Posted on: 09 Oct 2021
[Shri. Ganesh V asked: Pādanamaskāram Swamiji, You have always told us that getting knowledge of God is the most important aspect of spiritual life. If knowledge is complete, bhakti and karma phala tyaga will automatically happen. But Your knowledge is vast and impossible to know every detail of Your knowledge. It will take several Janmas just to completely understand a few parts about Your knowledge. Given the limited time we all have, which part of knowledge should we focus on? Is it Your explanation of metaphysical truths, or listen to Your glories from other devotees, or reading the glories of Your past incarnation from puranas or a combination of all? At Your divine feet, Ganesh V]
Swami replied:- My knowledge is like a big wholesale medical shop and each patient picks up the required medicine for his/her specific disease. In one time, several patients come with their individual specific diseases. Same patient may come in another time with another disease to get proper medicine for that specific disease. These diseases belong to mind and the mind is attacked by a disease in a specific time or even may be attacked by several diseases in one time. Hence, based on the requirement, you can pickup corresponding concept or concepts. Even if your mind is healthy, it is better to read all the concepts so that you can use the required concept or concepts in the future time whenever the necessity arises or you can help others, who require these concepts. You can also propagate these concepts so that you are preparing some people like you to help others. By such propagation God will be pleased with you and by such propagation you will be strong in the knowledge, which can help you also in your personal spiritual progress. In this way knowledge is the best and first step in the spiritual path. If you can concentrate on the conclusions, it will be very easy for you to understand this entire spiritual knowledge.