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PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF NATURE REVEAL THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

For Scholars Posted on: 07/01/2013

[This message is the reply of Shri Datta Swami to the question posed by a person with the username ‘Human Excellency’ on the Speaking Tree forum (http://www.speakingtree.in/public/wall-updates/9131992). Human Excellency asked about the need for the existence of God and why devotees of God cheat the public. He also questioned why the miraculous power of God, is not used to reform the minds of present politicians.]

Since the behaviour of devotees is bad, you need not negate the existence of God. If the son is wrong, you may say that the father is also wrong but you should not say that father does not exist. The existence of God need not be known from the scriptures...

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VISHWARUPADARSHANAM INDICATES UNIMAGINABLE GOD

For Scholars Posted on: 05/01/2013

The word ‘Vishwarupadarshanam’ is understood as seeing the infinite space with infinite matter and energy as planets and radiations based on the Lord by Arjuna. This is not the correct understanding the correct sense of this word. The word ‘darshanam’ means a physical work of seeing something with the eyes. In Sanskrit grammar, it is told that all the verbs meant for physical actions or works like walking, seeing etc., indicate the sense of knowing something (Gatyarthaanaam dhaatunaam jnanaarthakatvaat)...

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SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE PROVIDES IN-BUILT CONTROL

Posted on: 04/01/2013

Today, forcible rapes of young girls and women is the burning issue for which the death penalty is vehemently suggested by the public. Remember, in ancient India, the ethical scriptures suggested the death punishment for the illegal contact. The scriptures say that any illegal contact, be it a forcible rape or be it a mutually consented illegal contact, should be punished with death only. In any case, only the sinner is punished and thus, in the case of rape, the male criminal is...

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GOD ASSOCIATES WITH THE HUMAN FORM IN THE INCARNATION

Posted on: 28/12/2012

[Message on Datta Jayanti] Shankara told that the reality of various items of the creation is actually the reality of God or Brahman. We take Brahman as the world due to illusion just like we mistake the rope as snake in partial darkness. The reality of the snake is actually the reality of the rope. Similarly, the reality of the world is actually the reality of God. Such illusion was called as Adhyasa by Shankara. Therefore, God is absolutely real and the world...

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THE CONTEMPORARY HUMAN INCARNATION OF GOD

Posted on: 21/12/2012

[This speech was delivered by Shri Datta Swami at the First World Parliament on Spirituality on December 21, 2012 in Hall-3 (Socrates Hall) Session 1, at the Global Peace Auditorium, Hyderabad. It was webcast live between 11.00-13.00 hrs IST on the conference website(http://www.wpsconnect.org/home.php )]

The Human Incarnation is Most Suitable for Humans: God comes to earth to direct the spiritual aspirants to the correct path. Direction is very important.  Hence, we find that the position of ‘Director’ happens to be the topmost position in any institution...

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UNIVERSAL SPIRITUALITY FOR WORLD PEACE

Posted on: 19/12/2012

[This is the speech given by Shri Datta Swami at the First World Parliament on Spirituality on December 19, 2012 in Hall-1 (Babaji Hall), Session 9 Global Peace Auditorium, Hyderabad. It was webcast live on December 19, 2012 between 10.00-11.30 hrs IST on the conference website http://www.wpsconnect.org/home.php ]

The Veda says that God is unimaginable—beyond words, mind, intelligence and even imagination (Yato vacho…, Manasaa saha…, Yobuddheh paratah…, Atarkyah…). If God is thought to be imaginable, then due to the multiplicity in imaginable items...

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EVERY SPIRITUAL ASPIRANT MUST BE A HOUSE HOLDER

Posted on: 12/12/2012

In the spiritual path, the aspirant should be in the stage of a householder (Grihastha). Then only, God can test him or her whether the human being can practically sacrifice these three strong bonds (Eeshanatrayam), which are: 1) Dhaneshana: Bond with money and wealth, 2) Daareshana: Bond with wife or husband, 3) Putreshana: Bond with issues. When the human being is in the atmosphere of these three bonds, then only, the testing can be done by God. For this purpose, you should be a householder and not a saint, who is far from these bonds. You can evaluate...

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VALUE OF APPLIED SPIRITUALITY

Posted on: 06/12/2012

[This was a ‘Special Contributory Article’ for the Souvenir of the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21, 2012 at Hyderabad.]

Modern people think that most of the funds must be spent on the development and applications of technical education, which supports the basic needs of materialistic life. Obviously, the Government also is in the same line of the people. These people criticize the ancient Governments, which have spent lot of funds on the useless...

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CONTEMPORARY HUMAN INCARNATION OF GOD

Posted on: 28/11/2012

[This is an abstract of Shri Swami’s speech at the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21, 2012 at Hyderabad. This speech is scheduled to be delivered on December 21, 2012 in the ‘Applied Spirituality’ session in Hall-3.]

The absolute God is unimaginable as per several statements of the Vedas and the Gita, which are the Holy Scriptures of Hinduism. The scientists should not reject the existence of any unimaginable item claiming that everything is explicable or imaginable by refusing the unimaginable miracles treating these...

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THE CORRECT WAY OF PERFORMING YAJNA

Posted on: 27/11/2012

[A Vedic Scholar, who presided over a meeting called as ‘Veda Vidvat Sabha’, stated that the reason for drought and floods is the non-performance of sacrifices in these days in which the ghee is poured in the fire. Swami ridiculed this view and gave the following message.]

Types of Yajnas: Burning ghee in the fire leads to environmental pollution, which causes the drought and flood. These ignorant people state that the cause and promoter of a disease itself is the remedial medicine. If you eat the sweet, the blood sugar will raise causing damage to heart and kidneys. The patient is already in serious...

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CONCEPT OF HUMAN INCARNATION AND ITS RELEVANCE

Posted on: 23/11/2012

[This is an abstract of Shri Swami’s speech at the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21, 2012 at Hyderabad. This speech is scheduled to be delivered in the session ‘Pure Spirituality’ in Hall-1 on December 19, 2012 between 10.00-11.30 hrs IST.]

God is said to be the generator of space (Aakasha) by the Vedas. It means that space does not exist in God before its generation. This finally means that God is beyond spatial dimensions. Since you cannot imagine anything beyond space, God must be accepted as unimaginable...

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MEANING OF DATTA-ATREYA

Posted on: 18/11/2012

The human incarnation is constituted by three components. Two of these three components are common to any ordinary human being. These two components are: i) The visible and imaginable external materialized human body called as Aparaprakriti. ii) The invisible and imaginable internal special work form of inert energy, the awareness or soul, called as Paraprakriti. The third component, which is extra in the human incarnation and which is not found in ordinary human...

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COMPREHENSIVE SPIRITUALITY

Posted on: 14/11/2012

[This is an abstract of Shri Swami’s speech at the First World Parliament on Spirituality to be held between December 17-21 2012 at Hyderabad. The actual speech is scheduled to be delivered in the ‘Interfaith’ session in Hall-3 on December 21, 2012 between 11.00-13.00 hrs IST.].

Hinduism is a mini representative model of the unity among various religions in the world. There are different philosophies within Hinduism as there are different religions in the world. Unity within Hinduism represents the removal of different walls in the house to make...

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORSHIP

Posted on: 04/11/2012

Relevant worship in this world means worship of the form of God, which is relevant to this world of humanity. Such a relevant form is only the human form of God. Irrelevant worship means worship of the irrelevant form of God for this humanity. Worship of energetic forms of God like Vishnu, Shiva etc. is irrelevant for the humanity. Such energetic forms are relevant to the upper worlds in which the souls existing in energetic forms...

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VICTORY OF KNOWLEDGE OVER IGNORANCE

Posted on: 24/10/2012

[Discourse on Vijayadashami Day] Vijaya Dashami is the festival indicating the victory of Knowledge over ignorance. If the sinner is punished, the attitude of sin is suppressed temporarily only because the punishment is external and not internal. We find this in the world that the thief is punished again and again in the police station. The real transformation of the soul takes place only when the internal ignorance is destroyed by knowledge. Therefore, such internal victory only is real and permanent. The word ‘Durga’ also means that the Knowledge...

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ATTAIN YOGA TO ACHIEVE REAL DEVOTION

Posted on: 06/10/2012

[Shri Phani asked: “You are preaching about equal enjoyment of happiness and unhappiness so that there is no need of devotion to God. When such state is achieved, really, there is no need of God. When there is no need, the reason for devotion disappears. Nothing can be generated without reason. Hence, devotion is not generated. In the absence of devotion, where is the need of the practical sacrifice in service to God. The Veda says that the sacrifice of money alone can lead to God (Dhanena Tyagena …). Hence, the Vedic statement also becomes meaningless in the present context. Can You please explain? Given below is Shri Swami’s explanation.]

There is lot of confusion of the concepts in the argument projected by you. The real ground of devotion and the false ground of devotion should be separately differentiated. The equality in enjoyment of happiness and unhappiness is related to the removal of false ground of devotion. This does not mean that the real ground of ...

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DIFFERENT STAGES IN ATHEISM AND THEISM

Posted on: 23/09/2012

Atheism, which does not accept the existence of God, has two stages. In the lower stage, the negation of God is associated with sin and injustice. In the higher stage, the negation of God is associated with good deeds and social justice. Even the atheist in the higher stage will be awarded with the temporary heaven since there is no reference of God. Similarly, the theism, which is the acceptance of God, has also two stages. In the lower stage, the devotee is reluctant to unhappiness...

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DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DEVOTEES VIEW INCARNATION DIFFERENTLY

Posted on: 12/09/2012

[Shri Swami gave this discourse in response to Mr. Anil’s inquiry about the essence of the messages of Lord Jesus to this world.] After rigorous penance for about 40 days on a hill, Jesus presented the essence of all His future messages through the prayer followed by a miracle. Thousands of people gathered, who became very hungry in the hot mid-day. There were only four pieces of bread in the basket. Jesus lifted the basket up and did not pray God to provide...

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STATE OF EQUAL ENJOYMENT CAN BE ACHIEVED

For Scholars Posted on: 08/09/2012

You must carefully understand the meaning of the three words: smiling, weeping and enjoying. These three words are totally different from each other and have independent status of meaning. Generally, people misunderstand that smiling means enjoying and weeping means not enjoying. This is not correct. Smiling and weeping are external phenomena, whereas enjoying is an internal phenomenon. While eating the sweet, you smile. While eating a hot dish, you almost weep since your tongue and lips vibrate and eyes shower...

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ENJOYMENT OF SWEET AND HOT DISHES IN LIFE

Posted on: 25/08/2012

Several devotees are posing a problem on the concept of equally enjoying the happy and unhappy scenes in the life like the sweet and hot dishes in the meals or like the happy and unhappy scenes in a cinema. The enjoyment of the scenes in the cinema may be different from the enjoyment of the sweet and hot dishes in the meals. In the cinema, the happy and unhappy scenes roll alternatively, but, those are related to the story...

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