08 Sep 2022
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[Shri Hrushikesh asked:- Swami, there are several books on tantras containing peculiar concepts, which are totally different from the concepts of Your divine spiritual knowledge. How to correlate those concepts with Your concepts? There is one tantra in which the heavenly dancer is made to appear through whom the desires can be satisfied. There is also other tantra, which says that the devotee can become the husband of the divine mother. How to correlate all these concepts?]
Swami replied:- Do you mean that you want Me to correlate all the concepts in the world with My Universal Spirituality? Tomorrow, somebody will ask Me correlate the concepts of atheism also with My concepts. I tried only to correlate all the concepts of theism presented in various theistic religions. My concepts are based on the basic divine scriptures like Veda preached by God. The books mentioned by you neither exist in the Veda (Upanishads), nor in the Brahmasutras and nor in the Bhagavat Gita. Even the basic word ‘Tantra’ is not seen. These tantras are developed by human beings having the nature of demons. I am very much pained by the horrible concept of making the divine mother as wife. It is a million times more sinful than thinking to make one’s own mother as wife! The divine mother is the wife of the divine Father called God Datta or Iishvara. Her name is Anaghaa, which means that you can’t find even a trace of sin in her divine mentality. This is just the reverse revolution of the gender-based concept within sweet devotion. Since in sweet devotion, a female soul develops love to God to become His darling or sometimes wife, some demonic male souls developed this ego based jealousy towards God and thought of the reverse of sweet devotion (Madhura Bhakti). The sweet devotion is based on the fundamental concept that God is Purusha (male) and the creation including all souls irrespective of gender is Prakruti (female). A soul, which is a bundle of thoughts of awareness, by itself is neither male nor female, and only the external body has gender.
The external body is the external dress over the soul like the external dress over a physical body (Vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni… Gita). The husband or Bhartaa means the maintainer (Bibharti iti bhartā) and the wife or Bhaaryaa means the maintained (Bhriyate iti bhāryā). The Veda clearly says that only God is male (Purusha) and husband whereas all the souls including the rest of the creation is female (Prakruti) and wife (Striyaḥ satīḥ puṃsaḥ…). The sweet devotion is the concept related to God Krishna. Gopikas are the Vedic sages, who did severe penance for millions of births in order to get salvation from the worldly bonds based on the strongest bond with God. The main worldly bonds are three (eṣaṇātrayam), which are the bonds with money, children and spouse. The first two bonds were tested by God Krishna through stealing of butter that was preserved for their children and the third bond was tested by dancing with them (Gopikas) in Brundavanam. In fact, the sages themselves requested Krishna in the previous birth itself for such tests and God Rama promised them about these tests in the next birth. In fact, the test of the third worldly bond was done in the final birth only since the sages had crossed all the worldly bonds except this one worldly bond. Without understanding all this background, if the ignorant demons plan for the foolish gender retort, we shall feel extremely sorry for their fall into liquid fire forever in the future!
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