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[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...
[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...
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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
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...
[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...
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...
[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...
[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 ...
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...
[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...
For Scholars Posted on: 08/09/2012You 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...
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...
This world consists of both happiness and unhappiness as in a drama or cinema. The meals also contain both sweet and hot dishes. Unless you develop the talent of enjoying both, you cannot have continuous bliss. It is foolish to think that you can have continuous bliss by involving in scenes of continuous happiness only. It is a childish thought because the child also likes to have continuous dishes of sweets only, avoiding the hot dishes. In such case, you get bored with...
The unimaginable God entered the human medium consisting of the three qualities (Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas). You can see Sattvam, the spiritual knowledge, while preaching the Gita. You can see Rajas in constant fights with evil forces. You can see Tamas in stealing the butter and dancing with Gopikas. This human incarnation shows that God equally enjoys all the three qualities. God is not touched by any quality like the person...
For Scholars Posted on: 04/08/2012The first action of the original-absolute-unimaginable God is a thought, which is the process of thinking. Except this thought, no other action is known to us before such thought. Such thought was to create this world constituted by many items. The reason for many items is that a single item will bore, resulting in non-enjoyment. Therefore, God alone could not enjoy and there is requirement of many items also for continuous enjoyment. Thought is the process of thinking and that is awareness itself. Awareness is knowledge, which is the process of...
For Scholars Posted on: 04/08/2012[Evening Discourse] God does not become imaginable since His existence, which is the inherent characteristic, is known. No doubt, the existence of an item is its inherent characteristic. But, this inherent characteristic is common to all the existing items. It is only a general inherent characteristic, which is common to all the existing items. It is not specific and hence, the knowledge of such general inherent characteristic does not isolate that item from other items. It does not give any specific information about the item by which you...
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