Posted on: 31 Oct 2022
[Smt. Priyanka asked: We learnt that sages in the forest saw Lord Rama recognizing Him to be God in human form and wanted to embrace Him by becoming females. But they were also in association with Lord Dattatreya during the same time period. Since Lord Dattatreya's beauty is also of topmost level, my doubt is how come they did not get the same feeling seeing Lord Dattatreya to become females and embrace Him? At Your divine lotus feet, Priyanka]
Swami replied:- Even in the time of Krishna, Dattatreya existed. Madhumati existed like Sita and Rukmini. Sages have lot of supernatural power to see Dattatreya, Rama and Krishna as one. Rama means one who is entertained and Krishna means one who is attracting. Dattatreya is Rama and Krishna because He was always entertained and always attracted devotees. When the incarnation takes place, the original form is not disturbed and this is the unimaginable power or Maayaa of God. The original form was the energetic incarnation called Datta. Dattatreya existed as human incarnation along with Rama or Krishna, the other human incarnations. Sages knew everything and hence, there is no problem of your question. There can be two or three human incarnations at a time. Whether it is Rama or Krishna or Dattatreya, it is one and the same as per the divine sages. Since sages are also omniscient like God, there is no problem as far as the examined candidates (Sages) are concerned. Regarding other human beings, this is not a problem because they are not the candidates of the examination. You can always pose the problem to the candidates, if they are affected by the problem. If the candidates are not affected, there is no scope for posing the problem. Hence, your question is not posing a problem to the candidates and it is not a problem to others since they are not the candidates at all.