08 Feb 2022
[Rayy Light asked: Dear Swami Ji, Peace and blessings be upon You. In Your recent reply You said: "God wanted to avoid the stress in writing with His hand". I did not understand what You meant here. Why would God have the quality of "stress" when He is beyond comprehension and unlike any creation? Why would He be subjected to a human attribute?
I have read through everything else You said after that. However, beyond the aspect of the fire logic test would it also be more believable if You performed a miracle through the internet to prove that You are truly a human incarnation of God? For instance, would it be possible for You to know that poem I sang to myself 2 or 3 days before at night when I was lying on my bed? With kind regards, Rayy Light]
Swami replied: The word stress need not be taken literally. This word shall be taken in the sense of unnecessary work when such work is not needed at all. The word is used in an applied sense and not in its literal sense. Since God is a very good administrator, He will not do any unnecessary work. This is the essential meaning that has to be taken by you.
Regarding your challenge or test about Me, I beg to submit that I am a two component system present in a single phase. The two components are God and human being. Now, is your question for God or for the human being? If it is to God, are you capable even to stand before God leave alone the possibility of testing Him? The Bible says that you should not test God. If you are asking this question to the human being component, it has already been said several times to even very close devotees that when any miracle or any spiritual knowledge is expressed from Me, it is purely from the God component only. When Shri Ajay speaks about the miracles of God Datta done through Me (during weekly Satsangs), I told that one Sanskrit verse written by Me in the book called ‘Dattātreyam’ must be read, which is “Jñānaṃ veha vibhūtirvā, yatkiñcit darśitaṃ mayā, sarvaṃ Datta Guroreva…”. This means that any miracle or knowledge is from God Datta only and not from Me, the human being. You are thinking that these miracles or knowledge are expressed to increase My (human being) fame. It is totally wrong. This exposure is only to increase the fame of God Dattātreya.
Some miracles were already performed by God Datta to several devotees. If every time, a new miracle is to be performed for the sake of every Tom, Dick and Harry, where is the end? If your wish is satisfied, there will be a hundred waiting in queue with the same wish for personal direct satisfaction. By the series of answers, I will become a completely condemned tape recorder with wear and tear. One devotee called Smt. Bhavani, wife of Shri CBK Murthy, conducted the same test on Me and God Datta gave the correct answer and this test was conducted by her for 30 days continuously without the knowledge of anybody in her house by meeting Me in pure privacy. She got correct answers for 30 days, but, she continued on the 31st day also. Then, her son came from Hyderabad to Vijayawada suddenly (please note that her son did not know that she was conducting tests like this for 30 days) and shouted at her crying “you are testing Swami so many times! Do you think that Swami is a playful instrument for game?” Then, she fell at My feet and asked God Datta for excuse. God is not a bathroom tape recorder for personal entertainment. When so many devotees have witnessed miracles, you must believe their experiences. Suppose, you have not seen Washington. But, several people, who have seen Washington are expressing their experience of seeing Washington. Are you not believing them? This is called as word-authority or Śabda pramāṇam in logic.
One scientist asked Sri Satya Sai Baba to perform a miracle in an isolated place. If Baba performs, he will say that Baba might have hypnotized him in the lonely place and that He should perform the miracle in public! Your question strikes God only and not this poor human being called Datta Swami, Who is like you only. When the mediated God says that He and another human being are one and the same, the poor human being thinks that he is also mediated God. Here, the actual meaning is that the human medium of the mediated God and the human being are one and the same. When the cover containing currency in it says that it and another empty cover are one and the same, it only means itself (cover) and the other cover are one and the same.
You have not seen the miracles performed by Krishna. Will you ask Krishna also to come down again as Krishna to perform the miracle saying that you don't believe a single God coming as many incarnations? If you believe single God in many incarnations, the miracle performed by one incarnation can be attributed to the other incarnation because there is no multiplicity of God. Not even a single spectator of those miracles exists on earth now at least to give the personal experience of the miracle. Thanks to science and technology for inventing audio-video system that recorded several miracles performed by Sri Satya Sai Baba in public so that this problem doesn't arise in future. Miracles only establish the existence of the unimaginable God as an elementary step. After believing the existence of God, the advanced real spiritual effort starts for the theists, which is to please God.
You have learnt alphabets in elementary school. When you go to college, will you ask the lecturer also to write all the alphabets on the board before teaching the subject? You may say that the lecturer must be first tested about his/her knowledge regarding the regular sequence of alphabets! The actual syllabus of the college is knowledge, theoretical devotion and practical devotion preached by Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva in sequence. Will you ask those three divine preachers also to perform miracles before their preaching? A person aspiring for a miracle is an LKG student in the line of spiritual education. Miracles just give the proof for the existence of unimaginable God. God Rama did not perform any miracle, but, was believed as the incarnation of God by sages who were experts in performing miracles! When Shankara passed through the bolted doors of the house of Mandana Mishra, Mandana Mishra did not give any importance to Shankara and scolded Him for coming in like that. But the same Mandana Mishra became the disciple of Shankara on hearing the deep spiritual knowledge given by Shankara during a debate for several days!
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