30 Aug 2024
27. Some devotees pray to God and also donate money earned through sinful means to temples. How does God deal with such devotees?
[Shri. Sathi Reddy asked:- Some devotees worship God by donating some money to the temples that is earned either by selling unhealthy products like alcohol or earned through corruption even from poor people. How does God deal with such people, Swami?]
Swami replied:- I repeat that your merit cannot cancel your sin. Suppose you have put some money in God’s hundi and you have earned that money through corruption. Sacrificing money for the sake of God is merit and corruption is sin. You will enjoy the good fruit of this merit and also enjoy the bad fruit of that sin separately. This will not cancel that, but, priests are telling lies. Mutual cancellation of sins by merits will not be done. You have to separately enjoy the good and bad fruits. The good fruits will not cancel the bad fruits. You have to enjoy both separately. For enjoying your bad fruits, you must go to hell and for enjoying your good fruits, you must go to heaven. Both hell and heaven are separate places.
Priests are wrongly saying that if you do the worship of God, your sins would be cancelled. Why are they telling that lie? For their livelihood. If you want to do worship, the priest will do the rituals of worship and take money from you. Therefore, the priests are telling lies. Sin will not be cancelled by merit. Worshipping God is a merit and you will get the good fruit for worshipping God. I don’t say that one should not do worship because it can’t cancel the sin. I am only telling that your worship to God will not cancel your sin. Your worship to God will get its own good fruit separately. It will not cancel your sin. Priests are telling that if you worship God, your sins would be cancelled and your difficulties will be removed. Unless they say that lie, you will not request the priest to do the worship on your behalf and offer some money to him. Unless you offer the money, he cannot have livelihood. So, he is telling lies for livelihood, just to maintain his life. If somebody tells lies or does a sin to maintain his life, it is not considered as sin. Sage Vishwamitra ate the meat of a dead dog when there was drought. No food was available and he must maintain his life to worship God. Life is very precious. So, he ate the flesh of a dead dog and that is not a sin. Similarly, to maintain his livelihood, the priest is telling lies and we cannot find fault with him. He has no other job and no other way of livelihood. He needs some livelihood to feed himself and his family. When you give money to the priest for doing worship on your behalf, you are indirectly helping him and his family to be alive. It is a meritorious deed and you will get good fruit for it. Your worship also doesn’t go waste, although it cannot cancel your sin. It will yield its own good result.
Sometimes, God melts by seeing the poor condition of the priest, who is earning his food in God’s name. To bless the priest, He will not cancel the sin of the devotee but He will postpone the punishment to a later date. The devotee will think that by his worship of God, his sin got cancelled and he comes to the priest again and again to worship God. In one angle, God is blessing the priest to have a decent livelihood. In second angle, God is helping the devotee to increase his devotion towards God so that the devotee will reform into a good person in future. In third angle, God is protecting justice by not cancelling punishments and by postponing with accumulated interest. When the devotee reforms and stops the repetition of that type of sin, God will completely cancel all pending punishments of that type of sin since God is punishing souls for their reformation and not out of revenge. Look! How beautiful is God’s arrangement in all angles! That is the multifaceted administration of God and the multifaceted intelligence of God. The Veda says that His intelligence looks as if He is having thousand heads (sahasra śīrṣā puruṣaḥ…). If our intelligence is this much with our one head, His intelligence shows that He must have thousand heads. He is thousand times more intelligent than us. In fact, that word Sahasra (thousand) is not exactly thousand. It means infinite. Shatam (100) and Sahasram (1000) –these two words in Sanskrit are used to mean ‘many’ and not an exact number. His administration is multi-dimensional and in fact, it has infinite dimensions. That is why, He is unimaginable God, who can’t be imagined with intelligence.
You have seen the example of God Datta’s intelligence when He correlated the two opposite verses in the Bhagavad Gita, which say that there is rebirth and there is no rebirth at the same time. How beautiful this correlation is! When He gave this interpretation, I wondered a lot and enjoyed a lot. That shows that I am not only the speaker but I am also one of the audience. How can I remain a speaker taking so much strain to give answers and you all keep enjoying the knowledge? A mere speaker doesn’t enjoy. Is it not? He uses both Vidya and Avidya (Vidyā ca avidyā iti…) that are knowledge and ignorance. He uses knowledge to give the answer and He uses His self-ignorance to enjoy the answer. If He continues with the knowledge, He can’t enjoy the knowledge because He Himself gave. When He imposes self-ignorance, He forgets that He has given the answer and He enjoys the knowledge. It is completely justified because you can enjoy and allow Him also to enjoy!
There are certain human beings, who think, “Let me not enjoy but you should not enjoy. Let me not be benefited, you must be harmed. If you are not enjoying, I am even prepared to suffer.” Without getting benefits, some people enjoy at the suffering of others. Bhartruhari says, “Ke'mī mānava rākṣasāḥ…” – What type of demons are in the form of human beings, who want to harm others even though there is no benefit for them? Some people harm others to get some benefit from them. But, what are these people, who harm others even though they don’t get any benefit?
[Shri Kunal Chatterjee commented:-]
28. Just now, You told a while ago that human beings are most complex to handle.
Swami replied:- Yes! Human beings are difficult to handle, but, they give very good entertainment to God. The intellectual entertainment is very much given by human beings actually. That is why, God visits the human world in every generation frequently. The intellectual satisfaction comes here only with these dangerous people i.e., special type of people! Also, God alone can manage such human beings well. In fact, God alone knows how to handle each and every individual human soul. There was a Telugu story of a devotee, which was printed in many books. The story goes like this. A devotee, who was not having issues, goes to God’s temple and tells, “If You give me a son, I will construct a ciṭikala pandiri to you”. Here, ‘ciṭika’ in Telugu means finger snap or making sound using two fingers of the same hand. ‘Pandiri’ in Telugu means a pandal or a decorative shelter erected by upright poles supporting a roof in the front portion of the temples of God. God thinks, “I have never heard of this ciṭikala pandiri. Let Me get it from this devotee”. Immediately, God blesses a son to that devotee and asks innocently, “When will you be constructing the ciṭikala pandiri?” The devotee replies, “Let my son grow up and let the naamakaranam (naming ceremony) be over”. Then, God comes after the ceremony again and asks, “When will you give the ciṭikala pandiri?” Devotee replies, “Let my son get married and then, I will give that”. God comes after marriage and asks again, “Now, marriage is also over. When will you give that ciṭikala pandiri?” The devotee replies, “Let him also get a son!” Even his son will also get a son. Then, God asks the devotee again. Finally, the devotee says , “I will construct it right now”. By snapping his fingers, he moves his hands in the form of vertical pillars and also moves his hand horizontally as roof. Then, he says, “Ciṭikala pandiri is over!” The story ends here.
I didn’t like this because the supreme God is insulted here. It shows as if human being is more intelligent than God. So, I explained that it is only the first half of the story and I narrated the remaining half of the story. After showing ciṭikala pandiri, the devotee goes to his house and asks his wife to serve meals. Then, she comes with vacant hands, starts serving him by snapping her fingers and says, “This is ciṭikala plate. This is ciṭikala chutney. This is ciṭikala vegetable. This is ciṭikala rice. Come on, have it!” The devotee asks his wife in shock, “Hey, what is this?” The wife replies sharply, “What was that you did to God?” God possessed her and gave that reply. I completed that story because I was unable to bear that insult to God.
29. How to become an angel, who only thinks and does good deeds as a servant to God?
[Smt. Amudha asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, To my understanding, Swami, also in Datta Vedam, it is mentioned that Angels and Demons are in humans.
How to become an angel, who only thinks and does good deeds as a servant to God? Even if we humans realize our fault and ignorance, I feel that human efforts can't change the facts of ourselves. The human mind is also wavering considering all this. I feel like nothing can be achieved by human efforts. God is only showing infinite kindness and love and protecting every second.]
Swami replied:- When I compared some human being to angel, the comparison is only in the good qualities and good deeds done by that human being. I am not comparing the physical features here. Angels fly with their wings, but, human beings don’t have wings and they cannot fly. Whenever a simile is given, you should not take all aspects of the simile. Even if one common aspect is there, a simile can be given. The line, “Your face is like Moon” is a simile. It means that your face is as pleasant as the moon. The pleasantness is the single quality based on which the face is compared to Moon. You can’t bring other qualities of the moon in this case. Moon reduces it size in 15 days and grows during the next 15 days. Moon has black spots. You need not take all these properties of the simile and apply them to the actual item. Even if one property is common, you can compare. This is called as ‘Ekabhaagopamaa’ in Alankaara Shaastra. ‘Upamaa’ means simile. ‘Eka bhaaga’ means in one aspect. Sometimes, the simile is given in several aspects and that is called as ‘Puurnopamaa’, which means a complete simile. Sometimes, there is a lot of intensity/strength in one compared aspect itself. Only that one aspect is very much intensely present in the compared item as well as the comparing item. Then, the same simile is called as ‘Ruupakaalankaara’, which means a Metaphor. In Alankaara Shaastra, there are three types, such as ‘Ekabhaagopamaa’, ‘Puurnopamaa’ and ‘Ruupakaalankaara’.
Therefore, I told that there are three types of souls–angels, human beings and demons. In the Gita, it is told, “Aniṣṭa miṣṭaṃ miśraṃ ca, trividhaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam”. ‘Anishta’ means demons. ‘Ishta’ means angels. ‘Mishram’ means mixture. It means that human beings are a mixture of both angels and demons. Among human beings, you find angels and you also find demons. But, one condition is there. A human being becomes an angel in one context at one time and the same human being becomes a demon in another context at another time. We call that as change of moods. Therefore, when you do good deeds and if you become a servant of God, you have become angel. But, that is in one aspect only and that is the main aspect. Having wings and flying are not very important aspects. The main aspect is that good qualities mean angels and bad qualities mean demons.
30. How can one attain stability in mind towards God?
[Smt. Amudha asked:- How can one attain stability in one’s mind towards God?]
Swami replied:- See, this question is very small but it has a very long answer. “What happened between Sita and Rama?” is a very small question. The entire Ramayana must be told as its answer! At least, I will touch some important points for this question. For the attainment of God, first you must develop interest. You must have interest in your heart for God. You should create interest in your heart even though you don’t have the interest inherently. This is done in the world also. A child doesn’t drink milk because he is not interested to drink milk. The parents will try to create the interest because it is good for the child. Similarly, God tries to create interest on God but that is the main problem. God cannot come as God directly to create interest in Himself. So, He doesn’t come as God. He comes in disguise as an incarnation. He is the actor but the role makes Him to look in a different angle so that He appears as a good human being and becomes friendly with ordinary souls. This point was made very clear by God Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. In the Gita, He never tells you to take interest in God.
He frankly says to take interest in Him. God Krishna says, “You salute Me, you sacrifice to Me, you always do My work, you always put your attention on Me, you apply your intelligence on Me, you put your mind on Me” (Mayi buddhiṃ niveśaya…, māṃ namaskuru…, matkarma paramo bhava…, mayi buddiṃ niveśaya…, mayyeva mana ādhatsva…). He mentioned ‘Himself’ instead of ‘God’ because He is God, who comes directly as human incarnation. Even every incarnation is God only, but, they tell, “You worship God”. When somebody, who is not God, tells us to worship God, we will give some weightage. If the same ordinary fellow is always telling, “You worship me. You put your mind on me”, we will definitely think that this fellow is a cheat, full of selfishness. It leads to misunderstanding. In the Gita, nowhere Krishna mentions God. He mentions only, “I, I, I… Me, Me, Me…”. This means that Krishna is telling again and again that He is God.
Therefore, you must develop interest on God due to the efforts of God only in the form of Sadguru (Incarnation). You must have inherent interest, but, the word ‘inherent interest’ is also not correct because that inherent interest is nothing but the accumulated interest of several previous births. So, everywhere created interest only exists. Therefore, you must first get the interest in the form of created interest. The people, whom you associate with, will create the interest. If you keep your association with good devotees, they will induce the interest on God. If you associate with worldly people, they will create the interest towards the world. So, the first step is association, which is called as ‘Sanga’. The word ‘Sat’ generally means God, the absolute reality. The world, which is relative reality, is called as ‘Mithyaa’. God in the form of Sadguru or incarnation is also an association, who creates interest on God. So, Satsanga means that you are in association with some Sadguru, the incarnation of God. That Satsanga will create interest on God.
The word ‘Sat’ also means a good devotee. This is the second meaning for ‘Sat’. When you are in the association of good devotees, they also induce interest on God. The first step in spiritual path as told by Shankara is Satsanga, which is the association with Sadguru and devotees of God (Satsaṅgatve nissaṅgatvam) and this Satsanga will lead you upto Jiivanmuktih, which is getting salvation while you are alive (niścalatattve jīvanmuktiḥ). It is not Videhamukti, which means getting salvation after death. Jiivanmukti means getting salvation while you are alive. This first step of Satsanga will lead you upto Jiivanmukti, the last step. So, it is all about association. There is an English saying also, “You tell me about your friends. I will tell what you are”. Suppose your friends are rowdies, you are also a rowdy. They will induce their nature into you due to friendship. Initially, you may say that you are not like them. In course of time, due to continuous association, you will definitely become like them. With whom we make the friendship is the first step. If you are making your association (friendship) with worldly people, that will lead you to become a multi-millionaire. If you get association with a devotee, you will get salvation while you are alive (Jiivanmukti). So, you decide whether a multi-millionaire is greater or a Jiivanmukta is greater. The decision is up to you. If you want to go to Delhi, this is the way. If you want to go to Chennai, that is the way. You decide which destination you want to go. Do you want to become a multi-millionaire or become a good devotee of God? You please God and attain the final divine fruit of salvation.
Now, her question shows that she is interested towards God and not to the world. Is it not? Her goal or destination is clear. When the goal is mentioned, the way is also specific. Since her goal is God, the path is that she must have association with the Sadguru, who is not only a guide but also the goal. Arjuna is the most fortunate soul to have association with Krishna because Krishna is both goal and guide. Krishna is the preacher to Arjuna as Guru (guide). Krishna is also the goal to Arjuna. He directly says in the Gita, “I am the goal. Put your mind on Me. Don’t put your mind on anybody except Me”. Here, Krishna is not beating His drum like ordinary human beings. He is saying the truth about Himself. Krishna very clearly speaks about Himself to Arjuna because Arjuna deserves to know the truth. If He says the same before Drutarashtra or Duryodhana, they will immediately say, “You fellow! So far, we were thinking that You are only a cheat. Now, You have become highly selfish and beating Your own drum by saying Yourself as the ultimate God”. Krishna never beats His drum before the undeserving Duryodhana or Drutaraashtra and He beats His drum before the deserving Arjuna alone because Krishna is speaking the truth. It is not beating drum. It is perfect truth. He knows that Arjuna will not misunderstand Him as a drum beater. He has that confidence on Arjuna. That is why, when the other person is not going to misunderstand Me, what is wrong if I tell the truth about Me? Why should I hide the truth? I shall hide the truth if I doubt that the other person will misunderstand Me and may think otherwise. Then, I shall not beat My drum. Even though it is truth, I shall not speak. Kalidasa says, “Yathārtha vyāhṛtiḥ sā hi, na stutiḥ parameṣṭhinaḥ…” i.e., when you praise God, it is always truth. It is not a praise. You may praise to any extent. Still, your praise is lesser compared to His actual greatness.
Her goal is Delhi. Now, there is a direct train from Mumbai to Delhi and there is no need to change the train in between the journey. Therefore, if she catches the first step, she automatically reaches the last step. That step is Satsanga. That is what Shankara told, “Satsaṅgatve nissaṅgatvam…”. Straight train is there. It may stop here and there, but you don’t get down. So, the straight train is to select devotees as your friends. Then, you will reach the goal. You can select your Sadguru like Krishna, Adi Sankara, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, etc.
[Ms. Thrylokya says:-]
31. We can select Shri Datta Swami.
Swami replied:- Now, I am not beating My drum. You are beating My drum. You can select any Sadguru. May be Datta Swami also. What is wrong? Any Sadguru is Sadguru. If you find somebody else as Sadguru, catch Him. I am only telling you to catch a Sadguru. I did not give any specific name. Even if I give name, it is non-objectionable. If I mention the name of a contemporary human incarnation, ego-based jealousy comes. Ego and jealousy are the two cataracts of the two eyes, which are difficult to deal with. Contemporary human incarnation is really the best because you will have direct contact with God and you can ask any doubt at any time in any stage of your spiritual progress. It will be cleared from the roots by the answer coming from Sadguru. Sat means God and God is the goal. Guru means only a guide. He, who is both guide and goal, is called as Sadguru. Catching the Sadguru is the easiest path in the spiritual journey. As soon as you enter the train, you have reached Delhi because the train itself is Delhi. But, it will take time until you realize that the train itself is Delhi. In the Gita, Krishna told “I am God, I am God, I am God…” a thousand times. What did Arjuna do at the end of the war? He said, “I couldn’t hear Your Gita properly. You repeat it again”. This implies that Arjuna couldn’t understand the Gita. That is why, he was not eligible for salvation immediately. He had to take the birth of a hunter in the next janma (birth). Arjuna was having a samskaara of not believing the contemporary human incarnation of God. He was believing only statues and energetic forms of God. When God Krishna was there with him, why should he go to the Himalayas to do penance for God Shiva? Who is God Shiva? Is Krishna not Shiva? Are both different? Both are one and the same. The same God exists in energetic form as Shiva and in human form as Krishna. So, this concept of human incarnation is not digested well by him. He is under the impression that God Shiva, the energetic incarnation is greater than human incarnation. So, he only worshiped the energetic incarnation in the form of a statute (Shiva linga). That is why, when he was born as a hunter in the next birth, he worshipped Shiva lingam again due to his strong samskaara that came from previous birth. Then, he was born as Swami Vivekananda in the next birth. Swami Vivekananda never believed Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as God until His death time. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was suffering with throat cancer at the time of His death. Vivekananda sat there and thought, “If He is the incarnation of God, will He suffer like this? Why is He suffering if He is an incarnation?” Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, who was lying on a bed, opened His eyes, looked at Vivekananda and said, “Naren, are you still doubting Me? I am Rama and I am Krishna”. With these words, the ignorance of Vivekananda was totally removed.
Vivekananda completely realised that Paramahamsa was God in human form. That is why, when he died, blood came out of his nose and there was a rupture on the top of his head (Bhidyate Hṛdaya granthiḥ…). Swami Vivekananda was sitting in the room and outside the room, annadaanam (serving food) was going on. He sat in meditation inside the room and it is called as ‘Kapaala Moksham’. When the ignorance knot breaks, then there will be breakage on the top of his head. Due to that, blood came through the nose and then, he got salvation. He believed Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as the contemporary human incarnation when Paramahamsa told like that. Till then, he was not believing the contemporary human incarnation. Arjuna also did not believe the contemporary human incarnation that is God Krishna. He took the hunters’ birth as next birth and the next was the birth as Swami Vivekananda. So, Arjuna got salvation in the 3rd birth as Vivekananda. Ramakrishna told to Swami Vivekananda, “Now, I am locking your brain but I am keeping the key with Me only. When the work is over and when the time comes, I Myself will open the lock. Till then, I will keep the key with Me”. The opening of lock is indicated by that rupture on the top of his head when he left his body.
32. Why did Swami Vivekananda preach Advaita philosophy?
[Shri Durgaprasad asked:- Shri Krishna preached Dvaita philosophy that God is separate and the soul is separate whereas Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Shri Swami Vivekananda preached Advaita philosophy. Why Swami?]
Swami replied:- Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa did not preach Advaita. Paramahamsa Himself worshiped Goddess Maha Kali. He is the devotee and Maha Kali is the deity. Is it Dvaita or Advaita? It is clearly Dvaita.
Swami Vivekananda was having some rajasic nature and Arjuna was also having some rajasic nature. Only when rajas predominates, anybody will feel “I am God”. Ravana told “I am God”. Hiranyakashipu told “I am God. There is no God other than me”. In demons, you find that Advaita philosophy. The case of Vivekananda preaching Advaita is different. Here, he was travelling in foreign countries after that famous Chicago lecture. The receivers were foreigners. In the beginning stage, anybody will be attracted to the spiritual line if you impress the person that he/she need not put much effort in this subject. If we say simply “If you know that you are God, you will become God!” With this initial attraction, everybody will come to the spiritual path. Even Shankara attracted the Indian atheists by this Advaita philosophy and converted them into theists and then into devotees of God. If you say the truth that one has to put a lot of effort and then only, one would become the servant of God, nobody would come forward. God Jesus already told, “The path to God is very narrow and covered by thorns. Rarely, one fellow will be coming in that path. But, the path to hell is wide like a national highway and covered by rose petals. It is always full of crowds. Unless you hate your father, mother, brothers, sisters, wife and children, you can’t be My disciple”. Who will come when truth is spoken? Forget about coming to the true path, they killed Jesus for speaking the truth!
First, you must encourage and say, “You must know that you are God and for knowing, you must have knowledge and then, you will become God!” People will think, “Let us attend his speeches. Let us get his knowledge and become God”. Is it not attracting? Attraction is necessary either through some miracles or Advaita philosophy. If one can’t do miracles, Advaita philosophy is the best miracle! In fact, it is easier than miracles because there is nothing to do except to speak. Beginners think, “Simply, I have to attend his lectures, get the knowledge, then I will get the realization that I am God and I become God. No investment of even a single rupee is required!” You must either tell people that they will become God by listening to your lectures or perform miracles like Satya Sai Baba. Coming to the psychology of foreigners, they have rajasic and tamasic nature. Their eating habits also provoke these two qualities more compared to Indians, who are traditionally disciplined people. Foreigners are very freely living people. What does the Advaita philosophy say? Whatever may be your nature, just come to my lecture, learn the knowledge, you will realize that you are God and you will become God. All foreigners were attracted by this kind of speech of Vivekananda. He converted atheists into theists, just like Shri Shankara, who first got that result. Dealing with atheism is always more important. Seeing the surrounding atmosphere, one has to adopt the plan. Even Satya Sai Baba adopted that philosophy and spoke about Advaita. After doing miracles, He spoke Advaita.
In Advaita, there are many merits also. It can bring many positive results. In Advaita, you think that you are already God. Suppose some beggar comes and begs you. You will think, “I am God. If I can’t help even a beggar, how am I God?” Your consciousness will put that question. You will think “Being God, I must be dignified and give some money”. Another merit is that it helps to remove mental depression. When depression comes, you will think “I am God. I am the Creator of this entire creation. I am the owner of this world. This world is a myth to me. Depression can’t come to God. Therefore, I shouldn’t get depression”. Immediately, depression vanishes. This way, Advaita has some benefits and certain advantages for spiritual progress. All these merits are good for spiritual progress.
An Advaita-follower thinking that he must maintain the dignity of God, doesn’t get depression and helps poor people. He avoids doing sins because God cannot sin. In this way, there is reformation of the soul based on Advaita. There are certain merits, which a human being can enjoy in the name of God. For the sake of dignity at least, he will show some good qualities, develop those good qualities and gets reformed finally. Is it not a good effect? Whatever may be your technique, right or wrong, you are getting excellent results. Foreigners needed this type of reformation very much. As per their nature, as per their lifestyle, they needed this technique and philosophy. Based on the surrounding atmosphere, Vivekananda became an Advaita philosopher. Also, he was a student of Rama Krishna Paramahamsa and he always prayed to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Several times, he prayed to Goddess Maha Kali.
In the Advaita philosophy, there is another wonderful aspect that the Advaita followers worship every form of God, which comes under Dvaita (Dualism). Therefore, Dualism is inherently present in the Advaita philosophy also as you see the prayers of Shankara to many forms of God. But, in Dualism, monism (Advaita) is not there. In Advaita, Dvaita is there because they think “May be, I am not God. I may not reach God by this path. I may have to worship God and we don’t know which form of God to worship. Let me worship all forms of God. There is nothing lost ”. This way, dualism very well fits in Advaita. Hence, Ramanuja and Madhva also stand in Advaita. Advaita says to purify your mind (Citta Shuddhi) for which you must worship God and Advaita promotes the worship of every form of God (Saguna Upaasanaa). Shankara Himself wrote prayers on all forms of God. Hence, there is no harm in following Advaita in this right direction. Advaitins become friends with everybody that is all devotees of all Gods. Advaita easily exploits people by creating that inner ambition of becoming God but all that is for good only. Even though they exploit like that, there are some good aspects and good results. Also, there is nothing wrong in thinking yourself as God. By thinking that you are God, if you are helping a poor man and getting benefitted with mental peace, God will appreciate it. By Advaita, if you are destroying yourself and if you are harmed, God will object that Advaita. God doesn’t mind if you are following Advaita for your reformation.
Swami’s miracles explained by Swami:-
I don’t know how to operate the computer. But, I did several miracles on the computer. The entire book of the Bhakti Ganga was typed in a computer by Shri Ajay, My devotee. The computer was not opening for many days and he was worried about it. One day, he took Me to the computer. I just put My hand on the computer and it opened immediately. This was My first computer miracle. Another miracle happened when Ajay Garu gave order to the computer to print 6 copies. The order was already given and the printer had taken in one white paper to print the first copy. When the printing was half way, I told, “Ajay Garu, can you stop printing now? I want to revise something”. He replied that he had already given the order of printing 6 copies and he could not stop it. Then, I just showed My hand (Abhayahastam or blessing hand) to the printer. Immediately, six papers came out of the printer in pure white colour without a single letter printed on them. A recent computer miracle happened with a devotee, Ms. Saatvika. She was trying to install a software on an old MacBook but the software is made to work only on Windows and the latest version of MacBook. The laptop crashed multiple times by this installation. She prayed to Datta Swami and it started the installation miraculously. Like this, several miracles were done on the computer. But, I personally don’t even know how to open a laptop. How do you explain My inability to open a computer and My ability to do miracles on the computer?
[Shri Veena Datta said:-]
Kartum akartum vikartum samartham (God is capable of doing anything, capable of not doing it and capable of doing it in another way).
Swami replied:- Yes. The miracles on the computer indicate the omnipotence of God. If all people know the omnipotence of God, they get excited by seeing the omnipotence and then, God loses the entertainment in this world. So, when God exposes His ignorance, that ignorance will neutralize this excitement. It will cover like maayaa so that His entertainment of normal human life continues. For that, both vidyaa (knowledge) and avidyaa (ignorance) are required. Knowledge exposes divinity and ignorance covers divinity. That is the secret in it.
Datta Jayanti Satsang completed
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