25 Nov 2022
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[Attended by devotees like Smt. K. Lakshmi Lavanya etc.]
Following are the points of the Satsanga radiated from Shri Dattaswami:-
1) Vaasanaa is the quality in a weak earlier stage like water vapor. Vaasanaa becoming stronger is called guna like liquid water. Samskaaara is the strongest state of guna like solidified ice. Vaasanaa is always in theoretical state and is not implemented in practice. Guna is the implemented practical state, which can be avoided by strong advice at least temporarily. Samskaara is very strong, accumulated from past several births and cannot be stopped by even very strong advices. All these three types of qualities are only acquired from the world through associations with relatives, friends etc. All these are forms of knowledge only and the most powerful samskaaraas can be destroyed only by the powerful logical knowledge of the Sadguru or the contemporary human incarnation of God. The knowledge of a Guru or a human preacher can destroy the Gunaas provided such guru strictly follows the spiritual knowledge of the Sadguru like a train moving on the previously fixed railway track. Any form of these three can be reformed only by knowledge alone since these three are also forms of knowledge. These three are to be destroyed only when they are constituted by wrong knowledge. Good samskaaraas or gunas or vasanaas shall not be destroyed because they help the spiritual progress of the soul. People often speak about the destruction of these three types as ‘vaasanaa kshaya’. This is not the correct concept because all vaasanaas need not be destroyed and only bad vaasanaas are to be destroyed. The Advaita philosophers speak about the destruction of all these three types whether good or bad and this is not correct because such a state ends in an almost inert state like a stone. The vaasanaas related to devotion to God and spiritual knowledge of God are very important in the spiritual line. The word vaasanaa is used loosely to mean gunaas or samskaaraas as well. Good vaasanaas are related to Sattvam and bad vaasanaas are related to Rajas and Tamas. Vaasanaa is the cause of its corresponding action that yields good fruits of heaven and bad fruits of hell.
2) The balance of these vaasanaas that leads to practical actions yielding good and bad fruits is called samchita. The strongest among samchita-samskaaraas gives rise to its corresponding new birth and such strongest samskaara is called Praarabdha. After taking the new birth, the soul does several actions based on its samskaaraas and the fruits of these actions join the already existing samskaraas and such future actions are called Aagaami. Please note that we are not differentiating vaasanaa from its corresponding action because both are just cause and effect. When the soul is thoroughly cleaned in hell, the outcoming soul has the same frame of Samchita samskaaraas in a weak state and this state is called as Karmashesha and the word karma here means only samskaara and not action because both are treated as alternative words only. Therefore, the only way to change the frame work of solidified samskaaraas is only the powerful and logical analyzed knowledge of Sadguru.
3) The Sadguru starts and effectively completes His mission on earth. Generally, if a human being does some work, such work is called as the effort of the soul (Purusha prayatna), for example, ploughing the field and planting the seeds is the human effort. The helping grace of God is to give rain in proper time (Daivaanugraha). Both these are done by the Sadguru since He is the human form of God. Such mission also cannot yield the fruit because the third factor is also there, which is the fertility of the soil. If the soil is infertile, neither the seed nor the rain is absorbed by the soil. Krishna preached Arjuna and Arjuna is a fertile soil due to which the mission of the Lord became fruitful. The same God Krishna preached to the Kauravaas to a great extent, but, there was no use because Kauravaas were rocky soil. God knows the samskaaraas of every soul and hence, knows the future fruit. Krishna told Arjuna that he will fight (Prakṛtistvāṃ niyokṣyati— Gita) and Krishna told Draupadi finally before starting towards the Kauravaas that His message will not be followed by the Kauravaas and hence, the war was inevitable. In the place of Krishna, we can judge the soul to some extent only (10%) based on its associations in the present birth and our expectation may fail since we do not know the samskaaraas (90%) accumulated from previous births. Our knowledge is only 10% (Alpajna) and God’s knowledge is 100% (Sarvajna). The above explanation is the reason for this difference between God and soul.
4) The madness about worldly bonds is like an elephant. This madness can be destroyed only when the madness towards God is like a hill. Madness is due to attraction and attraction is devotion that can be generated from the knowledge (details) of God only. Our knowledge is incomplete and little knowledge only generates very little madness of the size of an ant, which is destroyed by the elephant. Knowledge should be best qualitatively, which can be from the Sadguru only (Tattvajnānārtha darśanam— Gita). Its quantity also must be high, which is possible by constantly remembering the important spiritual concepts (Adhyātma jñāna nityatvam— Gita). The main concept we forget is that we should not aspire any fruit from God. If we aspire fruit for our service and sacrifice, it becomes business devotion and an account will be maintained by God. If we don’t aspire for any fruit in return, the account will disappear and only need based way appears to God. Krishna needed just a piece of cloth for bandage and Draupadi needed thousands of saris in her problem. Since Draupadi served Krishna without aspiration for any fruit by tearing her sari for the bandage, Krishna could give countless saris needed in her problem. We must always avoid business-account devotion with God and we must serve and sacrifice for God based on our true love to God just like we serve and sacrifice for our children.
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