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The society constantly changes in the external culture like dress, language, etc. In the olden times, the dress of a king with crown and jewels were...
Rebirth of a departed soul can be immediate or can take any time for which the maximum limit is 360 years (Trai Purusham). This means that the...
The longevity of a human being is not exactly fixed on a specific time of a specific date. The longevity can be extended or reduced as per the...
There is no difference between the sense of the statement of Dalai Lama and Myself and the concept revealed in the Gita. The statement of Dalai Lama...
[Reply to Jivasu Natural] It is a fact and has archaeological proof also. The important point is to make it useful in your ethical life and also in...
Inner consciousness means the immediate conclusion you draw at the end of the entire message given by Satguru. You should not allow any gap between...
The answer is very clear by itself. Money is the basis of all the worldly bonds. Even your life and body leave you if you don’t supply food...
If you see the scriptures in the foreign countries, these scriptures have concentrated more on Pravrutti, which is the ethics of the behaviour of...
Reply of Swamiji: Science and Religion (can be taken as spiritual knowledge while standing by the side of science) are always inter linked from the...
[Reply to Esther Blanche Scheidler] I fully agree with you. May be that Hinduism has gone a little deeper in theory than other religions. The...
Swami Replied: Universal means union of small things to make a big thing. Universal also means uniting the big things to make a bigger or biggest....
For Scholars Posted on: 24/12/2014Shri Phani asked, “Generally the word Ahankara is used in the sense of pride. You are using the same word in the sense of basic ‘I’. Please comment on this in view of the awaken, dream and deep sleep states”.
Shri Swami Replied: The usage of Ahankara in the sense of pride is certainly observed in the world. The influence of this usage is so much that some ancient Sanskrit scholars also have taken the ahankara in the sense of pride as one of the four internal instruments (Antahkarana). The characteristic works of the these four instruments...
For Scholars Posted on: 23/12/2014Shri Phani asked “Please elaborate about ‘I’ and ‘you’ with respect to single reference”.
Shri Swami replied: You have to take the meanings of ‘I’ and ‘you’ with respect to the speech of either Krishna or Arjuna only till the end. You should not mix both the speeches and enlighten the meanings of ‘I’ and ‘you’, in which case misinterpretation results. First, you must know that the item is more important than the word. The items are linked with the words as per the selection by the humanity from the beginning. This link makes...
Shri Phani asked “Self-praise is said to be a sin since it gives ego immediately. Of course, ‘I’ indicates the pure awareness or God and concentration of ‘I’ means meditation on God. Please clarify my point”.
Swami replied: “There is no doubt that self-praise brings ego and is a sin. The same self-praise can be used as medicine in the context of lowered self-confidence. The poison of snake is harmful in normal condition. But, the same poison is used in preparing a medicine called ‘Vishaamrutarasa’ (Ayurvedic medicine), which is used in the final stage of viral fever...
Shri Phani asked “when we say that the ‘I’ should be crossed, the meaning of ‘I’ is only basic ‘I’. In such case, ‘I’ means ego only”.
Swami replied: It is said that one should cross the ‘I’ and this is the meaning of cross on which Jesus was crucified. Here, the ‘I’ means the ‘I’, which is infected by ego. The suppression of ego can be done in two ways. The first way is praising the Lord. When you say that God is great, it indirectly means...
Shri Anil asked “Arjuna has no intension to kill Kauravas. Krishna rubbed His intension on Arjuna to kill them. Therefore, the fruit of this work should go to God only and not to the soul. Here, your concept is reversed. ‘I’ itself is ego. Without ‘I’, no work can be done. Shri Ramana Maharshi advised to concentrate on ‘I’. How to answer these three points?”
Swami replied: Arjuna has no intension to kill the Kauravas and the reason for such absence of intension is not non-violence but his relationship with them. If Kauravas were not his relatives, Arjuna must have killed them for their injustice. Killing the unjust people is protection of justice, which is the duty...
[Datta Jayanthi Day] Shri Lakshman asked: “Shri Ramana Maharshi gave lot of weight to the ‘I’, which is discarded by you now in order to eradicate the ego, which is a by-product. I like to hear your explanation in the light of the great sage Shri Ramana Maharshi”.
Swami Replied: Shri Ramana Maharshi did not give weight to the concept of ‘I’. Lot of weight was already given by Advaita philosophers to the ‘I’ representing the God. If Shri Ramana Maharshi colluded with this concept, He would have advised the spiritual aspirants to search for the ‘I’, which is the source of the entire creation...
Shri Phani asked: “God is the doer of every action in this world. The devoted servant of God is not the doer at all and this point is also sincerely felt in the heart of such devotee. Therefore, the best is to surrender himself to God and recognize that the doer of every action is only God. Such total surrender is the better way than doing the service with the feeling of doer-ship in the heart”.
Swami Replied: A patient suffering with fever is treated to reduce the higher temperature with the help of wet cloth on the forehead. Reduction in the temperature aims at the reduction of temperature, which is more than the normal temperature. It does not mean to reduce the temperature of the body...
Shri Anil asked: “Cancelling all the balance punishments can result even in the case of transformed atheist and hence, devotion is not necessary. Please explain”.
Swami Replied: It is perfectly agreed that devotion is not necessary to cancel the balance punishments. This advantage should be applied to every soul, which is perfectly and permanently transformed. However, this is not applicable to the case of an atheist, though, it is applicable on the basis of equity of justice. The only problem of its implementation in the case of an atheist is that the soul of an atheist is never really transformed. The reason for this...
Shri Phani asked: “How do you support the verse in Gita stating that the devotee constantly worshipping God is not a sinner (Apichet Sa Duraachaaro… Gita)”.
Swami Replied: There are two divine rules in the cycle of deeds. The first rule is that the fruit of a deed can be postponed with increasing interest like a loan or can be implemented even before the due date like a premature deposit. The second rule is that there is no need of implementing the balance punishments...
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