26 Jan 2018
Prathama Anuvaakah (First part)
1) Vishnu Datta is the real Brahmin. A Brahmin is not by birth, but, by real knowledge of God or Brahman (Brahma nayati iti Braahmanah). The real knowledge of God is that God is unimaginable and energetic incarnation in the upper world or human incarnation on this earth is the unimaginable God Himself due to perfect merge. Sage Atri was born as Vishnu Datta. Sage Atri could not salute Datta being His father. Hence, Atri was born as Vishnu Datta to salute to the holy feet of Datta. He is called as Vaidika, which does not mean a particular sect in the caste of Brahmins. Any soul, which takes the Veda as authority for recognizing God is Vaidika. Vishnu Datta, not only recognized God Datta in human form, but also worshipped Him without aspiration for any fruit in return. God Datta forced him, several times, to ask for a boon, but, he did not ask for any boon. He gave food to Datta and worshipped Him without asking for any boon. Since he gave himself to Datta through total surrender, he is called as Vishnu Datta. This total surrender was also to do service to Datta and not for any boon.
2) Vishnu Datta is the real Shrotriya. The Veda says that Shrotriya (means the person, who knows the correct meaning of the Veda or Shruti) is such person, who is never touched by any desire to be fulfilled from God (Shrotriyasya chaakaamahatasya). The reason for service to God must be the inspiration gained by knowing the details of divine personality of God. The reason must not be the fulfillment of any selfish desire. You need not say that this is impossible because in the world we see such mad fans of political leaders and cinema heroes in this world, who even give up their lives on hearing the death of such leaders or heroes! Such fan spends all his time and money in the work of such leader or hero without aspiring any fruit in return! Such mad fanatic wasted his life in the love of such leader or hero, who does not even recognize such fan! If this love is diverted to God, such fan will be the topmost fortunate soul because God Datta will merge with such soul perfectly to make such soul as God Datta!
3) The wife of Vishnu Datta is the real chaste lady. She never asked her husband for any worldly pleasure like jewels, etc. She did not ask her husband even to purchase a new sari or flowers for her. She was always cooperating with her husband in the service of God Datta without rest even for a minute. She never felt bad about her simple living and in fact, she felt herself to be the most fortunate for becoming wife of Vishnu Datta. She was becoming often ill due to continuous service, but, she never neglected the service to God Datta. God Datta was very fond of this pious couple for its unshakeable practical devotion to God.
Dvitiya Anuvaakah (Second Part)
1) In the paternal ritual conducted by Vishnu Datta, sun and fire came as guests to take food (bhoktas). God Datta came as guest in the place of Vishnu (Vishnusthaanam). After the ritual, God Datta embraced Vishnu Datta for a long time. In that time, God Datta entered Vishnu Datta and made him as the human incarnation. This ritual was not observed by any outsider. Hence, several criticized that all this was a story created by Vishnu Datta. Such criticism was due to the natural ego and jealousy of souls. But, Vishnu Datta was kind to such people also since their ignorance was the basic cause. The criticism of a person, who did not have directly the divine experience, need not be considered at all. A person after experience will talk about his experience. A person without experience can’t talk so! This is natural and a natural thing need not be taken into account. If Vishnu Datta was not having such divine experience, he will not also talk so!
2) Vishnu Datta used to recognize God Datta in any form. God Datta used to visit Vishnu Datta in the form of a poor Brahmin. God Datta used to discuss several topics of spiritual knowledge with Vishnu Datta. Later on, Vishnu Datta used to propagate all those concepts to the public. Vishnu Datta was always trying to make God Datta famous to all the people. He conquered the ego completely. Sometimes, God Datta used to come with feet covered by dust and with dirty torn clothes. In that time, even though Vishnu Datta was involved in the rituals with pure clothes worn after bath, he left all the ritual and used to catch the dirty feet of God Datta without minding the difference between purity and impurity. When Vishnu Datta used to fall on the feet of God Datta, the dust particles on the feet of God Datta used to send radiations of spiritual knowledge into the brain of Vishnu Datta. Vishnu Datta used to give food to God Datta after bath and used to personally wash His clothes.
3) Vishnu Datta used to surrender three flowers with three colours, which are red, white and blue indicating the three divine qualities or three divine personalities called as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva of Rajas, Sattvam and Tamas qualities respectively. These three personalities are indicated by the three faces standing for creation, ruling and destruction of world. Recognition of human incarnation as God Datta indicates the climax of spiritual knowledge. He propagated all the divine knowledge of God Datta to everybody and became the only one real Brahmin. Every night, Vishnu Datta used to decorate the bed of God Datta with flowers. All the divine forms of God are only the moods of God Datta only and God is only one person in any mood!
Trutiya Anuvaakah (Third Part)
1) Vishnu Datta used to live by begging. Once, drought came to that village. Even then, Vishnu Datta did not ask God Datta to help him. In such time, he used to do physical work and earn, from which, he used to give food to God Datta. Even in such drastic condition, he did not ask God Datta to help him. He used to think the difficulties also as grace of God Datta only, which were given higher value by him since in difficulties only the devotion to God gets strengthened. Exploitation of God Datta was never seen in the case of Vishnu Datta. God Datta used to touch the climax of joy due to such attitude of Vishnu Datta. All the services of Vishnu Datta done to God Datta were looking like divine flowers with the shining of spiritual knowledge and with the sweet fragrance of desireless devotion. God Datta used to become very emotional by such divine flowers.
2) Vishnu Datta used to do pilgrimages. But, he was not going for the sake of God or for the sake of getting boons. He was going only to propagate the spiritual knowledge given by God Datta to devotees visiting those pious places. He was never touched by the bad odour of selfishness in the work of God. Vishnu Datta used to write the concepts preached by God Datta on palm leaves and in such writing, his hands used to get lot of pain, which was never cared by him. Once, the wife of Vishnu Datta prayed God Datta to remove those pains. That Thursday, God Datta did not visit their house. Otherwise, God Datta used to come to their house on every Thursday. When the odour of selfishness arises, God Datta can’t stand there. The idea of self should not arise except the God. If the idea of ‘I’ is born, the bad odour is born. Vishnu Datta wept a lot for the ignorance of his wife. God Datta used to come to their house on every Thursday as usual.
3) Vishnu Datta used to worship all divine forms of God. He used to see God Datta in every divine form as an actor in every role. God Datta told him, “Worship of any divine form in any mode counts to the total. Since mind is having the nature of change, such type of worship of single God in different forms through different modes will be very much suitable to the wavering nature of the mind. Difference for some time and unity for some time is very much suitable to the unstable nature of mind. In the time of difference also, unity must be maintained as the underlying thread. This type of worship does not need any forcible effort since it is according to the unstable nature of human mind. Food given to any of My three faces shall go into the same one stomach only! You have to increase the quality and quantity of food (devotion) given to God and you need not worry about the number of faces to which the food is given! You have to increase the time and energy of your worship to God and you need not worry about which form of God is worshipped by you. You cannot separate any feeling or its action from a person and in this way, you cannot separate any divine form or worship from the same one God. For example, anger in the destruction of the world is God Rudra (Shiva). Datta is the person having that quality and doing that work. Hence, you can’t separate God Shiva (quality and action) from God Datta (person). Similarly, Brahma (intelligence in the planning of creation) and Vishnu (patience in administration) can’t be separated from God Datta”.
Chaturtha Anuvaakah (Fourth Part)
1) God Datta used to come in various holy forms like sages, who used to praise other divine forms as higher than Datta. In such times, Datta used to say, “Datta is only an addition of three radiations of God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva. He is the son of sage Atri and hence, is only a sage and is not the ultimate God”. On hearing this, Vishnu Datta used to get very deep pain in the heart. Then, Vishnu Datta used to close his eyes and used to pray God Datta to give reply to such statements. Then, the same God Datta, who criticized Himself, used to say through the throat of Vishnu Datta like this, “God Datta was even before God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva. The unimaginable God, Parabrahma, created space or subtle energy and the first divine form with which Parabrahma merged is called as Datta, meaning the first divine form of the unimaginable God given to the future world. God Datta is also called as Eshwara or Hiranyagarbha or Naraayana or Sadaashiva. God Datta (means expressed unimaginable God) created the subsequent energetic forms of God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva with whom He merged totally. When Datta was formed, nobody is there to see Him. Sage Atri saw Him first. Does this mean that Datta was formed only when Sage Atri saw Him? If you see the Sun in the noon, does it mean that Sun arose in noon only? The definition of God given by the Veda is that He is only one doing the three works of creation, ruling and destruction of the world. This Vedic definition totally applies to Datta and hence, Datta is the God defined by the Veda. Datta means the unimaginable God given to the world of souls for expression through the medium of created energy either with human form (Father of heaven) or without any form (called as Holy Spirit or Yaksha as seen by angels, who became victorious in the war as said in the Veda). Datta simply means ‘given’ or ‘expressed’ and has nothing to do with any specific religion in the world”. In this way, God Datta was playing in double role!
2) God Datta used to come to Vishnu Datta in several forms. Datta used to merge with the role and behave as per the nature of the role. Change from self is the essence of entertainment. But, Vishnu Datta used to remind Him about His original inherent divine nature of God. Such reminding happened to be a disturbance for the entertainment of Datta. In order to avoid this disturbance, God Datta used to cover the brain of Vishnu Datta with His divine illusion (maayaa). Due to this, Vishnu Datta also used to treat Datta as an ordinary human being only. Like this, the drama used to continue between God and devotee. As soon as the illusion disappeared by the will of God Datta, Vishnu Datta used to pray God Datta with high repentance and emotion. Like this, knowledge (vidyaa) and ignorance (avidyaa) used to exchange alternatively for the change, which is the essence of entertainment. The Veda says that God uses both knowledge and ignorance in His entertainment (advidyayaa mrutyum… Veda, Mattah smrutir jnaana mapohanam cha - Gita). Continuous change of old and new is theme of entertainment!
3) Change from present state to a new state is the desire of everybody. King wants to live in hut leaving his palace. Poor man wants to live in palace leaving his hut. Similarly, God wants to become the soul and be subjected to misery. Soul wants to become God and enjoy eternal bliss. Even though this change is desired by both, God is detached from the object of enjoyment since it is unreal for Him in the view of His absolute plane. Soul can’t be detached from the object of enjoyment since it is equally real to it. In human incarnation, God fully identifies with the human being to enjoy the misery for which He is crazy! In the situations of happiness, God detaches from the soul since He is vexed with happiness! Hence, the soul can identify with God fully through perfect monism only through difficulties in the life! A true devotee welcomes difficulties only so that he/she can be the path to give real enjoyment to God. In fact, difficulties alone bring alertness and real devotion to God in the mind of any devotee to become close to God. Happiness brings carelessness and ego to go far from God. Kunti asked God Krishna for a boon by which she wanted to be always in difficulties and tensions (vipadah santu nah shashvat…)! One rejects difficulties due to illusion. A wise scholar with sharp analysis of truth always invites difficulties only! Difficulties are doubly blessed if happen in the service of God! Hence, Vishnu Datta was in extreme bliss always in spite of his extreme poverty. Vishnu Datta along with his wife reached the lotus feet of Lord Datta and this divine couple is always associated with God Datta whenever He comes down as human incarnation.
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-1: Anaghopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-2: Kaalabhairvopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-3: Vishnudattopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-4: Dharmopanishat
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