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[Shri Ramakanth asked:-]
1. What is the role of ego and jealousy in Nivrutti?
Swami replied:- Ego and jealousy play a negative role in Pravrutti as well as in Nivrutti...
1. Why did Bhagavan Ramana not tell directly to meditate on God to a devotee, Annamalai?
[Shri Ramakanth asked:- Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi told to His disciple, Annamalai Swami, the below when he was repeatedly affected by sexual desire - “If you instead meditate ‘To whom does this thought come?’, it will fly away of its own accord. You are not the body or the mind, you are the self. Meditate on this and all your desires will leave you”. Here, by ‘self’, is He is referring to Atman...
Shri Lakshman G asked:- Paadanamaskaarams Swami. In Your reply to a question of a devotee, You had mentioned "It is not the question of desire. It is only the natural tendency to change the variety of enjoyment. Desire is the wish for something, which causes misery in its absence". Please clear my following doubt.
In the case of Parabrahman, the wish to create a second thing must have been a desire to kill His boredom (due to the absence of the second thing). Can this boredom be called a misery...
[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swamiji, please clarify an Advaita concept called ‘Bimba-Pratibimba Vāda’ (The argument of object and its reflection) about which I am questioned by scholars during my visit to Sanskrit University, Kalady.]
Swami replied:- The Parabrahman (unimaginable God) is beyond space. For a Bimba (object) to get reflected, it needs volume or the three spatial dimensions. Then, how can Parabrahman become bimba as per Advaita? Any Bimba belongs to the imaginable...
[Ms. Saatvika asked:- When both the creation and myself (being part of creation) are real due to the gifted reality from God, how can we say that bond with family is unreal?]
Swami replied:- Even though the world is real due to the gifted absolute reality from God, the world is inherently unreal whereas the absolute reality of God is inherently real. The reality of the world...
1. Can we say that Gopikas were also Sthitaprajna when God Krishna was in physical proximity?
[Ms. Saatvika asked:- Can we say that Gopikas were also Sthitaprajna when God Krishna was in physical proximity? Only when He left Brundaavanam, they became mad?]
Swami replied:- In situations like the separation from God Krishna only, the state of Sthitaprajna...
1. Do the existing Gods reach the Unimaginable God just as human beings?
[Ms. Swarna asked:- If Parabrahman or Unimaginable God created all the existing Gods and they in turn created us, then do these existing Gods reach the Unimaginable God just the way how we try to reach them?]
Swami replied:- It is the unimaginable God or Parabrahman existing in His incarnations (created Gods) who created the creation including us. The way to reach unimaginable Parabrahman does not exist at all because...
1. If Brahma is the first energetic incarnation after Lord Datta, how was He born from the navel of Vishnu?
[Shri Ganesh V asked:- In the Puranas, it is said that Lord Brahma is born from the navel of Lord Vishnu. But in a recent Satsanga, You had mentioned that Lord Brahma is the first energetic incarnation after Lord Datta . Only after Lord Brahma, the body of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva were created and then, Lord Datta merged with them. I am unable to join the above two statements. At Your divine feet- Ganesh]
Swami replied:- The devotees of God Vishnu created this story of God Brahma...
(His Holiness Shri Datta Swami Birthday Satsanga held at Hyderabad by devotees, who came from across India and also attended by other devotees online.)
Shri Phani spoke:- Today is the 77th Birthday of our beloved Sadguru, His Holiness Shri Datta Swami. Swami came down as a human Incarnation to preach His excellent spiritual knowledge. It was nowhere in the past in any yuga. For the first time, Swami alone revealed such true and complete spiritual knowledge. Even if one goes to Kruta Yuga or Tretaa Yuga or Dvaapara Yuga, one cannot find this. Swami has explained the complete...
10. How do I control my desires?
[Shri Diwakar asked:- Swami, for a devotee with partial knowledge, how can he control desires? As You explained, if he desires something, Swami will bring the fruit from future and give in the present. Generally, I don't want to get it actually. So, how to control that wish itself? How to stop my mind not to think about it because I am partially knowledgeable at the moment?]
Swami replied:- God Krishna told in the Gita that trying constantly will certainly bring success in achieving the goal (Abhyāsena tu kaunteya…). Suppose you are now addicted to wine. How to stop this addiction to wine? There are two ways. i) Abhyaasa, which means trying to leave the wine shop...
28. Should every ordinary Guru take Guru Dakshina first to avoid the disciples, who come for time pass?
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, You said that a Sadguru preaches true spiritual knowledge and doesn't take money also because He is the human incarnation of God, who is a giver of everything to everyone. But, in the case of gurus, who are not omnipotent, who are not the incarnations of God – should they keep this eligibility test of taking the Guru Dakshina from people first before letting them enter and listen to the knowledge and avoid those kinds of disciples, who come for time pass? Swami, should this be followed as a rule to everyone?]
Swami replied:- I told that they will tell and follow “First is Karma Yoga, then comes Bhakti Yoga and finally Jnaana Yoga”. They say that in the 18 chapters of the Bhagavad Gita, the first six chapters are Karma Yoga, then the next six chapters are Bhakti Yoga...
1. Please explain why is Veda called as both Aparaa Vidyaa and Paraa Vidyaa.
[Smt. Chhanda Chandra asked:- Paadanamaskaaram O Guru Datta! In today’s Satsang (31st August 2024) what a blissful knowledge You showered on all of us! With my head bowed down completely, I would like to request You once again to kindly explain this topic on why Veda is called as Aparaa vidya (inferior knowledge) in some context and Paraa vidya (superior knowledge) in some other context. You made the understanding of Veda clearer today.]
Swami replied:- The same Veda describing the performance of sacrifice is inferior in the angle of misunderstanding and is called Aparaa Vidyaa (Inferior Knowledge). The same sacrifice is superior...
1. Kindly give the essence of the following verse.
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, Kindly give the essence of the following verses from Quran and Hadith. At Your Lotus Divine Feet -anil. Allah's Messenger said, “Do not exaggerate my status as the Christians have done with the son of Mary. Verily, I am only a servant, so refer to me as the servant of Allah and His messenger”. [Sahih al-Bukhari 3443]]
Swami replied:- This confirms the theory of Prophet Mohammad that there is no human incarnation...
Shri Ashish asked: Bad son: O my mother, Swami. I am devoted to Bhagavan Vishnu, lovingly I call God as my own mother to embrace pure feelings and affection unto Lord. Hence, I addressed You as mother. I have been suffering...
Anju asked: Swamy I am struggling, I don’t have a job and money is also stuck in a property. What should I do. I need to sell that property at the right rate and desperately need a job, been trying for over one...
Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I seek your kind explanation regarding the thumb-sized Puruṣa described in the Veda. Please refer to this file: Thumb-Sized Purusha.docx. Your servant, Nikhil
Questions about the Thumb-Sized Puruṣa: What is the thumb-sized puruṣa described by the Veda?
This topic was discussed in a spiritual debate at Sringeri, a few years ago...
Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I request You to kindly clarify the following doubt about the interpretation of this Vedic statement. Your servant, Nikhil
In what sense does the Veda say that God causes souls to rise or fall to higher or lower worlds?
eṣa eva sādhu karma kārayati taṃ yamebhyo lokebhya unninīṣata eṣa evāsādhu karma kārayati taṃ yamebhyo lokebhyo'dho ninīṣate—Veda, Kauśītakī Brāhmaṇa 3.8...
Amudha asked: Pāda Namaskaaram, Swami, These thoughts keep going on in my mind, Swami. I keep thinking repeatedly about changing my workplace, considering either Hyderabad or Bangalore. Swami, I’ve been very stressed, and one of my friends suggested that I visit an astrologer. Recently, my mind and actions have not been logical...
Shri Soumyadip Mondal asked: Respectful pronam Swamiji, Many times You have explained in details about do's and don'ts for a soul in this world. Will You kindly summarize the same about how to earn merits in this world so that the fruits of good works...
[A question by Shri Anil Antony]
Swami replied:- Generally, our thinking is first phase and making it materialized is the second phase. We have to do a lot of work in order to materialize our wishes. In the case of God...
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