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1. Swami, You told that Your father brainwashed You to not worship God Datta. Please elaborate this.
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, With respect to the Satsanga held on 12/08/2023 kindly give Your responses to the following questions.-At Your divine Lotus feet-anil. Swami, You told that Your father brainwashed You to not worship God Datta. Please elaborate this.]
Swami replied:- You already came across such experience while Jesus was saying that unless one leaves the worldly bonds, one can’t be His disciple. Same is the context...
[Shri Anil asked: The intensity of fruit is reduced by God. It is far better to reduce the penalty from Rs 100 to Rs 1, rather than paying with interest in the future of Rs 10000/-. Please elaborate.]
Swami Replied:- 99% suffering of the devotee is taken by God and 1% must be enjoyed by the devotee nominally as per the divine constitution. God Datta can pay Rs. 99/- or Rs. 990/- for 99% of the fine. But, the devotee can easily...
Shri Satthi Reddy asked: Mee Paadapadmalaku Namaskram Swamiji, Swamiji, i am suffering with self-projection, ego, intolerance of others’ projections, jealousy. All these diseases, even great scholars while preaching Your knowledge instead of projecting You, they, in the name of You they are projecting themselves. Please do Kaliya Mardana and Shiva tandavam on my head and mind Swamiji, please help me Swamiji. Without You my diseases...
Shri Satthi Reddy asked: Swamiji according to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first generation, from them, the human race continued but the children who were born to them were brothers and sisters and how did the human race continue? The marriage bond between brother and sister is illegitimate and even in Hinduism even they won't allow to marry if they belong to the same Gotra? Swamiji, if anything wrong is there...
[A question by Shri N. Venkateswarrao]
Swami Replied:- Seeing God Datta is useless because you will not be benefited in anyway by that vision. If you read the knowledge...
Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Lord Krishna told the Gita only to Arjuna. But it is said that every human should read and understand the Gita. Then, why did Lord Krishna not involve any soul other than Arjuna while teaching such important knowledge? Because God is not partial, does it conclude that everyone was undeserving to listen from Krishna directly? If so, why should...
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, What is the meaning of the following statements of the Bible-At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil
1. Matthew 11:28–30: “Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. “For My yoke is eas...
1. When others' misery becomes the cause of my happiness, what's the remedy?
[A question by Shri Soumyadip Mondal]
Swami Replied:- How can you put this question because I know very well...
[By Surya]
Guru Datta Shri Datta Prabhu Datta
[29-07-2023] With the salutations at the lotus feet of Swami, I would like to share my experiences with my contemporary human incarnation of Lord Datta i.e., His Holiness Shri Datta Swami. In continuation of our earlier experiences, I present some more miraculous incidents happened during our Amarnath yatra...
[By Shri Ajay]
Saving me and my wife from two accidents in a span of 15 minutes:
With salutations to the lotus feet of Shri. Datta Swami, I would like to present a miracle that recently happened to us.On 25th of July, 2023, Shri. Datta Swami along with Phani Kumar Sistla, visited our office at Guntur on His personal work. We were in the office and began recollecting numerous incidents where Shri. Datta Swami saved us from several...
Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, You said that when a person belonging to another religion attacks your religion with vulgar language, you shall also attack his religion in the same manner (referring Your answer given to Shri PV Sitarama Sastry, USA). In such case, will the horse and donkey become...
Ms. Geetha Lahari asked:- It is told that intelligence is a very powerful faculty of awareness since it takes decisions by doing logical analysis. Para prakruti is individual soul/chit which is associated with storage of memory /chittam as You said. In such case, why is paraa prakruti...
Ms.Bhanu Samykya asked:- God Krishna preached the knowledge called Bhagavat Gita to Arjuna only on one occasion whereas Jesus preached Knowledge throughout the life. Why is this difference?]
Swami replied:- Krishna also preached knowledge like Jesus throughout...
[Smt. Chhanda Chandra asked:- Swami, I asked a question on Guru Puurnima about the change of one type of bond with another type of bond. You answered well. But, I want more clarification on that point so that my confusion can be completely removed.]
Swami replied:- There are two types of bonds:- i) Non-romantic bonds. E.g.: father, son, brother, preacher, master, etc. ii) Romantic bonds. E.g.: husband, darling, etc. Within one type of bonds, change...
[Dr. JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, please correlate the various opinions on Bhakti or devotion especially, the opinions of Sage Paaraasharya, Sage Garga, sage Shandilya and Sage Narada.]
Swami Replied:- Sage Paaraasharya stressed on worship (Pūjādiṣvanurga iti pārāśaryaḥ). Worship means practical devotion involving both service (Karma Samnyaasa) and sacrifice (Karma Phala Tyaaga). In Puja or worship, we have sixteen types...
[Dr. JSR Prasad asked:- In the Gita, the Aparaa prakriti mentions five inert elements and three internal instruments of awareness, which are mind, intelligence and basic ego. God Krishna speaks about Paraa prakriti immediately in the next verse, which means pure awareness, called as ‘Jiiva’. In this context, the fourth internal instrument called ‘Chittam’ or ‘memory’ is leftover. What is the explanation for this crucial...
1. When You suffer for the bad fruits of devotees, how will the human being component be affected?
[Shri Satthireddy asked: Mee Paadapadmaalaku Namaskaram Swamiji, Swamiji, in Parabrahma Gita it is mentioned that Lord Krishna appeared and said that a villager was a perfect scholar of God, since he viewed God, As human incarnation and pain is true for Him, With reference to human being component...
Smt. Amudha Sambath asked: Pada Namaskaram Swami, please scold me Swami, I am not using time for Pravritti (basement for Nivrutti) and Nivrutti, not even focusing on understanding the knowledge from God (Shri Datta Swami). I am sorry Swami but I am not doing anything useful, I want to be at Your feet without any aspiration but I am not even putting an effort. I think that my mind and intentions are not pure, but Swami...
Dattamata Viṃśatiḥ: Verse 12
(Philosophy of God Datta in twenty verses)
विनोद इह धार्मिको धनिक धर्मविद्यालयो
विजातिरयमेव राजमृगयेव मोदान्तरः ।
क्षुदत्र न पुरोsशनात् क्रयग शर्करा केवला
शुकादि विविधाकृते रधिकतः परा द्रौपदी ।। 12...
Shri Ganesh asked: Padanamskaram Swamiji, You have told on many occasions that measurement for attachment to God can be indicated in the level of detachment to the world. I'm not able to understand this point. For example, king Janaka was actively involved in the activities of a king and as the family head yet he was the greatest scholar and was given liberation by God. Here we don't see any detachment to worldly activities...
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