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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anil asked: Swami! You told that donation to undeserving is a sin. Then, how to rectify the past sin done due to lack of knowledge of this concept?
Swami replied: Giving milk to a serpent is certainly a sin since it bites several good people also with the strength given by your milk. Naturally, you have to share the sin as a promoter. Four partners share the sin: actual doer, doer behind curtain, promoter and supporter (Kartaa, Kaarayitaa chaiva, prerakashcha, anumodakah...chatvaarah sama bhaaginah...). Hence, the Veda says that you should donate only after deep analysis...
Peddibhotla Krishna Murthy asked:
Swamy ji, 1) Swami Pranamams. Vibhudi-its gives trigunatmaka. If so why the people wearing vubudhi on their forehead are under continuous suffering. Why?. 2) Bhasma dharma. It is said that bhaskar gives trigunatmaka. If so I used to see a lot of them wearing bhasmam on the forehead, but their problems are numerous in this physical plane. It is the doubt whether they are enjoying...
Swami replied: Before believing the concept, its authority is very important. In Hindu religion the Veda is considered to be the best pure authority without polluting insertions since the Veda is preserved through recitation from one generation to the other. Even such authority is subjected to very deep logical discussions by Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva...
Swami Replied: God has super plan of doing things perfectly without any plan. The plan is expressed spontaneously in His actions since His wish gets...
Swami Replied: God is guiding every soul by advising it behind the consciousness. The ego develops deafness due to which some do not hear His...
Swami Replied: The nine planets are the executive secretaries of the administration of this world working under full control of God. All the...
Swami Replied: These hunting cruel animals were the soft animals killed in the previous birth. The butchers in the previous birth have become the...
Swami Replied: In every generation, a few are saved and major lot goes to hell and getting rotated in the wheel of deeds. This is continuous uniform...
Swami Replied: Learn to surrender to God and develop patience. You will win ultimately here as well as there. You will feel highly repentance for...
Swami Replied: Propagate this spiritual knowledge given by God to change the people directly. Without that, there is no use of any law. How many...
Swami Replied: Sincerely approach God and reveal all your pain before Him. Sometimes the pain may do good to you. You must patiently observe its...
Swami replied: What is the use of talking with a departed soul? The departed soul does not have any miraculous power to do any good to you. Instead,...
Swami replied: In psychological disorder, you are not in your control even to do anything that controls you. Try to pray the ultimate controller...
Swami replied: In any movie, you superimpose God on the available best role. In this way your touch with God continues in all the times. God will...
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