02 Nov 2022
1. I pray to You to transform my imagining nature to help me in my spiritual growth.
[Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked: I have a power of imagination, if i imagine any situation, it certainly does not happen, I observed this in college education time, if I don't want any situation to happen, i used to imagine that. After reading Sai Leelamrutam I ignored that because Baba said they are like prostitutes, but sometimes I imagine automatically without any special intention. I pray You to transform that in a way to help me in my spiritual growth, I want each and every effort of mine should be used as a stepping stone to reach You, I don't want anything else. Pada namaskaram Swami.]
Swami replied:- Do not bother about the incidents in which your intention is absent. You are walking on the road and an ant is killed by your feet. You are not getting any sin or any result for that action. Sometimes, you can find children going near an ant and killing it by the foot. There is demonic intention in that child, which shall be corrected by the elders so that intentional sins can be avoided. You must be overcautious about the necessary item, that is God and you must be totally careless about unnecessary items like the above said incident. Intention alone brings the fruit since intention binds you with the action (Saṅkalpa prabhavān kāmān…-Gita).
2. My friend feels very sad about living without knowledge. How to help her?
[Pada namaskaram Swami, 2 months back I transferred to a new school, our Telugu teacher asked me to teach Bhagavad Geeta, I enquired her why she wants to learn, she said that she is feeling very sad for living without knowledge, I suggested her Your website, she said that she can't read, write, understand English, she can listen to Telugu audios while working, she has no free time to read because she has two small children. Please advise me what I suggest her. Pada namaskaram Swami.]
Swami replied:- She can observe and hear the videos present in the YouTube channel, especially the videos related to Jnaana Sarasvati. The channel is “Sri Dattaswami Satsanga” in telugu.
3. What should be my behaviour with my father, which pleases You?
[Pada namaskaram Swami. I understand that I have to do everything in this world only to please You. I want to know what should be the behaviour of mine with my father which pleases You, he is living in village alone because of the bond with house and fields, but he can't able to maintain all household works, so he wants to stay with me for some days every month, I am thinking there will be no time to me to learn knowledge because I have to arrange everything as per his satisfaction if he stays with me, by your grace he also started to learn knowledge by listening TTD channel pravachanams, but again I am thinking that if my behaviour does not please you, then what is the use of learning knowledge. Please advise me what should I do, I follow your suggestion.]
Swami replied:- I am recommending your father to you to be helped especially in the angle of his interest in spiritual knowledge. Such work becomes part of the propagation of spiritual knowledge of God Datta about which He is highly pleased.
4. What will the future births of the soul be if it puts some efforts presently in a negative atmosphere?
[Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked: Pada namaskaram swami, If a person understands that learning knowledge is the only purpose of human life so late and that person can spend very little time for learning knowledge because of family duties. Further, the family members are not supporting that person and disturbing wantedly, when that person gets irritation, it gets advertised to all people that the person is bad and violent although they are doing karma phala tyagam to You and spending time with You. That person can't abondon and can't escape bad situations, accepts that is all prarabdham and tries to learn knowledge at a maximum level, puts a samkalpam that atleast in next birth, must be born in a situation where there is a freedom to learn knowledge directly from You. Now I request You to tell me if that person dies in the above situation, then do You give another chance to that soul to take rebirth as human and to learn knowledge from You or will that soul take animal births, what will be the position of that soul in the next birth?]
Swami replied:- Even if there is a trace of chance for reformation in Pravrutti or slightest progress in Nivrutti, God will be very anxious to grant human re-birth. Only when there is not even an iota of hope, God keeps silent about human re-birth. The teacher always encourages tremendously the student even if there is a trace of hope of progress in the student.
5. Please comment on the following situation.
[If anyone is disturbing us wantedly from doing sadhana, although we keep silent by understanding the situation, they don't give up even if it takes one week or one month, they only become happy after we get irritation, depression and make us feel we are demons, then they advertise to all people that all fault is only with us, abuse in public, they feel they are good people because they are doing karma phala tyagam, spending time with You. This is only my point of view but You know the inner intentions of everyone. Here i request You to tell me what should be the reaction of the victim in daily life.]
Swami replied:- When you are walking through a thorny path, you have two works to be done while forwarding your journey towards the goal:- 1) walking through the path and 2) pushing the thorns to side so that they will not disturb your journey. Doing Sadhana for God involves both works:- 1) moving towards God and 2) balancing the people coming across the path. If you can help everybody while moving forward, God is doubly pleased because you are not only lifting yourself, but also lifting others directing them towards God.
6. What is the meaning of learning knowledge? Is it memorizing Your books or implementing in daily life?
Swami replied:- Memorising the knowledge helps in preaching to others. Implementing it in practical life helps yourself. No special effort is to be done in the process of memorising because once the point pierces your heart, it is automatically stored in the facility of memory called chittam.
7. Which is preferable between Your darsanam or learning and implementing Your knowledge?
Swami replied:- Implementing the knowledge of God involves both darshanam and learning. Of course, we can use the electronic instruments unlike the olden days for darshanam and learning.
8. What is Your opinion about a person who serves God and also hurts others?
[You said not to harm people should be first quality of a devotee, if anyone harming people mentally and learning Your knowledge, doing karma phala tyagam to You, do You accept that person as Your devotee, what is Your opinion about that person.]
Swami replied:- Harming good people is a sin, but, harming bad people is a merit. Suppose you beat a good person, it is a sin. If you beat a bad person, God is pleased with you. Moreover, beating a bad person is only an effort to change the bad person into a good person. You have to avoid clash between justice and love. God supports justice by giving punishment to the beloved devotee and supports His love by transferring the punishment on to Him. The talent of balancing is the greatest good quality.
9. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said if we take a bath in the river Ganga, then we can go to Goloka in steps. Please explain this.
Swami replied:- Taking bath in Ganga must lead to the knowledge of God, then theoretical devotion to God and then practical devotion to God. These three steps are guided by God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva respectively to reach God Datta, the ultimate Lord.
10. Please explain the difference between a disciple and a devotee. Who is greater?
[Please explain the difference between a disciple and a devotee, who is greater. Please forgive me if I use any harsh words, I feel you are my personal property because you are God Datta and you can understand me, so I dare to talk to you everything in my mind, till now you are the only one who didn't discourage me. Pada namaskaram swami.]
Swami replied:- Disciple lives in respect to God whereas devotee lives in love to God. Love is the alternative name for devotion. The initial stage is respect and the final stage is love or devotion. Respect disappears in the final stage, which is not a negative sign, but is the climax of positive trend.
11. Do we need a peaceful atmosphere to learn knowledge or invite difficulties like Kunti?
[Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked: Pada namaskaram Swami, Kunti prayed to Krishna that she should be always in problems so that she could remember God always, so many people say Kunti is a great devotee, but I feel a peaceful atmosphere is necessary for learning knowledge, if we pray God to give problems and always pray God to come out of problems, is it wise, if You bless anyone with peaceful atmosphere because of their prayers, then they reject it by taking Kunti as guide and again want to suffer with problems, is it a wise decision? Please enlighten me, I also request You to explain the devotion of Kunti, is she really a great devotee?]
Swami replied:- Difficulties always drive the soul towards God. Happy and peaceful situations induce laziness and pride taking away the soul from God. The real grace of God gives difficulties and the real anger of God gives happy times. Devotion increases tremendously in difficulties. Of course, for knowledge, a peaceful time is required.
12. Please explain the meaning of my dream.
[Please explain the meaning of following dreams. I had a dream, in that Phani Swami, Amma (Your wife), You and me are in a home, You and I both together prepared food, after that Phani Swami called me from another room, I feared that he may scold me because I may misbehave with You and I went to clean utensils.]
Swami replied:- Preparation of food means preparation of spiritual knowledge. Cleaning vessels means preaching spiritual knowledge to deserving receivers. If you clean a vessel made of black material, it will never become white. If the white vessel gets dirt, it can be cleaned to make it white. Misbehaviour results only when we misunderstand the human incarnation as an ordinary human being.
13. Please explain the meaning of my dream.
[I have laminated a photo of both You and Phani Swami, In another dream Phani Swami came to my house, I requested him to talk to me with smile, I showed that photo to him, he disappeared with that photo, I searched for him to take photo from him, I was seeing him from far but when I went there, he was disappearing. I am worried so much for the photo in dream, after waking up I relaxed by seeing the photo with me. Pada namaskaram swami.]
Swami replied:- Photo indicates the human being without the unimaginable awareness of God. The awareness of the soul can be considered only as inert energy, which is inert before the unimaginable awareness of God. The unimaginable awareness alone is the real awareness whereas the awareness that is generated from the inert energy is false awareness, which is inert only. This is the difference between God and soul, like the difference between an alive person and his inert photo. Gopikas mentioned this difference while arguing with Krishna, the first time in Brundavanam.
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