10 Dec 2015
Shri Anil asked: Pada namaskaram Swami
1) Please forgive me for asking the following question. If You are willing kindly give answer to the following question.
Somewhere in Your knowledge, You have mentioned about Your three future incarnations (place/name etc). However in the main discourses; this topic is not covered so far. Can You please elaborate on this further for the benefit of all devotees.
Shri Swami replied: The human incarnations are always taken by the Lord Dattatreya, which are primarily for giving the spiritual knowledge to the hungry humanity so that the humanity gets the benefit both in Pravrutti and Nivrutti. I am only one of the several human media used by Him like the dress. When I said that I will incarnate again in Devgad, Benares and Kaladi, it is the direct speech of the Lord Himself through My voice. Of course, you are also correct from your angle that you should take Monism between the God and the human medium of the human incarnation for getting the real benefit. At the same time, I should also save Myself from the ego that I incarnate in the future since I am also a human being like yourself. Your statement should not pollute Me through Monism and My statement should not pollute you through Dualism since God wishes that both of us should be benefited. You stand in your concept of Monism with the faith that I am the Lord Dattatreya. Similarly, I have to stand in Dualism that I am the humble servant of Lord Dattatreya like you. This divine spiritual knowledge is the property of Lord Dattatreya only and is not My property at all. All the food materials are purchased by the Lord only and I am posted as the cook in the kitchen to prepare the food. You are posted in the dining hall to cater the food to the hungry guests. Both of us shall receive His divine grace as payments for our works. The already cooked food items can be served by you and your catering team to the hungry guests and you need not wait till the cocking is completed. It is better to serve the hot meals and I have supplied you hot cooked food items for distribution.
I never believed when the Lord appeared before Me and told that He is going to give the best and highest spiritual knowledge through Me, even though the Lord showed Me the clear vision of His entry in to Me. I thought that the vision might have been by imagination. Yet, that vision was unique since when I touched His feet, the feet were part of the materialized body as experienced through My touch. Generally, the visions are of energetic forms only. But, that vision was unique due to the experience of materialistic touch with My hands. Still, I thought that My such experience was also imaginary. But, after the emission of this excellent and unimaginable knowledge, I confirmed that My vision was true. The form of Lord Dattatreya was in the form of Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba as a boy of 16 yrs sitting on silver throne, who was alive at that time indicating the importance of contemporary human incarnation. The Lord told Me that He selected Me for the propagation of this special spiritual knowledge. I told with extreme surprise “Me...!, who is just a professor of chemistry teaching EAMCET and IIT entrance coaching...! while several divine saints are available for this purpose...!”. The Lord said that there is no better deserving person than Me! I thought that the Lord is testing My ego and diverted the conservation to some spiritual concepts. The whole vision lasted for about 30 minutes. Some may not like Shri Baba and hence, I did not often tell this incident since this incident is not so important as the spiritual knowledge given to us, which alone can guide us to the goal. But, in the context of the answer to your question, I feel that I should reveal this. I should not hide the truth and should speak the truth whether somebody likes it or not. Not even a single word of this spiritual knowledge is My property. I am also one of the beggars to enjoy this divine feast along with you. As the human being component, I am also one of the hungry guests to enjoy this food. The only difference is that I enjoy this food in the kitchen itself and not in the dining hall! I feared to tell this incident to all since some devotees of Shri Baba told that Shri Baba will speak by Himself and not through somebody. I, therefore, replaced the name of Shri Baba by the name of Lord Dattatreya so that there may not be any objection. Of course, Shri Baba also proved through a miracle that He was the incarnation of Lord Dattatreya. The Lord while entering Me was energetic form of Lord Dattatreya only. When I laid on the steps of the temple of the Divine Mother (Bhramaramba) in Shrisailam, the Lord appeared before Me and His back faced Me. He slowly fell on Me in that inverted position and merged with Me in such a manner that all the limbs merged in similar limbs. While merging took place, Lord recited one Vedic hymn, which means the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye etc. After that day onwards this excellent divine knowledge started flowing out.
The ground for this future divine programme was already founded in Me when I was 11 yrs old. My father started teaching Me Sanskrit language and he taught Me just eight verses in an epic. After that, I started telling spontaneous poetry in Sanskrit as prayer on God. All the divine scriptures in Sanskrit like the Vedas and the Shastras entered My brain in fraction of a second and this was proved in the test conducted by several eminent scholars of My native village. They told My father that this is impossible even through study for several years and I must have been possessed by a Brahmaraakshasa (a specific ghost resulting from the death of a Vedic scholar, who does not donate his knowledge to others). My father conducted several forms of worship through the Vedic hymns to send the ghost from Me. I told My father that the ghost is none but Lord Dattatreya, who composed the Vedas. I wrote about 100 books in Sanskrit on spiritual knowledge by the age of 16 yrs. I liked to study Sanskrit in My education. My mother forced Me to study science, which gives better livelihood. The will of the Lord is that I should study science so that I can preach the spiritual knowledge in a scientific way. In the recent times, the Lord told Me this when I asked Him the reason to force Me in to the line of science in My education. He also told that there was no need of Sanskrit since He has already injected that in to My brain in the childhood. In this way, the miracle of the foundation of this programme occurred in My case. All this information shows that God takes all the care for His divine programme fixed in His will.
2) After the exit of Jesus, His disciples propagated about Him, like 'Jesus is the only path to Father' etc. Will such propagation effective since Jesus was not alive that time? (same situation would be there for any other past human incarnation, like Krishna, Rama, Mohammad etc).
Shri Swami replied: Jesus told “I am the path”. Jesus did not tell “Jesus is the path”. There is difference between these two statements. If Jesus told that Jesus alone is the path, it means that the specific human incarnation called as Jesus alone is the path. But, He did not tell like that. When Jesus told that He is the only path, it means that the human incarnation that alone guides you in a right direction is the real path. This alone provides you the opportunity of direct worship. Even the energetic incarnations do not provide you the facility to worship directly. The inert statues and photos are out of the scope of direct worship when even the alive energetic incarnations do not provide such facility. All the three divine preachers (Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva) told that God is awareness and mind that they did not tell that awareness is God. This means that God incarnates only through alive medium having awareness. Such association of God with awareness is the meaning of this statement. ‘God is awareness’ means that God is always associated with awareness in human incarnation to give correct spiritual knowledge of the right direction to the entire humanity. Associating item can be called as associated item. The seller of apples can be called as apples as we see “Oh apples! Come here”. You cannot grasp the concept of a scholar if you cannot understand the scholastic language.
Jesus also said that He will come again. When He comes again, will Jesus come in the same form? If it is so, Jesus should have told clearly “This Jesus will come again”. If you say that the form of Jesus is the only path, what happened to all those millions of unfortunate human generations, which have passed out before Jesus? If you say that Jehovah was alternative form of Jesus before the arrival of Jesus, it means that you have accepted the alternative for Jesus. Jehovah might have been formless, but, you cannot deny His alternative status for Jesus. Moreover, the earlier generations faced by the partiality of God by having formless guide as Jehovah whereas, the latter generations were blessed with the partiality of God in having the form of God as Jesus. Even the latter generations are sub-divided into two groups: 1) devotees having the direct vision of alive Jesus and 2) devotees having the inert statues and photos of Jesus only for worship and this shows different grades also in partiality. To avoid all these types of partialities in the case of God, who is the Divine Father of all the humanity in the entire world, the best way is to accept the contemporary human incarnations spread all over the world appearing before all the human generations in all the times. This concept will not show any partiality to God. In the same time of the existence of Jesus in one part of the world, some disconnected parts of the world did not have this lucky opportunity of facing Jesus directly, which again shows partiality of God in the same time. You cannot also justify that the part of the world facing Jesus was most sacred and deserves the association with Jesus since the people of the same part crucified Jesus. If you say that the particular part alone contains highest sinners, who alone required Jesus, this is also not acceptable because both sinners and pious devotees of equal status exist in every part of the world in all the times and thus, the partiality cannot be ruled out. When I preached this concept, one conservative devotee said “Let God be partial. The specific form I believe alone is God”. I just fell on his feet with folded hands and turned back stating that even God appearing in that specific form preaches this concept, he will not accept this concept. We can convince anybody, who has open mind following the path of logical analysis and accepts its outcome, whatever it may be. Only scientists can do this because they always are with open mind to accept any outcome at the end of proper scientific analysis. Science is also correct in keeping silent about the God since God is beyond the imagination and you should not find fault with science in this point since this point is exactly expressed in the scripture regarding the Absolute unimaginable God (Yato vacho— Veda). The pseudo-scientific atheists and the conservative blind devotees of religion are not at all the true scientists and hence will not believe anything other than what already was believed by them!
Service to Alive Form Only Not to Inert Items
3) Your knowledge also stresses on the service in the mission of propagation of knowledge & sacrifice to alive human incarnation for pleasing God, since the pleasure can be observed in the face of alive human incarnation. After the exit of any alive human incarnation the possibility of such direct service for subsequent devotees who will believe in the knowledge may not be there, since the receiving medium to receive service is no more available. Can You please clarify on this?
Shri Swami replied: The human incarnations will appear in every generation of the humanity. If the donor is available, where is the scarcity of beggars! (While dictating this, Shri Phani told that the human incarnation is the real donor and the human donor is the beggar). It is correct that the Lord is the real donor, but the Lord has fascination to enjoy in all roles. Hence, He takes the role of a beggar also to have variety or change in the entertainment. The Lord always won and the demons always ran [away] from Him. The Lord got the fascination to enjoy the role of a runner also. Lord Krishna started running after seeing the demon called Kalayavana and fulfilled His desire for variety in entertainment. All do not have the ability to identify the human incarnation. Therefore, the second address of God is the real devotee as said by the sage Narada in the Bhaktisutra (Tanmayaa hi te). The Lord identifies Himself with His real devotee also. In fact, the second address is more beloved to the Lord. The Lord did not mind His personal abuse given by the demon Hiranyakashipu, but, became very furious when His devotee, Prahlada, was abused by the same demon. The basic concept here is that your service should be to alive items only and not to the inert items. Some selfish cheaters exploit your service from the backside advising you to do service to inert items representing them as models for the Lord. The concept of representative models is not bad for the beginners at least, but, cheating the devotees in the name of the Lord is very bad sin. The Lord is pleased with your direct service to Himself through the human incarnation since the service reaches Him directly. The Lord is more pleased with your service to His devotees, though it is indirect. The Lord is not at all pleased with your service done to His inert representative models though the very concept is not objectionable, which is used to develop theoretical devotion. You will be pleased when you are served directly. But, you will be more pleased when your beloved son is served, though you do not receive that service directly. The common point in both the services is that you serve alive items. If somebody says that he worships your photo, will you be so much pleased? You or your son will enjoy the sweet offered by the other person. If the same person says that he offers the sweet to your photo every day (himself swallowing that sweet after the offer) are you pleased? God is also pleased if you offer food to a poor hungry person and save his life so that he will have opportunity to become a devotee of God. All these cases stress on the basic concept that your service should be to living and not to non-living. Of course, service to undeserving alive items also is a sin and should be avoided by discrimination through analysis (Samvidaa deyam— Veda). It is the responsibility of your faculty of intelligence to identify the real human incarnation and real devotee. Risk lies with everything in this world and should be avoided only by careful and sharp analysis.
4) The following sentences are quoted form Your recent message (December 06, 2015) on 'cancelation of past sins'.
a) 'The mind contains the list of sins and is always ready to put on your table whenever you wish'
b) 'You can get rid of your specific illness with the help of the specific prayers, which can be found from astrology–medical science' Regarding point.
c) followers of some religion may not believe in astrology to derive this benefit.
Kindly elaborate on the above points. of past sins'.
Shri Swami Replied: Please refer to the reply from Swami to the enquiry of Dr Nikhil on this topic.
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