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Shri Praveen Nageswaran asked: Dear Sir, Namastey!! Please can You make me understand how karma is recorded. Why does it become the blueprint of life. Regards, Praveen]
Swami replied: - Karma or action is transformed into quality and based on the nature of karma...
Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Pada Namaskaaram Swami. Thank You Swami for giving me the rarest opportunity of Bhagya catushtayam. Through Your knowledge I clearly learnt that Worldly activities returns misery at any instance for sure. Anubhava also coincides with this truth. With this influence, can I choose to be the servant of God , trying to do Karma Samnyaasa and Karma Phala Tyaaga, as they are like insurance...
[A question by Shri B. Raghava Sharma]
Swami replied:- There is no use to know the past births, which is like seeing the old cinemas. Several incidents occur in several births...
Shri Soumyadip Mondal asked: Pronam swamijee, We all know from Your knowledge that if we realise, repent and don't repeat a sin that was committed earlier, we will be free from the ill effects of the wrong deed. But I feel "confession" should also be included somewhere into the sequence of rehabilitation actions. Please eradicate the darkness in me. Also put light on the case of degree of sin too. If somebody...
Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for Your unconditional Kindness. Swami You always suggest devotees to chant Hanuman Chalisa which is composed by Saint Tulsidas. Please enlighten us the reason behind that hymn of epic uplifts the soul and please enlighten...
1. Can I be healed?
[Mr. Eve Baldwin asked: I suffered a massive mental breakdown that has left me incapacitated and unable to function for the past five and a half years. I am literally trapped in the void between life and death. Can I be healed? Can You heal me? I need a Miracle.]
Swami replied:- No need of a miracle. You will...
1. In the case a devotee, how is it possible to attain the state where external mental suffering cannot affect internally?
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give Your response to the following questions, at Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil. In the recent reply to Smt. Chhanda Chandra (Link), You said that external mental suffering cannot affect God in Human form since internally He possesses infinite bliss. You also mentioned that a devotee may also attain this state by the grace of God. A devotee does not possess infinite internal bliss. In such a case...
1. What is the reason for the different scriptures for Jews, Christians and Muslims even though their lineage is the same?
[Shri Anil asked: Jews do not accept any Prophet after Moses and their scripture is Torah. Christians accept Jesus as God in human form and the scripture they follow is the Bible. Islam accepts all the prophets till Muhammad and their scripture is the Quran. Even though all 3 are from the same lineage...
Shri Durgaprasad asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, I was discussing with a devotee of Krishna, who says only Vishnu is permanent. He quotes a verse 'avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah (8.18)... from Gita (authored by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada), the purport of which talks about life of Brahma, though the verse literal translation doesn't speak about life of Brahma. The purport for 8.18 goes like this: "The jivas (individual souls) remain...
1 a) How does a Brahmana, who slipped due to ignorance, attain upliftment in spiritual journey?
[Smt. Anita Renkuntla asked: Jai Guru Datta š Paada Namaskaram Swamiji š I Thank You Swamiji from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous infinite knowledge and the way it is explained in the weekend Satsangs. I have some doubts regarding the qualities n deeds of a soul. A good Brahmana who has 80% Sattvam also slips because of a bit of ignorance. He is already in the first place of spiritual line...
Poem 1: O God Datta, You Are My Sky & My Sun
[A poem on His Holiness Shri Datta Swami by Smt. Priyanka from Canada]
I am just a soul, a part of this Earth.
Whereas, You are like the vast eternal sky.
The Earth and sky are very different,
Just like soul and God are totally different.
O God Datta, like this - You are my Sky...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, Shankara said that God is attained by deep sleep (Suį¹£uptyeka siddhaįø„). You say that the fundamental awareness disappears there since the brain-nervous system is fully taking rest without functioning. How do You resolve this contradiction?]
Swami replied:- In deep sleep, the world is not at all grasped due to the disappearance of fundamental awareness that is to be produced by the inert energy in a functioning brain-nervous system. Since this system is taking complete rest without function...
Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Anantakoti pranams to Your Lotus feet, as Thou, the way and goal of eternal Truth, which should not be denied by me at any circumstance. Please throw light on the God forms of Dakshinamurthy and Dattatreya...
Swami replied:
Shri Paramahamsa is the local Bengali doctor,
God Datta is foreign doctor from upper world,
With the help of these doctors, Swami-Doctor,
Intensively treated you from ignorance-illness...
Swami replied:-
1) God in human form will help the real devotees by altering the punishment, which is very convenient to the devotee so that the devotee feels that he is not punished at all while undergoing the alternative punishment that is accepted in the divine constitution. The example for this is a rich business man pulling the railway chain is punished by a fine of 1000 rupees and a poor beggar doing the same is punished...
(Composed by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami)
Sarvatra sarvadÄ sarva-pÄpakarmÄ'smi sarvadhÄ,
Tvatto nÄnyÄ gatistÄta!, Datta Deva! Dayodadhe!...
Swami replied:- You physics scientists are very sharp and intelligent, but, sometimes you become very silly. Physics seems to be a problematic subject! Your greatest scientist in Physics prepared two boxes, one with a big hole and another with a small hole so that the big cat will go through the big hole and drink its milk and the small cat will go through the small hole and drink its milk. He was confused with the laws of motion...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- SÄį¹£į¹Äį¹ ga namaskÄraį¹ Swami, in YouTube, I saw a video entitled ‘Manusmruti Vs. Bible’ by a pastor (Aruna Kumar) in which he was scolding Manusmruti in which it is written that the Brahmana caste is greatest before which all others are treated as servants. By this, he was blaming the Hindu religion. What is Your answer to this pastor?]
Swami replied:- We have to sympathize with the pastor for committing a great error before he started this topic. British rulers projected the caste differences so that they can divide and rule the India. This pastor belongs to their religion...
[Shri Phani asked:- Swami, this question belongs to pure Pravrutti (worldly life). In marriage selection, why are girls always seeking grooms of a higher height?]
Swami replied:- Even though this belongs to pure Pravrutti, it is concerned with the state of householdership (Gruhasthaashrama), which is very essential for the generation of future generations that are needed for the entertainment...
[A question by Ms. Thrylokya]
Swami replied:- The first and main point is that this spiritual knowledge is preached by God Datta directly. The second point is that generally, people have a very strong thirst for true spiritual knowledge because everybody is going to meet death and leave this world. The third point is that modern preachers are preaching spiritual knowledge totally concentrated on worldly logic and the efforts of the souls without...
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