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1. Did Sudaama refrain from asking for help out of self-respect or devotion?
[Shri Ramakanth asked:- Paadanamaskaram Swami 🙏 Dattam Vande Jagat Gurum 🙏 I request You to kindly answer the below questions 🙏
Sudama was poor and went to meet God Krishna with the intention of seeking help. When Krishna saw him, He lovingly washed Sudama’s feet with His hands and sprinkled that water on His own head. Sudama offered parched rice...
Shri Anil asked:-
1. Why did God ask Abraham to do something evil (human sacrifice) to prove his love? Isn't that contrary to His nature?
[A question from internet forum. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil]
Swami replied:- It is only a test of true love. He stopped the test when Abraham became...
Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, You have said that samskaras are like mountains and even with our hectic efforts, we can't even vibrate a stone of it. Now, if that samskara is lust, is Madhura bhakti the only solution in which soul diverts lust to God? Since God has to take lot of blame and punishment in hell for arranging His illusory forms to satisfy the sweet devotees...
1. What are similarities and differences among the below three incidents?
Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked: Namaste Swami. i) When Lord Brahma hid the cows and cowherds in Vrindavan, Krishna spent a year taking all those forms. ii) In the Rasa Leela, He took as many forms as the number of Gopikas. iii) He took the forms to fulfil the duties and responsibilities...
Ms. Kiranmai asked:- Padanamaskaram Swami! I read Shri Guru Charithra whenever I feel low, everytime I read I get stuck at one adhyayam where a Chandala recalls past lives after Shri Nrusimha Saraswati Swami places vibhuti on him. He learns he was once a Brahmin but is now born as a chandala, Swami tells the reason is due to abandoning his parents. If castes are formed out of the interest in a field one chooses...
1. Will You please explain what are the characteristics of each worldly bond?
[Shri Uday Boya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami! In yoga, wheels or lotus flowers represent strong worldly bonds such as Mother, Father, Life partner, Child, False preacher. Will You please explain what are the characteristics of each bond which helps me to self-analyse my progress!]
Swami replied:- Dhaneshanaa, the bond with wealth has no significance at all if the spouse...
(Saṅkalpa Phala Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhādevī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
Pṛcchāmi tvāṃ punaḥ praśnaṃ,
tameva Muralīdhara!।
Kuto na strīsamā bhaktāḥ,
pumāṃso duṣpravṛttayaḥ?॥
[O Singer on Flute! I am raising the same old question once again here. My question is that why are the male devotees, having the same bad quality of lust belonging to the category of Dushpravrutti, not blessed by You in par with the female devotees?]...
(Saṅkalpa Phala Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī Uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
Jīvaṃ Kṛṣṇaṃ manyate sā, Kṛṣṇaṃ jīvaṃ tathā janaḥ।
Rajju sarpa bhramo dṛṣṭaḥ, dvidhā dvāvapi naśyataḥ॥
[During the rāsa-dance, the Gopika is thinking an ordinary human soul (created by God Krishna having His own form) as God. An ordinary ignorant soul is thinking that Krishna is an ordinary human soul. In this way, illusion exists in both places. At one place, the rope is mistaken as snake and at another...
1. What is meant by liberation from cycle of deeds or bond of deeds?
[Shri Avinash Kakumanu asked: Namaskaram Swami, This is asked in reference to points 24 and 26 in Part 1, Chapter 1 of Sri Dattaguru Bhagavad Gita. What exactly is meant by liberation from cycle of deeds or bond of deeds? For liberated souls, how does the deed “fruit and deed” thought cycle behave? Is it different from other souls? When You said, I will liberate only My servant, does...
hri G. Lakshman asked: Padanamaskarams Swami, Oh benevolent Lord, please clarify. When You mentioned that Lord Hanuman is going to be the future Brahma (Creator) the following doubts arose in my mind. Lord Hanuman is the incarnation of Lord Shiva who is Lord Datta and is already the Creator. Hanuman the soul can never become the Creator without the merge of Lord Datta. What is to be understood
Smt. Sudharani asked: Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for caring and nurturing me every minute. Swami, sage Durvaasa could transform his anger into continuous love in his next birth as Radha. Is such an extremely opposite quality modification possible in the case of an ordinary soul...
1. What are the 64 forms of Paramashiva and their meaning and the difference between relating to one form instead of the other?
[Mr. Kenan Waked asked: Jai Guru Datta... Pranams at Your lotus feet Bhagawan Datta Swami. Since I am from an Arab culture, I find it difficult to fathom the 64 forms of Paramashiva and their meaning and the difference between relating...
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...
(Avatāra Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]
Caturvidhā labhante'tra, tyāge tu kāmabandhayoḥ।
Bandhāt kāmasya saṃnyāso, śreyastara iti dhṛvam॥
[There are two items:- i) Fascination to the worldly bonds that exists internally and ii) The worldly bond that exists externally. Based on the sacrifice of these two items, we get four types of devotees:- i) Those, who couldn’t sacrifice both fascinations...
(Many local devotees have attended this Satsanga given by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami)
Health is the real wealth. The essence of the ancient science of ‘Ayurveda’ is that a healthy person attains longevity in life and this longevity must be utilised in the service of God to please God and earn His grace so that the soul is protected here while alive as well as in the upper worlds after death. God’s grace is important not only to attain salvation in spiritual life (Nivrutti), but also to attain...
(Tapo Vicāra Yogaḥ)
20) Dampatyor madhuraṃ bhāvam, sasarja Bhagavān bhuvi |
Dravyānāṃ rasacaryābhiḥ, kṛtaṃ janalatā kṛte ||
[God created the sweet love between living couples through chemical reactions of materialised substances called hormones for the purpose of continuing the chain of living generations. This means that sex and generation of issues can take place only in materialised bodies and not in the energetic bodies...
[By Shri Narasimha, Hyderabad]
First Darshan of Lord Datta (2001)
I first had the blessed opportunity to meet His Holiness Shri Datta Swami (Lord Datta) in the year 2001, at the house of my brother-in-law, Shri Lakshmikanth. I paid my obeisance to Swami.
On that day, I also had the rare fortune of eating brinjal curry served by Lord Datta Himself. That experience remained...
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...
(Tapo Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Raadhaa Devii spoke:-]
1) Saṃśayo'pa gataḥ Kṛṣṇa!, samādhānena bhāsvatā।
Andhakāra iva spaṣṭā, sā'haṃ phullā sarojavat॥
[O Krishna! My doubt is removed by Your answer like the darkness is removed by the Sun. Now, I am clear like a fully blossomed lotus flower in the daytime.]...
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