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[Reply to a question from internet] I could not understand the actual point of this question placed in the internet. Who said that God takes...
Shri Swami replied: Why not? There is no difference between human incarnation and true human devotee since the same human devotee may be the human...
Shri Swami replied: In all the cases, the soul-component of one form is worshipping the unimaginable God existing in other form. This is only for...
Shri Swami replied: The human incarnation after leaving a specific body leaves behind a set of Its followers as devotees. Some of them cannot shift...
[January 23, 2016 Part 2] Smt. Devi (wife of Dr.Nikhil) asked: 1) What is the secret of the human incarnation’s enjoyment of continuous pain and sorrow in His life? How can one see, understand and maintain the enjoyment given by God as permanent feature?
Shri Swami replied: Since the human incarnation coming to earth is continuously enjoying the sorrow in Its life, you have put this question with lot of sorrow and pain in your heart. God appreciates you for your concern towards Him even though it is based on ignorance. After all, diamond is diamond even if...
Shri Swami replied: 1) The route of terrorism lies in the difference between the religions existing in this world. This is the main focus of...
[Reply to Shri Durgaprasad] The preacher can belong to any caste because the caste is not decided by birth but only by the qualities and subsequent...
For Scholars Posted on: 22/01/2016[Part-2] Shri Anil asked: In the context of your answer to my previous question No. 6 (in Message on January 10, 2016), why should not we treat the energy itself as the infinite?
Shri Swami Replied: In such case, there is no God and this energy itself stands as infinite without its cause. This energy itself stands as the ultimate cause. The energy creates other forms like matter and awareness, in association of which, this whole cosmos is created with different items. Energy maintains and dissolves the cosmos finally and this is acceptable. The energy becomes the ultimate...
[2nd message] Shri Swami replied: At this stage, before proceeding to scientific analysis for the existence of God, the answer for “Dr. Nikhil's question: when atheistic ethical living with material prosperity is possible, what is the need for religion or spirituality?” is given here, which takes the required appropriate position in this topic. As I have already told that such living is impossible like 'night sun' for major part of life in which the ethical side is rejected due to absence of the possibility of punishment to be given by government to the sin done...
Dr. Nikhil asked: If you give highest importance to logic than scripture, will it not lead to loss of faith in the scripture?
Shri Swami replied: What is scripture? Scripture is defined as the word of God, which is the knowledge given by God for the sake of welfare of humanity. All agree to this. But, to give word, which is preaching of knowledge, God must have mouth and throat. We have established that God is unimaginable because the substance with which God is made and the original form in which God exists are unimaginable. In such case, how can you say that God has told this...
Reply From Shri Datta Swami to Questions from Mr. Anil: 1) For those who are in the state of continuous suffering (chronic diseases, financial crisis etc), any practical spiritual solution for immediate relief? 2) Mainly troubles in the form of incurable diseases etc. comes in the old age and it will be too late for such people to start spiritual practices. What will be the fate of such people?
The disease comes due to sins only (Papam Vyadhi Rupena). The remedies said are medicines, donations to deserving and worship of God (Aushadhaih Daanaih Japa Homa Suraarchanaih). This shows the ascending order of the remedial response step by step. The main essence of this subject is only control of repetition of sin...
For Scholars Posted on: 10/01/2016[2016-01-10] Reply From Shri Datta Swami to Questions from Mr. Anil: 6) God exists at the boundary of the universe. However one can never reach the boundary. That means that God is not achieved. Then atheist may argue that since he is not reaching the boundary practically then God will not even exist there at all.
Swami Replied: The boundary means one item on one side and the other different item on the other side. Boundary of the ocean means water on one side and the different soil on the other side. If on both sides water alone is present, it is no more the boundary of the ocean. If soil alone is present on both sides...
[2016-01-10] Reply From Shri Datta Swami to Questions from Mr. Anil: 7) Swami, You have described about God’s entry into You in Your knowledge. For the benefit of devotees, kindly please tell us the various trails You underwent in Your spiritual life when You acted in a devotee’s role.
The reply will result in a book because of various experiences in My life blended with God everywhere and the need of elaborate explanation of each incident to clarify the truth without creating misunderstanding. However, I bring to your notice the most important basic concept, which is that I feel Lord Dattatreya entered Me even in the womb of My mother and is existing in Me till this minute. I cannot te...
[2016-01-10] Reply From Shri Datta Swami to Questions from Mr. Anil: 11) Prophet Mohammed is considered as seal by Muslims. From the study of Your knowledge, it is certain that You are the actual ‘seal’. Kindly give Your response to it.
Seal means the finalization of the knowledge. The point of finalization depends on completion of the program allotted to the specific circumstances and the specific context in the society. A teacher of a subject finishes the syllabus and says that the last topic is sealed indicating the end of the subject. This is done by the teacher of every subject in every class of the school. Therefore, the word seal, which means the end...
[2016-01-10] Reply From Shri Datta Swami to Questions from Mr. Anil: 12) ISKCON devotees argue that Krishna came in a special body only and not as a human being. They mention ‘Transcendental body’. Kindly give your response to this.
Such statement shows the extreme love of ISKCON devotees towards Krishna. They are unable to tolerate the death of the body of Krishna. Gopikas jumped into fire on hearing the death of the body Krishna. Hence, I appreciate the devotion of ISKCON devotees towards Krishna. But, the truth is different and harsh. We have to accept the truth even if it is very harsh. The death of a body is inevitable once its birth happened...
[Evening Message] Shri Phani asked: Please give some advice for the devotees, who are willing to involve themselves in the propagation of this spiritual knowledge?
Shri Swami Replied: First of all, you must be careful about the entry of ego into you when you are appreciated and praised by others. Since this spiritual knowledge is really marvelous as all of us recognised (including Me), you will certainly get lot of appreciation from the public. Immediately, pass on the credit to God. In ancient days, even if you salute somebody, he/she used to say immediately...
'Poor in heart will see God'. This statement can be interpreted in different ways, if they are acceptable to the spiritual concepts: 1) Poor...
You must concentrate all your love to God without an iota left over for the world. This is the state of climax in spiritual effort. Generally, love,...
Whether God preaches spiritual knowledge to a devotee or a devotee propagates the spiritual knowledge in the world, deservingness of the receiver is...
Shri Kishore Ram asked: When there is no information about the unimaginable God, why is He referred or called as Prajnanam? I believe Prajnanam means information associated with the Lord.
Shri Swami Replied: You are perfectly correct in noting that when God is called as Prajnanam, it does not mean that God is Prajnanam (excellent special knowledge) itself. It only means the knowledge associated with God. The associating item (bearer of apples) can be addressed as the associated items (apples) since we address...
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