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[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Paadanamaskaaram, Swami. It is said in Gita that single pointed devotion is the best (Eka bhaktih…) and also was told that no other form other than God Krishna shall be thought (Ananyaah…) and such statements exist in every religion provoking to say that except their form of God, other forms of God shall not be worshipped. What is Your answer?]
Swami replied:- Everybody is forgetting the most important basic fundamental point, which is that God is only one present in different forms like a person present in different dresses. Hence, “Worship Me Only” means that anybody...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Ref.: Satyanveshi, a YouTuber]
1. Satyanveshi says that the Bhagavad Gita is a murder manual. Swami, please comment.
Swami replied:- Murder means killing an individual for some personal reasons. The Kurukshetra war can be compared to the first world war or the second world war. Till recently, several wars have taken place in this world. You (Satyanveshi) should have given this advice to various countries participating in the wars. Even our India did some wars and got victory. The Kauravas cheated and harmed the Pandavas...
Smt. TINKU K asked: Pada Namaskaram Swami, Please forgive this ignorant fellow who can't understand Your beautiful explanation of spiritual knowledge. I kindly ask for clarification on my doubts below: Swami, as You said in the discourse below, how can God (Parabrahman), who is complete and doesn't need anything, feel bored and lonely, and seek entertainment?
Swami replied:- Boredom here is not in a negative sense. Boredom is not due to lack of anything. Continuity of the same lonely state is called boredom and such boredom by itself is neither positive nor negative. Boredom becomes positive if it is associated with happiness. For example...
[Swami: Even the incarnation of God like Parashurama was a Janma Brahmana and Karma Kshatriya because his qualities belonged to the Kshatriya caste only. If you take the case of Rama, He was Janma Kshatriya. But His qualities were of sattva, and hence, He is Karma Brahmana. Ravana is Janma Brahmana but Karma Chandala.
Question by Smt. TINKU K: God Parashurama had rajas qualities and so he killed all the kings on earth 21 times. But Lord Rama also killed Vali, Ravana, and Khara Dushana. Then why does Lord Rama belong to the sattvam quality?]
Swami replied:- In the case of Rama, His killing demons was based on perfect analysis...
[Questions by Smt. TINKU K on Swamiji's discourses]
1. a) Does ‘Avyaktam’ mean the world is paused for some time and then starts again with the same conditions?
[Swami: "Since God is the only one as the absolute reality, He was bored with His loneliness (Ekākī na ramate…- Veda). Hence, God created this entire world with several living beings. This world gives Him entertainment and removes the boredom obtained from loneliness...
Shri Praveen Nageswaran asked: Dear Sir, Namastey!! Please can You make me understand how karma is recorded. Why does it become the blueprint of life. Regards, Praveen]
Swami replied: - Karma or action is transformed into quality and based on the nature of karma...
Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Pada Namaskaaram Swami. Thank You Swami for giving me the rarest opportunity of Bhagya catushtayam. Through Your knowledge I clearly learnt that Worldly activities returns misery at any instance for sure. Anubhava also coincides with this truth. With this influence, can I choose to be the servant of God , trying to do Karma Samnyaasa and Karma Phala Tyaaga, as they are like insurance...
[A question by Shri B. Raghava Sharma]
Swami replied:- There is no use to know the past births, which is like seeing the old cinemas. Several incidents occur in several births...
Shri Soumyadip Mondal asked: Pronam swamijee, We all know from Your knowledge that if we realise, repent and don't repeat a sin that was committed earlier, we will be free from the ill effects of the wrong deed. But I feel "confession" should also be included somewhere into the sequence of rehabilitation actions. Please eradicate the darkness in me. Also put light on the case of degree of sin too. If somebody...
Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Padanamaskaram Swami. Thank You Swami for Your unconditional Kindness. Swami You always suggest devotees to chant Hanuman Chalisa which is composed by Saint Tulsidas. Please enlighten us the reason behind that hymn of epic uplifts the soul and please enlighten...
1. Can I be healed?
[Mr. Eve Baldwin asked: I suffered a massive mental breakdown that has left me incapacitated and unable to function for the past five and a half years. I am literally trapped in the void between life and death. Can I be healed? Can You heal me? I need a Miracle.]
Swami replied:- No need of a miracle. You will...
1. In the case a devotee, how is it possible to attain the state where external mental suffering cannot affect internally?
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give Your response to the following questions, at Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil. In the recent reply to Smt. Chhanda Chandra (Link), You said that external mental suffering cannot affect God in Human form since internally He possesses infinite bliss. You also mentioned that a devotee may also attain this state by the grace of God. A devotee does not possess infinite internal bliss. In such a case...
1. What is the reason for the different scriptures for Jews, Christians and Muslims even though their lineage is the same?
[Shri Anil asked: Jews do not accept any Prophet after Moses and their scripture is Torah. Christians accept Jesus as God in human form and the scripture they follow is the Bible. Islam accepts all the prophets till Muhammad and their scripture is the Quran. Even though all 3 are from the same lineage...
Shri Durgaprasad asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, I was discussing with a devotee of Krishna, who says only Vishnu is permanent. He quotes a verse 'avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah (8.18)... from Gita (authored by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada), the purport of which talks about life of Brahma, though the verse literal translation doesn't speak about life of Brahma. The purport for 8.18 goes like this: "The jivas (individual souls) remain...
1 a) How does a Brahmana, who slipped due to ignorance, attain upliftment in spiritual journey?
[Smt. Anita Renkuntla asked: Jai Guru Datta 🙏 Paada Namaskaram Swamiji 🙏 I Thank You Swamiji from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous infinite knowledge and the way it is explained in the weekend Satsangs. I have some doubts regarding the qualities n deeds of a soul. A good Brahmana who has 80% Sattvam also slips because of a bit of ignorance. He is already in the first place of spiritual line...
Poem 1: O God Datta, You Are My Sky & My Sun
[A poem on His Holiness Shri Datta Swami by Smt. Priyanka from Canada]
I am just a soul, a part of this Earth.
Whereas, You are like the vast eternal sky.
The Earth and sky are very different,
Just like soul and God are totally different.
O God Datta, like this - You are my Sky...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, Shankara said that God is attained by deep sleep (Suṣuptyeka siddhaḥ). You say that the fundamental awareness disappears there since the brain-nervous system is fully taking rest without functioning. How do You resolve this contradiction?]
Swami replied:- In deep sleep, the world is not at all grasped due to the disappearance of fundamental awareness that is to be produced by the inert energy in a functioning brain-nervous system. Since this system is taking complete rest without function...
Smt. Sudha Rani asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Anantakoti pranams to Your Lotus feet, as Thou, the way and goal of eternal Truth, which should not be denied by me at any circumstance. Please throw light on the God forms of Dakshinamurthy and Dattatreya...
Swami replied:
Shri Paramahamsa is the local Bengali doctor,
God Datta is foreign doctor from upper world,
With the help of these doctors, Swami-Doctor,
Intensively treated you from ignorance-illness...
Swami replied:-
1) God in human form will help the real devotees by altering the punishment, which is very convenient to the devotee so that the devotee feels that he is not punished at all while undergoing the alternative punishment that is accepted in the divine constitution. The example for this is a rich business man pulling the railway chain is punished by a fine of 1000 rupees and a poor beggar doing the same is punished...
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