08 Jun 2016
Shri Anil asked:
Padanamaskaram Swami
1) Please give Your explanation on the following verse from bible.
[John 5:19-24 19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives lifeto whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.]
Swami Replied: The energetic incarnation in which unimaginable God merged is meant by the word ‘Father’. Son means the human being component selected by Father in which the Father gets merged and such son is called as human incarnation or Son of God. Since the unimaginable God exists in both Father and Son, both are one and the same because anything done by Father and Son must be the same due to the same common unimaginable God. Hence, there is no difference between Father and Son since both are the incarnations of unimaginable God only. Both are like the two hands doing the same work and two legs walking in the same direction. Jesus is the human incarnation like cotton shirt and the divine Father of heaven is the energetic incarnation like silk shirt of the same person called unimaginable God. Jesus says that the Son of God (Himself) will judge the souls and not the Father. The meaning of this statement is that though Father and Son are one and the same, you have to call the mediated unimaginable God by the name of the Son of God only since the Son of God (human incarnation) is relevant to this humanity and not the Father (energetic incarnation), who is relevant to the energetic souls present in the upper world only. When a person staying in the state of Tamilnadu says ‘our chief minister’, he is only referring the chief minister of the state of Tamilanadu only and not the chief minister of Orissa though both are the same chief ministers only. When you are staying in a state, the chief minister of that state is only relevant to you to approach for any grievance and not the chief minister of other state. This statement reveals only the stress of relevance of human incarnation for the humanity. The human being believing the human incarnation is always blessed by the absolute God, who exists in that very human incarnation only and such devotee crosses over from death to life. Here death means the state in which God is forgotten (Ref.: Sanat Sujitiyam of Mahabharata) and life means the state in which God is always remembered. It is crossing over the worldly bonds to reach bond with God. The believer in the human incarnation participates in the propagation of the knowledge of human incarnation and such a divine servant will not be judged in the upper world since his/her file will be kept inactive in cold storage. Other ordinary souls are judged and dispatched to the concerned upper worlds like heaven and hell as per the judicial inquiry of the file of the soul.
2) Please give Your explanation on the following verse from bible.
[John 6:25-34 Jesus the Bread of Life
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’
32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 7: 37
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”]
Swami Replied: When the human incarnation preaches the spiritual knowledge, it is the direct knowledge from the unimaginable God pervading It. The food or bread that is eaten gets digested and gives energy to the human being. Similarly, the knowledge heard from God gets digested, which gives energy to the spiritual effort. Hence, food or bread means the spiritual knowledge. If you receive wrong spiritual knowledge from false human incarnations, it spoils you leading you to wrong direction. If you believe in the unimaginable God, you must believe the human incarnation because the unimaginable God exists in It. Then, you will receive right knowledge and travel in right direction. It is not the human being component of the human incarnation that gives the spiritual knowledge (bread), but the absolute God is directly giving it through the medium of a selected human being component.
Jesus says that He Himself is the bread or spiritual knowledge. This statement means that the human incarnation like Jesus is the possessor of the spiritual knowledge and the spiritual knowledge is the possessed item. You can call the possessor by the name of possessed item. The bearer of apples is invited by calling “O Apples! Come here”. Jesus is also telling that the hungry person should come to eat the bread or knowledge. If hunger is absent, however best may be the food, it gets rejected. The Gita says that only a person with interest gains knowledge (Shraaddhaavaan...). Jesus is also telling that whoever is thirsty should come to Him and receive the drink, which means the love to God. After that, rivers of the drink, which mean the streams of devotion will flow in the devotee. God gives both miraculous knowledge and also unassuming devotion to His devotees through His miraculous love. Miracle should not be confined to a miraculous deed only, which is meant just for the lowest category of atheists.
3) Not Peace but Division: Luke 12: 49-53
[49“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”]
Swami Replied: The human incarnation (like Jesus) comes to the earth not for establishing peace in the family of a Nivrutti devotee, who is mad of God. God comes to earth to establish peace in the society of Pravrutti devotees, which is relevant to the entire humanity having love to God. This is the general aspect. The special and very rare aspect is to guide a very rare devotee interested in Nivrutti, which deals with very rare madness to God. The meaning of this statement gets misunderstood easily and we think that God has come in human form to break our family bonds by separation and split playing some cunning tricks disturbing the peace of family and thereby that of the entire society. Not at all. There is no need for God to do like that. The actual point is that in Nivrutti you will be very much attracted towards the human form of God due to high relevance. This attraction to God exposed brings subsequent detachment from family that results in divisions and fights. However, this state can be avoided by keeping your bond and service to God in secrecy so that you will carry on your spiritual journey in very smooth and cool atmosphere without hurting the ignorant family. If the family is also devoted to God like you, there is no question of split and division. However, if the family has some devotion mixed with some ignorance, first, you can propagate the spiritual knowledge to your family since your family is a part of humanity only. By this you have already started the divine work of propagation. Your family may be reformed and may come in line to co-operate with you. If both these ways fail and if the family remains totally ignorant and very rigid to your spiritual progress, the above path of secrecy as stated by the Gita (Rahasi sthitah...) can be followed. This path of secrecy is better than fighting with the totally ignorant family, hurting it and simultaneously getting yourself disturbed also. The dropping of family bond takes place spontaneously without any effort as a subsequent natural consequence of your attachment to God and hence is not sin at all. However, the same should not be applied to your attachment to a prostitute through higher attraction. The personalities of most pious God and most cunning prostitute differ very much from each other like truth and lie. Any quality is neither good nor bad by itself and becomes good if directed to God and becomes bad if directed to world. A thorny stick burnt in fire altar becomes sacred ash to be kept on the forehead. Rose scent poured in drainage is rejected by its bad smell. Hence, what Jesus said is about the natural consequences of your attraction to alive human incarnation and not about His effort to cause such splits by cheating tricks as if it is the purpose of His visit to the earth!
4) Mathew 19: 23-28
[23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
25When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
27“Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will be for us?”
28Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wifee or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.]
Swami Replied: Wealth or money is the basis of all worldly bonds. If the basis is sacrificed for the sake of God, all the worldly bonds get dissolved in the case of majority of the humanity. The Veda says this point very straight (Dhanena tyaagena...) and the Gita says more precisely about sacrifice of the fruit of the work done by the soul (Karmaphalatyaaga), which is most difficult. Lord Krishna, stealing butter (wealth) of Gopikas is the strongest test, which involves wealth linked to issues as generally wealth is earned even through unfair means for the sake of blind passion to issues. Midnight dance takes second place only, which is the sacrifice of the bond with life partner for the sake of God. Of course, wealth is also linked with life partner and hence the basic sacrifice is referred by Jesus, which is the toughest. Jesus said that such basic sacrifice is not possible by the effort of soul alone and is only possible to grace of God. Peter asked Jesus for the fruit in return on doing such tough sacrifice. Jesus told that if the bond with wealth and family is cut, the devotee will receive hundred fold bliss with God due to His association here itself and the trace of happiness that always ends in misery due to worldly bonds is beyond comparison. The word life here means bliss, which is the eternal unlimited happiness.
5) Why did Jesus say “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”?
Swami Replied: Jesus indicates that the cup or body of human incarnation filled with the divine nectar or spiritual knowledge served the devotees and since the work is over, He is ready to depart from this world as per the will of God. Even the life is sacrificed on the will of God and this indicates total surrender to God. The total surrender to God is in the mind, word and action of Jesus and this is called as the pure unity of these three internal means (trikarana shuddhi). Generally, we find humans to speak lies by words even though such sacrifice is not in the mind and hence will not be in the action. They try to cheat the omniscient God, which is impossible. The cheating can be done in the case of human beings as they do not know the mind of others. Most of the prayers done by most of the humanity come under this type only. You recite a prayer written by Shankara, who spoke the truth of level of sacrifice in His case. We are just repeating the same prayer without examining it whether it applies to our level or not. The omniscient God keeps silent to your prayers with a smile that indicates His omniscience.
6) Matthew 11:28-30 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Swami Replied: The yoke means the propagation of His knowledge in the humanity, which is very easy without any burden since no much sacrifice is involved in it except some time and energy which are wasted in useless works. But, in course of time, due to propagation, the soul gets reformed and reaches the goal. This is just initial initiation asking to donate the rupee thrown in the dustbin and is not asking neither the rupee you enjoy nor the rupee you save for your old age and duties to your family. God is asking you to divert the dustbin rupee to Him!
7) The Parable of the Banquet: (Luke 14:15-24)
[1Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fatlings have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, and another to his business. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
7The king was enraged. He sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city. 8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy. 9Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’
But the man was speechless.
13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot and throw him outside into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’]
14For many are called, but few are chosen.”]
Swami Replied: A man and woman marry and then merge with each other to generate issues. God also merges with the energetic form to become energetic incarnation (Father of heaven) and then merges with materialized human form (Son) to become human incarnation (Son of God). This merge in worldly logic is called as union of couple after wedding and the same word is used in the spiritual field also for the sake of better understanding of humanity through much familiar example. Hence, these parables help the clarity of knowledge and should not be taken in the actual sense of the worldly logic. The Veda says that the creator (unimaginable God) alone is male (Purusha) and the creation is female (Prakruti). The formation of energetic incarnation is one wedding in which the unimaginable God (bridegroom) merges with the imaginable energetic form (bride). The issue of this first wedding is the formation of divine Father, the main energetic incarnation. This divine Father (bridegroom) is the energy- mediated God, who weds a human being component (bride) by merging with it and the issue generated here is the male human incarnation or Son of God. The male character of both energetic and human incarnations is due to the male character of the real male unimaginable God present in both. The Father of heaven (contains unimaginable God and being the creator) is male Father. The human form (or creation) is the female daughter. The result is that Father (Brahma) married His daughter (Sarasvati). Ignorant people criticise this without knowing the actual meanings of father and daughter in this context. They bring the meanings of these words from the worldly context, apply the same to spiritual context and get confused. If you make a statement that a poet generated a poem and enjoyed it, does it mean that the father married his own daughter and enjoyed her?
The word ‘Son’ indicates the human being component getting merged with God, which is termed as wedding function. After wedding (selection) the merge takes place between father of heaven and son and Son of God is evolved. The divine father sent invitation to the lowest category of human beings, who always care for the world only negating the God (atheists). Such souls are in the bottom most plane with serious illness. Jesus said that the doctor is first needed for a serious patient only. Hence, first invitation was sent to the most fallen souls to come for this function, which means that they should believe the human incarnation and get benefited. Such worldly mad souls were engaged in their worldly works only and did not turn up to this function (concept). They were destroyed by the worldly forces (bad qualities), which are said to be soldiers (God created all qualities) of God. Their city burns, means that all that was earned is destroyed after the death since the soul has no trace of contract with anything built up by it in the previous birth. The soul is born as a dog and visits its own house in the previous birth (with memory of previous birth given by God as special case) and is strongly beaten by stones thrown by its own grand children of previous birth!
The next choice was mild patients having some illness and some health mixed. These souls are involved in the world and also in love to God since both fields of God and world are associated with such souls. These are said to be on cross roads. A cross road is a junction of two paths (worldly path and spiritual path). If the serious patient runs away from the doctor, the next possible best service can be done only to a normal patient. Perfectly healthy person or salvated soul does not require the help of human incarnation—doctor. Such people accepted the concept of merge of God with human being (wedding) and came with good dresses indicating their happiness and acceptance of the concept. However, rarely a devotee comes without new clothes, which means that the wedding or merge of God with human being is not acceptable due to ego and jealousy and such non-acceptance is indicated by the absence of new clothes. Such fellow was thrown by God since neither he recognizes God in human incarnation here, nor recognizes God in the Father of heaven there due to repulsion of common media resulting in jealousy. Nowhere and no time, such soul has the opportunity of salvation (repulsion of common media means repulsion between human form of God with human being here and repulsion between energetic form of God and energetic body of departed soul there).
Jesus says that many are called, but few are chosen. This means that the human incarnation attracts many devotees. But, only few deserving devotees stay with God in human form with full faith and many get rejected due to their ego and jealousy towards the co-human form of God showing all the properties of the medium like birth, death etc. Elsewhere also, Jesus told that the devotees need not fast since the bridegroom is present there. Here, the word ‘bridegroom’ means God, who alone is the male and all the souls created by Him are not only females but also His wives as said in the Veda (Striyah satih pumsah...).
8) The Cost of Discipleship (Matthew 8:18-22; Luke 14:25-33; John 6:60-65)
[57As they were walking along the road, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.”
58Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
59Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.”
“Lord,” the man replied, “first let me go and bury my father.”
60But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
61Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
62Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”]
Swami Replied: A devotee told Jesus that he will come back to join the divine service after visiting the house once. Jesus told that the human incarnation has no residential place since it has to move everywhere to propagate the divine knowledge. Hence, neither the human incarnation nor the devotee in the service can be stagnant in one place since moving everywhere constantly is required. However, the system in that old time was quite different from the modern latest situation in which one need not leave the residential place for propagation in view of the latest computer technology blessed to this world by God. Hence, divine service can be rendered by the devotee staying in own house along with own family also provided internally the mind is attached to God and subsequently detached from family and world. To remain in the family and do the divine service with secret attachment to God and secret detachment from the world requires highest talent called yoga. Yoga means attachment to God and detachment from the world through highly talented way of secrecy and art of acting (Yogah Karmasu Koushalam— Gita). The scripture called Yogavaashishta tells that for ordinary people, such talents are impossible and the straight way is to be away from the family while doing divine service. However, Lord Krishna says that such talent can be attained by constant practice (Abhyaasenatu... Gita). This talent is essential in this modern time especially when one need not leave the house and family in view of the available computer science for propagation.
The devotees following Jesus were not having such talent since they were straight fishermen. Neither facility of computer was available to avoid journey, nor such high talent is possible with them. Hence, Jesus is following the path of Yogavaasishtha and asks the interested devotees not to go back to their families if they are interested in joining the divine service along with Him. Once they go back, they will not come back. One is going back to bury his dead father. Jesus told that the dead (not having God’s grace on them, which is the real life) will bury the actually dead people. Only the real devotees are alive. Scripture says that forgetting God is death (Pramaadaakhyo...). Even farewell to family was not accepted by Jesus because an ordinary devotee without the above talent will be bound there itself by the bond to the family. However, with the present computer facility and the above divine talent, one is virtually attached to God and subsequently detached from the world even without physically leaving the family and house. Jesus was actually bothered only about mental attachment to the world and mere physical detachment from world does not matter at all for God. As long as the actual concept of doing divine service is not effected due to firm decision, external modifications like secrecy not to hurt others etc., are allowed and such modifications are not against the words of Jesus if you understand the actual meaning of His gospel in the context of that time.
9) The Faith of a Canaanite Woman
[21Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
23Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
25The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
26He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
27“Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
28Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.]
Swami Replied: A devotee approached Jesus to help her from a serious suffering through a miracle. Jesus refused by saying that the miracles are for the lowest category, which is not having faith at all in God (atheists). Such miracles should not be extended to devotees also having already faith in God to interfere with the system of justice that gives punishments to serious sins. Especially, the devotees already having faith in God do not need miracles to interfere with the judiciary system of God’s government. Such devotion aspiring for a miracle to remove suffering is also very low and artificial since the pure devotion is never for such cheap exchange of unjust favour. The devotion should be pure without any such business, which is the true love aspiring no fruit for it. Hence, the need of a miracle is totally confined to the condemned quota only to generate faith in the existence of unimaginable God. Since the devotee has already fundamental faith, miracle is not required. Devotee is compared to dog indicating the already faith. Atheist is compared to child since the faith is absent due to total ignorance like that of a child. Here, bread means the spiritual knowledge given through miracle to establish faith in the existence of God. The devotee asked that even dog eats the remains of bread. This means that even the dog is hungry for bread. This means that the devotee also looses faith in extreme suffering and hence should be treated like a temporary atheist. The Gita says that God gives first preference to such devotee to remove suffering that disturbs the divine service (Aarto...). But, the worst point here is that everybody feels his/her problem as the highest of all problems of all the entire humanity! The judgement of the seriousness of suffering should be left to God since He will remove such really serious suffering even if not aspired and presented by the devotee. Once the devotee presents the problem, it will be deeply analysed before action and hence, the solution gets delayed. The devotee told Jesus that the dog eats the crumbs falling from its master’s table. By this reply Jesus was pleased because the reply shows that the devotee is not having any trace of ego by which the faith becomes great. Even though presentation of problem is wrong as we see the reluctance of Jesus to do the miracle for the devotee, but, the faith not having the impurity of ego impressed the mind of Jesus to do the miracle.
10) In Islam why lot of importance is given to prayers to Allah?
Swami Replied: The devotion is in two stages. First is theoretical and second is practical (service). Theory is the source of practice. The theoretical devotion is emotion. But, it should have the background of spiritual knowledge that keeps you in right direction. A prayer containing the right spiritual knowledge brings the emotion to implement that in right direction. Such prayer covers the first step of right knowledge and also the second step of emotion. After such prayer, the next step is only the practical implementation, which is the divine service. Sometimes, a prayer involves only love to God and in such case, if the background of first step (spiritual knowledge) is absent, even a devotee goes in wrong line and does service in wrong way. Hence, the first step of spiritual knowledge is given individual status and the second step is theoretical devotion that involves prayers developing love to God. The third step is service or practical implementation of the right knowledge with the help of force of emotion. Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva established these three steps in the sequence of time.
11) Jesus ate non-veg food. Will such sin affected Him? Rama killed Vali but suffered for that sin. Kindly give Your response.
Swami Replied: Already I have explained this point in some messages in detail. If 10 points are to be preached to the humanity, God will come first with 5 points as one incarnation neglecting the other 5 points. In this first step, God also follows these 5 neglected points in common to the human beings so that He can mix with them freely. In the next incarnation, God comes with the rest 5 neglected points as the main program. If God projects all the 10 points in the first step itself, human beings will refuse all the 10 points in toto. This is the management psychology of employees in the strike. Rama came to preach right conduct in money and sex. He neglected the point of non-vegetarian food and also lived as a non-vegetarian. In the next step, He came as Buddha concentrating on this same neglected point concentrating on non-violence. You can compare Jesus with Rama in the common non-veg. food. When God jumps in the mud pond to lift the devotees, He is also painted with the mud.
12) Swami, You mentioned somewhere in Your knowledge that 'To think that the life is very long itself is ignorance. ' and ' The earth looks very large under the ignorance.' How to cross the illusion of time and space?
Swami Replied: The four demensional space—time model of the relativity is the very creation, which is proposed by Shankara (Mayaavaada) and Einstein (Relativity). As scientist, Einstein expressed the relativity of creation by saying that space and time are only conventional. Personally, he was a great philosopher accepting the existence of God beyond relativity as absolute. The word ‘relativity’ itself requires the presence of absolute side by side. The absolute God becomes unimaginable since He is beyond space and time. Anything beyond space and time can never be imagined by the human brain. Some of the unimaginable events prove that God is beyond space and time. The unimaginable God through Datta formed a miracle to prove this and this human being component called as Swami existed just to help the receivers by providing a visual physical medium clear to the eyes. Once, on the same day and in same time, this human incarnation, Datta Swami or Son of God (Swami is Son and Datta is God) gave proof to devotees for His existence in four places. The actual miracle is performed by the unimaginable God present in Datta (Divine Father of heaven) and the Son (visible human being component) gets the credit. Hence, a human being component in the highly risky human incarnation should be very careful of ego on hearing the praise.
13) Are all the things we do and discover and invent today, already foreseen by the almighty when he created earth? How far does His vision go? (question from internet)
Swami Replied: The vision of absolute God is beyond your imagination. Even the time-machine concept and ideas of Einstein indicate that time (relative) is just the sequence of already arranged events in this creation. All the visions in this creation are purely relative and the absolute vision can’t be measured with the help of the relative visions just like the depth of the real sea cannot be measured with the help of a dream scale. Lord Krishna says in the Gita that He is aware of all the past, all the present and all the future (Vedaaham...). The absolute God enters the human being component and becomes human incarnation in which the relative vision of human being covers His absolute vision temporarily by His will for the sake of a better entertainment of the creation. God is not only the spectator of this creation cinema but also the real hero actor acting in it side by side. This is the meaning of the statement of Jesus that He is the real king (Hero).
14) Padmanabha Swami temple in Thiruvanathapuram hold huge wealth. How this wealth of God shall be utilised ? Kindly give Your suggestions.
Swami Replied: The funds of temples should be always spent under the guidance and headship of either human incarnation or at least a great saint. The actual aim of the funds is to propagate the divine knowledge and devotion in the minds of the people. Lot of funds are available with Government and even a paisa of a rupee spent is not reaching the practical ground! If the same Government officials constitute the managing board, the same thing may happen. The power of rupee is always greater than the power of God in the eyes of majority of human beings. Leaving this point that such thing may not happen since the officials also fear for the anger of God, the actual aim of propagation of spiritual knowledge and devotion is not perfectly done. The management is always concentrating on the facilities of the devotees coming to the temple like a businessman concentrating on the facilities of consumers visiting his shop. This aspect should be in second place and in the first place propagation of knowledge and devotion should exist. In the second place also service to poor devotees should be given major place than serving the devotees without any discrimination as in the case of business saying that consumer is its God be poor or rich! Instead of giving food to all the visiting devotees, food, medicine, clothes and shelter shall be given to the poor devotees. The management is foolishly forcing the rich devotee also to take the food as the remains of God. Even the poor people with good health, able to work and earn should be set aside and old, child, disabled and deceased should be given the entire priority. Propagation of spiritual knowledge will transform the rich people to do such work in their places and this will make the administration of temple funds easy and simple. I have already given this message in detail.
15) Recently I happen to meet an ayurvedic practioner in kerala, who said to cure incurable diseases which doctors said will not be cured at all, mainly related to bones, spinal cords, in very short span of time. He does such miraculous cures by doing 'Chattan Seva' (Vishnu Maya) and Chattan suggest him the medicine which he uses for quick cure. He also charges huge amount of money like 1 to 2 lakhs per case. Many incurables cases were cured in short time.
Whether it is advisable to approach such person for getting cure for cases were there is no hope at all? Who is Chattan? Whether this Chattan seva is devilish?
Swami Replied: Whenever, a miracle is exhibited by human incarnation or devotee or a devil, the origin of the miracle is only the absolute unimaginable God. He has spread the exhibition of His miraculous powers very widely irrespective of the medium by which the miracle is exhibited since it serves the fundamental aspect of establishing the concept of the existence of unimaginable God. Once the unimaginable God is accepted, recognition of the sin and hell are easily realized by the entire humanity resulting in perfect justice and Pravrutti here.
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