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Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give Your responses to the following questions - Anil
1) Genesis 11:1-9: The Tower of Babel -1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.
Shri Swami replied: This indicates the universal religion and settlement indicates the eternal peace in the world. When two rivers meet, the joint line is uncertain creating confusion due to absence of clear certainty in the joining boundary. Similarly, when two religions are correlated, uncertain boundary of the joint brings disputes. Moving towards to East indicates the rise of sun, the sharp intellectual analysis in the spiritual knowledge that gradually becomes sharper and sharper like the sunlight...
Swami My Pillar
Arsha
When I don’t have courage, You alone make me stronger.
All the problems of everyone, You alone bear on Your shoulder.
When You are near, I have nothing to fear.
I love You so much because, You are my Dear.
If ever I am confused, You make my doubts crystal clear.
When I am in problem, You alone are there.
And when I am crying, You alone wipe my tear.
O Swami! My Dear Swami, my lovely Swami, my favorite God...
Questions from Shri Anil: 1) If Jesus was God, why did he say in John 20:17: "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God"?
Shri Swami Replied: A human incarnation is a two component system appearing in single phase. Sometimes God directly speaks and sometimes the human being component speaks directly. Both the speeches are expressed through the voice of the human being only. Hence, you cannot distinguish the speaker through His inherent and characteristic voice. You have to differentiate the two speakers by the context of the statement only. When Jesus said that He is truth and light...
Fragment of Glass
Dr. Nikhil
On a hot afternoon as I stood in the shade
A glimmer in the sand caught my gaze.
Through a piece of glass had shone the sun.
I felt thedusty fragment and I, were one...
Dr. Nikhil: When parents who are devoted to You, discuss spiritual knowledge with their children, and advise them, the children get bored and sometimes irritated. Could You please advise both the parents and children. Parents who are devoted to You, feel that Your divine knowledge is absolutely essential for all human beings, and especially their own children. As a result, they try to emphasize the same to their children...
Shri Swami Replied: Your question is very important since children are the future generation and anything enters the brain of a child easily, especially when preached by their parents due to the strong confidence present in the hearts of children towards their parents. When a soul is born in this world after thoroughly washed in the hell, the child born here contains all mentalities (Samskaraas) in minute quantities...
Ever Since I’ve Seen You, O Guru Datta!
Smt. Devi
Ever since I’ve seen You O Guru Datta, why does my heart long to attain You?
Was far from You till now; why does my heart long to come closer to You?
Had a lot of complaints in life; why does my heart want to forget them all?
Ever since I’ve seen You O Guru Datta, why does my heart long to attain You...
Ms. Shyama Kamala Lochana (daughter of Shri. Ajay), a computer engineer asked: I am very happy to see your recent message given to my father regarding the propagation of spiritual knowledge. Please give any more information, if you feel to give.
Shri Swami Replied: You have studied computer engineering that is applied in science and technology for the materialistic welfare (Pravrutti) of the humanity. This is a wonderful field added to science. Actually, this is a boon from the Lord. The scripture says that the Veda, the Shastra (secondary scripture like logic) and Vijnana (Science) are from God only...
Swami - The Greatest Inspiration and Goal
Dr. Nikhil:
My salutations to my Swami, who traveled by train
and worked from five in the morn to ten thirty at night.
Who yet composed and sang the praises of God at night.
Only to start another day. What an example He has set!...
Shri P V N M Sharma asked: The implementation of ethical values in practical life is not seen starting from a peon in the office up to highest ruler of the country. The moral values are failing in every walk of life of all categories of humanity. How to control this and bring a perfect set up?
Shri Swami Replied: At the outset, I am answering your question in a straight way before its further elaboration. The single sentence of answer here is that unless an inbuilt resistance to sin in each individual is developed based on fear for sin due to the unavoidable punishment from God, no practical solution is possible and you have to brood over like this forever...
Shri Ranga Swamy, totally illiterate, is an exceptional devotee of Shri Swami. He participates in singing devotional songs along with Shri Swami. He is not aware of the contents of any message given by Shri Swami. Whenever, he sees Shri Swami, he keeps Rs.3,000/- as offering at the feet of Shri Swami. Shri Swami warned him several times not to offer like that because for a lower middle class man like him, it is not a small offering. He offers this amount every day to Shri Swami. Nobody knows how he earns...
Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I would like to submit two questions to You. At Your Divine Feet.-Nikhil
1) Why does God warn Adam and Eve to not eat the fruits of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Shri Swami Replied: If you bring the contents of one of My previous messages, I told that God created human beings in the beginning of the first phase of creation (Kruta Yuga), in which all the human beings were just following the instructions of God like the robots following the programme fed in to the machine heads. In such stage, there is no freedom of soul. All the instructions from God...
Shri Anil Asked: 1. Some people practice remedies suggested by some astrologers, which are highly illogical like, pouring milk in flowing river, throwing silver coins in running water etc. Whether such remedies are scripture based? Kindly enlighten us.
Shri Swami Replied: All these practices are based on the foolish and ridiculous psychologies of some cracks only and are not at all based on the divine scripture, which is the word of God. For such reason only, we have to adopt the scientific analysis based on deep logic everywhere to reject the dirt from the mixed golden powder. God has created food...
For Scholars Posted on: 26/01/2016[Answer to Shri Anil’s Question No.6 (in Message on January 10, 2016) Continues Part-3]
Shri Swami replied: When we do the scientific analysis of infinite space, Myself and the scientist should have open mind. Open mind means that both of us should not have prefixed conclusions of the concept. The analysis means the research done by both of us together with mutual co-operation like friends to find out the truth without any prejudice and bias and with firm belief that the final truth investigated by both of us will benefit both at the end. I am sure that the scientist...
For Scholars Posted on: 26/01/2016[Answer to Shri Anil’s Question No.6 (in Message on January 10, 2016) Continues Part-4]
Scientist: 1) The cosmos has certain parameters of its definition like boundaries, composite of finite particles etc. What are the characteristics that you can attribute to your unimaginable domain? Even for an infinite item, we can say that it should be homogeneous without internal gaps having no boundaries around which space can exist....
Shri Swami: 1) Our single characteristic of God is only that God is unimaginable and exists. We are not bothered about finite or infinite concepts, which require spatial dimensions. We are involved in this discussion to prove that the cosmos or space is finite in the absolute sense...
Shri Hemantha kumar, Advocate, asked: I am very much interested in the correlation of three philosophies of Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva (Trimata Samanvaya). Can you give it to me?
Shri Swami Replied: Shankara told monism (Advaita) between God and soul preaching that both are one and the same. Madhva told Dualism (Dvaita) between God and soul preaching that both are totally different since God is the master and the soul is His servant. Ramanuja told an intermediate state of special monism (Vishishta Advaita) existing between monism and dualism stating that God and soul are inseparable...
Shri Ajay asked: Please give us some more advises in the context of the propagation of this excellent spiritual knowledge.
Shri Swami Replied: This knowledge is exceptional and excellent given by Lord Dattatreya to all of us for the propagation in this world to uplift the humanity by removing the differences and by bringing unity in the concepts through the exposure of correct interpretations. This knowledge is mainly characterised by the correlation of various philosophies and concepts so that the divine peace can be established...
Dr. Nikhil’s Questions on Procreation: 1. How many children should a couple ideally produce? There is a quantitative aspect (how many children to produce) and a qualitative aspect (what type of children to produce).
Shri Swami Replied: I know Dr. Nikhil very well from the past millions of births. He is selected by God for the propagation of this exceptional programme along with other friendly devotees as a group. He is highly elevated soul and one should not misunderstand him for some of these peculiar questions. He represents various sets of humanity presenting their specific-personal problems...
[2nd Message] Padmanamaskaram Swami.Request You to please clarify my below queries; 1. In some discourses you have mentioned the merits of Avadhuta and they are blessed by God. But in many you were against them for their limitivity of their inert energy in awaken state as their final goal and will be born as inert objects (stones, trees etc). Please elaborate what message should we take on Avadhuta and what to avoid?
Shri Swami Replied: Avadhuta means the person, who attained total detachment from all the bonds with the world and this is the meaning of the word Avadhuta. Avadhutas are of two types: 1) the detachment from the world is attained due to the extreme attachment to God. 2) The detachment is only attained and there is no attachment to God...
Shri Swami replied: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva represent the three qualities separately, which are Rajas, Sattvam and Tamas. Each quality predominates...
Shri Swami replied: The donation of food materials to the poor is the basic concept in the theistic astrology. The colours of food grains resembling...
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