Swami Answers Devotees' Questions

[An online spiritual discussion was conducted on November 22, 2020, in which several devotees participated. Some of the questions of devotees answered by Swāmi are given below.]

1. If a devotee is facing financial problems, should he approach a devotee or God for help?

[A question by Śrī Bharat Krishna.]

Swāmi replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God! From the angle of pravṛtti or worldly life, one human being can approach another human being for any help. From the angle of nivṛtti or spiritual life, a devotee can approach God for any help.

2. Is it right to pray to God to give me the strength to overcome my difficulties?

[A question by Śrī Chaitanya Krishna.]

Swāmi replied: Certainly, you can pray to God to overcome your difficulties because in difficulties, the mind is not stable and one cannot concentrate on God. But asking God to fulfil your extra desires is not correct. When there is true love for God, one aspires for nothing from God. This is the climax stage of devotion. One should try to achieve that stage.

3. Is it true that God sometimes enters into a devotee temporarily?

[Śrī Nava Chaitanya asked: It is claimed that God enters some devotees who worship God and that is called pūnakam in Telugu. Is such a thing true?]

Swāmi replied: Pūnakam is called āveśa in Sanskrit and it is the merging of God or a ghost with a human being. Āveśa is the basic technology of incarnation. God enters and merges with an energetic or human being to become an Incarnation. The Āveśa Incarnation is one of the five types of Incarnations and it is a temporary Incarnation.

4. What is the meaning of the “Trimuurtulu juuta muulamerugute baata”?

[A question by Śrī Rajasekhar]

Swāmi replied: The word jūṭa means a group. The three energetic forms of God in the upper world are Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva. These three forms merged together is the one root form of God Datta. It is from God Datta that these three forms came out. Datta is the first Energetic Incarnation of God. The unimaginable God or Parabrahman merged with this first energetic form forever. Datta is now the permanent residential address of the unimaginable God. The true path is to know that God Datta is the original absolutely true unimaginable God.

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