Posted on: 26 Aug 2022
[The devotee Chy. Kartik was married to Chy. Sow. Lavanya on 20.08.2022 and a Satsanga was conducted on 22.08.2022. Swami appeared as Shri Satya Sai Baba to Kartik sometime back and during this Satsanga, Swami appeared as Shirdi Sai Baba to Lavanya. About one week back, Shri Durga Prasad along with his relatives, and Shri Hrushikesh along with his relatives met Swami separately and two Satsangs took place. Some of the points preached by Swami are given here below.]
1) Among all the worldly bonds, the strongest bond is the bond with one’s own children, which is called “Anaahata chakra” situated in the heart and its deity is Vaayu, the strongest among angels. Heart is the abode of love. Anaahata means that which is not crossed by anybody so far. The Bhagavatam says in the beginning itself that sage Vyaasa ran after Shuka, his son when Shuka was leaving the home for the sake of God. Sage Vyaasa is very great, the author of the 18 Puranams and the author of the Brahma Sutraas and the Bhagavat Gita, which are the two among the three holy scriptures (the third scripture is the Upanishats). His birthday is celebrated by us as Guru Purnima! Such a sage could not conquer the fascination of this bond! 90% of Dhaneshana (fascination for earning money) is always linked with Putreshana (fascination for one’s own children) because all the remaining wealth is given to one’s own children only. When Krishna stole butter, it was a joint test of Dheneshana and Putreshana since the butter saved for the children was stolen by Krishna. Almost all the Gopikas went to the mother of Krishna and complained to her about their intolerance on this issue. All Gopikas went to Brundavanam to dance with Krishna (this is the test of Daareshana or the fascination for one’s spouse) but almost all failed in the above joint test. The reason for their failure is due to the strongest fascination towards children and hence, this is the strongest among all the three strong worldly fascinations (Eṣaṇātrayam).
2) If a black magician thinks that he is the most powerful since he could kill anybody through black magic, he is wrong because if you analyze deeply, there is correlation between the concept of deeds (theory of Karma) and the success of black magic. The correlation is that the killed person has that much longevity only and the person will die even otherwise due to some other reason. God also keeps silent due to this correlation and the black magician shall not be proud and think that his black magic is greater than even God! The black magician will not be excused by God because the black magician killed a person, who is to be killed as per the theory of Karma. The black magician will be punished by God for his cruel intension and cruel deed, which are separate from the theory of Karma. Even though Kauravaas are sinners, who will be definitely punished by God Krishna, Draupadi, who was constantly provoking her husbands to kill the Kauravaas was also punished by God for her cruel nature separately and her punishment was that she lost all her five children, who were to become the future kings. Hence, the victim shall leave the revenge to God only.
3) Pleasing God by serving humanity is the second best action only and not the first best. First best is to serve God in His mission when He comes down as human incarnation. In His mission, service to humanity is also a part, but, with analytical knowledge. You must not serve all the human beings irrespective of their deservingness. You must help good devotees and you must harm bad people to please God since the policy of God is to help good people and to destroy bad people (Paritrāṇāya Sādhūnām, Vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām— Gita). ‘Help all and hurt never’ (Paropakāraḥ puṇyāya, pāpāya parapīḍanam) of sage Vyaasa is only a superficial policy to reform cruel people whereas the above policy of God Krishna is perfect. Service to humanity is just a training for the soul to remove its ego based jealousy towards co-human beings so that the trained soul will not show ego based jealousy towards the contemporary human incarnation of God.
4) Generally, human beings hate the contemporary human incarnation due to their ego based jealousy towards co-human beings since they mistake the human incarnation also as an ordinary human being. But, the ground of greedy people is different, which is Economics. If the alive human incarnation is worshipped, the food offered to It will be consumed by It, which is economic loss. Instead of the incarnation, if a photo or statue is kept, the food can be offered by moving the hand and entire food can be eaten by the devotees without economic loss. Hence, greedy people disposed the concept of alive human incarnation and placed statues and photos as the objects to be worshipped. Further, advanced greedy people thought that washing statues needs spending energy unnecessarily, which could be diverted to some earning process. Hence, these climax-greedy people discarded statues and photos as well, and made formless God as the object to whom practical worship can be replaced by simply theoretical prayer. Hence, ego based jealousy and Economics are the two factors that reduced the worship of the contemporary human incarnation to just theoretical prayer of formless God!
5) When a marriage is performed, the scientific and analytical knowledge advises you to perform the marriage in simplest way without any wastage of money. The best is to sacrifice money to God’s service since Nivrutti is always far better than Pravrutti. Even if you limit yourself to Pravrutti only, the next best is to spend money to feed real beggars and real poor people. The next best is to give the saved money (by restricting unnecessary shaving of money) to own children so that they can get settled by purchasing some standard property. Spending excess of money unnecessarily in pomp and show is nothing but pacification of ego for fame. Ego developed by the Rajas quality makes the head not to work just like catching cold does not allow the head to think!
6) Tradition must be fully respected, but, the tradition must be fully and deeply analyzed to see whether it is good or bad. Tradition can be good or bad because of the existence of good and bad people in all times including the past times. All the past traditions need not be good. The past tradition of the family of Prahlaada was to hate God Vishnu and Prahlaada should have respected the old tradition blindly and should have hated God Vishnu. The scripture says that the tradition followed by good elders is acceptable (Śiṣṭācāraḥ pramāṇam) and it did not say that the old tradition is acceptable (Pūrvācāraḥ pramāṇam). In My spiritual knowledge, I have condemned certain old traditions, which are proved not to be good by sharp analysis and some blind people may criticize My knowledge, who believe that all old traditions must be good. Scholars say that such blind people follow the old tradition even if it is bad leading to misery in hell and such people are like a fool drinking harsh salt water in a well saying that the well was dug by his father! (Tātasya kūpo’yamiti bṛvāṇāḥ, kṣāraṃ jalaṃ kāpuruṣāḥ pibanti). Kalidaasa says that one should not follow the old tradition or the new trend blindly without analysis and one shall do deep analysis of any tradition or trend and then practice which ever is good (santaḥ parīkṣyānyatarat bhajante, Mūḍhaḥ parapratyaya neya buddhiḥ).
7) In Nivrutti, you are totally responsible for every action done by you because misinterpretations are many to mislead you to a wrong direction. At least in Pravrutti, the Government takes responsibility to punish wrong preaching. A teacher preaching wrongly in a school or college or University will be asked to give an explanation by higher authorities. But, a spiritual preacher is totally independent to preach any nonsense liked by him/her! Hence, you can pay the fees in advance to an institution to learn knowledge of some Pravrutti subject. But, you shall not do service or sacrifice to the spiritual preacher in the beginning itself since you have every risk of wrong knowledge. You must ask for the knowledge in the beginning itself and if the preacher is divine, he/she will preach the spiritual knowledge without thinking about your service or sacrifice. The divine preacher is happy if you use the correct knowledge and succeed in the spiritual line and such preacher will treat your success itself as the service and sacrifice. Hence, the correct sequence is knowledge, devotion and finally practical service and sacrifice. Only false preachers recommend the reverse of the above correct sequence.