25 Oct 2022
[Shri Hrushikesh asked: Dear Swami, My friend Sai Srinivas (Kanhayya) has asked the following questions. I request You to kindly help us with answers for the questions below.]
1. How I can fill my soul and intellect with Datta Tatvam?
Swami replied:- The spiritual knowledge with sharp analysis will result in the appearance of God Datta and His attractive divine personality. It is an inevitable result of studying the spiritual knowledge deeply.
2. Who is a Guru? Some say Mother is above God, some say Guru is above God. For me, the hierarchy is God > Mom > Guru, am I right?
Swami replied:- The hierarchy is God or Sadguru > guru preaching the correct meaning of scriptures > mother not involved in the spiritual line.
3. What is the true understanding of the highest tatvam?
[What is the true understanding of that top tatvam that is independent of all the other tatvas. To my understanding I came across 2 concepts.
a) A tatva that is amalgamation of all the tatvas
b) A tatva away from this union that is independently existing of all tatvas. What is the diff kindly please elaborate Swami ji?]
Swami replied:- The second concept b) is correct. This concept belongs to the unimaginable God or Parabrahma, who is beyond space and time. Unless you realize that root concept, you will be tortured in the study of spiritual knowledge with several confusions. Based on this concept only you can achieve the unification of all world religions and world peace. This achievement is very important because God is very much pleased by this achievement.
4. What is the correct form of Guru Dhyanam?
Swami replied:- Dhyaanam means perfect and unshakable interest in God. God in the form of a human guru is called Sadguru. It is better to use the word Sadguru dhyaanam. Sadguru means both guide and goal and you need not concentrate on any other path than this. Such a devotee is the most fortunate. Hanuman and Gopikaas caught the alive Sadguru and got the highest divine fruits.
5. What are the boundaries of being good and truthful?
[What are the boundaries of being good, truthful and kindly help me understand how to build the direction and psychology of trying to make the balance b/w materialistic and spiritual phenomenon.]
Swami replied:- Goodness and truthfulness are not much important. The most important aspect is protecting justice and not harming a good person and a good devotee. You can be bad and cunning provided you are helping justice and harming injustice. The ultimate concepts must be understood very well and you should not be carried away by lower concepts.
6. Please enlighten me on the practices of untouchability.
[I hate when people say to my sister and mom that you are untouchables while they are in periods, and they have to sleep on floor , even if they sleep on bed, the bedsheets are cleaned but the priest said since the bedsheet touched the mattress it has to be cleaned too. Till then I will not touch a drop of water in your house. I find it very wrong, please enlighten me in the traditions of antu and muttoo (The untouchabilities).]
Swami replied:- In the above example, the untouchability is to be properly understood. Here, the untouchability is not the main aspect because if they are allowed to touch, they will not live far and be isolated so that they will take perfect rest. Here, the untouchability is yielding some other good fruit. I am against the concept of the untouchability of a caste. The child of an untouchable cannot be untouchable. The original untouchability of a caste was due to horrible sins committed and untouchability is just like boycotting or debarring an undisciplined student from school. It is only for the reformation of the soul and is not for the revenge on the soul.
7. How to choose the right side of spiritual knowledge?
[In spiritual knowledge and in Materialistic knowledge there are always bipolar opinions that I derive finally to. The blacks and whites of the situation. How to choose the side?]
Swami replied:- Sharp analysis using powerful intelligence will make you understand the actual truth of the bipolar opinions. Unless you take the help of Sadguru, you cannot succeed in this effort.
8. Kindly explain the meaning of the following visions, I had.
[In my experience Swami Ji, in my journey of spiritual seeking, I have understood one thing very clearly that life is not about finding answers, life is about finding directions, fixing karmas and attaching the spirit to a supreme power. The logical part of work is done by right direction and karma and the spiritual and intuitive part is taken care by the association with the divine supremacy. My conflict is to fix them too.
I saw Garuda in the clouds during one night b/w 8 -9 pm, where the moon was exactly in the centre of the heart of Lord Garuda. Kindly explain the meaning?]
Swami replied:- Garuda represents height and his fast speed represents sharp and brilliant logical analysis. In total, he represents the spiritual knowledge of God, which is the highest. He also represents the logical analysis of spiritual knowledge. All this is related to intelligence. The heart represents the abode of love or devotion to God. Moon represents the mind. The moon being present in the heart of Garuda means that the devotion is hidden in the spiritual knowledge. This means that the spiritual knowledge must lead the person to deep devotion. If the knowledge is continuous without generating devotion, it is endless bad logic, which will become a waste since the human life is short.
[I am seeing a Guru in a cave who is trying to call me and say something to me, I do not understand what he is trying to say. When I bowed on the Kartikeya Swami ka putta, I saw the guru with fully shaven head, completely white, with a white pancha surrounding with white background, a snake like an umbrella over his head and its tail is wrapped around him and the tail is ending at his pelvis. He is sitting in padmasana closing his eyes.]
Swami replied:- It is a divine vision advising you to concentrate on the Sadguru because He is both guide and goal. Reaching Sadguru is reaching the ultimate goal, God. But, reaching itself has no practical use. You must please God after reaching God. Hence, reaching God is not the ultimate goal because pleasing God is the ultimate goal. This is what that divine person is speaking, which is not clearly heard by you.
[I have seen a 25-35 year old woman (Matha) dancing in the early morning in my meditation, not in my dreams.]
Swami replied:- The vision of the dancing female is the Maayaa showing her place in the path of spiritual knowledge. She is instructing you that you should take care of Pravrutti also while trying for Nivrutti.
[One day when I was memorising Lalita Sahasranama, same night at 2:30-300 AM my mind commanded me to sit Infront of the goddess and put my right ring finger in water and chant the beejakshara, I saw Amma in my meditation and She said are you ready?]
Swami replied:- This means that the Maayaa is questioning you about your preparedness towards the spiritual path that involves many thorns.
[I have seen Shirla Prabhupada in my dreams holding my hands and asking me to do japa in Ramakrishna Paramahamsa temple in Belur math. I am drawing Krishna’s paintings in my dream. I am visiting temples, some temples are below the soil underground. I am seeing very unusual gods like once I saw a god with Shiva, Vishnu, Amma, everyone in the same personified form i cannot distinguish the gender but it was very pleasant to look.]
Swami replied:- All this vision is based on God Krishna, who is the author of the Bhagavad Gita. You must understand the essence of the Bhagavad Gita. The essence of the Bhagavad Gita is surrendering to Krishna, who is the contemporary human incarnation and following His instructions and guidance strictly without any disturbance from other evil forces. Fighting the war is Pravrutti and taking guidance of God Krishna is Nivrutti. Both are in His hands only. God Krishna asked Arjuna again and again to concentrate on the preaching of the contemporary human incarnation.
[Swami ji I cannot hold the visions, I need a way of dhyana and sadhana where I can hold my visions and understand and evolve into the person I am destined to. My Honest Confession - > I do not believe in the people who say they are gods, God is diff and guru is diff to me prabhu. My humble obeisances to Prabhu jhi, Jai GuruDatta Swami.
At Your feet, Hrushikesh]
Swami replied:- A human being of this earth or an energetic being of the upper world cannot be God because both are ordinary souls only embedded in respective external bodies. Even though all angels are energetic beings only and not God, God Brahma, God Vishnu, God Shiva, God Datta are accepted as God or energetic incarnations because the unimaginable God merged with God Datta and God Datta merged with the selected energetic beings to become energetic incarnations, which are mediated God relevant to the energetic beings of the upper world. Similarly, the human incarnations are God in mediated state (God Datta merging with human beings) related to the humanity on this earth. God does not want you to worship Him. God only wants to hear true spiritual knowledge from Him and select the right direction. Selecting the right direction is as important as walking in the right direction. But, you must understand the meaning of walking or practical devotion, which is not meditation. After all, in meditation, what are you doing? You simply fix a form and go on maintaining it in your mind. It is neither service to God nor sacrifice to God. It is purely a wasteful theoretical step in which there is no progress at all. In spiritual knowledge, day by day, there is progress. There is progress in devotion to God because as you understand the divine personality more and more, the devotion increases day by day. In meditation, a constant continuation of a fixed state occurs in which there is no change at all even if the meditation ends after a long time. Meditation actually means unshakable interest in God, which is the basis for studying the spiritual knowledge and developing devotion to God. Interest increases as there is progress in spiritual knowledge and in devotion. At the same time, interest is the basis for you to start the study of spiritual knowledge that leads to devotion. Arjuna wanted to withdraw from his duty, which is to fight the war against injustice and go to forest to do meditation. God Krishna abused him as a person of neutral gender, which is neither male nor female (klaibyaṃ mā sma gamaḥ…-Gita) because Arjuna stood neither for Pravrutti nor for Nivrutti. Having faith in the Sadguru like God Krishna alone will lead you to success in both Pravrutti and Nivrutti.
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