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Shri Anil asked: Kindly give some suggestion regarding the solution of issue of Kashmir. When you are asked about the issue of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana long back before its solution came, you gave the correct prediction and it happened.
Swami replied: First, you must have full faith in the administration of God. He is omniscient and omnipotent knowing what to do and when to do. His solution, many a time, looks odd to you. The reason is that you are not aware of various factors involved in that issue. Your information about the issue is just like newspaper giving information about a case. That is superficial. If the same issue is proceeding as a case in the court with cross examinations followed by arguments of lawyers and if you are regularly sitting in the gallery of the court hall following the case very carefully, your information is total and perfect...
Blessed Dependence
Dr. Nikhil
Often have I wondered, and so have other devotees of Swami,
With jewels of virtuous soulslined up, sages and angels holy,
For the rarest chance of serving God Incarnate of supreme glory,
“Why did You choose a dull stone like meas a servant,O Swami”...
Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible written by St. Mathew. Some of the verses are stand alone verses giving enough understanding still Your commentaries on those are requested for the benefit of all devotees. [MATHEW 1. The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17) 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan...
Swami Replied: All the people do not know that Jesus is God in human form. Today, we both are knowing that truth. Your question does not apply to the present time. It applies to that past time and to that past region when and where Jesus was crucified even on hearing that He was son of God and not to speak of God in human form! There are three stages. In the first stage Jesus is just a human being born miraculously to His mother before His father met her. Certainly, the basis and the process of generation of Jesus is a miracle, an unimaginable event, which is beyond logic. Even though the basis...
Shri Anil asked: Kindly give Your explanations to following verses/parables taken from New Testaments of Bible written by St. Mathew. Some of the verses are stand alone verses giving enough understanding still Your commentaries on those are requested for the benefit of all devotees. [2. The Temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11) 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
Swami replied: Jesus was in penance for God on the hill for 40 days without taking even a piece of bread. He was not hungry because He stopped taking bread not by force. He was immersed in the knowledge of details of God and subsequently in the love (devotion) to God. It was absorption by theoretical knowledge and theoretical devotion by which the hunger and thirst were not felt at all. Whenever you are strongly interested...
Shri Ajay asked: Swami! Please explain the essence of Bhagavatam with elaborate analysis, which is very complicated to understand.
Swami replied: If the goal is highest, there will be highest complication in the path. If the goal is at certain achievable height, the path to it will not have so much complication. Therefore, the intensity of complication increases as the height of the goal increases. Pravrutti is at normal height and is selected by majority of humanity. Here, you have to vote for justice against injustice in this path of pravrutti. You are protected by God in this path as long as you follow justice avoiding injustice. God also encourages this path of pravrutti in many ways by granting several rewards. If you do not want highest complication, avoid the goal of nivrutti and confine yourself with the path of pravrutti, which is followed by majority. In pravrutti employer-employee relationship exists between God and devotee. As long as the employee...
Unimaginable God
If Nivrutti-sacrifices are impossible for humanity, why to preach those?
If highest Nivrutti is goal, higher Pravrutti goal is reached very easily,
If 100 marks are goal, at least 40 pass marks can be surely achieved,
Moreover, Nivrutti is achieved by one in millions and that too after
Millions of generations, as Gita says, Nivrutti is almost impossible...
Shri P V N M Sharma asked: If we worship God, past sins are destroyed directly. When the direct way is available, why should we reform our minds and follow non-repetition of sin to destroy past sins?
Swami replied: Worship of God is expected to purify and reform the soul. Reformation means non-repetition of sin in practical sense. If you say that you are fully reformed but you are repeating the sin now and then, it is absurd. It only means that you have not attained full reformation of the soul. Reformation is theoretical and non-repetition of sin is a practical step. Doing something is practical and also not doing a specific action is also a practical step. Even though you are expected to do something and if you are not doing that thing, it shows your practical resistance to do that thing. This resistance to do a practical thing...
Shri Phani asked: The mind is always attacked with several ideas and due to this even the health gets spoiled. What is the remedy for this?
Swami replied: If one is in the mud pond in which lotus flowers also exist, he will get both the smell of mud and smell of lotus flowers. Both the scents reach one’s mind through nose and this process is unavoidable and inevitable as said in the Gita (Prakrutim yaanti bhutaani, Nigrahah kim karishayati?). The ratio of bad scent of mud and good scent of lotus flowers depends upon the ratio of injustice and justice in the world. In Krutayuga, only good scent was there since the pond is full of good water only and no trace of mud existed in it. The mud existed as soil outside of the water pond, which never entered the pond as mud...
Shri Anil asked: Recently you mentioned a case of devil in Parabrahma Gita. Could he not be reformed by the process of repentance?
Swami replied: I am presenting the entire case with all details neither to project Myself as doer of miracles nor to blame that devotee with vengeance. The main purpose is only that this will help the humanity to be aware of ego by which anybody will be destroyed. This devotee had all types of ego except the ego of wealth since he was suffering severely without job and income. This one defect controlled him suppressing all other types of ego. Types of ego are: 1) due to caste, 2) due to gender, 3) due to education and knowledge, 4) due to wealth, 5) due to beauty of body, 6) due to colour of body, 7) due to age of youth...
Shri Pavan asked: What is the practical spiritual knowledge to be given to an ordinary human being? What is the goal of various stories narrated in the secondary scriptures called Puranams?
Swami replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God, the practical spiritual knowledge, which is the essence of the Gita and other scriptures is that you should approach God simply by your attraction to God (based on His Divine personality that is expressed through several stories presented in scriptures), which is the natural and spontaneous love or devotion. The best example is your love for your issues in which you are prepared to sacrifice what all you earned in the entire life even though your issues are insulting you throughout your life. You are prepared to do any sin for their sake. Such love should be expressed to God aspiring no fruit in return as in the case of your issues. You may argue that such love cannot be expressed to an outsider, be the God. Your argument is not correct if you take the example of a fan of a cinema hero. For the fan, the hero is outsider...
Smt. Shrutakeerthi asked: Swami! We want to go to the temple of Srisailam and stay there in an asylum in this last part of our life. What is your advice?
Swami replied: The Veda says that all the souls, whether human beings or even angels have one inherent bad psychology, which is that any soul hates the atmosphere present before eyes and loves the atmosphere which is far from the eyes and unseen (Paroksha priyaah…). This is the reason why Arjuna was terribly attracted to spiritual knowledge and asked several interesting doubts since the atmosphere before his eyes, which is the war, is quite opposite to the spiritual atmosphere like a peaceful forest. Same Arjuna did lot of penance on Himalaya hill, which is perfect spiritual atmosphere. There, he did not ask Lord Shiva about concepts of spiritual knowledge...
Shri PVNM Sharma asked: You said that God created this universe for His entertainment, which is common to all ordinary people. God is extraordinary and does He need entertainment?
Swami replied: An ordinary man is entertained by several useless and cheap items. The entertainment of God is not for such cheap items just to kill the time. God is beyond time and need not kill it. If you observe this creation carefully, every soul is giving highest value for the concept of love. The enjoyment of pure love proved by various tests is the climax of entertainment and nothing is equal to this. Every soul obtains the maximum climax of happiness only in love. When such love is real as proved by severe tests, the happiness of the soul reaches its climax and this is called as a specific bliss. Hence, the sole purpose of this creation is to enjoy this specific bliss. God has already this variety...
Shri P.V.N.M.Sharma asked: Telling a lie is a fundamental sin as per the words of elders. How it can be sinless in Nivrutti?
Swami replied: Even without touching the subject of God (Nivrutti), let us examine this issue within the boundaries of ethics (Pravrutti). Ethical scripture says that hurting any living being is the highest injustice and hence non-hurting any living being is the highest justice (Ahimsaa paramo dharmah). Telling truth or not telling a lie is also important in ethics, but, it is in the lower place than the above. When higher and lower concepts clash with each other, higher should be protected sacrificing the lower. A good man was running with a bag of his hard earned money and thieves were running after him...
Servant’s Request to Swami
Smt. Devi
Where’s the goal, dear Lordwithout You? Where’s devotion without You?
You’re the devotee’s sole mission. (Even) devotion is a total wastewithout You.
How can I agree to let You go, O Lord Venu Gopala?
My whole world will be taken away from me.
Take away from me the ability to live,
Else tell me how to live without breath...
Questions from Kishore Ram: 1) The modern science reveals the positive benefits of Alcohol consumption in a limited quantity. But, scriptures are against this. Can you please throw light on this?
Swami replied: Limited quantity of alcohol is already supplied to the body through food items. Fermentation generates alcohol and in several food items fermentation is inevitable. This means that consumption of alcohol in limited quantities is good for health and therefore God arranged for such supply of alcohol in limited quantities...
Anil asked: Swami! You told that donation to undeserving is a sin. Then, how to rectify the past sin done due to lack of knowledge of this concept?
Swami replied: Giving milk to a serpent is certainly a sin since it bites several good people also with the strength given by your milk. Naturally, you have to share the sin as a promoter. Four partners share the sin: actual doer, doer behind curtain, promoter and supporter (Kartaa, Kaarayitaa chaiva, prerakashcha, anumodakah...chatvaarah sama bhaaginah...). Hence, the Veda says that you should donate only after deep analysis...
Peddibhotla Krishna Murthy asked:
Swamy ji, 1) Swami Pranamams. Vibhudi-its gives trigunatmaka. If so why the people wearing vubudhi on their forehead are under continuous suffering. Why?. 2) Bhasma dharma. It is said that bhaskar gives trigunatmaka. If so I used to see a lot of them wearing bhasmam on the forehead, but their problems are numerous in this physical plane. It is the doubt whether they are enjoying...
Swami replied: Before believing the concept, its authority is very important. In Hindu religion the Veda is considered to be the best pure authority without polluting insertions since the Veda is preserved through recitation from one generation to the other. Even such authority is subjected to very deep logical discussions by Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva...
Swami Replied: God has super plan of doing things perfectly without any plan. The plan is expressed spontaneously in His actions since His wish gets...
Swami Replied: God is guiding every soul by advising it behind the consciousness. The ego develops deafness due to which some do not hear His...
Swami Replied: The nine planets are the executive secretaries of the administration of this world working under full control of God. All the...
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