KARMA - KARMA CHAKRA - ASTROLOGY

[Shri Ramnath asked a question to Swami as to why human beings feel and talk like immortals].

Every human being is a composite of three bodies which are the outermost gross body and the pair of inner most subtle and causal bodies. The inner most subtle and causal bodies can never be separated. The causal body is like gold and the subtle body is like its ornament. The ornament cannot exist without gold. But the gold can exist without the ornament. In a realized soul, the subtle body which is a bundle of qualities subsides and only the causal body or the soul is leftover. Only in an ordinary human being does the subtle body exist, which means that the subtle body exists along with its causal body. Thus in every ordinary human being, both the subtle and causal bodies co-exist as if integrated, so that we should use the word Jeevatman. Jeeva is the subtle body and Atman is the causal body. In the case of any ordinary human being, the Jeevatman exists, covered by the gross body like the golden ornament kept in a box. In the case of a realized or liberated soul, only the Atman exists in the gross body like a lump of gold in a box. In any case, the gross body is mortal, because it is a form of matter, bound in a regular shape, characterized by high entropy. Entropy is a scientific word which means irregularity or freedom which is spontaneous in the nature. The five elements are forced in a regular form of the gross body and every moment these five elements are trying to separate and go into free-state or randomness. Thus the gross body is mortal, which is known to everybody by the name of death. The innermost Jeevatman is immortal as long as the ignorance of the soul (Avidya) continues. The qualities are vibrations of the soul and the soul is pure awareness (Chit). These qualities continue as long as the realization of the original nature of the soul does not take place. Once the human being realizes that he or she is that undisturbed pure awareness (soul), the vibrations or waves subside and thus the qualities disappear. Thus the gross body is immortal [remains] up to the death and the subtle body is immortal up to self-realization.

The self is subject to blind ignorance which leads to the superimposition of the self (soul) on the subtle body and gross body. The pure awareness, in fact, is temporary and disappears in deep sleep and arises on awakening. But the awareness or the soul is essentially the inert energy in its basic form which is eternal and will never be destroyed. Even in the Maha Pralaya this basic inert energy remains, preserving the design of the world like the information chip of any electronic instrument. Of course this basic inert energy was also created by God and it is the first created item. It can disappear if God wishes so. But God will never destroy this basic energy containing the design of the world. It is like the film of a cinema or a CD of an electronic instrument. In this sense, the basic inert energy is immortal. It is the source of awareness and awareness is the source of all qualities and feelings including ‘I’. Thus the gross body, the subtle body and the awareness are not immortal. But the essential basic energy-form of this awareness, is immortal, which is referred to in the feeling of immortal Atman or immortal Brahman. This basic immortal energy in the gross body is called as Atman. The same immortal energy, in the entire universe is called as Brahman.

Thus there is only a quantitative difference between Atman and Brahman. In fact the matter is also a form of this basic energy. All forms like light, heat, sound etc., are also this basic energy. Thus Atman is in continuity with the external cosmos since the gross body is also another form of itself. The immortality of this basic energy called as Atman or Brahman, continues through the superimposition and thus the gross body or the subtle body is also felt as immortal. Though the mortality of the gross body is seen in the death of other human beings and though the mortality of the subtle body is seen in the realization of scholars, and though the mortality of awareness is realized before and after deep sleep, still all these three items (gross body, subtle body and awareness) are felt as immortal due to the superimposition of the immortality of the basic energetic form of the soul. If the superimposition is analyzed and remembered continuously, the ignorance disappears in course of time. By knowing this concept once, the knowledge is attained but by remembering the concept continuously, realization comes. The end of realization is determination [or establishment in this knowledge]. You must hear this self-realization and know it from Sadguru (Shravanam). Then you must constantly remember this concept, repeatedly every day (Mananam). After sometime, determination is obtained (Nididhyasa). The identification of the determination is your practical behavior in life (Karma). This self-realization cuts all your worldly bonds and relieves you from stress. Starting from hearing, till the final determination, the constant guidance of Sadguru is required. Otherwise you may get misled into the wrong direction. Without the guidance of the Sadguru, it would be like treating your illness by yourself by reading pamphlets or information given with medicines, without going to an authorized physician. This self-realization established by Shankara is fixing yourself to the basic immortal energy or ‘becoming’ your Self. This is called as Advaita. The state of Advaita [monism or non-duality] can be retained continuously only by the grace of God in the human form called the Sadguru, who guides you. Shankara stressed on the importance of the grace of God in this path (Ishwaraanugrahadeva). The Lord is different from your self. His grace is required to succeed in this path. If you are that God, does it mean that Shankara said that you should have grace on yourself?

Inner Meaning of Karma

The Gita says that the meaning of the word Karma has very deep sense (Gahanaa Karmano Gatih). This world is called as creation. Creation means work like explaining etc. Karma means work. Therefore this world is a form of work. Work is a form of energy. Energy is dynamism or action; it is also work. Matter is energy. Heat, sound etc., are forms of energy. Therefore the world which consists of space, matter, light, heat, awareness etc., is essentially energy or work alone. Space is a form of energy. Awareness is also a form of energy. Therefore all this creation is work alone. Work needs the presence of a worker. The worker is God. God is the creator and creation is His work. This entire world is said to be the dance (work) of Shiva [God]. This entire world is just a game (work) of God. Therefore you should realize that any part of this creation is the work or dance or game of God. The working material (matter) is also a form of His work. The forces in this creation are again His works. Thus you should realize that every part of His creation as the work of God and thus we should constantly remember God. When you see an object, the object is His work. The process of seeing is His work. The subject (yourself), who is also an object for others, is also the work of God. If you analyse yourself, you can realize that you are entirely His work alone. The matter of your body, working forces like heat, circulatory force of blood etc., are also His works. Awareness is also His work. The basic form of your awareness, which is energy, is also His work.

Knowledge is the work of intelligence. Devotion is the work of the mind. Service is the work of your body. Sacrifice which is a process of leaving something is also a work. Therefore whatever you understand is work and understanding itself is work. The word Karma is frequently repeated in the Gita. There is nothing like a static condition. Even in a static stone, the molecules, atoms and subatomic particles are rotating, vibrating and spinning continuously, essentially indicating the work. The Gita says that work should be found in the static state (Akarmanichayah). It also says that you should find no work in work (karmanya karma yah pasyet). What does this mean? This means, you should not think that the work is the work of itself. You should find the worker, who is doing the work. You should not think that the work is going on by itself. The work is done by somebody. The earth is not rotating by itself. Then why does the fan not rotate by itself? As the invisible electric current is rotating the fan, the invisible God is rotating the earth. The rotation of earth is the work of God. The earth is also the work of God. The rotation of the fan is work. The fan is matter. Matter is a form of energy. Energy is work. Therefore the fan is also a form of work. Thus everything is dynamism (work).

The Dynamo [that powers everything; metaphor implied] is God. You will immediately say that the dynamo is matter, matter is energy and since work is energy, a dynamo is also a form of work. Then you will say God is also a form of work [since He was compared to a dynamo]. This is the problem with using any simile for God. Every simile is only a part of the creation and cannot stand as a perfect representation of the Creator. God is beyond the concepts of work and no work because God is unimaginable.

You can infer the existence of God through this entire wonderful creation (work). But you cannot experience Him directly unless He enters a particular form of His work such as a human body like Rama, Krishna etc. You can infer the engineer by seeing the wonderful building constructed by him, which is his work. But he is present only in a small room of that building. If you want to have a direct contact with him, you should search the room in which he is present. Since the whole building is his construction, if you sit in some vacant room and try to talk with him, he will not speak to you. You have to identify that specific room in which he is present. In searching for the engineer, you may find some other person in some room and can mistake him also as the engineer. Therefore you must have the knowledge of how to identify Him.

The Gita praises karma as the path of pleasing God. Knowledge by intelligence, love by mind and prayers by words are also forms of Karma. But these three forms are negligible; they are like offering drinking water to the guest. Practical service and sacrifice of the fruit of your work are important; they are like offering meals to the guest and constitute the important two-fold karma. Cooking of meals [for feeding the guest] is karma samnyasa and the sacrifice of the fruit of your work, which is meals, is karmaphala tyaga. The fruit of this work is also ultimately the form of your work. Karma is energy and the fruit of karma is matter. Energy and matter are inter-convertible forms. Karma samnyasa and Karmaphala tyaga are one and the same and always go together. The word samnyasa indicates that the sacrifice of work is mainly meant for saints [monks] who do not earn any fruit by work. Karma samnyasa and karmaphala tyaga done together, relate to the householder. This is the practical proof of devotion. The reality of this concept is understood by referring to your service to your family. Karma becomes complete when a meal is also associated with drinking water. This is the path of karma in a complete sense. Karma in the form of sacrifice of words, mind and intelligence is like drinking water. The sacrifice of work is like cooking and serving. The sacrifice of the fruit of work is like the meal. Together, this is the five-fold path of karma to attain divine grace.

Karma of Past Birth

[When human beings face troubles in life, it is often said that it is due to their karma or deeds of the previous births. Can You please explain this?]

Now you have understood the meaning of karma. Let us suppose a person did some bad deed (paapa karma or vikarma). The person went to hell and was punished there. The punishment reduced the intensity of his quality to do bad (guna or samskara) which is the cause of that deed. But the quality is not completely removed and a small trace of it remains. Punishment cannot remove the quality, which is a form of wrong knowledge. Wrong knowledge can be completely removed only by right knowledge and not by external physical punishment. Of course the punishment reduces the intensity of the wrong knowledge to a great extent.

A thief can leave his quality of stealing only on realization obtained by the right knowledge. Any extent of torture cannot remove this quality completely. Therefore, even when the thief comes out of the police station, a trace of the quality of stealing remains. But if he meets a Sadguru and receives the right knowledge, the quality can be removed completely. Valmiki, a robber, became a sage by the preaching of Narada and not by the third degree treatment [beating and torture] in a police station. The samskara or quality is knowledge and can be destroyed only by another type of knowledge, as a diamond is cut only by another diamond. Other than knowledge, no other physical actions like chanting the name, doing worship, singing songs or any other physical exercise can remove the wrong knowledge which is the cause of sins.

Now what is this wrong knowledge? Is it not karma? As I told you, the knowledge is also karma because any part of the creation is karma. Quality or samskara is a process of feeling or thinking of awareness which is karma alone. But the karma of awareness can be removed only by another karma of awareness and not by the karma of matter or inert energy. Beating and burning are the works done by inert matter and inert energy. They can affect the body and since the body is connected to the mind, it can create fear and reduce the intensity of the wrong knowledge, but cannot remove it from the root. Only logical analysis of the right knowledge can remove this samskara or quality from the root. When the quality is removed, its corresponding deed also disappears. Therefore the right knowledge removes the cause of the karma and thus burns the quality and its deed from the root (Jnanagnih Sarva karmani—Gita).

When the sinner comes to the earth from hell, he comes with a little trace of his sinful quality. Since the quality is also basically karma, the trace of quality is called as karma sesha (remains of karma). This trace of quality grows in a congenial atmosphere into a big tree and the deed is again repeated. The punishment of this deed may be in hell or sometimes may even be immediate. Sometimes the thief may be caught by the house owner on the spot and may be beaten immediately. Sometimes the thief may be caught by the police station and beaten in the police station. Even if he escapes these two places he will certainly be beaten in hell. Therefore the deed of the previous birth punished in hell, comes down along with the soul as karma sesha (quality or samskara), which is responsible for the corresponding deed on this earth and which may yield its fruit here itself. In that case, his previous quality, called as previous karma is certainly responsible for the misery here.

Here you have to understand one point. The karma of the previous birth is not giving its result directly in this birth. The samskara, which was responsible for the karma of the previous birth, continues into this birth as a trace, which grows in a congenial atmosphere and generates its corresponding karma once again. This karma [done in this birth] may sometimes yield its fruit here itself. Thus the karma of the present birth alone is directly responsible for your misery here and the present karma has its root in the samskara of your previous birth. This samskara can be called as karma and thus in that sense it is said that the karma of the previous birth is responsible for the present misery.

Truth in Astrology

[Do stars really affect normal human beings? Can the effects of bad star positions in a horoscope be removed?]

Stars or planets are the executives of the cycle of samskaras, karmas and their corresponding fruits, which are together called as the cycle of deeds (karma charka). They are the executives of the judgments given by the judge (Dharma deva), who follows the constitution written by God. God never interferes with the executive function of His own commandments as said in the Gita (Nadatte kasyachit paapam). The Shastras say that one has to undergo the results of his deeds even after millions of Yugas (Kalpa koti shatairapi). This does not mean that the postponement of simple principal takes place. Interest is accumulated by way of compounding. [By postponing the results of your deeds, you not only have to suffer the result of the deed but you have to suffer an additional amount for the postponement of the result]. Therefore scholars like to enjoy the results of their deeds as early as possible. They never pray to God to cancel the judgment which is impossible. Only postponement of the enjoyment [or suffering] of the results along with interest takes place by prayers or certain rituals or by exhaustive crying before God. Ignorant people misunderstand this postponement as canceling. Therefore this fundamental aspect must be realized.

When priests do certain rituals by taking some dakshina [fee or donation] from you, they are purchasing your punishment through your money. Therefore a real Vedic scholar will never do the business of a priest because he knows the whole concept. No real Vedic scholar accepts dakshina or even food from anybody. These two things that are avoided are called as Aparigraha and Vaishwadeva respectively. Sai Baba said that the bread offered by householders were only their sins. Eating that bread is only enjoying [suffering] the sin of others. Thus you find in our ancient tradition, when somebody offers meals in a function to others, others also offer the same in their functions [like policy of returning gifts]. The priest is earning his livelihood by this way but is getting more and more affected. These priests think that they are cheating the public, but they are cheating themselves by this way. It is better to do hard work and earn their livelihood than such business of transfer of sin for money.

But if the whole ritual is transformed into a divine worship of God, the story is totally different. The grace of God comes there and God may be pleased to reduce or remove the sin by enjoying [suffering] it Himself through a human form. Here also the justice is not violated. The father pays the fine on behalf of his son. This is the only way of removing the sin. Either it should be postponed with interest or it should be sold to a priest or it should be enjoyed by God Himself [by suffering it on the body of His human incarnation on your behalf]. In any case the result of the deed has to be enjoyed and it can never be cancelled without enjoyment. But if you conduct the ritual as a divine worship of God and give dakshina to a deserving devotee, then the story is different. Your sin is not [passed on to the devotee to be] enjoyed by that devotee. God comes down in human form and enjoys your sin for the sake of that devotee. Even in this case, the results have to be enjoyed by someone. Instead of selling your sin to a priest, it is better to sell your sin to a devotee. God has the tolerance to enjoy the sins of His devotee or the sin transferred to His devotee by you. But if you do the ritual by worshipping God and by offering dakshina to the devotee, without the aim of removing your sins, the result is tremendous. It is a real sacrifice without any aim of business. God will undergo all your sins without any account, since your sacrifice was also without any account. Therefore you must remove this poisonous idea of removing your sins through rituals by offering dakshina to priests or devotees. You must be prepared to undergo the results of your sins and do the rituals with the same sacrifice without aspiring for any fruit. Then you will be blessed by God.

You are trying to remove the problems but the problems are only your real friends in the spiritual line. The constant existence of problems will activate you, and suppress your egoism creating a favorable atmosphere for the devotion to God. Happiness will make you proud and lazy and you will be deviated from the spiritual line. Therefore scholars like to enjoy problems, which are the guiding forces in the spiritual line. Kunti asked for a boon from Krishna to give her problems continuously. While praying to God, real tears will come only in misery. This human life is obtained as a rare chance, after a long time of passing through several lives of animals. Thus the animal nature is concentrated in us and the constant presence of a beating stick is necessary for us to grow in the right spiritual path. Mere knowledge through words will not bring realization. From this point too, avoiding the enjoyment of punishments is also not good for your spiritual progress.

Ignorant soul - Realised soul - Liberated soul

The realized soul invites difficulties for the sake of spiritual progress. An ignorant soul tries to avoid the difficulties and invites happiness by praying to God. God brings back the results of good deeds arranged in the future life cycles with reduced value like a pre-matured deposit. By this, the future life cycle becomes full of misery. Sometimes we find people who are hit with misery from birth to death. These were the people who pressed God for giving them happiness and their happiness of previous births was the fruit of good deeds drawn from the present life cycle. God arranges every human life with alternating fruits of good and bad deeds like meals with alternating sweet and hot dishes. A liberated soul invites both happiness and misery in an alternating way for getting full entertainment. The happiness derived from such entertainment is continuous and is called as Ananda.

Nanda means happiness. The letter ‘A’ before Nanda means continuity (Aasamantaat). The word ‘Sukham’ denotes happiness which is temporary. It disappears when misery appears. But Ananda is continuous happiness, if you can enjoy even misery like a hot dish. A spiritual aspirant who aims at the grace of God, wants to perform penance which is a rigorous Sadhana [spiritual practice]. While doing penance, you create difficulties artificially by lighting fire around you and so on. This means that the spiritual aspirant wants continuous misery as the guiding force. Happiness and richness induce egoism and inertness which are obstacles in your spiritual sadhana.

You will be amazed to hear the special worship performed by Me sometime back in which I uttered the sankalpa [objective of the ritual], that I should get severe difficulties and poverty so that Jnana, Bhakti and Vairagya (spiritual knowledge, devotion and detachment) will improve in Me. Thus if you are a realized soul, you will invite difficulties as your spiritual guru. If you are a liberated soul, you will invite both for entertainment. If you go to a movie, you like to see scenes of both happiness and misery. When you take meals you like both sweet and hot dishes. Then why are you not inviting both misery and happiness in your life for entertainment? The entire creation, created by God for entertainment is a mixture of day and night, summer and winter, birth and death, happiness and misery etc. The equality in the entertainment of both is called as Yoga according to the Gita (samatvam yoga uchyate).

No doubt the horoscope is the telescope for seeing the cycle of deeds of a person. God has already arranged the happiness and misery in an alternating way for each person. The periods of nine planets rotate in a cycle. Each period has sub-periods of the nine planets again as a sub-cycle. This means that while eating a sweet dish a secondary hot dish is also introduced. The horoscope is a beautiful arrangement of your deeds in an alternating way done by the Divine Father who has immense affection on the souls. The total period of the nine planets is 120 years. For each Zodiac sign or birth sign (Janma raasi) there will be a continuous ascending period of sixty years and another continuous descending period of 60 years. One may be born in the beginning, middle or end part of the ascending period or descending period, depending upon his previous interference in his cycle of deeds through rituals.

Mesha, Karkataka, Simha, Vrishchika, Dhanush and Meena zodiac signs have the beginning of ascending period of 60 years which ends with the period of Jupiter. For other zodiac signs the ascending period of 60 years starts with the period of Saturn for 60 years and ends with the period of Venus. Thus one is born with an ascending period of 60 years or with a descending period of 60 years or at any point between these two periods. If a person is born in Mesha, starting with the period of the sun, the 60 years life time is ascending. If the same is born with the period of Saturn, the person will have a descending period of 60 years.

A realized soul, who dragged back the fruits of bad deeds from the present life cycle, will be born in the beginning of ascending periods. If an ignorant soul dragged back the fruits of his good deeds from the present cycle, he will be born in the beginning of descending period. If the whole life is full of either only happiness or only misery, the person will be bored. The reason for it is only the person himself, who has interfered with the good arrangement of God. Therefore Jesus said that the will of God be done always. However for ignorant souls, God made some compensation by introducing the sub-periods of all the nine planets in the main period of each planet. Thus a secondary alternative arrangement of side dishes is done by God, who is the Mother, because the children are ignorant of even the technology of eating!

Jyotisham (astrology) is the subject which relates to Jyoti or planet. The actual meaning of Jyoti is only God. According to the Veda (Param Jyotirupasampadyate) and the Brahma Sutras (refer Sutra Jyotiradhikaranam). Jyoti means light. The planet is like the jailor guiding you to the jail where you will suffer the misery or is like a guide who guides you to a bar, like heaven, where you will drink and sleep. The planet guides you to the fruit of your deed. It is called as a Graha which means that it will capture you wherever you are present to deliver the fruit of your deed to you at the exact fraction of a second. It is a computerized system of deeds and fruits. This computer does all the calculations and is called as Chitra Gupta. Chitra Gupta means the protector of the witness [evidence] through an advanced audio and video system. All your thoughts, words and deeds are recorded and will be exhibited as evidence in the upper world. The judge does not require any other type of witness. There is no need of an advocate and therefore such provision does not exist. You will just see and hear your thoughts, words and deeds in the audio and video system (Chitra Gupta) and an automatic judgment is delivered by another system called as Yama. There is no possibility of doing any ritual there since it is only a place of enjoyment [or suffering] of fruits (Bhoga Loka).

All the heavenly pleasures and punishments in hell are given according to the periods of another horoscope that is prepared based on the time of death. Thus the wheel of the planets is the executive system of the soul in this world as well as in the upper world. Yama is the son of Sun [Sun-god] like Saturn, is also a powerful controlling planet in the upper world. The Lord is all in all and is the employer of all the planets. The planets function due to the fear of the Lord. The Veda says the same (Bhishodeti Suryah).

Astrologers are like elementary school teachers. They should become spiritual Gurus, who are like professors. Priests and astrologers should rise in their standards and guide people to the spiritual path. Instead of doing so, both have colluded and are doing business by exploiting the public. The astrologer takes some money for studying the horoscope and recommends the Japam [repetition of the name] of a planet. The priest does the Japam on behalf of the person and gives a commission to the astrologers. It is like a doctor referring the patient to the laboratory for diagnosis and getting commission. The whole spirit is lost and the spiritual path is lost long back in this Kali Yuga. The priests and the astrologers tell a story that even Lord Shiva suffered due to the effect of Saturn. The story is only a creation for promoting their business. Even if you believe the story, you can take it in a positive sense. You can understand that even the Lord respects the cycle of deeds. What sin did Lord Shiva do to undergo the affect of Saturn? The story is foolish even at the root. Let us even assume that Lord Shiva has to suffer the effect of Saturn for a bad deed. If that is so, how can an ordinary human being escape the same type of effect with the help of this petty priest and petty astrologer? Astrology is the elementary level of spiritual knowledge, which introduces the supernatural power that is beyond science. This should finally lead to the acceptance of the existence of the unimaginable God who is beyond logic and science. Astrology is not allowed to grow to become philosophy by these commercial intellectuals. Its growth is arrested and is limited so that the exploitation of devotees can take place. Astrology should be allowed to become philosophy. The school education should grow to become of the university level. The priests and astrologers should develop to become spiritual gurus. Otherwise they are doing sin in the name of God, which will affect them here and there [after world].

The astrologers have developed a wrong concept in astrology by which the people think that they are receiving good or bad affects accidentally by the movement of planets without any reference to their deeds. It is just like saying that one is arrested by the policeman on a road because while he was standing on the road, the policeman incidentally came there and captured him. The man feels that his arrest was due to the incidental meeting with the policeman on the road and the arrest happened without any reason. Similarly people are thinking that the bad results are achieved by the incidental movement of the planets and their periods. This is complete nonsense. The planets are very disciplined and regular in their movements. Since you are proved as a thief and your arrest is ordered by the court, the police have arrested you on fair grounds. You pose as if you are innocent and that your arrest is simply incidental due to the movement of policeman and due to his meeting you accidentally. You may escape the police for some time even after the order from the court, but the planet catches you exactly in the same fraction of a second as soon as the order from the divine court is released.

Fruits of Most Deeds To Be Enjoyed in the Upper Worlds

In fact the results of deeds of any human being are mainly postponed after the death to the upper world. The results of all your deeds are not given in this world especially when you are in the human life, which is very rare to get. The main aim of this very rare human life is that you should recognize God and obtain His grace before the end of this human life. This human life is mainly meant for such effort (sadhana) and therefore this world is called as a Karma Loka [world of action]. You will not be continuously disturbed with the enjoyment of the fruits of your deeds in this world because the main purpose of this life will not be served in this precious little time of human life. When the student is occupied in studies in the period of preparation for the examination, the principal will not disturb him either by punishments or by encouraging cultural activities. Once the examinations are over, there is a long vacation in which these activities can be taken up. Similarly there is a lot of time after death and therefore the fruits of the deeds are mainly given after death in a separate world called as Bhoga Loka [world of enjoyment]. The earth is meant for the karma to be done to recognize the human form of the Lord and get His guidance and practice it to please God. Therefore a separate time and separate worlds (hell and heaven) are given for this purpose. People who do not know the main aim of human life and the significance of this Karma Loka are worried for not seeing the results here itself immediately. This is the main aim of creation of hell and heaven separately as the upper worlds.

However the results of some deeds are released here itself in case they can activate the soul in the spiritual line. With this aim, certain effects of misery to divert the soul to the God and certain effects of happiness as alternative intervals for encouragement are released. Without understanding the significance of these effects, people either sleep and become lazy in happiness or get worried and feel tension in misery. When such effects have no use for the spiritual effort [one refuses to respond positively to these effects], the soul is released from the gross body and is pushed to the Bhoga Loka and further cycles of animals and birds in a condemned state. Thus the ultimate aim of human life and the ultimate aim of the good and bad results must be realized in the light of the spiritual divine path. This human life is not just meant for mechanical deeds and their corresponding results like a routine machine.

Humility and Dynamism

[How can we always remain humble and devoted to You while simultaneously remaining active in doing our routine activitites?]

The word ‘You’ is very important in this question and it indicates God. The real nature of God is unimaginable and therefore to remember the real form of God is impossible. You can remember God only when God enters a medium. The formless nature of God is only the space-medium which is charged by God. Thus the formless aspect is also imaginable but creates lot of difficulty in thinking about God as said in the Gita (Avyaktahi Gatirduhkham). Even the awareness which is charged by God called as Brahman is a formless medium and is very difficult to even imagine. Therefore a medium, which has form and is charged by God, is convenient to remember. Objects that are easy to remember are natural objects like the sun etc., or man-made objects like a photograph, a statue etc. Space is all pervading but inert and cannot speak to you. Awareness is in limited bits as experienced only in the living beings and is not all pervading. Thus the all pervading awareness is only an imaginary story.

The statue or a photograph is good for vision but not good for conversation to clear your doubts. You can keep the statue in your house and feel that God is living with you as a family member. But all these forms cannot speak, preach and clarify your doubts like Krishna. But Krishna lived in a generation long back. The Gita preached by Him is interpreted in several ways and the followers of these lines of interpretations are constantly quarreling with each other. Thus the real clarity is lost. Moreover only that past generation was blessed by Krishna and due to this, God becomes partial. The direct experience through direct dialogues is a real fortune. God is impartial and is coming down in human form in every generation. The entire public in the world need not have the chance of meeting the Lord in any generation. Only ripened souls who have risen to a high level can have this chance because they really require it. In the university both the undergraduate and postgraduate classes go on simultaneously. The highest PhD program is also present. A professor, some readers and many lecturers exist in the teaching faculty. The professor is not required to go to any undergraduate class. For a few hours, he goes to the postgraduate class and spends most of the time with research scholars. There are many undergraduate sections. There is one postgraduate section. There are only half a dozen research students. The professor is available to all the students but is really required only for a few students. All the students are in his contact because the professor occasionally addresses all the undergraduate sections also. The lecturers are fully required for the undergraduate sections. The readers are more required for the postgraduate sections and less required by the research scholars. The professor is mostly required by the research students.

Similarly God in human form is in contact with all the souls in the generation. But He is utilized only by a few, due to a greater requirement at that level. Depending on the requirement of language, area and communication facilities, there may be more than one human incarnation of God in a generation like a few professors that may be required in a university. But if the communication facilities have improved and if a single language like English can be understood by all countries, there is no need of a second professor. I feel that in the present human generation, in view of the developed communication modes and the presence of a uniform language, one human incarnation of God is sufficient at the highest level. He is always accompanied by angels who are at various levels like readers and lecturers. He always descends down along with the faculty of the department in every generation because the different levels of the students cannot disappear even if the modes of communication and a universal language exist. Moreover, the analytical capacity of the public has improved a lot due to the fantastic development of science.

The science of today is nothing but the Tarka Shastra of ancient times. Therefore the knowledge that is going to be revealed by God in a single human form in the present generation is going to be tremendous, reflecting all the scriptures and science from all the angles like a tsunami covering all sides. On the basis of the analysis of these present facts, I am expecting the existence of such a human incarnation in this world in our generation. I am searching for such a divine human incarnation (Sadguru) whose knowledge will wash out all the misinterpretations of the scriptures of all religions and kick out exploitation, leading to the formation of the most ideal spiritual world as predicted by Nostradamus, who was a famous astrologer of the world.

I am referring to him because you like astrology very much. I heard from Ajay that you are in good touch with a Nadi astrologer [Nadi is an ancient astrological system]. Please find out from the Nadi astrologer regarding such human incarnation, so that I can also join all of you to serve Him as the junior most servant. Therefore the concept of the human incarnation is the best and the constant interaction with Him is the best way of remembering the Lord. The routine duties are natural and will go on without any effort when you have attained seniority in your profession. Thus a senior man need not concentrate much on the routine duties which will go in a normal way even without much effort due to long experience. The Gita says that when such talent in one’s profession is achieved by long experience, it is time to meet the Lord (Yogah karmasu kaushalam). The effort in achieving the grace of the Lord is the most important goal of human life. This point will be realized when the human being is in the last minute of this life cycle because at that time of juncture, the upper world starts appearing practically to the eyes through the arrived messengers of Lord Yama. Unfortunately there will be no time for spiritual effort at that juncture, even though realization comes.

Lord Datta told Me the following two verses in Sanskrit and asked Me to memorise these two verses ten times a day so that the mind will be fixed on God. The first verse means “At the time of death the last knowledge dawns to the mind by which the human being realizes that for those whom he has spent his energy and lifetime, are unable to protect him from that moment onwards. The Lord who can protect is not arriving then because no time and energy was spent for Him”. The second verse means “When the time was there, this realization did not come and when the realization came, there is no time. By this the human being undergoes silent suffering, which is the agony”. Lord Data told Me that every human being will be given this last knowledge and this agony in the last couple of moments. I started remembering these verses every day ten times and the result of their memory is this wonderful divine knowledge.

I know you are going to laugh and say “What Swami! You Yourself are Datta and speaking like this”. The point is that I am Datta for you and not to everybody. When this knowledge is published, everybody reads this and rejects the entire knowledge based on this simple point. Whether I am Datta or not, is immaterial and the knowledge should be grasped by the entire humanity. I am a messenger of Datta or a devotee of Datta or a direct disciple of Datta or the son of Datta or Datta Himself to different people who view Me in these different angles. Whatever I may be, this knowledge is from Lord Datta alone. Based on this simple point [of who I am], people should not refuse the treasure of this divine knowledge. Based only on this simple point, the priests punished Jesus and refused His precious divine knowledge. Now everybody accepts that Jesus was the human incarnation of God because Jesus exists no more and is confined to a photograph or a statue. Jesus told several people that He was a messenger of God. He told a few that He was son of God. He told very few that He and His father are one and the same. He did not say these three statements to one person or to all because most of the people were ignorant, a few were realized and very few were liberated souls. But today many accept that Jesus is the same Divine Father, not because many ignorant people are liberated but because Jesus does not exist before their eyes; because Jesus will not compete with them for name and fame or receive direct service from them etc.

Krishna declared that He is the Divine Father (Aham Bija Pradah Pitah). But the point is that the Gita was preached to only Arjuna, who was a liberated soul. Shankara declared that He was God (Brahman) to all the people because simultaneously He declared that everybody is God. But when He announced that He alone is Lord Shiva (Shivah Kevaloham), the Kaapalikaas who are the disciples of Kalabhairava killed Shankara by black magic (Uchchatanam) because Kalabhairava was the disciple of Lord Shiva and thus Lord Shiva was their absolute God.

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