Posted on: 27 Aug 2021
Shri Anil asked:
1. If God can do anything, can He make Himself non-existent to the point that He won't be able to exist again?
[Shri Anil asked: Pādanamaskāram Swami, some questions raised in internet discussion forum is presented below. Please grace Your response to the same. At Your Lotus Divine Feet-anil. If God can do anything, can He make Himself non-existent to the point that He won't be able to exist again?]
Swami Replied:- This is the climax of foolishness. This is equal to committing suicide. Every human being has that power. But, we criticise a person, who committed the suicide as the biggest fool. Hence, it is not appropriate (Anuchita) to do like that, which damages the greatest greatness of God. God is omnipotent and also does such things, which are appropriate only. If He does any inappropriate thing, you will again question that God has no power to control Himself from not doing inappropriate things.
2. How can we deny the comforts which are evidently visible in our life?
[According to the Gita, the soul is in existence but the body will perish and make a path for the soul to reach God, but how can we deny the comforts which are evidently visible in our life?]
Swami Replied:- By the perishing of body, soul will not reach God. The soul even with body can reach God on recognising the contemporary human incarnation. The path to reach God is true love, which does not mind for the selfish comforts since it only minds to please God even through selfish pain.
3. Sri Krishna not saved Abhimanyu in Chakravyuuha, but what is the reason to decide only 16 years to his life to live on Earth by the Moon God?
Swami Replied:- Abhimanyu was incarnation of a demon and God decided his life to be ended in the battle. All the childhood of Abhimanyu was under the patronage of love of God Krishna only. This is His decision.
4. How can the idea of a peaceful world family be true without Bhagavad Gita as our Constitution?
[Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita 9.17 that He is the parent of the entire cosmos, the sustainer, the purest, the knowledge of Vedas personified, then how can the idea of a peaceful world family be true without Bhagavad Gita as our Constitution?]
Swami Replied:- The name of the Bhagavad Giita may not be included in our constitution, but, the points of our constitution are based on impartial justice only. There may be some loopholes since it is written by human beings. Constitution shall be irrespective of any religion because justice is same for anybody. All the religious scriptures are not different from the Bhagavad Giita.
5. Is inter-caste marriages sin according to Hinduism?
Swami Replied:- Certainly, it is a problem, but, the real caste system is based on qualities and deeds. Marriage between two individuals differing in qualities and deeds is not proper.
6. How do I manifest my dream body?
[How do I manifest my dream body? I am eating the right amount of calories and exercising. I want to manifest/shift my vibrations into a reality where I have this desired body. Can You help/educate me?]
Swami Replied:- The dream body is created by the awareness in accordance to the structure of your physical body only. Why do you wish so much about your dream body?
7. What does the Bhagavad Gita say about loneliness?
Swami Replied:- Loneliness means very less number of qualitative devotees. Overcrowd and extreme loneliness are not good.
8. Is it sin, as per Hinduism, to feed non-veg to dogs as they're considered a consort for a few Gods?
Swami Replied:- Whatever may be the reason, non-vegetarian food is sinful from the angle of killing the living beings. There is no justified reason for your statement because gods never like killing the living beings.
9. Which of the following should I believe?
[According to Hindu Shaastras, 3 AM is the creator or God's hour, which is very holy to practise Yoga, but according to Christianity, 3 AM is the devil’s hour. Which should I believe? I am a Hindu.]
Swami Replied:- The best time is when you awake from the sleep in natural way without any force. Then, the mind will be very fresh to concentrate on God.
10. If I (the spirit soul) am part and parcel of Lord Krishna, then why am I away from Krishna? Is the soul impure?
Swami Replied:- You are part and parcel of the cloth worn by Krishna. This cloth is assumed as the outermost body of Krishna. The thread in the cloth has nothing to do with the divine body of Krishna. The unimaginable ultimate God is the internal soul of Krishna. Raamaanuja proposed this theory that soul is a part of God, but, in such theory, He took the world as the outermost body (Viśvarūpam) made of inert items and souls (Cidacid viśiṣṭa śarīram). On the whole, it only means that you are maintained by God.
11. Can a spiritual man live without food?
Swami Replied:- Mummadivaram Balayogi lived without food for several years. Did you not hear? For unimaginable God, every impossible thing is possible.
12. What is the reason behind sacrificing goats in Hinduism and Islam?
Swami Replied:- It is totally a misunderstanding. The soul has to sacrifice its goat like nature, which is to follow the blind traditions with faith like the goat following the butcher. The Veda says that the animal to be sacrificed is the animal-nature existing with the soul (Manyuḥ paśuḥ…- Veda).
13. Is God obligated to love us?
Swami Replied:- There is no obligation on God to love us. If you count the favours done by God to us, we are having infinite obligation to love God.
14. Why Hindu Gods have so many hands and heads?
Swami Replied:- Heads represent multiple ways of knowledge and hands represent multiple actions.
15. Given that Indians were ruled by Muslims or Christians for 9 centuries, why weren’t the Hindus converted to Islam or Christianity?
Swami Replied:- Conversion is not wrong, but, is only unnecessary since all scriptures of all religions say the same basic Spiritual knowledge.
16. Where is the motivation without excitement, which is discouraged by Gita?
[As per Giita, the great book, we should be free from all Gunas and should not be affected by their results or should not be excited by new ventures. Where is the motivation then? How do I feel, even if, we are living?]
Swami Replied:- Psychological emotions and excitations will spoil the health. If health is spoiled, no activity can be perfect.
17. What do God and quantum mechanics have in common?
Swami Replied:- Quantised energy indicates the multiple creation and also multiple incarnations of God in the creation.
18. What are the standards for good and bad philosophy?
Swami Replied:- The standard for philosophy is the logical analysis that gives the conviction of consciousness in deciding the human form of God.
19. Muslims are killing Muslims in Afghanistan, Syria, etc., but still Muslims want to convert all non-Muslims to Islam as Islam is a religion of peace! Isn't this funny?
Swami Replied:- Don’t mock any religion because the merits and defects are common to all religions. Specify the region and criticise and not the religion.
20. Why are Muslim countries not coming forward to rescue Afghanistan?
Swami Replied:- It is the subject of politics and not philosophy.
21. My history professor said Islam will take over Christianity. Is she right?
Swami Replied:- I don’t know when this madness of religions ends!
22. Why don't Afghans just pray to Allah to save them from The Taliban?
Swami Replied:- Why don’t you go and tell them?
23. Why did God Jesus Christ complain to God the Father when He was crucified?
Swami Replied:- He never complained to God. He only prayed God to excuse the ignorance of the criminals.
24. Why don't Jewish people believe that Jesus is the Messiah?
Swami Replied:- People, who have real faith in God, always believe in the human incarnation.
25. Why did the Jews believe Moses but rejected Jesus Christ to the extent of crucifixion?
Swami Replied:- Jesus taught the climax of Spiritual knowledge and also performed divine miracles. This led the people to become more and more jealous about Jesus leading to the crucifixion.
26. What did Jesus do after the resurrection?
Swami Replied:- Jesus came to Kashmir and lived for many years preaching wonderful Spiritual knowledge.
27. Where exactly is Pretaloka? Is it a physical place like earth?
[Shri Anil forwarded the following question from a Muslim devotee, Imran Ahmed: Pranaam Shri Datta Swami. Thank You for posting great spiritual articles and nice to see Your efforts in establishing universal spirituality. It will be great if You can kindly clarify few points in this article. You have mentioned that ‘Pretaloka is right above Martyaloka. So, even though the soul has just completed its life in Martyaloka and is in Pretaloka, it has not gone far from the Martyaloka. Due to the extreme closeness of Pretaloka with Martyaloka, the soul in Pretaloka can almost be considered to be still present in Martyaloka’. Where exactly is Pretaloka? Is it a physical place like earth? If not, is it an ethereal place enveloping the earth or is it a different non-physical dimension of the physical earth. Like we have infrared, ultraviolet etc. which can't be seen with naked eye but they do exist in different plane within this earth.]
Swami Replied:- These upper worlds are associated with the unimaginable power of unimaginable God and physical sciences utterly fail in recognising these worlds with human eyes or even with sophisticated scientific instruments. These worlds become visible only when the grace of Allah falls on a devotee.
28. You have also mentioned that Pitruloka is in Moon. If Pretaloka is different dimension within earth plane, how is Pitruloka in moon?
Swami Replied:- Pretaloka is above the Martyaloka (earth) and Narakaloka (hell) is above the Pretaloka. Above the Narakaloka lies the Pitruloka, this is in the moon. All these are invisible worlds and hence, their boundaries are of no use for us.
29. Is there any evidence or proof to show that Pretaloka / Pitruloka etc. are real?
[Is there any evidence or proof to show that Pretaloka / Pitruloka etc. are real? If no one comes back to the physical world after death, how did we come to know that these Lokas exist?]
Swami Replied:- There are some evidences of perception of these worlds by the people, who returned to their bodies after death. Only the words of human incarnations and high Spiritual devotees doing unimaginable miracles are the authority in such unimaginable knowledge.
30. What is the proof that the lokas like heaven, hell etc., exist?
[While all religious scriptures may talk of these Lokas, heaven, hell etc., what is the proof that they are real? Because till date no dead man has come back alive to narrate that he has seen Pretaloka, Pitruloka, heaven, hell etc.]
Swami Replied:- If you depend so much on science and perception of ordinary human being, you must explain the miracles performed by divine people like Shri Satya Sai Baba. If you can’t explain them, you have to accept the field of unimaginable power, which can easily be the proof for such concepts.
31. Is there any way living humans can find out about the existence of these Lokas?
[Is there any way living humans can find out about the existence of these Lokas. Like for example, can we actually visit these Lokas (while alive) and find out that they are real and not some fictional places mentioned in the scriptures. Look forward to Your insights on the above, as finding out ultimate truth without an iota of doubt will only satisfy the enquiring mind. Thanks and Regards, Imran Ahmed.]
Swami Replied:- The answer for this is given above.
Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked:
32. Pādanamaskāram Swami Is it wrong in aspiring to become a climax devotee of God? -At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhaanu Samykya.
Swami Replied:- Such aspiration comes due to lot of divine background following the soul for several past births only.