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For Scholars Posted on: 08/12/2025(Jagajjīva Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Sajiivaka jagat sṛṣṭaṃ, kimartham? rāsakelaye।
Ityajña bhāṣitaṃ kasmāt?, kiṃ jīvaḥ prakṛtiḥ parā?॥
[Why have You created the world with souls? Ignorant people say that You have created this world to enjoy this Rāsa-dance. Why such blame comes to You only? Is soul the best part of the world?]...
For Scholars Posted on: 07/10/2025(Knowledge of the Analysis of Yoga)
1. So far the object to be attained, which is God (Brahman) and the subject or the item that is attaining object, which is soul (Jiiva), are discussed and now the way of attainment (Yoga) is discussed. The word Yoga comes from the root word ‘Yuj’, which means the way of attainment (attainer, attainment and attained make the triad or triputi). The word Yoga simply means attainment...
For Scholars Posted on: 05/10/2025(Knowledge of The Qualities and Deeds Based on Ignorance)
1) Awareness has four functional faculties:- 1) Mind or Manah, which causes thinking in one way and in other way also. 2) Intelligence or Buddhi, which does logical analysis and arrives at conclusion. 3) Basic ego or ahamkaara, which indicates the individual soul as the central part of awareness denoted by a constant thought pulse ‘I’ and 4) Identification and memory or chittam, which grasps information of any external thing through senses (samjnaanam) and stores it for memory (smaranam) based on the root word...
For Scholars Posted on: 26/09/2025(Knowledge of the Soul and Individual Soul)
1) Ramanuja told that the world is true but not eternal. It is like the flowing water, which changes constantly with the speed. If the truth of the world is taken as relative truth, there is no difference between Shankara and Ramanuja. Ramanuja spoke about relative truth only keeping silent on the absolute truth. Shankara spoke about absolute truth and the relative truth also. This is not any difference...
For Scholars Posted on: 15/09/2025(Knowledge of The Essence of The World)
1) Jiiva means the individual soul whereas Aatman means soul. Individual soul is awareness and soul is the inert energy, which is converted into awareness existing in the form of specific work while functioning in a specific nervous system. When the electricity functions in a specific machine called cutting machine, the electricity is converted into a specific work called cutting work. When the same electricity functions in another specific machine called grinding machine, it is converted into a specific form of work called grinding work. The electricity is the soul...
For Scholars Posted on: 25/08/2025Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I offer the following question at Your lotus feet for Your kind clarification. Your servant, Nikhil
According to many philosophies including Vedānta, only the unimaginable God (Parabrahman) is truly unborn (aja). His existence is absolute and spans the past, the present...
For Scholars Posted on: 12/08/2025[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, how were You able to correlate all the spiritual philosophies based on the change of time and change of place?]
Swami replied:- The change of time indicates the next spiritual stage that is attained after doing some spiritual effort for some time. The present spiritual effort is related to both the present time and the spiritual stage that is to be attained...
For Scholars Posted on: 03/08/2025*Updated on 03 August 2025
Prof. J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāraṃ, Swami. In yesterday’s online Satsanga, You told that in the case of a cat sitting on the centre of the compound wall separating two neighbour houses, the cat can neither be told belonging to one side nor be told belonging to the other side and similarly, the world can be told neither real nor unreal. But, here, we are discussing...
Shri S. Phani Kumar asked:- Swami, You said that God is the supporter of the entire creation including souls. But, in the Veda, it is told that two birds are sitting on a tree and one bird is God and another bird is soul while the tree is the entire...
Shri JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, You said that water is real and the wave is inherently unreal in explaining Vivarta Vaada (apparent appearance). Is it similar...
For Scholars Posted on: 24/05/2025Shri JSR Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāram Swami. Is this creation real or unreal? It can’t be both real and unreal simultaneously and also it can’t be something, which is neither real nor unreal. -At Your divine holy lotus feet.]
Swami replied:- The entire world is created due to a mere wish of God (Icchā mātraṃ prabho ssṛṣṭiḥ). Though the world is inherently unreal like a daydream (creating an imaginary world in awakened...
1. Can we say that by crossing Dharma, Artha, Kaama, one gets liberation?
[Shri Ramakanth asked: Paada Namskaram Swami 🙏 I have the below questions. Kindly help me in eradicating my ignorance. 🙏 At Your divine lotus feet 🙏 In the Purushaarthas, is purusha just a reference for male gender? You said that the Lord alone is Purusha and the last birth will be a female birth before getting salvation like in the case of Gopikas. In that case, can we say that by crossing Dharma...
For Scholars Posted on: 10/02/2025Smt. Chhanda asked: My most beloved Swami! Paadanamaskaram to You! Please throw Your light on the following ignorance of mine. I have tried to understand the wonderful discourse on 'FOUNDATION OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE' for which the link is given here (Click) . In this discourse, I could not understand one point logically. Please enlighten me on that:
In the sentence "If the original God has spatial dimensions, it means, the space is in God...
[Shri Anil asked:- The pure awareness in a meditation state is very close to the inert energy. But there is ‘I’ thought in that state. Thus, a thought exists. How can it be devoid of all the thoughts? During this time do the three qualities Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas also exist?]
Swami replied:- The awareness of the body is the ‘I’ thought in almost all human beings. In meditation, the body is forgotten...
Shri Lakshman G asked:- Paadanamaskaarams Swami. In Your reply to a question of a devotee, You had mentioned "It is not the question of desire. It is only the natural tendency to change the variety of enjoyment. Desire is the wish for something, which causes misery in its absence". Please clear my following doubt.
In the case of Parabrahman, the wish to create a second thing must have been a desire to kill His boredom (due to the absence of the second thing). Can this boredom be called a misery...
Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I seek your kind explanation regarding the thumb-sized Puruṣa described in the Veda. Please refer to this file: Thumb-Sized Purusha.docx. Your servant, Nikhil
Questions about the Thumb-Sized Puruṣa: What is the thumb-sized puruṣa described by the Veda?
This topic was discussed in a spiritual debate at Sringeri, a few years ago...
(Shri G. Lakshman and Smt. Chhanda from Mumbai and Smt. Priyanka from Canada participated in this Satsanga along with some local devotees.)
1. Which type of Maya is crossed in the miracle of continuous water coming out of the Shirdi Sai statue?
[Smt. Chhanda asked:- Swami, You mentioned that a lot of water is coming out from a very small statue of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba. Does this miracle come under crossing Maayaa or Maha Maayaa or Mula Maayaa?]
Swami replied:- This miracle is crossing Mula Maayaa because large amount of new space is created during the miracle. To understand this miracle, you have to cross space, which is impossible. The size of the statue is very small and hence, very small space exists in the statue. Lot of water that needs very large space for existence is coming out from...
(Shri G. Lakshman and Smt. Chhanda from Mumbai and Smt. Priyanka from Canada participated in this Satsanga along with some local devotees.)
Shri Phani asked:- Veda said that God is bored with the continuous single type of state, which is existing alone (Ekakii na ramate). Here, the God referred must be unimaginable God existing before creation. In such case, who has seen the boredom of God?
Swami replied:- Seeing something and getting information is perception (Pratyaksha Pramaanam). Assuming the information without perception is inference (Anumaana Pramaanam). Fire emitting smoke in the kitchen is seen...
[A question by Shri Anil]
Swami replied:- You can call unimaginable God only as Sat, which means that the unimaginable God exists (Astītyeva… Veda, Om tatsaditi... Gita). Other details of His unimaginable nature are unknown to anybody except the unimaginable God Himself...
[Shri Veena Datta asked:- The Unimaginable God (Parabrahman) is unimaginable to anybody. The Unimaginable God alone knows about Himself. But a Vedic statement says that he, who knows Parabrahman becomes Parabrahman (Brahmavit Brahmaiva bhavati...). How is this Vedic statement correlated with the earlier concept?]
Swami replied:- Let us examine various scriptures on this concept. The unimaginable God is called Brahman since God is the greatest. Any item, which is the greatest in a specific category is also called Brahman. For example, the greatest among the scriptures...
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