Posted on: 21 Aug 2023
1. What are Brahma Tandav, Vishnu Tandav and Rudra Tandav?
[Smt. Chhanda asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, please clear my mind: Please explain the meaning and significance of Brahma tandav, Vishnu Tandav and Rudra Tandav? Are they related to chakras? At Your divine lotus feet Swami, Chhanda]
Swami replied:- Chakra is only illusion, which is the fascination about worldly bonds. Don’t fall in the chakkar of chakras and waste your time. Tandu was a sage and while cutting the holy grass (Darbha), accidentally, a little ash was generated from his hand. With this small miraculous power, he thought that he became the creator-God and started doing dance. This dance was called as Tandavam (which means the dance done by Tandu). Then, God Shiva appeared before him and generated a hill of ash from His thumb put downwards. Then, Tandu stopped his dance and fell on the feet of Lord Shiva. Due to love on Tandu, God Shiva named His dance as Tandavam in the name of sage Tandu. Here, the word Tandavam should not be taken to mean the physical dance only. Tandavam means the excellent procedure of rectification of a devotee caught by ignorance based ego. The preaching of God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva are respectively Brahma Tandavam, Vishnu Tandavam and Shiva Tandavam, which are the procedures of preaching the devotee to lift him from ignorance based ego and jealousy. These three Tandavams exist in the preaching of God Datta. If ego and jealousy are conquered permanently, the devotee will certainly attain the climax grace of God. The other four bad qualities (lust, anger, greediness and fascination) become pure when they are diverted to God. But, these two bad qualities (ego and jealousy) shall not be diverted to God because they are always diverted to God and the devotee thinks that he is God due to the influence of these two qualities. It means that the devotee shall never be captured by ego based jealousy, seeing the divine personality of the contemporary human incarnation of God.
2. The Incarnation and His photo are the same. Is this for the devotees, who worship the human form of God?
[Smt. Chhanda asked: Swami, Shirdi Sai Baba told that there is no difference between Him and His photo. Is it valid only for those devotees who worship the human form of God directly? Other people who worship God in photo only like most of us do, will this be applicable? Always at Your divine lotus feet Swami, Chhanda]
Swami replied:- It is appliciable only to the contemporary human incarnation because this was told by Shirdi Sai Baba, while He was present as the contemporary human incarnation. This cannot apply to other photos and statues of past human incarnations or energetic incarnations. In the case of the contemporary human incarnation, this means that if you are unable to be in the presence of the contemporary human incarnation for some time, you can keep His photo and feel that you are in the presence of the contemporary human incarnation. This is possible only when you have the simultaneous opportunity to meet the contemporary human incarnation personally also. In the case of other photos, you do not have this simultaneous opportunity of meeting God personally.
3. Why is the merging of God again required in Your case and in other cases where He already merged in the mother's womb itself?
[Smt. Chhanda asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, please elaborate the following: Many human incarnations including You were God from or before birth itself. Then why is the merging again required in Your case and in other cases since merging happened already in the mother's womb? Is there any specific purpose behind it?]
Swami replied:- Merging of God Datta with Dattaswami once more has the specific purpose of preaching the technology of merging of the first energetic incarnation with the devoted human being-component. This process of homogenous merging was demonstrated practically by God Datta for the sake of the spiritual knowledge to be preached to devotees. God will not do anything without some specific purpose. It is a practical demonstration of the theoretical concept because today every devotee is on the line of science, which requires practical experiment. Such practical demonstrations helped this Dattaswami (human being-component) to preach this concept of perfect merge of God with the devotee selected by Him for the purpose of propagation of true spiritual knowledge. Even the very concept of human incarnation is to preach true spiritual knowledge with the help of practical examples to the sincere advanced devotees in this world.