26 Dec 2017
[Shri Datta Swami composed four Upanishats in Sanskrit using Vedic meters. Each Upanishat is again sub-divided into four parts and each part is called as ‘Anuvaaka’. We are presenting below the translation in the form of explanation of each hymn (verse) done by Shri Datta Swami Himself. – Dr. C. Annapurna, Prof. of Hindi, Central University, Hyderabad]
Anuvaakah (First part)
1) Datta is defined as the unimaginable God given to humanity through a medium and Datta is that divine personality on seeing whom, you will not see anybody or anything else and on hearing whom, you will not listen anything from anybody.
2) Datta is called as Purusha meaning that He is lying as the basis for this entire world. He is the husband or maintainer (Bhartaa) of this entire creation, which is Prakruti or wife or maintained (Bhaaryaa) by Him. This creation is in two forms:- i) awareness and ii) inert matter and energy.
3) Anagha means the Nivrutti soul specially devoted to Datta. Anagha means the soul becoming sinless due to association with Datta. Such soul is the dearest wife of Datta. Other ordinary souls have their past deeds as their husbands (maintainers) since such souls have to exist in order to undergo the enjoyment or suffering of fruits of their deeds.
Anuvaakah (Second Part)
1) Just like Datta is a unit of three (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) in one, the Anagha soul is also a unit of three instruments (mind, word and body) in one. Saraswati denotes word. Lakshmi denotes body or matter. Gowri denotes mind or energy. Such soul is becoming sinless by the preaching of Datta involving realization through knowledge, repentance through devotion and non-repetition of sin through practice. Then, the three instruments of soul are becoming pure without sin. The soul is Prakruti or wife and hence, is denoted by feminine gender.
2) Datta is called as Gopala (protector of cows) since the deity of justice is surrendered to Him in the form of white cow. The sinless pure soul is also a white cow and hence, the protector of such sinless white cows is Gopala. The sinless cow or soul is called as Anagha, who is representing the wife of Datta, called as Anaghaa (Anagha means sinless soul maintained by God and Anaghaa means sinless-devoted soul maintained by God with deep attachment).
3) The three jewels of His wife (Anaghaa) or sinless soul are obedience (always lacking ego), shyness (in doing donation) and fear (for God) and she always surrenders to God Datta. This concept is preached in this world by two acting souls in the roles of husband and wife. Hence, the husband shall not have the ego of its role. Similarly, the wife shall not be jealous towards her husband. Both roles should always have the knowledge of both actors or souls being equal with each other.
Trutiyaa Anuvaakah (Third Part)
1) The soul acting in the role of wife is really fortunate since it is learning or practicing the above said three required qualities with which it shall surrender to God. The soul acting as husband is really unfortunate since it is losing basic knowledge that it is only an actor in that role and also losing the three qualities that shall be possessed by the soul before God. It is going far and far from God by the increasing ego!
2) The sages could get rid off all types of ego through spiritual efforts done in millions of births, but, they could not get rid off three types of ego (ego of gender, ego of caste and ego of knowledge). Hence, they were born as females in the low caste as uneducated in their last birth born as Gopikas. Hence, to get rid off the ego of gender, any soul must be born as female only in the last birth before salvation.
3) God Datta is becoming servant of His servant. God Shiva is seen under the feet of Mahaakaali and this proves the concept. God will keep His servant on His head and this is proved by Ganga situated on the head of God Shiva. Mahaakaali did penance for God Shiva and Ganga was born from the feet of God Vishnu. The previous state should never be forgotten. God is becoming servant of His servant because such servant was His servant previously! Without realizing the aspect of love, followers of Shakti claim that Shakti (power) is greater than Shiva (possessor of power)!
Anuvaakah (Fourth Part)
1) Power is in two forms:- i) Cause as generator, maintainer and dissolver of effect. ii) Effect as product created by the cause. Cause is unimaginable God (Parabrahma or Brahman) or His unimaginable power (Maayaa). Since both are unimaginable, both are one only and hence, possessor of power and power are one only in the state as cause (Purusha). The effect (Prakruti) is imaginable and has plurality. The product or creation contains awareness, energy and matter as components. Some take unimaginable cause (mediated by imaginable awareness) as Purushottama, imaginable awareness of effect as Purusha and inert energy and matter of effect as Prakruti. There is no difference in the essence by such classification since both classifications are mentioned in the Gita.
2) The school of power (Shakti) is taking the unimaginable power as cause in female form! The unimaginable God or power as cause is expressed through first energetic incarnation in which the cause merged totally, called as Eshwara or Datta. Datta means the unimaginable God given to humanity in an imaginable form for the sake of visualization also. This form (representing unimaginable cause) is one only (Ekamevaadvitiyam) having three faces of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva indicating creation, maintenance and dissolution of the effect or creation (yato vaa imaani…) and satisfies both clauses of definition of the unimaginable cause given by the Veda. You can take this expressed energetic form as unimaginable cause itself since unimaginable God or power merged with it perfectly. You need not doubt that God is represented in male form and not in female form. It is done so, following the traditional psychology representing domination of male husband over female wife. The psychology is simply followed, which is easily grasped by everybody. It does not really mean the real existence of domination of male over female. You are getting the idea of domination seeing only the form of medium and this medium is a part of creation or wife or female or Prakruti only! You can imagine that two ladies are acting in two different roles as husband and wife. Both the actors are basically females only. You can say that Datta (male form) represents unimaginable power (female) than unimaginable God (Male). Only following the traditional psychology of male domination, God is represented as male and soul is represented as female. The soul through climax of love becomes master and God becomes its servant as seen in the scene of Mahaakaali dancing over God Shiva (Datta)! Hence, spiritual knowledge based on the illusion of gender is meaningless! The unimaginable cause (taken as male unimaginable God or female unimaginable power) is the supreme master and the imaginable effect or soul (whether male or female) is the surrendered servant and this is the final conclusion. If the association of females or association of servants feel hurt, they should remember the scene of female Mahaakaali or previous servant dancing on God Shiva (Datta), the previous master. All these worldly political feelings of gender and slavery shall not reflect on the pure spiritual knowledge.
3) Saraswati (awareness) is praying Lord Brahma with words and mind in the form of poetry and songs. Lakshmi (matter or wealth) is serving Lord Vishnu by pressing His divine feet. Gowri (Shakti or energy) is doing severe penance to become wife of Lord Shiva. These three forms represent the world as well as a human being. A devoted human being becomes sinless due to Datta and is called as Anaghaa, who is also called as Lalita or weak. This devoted soul can reach the top most powerful position of Mahaakaali, which is higher (in which soul becomes master of God-servant) than the highest incarnation (in which soul becomes God i.e., equal to God).
Anaghopanishat is completed.
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-1: Anaghopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-2: Kaalabhairvopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-3: Vishnudattopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-4: Dharmopanishat
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