10 Apr 2023
[A question by Mr. Talin Rowe]
Swami replied:- We can understand the importance of tests in getting through success in professional entrance examinations like EAMCET etc. The institutions giving training for such important examinations advertise the number of tests they conduct. They advertise weekly tests and some more institutions advertise even daily tests to show that their teaching is very serious, which involves the feedback of the student at every step of teaching. Hearing the knowledge preached is like eating food. Quick feedback is like testing the digestion of the food after every meal. The result of the test reduces overconfidence and reveals the actual reality of the student so that concentration can be done on weak points. There are several spiritual preachers, but God Datta alone is the climax spiritual preacher because He conducts tests at every step of His preaching.
Q. Does the curriculum and test of a soul involve their inherent virtues or moral values?
[Does the curriculum and test of a soul involve their inherent virtues or moral values? Can souls with poor qualities or struggle with some inhibiting deficiency such as mental illness still effectively contribute and develop spontaneous love towards God?]
Swami replied:- Qualities guided by morals are called as good qualities, which is the curriculum. Love to God without any personal desire is the essence of the syllabus. The direction of spiritual preaching of the divine spiritual preacher (Sadguru) is the single direction of the true love towards the attraction of the divine wonderful personality of God. The basis of the true love is not at all any selfish desire to be fulfilled using the grace of God. The basis shall be the true love generated by the attraction towards the total excellent personality of God in every angle. This true love developed by the attraction to the personality of God becomes like a Tsunami in the devotion-ocean towards God, which drowns away all the concepts based on logical analysis and leads to the climax of devotion, called fan devotion. In this climax of devotion of a fan to a cinema hero, the entire attraction of the fan towards the cinema hero is based on the different angles of excellent good personality of the hero projected in various angles in various film shows. The Tsunami of the true love of the fan is proved by the fan committing suicide on hearing the death of his hero. In this true love of the fan, there is no trace of any desire to be fulfilled from the hero. The poor fan spends from his pocket only in the inauguration functions of all the cinemas of the hero and the fan never got a single paisa from the rich hero. I am stressing this single point a million times and you can understand the importance of it in our spiritual journey without which all the spiritual efforts are useless like the rose scent poured on ash.
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