26 Jun 2016
Servant’s Request to Swami
Smt. Devi
Where’s the goal, dear Lordwithout You? Where’s devotion without You?
You’re the devotee’s sole mission. (Even) devotion is a total wastewithout You.
How can I agree to let You go, O Lord Venu Gopala?
My whole world will be taken away from me.
Take away from me the ability to live,
Else tell me how to live without breath.
How can I agree to let You go,O Lord? I don’t have so much strength in my heart.
Don’t put me through such a difficult test; from where can I gather such courage?
How can I agree to let You go,O Lord? How can I thus make up my mind?
Instead take away my memory, or just release me from this life.
How can I agree to let You go,O Lord? Each breath of mine dwells in You alone.
How to let my own breath go? Without breath, this body is mere dust.
How can I agree to let You go,Swami?
Only in the Lord does this soul find satisfaction
The servant’s whole worldis the service of Swami.
O Lord, I don’t want any liberation.
Had never imagined, such a moment would ever come into my life.
How can a servant live without Swami? This is the question for God by the devotee.
From my weak heart why do You, Lord Datta, ask such a terrible sacrifice?
I cannot agree to let You go. O my Lord Venu Gopala Krishna, how can I?
Please command me anything else, O Lord, instead of asking to leave.
For the first time You asked for something and that was to let You leave?
What a cold sinner I am, even after hearing these words, my mind was not lost?
How can I become stonyhearted? You’re my beloved, Lord Venu Gopala Krishna.
You are my sacrificial altar, O Lord; my every breath is the offering in It.
My breaths are not over yet. How can I agree to let You take away the altar?
How to let You go, O Lord? How to let my Breath go away from my own body?
Don’t ask this, O Lord, from me. How? I cannot become so hard-hearted.
The pain of separation, You’ve borne many times more than any of us.
O Lord! You alone understand my condition.
Why does the dear Lord seek to leave from here?
In the hope of meeting Swami, there is still separation.
“Without Swami, what will I do”? thinking thus
A terrible storm arises in my mind,
Whether I live while dying or die while living,
Without Swami, there’s no life inspite of being alive.
I know, I am but an embodiment of selfishness, without even a shred of devotion.
Is this the reason, Swami? Please forgive me O Lord, but how can I let You leave?
Do not ask, O Lord, do not ask, I request, falling at Your feet.
Else this heart will stop beating,O Swami; How to let You leave?
We don’t care for fragrant palaces, O Lord.
The three worlds are where our Lord of the three worlds is.
The Hut[1] Itself is the Palace from which
The fragrance of love and knowledgecomes.
Each word of Yours is the complete truth, O Swami.
But are not these words of mine also true?
A classroom without a teacher, O Swami; is any such classroom to be seen anywhere?
My mind has frozen. You Yourself tell me O Lord DattaWhat I should do?
Is this what pleases YouO Beloved LordVenu Gopala Krishna?
Will separation from You, be my fate each time?
I request You O Lord, feeling that You’re my own,
Knowing that Parabrahman needs no one’s agreement.
Please don’t ask me to let You leave, I am the greatest fool;
But other than You, O Swami, none else is my own.
Unfortunate are the two of us that we could never serve Swami’s feet.
All is fruitless even after gaining all, if we can’t gain the dust of my Swami’s feet.
Grace of My Swami
Dr. Nikhil
To my Swami the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
When devotees call and ask if it is convenient to talk,
He willingly responds “Yes, yes, it is convenient”;
The sweetest words that heal the troubled heart.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
His eagerness is the Lord’s eagerness to bless the devotee
With purifying divine knowledge. It is the greatest blessing!
The ever-fulfilled Lord has only one desire: to uplift the devotee.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Once devotees called while the Lord was shaving. Without mentioning,
He began explaining rightaway. After two hours, devotees were flooded
In an ocean of blissful knowledge, while the soap on His face had dried!
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
As He preaches in spite of sickness and tremendous strain,
Due to tiredness and coughing sometimes His voice fails.
Where words fail, hearts join; of servants and the Master.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
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Wiping out ignorance, each brilliant concept stands revealed,
Shinning golden as Himalayan peaks, towering above the earth.
Struck by the rays of the rising sun, after the dark cold night.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
His divine knowledge alone gives supreme bliss that floods
The devotee’s whole being, drowning the world of right and wrong.
The truth dawns: Right is what pleases Him and all the rest is wrong.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Souls, sinning and enjoying, are but worms before the Creator.
Hurting each other and ungrateful to their greatest Benefactor.
Yet, He grants shameless demands for pardon, boons and liberation.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
They criticize His kindness and efforts to control their sinful acts.
Bloated with ego, thinking they are lords of their lives and the world.
They turn allergic to Him and insult. Yet His loving guidance continues.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Creation is like sweet nourishing milk expressed by the loving Mother.
We spoilt and turned it sour due to ignorance, ego and sinful ways.
Alas! We could have enjoyed gratefully. But we were deaf to Her words.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
After spoiling beautiful God-given lives, souls suffer for their sins,
They blame God and say His creationis full of pain. What hypocrisy!
Then they want liberation from the world and even from the sweetest Lord!
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Souls will do anything and everything, but follow the simple, direct path.
What use is boring godless liberation? Blissful and sweet it is to see
His kindness, follow His words, and love Him above anything else.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Greater than the greatest is God. Who can ever attain Him?
Ravana failed to please, sacrificing his heads, many in number.
Sacrificing even one’s life millions of times is nothing before Him.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
For even the sinner who had rejected and insulted God,
But who even for a moment shows eagerness to turn to Him,
Lord Datta rushes to uplift Him with million-fold eagerness.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Lord Datta reveals Himself to those who sincerely cry for Him.
Provides even their lowly worldly needs as He did for Sudama.
Instructs them as He did Arjuna. Yes, He is the truest Friend!
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
He embraces devotees and welcomes them in His divine family,
Neglecting the eternal difference between soul and GodAlmighty.
Bonds of love uniting the hearts of the servant and the beloved Master.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Covered by His protective loving grace, even creation becomes rosy.
The devotee enjoying the exceptional bliss of His eternal company.
What liberation? What desire? Loving and serving Him is all that matters.
To my Swami, the embodiment of divine grace, I surrender.
Eureka!
Unimainable God
I discovered, I discovered! Just now I have discovered, Eureka!
Datta is in the form of this group of My beloved devotees only!
I am only their devotee or devotee of My Datta, served by them
Practically, like a patient suffering from ignorance-ego disease.
I thought that I am Datta, My brain got washed by the public,
I misunderstood these devotees as My disciples in vice-versa,
Ignorance is opposite of true knowledge, about these and Me
Ego substantiated My ignorance like air strengthening the fire.
Datta need not be in one form in one time, can be in many forms
In the same time like the co-existing alive human incarnations here,
One person with many heads was not the correct cosmic vision shown,
It is a large group of incarnations embedded in Datta was exhibited.
Veda says ‘Datta is many-headed[4]’, Gita says ‘undivided looks as if
Divided[5]’, in different human incarnations different faces along with
Different bodies are seen meaning externally divided dress-media,
Inside, the same one unimaginable God in every dress is undivided.
I didn’t thank even My devotees thinking that they are My disciples,
Actually standing as their disciple, served by the most humble Datta,
What a blunder happened due to this ego substantiated ignorance!
Thank Datta since He opened My eyes before I leave this present life.
I was like that Bade baba declaring that Shri Sai Baba was his disciple,
Shri Sai Baba accepted that and served him like My devotees serving Me,
Sai Baba never revealed truth, accepting lie like My present devotees, who
Always declared Me as Datta and that they are servants of Datta or Myself!
Datta is very playful, the level of His play is beyond this Sachin Tendulkar
In cricket, false human incarnations, blind by egoistic ignorance like Myself
Play like the poor street children using a stick, few stones put one above
The other, changing game rules as they like, Datta plays as per the rules!
My last memory in this life will be about these excellent devotees only,
Such memory shall be last memory of Datta, as Gita says, I go to Him,
If He wishes I will become His human incarnation at least in next birth,
After which only I reach higher Goloka, present place of these devotees.
These present devotees are in highest plane, I am not even in the higher
Plane of human incarnation since I realized the truth by the grace of Datta.
Datta alone gave this unimaginable knowledge, Datta alone composed these
Unimaginable sweet divine songs, Datta alone did all the miracles explained.
Miracles if understood properly, convey true spiritual knowledge also,
Convey devotion also since benefiter naturally develops gratefulness,
Bhargavi, Myniece, asked Me the spiritual knowledge present in
That revolving radiating wheel with five colours back of My head, seen.
First, Datta joked with her saying “I tried to see that wheel turning face
To the opposite side, the wheel shifted to back of My head spontaneously,
How can I explain that, not seen by Me at all by several repeated efforts?”
She insisted, Datta gave the explanation of significance of that head-wheel.
“The wheel is the cosmic plan that came out from the head of the God,
Always standing back telling that God is first and that it follows Him only,
Datta tried several times to give first place to it by turning His head back,
But, mental creation, the first plan, Saraswati, stood as My follower only.
The radiation of the wheel is basic inert cosmic energy, Shakti or Gowri,
The five colours represent the materialized five elements, known Lakshmi,
Miracle, expressed unimaginable power of unimaginable God also requires,
The help of creation for the spectator-soul to see, even I require it for same.
Unimaginable God requires imaginable & visible creation, human form, here”.
I will mention another miracle of Datta to speak about gratefulness to God
After the benefit of miracle, one need not express the gratefulness to God,
At least don’t be ungrateful by scolding God, greater than the greatest sin.
The name of this devotee be secret, being a son of My very close devotees.
The devoted couple had a son, not having job for several years, very poor,
The couple promised Me to enter this divine service if its son gets settled,
Datta agreed to this business deal, granted the boon, son got job at once,
Reached one lakh salary per month, became egoistic due to huge wealth.
In fact, that son served Datta very sincerely, even washed clothes of Datta,
Datta used to call him as Taatya, most beloved devotee of Shri Sai Baba,
All this was before getting the boon, once Datta sent a sweet with message,
“This is offered to Lord Brahma for your longevity, eat it with high devotion”.
Will you believe if I say what was his reaction to Datta? he threw that sweet,
Scolded the messenger shouting “that red robed bloody fellow! blessing me!”,
The messenger was his elder sister, keeping silent, telling Me ‘it was given’, lie!
Thinking that Datta can’t know if not told, next day, Datta sent Phani to her
Telling “some work is there and Datta will speak through you in right time”.
Phani went there, two days passed, he phoned Datta that he was bored there,
Datta told him to come back next day since the work will be over on that day,
Phani, at once, raised furious on her shouting “Why your brother scolded Datta?
Did Datta spoke even a single bad word against your brother so far? Unfair!”.
Datta never told Phani about this incident, hidden always as secret by that sister.
Datta phoned to Phani at once telling him “come back since work is over”,
Phani returned, she was dumbstruck at the omniscience of Datta with faith,
He killed only son accidentally, met with a car accident, suffered with poverty,
Died miserably, as insulted Brahma, who writes judgements on forehead-papers.
All this is due to excess of money, ego, jealousy, ungratefulness & ignorance.
Datta didn’t harm him at all, no soul has that much scene, only withdrew
His protection since he scolded Him so, My sincere advice to atheists is
“Argue about His existence, don’t scold Him, even anyone, for that matter,
In which snake-abode[6] which snake exists? none knows”, this is a saying!
Punishments of normal sins get discharged in the hell after death only,
But, very serious sins give fast punishments here itself, scripture says,
Datta shields His devotee from these fast arrows that hit the soul here,
He absorbs nine arrows, one weakest arrow hits the soul since force of
Punishment can be reduced, but not totally avoided, it is basic justice.
People do not see the nine arrows absorbed by Datta, one hitting arrow
Only is seen, they say “he worshipped Datta and entered into trouble!”
When a devotee becomes devil as above, Datta simply slides over to side,
All the ten usual arrows hit the devil soul, control is inevitable for a soul.
Strongest devotion of My dearest devotee turned 180 degrees opposite!
Without a trace of reason, a trace of gratefulness is absent towards Datta!
Such a soul is not demon, but, a devil, who is worse than even a demon,
Devil, demon, dealer of pravrutti & devotee of Nivrutti, in ascending order.
Devil drills hole in the plate in which food is eaten, scolds helper, no reason,
Only reason is blindness that pushed him down for infinite fathoms in ground.
Next better plane is demon, not scolding at least form of God that helped him,
Ravana never scolded Brahma and Shiva, who gave him divine powers as boons.
Same ego and jealousy of devil to scold other God’s forms, only merit, gratitude.
Devil should be always kept under the pressure of divine thumb of the Almighty,
Even on slight relax, terrible hissing sound is blown like that from pressure cooker,
Ravana is demon, Bhasmasura is devil, who immediately tried to burn Lord Shiva,
From whom alone, by serious penance, he got the divine power to burn anything.
Dealer is businessman, Pravrutti is business only, love, faith, respect, devotion etc.,
Not at all real, appear based on deep reason only, always artificial, human plane,
Examples are many in this world as dealing with doctor, police, judge, lawyer,
Teacher, Govt. official, shopkeeper etc., similar is dealing with God for some fruit.
Fare or bribe to be paid to God is theoretical or practical devotion, careful deal it is!
Theoretical is better than practical, as seen in majority since God may not also exist!
No loss by theory except some time and energy, which may be diverted from wastage,
Some come for practical devotion, but after getting work done only, token agreement!
Some wise think that work is done incidentally, no God, practical service is wastage only,
They always remain in theory only like prayers, full proof of materialistic leakage error!
Some have developed ritual procedures to please God like cold water bath, fasting,
Moving round, meditation etc., these are very good for physical and mental health,
If God is absent, no loss at all, if He is present, innocent God may also be pleased,
Even if not pleased, health is benefited, His existence is a 50-50 probability only!
All this proves that Pravrutti is not based on full faith, based only on probability.
Nivrutti is reasonless devotion, always based on full faith in the existence of God,
No aspiration for any fruit from Him either here or there, only way is self sacrifice,
Examples of Nivrutti also exist in this world as a mad lover taking away life also,
A parent doing all sins in earning for the sake of blind love on his insulting issues.
God approaches you in the same path as He is approached by you, theory for theory,
Practical for practical, He is omniscient unlike a human being, never can be fooled,
You have always a doubt about His existence, He also doubts your real devotion,
You reap the same as you sowed, of course, in unassuming multiplicity of quantity!
In Nivrutti, two planes: first is Brahma Loka, where you become one with God,
Called as human incarnation here or energetic incarnation there, you get credit,
All work is done by unimaginable God only, who merged with you, called Datta
Since He has given Himself to you, your merge with Him always is in reverse!
If you continue in the idea of merge with God in your mind also, only one chance,
If ego touches you anytime, at once God quits you, you must keep your identity,
At least in your mind, accepting merge-monism externally for the sake of devotees,
Who worship you as God, but, internally you must be always in the dualism only,
Sai Baba told always “Allah Malik”, Rama told that He is only ordinary human being.
In the stage of human incarnation, you must feel that you are servant of God
Like other devotees, one is needed for His expression, luckily you got chance,
Any devotee can get this chance in next birth or even in this very birth itself,
Incarnation can start from any moment, not always from birth of the medium.
A shirt can be stitched or can be purchased also from a readymade shop.
Just like other devotees, you are also in the spiritual effort to reach higher plane,
Called as Goloka, in which God becomes your humble servant, does as you please,
This is the plane of Shakti, creation, soul with a body is called as para and apara,
The devotee of this plane becomes the remote control of unimaginable God.
If you ask God for a boon, God will analyze and gives it to you, if it is good,
If you ask some special food you like much, in a clinic, it is not sanctioned
By the doctor analyzing its effect on the patient, souls are much discouraged,
They catch and worship shakti, divine mother of all souls being para and apara,
As per your order sweets are served in hotel, not bothered about your sugar.
The Nivrutti-climax-devotee of Goloka plane insists God to grant the boon,
God being humble servant grants the boon, when problem comes later on,
Soul is admitted in the clinic of God, this is how worship of Shakti resulted,
Shakti is soul like other souls, reached Goloka after becoming incarnation!
Madness alone is the reason in divine service in Nivrutti, sacrifice done
Not due to order from God forced on the devotee, God needs nothing,
Sacrifice is forced on God by the devotee even if God discourages it,
Human beings may act in hypocrisy as if not interested, but, God is real.
Sacrifice should be for your pleasure assuming that it pleases God.
God gets pleased so that you are pleased by the pleasure of God!
One disciple studied Bhagavatam from a preacher, who preached it to
Several batches of students from long time, the disciple became mad,
Roaming on the banks of river, people informed this to the preacher,
Preacher wept for a long time after hearing this, not that student is mad,
But, that he never became mad in spite of preaching the same many times!
The primordial inert cosmic energy called as Durga is divided in to three,
Saraswati, awareness, a specific work form of inert energy; Lakshmi,
The matter, another form of inert energy; Gowri, same inert energy
Quantitatively 1/3rd of Durga, hence, Gowri is same as primary Durga.
Primary inert cosmic energy has awareness and inertia also embedded
In unmanifested forms, Durga is already unified form of three mothers,
Inert means not absence of awareness, only means that it is dependent
On the direction of God, inertia means indication of presence of matter.
Every living being is a combination of these three forms of inert energy,
Every soul is a drop of shakti, Nivrutti-devoted-soul is ocean of shakti,
Not in quantitative sense, but, in the sense of control of divine power,
Shakti being common in both divine mother and soul, favour is quick!
Madness seen in Nivrutti is not the madness seen in mental hospitals!
Madness seen in world is to forget everything and everybody, but,
It is general without any specific reference, Nivrutti-madness is same,
But, appears only with reference to the God, who is never forgotten.
In worldly madness everything and everybody including God is lost.
In the lower seven worlds: upper three belong to demons, fourth is
Transition from demon to devil, bottom most three belong to devils,
In the upper seven worlds, bottom three belong to dealer in Pravrutti,
The next two belong to transition from Pravrutti to Nivrutti, next shows
Inner circle of God, top most is Brahma loka or Satya loka, abode of God.
The fifteenth upper most world is Goloka of theoretical devotion as main,
Practical sacrifice blended with theoretical devotion is the flowing stream.
Now, Datta created sixteenth top most world called as Dattasevaka Loka,
Or Kalabhairava loka, in which only practical devotion exists in devotees.
Here, theory ends, since theory is the source of divine practical service,
No analysis, no thinking twice, always action in service, the reality of love,
The devotee is with climax of faith like a dog, in human incarnation God
Made this dog as God, devotee gets reversed to become dog again, gets
Goloka where God becomes again a dog of such devotee reversed as dog,
In sixteenth word, both God and devotee remain as dogs in mutual service.
Datta’s age is always sixteen years, sixteenth light of moon is on head of Shiva,
No more creation of any world above this, Shankara with four disciples, as Vedas,
Coming in the street of Kashi meets Datta with four dogs, Vedas become dogs,
This means that knowledge is transformed into service, dogs show lot of vigour
By their moving tongues, which is emotion or the theoretical devotion needed.
Brahma loka, Goloka and Dattasevaka loka should be carefully understood,
In first, a selected human being becomes God since God merges with it,
Rama, son of Dasharatha or Krishna, son of Vasudeva is selected soul,
On the merge of God, both become human incarnation or the son of God.
Vaasudeva, son of Vasudeva must be taken as God[7], Gita says this clear,
Such devotee taking a son of human being as son of God is the greatest.
Rama and Krishna were in the roles of God, God Vishnu merged with both,
Hanuman and Radha were in roles of Nivrutti devotees, God Shiva merged
With both since Nivrutti is most difficult, Radha became queen of Goloka
Since Krishna is at her feet as servant, Radha is God, Krishna is devotee!
It is the wish of God to be so to show that God becomes servant of devotee.
Hanuman also faced examination, got married, left wife for divine service,
He fought with own son called ‘Matsyavallabha’ for the sake of Rama,
Hanuman is also in the place of God by becoming the future creator,
Still, He says that He is servant of Rama only, Rama never accepted that
He is human incarnation, both stand as servants to each other mutually.
Hanuman is the king of Dattasevaka loka, He and Radha are Shiva only.
Internal beauty is spiritual knowledge and theoretical devotion, external beauty is
The sacrifice and service, not colour and figure, which vanish just in one second,
Krishna, the human incarnation with full sixteen lights, never ordered Gopikas for
Sacrifice of butter, Gopikas only initiated by giving it secretly to Krishna, later on,
Krishna tested all by stealing it to filter real sacrifice, no complainant in real.
Gopikas had to go to hell for giving foot-dust to Krishna to cure His headache,
They were prepared for the horrible torture in hell for this sin, their only goal is
Happiness of Lord, lack of fear for sin before the happiness of God pushing them
To Goloka, God is above sin also, this is the climax of madness called as Nivrutti.
Rivers run to merge with ocean, ocean neither invites nor orders them to merge,
Mighty ocean stands undisturbed, God stood firm in Brundavanam garden itself,
Gopikas ran to Him from village, Lord threatened them about horrible punishment
That attacks them in hell, still Gopikas insisted to dance with Him, threatened Lord
In return projecting their suicide, highest attraction to highest human incarnation!
Rivers have sweet water, if they merge with each other, at least no loss to anyone,
When the river merges with ocean, it stands with same salt water, no profit no loss,
But, river is in utter loss by losing sweet water and becoming salt, soul loses and
God is always constant with no loss and no profit, Nivrutti ready for total loss always!
I assuredly tell all of you, if you become poor in My service, you shall be wealthiest,
If you become sick in My service, you shall become healthiest, My father-in-law was
A serious patient, if sleep delayed by an hour, he gets very serious illness, next day,
When we both meet and talk on God, no sleep in whole night, but, next day he feels
Very healthy, energetic, not even trace of illness appeared in him, all noted this truth!
Yogi, a devotee firm about monism feeling always that he is God, got rectified,
One day, Datta entered his house with four disciples surrounding, Yogi had vision,
By seeing Lord Dattatreya entering his house with four terrible dogs like tigers,
Datta said “First, you become My dog, then you will be reversed to become God”.
Monism of Shankara is misconstrued, which is applicable to incarnation only,
It shall not be extended to every human being, one student is gold medallist,
Every student should not claim to be gold medallist, due to attraction for the
Gold medal, it is suppression of truth, one fails even in performing a miracle.
None shall think that one can become God by self effort, which gives only
Deservingness to become God like getting interview letter for job-selection,
God selects one of the deserving souls as per suitability to the programme,
It is given by God and not achieved by effort[8], Shankara said this clearly.
See My case! My undeserving qualities have become the requisites!
The basis of selection was to search for the most undeserving soul,
He was continuously bored to be the gem among gravel stone-souls,
Strong change of taste was required, hence most undeserving is need
Of the hour, even the lowest gets highest chance, no efforts were put
By Me to become deserving at anytime, the last becomes the first!
Miracles at least in the initial stage of human incarnation are inevitable
To attract a few initial supporters for work, business is inevitable in shop,
Most of the devotees are for solving problems and material growth only,
Rejecting devotion without miracles, like curry prepared without ‘Masaala’!
Gita contains highest miracle called as cosmic vision, Bible is full of miracles,
Even Rama acting like a man only, showed one miracle at least in the forest,
Converting a stone in to woman, sages praised Him as Datta, but, He refused,
Saying that He is unaware of the concept of contemporary human incarnation!
He said that He is confused with that concept since He is a human being only[9].
Jesus told that breads are kept only for children and not for dogs, He means that
Miracles are reserved for ignorant atheists to prove existence of unimaginable God,
These are not for the devotees, who have already believed in the existence of God,
Atheists require miracles as a proof in knowledge, devotees are also childish and
Desire miracles for selfish solutions, atheists are far better than such devotees,
Of course, atheists converted in to theists become again these routine devotees!
Some devotees require miracles for confirmation of reality of God in human form,
Reason is that several frauds in orange robes claim to be God even doing miracles,
Spiritual knowledge should be final confirmation, Paramahamsa showed a miracle,
Vivekananda was not convinced, stopped visiting Him, only His preaching confirmed.
Phani met this Datta accidentally, seeing Him Datta told ‘participate in propagation’,
He went to Vizag, in evening at seashore told “Appear before me, I will serve you”,
A huge fountain of cosmic energy rose from ocean for 30 minutes, a poor beggar
Appeared before him with same power showing energetic incarnation in human form.
Phani fainted, returned to this Datta to answer a question for which past seven years
There was no answer coming from any preaching saint approached by him, which is
“What is the purpose of my birth and life in this world?”, Datta replied “You are a part
In this whole creation, purpose of whole is purpose of part also, whole is created for
His pleasure, hence, purpose of your birth and life is only to please the Creator, God”.
By this he was convinced fully and dedicated his life for the work of Datta, note that
In this case, miracle was not asked for the solution of any personal worldly problem.
Ego, worst disease, worse than cancer & AIDS, as much as you reduce yourself
To lowest, so much you shall be multiplied to highest, ego is the mother of
The ungratefulness, which is the highest and last in five terrible sins called as
‘Mahapataka panchakam’, for that one sin only there is no way of rectification.
Main sources of ego are caste, gender and knowledge or money, high caste sages
Were born as low caste Gopikas, males as females, scholars as uneducated souls,
This shows that sages conquered three sources of ego in the previous birth itself,
In this birth, they conquered three highest worldly bonds called as three eshanas.
Ego is “I” called as the ahamkaara, worldly bond is “my” called as the mamakaara,
Both these are cataracts covering both the eyes, sight is lost, can’t see the God,
Former can’t be diverted to God, it opposes God also, you feel yourself as God,
Latter can be diverted to God, if worldly objects are replaced by God, destroy your
Ego totally, bond need not be destroyed at all, only change the bonded object.
One day, sage Tandu created handful ash, he started dancing with fast speed,
Lord Shiva appeared before him and created a hill of ash from His thumb there,
Lord asked “If you dance so much for this handful ash, how much I shall dance
For this huge hill of ash?”, Tandu fell on His feet, sage was saved from the ego.
Miracles induce ego into doer and bond into devotee by solving problems.
If one becomes egoistic by these momentary achievements, how much ego
Datta should show for His eternal and real achievements? In fact, note that
All these eternal and real achievements were not achieved by Datta, truth is
That these achieved Datta, who always appears in the lowest plane only!
First letter is “E”, which means Elevation of self for nothing appearing as
Everything through illusion, “GO” means that such Elevation shall go out,
At least before God ego shall not be exposed, basis of which is nothing,
When there is a lot of real basis, ego does not appear like snake on rope.
Practice elimination of ego in world as primary training before facing God.
I will tell you one wonderful incident about the play of God with our ego,
One day, Baba appeared before Me telling that He was offering food to Me,
First and then only He was eating it, I was excited up and up sitting in sky,
Imagining My status in the plane of Lord Datta, I should have kept silent
Enjoying the bliss of My ignorance, due to foolishness I asked Shri Baba
“Baba! Kindly tell Me, who was I actually in My previous birth in Shiridi?”.
Baba replied in cool voice “You were the dog lying at My feet”, I fell down
From sky to below earth. Birth of animal! Not at least earth, human birth!
Since then, for one month I was in depression without the food and sleep,
Again Baba appeared consoling Me “Why are you like this? You are boss,
Dog means Kalabhairava, deity of Vedas, incarnation of Vedic knowledge,
Veda is transformed in to dog, climax of the faith, you misunderstood Me”.
Again, I was kicked to the sky from that bottom most plane below earth!
God is omnipotent making monkey as Creator, Hanuman is future Creator,
He makes creator[10] to become monkey also, once creator stole all cows with
Cowherds for one year to test Krishna since He can’t create, he forgot that
Krishna was the Creator of creator, Krishna created all during that one year,
Creator became monkey in not understanding truth, fell on feet of Krishna.
When I told this incident to My devotees, they thought that I told lie like this,
I told them to take the essence of drama, not to worry about actors of roles,
Vishnu in roles of Rama and Krishna, Shiva in roles of Hanuman and Radha,
You should not see the actor, see only the role and the message given by it.
Today, the world became chaos without even small piece of peace, reason of it is
Only sin, reason of sin is ignorance only, reason of ignorance is lack of knowledge,
Fundamental reason becomes lack of propagation of spiritual knowledge by you.
If you have fundamental faith in God, jump in to fundamental propagation-work.
Unless mentally convinced, one will not change, all other controls are failing only.
In the past, one has to leave house and family for the propagation of knowledge,
Today, there is no need of it, computer is with you, you can speak with any one,
You can stay with your family in your house and work in the service of Lord Datta,
First, try to convince your family as the first step of your work, if you fail in that,
Work secretly without hurting your family, the secrecy can’t be a sin everywhere.
You can liberate yourself secretly without clash with your family, need not wait
Till your present family gets liberation, which may be liberated after million births,
This itself shows that you are not deserving for salvation from worldly bonds,
Moreover, in next birth-cinema, actors and roles change, where is present family?
And what is your last family? Associations and even genders change in roles!
One newly married devotee was attending preaching of Paramahamsa everyday,
While he goes home, it becomes late night, wife was quarrelling, devotee told
This to Paramahamsa, He simply told “Leave your wife for the sake of God”,
Devotee was dumbstruck, He consoled him that He will solve the problem.
If I were in his place, first, I will try to convince my wife to attend preaching,
If she is not convinced, I will attend preaching telling million lies to my wife,
It is not cheating My wife, it is only doing my best work without hurting her,
My foolishness is not so hard to wait for My salvation till she gets salvation!
In the divine service, ends justify means since end is climax of good, being God,
In Pravrutti also, some times, same is true, getting legal share of property is just,
To tell a lie to respectable elder is not sin as the end is justified, Krishna forced
Dharmaraja to tell a lie to kill Drona, even in worldly issue it is not a sin at all.
Similarly stealing of butter and dancing in night to test sages is not sin in Nivrutti.
Of course, in Pravrutti, many a time, means justify ends since end may be erred,
Rama killed bad Vali secretly, God Rama will never err to judge Vali as bad, this is
Another case of ends justifying means, but, many imitate this to kill their enemies,
Judging them as bad, to err is human, their judged ends may be unjust, beware.
In Pravrutti, in general, means justify ends since error exists in justifying the ends.
Telling a lie, stealing others’ wealth, dancing secretly are multiple sins in Pravrutti.
Deep-sharp analysis helps you to decide which should be applied to which context.
In Nivrutti, lack of interest of God on the fruit except test is very important point.
In Nivrutti, end is always God, then, every end must be good justifying all means,
Beware of false incarnations, which escape the real incarnation by hair-split margin,
Poundraka claimed himself to be God, capable of miracles, got original sudarshana,
The powerful wheel, from God Narayana, escapes Krishna by very narrow margin.
In Pravrutti, means justify ends as a general rule because humans always err,
But, even in Pravrutti, if God is the guide, always ends can justify the means,
There can’t be error in the end since omniscient God is the Judge, Dharmaraja
Went to hell for not telling lie, Arjuna did not go to hell for killing grandfather,
Omniscient God is the ultimate boss for not only Nivrutti but also for Pravrutti.
I have clearly established the basic stage of spiritual knowledge of Shankara,
Our poems have exhibited the next needed theoretical devotion of Ramanuja,
All My devotees have shown excellent practical devotion or service of Madhva,
What more work remains to be done? tell Me, My dear Nikhil! My dear Devi!
[1] Shri Swami had compared Himself to a simple hut with the fragrance of sacrifice.
[2] Image Credits: Kanchenjunga Panorama by Carsten.nebel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3493931
[3] Image credits: Neelkanth peak, Himalayas, by Alokprasad flickr.com/alokprasad - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7835094
[4] “Sahasra sirshaa...“—Veda.
[5] “Avibhaktam Vibhakteshu...”—Gita.
[6] A termite-mound or anthill is commonly said to be a snake’s abode since snakes commonly hide in it.
[7] “Vaasudevah sarvamiti sa mahaatmaa ...”—Gita.
[8] “Nahi saadhyam Brahma siddha vastu...”—Shankara
[9] “Atmaanam maanusham manye...”—Valmiki Ramayana.
[10] Here, creator means Prajaapati, who is a representative of God Brahma. God Brahma is the actual Creator, who is also Vishnu, Shiva, Datta and Krishna Himself.
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