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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...
Shri Surya asked: "You have given an excellent message on the consequences of financial corruption and rectification of it. Today, the corruption in the sexual life is also on the top. I would like to know what will be the fate of the souls involved in the corruption in sexual life”.
Shri Swami Replied: The sex and corruption in sex take place in the time of night in which moon exists and not Surya (Sun). Hence, the Sun is asking about the subject of moon as the principle opposition party questions about the activities of ruling party. Of course, the activity of the sex in the night time is only traditional, but, in the modern times, it is also taking place in the day time! Hence, Surya is also concerned on this topic...
[Evening Message] Shri Ajay asked: I found one lady devotee preaching in T.V. saying “I don't know from where this bad tradition of restricting the ladies from the recitation of Gayatri Mantra has come?” Please give your comments on her remark.
Shri Swami Replied: This shows that the lady devotee is angry regarding this bad tradition. I can say that her remarks are based on the situation already filled with total confusion. In such case, I have to say that she is right from one angle and not right from another angle of misunderstanding. My remark will be well understood...
[Continuation of Shri Swami's Reply for Dr. Nikhil's Latest Question on Correlation of Old and New Approaches]
Shri Swami replied: Reserve bank (God) prints genuine currency notes (Genuine Scripture). Reserve bank itself gives warnings and instructions (logical analysis) to be followed to test the genuine note (Genuine Scripture) so that it is not the mixed with fake note (insertion in the scripture by human being) since fake notes are found to be inserted often in the bundle of genuine notes. Why My good friend, a fan of Reserve bank (conservative devotee), should be worried about the process of testing...
Dr. Nikhil asked: There are two approaches: 1) Studying all the existing scriptures with conservatism, 2) Evolving own theory by self-observation and analysis without touching the existing scriptures. How to correlate both?
Shri Swami Replied: These two approaches are termed as Vyutpatti and Pratibha respectively in the scripture itself. In the first approach, there is no self analysis and self-verification. The analysis and verification done already by the scriptures are taken for granted and no further self analysis is done. It is like simply recitation following the blind...
[Remaining Questions of the Message on December 27, 2015] Dr. Nikhil asked: 3) How can the black nature (ignorance) be helpful in the spiritual path?
Shri Swami Replied: The black nature (Tamas) is very important in the spiritual field like the black hole in the process of creation. The importance of this quality comes in the final stage of spiritual effort. This creation including the three qualities is created by God only, which cannot have obviously negative sense that leads to rejection. Entire creation coming from God has always positive sense that is useful in the spiritual effort...
Shri Veena Datta asked: What is the significance of the negative qualities exposed by Lord Dattatreya, which bring difficulty in the progress of the spiritual effort?
Shri Swami Replied: All the items and qualities created by God are most auspicious and positive only. Is there any unholy verse in the Ramayana written by the holy sage Valmiki? Hence, this world created by God is as sacred as God. Fools only criticize and abuse this world. Of course, the negative direction of qualities came into picture only after the misuse of the qualities by these created souls...
Shri P V N M Sarma asked: Swami! Please dictate the message and I am ready to type it.
Shri Swami replied: The message shall be given to the question asked by any devotee. It is very difficult for Me to create the question since My brain is filled with answers only, which are the concepts that convinced My inner consciousness. The question arises only from the doubt coming out from the inner consciousness when it lacks the satisfaction due to absence of clarification of knowledge. When Lord Dattatreya...
Dr. Nikhil asked: What are the various main misunderstood interpretations in Hinduism?
Shri Swami replied: 1) Unimaginable God: a) This is a misunderstanding in all the religions including Hinduism. This space, which is subtle energy, is infinite. This infinity is not the absolute inherent characteristic of the space. It means that the space is not infinite by itself. The space is generated from the unimaginable God. If you reach the boundary of the space, you touch God like...
Shri Ajay:Today corruption has affected every walk of life. Corrupt people include politicians, officials, businessmen, doctors, teachers and even judges! What will be the fate of such souls?
Shri Swami: The money of the public is the wealth of the public, and it should be spent for the public alone, giving priority to the poor. Public money is very sacred and should not be enjoyed personally by any (well-to-do) person, unless he or she is extremely poor and is dying for want of food. In order to save one’s life, one might be forced to commit a sin...
Dr. Nikhil asked: 1) Gita says that Yoga is to have equality (Samatvam). Other widely quoted verses about equality from Gita are: i) Samaloshtashma kanchanah ii) Panditaah samadarshinah. Please explain these quotations also. You say that we should even reject the scripture by analysis. But, our analysis is very much limited. The scripture given by God is of very high level. In such case, can we do this?
Shri Swami replied: Samatvam means equality between two items. Yoga means equality as said by the Gita. But, equality everywhere is not yoga. For example, one dollar is equal to Rs.60/-. Here also equality between two items exists. But, this is not the context of Yoga. Equality is a general word that can be used in any context...
Shri P V N M Sarma asked: what is meant by Dhyana or meditation?
Shri Swami Replied: Meditation is the seventh step in the Yoga, which was divided in to eight steps. First of all, you must know the meaning of Yoga. Otherwise, the basic foundation is lost. Yoga means the fortunate union. Dhana yoga means to have fortunate union with wealth. Putra Yoga means the fortunate union with issues. Kalatra Yoga means the fortunate union to get wife through marriage. All these are related to Pravrutti...
All of us know that there is a prayer on the spiritual preacher, Guru, in which the third and fourth lines of each verse say: What is the use? What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use? If our mind is not fixed on the Lotus feet of the spiritual preacher i.e., Guroranghri Padme Manaschennalagnam, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim? Swami composed the first and second lines of eight verses to mean that such spiritual preacher is only Lord Dattatreya Himself.
1.Gurunaam GurorDatta Devasya Saakshaat
Mahaa Jnana Vaaraasi rupasya ramye
Guroranghri Padme Manashchennalagnam
Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim, Tatah Kim?...
[Following is a conversation between Dr. Nikhil and Shri Swami regarding human actions, the corresponding rewards and punishments and the role of astrology and vastu shastra.
Shri Nikhil: Padanamaskarams Swamiji. You have often reminded us of the statement in the Gita (Gahanaa karmano gatih), which means that the cycle of action-result is extremely complex and difficult to understand. However, in present times there is so much confusion regarding the correlation of one's actions and the suffering or enjoyment of a person in this life and hereafter, that some clarity is badly needed.
Shri Swami: The cycle of actions and fruits is very deep subject (Gahanaa). The reason is that the basic concept of this subject itself is misunderstood. The misunderstood basic concept is that the list of the punishments of a soul is in the hands of God and the punishments are given to the soul according...
Shri Veena Datta asked: Please give me a detailed account of visions.
Shri Swami replied: Visions are of two types:1) Internal: These visions are projections of your mind only. So many feelings are hidden in your mind from several births onwards. These feelings are expressed as visions and appear as real external scenes. This happens to be a mental illness about which doctors say that the patient talks with another person appearing before him. This is true since it is a scientific fact...
Shri Kishore asked following questions: Padmanamaskaram Swami: Humble request to answer my queries.
From the recent discussion and queries from Nikhil Sir, I got some basic understanding about the differences between Imaginable and Unimaginable(God) domain’s. From God’s perspective, the Imaginary domain(unreal) was created for his entertainment, but for GOD this imaginable domain is a dream or virtual or unreal. My query is for any kind of entertainment, you can get the happiness or entertainment through another source/thing which is also real. God being real(absolute truth) gets entertainment through the unreal domain/world which is strange and cant digest this fact? If so, it is true then why God is fond of the unreal domain for his entertainment, why can’t he get entertainment in his domain(unimaginable) itself?
Shri Swami Replied: When you are alone, are you not entertained by some imaginary scenes? Even the cinema on the screen is not as real as yourself. The drama on the stage is as real as yourself. The entertainment exists in all the three cases, but, it increases as the scene gains more and more reality. You cannot say that...
Shri Swami Replied: In the divine administration of God, everything runs with utmost perfection and strict logic. Sometimes, we do not understand...
Shri Anil asked: Pada namaskaram Swami, 1) Please forgive me for asking the following question. If You are willing kindly give answer to the following question. Somewhere in Your knowledge, You have mentioned about Your three future incarnations (place/name etc). However in the main discourses; this topic is not covered so far. Can You please elaborate on this further for the benefit of all devotees.
Shri Swami replied: The human incarnations are always taken by the Lord Dattatreya, which are primarily for giving the spiritual knowledge to the hungry humanity so that the humanity gets the benefit both in Pravrutti and Nivrutti. I am only one of the several human media used by Him like the dress. When I said that I will incarnate...
Dr Nikhil asked: Can you co-relate the concept of cycle deeds to the concept of the astrology, which includes the study of horoscope, the auspicious time and the construction of house?
Shri Swami replied: Today, there is a large lot of humanity that believes in astrology based on the long period of time during which experiences were clearly supporting the concepts of astrology, which were mainly composed by the sage Jaimini and sage Parashara. The scientific logic certainly misses in the astrology...
Shri Anil asked: Cancellation of all the past sins is a wonderful program. Please enlighten this more.
Shri Swami replied: Yes. This is really an excellent program proposed by the Lord. This program is very much logical also and it is not like the business of favor for a festival given by a company in view of more sales. This is the best and highly logic based offer given by God for the humanity. This entire program has no trace of business and is fully based on the total benefit for the humanity, which is also totally logical...
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