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[A question by Ms. Saatvika]
Swami replied:- You are correct. When the basic ego goes down, the resulting under-confidence leads to inferiority complex and depression like sub-normal temperature. As first aid, you must use the heater in the room, which is praising yourself...
[Ms. Saatvika asked: In the world, people like managing directors, who sacrifice weak nervous energy i.e., awareness (mind and word) are paid more than the people like labourers, who sacrifice their strong nervous energy (physical service). In spirituality, why is the sacrifice of word and mind (theoretical devotion) less valuable than the sacrifice of service (practical devotion)?]
Swami replied:- In spiritual line also, we said that theory is the source...
[Ms. Saatvika asked: Since we are putting effort in learning knowledge and analysing and assimilating, is Jnaana yoga overlapping with Karma yoga? In the case of Samnyaasis, aren't both the same. Aren't they using only word and mind? How are they doing karma?]
Swami replied:- In strict sense, every item and every action is Karma Yoga or dynamism only. If you take even...
[Ms. Saatvika asked: Is love possible without a reason for souls? Is it possible only for God? When there are reasons to love God (like God has always been there for me, protecting me, guiding me), is it not like a devotion with aspiration?]
Swami replied:- What you said is the existing fact. What I say is the fact to be achieved by a devoted soul...
1. Please guide me how to control my ego.
[Ms. Swathika Shanmugam asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Please guide this ignorant and egoistic soul on the following. At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Saatvika. Swami I’m failing miserably in Your service due to my ego. To even realise that I have so much ego is very painful. Please guide me how to control it. I don’t want to miss You because of my ego.]
Swami replied:- You please read the answer given by Me to the recent...
Shri Durgaprasad asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, Kindly forgive me if this is an irrelevant question. If a student studied 10th class and passed the exam, we call him a 10th pass student. Similarly, if a soul passes all Nivrutti tests (crossing the three bonds), we can call him a successful Nivrutti. What is the necessity of another level 'Mahaa Nivrutti' in spirituality in which the tests mentioned...
1. Please comment on the specialty of Naaradiiya bhakti.
[Smt. Chhanda asked:- Paadanamaskaram Swami. Please enlighten us for the following doubts: Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa often said that in Kaliyuga Naaradiiya bhakti is required. Please comment on the specialty of this Naaradiiya bhakti.]
Swami replied:- The only authority in bhakti (devotion) is the Bhakti Suutram written by sage Naarada...
a. What about imagination about God versus God in real life?
[Ms. Bhanu Samaikya asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, my imagination of Swami in my mind is different from Swami practically in real life. Sometimes I get to doubt if that relationship with God I'm having is real or not? Because reality never matches my mind and imagination...
[Shri Anil asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Please give answer to the following question, at Your Lotus Divine Feet-anil
Qn. If there is no merge between minds of already married couples having children, and if one is refusing to stay with the other, what shall be done in such case?]
Swami replied:- Since the marriage is over and children are also born due to the physical merge, it is better to adjust even if minds do not merge. There are several things in this world, which we do even if our minds do not like. This hormonal union...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Swami! What should be the behavior of a devotee towards the Sadguru and towards his co-devotees?]
Swami replied:- The Sadguru is the mighty ocean of true spiritual knowledge and your behavior towards Him doesn’t matter much because He is omniscient and omnipotent. You can be free and frank with Him...
Tasyālambe svāvatāra trimūrteḥ
Gaṅgāmūlaṃ śaṅkha cakrābjarekham |
Brahmarṣīṇāṃ nāyakasyātipuṇyam
Dattātreya Svāminaḥ pādapadmam ||1||
[I surrender to the lotus feet of God Dattatreya, which are most sacred, the source of sacred Ganga river and marked by lines of conch shell, wheel and lotus flower. God Dattatreya is the source of His three divine incarnations called Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva...
[Satsanga on Vara Lakshmi Vratam (16th Aug 2024). In Hyderabad, at the house of Prof. Annapurna, Shri V. Subrahmanyam, an aged traditional scholar along with some local devotees came and requested Swami to do initiation of any mantra. Swami gave a long speech answering his questions now and then, from which the main points are marked below.]
1. God Datta is like a communist! If old traditions are wrong, He will refuse outrightly. We always follow wrong traditions only. Hence, we cannot approach and stand before God Datta, if we are not with open mind without blind conservatism...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- In yesterday’s Satsanga, Dushpravrutti, Pravrutti, Nivrutti and Maha Nivrutti were discussed. You explained something more. Please elaborate that.]
Swami replied:- There are four states for human beings:-
1) Dushpravrutti:- This is degraded Pravrutti since in Pravrutti, devotion to God is always impure because such devotion is based on the fulfilment of selfish desires. Here, justice and injustice compete with each other in the election. You will vote for injustice...
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- In recent explanations, You said that son of God is God Himself while the son of man is a man. How can we justify the prior case?]
Swami replied:- Here, God means the unmediated unimaginable God (Parabrahman). The son of this God is the first energetic body created by the unimaginable God. The creator can be taken as Father and the creation...
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked:-]
Swami replied:- The divine true and complete spiritual knowledge of Sadguru will act as the internal medicine to destroy both these defects permanently. But, this step takes a long time. Meanwhile, you can use the temporary...
[Smt. Chhanda asked:-]
Swami replied:- Actually, jealousy is simply based on ego. Ego is the seed and jealousy is the sprout the comes out of the seed. Ego is different from basic ego. Basic ego means just the basic identification of self, which is presented by ‘I’. Ego is the pride...
[Smt. Sudha Rani asked:- Swami, You told me long back that my daughter Thrylokya is the incarnation of Shakti. Certainly, she is not the incarnation of Shakti like Sarasvati or Lakshmi or Parvati. She must have been the lower incarnation of either Ellamma, Nalla Pocamma, etc. Am I right?]
Swami replied:- When somebody cannot tolerate the greatness of another human devotee and tries to lower that devotee, God will not allow that and maintains His word to be the perfect truth by giving a counter argument. Since Thrylokya...
[Mr. Bharath Krishna asked:- If we surrender to God, anything else like astrology is not necessary. Is it correct?]
Swami replied:- It is a correct statement provided the surrender to God is perfectly 100% in all times and in all places as in the case of Prahlaada. When Prahlaada is taken to the top of hill and was asked to leave the devotion...
1. You told that 100% sacrifice is the climax. Does this mean that we need not do any sacrifice till we reach the climax state?
Swami replied:- This is called over intelligence even though I know that you asked this question for the sake of real understanding. I think, I have already answered this question. I told that the correct sequence is knowledge, devotion and practice...
[Ms. Purnima asked:- ]
1. If we slip this human birth and enter the cycle of births of animals, is there any hope to come back to human birth?
Swami replied:- It is almost impossible. A soul gets animal-birth based on the answer of the soul given to the question of God, which is “What have you done in the previous human birth?” If the human soul replies “I have eaten 100 tonnes of rice, 50 tonnes of pulses and 25 tonnes of vegetables...
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