: I am presenting the entire case with all details neither to project Myself as doer of miracles nor to blame that devotee with vengeance. The main purpose is only that this will help the humanity to be aware of ego by which anybody will be destroyed. This devotee had all types of ego except the ego of wealth since he was suffering severely without job and income. This one defect controlled him suppressing all other types of ego. Types of ego are: 1) due to caste, 2) due to gender, 3) due to education and knowledge, 4) due to wealth, 5) due to beauty of body, 6) due to colour of body, 7) due to age of youth...

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Read Stories And See Pictures Of God To Develop Spontaneous Devotion

Posted on: 03/07/2016

Shri Pavan asked: What is the practical spiritual knowledge to be given to an ordinary human being? What is the goal of various stories narrated in the secondary scriptures called Puranams?

Swami replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God, the practical spiritual knowledge, which is the essence of the Gita and other scriptures is that you should approach God simply by your attraction to God (based on His Divine personality that is expressed through several stories presented in scriptures), which is the natural and spontaneous love or devotion. The best example is your love for your issues in which you are prepared to sacrifice what all you earned in the entire life even though your issues are insulting you throughout your life. You are prepared to do any sin for their sake. Such love should be expressed to God aspiring no fruit in return as in the case of your issues. You may argue that such love cannot be expressed to an outsider, be the God. Your argument is not correct if you take the example of a fan of a cinema hero. For the fan, the hero is outsider...

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Stay in A Place Based On Reaction of Mind to That Atmosphere

Posted on: 03/07/2016

Smt. Shrutakeerthi asked: Swami! We want to go to the temple of Srisailam and stay there in an asylum in this last part of our life. What is your advice?

Swami replied: The Veda says that all the souls, whether human beings or even angels have one inherent bad psychology, which is that any soul hates the atmosphere present before eyes and loves the atmosphere which is far from the eyes and unseen (Paroksha priyaah…). This is the reason why Arjuna was terribly attracted to spiritual knowledge and asked several interesting doubts since the atmosphere before his eyes, which is the war, is quite opposite to the spiritual atmosphere like a peaceful forest. Same Arjuna did lot of penance on Himalaya hill, which is perfect spiritual atmosphere. There, he did not ask Lord Shiva about concepts of spiritual knowledge...

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Creation Made To Enjoy Purest and Highest Love Of Devotee

Posted on: 27/06/2016

Shri PVNM Sharma asked: You said that God created this universe for His entertainment, which is common to all ordinary people. God is extraordinary and does He need entertainment?

Swami replied: An ordinary man is entertained by several useless and cheap items. The entertainment of God is not for such cheap items just to kill the time. God is beyond time and need not kill it. If you observe this creation carefully, every soul is giving highest value for the concept of love. The enjoyment of pure love proved by various tests is the climax of entertainment and nothing is equal to this. Every soul obtains the maximum climax of happiness only in love. When such love is real as proved by severe tests, the happiness of the soul reaches its climax and this is called as a specific bliss. Hence, the sole purpose of this creation is to enjoy this specific bliss. God has already this variety...

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Higher Concept should be Protected When Higher and Lower Clash

Posted on: 27/06/2016

Shri P.V.N.M.Sharma asked: Telling a lie is a fundamental sin as per the words of elders. How it can be sinless in Nivrutti?

Swami replied: Even without touching the subject of God (Nivrutti), let us examine this issue within the boundaries of ethics (Pravrutti). Ethical scripture says that hurting any living being is the highest injustice and hence non-hurting any living being is the highest justice (Ahimsaa paramo dharmah). Telling truth or not telling a lie is also important in ethics, but, it is in the lower place than the above. When higher and lower concepts clash with each other, higher should be protected sacrificing the lower. A good man was running with a bag of his hard earned money and thieves were running after him...

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Parabrahma Gita-9: Service of Lord Datta

Posted on: 26/06/2016

Servant’s Request to Swami

Smt. Devi

Where’s the goal, dear Lordwithout You? Where’s devotion without You?
You’re the devotee’s sole mission. (Even) devotion is a total wastewithout You.

How can I agree to let You go, O Lord Venu Gopala?
My whole world will be taken away from me.
Take away from me the ability to live,
Else tell me how to live without breath...

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DRINKING WINE ONE OF FIVE HORRIBLE SINS

Posted on: 23/06/2016

Questions from Kishore Ram: 1) The modern science reveals the positive benefits of Alcohol consumption in a limited quantity. But, scriptures are against this. Can you please throw light on this?

Swami replied: Limited quantity of alcohol is already supplied to the body through food items. Fermentation generates alcohol and in several food items fermentation is inevitable. This means that consumption of alcohol in limited quantities is good for health and therefore God arranged for such supply of alcohol in limited quantities...

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