07 Mar 2015
Shri Subhash Pawale: 1) Before reading discourses I used to chant and meditate but after reading discourses I have stopped it. Now I am not able to sleep more than 5 hours in the night and I remember the dreams once I wake up. so that means my sleep is not entering into Shushupti phase which comes after dream phase. So is this normal?-
Swami Replied: Your first problem is not related to spiritual side. It is related only to medical science. Please take some medicine, which restricts the allergy in your mind. That will give you deep sleep and perfect freshness after sleep.
2) My mind is always fluctuate in between reading discourses and doing chanting and meditation. so How to fixed my mind on you and your discourses so that my spiritual progress will start?
Touching lotus feet of SWAMI – Shri Subhash Pawale, Mumbai
Swami Replied: Your second problem is related to lack of spiritual knowledge that leads you to correct conclusion. Therefore, you read the spiritual knowledge first and then select the path. After this, you should implement your practical journey in the concluded path. You are now oscillating between the study of knowledge to select the path and implementation of your practical journey in the selected path. Without the conclusion of the first, the second is not possible. Chanting and meditation belong to second part. Reading the spiritual knowledge of Swami is the first part. Do not mix these two in one time.
[Shri Anil asked that one of his friend posed him two doubts. 1) Even a terrorist prays God and gets help form God to do the sin of blasting that kills several people. Help from God to a sinner is to be clarified. 2) Swami tells that Hanuman and Radha are the highest devotees. But, there are several devotees of such level whose names are not coming in to light.]
Swami Replied: 1) If the terrorist is an atheist, such person is never reformed. In the case of the terrorist, who is theist, transformation is possible on one day or other. Moreover, we do not understand perfectly and completely the divine administration to total form. When somebody kills a person, you think that somebody is the sinner and the killed person is innocent because you are aware of the present life only and this is first option. In the second option, that somebody might have been killed by that person in the previous birth and this incident is neutralization of the incident of previous birth. Both options are possible. If the first option is true, that somebody will be certainly killed by the court and police as per the running law. The interference of God in this case as far as this first option is concerned is that that somebody gets captured by the police and is submitted to the court. Suppose, the second option is correct, the terrorist escapes from the police. Since you do not know the reality of the option, you will criticize based on your freedom of tongue and analysis of the case guided by the limited knowledge. Be sure that never there will be a flaw in the divine administration. Remember that the police and court in this world are also under the invisible control of Almighty only.
2) Hanuman and Radha are famous since their life histories are available in detail in the Ramayanam and the Bhagavatam. When I quote them, the reasons for My conclusions can also be clearly given based on the various famous events in their lives described in those famous epics. You say that there are other several devotees on par with those two devotees. Neither you give their names nor the life histories and nor the famous epics in which their life histories are described. If they are in the present generation, at least, their address and proof for the events taken should be given. You may doubt the poof of the events of those two devotees also given in the epics. Our public has lot of faith and respect on those sages, who have written these two epics and hence it will be easy to mention such names. Moreover, the events of the life in which the two devotees passed out the tests of God and won the Gold medals are important for the analysis to be given to guide the spiritual journey of a present devotee. Even if you have other examples with similar events, it is immaterial as for as the analysis of the event leading to success is concerned. The analysis of the event is important message for the present devotee so that the present devotee can avoid the failure in such event and can pass out. In this context, the names of the passed out candidates is not important. The correct answer for a question is important in the studies of the present student. It is not necessary to mention the number of students and their names, who have written such correct answer. The name of one student, who has written the correct answer to give inspiration and the text of the correct answer are sufficient as far as the information to a present student is concerned.
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