Discourses 151 To 200

Discourses 151 – 200
151. Bliss
If you are loved by the Lord, you will be a liberated soul belonging to His inner circle
and you will attain eternal bliss by being close to the Lord. Ananda (Bliss) means
continuous happiness without any break by misery. Brahmaananda means the continuous
happiness of God, which is several times intensive than the continuous happiness of a
realized soul here (Manushaananda). Bliss of God is not only continuous but also has the
highest intensity.
Suppose a person got one lakh rupees ( 1 billion) and another person got one crore rupees
( 1 trillion dollars) by lottery. Both celebrate their happiness on that day continuously.
Since their happiness is continuous, it is bliss (Ananda). But there is difference in the
intensities of bliss of these two persons. By self-realization, you can get the bliss of the
soul (Atmaananda) but that is not the bliss of God (Brahmaananda), which is millions and
millions times more intensive. Mere continuity of happiness, which is common in both,
cannot be misunderstood to unite both these as one.
Actually you are attaining the peace only by self-realization because by this you are
detached from the body and the external world for some time by limiting your self to the
soul. By this you are avoiding misery and absence of misery is not happiness. Moreover,
when you avoid misery, you have to avoid the happiness also in the detachment. In such
case you are assuming the peace as happiness relatively with reference to misery. Zero is
plus with reference to minus. Such assumed plus cannot be the real plus. Therefore, the
peace assumed as happiness in the self-realization is not even the real worldly happiness
(Manushaananda) and you cannot think it as Brahmaananda even in dream.
Even a saint sitting in the meditation with self-realization enjoying the peace as assumed
happiness will suddenly leave that state if you tell him that he got a noble prize for his
spiritual knowledge and he starts enjoying the real happiness from that worldly affair!
When Uddhava started preaching Gopikas about self-realization to attain constant peace
and get rid of the misery caused by separation from Krishna, one Gopika asked him
whether such peace is not the silence of a dead body! She told him that even in the misery
due to separation from Krishna, bliss is enjoyed by her in the love of the Lord! She
concluded that even misery in the love and service of the Lord is the highest bliss, which
is far better than the peace of self-realization.
Therefore, your aim should not be to attain the bliss from the Lord but it should be your
service and love (even if it ends in misery) that gives bliss to the Lord. Then, in turn you
will receive the infinite divine bliss since you are not selfish at all in the Nivrutti.
At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Sri Dattaswami
152. Why the religions separate man from God

Every Religion in this world wants you to get rid of bad qualities at least from today for
the admission into that religion which is practically impossible. The reason is that these
bad qualities were grown like hills for the past millions of births. This small human life is
insufficient even to move them, not to speak of removing them. People can control the
bad qualities to some extent by their efforts. These bad qualities are frequently sparking
in the minds of even the most pious sages. If one says that he is good and he is devoid of
all the bad qualities, it only cheating others, which in turn is cheating oneself. Due to this
practically impossible condition, for the religious admission, people have developed
allergy towards any religion because the eligibility for admission is impractical.
The religious preachers have confused the whole situation by fusing religion and
spiritualism. Religion is the context of GOD to establish peace and justice in this world.
In this context, you must control your bad qualities so that you will not disturb the peace
and justice and will not harm any good person in this world. If you disturb the world by
your bad qualities, God will punish you. But, in this context, it is sufficient if you control
the bad qualities since you cannot remove them. The Religion ends here. Some religions
strictly end here without any spiritualism.
The spiritualism is the context in which you have to make efforts to reach God. In this
context, you need not even control your bad qualities because, God has no personal
objection towards your bad qualities. These bad qualities cannot be obstacles in any
manner in this context. Moreover, when you turn these bad qualities towards the God,
they become your helpers. Any quality whether good or bad, is created by God only to
help you in reaching Him. If you realize the original aim of all these qualities, good or
bad, why should you control these qualities, which are with you as a helper? No fool
controls his helpers. So, any quality when involved in spiritualism is used for its original
aim, it becomes a good quality. So all your qualities become good in spiritualism and you
need not put any effort to remove or even control them. When the qualities are not used
for their original purpose, they become bad qualities. Therefore, whatever qualities turned
towards the world, are bad qualities. In this spiritualism, there is no need of any effort
even to control these bad qualities.
Then, for what, our effort should be made? Our effort should be concentrated to achieve
“Bhakthi” which is the love on God. “Bhakthi” is achieved and is grown by the
knowledge of God. For example, you came to know that Bombay City exists. This is the
knowledge of existence of Bombay. By this you want to see Bombay. As you know the
details of Bombay more and more, your desire to see the city becomes more and more.
Knowing details about the Bombay City is again the further knowledge. So, knowledge is
directly proportional to desire. First Rukmini heard that there is Lord Krishna on this
earth. As she heard more and more about Lord Krishna from Sage Narada, her love on
Krishna increased enormously. Narada means he who gives knowledge. Therefore,
‘Jnana”(knowledge) generates and develops “Bhakthi (devotion)”. Due to Bhakthi, the
Lord is attained. Gita says the same ‘ONLY BY BHAKTHI I AM ATTAINED’
(‘Bhaktya………’).
In the spiritual path all your effort must be concentrated in acquiring the knowledge of
God day by day. Once this knowledge based Bhakthi (devotion) is achieved, your
qualities good or bad are immaterial. Whatever may be the vessel, the drink in it is
important. The value paid in a hotel is for the drink only. If you have taken a cup of
coffee, you are paying the cost of the coffee only whether the cup is made of glass or
metal. Similarly, God gives value only for your Bhakthi and not for your quality. I will
give a beautiful example here. “Sabari” is with good qualities and offered fruits to the
Lord Rama who is Vishnu. A hunter called “Kannappa” gave flesh to the Lord Siva.
Sabari reached the ‘World of Vishnu and Kannappa reached the World of Shiva”. Both
have reached the same Lord because Veda says, “Shiva is Narayana”. Both of them have
been given the similar value by the Lord because in both cases, the intensity of the
devotion is the same as both gave even their food without eating. Therefore, this proves
clearly that the Lord has no objection for your bad qualities. Hence, all the effort should
be only to achieve and increase the intensity of love devotion or Bhakthi on God. It is not
necessary to bother about your qualities that are inherent coming from millions of births.
They are the born qualities. The tail of the dog is curved. Any effort cannot make it
straight. By force, we can keep it straight but it has not become straight. Similarly you
can control your bad qualities for not disturbing peace of the world by some force. When
you come to God, you come in your natural state because you can deceive the world
showing that your banded tail is straight but not the God. Whether the river comes in
straight path or curved path, the ocean receives only the water with equality. Similarly,
God receives your love irrespective of your quality. He received “Sabari” and
‘Kannappa” equally. Sabari with good qualities and Kannappa with bad qualities reached
the same Lord, as their devotion is of same intensity.
A piece of gold is wrapped in an old cloth. A stone is wrapped with a metallic foil. Which
has more total value? Similarly, the love with high intensity covered even by a bad
quality has more total value than the love with lesser intensity covered by a good quality.
When the blood flew from the eye of the Lord, the Priest who is a person with good
qualities is trying to apply the medicine. But, his devotion is less. In the same situation,
“Kannappa” plucked his eyes and donated to the Lord. Kannappa is a person with bad
qualities but his devotion is the highest. Devotion is the highest good quality. Now let us
evaluate the total cost of the priest and Kannappa. The devotion in Kannappa is +100.
The bad qualities in Kannappa are –10. The total cost is +90. The priest with good
qualities is +10. The devotion in him is +20. The total cost is +30. So, of the two who is
good? Obviously it is Kannappa. Gita says, that, “Even the worst is best by Bhakthi” (Api
chet….).
Therefore, what is the eligibility for the admission into our religion of Guru Datta? The
eligibility is that you should be a living being. Even animals and birds are eligible to
reach God irrespective of their qualities. Even serpent, spider and the elephant got
salvation in Sri Kala Hasthi. The serpent has all bad qualities. God did not insist the
serpent to get rid of all the bad qualities. Even if God says, the serpent is unable to
understand put the efforts. When such a serpent is eligible, why not a man? All the people
are depressed and dejected with the eligibility conditions stipulated by various religions.
For example if an Institution stipulates the eligibility condition as that one should remove
his head and come, nobody can be admitted. Similarly the religions stipulate the removal
of all the bad qualities, which is impossible. Only a temporary control is possible which
is necessary for you to live in this world with peace. This control is possible. In our
religion also we are stipulating this condition, which is possible. So, in our Datta religion,
the eligibility condition is that if your bad qualities do not disturb the world, the Lord has
no personal objection to them and you need not even control them. Moreover, they will
help you in spiritualism.
How to turn the bad qualities towards God and make them helpers in reaching the God?
There are six bad qualities that are inherent in any living being since millions of births.
They are Lust (kama), Anger (krodha), Greediness (Lobha), ego (mada), Blind attraction
(Moha) and Jealousy (Matsarya). Anger, greediness, ego and jealousy come under Rajas
quality. Lust and blind attraction come under Tamas quality. I give you an example to
divert your bad qualities towards the Lord, which can be used as powerful vehicles.
Example:- Love in cinema songs can be diverted to the Lord by little change in words.
Then, the powerful tune that created sweet feelings in you is now a powerful vehicle to
make you to reach the Lord.
A film song ‘Churaliya Tumne ……’) instead of ‘Sanam’ replace the word with ‘Hare’.
All the sweetness of your mind is now on the Lord Krishna (Vishnu). See how a person,
mad after cinema songs become a powerful devotee in his own way without any change!
You can sing this as your prayer for which you need not put any effort by force. Your
worship should be natural and spontaneous, which alone can be true.
153. People say that the characteristic of the spiritual path is peace. Is it correct?
It is correct to certain extent till you reach the self (Jeevatma) it is correct. But the
spiritual journey does not stop there. When you differentiate yourself from your body as
pure awareness you will attain peace but you have to go further to reach the ultimate
goal, which is the superself (Paramatma). When you are travelling in the path to reach the
super self after attaining the knowledge of self, you will loose the peace because that path
is full of sacrifice.
Sacrifice will disturb your mind because you have to cut all the worldly bonds including
the bond with your body and even life. While reaching the self you are eating a sweet,
which will give you satisfaction. You cannot have fruit from the Lord again. You have
already eaten the sweet and you cannot charge money for eating the sweet.
Already you are given the fruit when you attain your self but when you are reaching the
Paramatma you are giving the sweet to Him and you have to suffer with hunger.
Therefore the Lord will pay you for the sacrifice of the sweet. When you loose the peace
the Lord becomes peaceful. Therefore attaining the self by removing the illusion that you
are the body etc., is only a half journey. The Lord is called as Atmeswara in Veda, which
means that He is the controller of even the self.
In Advaita philosophy you are reaching the self, which is only the intermediate station.
Of course you must attain the peace, which gives, you lot of strength so that you will
withstand the suffering by sacrifice in the next half of the journey. Sankara stopped by
preaching this intermediate station to all the people. When a few people reached this
station, then He opened the further path to them only. He swallowed the molten lead and
preached to the disciples that He alone is the Lord. They realized the self and reached the
intermediate station called Brahman by the path of ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am Brahman).
Brahman means simple awareness.
The next half path is to reach Lord who is Eeswara. Peace is not the final fruit. Peace is
only the intermediate fruit, which gives you the strength in the journey. The fruit given by
the Lord is the final fruit, which are peace, bliss and all the eight super powers. If one
takes a sleeping tablet, he can get peace during the sleep as well as after awakening.
Detachment from the world gives you the peace (Brahman) but the fruit given by the
Lord is to remain peaceful, blissful while living in this world and helping the real
devotees with the help of the eight super powers (Asta Siddhis). The fruit given by the
Lord will give you the real bliss i.e., the entertainment in the life game played by you in
this world itself, which is certainly far higher than the peace. Sivoham (I am Eeswara) as
told by Sankara is the final goal and not 'Aham Brahmasmi'. Sankara lived in the world
and did lot of work. He never sat idle thinking Aham Brahmasmi like the present Advaita
Philosophers.
Patanjali wrote Yoga Sutras and fixed Eeswara as the final goal. We remember Sankara
today as the divine hero but not the other Advaita philosophers. Sankara sacrificed His
mother and earning of money for the sake of the mission of the Lord. But the Advaita
Philosophers sit in their houses and roll with their family bonds and simply say Aham
Brahmasmi. One should become a divine hero like Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Swami
Vivekananda etc.; they were dynamic doing the Karma Yoga, which was without any
selfishness. Their Karma Yoga was the propagation of the divine knowledge, which is
Jnana Yoga but today the Advaita Philosopher is doing Karma Yoga with selfishness for
his family bonds only. What is the use of their Jnana Yoga?
154. The Fight between Atheists and Theists
The atheists believe the logical conclusions based on practical experience and in things
present before the eye (perception). The real spiritual knowledge can satisfy all these
requirements. The human incarnation of the God is before the eyes. All the bonds with
family and wealth are before the eyes and liberation from such bonds called salvation is
also before eyes. One can experience God through the human incarnation in this world
itself and in this very life itself. Infinite love and bliss derived from the special divine
knowledge preached by the human incarnation are enjoyed here itself. Enjoyment of love
and bliss is the goal of any worldly bond. This is called Jeevanmukti, which means the
salvation here itself while you are alive. Whatever one achieved while alive only,
continues with the soul after the death also. Thus perception is the basis for the invisible
future also.
155. By sacrifice we are unhappy and the Lord is happy. Is it not the sadism of the
Lord?
The real love requires the unhappiness by sacrifice. In such sacrifice one feels happy
since he sacrificed to the Lord. You take the mother. She gives the food to her child and
suffers with hunger. But she feels very happy in that suffering. A human being cannot
give back any thing for such real love. Even if he gives something i.e., temporary only.
But when the real love is proved by the sacrifice the Lord gives the permanent fruit i.e.,
Brahma Loka. Sakthuprashta gave his food to the Lord in human form though he was not
having food for the past ten days. If the guest was an ordinary human being, the guest
must have been a sadist, because he never cared about the hunger of Sakthuprastha.
But since the guest was the Lord, Sakthuprastha was given infinite wealth in this world
and also the permanent Brahma Loka after death. Therefore you must be very careful in
fixing the human form of the Lord. Otherwise if the human form is an ordinary human
being you are deceived and such a human being is definitely a sadist. The unhappiness in
sacrifice and the happiness that neutralizes unhappiness are the characteristics of the path
of the sacrifice. The Lord does not insist such path.
The path should come from the depth of your heart with full willingness. If you fear for
the unhappiness you can never follow that path. When the case comes to your children,
you will not put this question because you have real love to them. Are you not sacrificing
your food to your child even though you suffer with hunger and feel happy? Since you
are not having the real love on the Lord this question is coming to your mind.
156. Correlating Evolution theory of Darwin and spirituality
The main aspect in the theory of evolution proposed by Darwin is that any organ is
developed to meet a need. Similarly, any organ is suppressed when the need disappears.
In the case of a man the tail disappeared since its use was not there due to the efficiency
improved in the hands in driving away the flies. Therefore, evolution based on need is the
real guiding factor in the case of living beings. Even in the spiritual field the same basic
concept is maintained. When some people found out that the happiness could be obtained
through their own materialistic effects, the need for God disappears and therefore, the
concept of devotion is suppressed. Such people have become atheists. The so called
theists exhibit over development of devotion related to the existence of God basically due
to the same requirement of need to take the help of God in their materialistic efforts to
derive happiness in the world. Such need-based devotion is spontaneous and natural.
Spiritual preachers based on such need-based devotion can enjoy the spontaneous
propagation of their knowledge and fame. But such need-based devotion is not true love
to God and therefore God is displeased with it. The real devotion, which pleases God, is
only reverse of this, which is the development of devotion in absence of any need from
God. Such type of true devotion is opposite to the above spontaneous and natural
devotion and therefore a special hectic effort (sadhana) is needed. Only a qualitative
minority in the world can appreciate the spiritual preachers based on such devlopment of
true devotion. Therefore, a true spiritual preacher will not aspire for fame of the majority,
which is not actually possible. The natural tendency existing in the theory of evolution is
inherent to the living beings and hence need based devotion appeared in the spiritual field
also without any effort.
The theory of evolution proposed by Darwin is confined to living beings only. If you
consider the evolution of the entire cosmos, Einstein’s theories are also to be considered.
The science says that the cosmic energy in the state of invisible waves of high frequency
is in space itself. The special theory of relativity proves that the space bends around the
object and this shows that the space is nothing but finest form of energy. Hence, there is
nothing like nothing (vacuum) even according to the latest science. Such space is the first
primordial energy in the subtlest form and this is called as akasha. The visible effects of
the primordial energy like light etc are denoted by the word Agni. Vayu (Air), apah
(liquid) and prithivi (solid) represent the matter in the three states. From these five
elements the life is evolved, which is the plant kingdom (Prithivyah oshadhayah …
Veda). Gradually the animal kingdom with the latest human being is evolved. This
represents the energy, matter and awareness, which are gradually evolved one after the
other. Such evolution is mentioned in Vedas (Akashat vayuh). Since the visible energy
like light is produced after the existence of atoms only; the primordial energy, the gaseous
state in which the atoms and molecules move freely and the visible energy like light are
produced in sequence as per Veda (Vayoragnih).
The final conclusion is that energy (primordial), matter and awareness are produced in
sequence. Since the nervous energy or awareness is produced from the inert energy
functioning in the nervous system by oxidation of oxygen gas, the gradual production of
awareness from energy and matter is justified in Veda as well as in the theory of
evolution in science. The formation of matter from energy is clearly proved by Einstein
through the law of equivalence of mass and energy. Therefore, the theory of evolution
proposed by Darwin associated with the Einstein’s theories will certainly prove the
evolution of universe from the energy or space in sequential manner. But Veda mentions
one more item indicated by the word Atman as the ultimate cause from which the
primordial energy or space was generated (Atmana akashah… Veda). You cannot say that
the word Atman means awareness here, because, awareness (purushah) is mentioned as
the third generated product in the chain of evolution. A generated product in the chain
cannot be the first ultimate cause.

157. Darwins, Einsteins theory and spirituality
The formation of matter from energy is clearly proved by Einstein through the law of
equivalence of mass and energy. Therefore, the theory of evolution proposed by Darwin
associated with the Einstein’s theories will certainly prove the evolution of universe from
the energy or space in sequential manner. But Veda mentions one more item indicated by
the word Atman as the ultimate cause from which the primordial energy or space was
generated (Atmana akashah… Veda). You cannot say that the word Atman means
awareness here, because, awareness (purushah) is mentioned as the third generated
product in the chain of evolution. A generated product in the chain cannot be the first
ultimate cause.
The scientist may say that there is no necessity of the word Atman as the ultimate cause
because the meaning of the word Atman can neither be energy, nor matter, and nor the
awareness because these three items are already existing in the world. Moreover, energy,
matter and awareness are visible items in the light of development of advanced electronic
equipments. Even the awareness is visible which is in the form of waves propagating in
the nerves found by the latest instruments. Even Gita says this that awareness or soul can
be seen by scholars (pashyanti jnanachakshushah). Therefore, the meaning of the word
Atman must be unimaginable item, which is not the object of senses, mind, intelligence
and even sharp logical analysis (Na chakshushah, aprapya manasa, na medhaya, naisha
tarkena… Veda). The best word that can be used to mean such unimaginable object is
“wordless” (Ashabda mavyayam… Veda). A negative word like ParaBrahman can also be
used which means that which is not Brahman.
But the word Atman is used which means the awareness that is pervading all over the
human body (sarvam shariram atati iti atma). This word means awareness along with its
property of pervasion. An independent existence of awareness pervading the space is not
available and hence the awareness pervading in a human body alone should be taken. If
you take simply the awareness pervading all over a human body as Atman mentioned
here, such a possibility is negated because the awareness in the human body is not an
unimaginable object which exists in the beginning of the chain since such awareness
already appeared in the end of the chain as the normal awareness or life (purusha).
Therefore, the word Atman here means a human being, which is completely different
from any other human being, which appeared in the end of the chain of evolution. Such a
special human being is the superman or human incarnation like Krishna in whom the
existence of the special unimaginable item is inferred.
Veda says that the existence of such superman is the basis of the inference of the
unimaginable item called as God. But mere Veda cannot stand as an authority because it
can be disposed as poetic imagination of some selfish priests to exploit the society in the
name of God. Therefore, mere scripture (Shabdapramanam) cannot be the authority. All
the authorities (pramanams) are based on perception (pratyaksham) only.

158. In the chain of evolution, the theory of relativity exists everywhere between the
cause and effect
In the chain of evolution, the theory of relativity exists everywhere between the cause and
effect. Science takes the absolute primordial energy as the ultimate cause and matter and
life can be treated as relatively true products of the absolute primordial energy. The
ultimate primordial energy is the direct cause of the matter and is the indirect cause of
awareness. The theory of relativity applies between primordial energy and awareness also
because the intermediate matter is only a relative truth in which the absolute truth is only
the primordial energy.
Now that we have established that the ultimate cause is God and the primordial energy is
His immediate relatively true effect, the entire universe becomes a relative product of
God only. The rope gave an illusion of stick and the stick gave an illusion of serpent.
Now both the stick and serpent are relative illusions of the absolute primary rope only.
The dream is a relative effect of the soul, which is the absolute cause. Similarly, the entire
universe is a relative effect (mithya) of the absolute God. Mithya is neither the
independently existing truth (sat) nor the non-existing total unreality (asat). The dream
does not exist independently without the awareness. You cannot also say the dream is
non-existing unreality because it masks the reality and appears to exist as a separate
entity other than the soul. Shankara says that mithya means neither existing nor non-
existing (sadasat vilakshana mithya). This means that you cannot even define the relative
effect of the unimaginable God. If you analyze, the relative effect vanishes on realization
of the cause. If the rope is seen the serpent disappears. If the pearl shell is seen the silver
disappears. But here God is not only invisible but also even unimaginable for us. In such
a case how the world, which is His relative effect, can disappear in our eyes? If you say
that the world vanished in your eyes, it means that your eyes see God. At least if God is
imagined by our intelligence, this world can at least disappear in our imagination. Neither
the world disappears from our eyes nor it disappears in our imagination.
This means neither God is seen nor even imagined. The defect in the above simile is that
you (observer) are different from the serpent and silver. But here you are part and parcel
of the world and when the world disappears, you will also disappear. Even God is
managing His continuous entertainment by seeing the world constantly and the advaitin,
who is part and parcel of the world boasts that the world is not existing. The world is
relatively true with respect to God and not with respect to an advaitin or any soul. If it is
relatively true with respect to yourself, it means that the world is relatively true with
respect to itself. It is relatively true with respect to God only. In fact with respect to the
world you are a tiny particle and you are almost non-existent. You are just reversing the
truth. Even God enjoys continuously maintaining His ignorance experiencing the world
as absolute truth. Only in certain special pressing occasions, He realizes the world as
relative truth and then does the necessary modifications or violations of nature, which are
called as miracles.

159. The generation of world from God cannot be explained by any example in this
world
The pot generated from mud and the chain generated from the gold are the examples
given in the generation of the universe. In these examples both the cause (mud or gold)
and the effect (pot or chain) are knowable items and cannot be applied to God (cause) and
universe (effect) because God is unknown or unimaginable and the universe is known or
imaginable. The generation of world from God cannot be explained by any example in
this world because there is no unimaginable item in this world, which can stand as a
simile for God. Every item in the world including the soul (awareness) is imaginable
only. Therefore, all these examples are applicable only to the generation of the universe
from the imaginable primordial energy, which is the first created item of the universe
from God. The generation of primordial energy from God cannot have a simile in this
world. The process of generation of knowable primordial energy from the unknowable
God is unknowable because any process of generation of any effect from its cause in this
world is knowable since both the cause and the effect are always knowable items. This
primordial energy is called as Sat (Sadevasomya… Veda), which exists as the first effect
with respect to God but it is the first cause with respect to all other items of the world.
Since the process of generation of the primordial energy is unknown, it is always taken as
the primary cause of the world. It becomes the absolute reality for all the other relative
effects (matter and awareness) and hence is called as Sat. It is also called as the relative
reality (Asat) as the effect of God, which exists in the beginning of the world
(Asadvaidamagraasit… Veda). Thus the primordial energy is both Sat and Asat, which
exists in the beginning of the creation. This primordial energy being the greatest item is
called as Brahman. God who is indicated by silence only is called as ParaBrahman by
Shankara Himself. Shankara said that the awareness becomes Brahman in the deep sleep
because the awareness is transformed into the primary energy due to the resting nervous
system. Such primary inert energy in the cosmos is called as Brahman and the same
primary energy in the human being in deep sleep is called as Atman. Shankara told that
Brahman and Atman are devoid of any quality that characterizes awareness and it is
called as Nirguna. The functions of awareness cease and hence the activities like thinking
(manas), decision (buddhi) and experiencing itself (ahankara) also vanish. Such primary
inert energy, which simply stores the information in the deep sleep, is called as chit or
chittam or para prakruti. Such primary energy called as Atman functions with qualities in
the awakened and dream states as Jeeva.
Such soul is unknown to ordinary human beings and is known to scholars

(Drushyatetvagraya… Veda, Pashyanti Jnanachakshushah… Gita) and thus it is not
unknowable forever to all. Such soul cannot be the God who is unknowable forever to all.
Advaitins are confused in this point and say that God is unknown to ordinary human
beings and is known to scholars. Veda says that even angels like Yama is unable to know
God (Kathametat vijaniyam… ) and does this mean that the scholars are greater than
Yama? Gita says that nobody knows God and Veda says that the knower of God is God
alone (Brahmavit Brahmaiva…). People misinterpret Gita that nobody among the
ordinary people can know God and they misinterpret Veda also by saying that the knower
of Brahman becomes Brahman. If you accept such interpretation, you must say that the
scholar who knows Brahman is greater than Yama who declares that even He cannot
know God. The Advaita scholar who claims that he knows Brahman shivers even by
seeing the messengers of Yama! The Advaita scholar who became Brahman by knowing
Brahman must be greater than Hanuman, who does not say that He is Brahman (since he
does not know Brahman) and who says that He is only servant of Brahman (Dasoham)!
Without touching the unknowable God, Shankara has taken the primordial energy as the
meaning of Brahman, which is the primary cause of this world. The primordial energy
creates the rest world by the will of the God only because any cause in this world
generating the effect is by the will of the God only. Even a pot cannot be produced from
the mud if God‘s will is against to it. Hence, in every generation process the real cause is
only God even though the apparent cause can be any item of this world. In this sense the
creation of the rest world from the primordial energy can be treated as the creation of the
world from God Himself.
160. Atheists and Unimaginable God
For theist scholars the unimaginable events in the life indicate the unimaginable God. For
devotees the miracles performed by the human incarnations indicate the unimaginable
God. For ignorant theists, the devilish people who perform black magic indicate the
unimaginable God. For scientists the unimaginable concepts in the deeper planes of
nature indicate the unimaginable God. God created the nature, which is partly and
superficially imaginable. In the absence of imaginable nature, the very contrast concept
of unimaginable nature disappears. If there is no darkness, light will loose its sense.
Atheists interpret all the above unimaginable items in other way.
The unimaginable events in the life are interpreted as incidents of probable coincidence.
The miracles and black magic are interpreted as the usual magic based on the illusion of
eyes. The unimaginable concepts in the deeper nature are said to have the future
explanations because the unimaginable concepts of yesterday are explained today.
Therefore, God established one unimaginable item, which is witnessed by every human
being at any time. That is the unimaginable infinite boundary of the universe. Scientists
accept that the universe is infinite forever. This indicates the unimaginable God, who is
beyond the limits of the universe since He is the cause of the universe. This point is
focused in the cosmic vision given by the Lord to Arjuna (Nantostimama…. Gita).
161. Lord comes in Human form to preach and uplift the human souls
The Lord is giving experience to us in every walk of life about His existence. But, such
experiences become weak in course of time due to the petty minds of the human beings.
The human mind always takes logic and interprets such experiences as mere accidental
situations. Therefore the faith of the theists is not strong. The human preachers are unable
to answer the doubts of these human beings and this further weakens the faith. Therefore,
the Lord comes down in the form of a human being as the divine preacher.
Thus, there is a bare neccesity for such incarnation. Veda says ‘Yat Saakshat Aparokshat
Brahma’, which means that Brahman comes down before the eyes of the human beings.
Gita also says ‘Maanusheem Tanumaasritam’ which means that Brahman comes down as
a human being. But the human body follows the rules of the nature and is not different
from any other human body. The shirt of a king is not different from any other shirt. It
can be cut with the help of a blade like any other shirt. The speciality is in the king but
not in the shirt. If the Lord wishes, He could take the human body, which has neither birth
nor death. It can be a divine body, which appears before all the human beings at different
places and preaches, in different languages in the sametime. But, such creation of divine
body means that the Lord is going beyond the rules of the nature, which are created by
the Lord only. The Lord has such divine power, which can go beyond this nature.
Such divine power is called ‘Maya’ and the Lord who is the possessor of such Maya is
called ‘Mayee’ as said in Gita “Mayinam tu Maheswaram”. But no sensible administrator
will break his own rules when a work is possible within the set up of the administration.
There is no need of doing that work by breaking the adminstration. The Lord can achieve
the same result by taking several human bodies at a time and from generation to
generation. In such way, the administration is not interferred. Therefore, the Lord comes
in several human incarnations at a time in each generation and the Viswarupa represents
this. In Gita, the prayer on the Viswarupa mentions about several feet, faces and also
several stomaches (Aneka Baahoodara Vaktra Netram). Therefore, the present picture of
Viswarupa is wrong.
It means only the photo of a group of preachers existing at the same time. The word
“Udara” (stomach) is not justified in the present picture of ‘Viswarupam’, which is again
another mis-perception leading to misinterpretation.
Therefore, it is very very clear that Datta means only the human incarnation that came
down to preach the true divine knowledge. But, due to natural egoism and jealousy the
human beings do not recognize the Lord in the form of a human being. Only very few
believed Krishna as Lord. Only very few believed Shirdi Sai Baba as God. When Sai was
alive there were few devotees only and no body thought of a temple for Him. Even Butee
wanted to build a temple for Krishna only who was a past incarnation. Now there are
millions of devotees and lakhs of temples for Sai baba because He is no more a present
incarnation. He who wins over the three types of egoism caused by the three qualities
(Trigunas) is called as ‘Atri’. He who conquerred jealousy (Asuya) is ‘Anasuya’. Such a
devotee only can capture the human incarnation. This is the sense of the statement that
Atri and Anasuya attained Datta.
162. The only knowable experience about God is that God exists
God is always unimaginable and unknowable for any human being under any
circumstances because He is beyond the dimensions of space and time and this is very
much stressed in Veda and Gita. There is no second thought about this point and
Shankara also told the same that God could be understood only in deep sleep. In deep
sleep (Sushupti) there is no item that understands (Jnata) because the process of
understanding (Jnanam) disappears. When the process of burning disappears, there is no
fire. If you say that the process of knowing itself is the knower, then also the knower is
absent because there is no process of knowing in the deep sleep. The knower can be no
more a knower if the knower loses the process or quality of knowing. Then the knower is
converted into inert item in deep sleep. In fact, this is true according to science also
because the knower or process of knowing is converted into inert energy in deep sleep.
Shankara means by this that God is unknown as indicated by the deep sleep, in which a
state of total ignorance remains indicating that any one is totally ignorant about God
(Sushuptyekasiddhah…). You cannot say that the knower or the process of knowing
(Knowledge) itself is God, because in such case God is not eternal who is daily vanishing
(converted into inert energy) and is daily born (inert energy is converted into knower or
knowledge). This is not acceptable because God is eternal. To evaluate the unknowable
answer, you represent the answer by X and then get the answer for X using the given
data. But in the case of God, the answer will be always unknowable and unimaginable
only.
The link between the unknowable God and the knowable items of the world is also
unknowable and hence no related data of God can be knowable. In the problem, since the
answer is knowable, the data related to the knowable answer is also knowable with the
help of which the knowable answer can be evaluated. But that is not the case with God.
Hence, any knowable item of the creation can be made as the representative of God. The
only knowable experience about God is that God exists. This is established by the
knowable experience of unknowable nature of God. The unknowable nature of God is
experienced but such nature cannot be analyzed and hence such nature is always
concluded as unknowable. For example a small boy ( Krishna ) lifting up the huge
mountain is seen and the existence of the unknowable nature of the boy is experienced.
Since, such nature could not be analyzed, it remains always as the unknowable item.
Hence, Veda says that only the existence of the unknowable God is experienced
(Astetyeva….). Since, there is full freedom in selecting any knowable item to represent
God, the best suitable item for explaining the status of the unimaginable God is
awareness according to Shankara.
163. Worship of some body mistaking as God will not be a waste
In the spiritual field there is one marvelous advantage. Assume that you have worshipped
a human being as God under the illusion that he is the contemporary human incarnation.
What is the effect of such mistake? Will it yield positive result or negative result? The
answer is that it will not give any negative result but it will yield positive result only,
which may not be the highest. The highest positive result is obtained in the service done
to the correctly identified contemporary human incarnation. But just like Sumati (Sumati
worshipped her husband Kaushika as God. Kaushika is the greatest sinner and was ready
to go to hell. But from such worship of Kaushika, Sumati derived super power to stop the
sunrise! Only God controls the sun (Bishodeti suryah … Veda). The wretched Kaushika
cannot give such power to Sumati. This power is derived from God only because when
Sumati worshipped her husband as God, the worship was aimed at God and not aimed at
Kaushika.)achieved partial positive power of controlling the sunrise on one day, you will
certainly achieve partial grace of God. Such advantage is restricted to the spiritual field
only.
In materialistic field if you have served somebody mistaking as the king you will not get
any gift from the king. Moreover, the king may scold you for your foolish ignorance. But
God who is very generous and very kind is quite different. God will certainly punish the
human being who posed as God but you will not be a loser.
164. Indirect worship of God Vs direct worship of contemporary human incarnation
In the indirect worship, the worship is not aimed at the model but it is aimed at the God
only. God is pleased to some extent in such worship also because the aim is God only. Of
course, in the direct worship God is extremely pleased because God, who always exists in
the human form only and receives your service directly. God does not exist in the inert
objects (Natasya pratima asti… Veda) but still He is pleased in such worship also because
the aim is God only. People worship salagrama (a piece of stone) as a representative
model of Vishnu (God). Here, the worship is aimed at Vishnu and not aimed at the stone.
Sumati worshipped her husband Kaushika as God. Kaushika is the greatest sinner and
was ready to go to hell. But from such worship of Kaushika, Sumati derived super power
to stop the sunrise! Only God controls the sun (Bishodeti suryah … Veda). The wretched
Kaushika cannot give such power to Sumati. This power is derived from God only
because when Sumati worshipped her husband as God, the worship was aimed at God
and not aimed at Kaushika. Kaushika was a representative model of God for Sumati like
the petty stone (salagrama) representing the all-pervading Lord Vishnu. If that is the
power of Sumati obtained from indirect worship of God, what shall be power of a
devotee who worships God directly through the service to the contemporary human
incarnation? Hanuman worshipped Rama who was His contemporary human incarnation
and became God and controlled the sun forever. Veda says that the sun moves constantly
due to the fear to God. Even in His childhood He was meditating upon Rama introduced
by His mother and the result of that was the power to swallow the sun like a fruit!
165. Indirect service to God is a total waste

The unimaginable God requires a medium for expression. When the medium is charged
by God the medium is treated as God directly and service to such medium is the direct
service to God. When the wire is charged by the current, touching the live wire means
touching the current only. But if you touch the picture of a live wire on a paper, you are
not touching the current. It is only an indirect representative model of the live wire.
Service to the charged medium is called as sakshat upasanam, which is direct service.
Service to the representative model is called as pratika upasanam, which is indirect
service only. The indirect service is a total waste because neither you are experiencing
God in the model nor God is experiencing your service. This second type of worship is
the worship of statues of God. Then, why not we do away with this second type of
worship? No. It becomes necessary since majority of the human beings does not
recognize the contemporary human incarnation due to repulsion between common
external media or common external gross human bodies.
For such majority, the model worship is maintained so that through such worship, at least
the psychological repulsion to the human form is removed because the statues are carved
in human form only like Vishnu, Rama, Jesus etc. Some people have repulsion even to
the human form in the statue and for such people the Shivalinga, which has no human
form, is established. At least the concept of formless God is removed here since
Shivalinga has a form. Some worship formless objects like light energy as representative
models of God. Some worship qualities like love, bliss, etc as representative models of
God. The human body contains awareness (soul), qualities (jeeva), matter (gross body)
and energy as the shining and heat of the body and thus is a complete medium. For such
psychological treatment of the human beings to remove the repulsion to the human form
the rituals in the temples are being carried on even though the service part is a waste.
The initiation of life in the statues in the temples indicates the concept of life in the inert
material body (statues). This initiation of life (prana pratishtha) advises you to go for the
live human form and it does not mean that the same inert statue became alive after such
initiation, since no sign of life is witnessed in the statue after such initiation. The ignorant
priest says that the radiation of life (pranakala) entered the statue but all this is a
brainwash only, since the statue does not even vibrate once.
166. What ever preached by Jesus and Krishna are about the contemporary human
incarnation for the contemporary human devotees
Neither Krishna nor Jesus told that since He is the final human incarnation, the future
generations should worship His statues or photos only. If that were the truth they could
have told this very clearly for the sake of future human generations because they know
very well that their human bodies will perish shortly. Therefore, whatever they told about
themselves was only about the contemporary human incarnation for the contemporary
human devotees.
Veda (Ishavasyam) says that the Lord can enter any mini world existing in this infinite
world (Yatkimchajagatyam jagat). The word jagat meaning world appears twice. If the
repeated jagat also means infinite world, then the adjective ‘kimcha’ (little) cannot be
used for the infinite world. If you say that the little indicates any little object, that little
object cannot be the world (jagat) because a little object like a piece of stone is only
matter which is one component of the world only. The little world means the human body
containing the nine items (five elements and four antahkaranams) which are categorized
as apara (eight items which are five elements and three antahkaranams) and para (one
antahkaranam which is chittam). Due to the common existence of the nine items the
human body is a mini world (pindanda) representing the infinite world (brahmanda).
Veda says that any such human body can be pervaded over by the Lord. Here the verb is
in future tense (vasyam) and is not in past tense. If you say that the income tax officer can
enter any shop, it does not mean that he has entered every shop. Hence, the existence of
God in every human being is ruled out and Advaita has no basis. If you say that the
awareness existing in living beings is the cause (God) that has entered the effect
(creation), this is also not correct. In such case the cause should have been an
independent entity and not a generated item. The gold that entered the chain is
independent item and is not a generated item in the chain. The awareness in the human
bodies existing in the creation is not independent and it is being generated by the
combined function of inert energy that is generated by oxidation of food and the nervous
system.
167. The human incarnation is a two (Nara and Narayana) in one system (human
body)
The Vedic prayer called, as Mantra Pushpam is a clear explanation of human incarnation.
The same little world mentioned in Ishavasya upanishat is referred here also,
(Kimchitjagatsarvam) which means the human body. Such human body existing now and
existed in the past i.e. present and past human incarnations are referred to have the same
methodology (Drushyate shruyatepiva). The Lord who imagined this world has entered
this world in original state (Tadevanupravishat). But the objection here is that the person
imagining can never enter his own imaginary world in his original state just like fire
cannot enter water. Here, Veda gives a beautiful simile of the existence of volcanic fire
(badabagni) inside the ocean (Samudrentahpratishthitam). For omnipotent God, nothing
is impossible and hence any simile in the world suffers limitation.
Here, God is told to be pervading all over the body (Antarbahischa) and at the same time
God is told to be confined to a particular region of the human body only
(Tasyassikhayahmadhye). This means God is confined to His guest room whenever His
involvement is not there. In this time the individual soul who is the owner of the house
(PA) is dealing with all the worldly matters as usual. The individual soul can alone act as
hundred percent ignorant in the worldly matters and therefore, the worldly experience
derived out of it is also hundred percent. God being associated with His PA derives that
experience and is entertained. The directly super imposed ignorance on God can never be
hundred percent and hence, the worldly experience can never be full. For this reason only
God enters the human body in which the individual soul (son of God) who is His best
devotee is existing. The Son of God is also equally benefited by the association of God in
divine experiences. Thus the human incarnation is a two (Nara and Narayana) in one
system (human body).
168. The unimaginable knowledge indicates the existence of God in a particular

human body like Krishna, Jesus etc
Advaita means the unity of two items. If there is only one item the word Advaita has no
place because in such case the word ekam (one) is used. When two things exist and
become inseparable, then only the word Advaita is used. If you take God and human
being separately God is one and human being is one. Current is one item and wire is
another item. When the current enters the wire and pervades all over it, the word Advaita
is employed. Shock is the property of current, which cannot be directly experienced from
the invisible current. When the knowledge contains unimaginable clarity, it creates
unimaginable happiness, which is called as bliss. The clarification of the confusion gives
the real happiness to the climax. Removal of confusion and ignorance clarifies the soul
resulting in bliss like removal of gas and undigested matter from stomach clarifies the
body resulting in immense happiness.
Such unimaginable nature of the knowledge is the property of the unimaginable God like
the shock of the current. But it cannot be experienced directly from the unimaginable
God. The unimaginable knowledge indicates the existence of God in a particular human
body like Krishna, Jesus etc. Finally, only the existence of God is experienced because
the unimaginable God and the unimaginable nature of His knowledge remain always
unimaginable. Only His existence is imagined and such existence is called as
Sanmatravada (Astityeva… Veda). Since God and His nature remain unimaginable, you
cannot say that God is awareness or awareness is His property and therefore the
Chinmatravada is not acceptable.
169. Even angels and sages cannot speak a single word about the nature of God
Science is very useful in rejecting any non-God item projected as God by the people who
are ignorant of science. For that matter, not only science, even angels and sages cannot
speak a single word about the nature of God. It is beyond words and can be best
explained through silence only. Lord Dakshinamurthy who is considered to be the best
incarnation of Shiva in preaching the spiritual knowledge to even angels and sages
explains God through silence only (Maunavyakhya prakatita para brahma tattvam).
Shankara used here the word Parabrahman and not the word Brahman. Any greatest item
in a category can be called as Brahman. Parabrahman is a negative word indicating that
God is not Brahman or God is beyond Brahman. Every word is denied in indicating God
(Neti neti, Yato vachah.. Veda). The silence of Buddha is also the same. Buddha is also
the best incarnation of Lord Vishnu to preach the spiritual knowledge. Science also keeps
silent about God.
In the above prayer of Dakshinamurthy, even Shankara told that God cannot be explained
by any word. How can you say that Shankara means the awareness or an individual soul
is God? If the individual soul is unimaginable, then, you can say that the individual soul
is God. You are the individual soul, which knows itself and items other than itself.
Awareness cannot be ignorant of itself and other things also simultaneously.
In meditation awareness is ignorant of other things but it is aware of itself. In deep sleep
it is neither aware of itself nor aware of other items because it remains as inert energy
since the inert energy is not transformed into awareness due to resting nervous system. If
you say such inert energy in deep sleep is God, then your argument that awareness is God
is contradicted by yourself. You must note one important point here, which is that
Shankara used the word Brahman for the individual soul and not the word Parabrahman.
Since Brahman means any greatest item in a category, several items can be called as
Brahman. Veda, food, life, mind, intelligence, knowledge, bliss, etc were called as
Brahman in several places (Brahmaksharasamudbhavam, Annam Brahma, Prano Brahma,
Mano Brahma, Vijnanam Brahma, Jnanamantam Brahma, Anando Brahma, etc). All these
statements mean that these items are greatest among their own categories. Similarly, the
individual soul is greatest among all the items of the creation due to its specific property
of knowledge (Jnanitvatmaiva… Gita).
170. Reason for suicides in society
Smt. Uma Ramanath asked for the reason of Suicides in the society.
Swami told like this:
I have already explained the main reason for suicide in My divine knowledge. The main
reason for suicide is lack of divine knowledge. By divine knowledge one can realize that
the main aim of the human life is to achieve the grace of God by pleasing Him and not to
achieve the useless grace of any co-human being by pleasing it and not to please one’s
own self because such pleasure is not only temporary but also is found illusory on
analysis. I gave the example of a student in a college. The academic progress is the main
goal. The games are only secondary arranged for a brief change.
Similarly all the worldly affairs are only secondary activities arranged by God for a brief
change from the main spiritual activity. The illusion of Maya by which, one feels the
forms of matter and the qualities of awareness are real. The problems coming up based on
such illusion lead to suicide. A person commits suicide for not getting a job. A farmer
commits suicide when crop fails. A person commits suicide due to heavy loans. All these
cases are due to lack of divine knowledge, since they do not realize the main goal of
human life. They also do not realize that if they believe in God fully and worship Him,
such problems will be miraculously solved. God will certainly answer even for your
prayers once or twice so that you will follow the spiritual path after experiencing the
existence of God and His power. However, you should not make this as the continuous
businesses.
When the problems are solved, the person is becoming proud in happiness and the two
eyes climb the head. After getting job, one feels that he is a big officer controlling the
entire world! After clearance of loans and after getting riches, one feels that he is the
owner of this entire universe! After receiving good crop, the farmer is indulged in politics
and group rivalry feeling himself as the greatest leader! I still remember, in the olden
days in My village, the farmers after receiving good crops were indulged in doing
Bhajans etc. Similarly a boy or a girl failing in love commits suicide due to lack of the
main aim of the life. He or she does not know that the beauty is only an unreal design of
matter and energy. If matter and energy are separated which are the real entities, the love
vanishes! When the entire world becomes one family irrespective of caste, religion,
nationality etc., people will help each other in solving the problems. The best and real
worship is to help a devotee suffering with a specific problem.
Trying to solve that problem within the limits of your capacity is the best worship. To
stress this aspect only, God was pleased to receive the required service in specific
problem. When Rama lost Sita and was searching for her, your worship to the Lord
should be in line of search for Sita. He will be pleased by such worship. What is the use
of putting flowers on Him, feeding Him with sweets etc., when He is worried for Sita?
Worship means the service which you can do to the Lord in human form to please Him in
His specific problem. By this the Lord indicates that you should help all the devotees in
their specific problems. Such mutual help is the real worship and this is the main aim of
the Lord. Such divine society is the fruit of the divine knowledge from the Lord.
You should be careful about the egoism that may enter your brain after doing the help.
You should say that your help is due to the power of God only. When you say this, you
should be sincere from the bottom of your heart because it is the actual reality. By such
statement, the other person should feel that he should also get the favour from the Lord
through divine service to Him. Then he will also do the same service to other devotees.
Such a divine society consisting of the entire population of the world is the dream of My
divine knowledge. Such mutual help integrated with divine knowledge can certainly
eliminate suicides.
171. God do not get modified into human body when He comes in Human form
I know that you are worried that the Lord perhaps gets modified into the human body and
thus the unchangeable Lord undergoes a change. Do not worry about this point, because
the Lord is never modified into the human body. He only enters into the human body. The
word ‘Ashritam’ in the verse of the Gita “Manushim tanumashritam” means the entry of
the Lord into the human body and not the modification of the Lord into a human body.
This is clarified by Lord Krishna in the Gita in the verse “Avyaktam Vyaktimapannam”.
When a person says that he was sent by God as a messenger and that He has brought the
message of the Lord, again the same problem appears. When God is giving the message
to that person, nobody has seen it. That person is the single witness. Now the only
alternative left in order to believe that the knowledge was given by the Lord Himself, is
that we have to test the knowledge. Had we seen the transfer of the knowledge from God
to that person with our eyes, we need not have tested that knowledge. It must definitely
have been the divine knowledge. If we have to believe a statement of that person without
the simultaneous universal perception, then we have to believe even a fraud person who
utters the same statement.
If you give us a piece of metal and say that is gold, since it was given by God, we cannot
believe it. Either we must have seen God giving it to you or we must analyse the metal.
Moreover the knowledge is not like the piece of metal, which will not change by transfer.
When a teacher explains a concept to somebody and asks him to deliver it to his students,
it cannot be transferred as it is. The transfer of knowledge consists of not only the concept
but also the explanation. The concept might have been transferred but nobody other than
that original teacher can give the same way of explanation of the concept by which the
concept pierces into the heart. Therefore to propagate the divine knowledge, the Lord
Himself comes down in a human form. Arjuna said the same in the Gita “Tvadanyah…”
which means that except the Lord, nobody can preach the divine knowledge and clarify
all spiritual doubts.
172. The importance of spiritual preacher
Smt. Uma Ramanath asked about the importance of spiritual preacher (Guru).
Swami gave the following reply:
A lecturer in Government College will teach you the syllabus and at the same time acts as
the invigilator, valuer of the paper etc. and finally you are getting a valued degree from
the college. Similarly, the Lord acting as Guru preaches the spiritual knowledge, guides
you practically, tests your knowledge in practice and finally gives you the suitable divine
fruit. A teacher conducting tuition home is just teaching you and is not connected to the
examination, degree etc. Similarly, a human being acting as Guru preaches you the
spiritual knowledge and not concerned with your practice and its fruit. The human guru
may be able to deliver the knowledge of Satguru (Lord acting as Guru) as it is, but cannot
clarify your doubts in the practical field as effectively as Satguru does.
If you are hearing the speech through a tape recorder, the clarification of doubts is not
possible. Even in the speech, some parts may not be clear to you due to the defects in
your grasping power only. The human guru serves as a messenger of the Lord only. He is
just like a postman. Therefore, the guru you referred in the Sanskrit verse uttered by you
means only Satguru. However, Satguru is not frequently available. Still the Lord will
clarify your doubts through some body since the Lord has the super power. Therefore,
you need not worry that your doubts will be remaining without clarification in the
absence of Satguru. The Lord is always ready to explain your doubts either directly or
indirectly. If you deserve to go to the upper level, you will certainly rise to the upper level
by the direct or indirect guidance of God. However, if you are not capable of rising to the
higher level, what is the use of even meeting Satguru directly? Therefore, you should not
worry about the availability of Satguru. You should worry only about your spiritual
progress to rise to the higher level and you must concentrate on removing the hurdles in
your spiritual progress. If you are a tenth class candidate and even if you meet the
president of the country, he can give you only the post of a peon.
If you have passed I.A.S examination, the appointment order for the post of District
Collector comes to your home. Sri Rama Krishna Paramahamsa told that one need not
search for Guru. God will send Gurus of various levels as and when you reach those
levels. When you are ripened, Satguru will contact you at once. You may miss Satguru in
your search. But Satguru will not miss you when the proper time comes. Satguru cannot
do any good to any undeserving fellow. For the sake of majority, Satguru will not come
down because He is not bothered about the fame. Krishna preached hundred Kauravas
but of no use. Only the five Pandavas followed Krishna as their Satguru. Sakuni could
become Satguru for Kauravas. But finally both the Sakuni and Kauravas were destroyed.
A teacher in bogus institution gets you a bogus degree which has no value at all.
Therefore, the Lord as Satguru and devotee of the Lord as a human guru are good. But
the fraud Guru will destroy himself and yourself. It is better to confine to your family if
you are not getting Satguru but you should be never trapped by a fraud Guru.
Satguru is the Lord in the human form. You should not see the external human form and
should view the Lord only in Him. In the case of human guru, there is no Lord in him but
you can treat the external human form as the possessor of power of God. In the first case
you should understand the Lord as Guru and in the second case you should understand
the Guru as the Lord. There is a difference between God as Guru and Guru as God. Your
husband says “Guru Deva Datta” whenever he speaks to Me. The word Guru Deva has
two meanings as per the Sanskrit Grammar. In one meaning God is treated as Guru and in
the second meaning the Guru is treated as God. There is difference between these two
meanings. The second word “Datta” clarifies that the first word is used strictly in the first
sense only. Datta means God given to you in human form for the sake of your guidance.
Guidance should be essential for your practice. Even clarification of your theoretical
doubts should lead you to practice. Unless theory is clear practice cannot start. If there is
no practice the entire theory is waste. If the theory is perfect, the practice is spontaneous.
Therefore, the clarity in the theory and clarification of your doubts is very very important.
Without understanding this, people mock at theory and stress on practice. Without
complete and perfect theory, the practice cannot begin. Sometimes people practice due to
fear or due to ambition for fulfilling the desires. The Satguru will never base on these two
paths of fear and ambition. The false Guru exploits the people using either fear or
ambition or both for some selfish gain like money, fame etc. But the followers are utterly
deceived because such practice is not giving any good and complete fruit.
Satguru leads you to goal without any long time and deep strain. Suppose you have a bad
quality like rigidity. Due to the same quality Duryodhana went to hell and Gopikas went
to highest divine abode. In the first case rigidity was applied to worldly affairs (Pravrutti).
In the second case the same quality is applied to the spiritual line (Nivrutti). A Satguru
will direct your existing bad qualities to the spiritual line and will see that you will use
those qualities positively for your real welfare. An ordinary human being acting as Guru
will advise you to come to the spiritual line after removing bad qualities. The innocent
and ignorant Guru does not know that millions of births are required even to shake a bad
quality which was accumulated form the beginning of creation.
This is the difference between a Satguru and human Guru. Satguru generates the divine
knowledge. The human guru carries on that knowledge in-to-to. Sometimes a practical
problem arises in your spiritual path. The solution for that problem needs generation of
divine knowledge, which is impossible for the human Guru. Therefore, if you get Satguru
you are very lucky. But, if you do not use His guidance due to your blind attractions, in
such case Satguru is useless for you like Sun for a blind man. If you have the maturity of
mind to use the guidance, God will speak to you even through the human guru.
Therefore, your determination to achieve the goal is the most important factor. If you
have such determination, God will approach you in some human form and will guide you
properly. Therefore, the problem lies on your side and not on the side of Satguru. How
much lucky we are! We are directly talking with the Lord and getting the perfect spiritual
guidance. The Lord is staying in My human body. There is no trace of any doubt about
this.
When the devotees were calling Me as Lord Datta, I was confused and was very careful
about the egoism that may trap Me. But slowly, I am convinced with this point on doing
analysis from several angles. This wonderful divine knowledge cannot come from any
human being except Lord Datta. These wonderful devotional songs which came
spontaneously cannot be composed by any soul except Lord Datta. The vision of cosmic
form (Viswa Roopam) can be given only by the Lord and such vision was given to two
devotees simultaneously (Ajay and Seetamma) through this human body by Lord Datta.
By the age of 16 years who can write hundred philosophical books in Sanskrit except
Lord Datta through this human body? Lord Datta entered this human body even in the
womb of My mother. Once My mother was telling Me that when she was carrying Me,
she used to often get dreams in which she was finding various deities (various forms of
God) with temple-bells ringing constantly.
There were two black-magicians in My village, who killed about hundred persons and
three hundred children through their black magic in our village. In our joint family seven
male issues before My birth were also killed by their black magic. The day I was born,
both those demons were killed in violent way. All these factors led Me to conclude that
the Lord is staying in My human body for His divine work of propagation of divine
knowledge. I am just like all of you and there is no specialty in Me and no special favour
is done to Me. The Lord is the speaker I am very very near to Him holding on the mike
before His mouth. All His speech is common to all of us. After the war Arjuna asked
Krishna to repeat Gita. Krishna expressed His inability to repeat because He also heard
Gita from the Lord like Arjuna. When Arjuna pressed, Krishna told Gita again. But the
second Gita (Anu Gita) stands nowhere before the first Gita. This is the concept of the
human incarnation. The Lord enters the human body of a human being. The guest (Lord)
and the owner of the house (devoted human being) are like the two birds and the body is
like a tree. Like this Veda says (Dvaa Suparnaa). When the Lord said the first Gita, it is
mentioned that the Lord spoke (Sri Bhagvan Uvacha). It is not said that Krishna spoke.
Therefore, let all of us follow the Lord’s divine knowledge and get the eternal benefit.
The Lord has to enter some human body and He entered this human body accidentally or
incidentally. The divine knowledge spoken by the Lord (Satguru) is the guiding force,
which clarifies all our doubts leading to determination, which results spontaneously in
practice.
Satguru is the Lord in human form like Krishna. Even a liberated soul can be Satguru
because He is directed by the Lord. He speaks as per the will of God. Swami
Raghavendra, an incarnation of Prahlada is also a Satguru. He will speak whatever Lord
wants to speak and thus there is no difference between the Lord and such top most
devotees. In olden days the Guru tests the level of the devotee and used to expose that
much knowledge only which is related to his level so that the devotee gets benefit. This is
called as “Anubandha Chatushtaya” which means the level of the devotee (Adhikari), the
portion of the knowledge (Vishaya) that is related to him (Sambandha) and the benefit
(Prayojana). Suppose there are three devotees on the ground. One can climb ten steps
only. The second one can climb fifty steps and the third devotee can climb all hundred
steps. The Guru reveals ten steps only to the first devotee and says that the tenth step is
the final step. If you reveal even the eleventh step he will be discouraged. Similarly for
the second devotee only fifty steps should be revealed. For the third devotee the entire
knowledge can be revealed.
But at present the Lord is revealing the entire divine knowledge through this computer. It
is just like the booklet showing all the courses present in the University. According to the
level one has to select the course. This facility was not there in the olden days. One need
not be discouraged because if you are constantly putting the effort to climb the steps
continuously, God will sanction any number of human births to reach the goal. The
spiritual path has no physical significance. It is not like the journey to Bombay which
needs the help of vehicles. The whole journey is related to your psychology or mental set-
up which should act with full determination. The determination will spontaneously come
through complete and real divine knowledge. The real knowledge can alone clarify all the
doubts. When no doubt is left over the knowledge is complete, which immediately results
in determination. Therefore, Guru is more important than even the God is because Guru
is the guide and God is the goal. When God Himself comes to you as Guru, there is no
need of any journey. He will guide you so that you will recognize Him. But His guidance
is always delicate and critical because there is always a risk of your misunderstanding
about Him. If somebody guides you to Him, such risk is not there. But such guidance will
not be as clear as His guidance. Therefore, the issue gets mixed up.
When you recognize the God in human form, your concentration should be on the God
present in Him. Since you cannot directly experience God, the medium is necessary.
When you are experiencing God through the human form, the awareness of the external
human form should disappear. When you touch an electric wire, your awareness is about
the shock of current but not about the structure of the wire. Therefore, you have to see the
aspect of God in Satguru and treat Him as directly the God (Guruh Sakshat Parabrahma).
This means that you should find only God in Satguru. The case of a human Guru blessed
by God is like the hot iron wire in the heater which was heated by the electricity but the
current is put off. The effect of the current, which is the heat, remains in the wire.
The heat burns your finger but does not give a shock. Similarly, the human incarnation of
a liberated soul has the power of God, though not directly God and is called as Guru. The
third example is the wire in which neither the electricity nor the heat exists. To develop
concentration in one direction you can treat such wire also as God and such worship is
called as representative worship (Pratika Upasanam). There is no fruit from the object but
there is fruit in the subject which is the development of concentration. The first two cases
are direct and indirect worship of God resulting in the achievement of fruit from the
object. For the representative worship you can select any human being you like as your
Guru which has also the advantage of development of concentration in yourself.
173. The defect always lies on your side only in implementing spiritual knowledge in
practice
It is unnecessary for you to analyze whether the human form is God or a liberated soul.
You should be always concerned about the suitability of the preacher (Guru) to your level
and thus there is no need of analyzing the Guru. The system of spiritual preachers is one
unit headed by God like the group of teachers in a college headed by the principal. You
will get the teacher suitable to the level of your class. The principal is also the teacher
who can visit any class or may teach a particular class also. The principal is not only
responsible for the teaching in his class, but also has a total responsibility over all the
teachers to verify whether the teaching is correct or not in the various classes. You need
not worry about the responsibility of your class teacher as well as the principal.
The principal is well aware of his responsibility and is powerful to implement his
responsibility. He is always doing the overall supervision of the entire school. His
meetings with other teachers are not conducted in your presence since it is totally
unnecessary for you. You may doubt the overall supervision of the principal in his duty.
But you need not have any trace of doubt regarding God who is omnipotent and
omniscient. The defect always lies on your side only in implementing spiritual knowledge
in practice. A student who is not studying well finds fault with the teacher and reports to
the principal.

174. Realization
Realization is the stage of determination in the knowledge. The liberation is its practical
consequence. The realization should be based on the right knowledge so that the
liberation is really attained as the immediate consequence of the right knowledge.
Suppose you are bound by a rope. Suppose you find a knife very near to you, which can
be taken by your mouth and the rope can be cut. Such right knowledge gives you the
liberation. The determination to use the knife leads to implementation and the fruit is
liberation.
Suppose the knife has no sharpness. In such case the determination, implementation
cannot give the result. Suppose the knife is just made of a piece of pad, then also no
liberation is possible. Thus if the right knowledge is not intensive or if the knowledge is
twisted and wrong no liberation is possible. Therefore the most important thing for
liberation is not the realization only but it should be the right intensive knowledge given
by the Satguru.
175. The human life is neither for doing good deeds nor for doing bad deeds
Gita says that a realized soul who uses the analysis by intelligence leaves the concepts of
both happiness obtained by doing good deeds and misery obtained by doing bad deeds
(Buddhi Yukto Jahatiha Ubhe Sukruta Dushkrute). This means that you are trying for the
temporary happiness of heaven and trying to avoid the temporary misery of hell here as
well as in the upper world. This means that if you are analyzing the scriptures with sharp
logic to realize the ultimate goal of the human life, you will not be interested in neither
happiness nor in misery during the life as well as after death.
The ultimate goal of life is not anything related to your self, because it is aimed at
pleasing the creator since the original aim of this creation is only the pleasure of the Lord
through entertainment. Therefore, the original aim of yourself, other selves and the entire
universe is only to serve the Lord and please Him.
Then, you will be blessed by the Lord with His eternal divine grace and your life is
fulfilled. Therefore, the human life is neither for doing good deeds nor for doing bad
deeds and it is also not for enjoying the good fruits or bad fruits. You are wasting the
human life in doing good works and some times doing bad works due to the force of your
ignorance. By this very little time is left over here to serve the Lord. If this little time is
also used for enjoying good and bad fruits, no time is left for you to do the service to God
and get His blessings. Hence, to save at least this little time for realization of spiritual
knowledge and subsequent involvement in the divine service, at least the enjoyment of
good and bad deeds is postponed to a latter time and at a latter place. The latter time is
after death and latter places are hell and heaven. This is the reason for creation of hell and
heaven separately to enjoy the results after death.
176. Purpose of human life
In the materialistic plane one person says that the aim of his life is to achieve a particular
post and then help his family members. Some other person says that the aim of his life is
to serve the mankind. We appreciate the second aim as higher than the first one. The
highest aim of the human life can be known only in the spiritual plane. The sole aim of
this creation is pleasing God through the entertainment. Every human being is a part of
the creation and so the same aim applies to every human being also. The human being
becomes fruitful if it serves the Lord and pleases the Lord through the service. Service
means the sacrifice of work and sacrifice of the fruit of the work. Service is the proof of
the real love.
The mother serves her child by sacrificing lot of work like giving bath, dressing etc., for
years together continuously. The father serves the child by sacrificing the fruit of all his
hard work to the child. It is a clear practical point that the proof of the real love is only
service. If you serve your family you love your family. If you serve the entire world you
love the creation. If you serve the creator, you love the creator. It is a very simple point.
Love is the attraction of mind towards anybody or anything. When the illness attacks the
body you take so much care to serve your body. You love your body. Similarly you serve
your father, mother, wife and children because your mind is attracted towards them. What
is the first pre-requisite for this love? When you love your child, you are aware that a
particular small living being is your child and you have the differentiating knowledge of
your child from other children who are similar. Similarly, when you love God you must
be aware of the form of God, who must be differentiated from other forms as your child
is differentiated from other children. You are identifying your child by certain special
characteristics like shape of the face, voice etc; you are not recognizing your child by the
clothes, which it puts on. Other children put on such clothes also. Similarly, you must
distinguish the Creator from the creation and then only love the creator. You cannot love
the entire creation as the creator. Do you love all the children as your own children?
Therefore, the pre-requisite of love is the true knowledge and the inseparable identifying
characteristics of an object by which you get attracted towards it. Therefore, what is the
real form of God? And how it differs from other forms? What are the inseparable
identifying characteristics of God? The answers for these questions constitute the detailed
true knowledge of God. Only such true knowledge generates attraction and love. When
you know the separate special details of Bombay, which are not seen in any other city,
then only you are attracted to Bombay and like to see it.
Before proceeding to the identifying true knowledge of God, you must also know the
purpose of your attraction towards an object. You love your child, and there is no purpose
in it. You also love a doctor when you are ill. But that love is not real. It is not love at all.
It is only artificial apparent love exhibited for a purpose. You want the doctor to help you.
Therefore, true love is that when there is no purpose in it. False love is that in which
purpose is present. Generally almost all the people love God because God is omni-potent.
He has miraculous powers to do anything, which is impossible for any body on this earth.
When a problem comes and when one fails to solve it by all the means existing in this
world, one starts loving God to solve that unique problem. Therefore, you love the
position or power of God and not the God. A poet shows lot of love and appreciation on a
king in his spontaneous poetry because the poet loves the power and the wealth of the
king. He expects the king to donate some land or to give him some money after being
pleased with his poems. The poet does not love the person who is the king. He loves the
king only. Will he write the same poems if the king looses his kingdom and becomes a
beggar? In his poetry the poet praised that the king is very beautiful with sweet voice and
infinite wisdom. These qualities still remain with the king even if he has become the
beggar. But the poet does not praise the same qualities of that beggar because the beggar
cannot donate anything to him. The post of the king and the kingdom are separable
characteristics, whereas the qualities are inseparable characteristics.
You can easily identify the person by these inseparable characteristics and if your love on
Him is real, you will love him whether he is a king or a beggar. Are you not loving your
son and praise him whether he serves you or not? Sita garlanded and married Rama who
will be the future king of Ayodhya. The love of Sita may be on Rama only or may be on
the kingdom of Ayodhya for which she can become queen or may be both put together.
Rama tested her love by discarding the kingdom and by going to the forest. Sita followed
Rama to the forest. Her love was only on Rama and not on the kingdom. Ravana further
tested this. Ravana offered her to become the queen. But she refused. Therefore, the love
on God should be analyzed and should be decided whether God is loved or His omni-
potent miraculous power is loved for our advantage. Some people want to take advantage
in this world and some others want to take the advantage in the upper world so that they
can be protected from the hell. In both cases the love on God is not true. It is only the
love on his associated power. Sankara says that the true love on God should not have any
desire related to this world or to the upper world (Ihaamutra Phala Viragah). If the love is
on the power of the God only what is the use of the real form of God or the inseparable
characteristics of the God?
The poet loves anybody as the king. For him anybody on the thrown is beautiful and is
very wise. In such case if the king donates the desired land or cash by seeing the poem
written by a poet, the poet does not bother to see or talk with the king. Therefore, when
we love God’s power for some advantage, we need not worry about His form or in seeing
or talking with God. You can just chant the prayers. He responds to your prayers and your
desire is fulfilled. In such case one need not see the God and the God also does not want
to see his or her bloody face.
When a mother wants to see her child, she is not thinking about any advantage out of it.
In fact the mother presents some cash to the son as a gift and if the son needs, she will
even sell all her jewels and sacrifice for the sake of her son. Similarly, if the person is
having true love on God, that person wants to see God not for any advantage, but even at
the cost of disadvantage. For such person only God appears and such person only can see,
talk, touch and can even live along with the God. For such persons only there is need of
the enquiry of the real form of God.
The real form of God is unimaginable as said in Vedas and there is no question of seeing
or talking or touching the God. Gita also says that nobody can know God (Mam tu Veda
Na..). Such unimaginable God cannot be said to have a form or formless. The Creator is
beyond the creation, which is a four-dimensional network of space and time along with
matter and energy. The creation contains both formless items like space, energy and air
and also formful items like water, earth etc. If you say God as formful or formless, then
God becomes a part of the creation and not beyond the creation. Veda says that no item in
the creation including the pure awareness or life energy is God (Neti, Neti…). But there
are real devotees who have real love towards God and want to see, touch, talk and live
along with God for no selfish advantage either in this or in the upper world. The God who
has infinite kindness and infinite love cannot reject such real love.
The God is omni-potent and can satisfy the desire of such real devotees and the real
devotees are crying for such fortune of vision etc. The God is capable and the devotee
deserves. Nobody can put his finger between these two. To satisfy the real devotees God
comes in human form and all these four fortunes are blessed upon the real devotees. If
God comes in the form of space or energy, which is formless or in the form of statues, He
cannot grant these fortunes. He can talk, touch and live with the devotees when He comes
in the human form only. Only the human body can do such things as per laws of nature.
The nature is His creation and the laws of nature are the rules of His own administration.
He will not violate these rules except in the case of inevitable emergency. Why should He
use His special power (Maya) and talk or touch or live with you in the form of space or
energy or statues? When the purpose is served through the normal routine, why are you
so rigid about the abnormal way? God need not heed to the foolish rigid behaviour of
some human beings. Infact they want to pray the formless God or God in the form of a
statue for the sake of their selfish convenience only. You can offer food to formless God
or statue and then you can eat the entire food. You are satisfied as if you have given meals
to God and at the same time not even a grain of rice is lost. There are many inconvenient
losses and troubles with the human form of God. But the real devotees are not worried
about such loss and infact they are happy to loose if God can enjoy by that. They feel
happy when God eats that food. The mother visits her son and pays him some cash. When
the son is happy with that she derives infinite happiness and does not feel it as a loss or
trouble.
The mother will stay with her son and serve him day and night if necessary and feels very
happy about it. Similarly, these real devotees feel happy to serve the Lord and they are
happy about the loss incurred in it.
Lord came to the human form as Krishna for the sake of Gopikas only and not for others.
Only Gopikas could recognize Him and served the Lord by offering butter and they felt
happy in such sacrifice. They did not feel such sacrifice as loss. Krishna was not their
child. But they loved Him more than their children. They did not give butter even to their
own children and offered it to the Lord. Their love to God crossed even their love to their
children. When such real love exists, God comes in human form and reveals His identity
to you. Your love must be real and must be practically proved by the sacrifice of work
(Karma Sanyasa) and sacrifice of fruit of work (Karma Phala Tyaga) as emphasized in
Gita. Sacrifice of words, mind and intelligence, which are freely supplied to you by God
is like offering drinking water to the guest, which was freely supplied by the
municipality.
But sacrifice of work and fruit of work are like offering the meals to the guest and it is
sacrifice of your hard-earned money. Of-course the meals must be associated with
drinking water also and at the same time mere drinking water is almost nothing. Sacrifice
becomes complete, which is the complete proof of your real love only, when you sacrifice
mind, words, intelligence, work and fruit of work. Sacrifice of words is prayer and
sacrifice of mind is meditation, sacrifice of intelligence is the spiritual discussion.
Therefore, meditation alone is the sacrifice of the mind i.e., supplied freely by God.
Sacrifice of anything, which is hard earned by your work, is the real main sacrifice.
When the Lord exposes Himself as the source of all infinite super natural powers, all the
people will run to Him with same speed and will sacrifice to their maximum. In such case
you cannot differentiate the real devotee from a fraud devotee. The reason is that the
super natural power attracts all the people with equal force. When acids are dissolved in
water they show equal strengths because water being high polar solvent attracts the
hydrogen ions from all acids equally so that their extent of ionization becomes same.
The strong acid cannot be differentiated from a weak acid. This is called as leveling
effect. When the same acids are dissolved in glacial acetic acid, which is a weak solvent,
the acids will ionize to different extent as per their inherent nature. When an official asks
for some amount of money, all the merchants will run to him with equal speed and give
that amount. In this case you cannot differentiate the real donor from the real greedy
merchant. But when a beggar begs for some money, a real donor donates whereas a
greedy person refuses. The real nature of the individuals comes out in the case of the
beggar only. Similarly, when God comes in human form and exhibits the super natural
powers all the people rush to Him with equal speeds and show equal love on God. Even if
God recognizes the real devotee by His power and rewards him, the other devotees will
find fault with the God. They will argue that even though the extent of devotion is equal,
the Lord showed partiality. Therefore, God in human form will not exhibit miracles and
will exhibit only His inseparable special knowledge, which projects Him as Guru only
and not Bhagavan. Datta means God donated to the devotees in human form. His right
half is Guru and the left half is Bhagavan. The right half is only projected and the left half
is hidden. In such case only the real devotees can be filtered.
It is easy to approach the human incarnation and praise Him as God. But the most
important part is to retain the same faith through out the life. When Datta becomes
inconvenient in practical way the faith should persist. The faith should be practical and
permanent. The recognition of human incarnation must be done with the help of the
sacred scriptures like Vedas, Brahma sutras and Gita. You must take a long time to decide
the human incarnation. Once you have decided you must stick to that in spite of all the
troubles and inconvenience, which you face practically. There is no use of catching
somebody in haste and then withdraw by the next day. You will continue like this through
out your life. Therefore, you must study all the scriptures and be thorough with the divine
knowledge, which generates the devotion or love. If your devotion is real you must prove
it by your service. The real love is only one-way traffic. Attaining the God, seeing Him
and talking with Him are useless. Demons have seen and talked with God by doing long
penance. What is the use of it? They were finally destroyed. Even if you don’t see or talk
with God, if you please Him through your proven real love, you are blessed. Rama never
saw Lord Siva.
But He was blessed. Ravana saw and talked with Siva, but was destroyed. Therefore,
pleasing the Lord should be our final aim and not mere vision or conversation. If your
aim is only to solve your problem in this world or in the upper world or in both, you have
nothing to do with the formless God or form of God. Your work is done when you pray
for it sincerely. But mind that your sincerity is not on God but it is on the solution of your
problem. God in a temporary way only does the solution for your problems, which is not
good for you in the long run. He postpones your bad results and brings your good results
from the future births. By this, you have to enjoy the results of the deeds, which you have
done and you cannot enjoy the results of the deeds, which you have not done. It is like
sending your application to the officer through a peon paying the necessary amount and
getting back the application with the signature of the officer.
You have nothing to do with the personality or qualities of the officer. But when a girl
loves the officer, she likes to see the personality and know about his qualities. His
position as an officer is only one of the several aspects. Often, she neglects this aspect of
the post, when the personality and qualities attracted her. Similarly, a real devotee feels
happy by knowing the details of God and he is not worried about the benefit from the
God. In such case, the Lord enjoys the bad results of that real devotee and gives him
eternal happiness. Some people are not bothered about God and go on doing the worldly
works continuously. They believe in themselves only. Such people are either athiests or
just neglect the God. But the so-called devotees also do not love the God really. They
show false love on God and all their real love is only in the solutions of their problems.
They want to visit the Lord and try to show their anxiety about the personality of the
Lord. All that is only to please the Lord who may be helpful in the future problems.
These devotees are also not better than those atheists in any way. But the Lord allows
these devotees because there is a hope of change in their attitude and become the real
devotees. Prahlada was always absorbed in the personality of the Lord and did not ask for
any help even in the torture.
He was only remembering the Lord in such situation. Hanuman served the Lord Rama
not for any gift in return. In fact when Sita gave the chain of pearls, He broke those pearls
to see Rama in those pearls. Rama never announced the gift given to Hanuman and
Hanuman never aspired for any gift. Rama gave the post of creator of this world and the
matter was not revealed to anybody. By revealing that, Rama never wanted to pose
Himself as the Lord. Hanuman was not even aware of that post because His mind was
only on the personality of Rama. Similarly, Radha never aspired for any thing and she
was given a special top most world (Goloka). Arjuna had partial devotion and therefore,
the final fruit was partly happiness and partly misery. Duryodhana invited Lord Krishna
for a big feast in His honour. Krishna never attended it and finally destroyed them. All the
respect and love shown by Duryodhana were only to exploit Lord Krishna in the war.
When Krishna was found useless for him, he was angry with Krishna and tried to chain
Him. This shows that he did not even recognize Krishna as the Lord. Therefore, the Lord
gives vision, conversation and co-living etc., only for the real devotees who do not aspire
anything in return.
The worst devotees want practical fruits from the Lord by serving Him through words,
feelings and intellectual discussions. The middle class devotees sacrifice practically for
the Lord and aspire practical results in return. These types of devotees are businessmen
and the above type of devotees are prostitutes. A businessman invests some amount and
tries to get back more amounts in return. A prostitute tries to earn the amount from a
person without ordained any amount and ordained only sweet words, sweet feelings and
artificial discussions. The last type of devotees serves the Lord practically and do not
aspire any result from the Lord either theoretically or practically. For such devotees only
the Lord comes in human form and gives His experience to them and save them in this
and as well as in the upper world.
177. The Lord has guts to say the truth even if it is not liked by anybody
The knowledge should be in the view of the permanent welfare of the soul and not in the
temporary sweet-coated poison. The Lord in human form differs in this point. The Lord
has guts to say the truth even if it is not liked by anybody (Satyam Jnanam –Veda). But
the human preachers aspire for money and fame and therefore they twist the knowledge
to suit to the liking of the soul and get their personal benefits.
The Lord does not need such benefits. Even the messenger from the Lord will do his duty
perfectly. He will deliver the knowledge given by God as it is. Suppose you are paid the
total salary of your entire life in the beginning itself and the shop owner asks you to sell
an item. Suppose nobody is coming or only very few are coming. The employee should
not bother about the business. If the employee is receiving monthly salary, he may fear
that if the business is not taking place, his salary may be affected.
God gave the true knowledge to Jesus and asked Him to propagate and He assured the
reward for it to give place to Jesus for sitting on His right side. Now, Jesus has guts to
deliver the knowledge as it is because the salary was already assured. He need not worry
about the business. Therefore Jesus told that unless one leaves the parents, wife and
children and even the life, the soul cannot become His dearest disciple. He told that He
came with the sword to destroy peace in the family. He told that He will split the family.
He told that by His knowledge, the youngsters will rebel against the elders. Even on the
cross, He did not change the version of the Bible.
An ordinary human being cannot tell such pungent truth. Lord Krishna asked Arjuna to
kill his grandfather and all his relatives and for this purpose only the entire Gita was
preached. The Lord shows the ultimate truth to be fixed as the goal so that one can
achieve at least pass marks. If the pass marks are the goal, the student fails. When the
knowledge of Jesus and Krishna are kept as goal, at least the blind attraction on the
family and relatives decreases to some extent. Since the Lord does not require any benefit
from you, He will not mind to reveal the ultimate truth.
178. God can enter through the wall to help you even if all the doors are closed
You have no complete faith in God. The atheism imparted by the external environment is
hidden in you without your knowledge. You are in daily association with people who
always put self efforts with partial faith on God and this injects such attitude into your
brain. Hence you are not having full faith on the word of God. You will always estimate
the success based on the worldly factors. Really you do not have the confidence on the
super power of God, which can produce an ocean of sweet water in a desert. In practical
situation the faith on God and the extent of your theism is tested.
Wise people, who say that the self-effort is the main component and that God’s help is a
minor component, often cover up such deficiency of your faith. When all the doors are
closed, you will be worried about the possibility of success assured by God. Then, you
will put effort to open one of the doors so that God can help you through that door. This
is your utter foolishness, because you think that God cannot help you without the door
opened. God can enter through the wall to help you even if all the doors are closed. Thus
the faith in the practical situation is important.
179. Dattaswami answers questions from a Christian devotee
Q1) The Bible (Matthew 19:12) says regarding becoming a eunuch (napuMsaka) for the
sake of the kingdom of heaven “He that is able to receive it, let him receive it”. Does it
mean that anyone who feels capable of remaining a celibate (brahmachari) for the sake of
God should become one?
The word eunuch means the removal of male egoism. Krishna asked the saints to be born
as maidens to receive the salvation. Celibate means the person is always interested in the
search of the God. It is has nothing to do with marriage. In Sanskrit the word
Brahmachari indicates a person who is always aware of the Lord.
Q2) How can I handle Rajas and Tamas in me?
Rajas or Krodha means emotion. Tamas means ignorance. Both these can be removed by
Sattvam, which is the true knowledge given by your selected spiritual preacher.
Q3) The Bible has a concept of the "Holy Spirit" that comes down to dwell in people who
have put their full faith and trust in the Lord Jesus. Where does that fit into Hinduism?
The Holy Spirit means pure Sattvam. Sattvam indicates the knowledge and all the good
qualities associated with it are indicated by the word Holiness. All the devotees of God
are blessed with this pure Sattvam as you can find in Gita. This pure Sattvam is always
associated with the Lord as said in Gita.
Q4) You say that you are the human incarnation of God. Then how come I never got even
a little bit of Bliss from you? Even if Bliss is not the goal, I should get atleast some in
order to identify you as per your method of identifying the human incarnation—
Knowledge that gives bliss and generates love.
I never said that I am the human incarnation of God. Only when the devotees stress on
this concept even after My serious opposition I agree to it because if you analysis the
word human incarnation, it does not mean that I am God. It means that the God is present
in this human body as a guest visiting your house for his work. My inert human body is
the house. I am the soul and owner of this house. The God visited my house for his work.
When the guest in your house speaks you are not speaking. Therefore, when God gives
this spiritual knowledge I am not speaking. You need not fear that I have become God.
You say God in flesh. This word indicates the concept. The word flesh indicates the inert
human body and the soul in it. The word God indicates the guest that visited the human
body. This spiritual knowledge has given bliss to some people and has not given bliss to
you. This means that the defect is with the soil and not with seed.
If the seed is defective, the seed should not germinate in any soil. Similarly my
knowledge should not have given bliss to anybody. As soon as you hear the knowledge,
the harsh truth in it may not give bliss to you. But some devotees may get bliss on
hearing the truth even if it is harsh. Did the knowledge of Jesus give bliss to all in His
time? In that case why He was crucified by majority of the people? According to your
version, all the people should have got bliss. When the doctor says to a patient that an
injection of medicine is to be given, the child weeps. The child does not get bliss from the
medicine immediately. But in long run the child gets good health and gets bliss
permanently.
A grown up person is happy by seeing the injection because he realises that the medicine
injected will act quickly. A child is not getting immediate bliss on seeing the injection.
But the same injection is giving bliss to an elder person. Your heart is pure and innocent
like that of a child. When the knowledge is practiced, then only the eternal bliss dawns on
you. But you should not satisfy yourself there. You must give bliss to the God through
sacrifice.
If your ultimate goal is only bliss, you are in no way greater than any ordinary human
being who also craves for the same bliss. You have taken God as the means to achieve the
bliss. The other fellow has taken the wine as means to achieve the same bliss. Your aim is
on the bliss only and not on the God. You should keep God blissful through suffering by
sacrifice. The God also will keep you blissful by attracting your sins on Him. Such
sacrifice of yourself or God is the real love. Such real love is practically experienced in
the case of your love on your family members. It is not impossible. If it is impossible, it
should be impossible everywhere.
Q5) After Jesus Christ left his disciples, the disciples continued to teach that one should
follow and worship Jesus Christ only. Even though they were the ones representing God
and the Holy Spirit was supporting them, they did not ask people to worship them. How
come you are indicating that it would be good for people to worship you now?
I am speaking about the God in flesh, who comes in every human generation. I am telling
that you should identify such human incarnation and worship Him. The disciples cannot
be the human incarnations and so the disciples of Jesus were correct. Whoever is the
human incarnation like Jesus, Krishna etc, should be worshipped. I have given the signs
of the human incarnation as present in scriptures. I have also asked you to use your logic
in such identification. After all this, if you identify me as the human incarnation, then
only you have to worship me. I never say that I am the human incarnation and you should
worship me.
Krishna also told Arjuna to worship Him as the human incarnation. I never told like that.
I only say that after the analysis of the scriptures, whoever is found as the human
incarnation, He should be worshipped. If you are found as the human incarnation you
should be worshipped. How can I force anybody to worship me? I have accepted the
worship of those devotees only who have firm faith in Me even after My several negative
tests. That does not apply to your case. Whomever you find as the human incarnation you
worship Him. My information to you is that the human incarnation exists in every
generation to avoid the partiality.
Q6) The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will be your guide in all things until Jesus Christ
comes again. And, there will be other preachers, but Christ himself will not come down
until the time and manner specified. You are saying you are re-incarnation of Jesus
Christ, and we should worship you. Please explain this.
As I told you the Holy Spirit means the divine knowledge. The recorded divine
knowledge can certainly guide people to some extent. But the direct explanation from the
God cannot be given by anybody. God gives such direct explanation to every human
generation directly. If one generation is blessed by such direct contact and other
generations are having only the indirect guidance by Holy Spirit, again the partiality
arises. Therefore, either there should be continuous guidance by the Holy Spirit for every
generation from the beginning of the creation or God must be coming in every
generation. Gita says that God comes down whenever there is necessity. You stick to one
scripture only and argue. What about the other scriptures?
Q7) What is your explanation of the Millennium prophecies in the Bible?

Any prophecy carries the internal meaning, which is present in every human generation
and it is not limited to a particular period of time.
Q8) According to your lectures, the same people of your inner circle are born again and
again in this world. Does this mean that these people cannot reach the permanent abode
of the Lord?
The inner circle devotees of God have reached already the permanent abode of God.
These devotees take human births whenever God comes down in human form. When the
mission is over God will go to the permanent abode along with these liberated souls.
Infact wherever God exists, that is the eternal divine abode. These devotees will never
come to the routine cycle on this earth. From that angle they have no re-birth. Any soul is
having the equal opportunity to enter the inner circle provided the soul has strong wish
and puts efforts.
Q9) You say it is necessary for God to incarnate again and again since Christianity and
Islam do not accept re-incarnation for the soul. But later you explain your theories
assuming reincarnation of the soul. So what is your actual stand; do you accept
reincarnation of the soul or not? If you do, then how can you reconcile with Christianity
and Islam, which absolutely do not accept it?
The liberated soul will never have re-birth in this routine cycle. But the soul will be born
as human being to associate and serve the God, whenever God comes down in human
form. Regarding the ordinary soul also, it will not get the re-birth having the same
spiritual chance. Therefore, one should try to please God in this human birth itself
without postponement.
Thus, there is no re-birth from this angle. But the soul can be born as an animal or animal
like human being and thus re-birth exists. Like this the contradiction can be removed. If
you pass a hard and fast rule that the soul has no re-birth at all, do you mean that
omnipotent God is also bound by your rule? The Lord can sanction the human re-birth to
a soul with the equal spiritual chance also, provided He feels that the soul can uplift itself
if a chance is given. Of course, such chance is very rare and one should not depend on it.
Q10) In your attempt to reconcile reincarnation vs. permanent heaven/hell, you say that
repeated animal births is also a permanent hell. The Bible clearly says that in hell, the
souls retain the ability to feel pain and reason (thinking). Animals do not think and do not
remember their past births. If you say they are being punished, they do not even know
why they are being punished. They will not learn anything from the punishment and will
continue with their sinful ways if they get human birth. Also animals cannot be said to be
suffering because they do not even know any better life. How can this be the hell
described in the Bible?
The sinners are like animals. You can see a thief continues with his quality in spite of
intensive third degree treatment in the police station. According to your version, he
should realise his mistake because he is a human being and not the animal. How do you
know that the animal is also not realising since it keeps silent? You are depending always
on one scripture and your argument is always unidirectional. If you read life history of
Shirdi Sai Baba, one day He found a snake swallowing a frog. Sai told His devotees that
both the snake and frog were human beings in the previous birth and that they stabbed
each other for the sake of property.
Then Sai told the snake and frog “Are you not ashamed of your behaviour which
continues from the previous birth”? The snake left the frog and went away. Animals have
realised on the warning from the Lord. Sometimes you find two human beings fighting
with each other and do not separate inspite of your repeated warnings.
If you simply depend on the Bible or Gita only, there is no use of any discussions with
you. You must be a sea frog and not well frog as said by Swami Vivekananda. You must
examine all the scriptures impartially and then only you can arrive at the true knowledge.
I see yourself as pure colourless crystal with pure innocent heart like child and imbibing
the colour of any substance near yourself.
You say that logic should be avoided. This means you must follow whatever some body
says to you without analysing it. Now I will also say some thing and just follow it without
analysis. You always analyse my statements because I said that you should analyse every
statement. But I mean that you should analyse every statement of every person. Some one
says that you should follow his statement without analysis. You simply accept that
without analysis. What I mean is that you should analyse both of us and arrive at the
truth. If you are against the logical analysis, why are you analysing my statements only?
You must follow my statements also blindly. Is it said that the statement of any Indian
guy should be analysed and your version of “Beyond the logic” does not apply to the
Indian guys?
Q11) The Bible mentions the coming again of the Christ. It does not say anything about
repeated incarnations of Jesus. It accepts only two: One that came 2000 yrs ago and the
second, which will come after the tribulation. Specific events described in the Bible about
the time of second coming of the Christ have not yet taken place. How can you then
claim to be the re-incarnation of Jesus?
The word Jesus means the eternal God present in that human body. The same human
body will never come again. Therefore, Jesus will come in another human body. If you
restrict to only two human incarnations according the direct meaning of statement, then
Bible contradicts Gita.
Gita says that God will come in human form any number of times whenever there is
necessity. I have to speak keeping all these scriptures in my view. You speak only keeping
one scripture in your view. This is the reason for the gap between us. To solve the
contradiction I will say that Jesus will come again and this does not mean that He will
come once only again. The tribulation is present in every generation and is not limited to
a particular period.
Q12) The Bible indicates that the world will not know perfect peace until after the
tribulation period. Is perfect peace the aim of your mission?
In every human generation the tribulation comes and the tribulation may be very serious
in the end. The cyclones come often and Tsunami comes rarely. Both the cyclone and
Tsunami should be controlled. The efforts of human incarnation may vary in their
intensity. Perfect peace is the initial aim of God (Pravrutti), which is the establishment of
balance of the society. The higher aim is liberation of the soul (Nivrutti). Unless the first
aim is achieved, the second aim cannot be thought of. Unless the class is kept silent, there
is no use of teaching.
Q13) I think that you are the Anti Christ since it is written in the Bible that the Anti Christ
will win the hearts of people by pretending to preach world peace and unity of all
religions. What do you say?
You are saying that the anti-Christ tries for world peace. This means that Christ is against
the world peace! This simple logic crushes your statement because Jesus is the very
embodiment of peace. Even in Hinduism, the followers of Ramanuja say that Sankara
was the incarnation of a demon. They quote some verses from the “Bhavishyat Purana”
written by sage Vyasa, which show the same meaning. The question to such people is
“Have you recorded the Purana from the mouth of Vyasa directly by a tape recorder? Or
at least have you got a written hand script of Vyasa?” Certainly this statement was
introduced in to the scripture by some guy later on.
Q14) If Jesus died for my sins and the sins of the whole world, then my sins are washed
when I confess and accept Him as my only savior. Why do I need you or anyone else for
reaching heaven or attaining salvation?
It is written on the first page of Bible that Jesus came to save His people. His people
mean His devotees and it does not mean that He saved every human being without any
discrimination. I ask a simple question with simple common sense. According to
Christianity the soul has no re-birth. All the souls before the birth of Jesus have gone
either to God or hell permanently. Now Jesus suffered for all the sins of all the souls.
Does this mean that all the souls present in the permanent hell were immediately relieved
from the hell and hell is vacant? Now you say that your sins are also cancelled.
How He has cancelled the sins of the future generation? Suppose you say that He has
cancelled all the sins of all the souls of past, present and future, this means no soul was in
the hell and no soul is in the hell and no soul will go to the hell. What is the use of that
hell which is always vacant? The people have propagated the misinterpretations due to
their anxiety to attract the people towards Christianity. They show this as their special
point, which is not present in any other religion. They want to attract the innocent masses
by such statements and forget the simple logic and their committed blender. The real
interpretation of this statement is that Jesus suffered for the sins of His real devotees.
Such behaviour of sacrifice exists in Hinduism also. Krishna tried to give away all His
wealth to Sudama and tried to transfer his poverty on to Him. But Sudama is His real
deserving devotee. Incarnations of Datta like Sai also showed the suffering of sins of their
real devotees. With such interpretation only this concept becomes universal and justified
in all religions. Do not be carried away by the interpretations of the human beings.
You read the Bible and think about the meanings. Your pure heart will certainly receive
the real meaning if you do not hear any body. You read the knowledge of any body and
try to assimilate it with your own brain. Do not allow other brains for understanding the
scripture. God has clearly explained in the scripture and you can yourself understand by
using even little common sense. The word of God is very clear.
Q15) You base your arguments on the impartiality of God. However the Bible gives
indications that God favored some places and people over others. The truth is that
partiality/impartiality, logic, reason, justice, equality and fairness are all concepts of the
human mind. You cannot judge the works of God based on these human concepts. Why
do you try to fit God in the limited boundaries of human rationality?
The partiality of God is justified provided it is shown on good people. But His partiality
to a small country, which contains majority of bad people, is not justified. Therefore, you
have to judge the partiality in the light of justice because God will never do injustice.
Q16) You say in the Rohit Gita that the son will be sent to hell if he leaves his parents for
the sake of a girl (woman). However Jesus does not condemn it. Since man and woman
were made by God and are united into one soul, in marriage, why should it not be
justified for a man to leave his parents for a woman in order to start his family?
When a person leaves his parents due to attraction of a girl, I mean leaving the
attachment to parents. It does not mean physical separation, which is necessary for setting
up the family. Jesus told that one has to leave all his family and even one has to be
prepared to sacrifice the life for the sake of God in order to become His dearest disciple.
How do you explain your own Bible in this point? His path is full of thorns and truth is
always harsh.
Q17) You said that we all play roles here in this earth. Some people play good roles, and
some people play evil roles. But, both the roles get their remuneration after death equally.
Jesus Christ said that 'Evil trials must come, but woe to those through whom they come'.
Why is there woe to the evil person who brings trials to the good then, like the disciple
Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus? This also seems to go against the philosophy of
Heaven and Hell. Please explain.
When the human incarnation comes down along with the inner circle of devotees, the
roles are assigned for the divine drama. In such case, there is no discrimination of good
and bad roles. Ravana was the gatekeeper of the Lord. But you should not extend this to
the entire world and say that every bad fellow is in the divine role. Ravana went to the
abode of the Lord after the death. But every bad fellow will not go to the abode of Lord.
The divine drama is enacted for the sake of the world. Judas Iscariot acted in his bad role.
His repentance and suicide prove that he belongs to inner circle only.
My friend! Since you have not accepted me I address you as My friend and not as my
disciple. This is the inner meaning when I told that you were my friend in Brindavanam. I
will never say to you or your category that I am God or God is in me. I say only that I am
a devotee like you. This is the reason for sending Rohit Gita to Dr. Nikhil only and not to
you directly. I say God is in me to such devotees who have partial faith on me. But to my
inner circle devotees I say that I am God. The statements differ one devotee to other.
Jesus also told in different ways “ I am messenger from God”, “I am son of the God” and
“I am the God since I and my father are one and the same”. These different statements
relate to different levels of devotees. One level cannot absorb the statement of other level.
For example you take the case of Ajay Bhaiah. He always sings the devotional songs
composed by Me. He has full devotion on Me while singing the Bhajans. He always
participates in Satsanga and receives knowledge through his intelligence. He always
works for the mission. He sacrificed all his ancestral wealth to the mission during the
time of past ten years and the cost of that wealth comes to about one crore rupees. He has
children and lives on his salary only. He has several debts in the Banks. I tried several
times to pay his debts but he did not accept. I tested him in several ways but his faith did
not shake. In fact I am defeated by him. He saw the vision of Viswaroopam (Cosmic
form) in Me. The God in Me gave that vision to him and I have nothing to do with it.
When I said that the God in Me gave the vision, he never agrees and says that I am the
God.
Therefore, I declare to him only that I am the God. This declaration is personal and is
limited to his case only. Krishna never told that He is God to any one in His lifetime.
Only when He was teaching Gita to Arjuna He declared He is God and gave the vision of
cosmic form. Therefore, you do not touch the statements of other levels. I will speak to
you in your level and you can treat me as a mere human being and as your good friend.
180. The Spiritual Knowledge and Logic
The spiritual knowledge or philosophy (Vedanta) is generally based on logic (Tarka). God
is certainly above the logic and thus logic cannot touch Him (Naisha Tarkena -Veda).
Nobody can show God by the indicating finger. Veda clearly states that God is beyond
words, mind, intelligence and logic and the best way of explanation is silence about God.
If that is so, there is no necessity of spiritual knowledge, because God cannot be known
or imagined. Then what is the use of all these scriptures? Why are there so many
discussions and debates?
Lord Yama says in Veda that angels and sages are still discussing about God and have
concluded that God is unknowable. Here unknowable means unimaginable even to the
logic. They have not conducted such long discussions to know simply that God is
unknowable because it is not the object as my friend says! If God is said to be
unimaginable, what is the subject of discussions? The answer is that the logic used in
long discussions is not about God but about the Non-God entities (items of creation).
Certainly, we cannot know God by logic or by any other means, but we can use the logic
to reject a Non-God item projected as God. When you say that awareness is God, we will
use the logic and see whether awareness is an item of creation.
If it is an item of creation, certainly it can be analyzed by logic. If logic fails to analyze it,
certainly we will accept it as God. Similarly we shall apply the logic to several entities
rejected as God and see whether any item is beyond logic.
The logic is the analytical faculty supported by practical examples, which stands as
experimental verification. The ancient Indian logic was developed based on practical
examples like mud pot etc. The advancement in logic took place from time to time and
the logic was more and more sharpened. The authoritative parameters (Pramanas) have
improved in number and therefore the schools of Nyaya, Vaiseshika and Vedanta differed
in the subject of logic. The number of Pramanas increased from 2 to 4 and finally became
6 in Vedanta. This shows the improvement of logic in course of time. Today science is the
most advanced logic since the experimental verification was improved. Therefore if I am
explaining the philosophy based on science, it means that the philosophy is more and
more clear due to the advanced logic. I told you already that the logic (science) is only
useful to refuse any item of creation as not God.
The creator cannot be any item of the creation. If creator becomes creation, there must be
some other creator for this creator to become the creation. Ad-infinitum (Anavastha)
results. Science disproved some conclusions of the earlier logic and this should not be
misunderstood as refusing God. God is in no way touched because the earlier logic also
was dealing with only the analysis of created items. Tarka means the analysis of the items
of creation, which are indicated and understood by their corresponding names or words
(Tarkyante Padarthah Asminniti….). God is beyond all the words and cannot be the
understood meaning of any word and therefore, logic cannot touch God.
181. Fate of a soul
It is a misunderstanding that the life history of every soul is written by God or destiny.
God is certainly the creator of this whole world like the builder of the stage and the
supplier of dress for a drama. He is responsible up to this level only. The story, dialogues
and actions are written by the created self only. The self is pure awareness and is called as
causal body, but is composed of several types of vibrations which are the feelings or
thoughts or qualities.
The various types result due to various mixing proportions of Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas.
Some of these thoughts have become very strong since from several millions of births.
Such solidified thoughts are like hard diamonds. The bundle of such diamonds is called
as the subtle body. The soul writes its own story of drama based on the directions of these
diamonds (Samskaras or Vasanas). Thus, in that way, these diamonds can be treated as
destiny. But this destiny has nothing to do with God. The soul itself created its own
destiny.
Therefore, the theme of the drama will be uniform in any number of births of that soul.
How to change these diamonds? You can change the destiny. The only way is to cut these
diamonds by divine diamonds which come out from the preaching of divine knowledge
by God through human form called as Satguru. Gita says clearly that God has not created
anything and only the nature of the soul, which is bundle of these diamonds, is deciding
the theme of the life of any soul here (Svabhavastu Pravartate). When God enters this
world in human form, then only God writes His own program which is the story of His
divine play.
Gita says that if you recognize such human incarnation and His divine mission, you will
be liberated through your participation (Janama Karmacha Me Divyam…).
182. Types of Love to God
There are two paths of love on God. The path of limited real love on wife and the path of
unlimited real love on children. The first path is aspiring boons from God for selfish
happiness, which involves mostly theoretical and little practical devotion.
In this first path, one loves his wife for selfish happiness only and most of his love is
emotional (Theoretical) with little practical sacrifice. The second path is selfless love
without any aspiration of fruit in return and consists of mostly practical and little
theoretical devotion. In this second path, one loves his child without any selfishness and a
total sacrifice of work and fruit of work. Hanuman and Gopikas are the best Gold Medal-
students of the University.
Once you are fixed in the divine service of God, there is no need of miracles, knowledge
and theoretical devotion. The knowledge is the qualifying degree and the theoretical
devotion is official appointment order. The practical devotion is the work done in the
month and salary (fruit) is given to the monthly work only. Only work (Karma) can yield
the fruit.
183. Levels in Spirituality
Miracles are just fundamental level of elementary schools, which are widely spread
everywhere, by the wish of God. Even evil people can do these miracles by black magic.
The idea behind such wide covering range of miracles is that these miracles are useful in
converting atheists into theists. For such elementary work, human incarnations or
professors are not necessary.
The next level is Jnana Yoga, which is the level of high schools. The high schools are
lesser in number than elementary schools because only some converted theists start the
enquiry about the subject (Jnana Yoga) of the unimaginable God, since His existence was
indirectly proved through the unimaginable miracles and He is the source of the
unimaginable power behind the miracles.
The next higher level is formation of theoretical love (Bhakti Yoga) or devotion on the
Lord since a few of the scholars of God get this and this level is the level of colleges.
The ultimate highest level is practical devotion (Karma Yoga) or service to God, which is
the level of University and is very rare since a few of devotees only can become servants
of God through practical sacrifice of work and fruit of work. The scientific analysis of
divine knowledge (Jnana Yoga) is pervading all the four levels as the basic torchlight. In
the first level, the existence of God is accepted. In the second level, the existence of
unimaginable God is accepted.
In the third level, the representatives of God like statues in human form are worshipped
by words and mind to get rid of ego and jealousy towards human form. In the fourth
level, the decision of the final conclusion of the intellectual analysis results in detecting
the contemporary human incarnation and involve in a practical service in His mission.
At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami
184. Defects and merits of Christianity , Hinduism, Islam
Hinduism has two defects. The first is that all the rituals are not conducted in the mother
tongue. The rituals involve hymns in Sanskrit. In the ancient days, Sanskrit was the
mother tongue of the sages. They understood the meaning of the rituals and were very
much interested in God. Every ritual explains about God only directly are indirectly.
Today the rituals are like the dead bodies without life. Their real aim and purpose is lost.
Not even a trace of devotion is developed through any ritual. At least the priest should
translate the hymns and should create interest in the ritual. If you observe the other
religions, this defect does not exist because all their rituals are performed in their mother
tongue.
This is the reason for the sincere devotion in Christianity and Islam. Added to this, like
Ghee for fire, the concept of only one present human birth in the other religions has
developed tremendous interest in God due to fear. In Hinduism the belief of several
future human births brought lenience towards spiritual field. If you allow the candidate to
pass the examinations in several attempts, no serious view can be developed. If you say
that one has to pass the examination in single attempt, the education system will be
perfect. Observing the other religions must rectify these two defects.
Christianity and Islam have their own defects. They should also rectify their defects by
observing Hinduism. Selfishness, pathetic scenes and fear develop their belief in God. If
you want to develop interest in God by saying that Jesus suffered for your sins and by
showing the pathetic scene of crucifixion, it is not real and pure love. When you get
interest in Jesus since He suffered for your sins, your love to Him is only based on
selfishness. Your love to Jesus should be based on His divine personality and knowledge
without any trace of selfishness. Similarly, these two religions try to create fear in the
minds of human beings by mentioning the permanent hell. Fear should not be the basis
for the love to God. The love should be spontaneous and without any selfishness in a free
atmosphere. The reason for this deficiency in the foreign religions is due to absence of
metaphysics in the scriptures.
Those scriptures mainly deal with the development of proper human behavior to balance
the society. Such scriptures are mainly dealing with ethics only and not with the
philosophy of God like the nature of God, path to please God etc. The analytical
development in the spiritual knowledge is not much in these scriptures. They have
confined God to the path of Pravrutti only and God is simply an administrator bound by
His own rules. He is just a judge to deliver the judgment and a jailer who jails the sinners.
He is just a mechanical examiner without any freedom or love to devotees. He cannot go
beyond the rules of justice. Of course, all this is good for the initial development of the
human beings.
Mere happy life in a society is not sufficient because such life is not eternal. The life after
death should be also analyzed. Mere judicial procedure is not the ultimate of God. The
love towards God, the sacrifice for the sake of God, the concept of contemporary human
incarnation for the sake of most beloved devotees etc., are points of higher importance
than mere limitation to the petty family only. The view is at the best generalized to the
service to the society. Society is only a large family of your colleague souls only. God is
beyond society. You must transit from the service to family to the service to the society
and finally to the service to God. These three are the subsequent steps in ascending order.
The foreign religions are mainly confining to the first two steps only and not to the third
step. In the name of the third step they are only staying in the second step (social service)
only.
The basis for this deficiency is lack of the concept of contemporary human incarnation.
They criticize the idol worship of Hinduism. But they are doing the same in another form
in their churches and Mosques. The exploitation of the devotees by priests is common to
their religions also because the concept of the contemporary human incarnation is
completely eradicated from the root in these religions because the selfish priests do not
allow this. The same thing happened in the case of Holy Jesus. Hence, Holy Mohammad
did not allow this concept for the fear of such horrible jealousy towards the contemporary
human incarnation.
In Hinduism also the selfish priests oppose the contemporary human incarnation.
However in Hinduism, this concept is at least partially alive since Gita says that God will
come again and again (Yada Yada hi…) and that God will come in human form
(Manusheem tanumashritam…).
185. The Lord does not need your service in anyway for His work.
The Lord does not need your service in anyway for His work. He is only testing your
attitude of your sincerity in His work by taking help from you in His work. You should
not think that He really needs your help. You should not also think that you need not help
Him because He does not need your help. Both these are the two branches of ignorance.
He is actually testing your extent of sacrifice towards Him and thus He does not need
your help in reality. But based on this reality you should not withdraw your help to Him
because He is testing your attitude and extent to work for Him.
When the examiner asks a question, the student should not think that the examiner is
really ignorant about the answer and is in search of the answer from the student. The
student should not also keep silent thinking that there is no need of giving answer to the
examiner since the examiner knows the answer. Both these views of the student are
wrong regarding the examiner. Neither Rama needed the help of monkeys in reality nor
the monkeys kept silent without helping Rama since Rama does not require any help in
reality. The reality is that Rama does not require any help and that the monkeys helped
Rama to their best ability to prove their real interest in God.
186. Conditional Love Vs Unconditional Love to God
The devotion is of two types, conditional and unconditional. The former is bound by area
and time. Within the limits of certain area only God is honored. If God crosses those
limits God is rejected. Therefore, for the devotee the limits of the area happen to be God,
since those limits are ultimate for the devotee. God also follows the same rule and cannot
help the devotee beyond those limits. In such case God follows the strict rules of the
cycle of deeds (Karma Chakra) and acts according to justice and injustice.
At the maximum, God may do some rearrangements like pre-poning of good fruits with
reduced value and post-poning bad fruits with increased interest.
In this case God will not transfer your sins on to Him because the conditional devotion is
basically unreal. In the conditional devotion since the boundary of the area is ultimate
God, God is no more God. Therefore, the approach to God is false devotion. It is time
bound since the devotion comes only in difficult times. The unconditional devotion is not
limited by area and time. The devotion is real crossing all the limits of areas and time.
The Lord is the writer of the constitution and He knows whom to punish. Some times you
see punishment of innocent person. You think that the injustice is ruling. In the kingdom
of God only the justice is the ruler by the grace of God. When the innocent is punished,
the punishment was of some bad deed done by him previously and the date of the
punishment coincided with the present incident accidentally.
The Lord will react in the same way as we act (Ye Yatha Mam…Gita). If our devotion is
one kg of Gold, He will pay us its cost. If our devotion is hundred grams gold, He will
pay us one tenth of the cost of the gold. But if our devotion is only bronze, even if it is
one kg the cost of gold cannot be paid. Bronze is glittering like gold and it will have its
own payment. The time bound devotion is totally unreal. We are using God only in
difficulties as we use the fan in summer. In the winter fan is not needed. Of course, we
use the fan in winter also for few minutes so that it will not corrode. Similarly, we pray
God for a little time in the days of happiness also so that the touch with God is
maintained. The intensity of the devotion in the times of happiness is definitely different
from that in bad times. The devotion of Prahlada and Gopikas (Great Devotee of
God)was having the same intensity in all the times. In such case only God suffers for the
sake of devotee. All the suffering of Prahlada was taken by Lord and therefore Prahlada
was always smiling during the torture.
187. Some fine points of Christ and Krishna
My dear Christians and Hindus,
The spiritual message of Jesus and Krishna are always one and the same in every aspect.
Jesus always preached for the detachment from the blind worldly bonds like bonds with
family members. He stated that unless one is prepared to leave parents children, money
and even life for His sake, one couldn’t be His dearest disciple. He always preached the
eradication of egoism. Whenever a supernatural act was done by Him, He always claimed
that it was due to His Father whose glory is to be propagated. He never owned any
supernatural act. He always preached that His Father only grants the boons and all the
facilities on this earth. Krishna also told the same points in Gita about detachment
(Nirmamah…), removal of egoism (Yadahamkaramasritya…) and sanction of boons by
God only (Mayaiva Vihitan…). These three aspects are very important steps to achieve
the grace of the Lord.
You love your family members and such love gives you some pleasure in your heart.
Therefore, your love is only for your self-satisfaction and such love is only selfishness.
You are over powered by the emotions of love but you are not analysing by controlling
your emotions. If you analyse, you can clearly understand that your love cannot protect
either yourself or your family members. Your love is only some loss of your precious
nervous energy and valuable time. Except this loss there is no use. By emotion you are
becoming weak by losing energy. Why are you doing such foolish thing again and again?
There is no benefit out of such act and there is only clear loss.
But if you divert your love towards God, He will protect and develop yourself as well as
your family members in this world as well as in the upper world. By spending the same
quantum of nervous energy towards God, you are getting all unimaginable benefits
forever! How wise is this act! By protecting yourself and your family members, you are
proving your love towards yourself and your family members.
This is the true love. The former is only false love, which involves wastage of energy just
out of selfishness. Thus, wise scholars overcome emotions and analyse any point with
calm and energetic brain. Gita says to apply the brain always to do the analysis and find
out the truth before any action (Buddhow Saranam…). Most of the people are not
understanding this truth. Especially this is very clear in the case of parents who blindly
love their children with the climax of the emotion spending their maximum precious
nervous energy, which is simply wasted without any use for themselves or for their
children. I find, some times, some parents or elders are talking with just born babies!
They talk so many sentences and they no very well that the baby cannot understand even
a single word! They waste their nervous and ordained energy for such a long time and
they feel very great about such foolish act! Therefore, try to understand my point without
any excitation and try to implement my advise. You can experiment my advise just for a
month and then see the tremendous change in your circumstances.
The next item is eradication of egoism. Whenever you are doing some appreciable act,
immediately you disown yourself from such act. You surrender all the credit to the Lord
even before somebody praises about it. If some body is praising you for such act, you
pass on the ownership to the Lord at once. Otherwise, the wine of egoism will enter your
brain and your are intoxicated with the egoism. You are transformed in to a demon
shortly. Some people disown the praise externally but accept the praise in their minds.
This is just like drinking the wine negating it orally. In such case also the intoxication of
egoism is inevitable. You are thinking that you are the owner or the master of your
family.
You feel your self as the king or the ruler and you think that your family is your kingdom.
This is the climax of foolishness and ignorance. You cannot even rule the organs of your
body like heart, kidneys, lungs etc. Even your body is under the control of the Lord only.
How can you control other human beings? Therefore, you quit your post of headship of
your family. From now onwards you recognise that the Lord is the head of your family.
From this moment onwards you feel that you are just a member of your family like any
other family member. You belong to the category of “Ruled” and you are not at all the
ruler. Now your family and your body are under the control of the divine master.
If anything happens to your body or to your family, do not get disturbed because the
rectification is responsibility of the Lord who is the owner of your body and the family.
The owner only has to worry about any disturbance. You are not responsible for either the
disturbance or its rectification. Let any problem arise, you keep calm and peaceful. Even
if you disturbed and feel responsible, you can not do anything. Suppose you are
responding to the problem and try for its rectification, even then, you feel that you are
acting as instrument or a servant of God to do that work. You must feel that you are
assigned to solve that problem by the order of the Lord. When the problem is solved you
must pass on the entire credit to the Lord only. As I told you, you can experiment my
advise for a month and see the excellent works of the Lord.
You must always feel that the final granting authority is only the Lord. Except the Lord
no body or nothing or no force is responsible to accomplish anything every body and
every thing acts according to His wish. The Lord is not seen by you. Therefore, you think
that somebody is kind enough to help you. The person who helped you is forced by the
Lord to help you. That person is just carrying on the order of the Lord. Even if you scold
him, he will not stop helping you. Even if you praise him, he will not help you if there is
no sanction from the Lord. A messenger is bringing a signed cheque from the Lord. The
Lord is in the house and you are not seeing Him.
You have seen the messenger and the cheque in his hand. You are thinking that the
messenger is very kind in helping you. You are praising the messenger. The cheque is
handed over in the Bank. The staff are arranging for the payment of the cheque to you.
You are praising the staff thinking that they are very kind to help you. It is the duty of the
staff to arrange for encashment of the cheque. They will loose their jobs if they are not
doing their duties. They are working for the fear of their jobs only. Therefore, you must
recognise that the God is the signatory and that He is the account holder. You must
understand that the Lord is paying His cash to you.
You must analyse the root cause. The root cause is the cheque. The cheque is valid only
when it is signed by the account holder. Therefore, you must recognise the force that
makes the root cause valid the sanctioning the boons to you. By such deep analyse only
to find the Lord as the cause of the cause. Then only you will become grateful to the
Lord. And express your gratitude to the correct person who is the Lord alone. Whenever
any favour was granted Jesus used to praise the Lord immediately and expressed His
gratitude to the Lord. You must thank the Lord for whatever is given to you already. If
you are not satisfied with the existing facilities, you will never be satisfied even if the
Lord grants any number of more facilities.
If you already satisfied and feel contented with whatever is given already, the Lord is
further pleased to grant further facilities. Therefore, to achieve the grace of the Lord, the
contentment with the existing circumstances is essential. Therefore, be always satisfied
and be always cheerful with whatever you have already. This is the basis for achieving
the grace from the Lord in more quantity in the future. You must always express the
gratefulness to the Lord for whatever is already granted to you. You should not ask for
anything more. When thousands of people came to see Jesus, He was having just four
breads in a basket. He did not ask the Lord for more breads. He raised the basket with His
hands and praised the Lord for giving those four breads. Immediately the four breads
were multiplied to thousands. Gita also says about the necessity of self-satisfaction with
the existing things (Nityatrupto…). He will be rained with infinite grace of the Lord if
you follow my advise. Again I suggest that you experiment this for a month and then
practice in your life.
All this preaching is only the practical philosophy, which requires firm faith in the
preacher. The preacher should be the correct the person. Only the Lord in human form
can be such a correct preacher. If you believe a false preacher or an ignorant person as the
true preacher, results cannot be seen. If you approach the real water and believe it as the
water really, you can put your finger in it and feel the coldness, which is the correct
result. If you put your finger in fire, you cannot feel the coldness because it is not water.
Similarly the false preacher gives negative results. If you put your finger in air, which is
neither water nor fire, your finger neither feels the coldness nor is burnt.
Similarly an ignorant person acting as a true preacher can give neither correct result nor
the negative result. You will be wasting your time energy with such an ignorant preacher.
Therefore, catching the right guide (Satguru) is fundamental step. If you mistake the true
guide as some ordinary guy, only you are loosing. Veda says “Ihachet Avedet…) which
means that if you miss the correct preacher in this world in this birth, you are a permanent
looser. All those ignorant people who did not recognise Jesus and crucified Him were
permanent losers. Similarly, all the ignorant people who cannot recognise Lord Krishna
are loosing the spiritual treasure forever.
188. The good and bad will have their own results separately and will not cancel
each other
The administration of the country through Government and courts is integrated with the
underlying invisible administration of God. Every judge on this earth is controlled by
God who is the ultimate divine judge. Some times, the judge in the court is mislead and
gives wrong judgment so that the sinner is benefited and a good fellow is put to loss. The
reason for this is that the good fellow now was a sinner in the previous birth or in the
earlier time of this birth and grabbed the money or some form of wealth like work of the
present sinner. The wrong judgment did the final justice only by the will of God. The case
is closed here. But if you are a devotee of God, you will be compensated with some
wealth elsewhere.
You need not be upset with the wrong judgment because you are unaware of the complete
background of the case. Your devotion to God has its own fruit separately and will not
interfere with the judiciary system. The good and bad will have their own results
separately and will not cancel each other. If good can cancel bad, every one will be
tempted to do bad in a pressing situation so that it can be cancelled by doing some good
later on. You expect to win the case in the court by your devotion to God. But the
judgment of God has its own analysis and is not affected by any other factor except the
strict procedure of the constitution of God for the deeds and their relevant fruits.
The administration of God is always without any blame and some times people criticize
God blaming that God is sleeping. Actually your ignorance is your sleep and therefore
you are blaming God without knowing the complete background. People expect practical
results for theoretical devotion. They ask for large and thick bread by supplying a spoon
of wet flour! Either the bread will be large and thin or the bread will be small and thick
for flour. You are trying to soap God by flattering Him through prayers or by expressing
your exceptional talent in begging (like crying etc.). God is aware of every thing and
fools you in return by dragging the good fruits from the next birth with reduced value and
giving them to you.
189. The essence of all the religions is one and the same
The essence of all the religions is one and the same since the Universal God gives it. The
religions are different from each other because the religious leaders who are the human
beings create the material that surrounds the essence. The skeleton is one and the same
and there is no difference in the skeletons of the human beings. The difference lies only
in the external materials covering the skeletons, which are flesh, skin etc., in these
external materials differences arose due to deficiencies. Suppose there are two students.
One is weak in physics and the other is weak in chemistry.
Each student mocks the other for the deficiency. Therefore, the deficiency is the root of
difference and quarrels in the religions. The reason for the deficiency is the human brain
that developed the external body of the spiritual knowledge. Therefore, the spiritual
knowledge is the skeleton and the religion is its body. The deficiency in a religion can be
removed by taking the merits of the other religions. Every religion has deficiency and the
rectification of that deficiency should be from other religion without any ego and
jealousy. Do not think that you are without defects. Do not think that your parents have
no defects. Do not think that your teachers and preachers do not have defects. Therefore,
observe others and take the merits from anybody without prejudice.
The blind thinking that your nation, your state, your district, your town or village, your
caste, your family, your parents, etc., is the best or highest should be eradicated from your
brain. Always base your self on your analysis and commonsense that is observed from the
examples in the world. Your elders might have polluted the scriptures but this world is the
best scripture written by God. This world-scripture is Universal without any color of any
religion. You can develop the entire spiritual knowledge by observing this world and the
scientific knowledge existing in the various examples or items of the world. Any human
being cannot pollute these. You must be scientific and analytical in your belief. The
ignorant and clever religious elders always exploit blind belief.
190. Injustice winning?
Shri Partha Sarathi (USA) asked Swami about his financial loss continuously due to
the victory of injustice in this world.
Swami replied: The injustice will never win because if it happens so in this divine rule of
God, it is only blame to His administration. With the limited knowledge of this birth, you
cannot decide the justice. In view of all the previous births and the deeds in the previous
births, God gives judgment, which is perfectly justified in the wide range of all the
previous births. If you criticize God, God will leave you with the due justice as per the
cycle of deeds. If you are a devotee of God, God will compensate your financial loss
through some other way at a later date. If you are wasting the present time in worry, the
compensation of finance may be done but you cannot have the compensation of the lost
past time.
Hence, you should take the help of the spiritual knowledge and try to be happy even in
the misery so that you will not loose both time as well as money. If you are worried, you
cannot concentrate on God and your devotion also becomes week and your financial
compensation in the future also gets correspondingly reduced. Therefore, you must be
brave in the troubles without any worry and maintain the concentrated devotion to God.
191. Never criticize any one in the world
Never criticize any one in the world. If you do not like to praise somebody, keep silent. If
you scold somebody and suppose God is hidden in that person, it will lead to immediate
punishment. Worship of God and insulting God will have immediate results in this world
because both are powerful (Atyutkataih Papapunyaih……). The help and insult to the
colleague souls will have results in the upper world in heaven and hell. But the service
and insult to God in human form and devotees will have immediate results here itself.
Generally it is very difficult to identify God in human form who will try to hide Himself
by looking like an ordinary person or some times looking like even a negative person.
God in human form acts according to the role taken on the stage of the world. The role is
according to the divine program drawn by God Himself. The role generally does not
contain the supernatural behavior, which will create problems of free mixing of God with
the souls. The role consists of mainly normal behavior and sometimes subnormal
behavior to test the devotees or to drive away the undeserving devotees who will try to
exploit God. In such case there is every possibility of misunderstanding God as a normal
human being or some times as a bad human being.
If you neglect God assuming Him as a normal human being, there is nothing wrong in it
and you will not be in loss even though you may not have the benefit. But if you insult
Him assuming a bad fellow, that is the greatest sin and will have immediate negative
effect. Since, we cannot trace out God easily, it is better not to criticize even a bad fellow.
Leave him to his fate. Who are you to criticize anybody? You have lot of bad points
shown by your bulky thumb, when you point out others with your lean finger. The
constitution of God running the divine cycle of deeds will take care of everything in the
world. Why do you unnecessarily take the risk of insulting the hidden God?

192. Analyzing God’s attitude to wards souls
God created all the souls and has the attitude of father towards His children. The father
sometimes may have partiality in showing the love equally to his children. But God is
always having infinite love for all the souls in equal manner. Even the punishments in the
hell are meant for transformation of the souls from lower level to the higher level. God
always tries to help the soul even if a trace of possibility exists in the cycle of the deeds.
One soul need not recommend about the other soul to God to show the grace. If
somebody recommends to his father regarding the welfare of his brother, how foolish it
looks! No soul should recommend to the God about other soul for protection or for
showing the grace. If any soul recommends like that it is only insulting the infinite love
of God. It is only the climax of the ignorance and the emotional love on the other soul,
which lacks even the basic analysis of spiritual knowledge.
193. God is the permanently unknowable region even for the intelligence enriched
with science and logic.
The Universe is infinite with unimaginable beginning and unimaginable end. This means
the cause from which the Universe started and the same cause in which the Universe ends
on dissolution is the unimaginable God. Mud is the beginning stage of the pot and also
the end stage since the pot ends in the mud on destruction. The Universe exhibits the
unimaginable God by its unimaginable limits of beginning and end. The space is
generated from God and the dissolution of space can only show the real nature of its
cause (God).
When the chain is dissolved in fire, then only the gold lump, which is the cause of the
chain, appears in its original form. But even if you imagine for millions of years, you can
never imagine the dissolution of space and therefore you can never imagine the original
nature of God. God is beyond space and God is the permanently unknowable region even
for the intelligence enriched with science and logic.
Hence, God is a permanent wonder and the creation consists of some knowable regions
of knowledge without any wonder and also some temporarily unimaginable regions with
temporary wonder. Now the word Maya can be used for the wonder, which is both
permanent (God) and which is temporary also (the deeper layers of the world up to the
space).
194. God comes again and again in human form to preach- Negligence of present
human incarnation
Identification of the contemporary human incarnation and selfless service to it is the total
essence of the total spiritual knowledge. The starting point is the direct atheist or the
scientist (an indirect atheist) misled by the ambition of the follower of Advaita (who think
soul is God). Whenever Veda uses the word Atman in the context of God, it means only
the particular individual soul, which is charged by God called as human incarnation.
When it is said in Veda that the space is generated by the soul, the word soul means the
human being charged by God like Krishna who came as the human incarnation.
Krishna says that He is the source of the entire creation and the first item of the creation
is space, which is the first of the five elements. Gita clearly says that God comes in the
form of a human being (Manusheem …..). But the serious objection to the human
incarnation is that if there was only one human incarnation like Krishna, only one human
generation was blessed and therefore God must be partial. To avoid this blame, Krishna
told that He will come again and again (Yadayadahi …). But the same human body of
Krishna is not seen again and again. This means that God is beyond the human body and
hence God is beyond this entire creation.
God takes a fresh human body every time just like the soul. The human body is only a
shirt which can be changed often (Vasamsi..Gita). Unfortunately, the human beings due to
repulsion between common items neglect God in the human body. The human beings do
not recognize God existing in a particular human body and treat that particular human
body as an ordinary human being only (Parambhavamajananto…Gita). As long as the
human incarnation is alive, no human being recognizes it but recognizes it after its exit.
Krishna said that a human being recognizing Him as God is very rare (Kaschitmam..,
Samahatma Sudurlabhah…Gita).
But, today most of us recognize Krishna as God. In such case how Krishna said this? Is
not Gita Universal, which is applicable to all times? A simple analysis of this point shows
that Krishna said this in view of negligence shown to Him by the human beings in His
lifetime. Hence this statement means that many do not recognize the alive human
incarnation and several only after its exit recognize it. This statement also clearly proves
that Krishna was speaking about the human incarnation (Himself) existing in His time
only (Contemporary human incarnation) and this does not mean a single human
incarnation generalized for all the times.
If Krishna was the single human incarnation generalized to all the times, this statement
becomes wrong because later on several human beings worshiped Krishna. The
recognition of Krishna as God exists during several human generations after Him (a long
span of time) and only a short time (His life time) is related to this statement. This means
that there is no single human incarnation generalized to all times.
195. Logic is used to reject an imaginable item claimed to be an unimaginable item
Adi Shankara ( a previous human incarnation of God) made certain assumptions, which
are hypothetical to preach the spiritual knowledge to the devotees at various levels.
Generally the devotees are trained in the logic pertaining to the imaginable items in the
world. The development of a concept by them is from a worldly example and also its
application is to another worldly example. For example since the black color of the mud
(cause) is entering into pot (its effect), the conclusion is that the nature of cause enters its
effect. This conclusion is applied to another worldly example and they say that the bright
color of the gold lump (cause) must also enter the chain (its effect).
Here, mud, pot, gold lump and chain are imaginable items and are worldly examples.
Hence, all their logic is limited to the imaginable items only and that cannot be extended
to the unimaginable God and His link with creation is also unimaginable because it is a
link between unimaginable God and imaginable creation. This does not mean that logic is
useless. It is useful in denying an imaginable item claimed to be unimaginable.
For example in the ancient time the awareness is thought to be independent energy like a
free electromagnetic wave in space. But today due to advancement of science and
analytical faculty it is clearly proved that awareness is not an independent item but it is
completely dependent on the co-existence of functioning nervous system and the inert
heat energy produced by the oxidation of food. It is only a special work form of energy
appearing through a complicated special technology of brain and nervous system. It is not
independent even like the electromagnetic radiation traveling in the space. That which
was wonderful yesterday is clear today. It was unimaginable but now is imaginable.
Therefore, there is a knowable region extending up to space in the creation.
In this knowable region there are certain layers of attained knowledge and certain layers
of unimaginable nature. But the layers of unimaginable nature will certainly be analyzed
by logic and science in the course of time. But there is a dead limit of this logic and
analysis of science, which is the space beyond which the region of eternal unimaginable
nature exists. Therefore, by conquering the unimaginable layers within the knowable
region, it does not mean that one day or other the logic or science will cross the dead
limit of space also and capture the unimaginable God existing beyond space. That is
impossible.
You may try and try and one day you may touch the roof of your house by the constant
practice of high jumps. But this does not mean that one day or other you will also touch
the sky by the continuous practice of high jumps. Today the unimaginable layers within
the knowable region may appear wonderful and these layers can be called as Maya. The
word Maya comes from root meaning “wonder” (Maya vaichitrye). The word wonder
does not mean that it will be always unimaginable. The temporarily unimaginable
systems also look wonderful before the analysis. The magic show looks wonderful but it
can be analyzed and the wonder may disappear after analysis. Hence, wonder need not
mean the permanently unimaginable item only.
The deeper layers of this universe are wonderful without analysis but may be realized in
future. These layers are temporarily unimaginable and the word wonder is used in the
case of these also. Therefore, Gita says that you will find the universe as wonderful
(Mayamtu Prakrutim…..).
196. How can God be unimaginable?
If a student comes and asks the preacher “What is God?” and the preacher says, “God is
Unimaginable”; then the student asks again “How God created this world?” and the
preacher says, “The process of creation is unimaginable”; the student will think that the
preacher does not know the answers for his questions and will leave the preacher. This is
the practical problem in revealing the absolute truth. The preacher should say the answers
in positive way and the answers should satisfy the logical faculty of the student. Now you
should analyze the basis of such logical faculty of the student. The basis is the
observation of this world containing all imaginable items only. Hence all his logic is
based on the observation of the nature of imaginable items and the relationships between
the imaginable items only. This means that the preacher should say that God is an
imaginable item and the imaginable process of generation of the imaginable world from
imaginable God is in imaginable way only. Every sentence of the preacher should be
imaginable to the student and then only the student gets satisfied.
The introduction of the word “Unimaginable” by the preacher leads the student to think
that the preacher is ignorant. Hence to satisfy the student and to solve this practical
problem, the preacher has to make certain assumptions and should preach about God
through hypothesis only and not through real theory.
The reality is that the unimaginable God created the world through unimaginable way.
But to satisfy the student the hypothesis introduced here is that God is pure awareness.
Here the infinite ocean of pure awareness is an assumption created because there is no
proof of such ocean of awareness anywhere because you can find only the infinite ocean
of inert energy. The infinite ocean of awareness is created by the preacher and such ocean
charged by God can be treated as God Himself like the live wire treated as current. Now
the student is satisfied.
Similarly, the creation of world from God should be also done through the imaginable
way answering all the objections through imaginable ways only. This makes again the
creation of another assumption for the process of creating the world by God. The
assumption here is that a second unimaginable item called as the power of God is created
which is modified into the world. Since the power is negligible, the world is negligible
and maintains the existence of single God or Brahman. It is like the dream of a person
created by the modification of the mind and the mind is negligible compared to the
materialistic person. In course of time to satisfy the logic of students, changes in the
hypothesis are made by Ramanuja and Madhva who introduced the assumption of a
separate material, which is modified as the world without any connection to God.
The hypothetical assumptions can be varied for the sake of preaching the truth to the
students in order to satisfy their logic developed from the observation of the world
containing only imaginable items. This does not mean that the theories are different.
There is only one real theory that both God and the link between God and world are
unimaginable.
But the preaching requires complete elimination of the word unimaginable and the whole
preaching should continue with the assumptions of imaginable items and imaginable
relationships between those imaginable items only. In such case all the assumptions are
not true at all in the absolute sense. In such case you need not misunderstand that the
three Acharyas are differing from each other with different theories of truth. The same
truth is explained in different ways with different created assumptions of hypothesis for
the sake of understanding of various types of mentalities of the students which are always
based on the constant observation of imaginable items only (Ekam Sat Viprah bahudha
vadanti…..Veda).
The final truth is known to Anjaneya who did not like to preach the truth through
assumptions and hence kept silent in preaching. He showed the essence of all the divine
knowledge through action (Karma) only because Karma can only be real and fruitful. His
recognition of contemporary human incarnation and practical service to Him is the
essence of the message of Anjaneya. For those who cannot accept the human incarnation,
Shankara preached the divine knowledge with several assumptions and the most powerful
assumption is that the soul itself is God. Shankara preached atheists and this powerful
assumption attracted them to come and at least here the subject. All the Acharayas
followed this method of preaching by assumptions to various levels of students who are
based on the logic of imaginable items only.
197. Existence of God
The earth is not rotating by itself. Then why the fan is also not rotating by itself? As the
invisible current is rotating the fan, the invisible God is rotating the earth. The rotation of
earth is work of God. The earth is also the work of God. The rotation of fan is work. The
fan is matter. Matter is a form of energy. Energy is work. Therefore the fan is also a form
of work only. Thus everything is dynamism (work) only. The dynamo is God. You will
immediately say that the dynamo is matter, matter is energy and since work is energy,
dynamo is also a form of work. Then you will say God is also a form of work. This is the
problem with the simile for God. Every simile is only a part of the creation and cannot
stand as a perfect representation of the creator. God is beyond the concepts of work and
no work because God is unimaginable.
You can infer the existence of God through this entire wonderful creation (work). But you
cannot experience directly unless He enters a particular form of His work which is a
human body like Rama, Krishna etc. You can infer the engineer by seeing the wonderful
building constructed by him which is his work. But he is present only in a small room of
that building. If you want to have a direct contact with him, you should search the room
in which he is present. Since the whole building is his construction only, if you sit in
some vacant room and try to talk with him, he will not speak to you. You have to identify
that specific room in which he is present. In searching for the engineer you may find
some other person in some room and can mistake him also as the engineer. Therefore you
must have the knowledge of his identification.
198. No word can indicate God
Several statements of Veda clearly speak that God is completely unimaginable under any
circumstances. Silence can only indicate God. Silence means that no word can be used to
indicate God. In the creation every imaginable item has the specific name, which cannot
be used for any other imaginable item. For example the word pot means only a particular
object. The word cloth means another particular object. You cannot use one word for any
other object. But God can enter any item of the creation. Therefore, the name of every
item can be used to indicate God because there is no specific word for God, who is not at
all a specific object. Even if God does not enter an item, the name of that item can be
used to indicate God, because you are keeping that item as the representative of God. For
example God never enters the inert planet like sun. But still Sun can represent God due to
some similarities. God removes ignorance. Sun removes darkness. The lotus buds are
opened by sun. The ignorant intelligence is also enlightened by God. Therefore, sun can
represent God to some extent. Therefore, the word “sun” can also represent God.
Thus, in one extreme end no word can indicate God (Yato vachah-Veda). At another
extreme end, the name of any item into which either God can enter or any item, which
can represent God, can indicate God. All the prayers of God by thousand names (Shasra
Nama) indicate God. When a word indicates God, it is the name of medium into which
either God entered or which stands as representative God. This means you can experience
God through a specific medium when God enters it. Alternatively you can also imagine
the experience of existence of God through a representative item like sun. You can
experience the existence of God through Lord Krishna because God entered and exists in
the human body of Krishna. In case of sun you can imagine the existence of God through
the properties of the sun. Thus, there is difference between the worship of human
incarnation and worship of the representative item like sun, statue etc.
Veda says that you can worship sun as God, which means that sun is not directly God
(Adityam Brahmaiti…Veda). There is difference between the direct worship of king and
indirect worship of his photo. In both cases the king is pleased. But in the direct worship
the king is extremely pleased because every bit of your service is experienced by king
directly. When God enters the human body, God has not become the human body. God is
in the human body. Therefore, the human body is not God. You can only experience God
through human body. Therefore, by seeing the human body you have not seen God, but
you have only experienced God through that human body. Therefore, God is invisible. Of
course, a devotee can be satisfied by treating the human body as God and can feel
satisfied that he has seen God. From this angle Veda says, “A blessed fellow has seen
God” (Kaschit Dhirah…..).
199. God alone knows God
Whenever you think about God, the thinking itself is a form made of awareness or mind,
even though you claim that you are thinking about formless God. You can never think
any thing, which is formless because your thinking itself is a form. The form may have
some specific boundaries like a statue. The form may not have specific boundaries like
air or water. But the air or water also has some regular or irregular boundaries since the
air or water has certain limits. You call the space as formless object. But the space has
some limitations somewhere and you do not perceive those limits. Such limits may not be
perceived but certainly exist. Therefore, the concept of your formless object has some
boundaries, which are either irregular or not perceived. When you think God as
awareness (Chit), the awareness is mind, which is nervous energy. Energy is in the form
of waves and thus cannot be formless. According to the special theory of relativity of
Einstein, the space is also a form of energy because space exhibits the property of
bending. In that case, the space also cannot be formless. Even if you consider the space as
infinite vacuum, you are aware of the space. Such awareness itself means that space has
become a form of awareness or mental energy. Therefore, strictly speaking there is no
formless object in the creation. You are calling the object, which has either irregular or
infinite boundaries, which are imagined, as formless. Since, such formless object also is a
form in strict sense. Formless concept is impossible.
Therefore, whether you say that God created the space or God created the energy in the
beginning, both statements mean the same because space is also a form of energy only.
Veda said that Para Brahman created the space in the beginning (Atmana Akasah..). The
Veda says again that Para Brahman created energy in the beginning (Tat Tejo..). Both the
Vedic statements mean the same in terms of the latest concept of Science. However, let
such space or energy be called as formless God in your language. Even to think such
formless God, it becomes very very difficult for any ordinary human being. Even a
scholar cannot maintain such concept in his mind for a long time. Even if you maintain
such concept, such God is not the absolute God because absolute God is completely
unimaginable as per Veda and Gita (Yasyaa matam…., Mamtu Veda Na…). God
imagined as space or awareness (mental energy) is not the absolute the God, who is
beyond space and awareness. Veda says that God created space. Veda says that God is
beyond awareness. The creator is always beyond the creation. Even in the absence of the
creation, the creator must exist. According to Brahma Sutras, God is the cause of this
Universe as creator and is the material cause also. The pot maker is the creator of the pot.
The mud is the material cause of the pot. Even in the absence of pot, the pot maker and
the mud exist. Therefore, God existed even before the creation of the Universe.
The pot maker and mud exists even after the destruction of the pot. Similarly, after the
destruction of the world also God must exist. Similarly God must exist before the
creation of the space and after the dissolution of the space. You can never imagine the
situation, which is before the creation or after dissolution of space. Your intelligence
cannot cross the special dimensions and therefore cannot cross the concept of space. That
means you can never imagine the God. Veda says that God alone knows God (Brahma vit
Brahmaiva…).
Therefore, when you imagine God as the all-pervading space, such imagination itself is
an item of creation only. Such imagination is only the incarnation of the God. When you
imagine Him as space, God has entered the space and God is in the space. Similarly, if
you imagine God as all pervading energy, you have imagined the energy only in which
God is present. Therefore, you perceive God as space or inert energy or mental energy
(awareness) and such form of God is only the incarnation of God in the form of space or
inert energy or awareness. This means you can perceive only the incarnation of God and
never the absolute God.
200. Lord- Atheist –Service
Building is there. Implies Builder should be there. Creation is there. Creator should be
there. I can see the building, which is in front of my eyes, but builder need not stand in
front of the building. He will be in his own job. If you want to meet the builder, you
should definitely put effort to locate the builder and see him. Likewise Creation is there
in front of our eyes. But have we put anytime effort to locate and identify the creator?
Instead of that, with least effort we can propagate to others also that God is not there.
They are not only blinded, they are making others also blinded.
Some people who are theists may become prey for the propagation of this ignorance also
unfortunately. The greatest sin on the earth is to be unfaithful.
To identify the builder you should know the identification marks, where he lives, what he
does etc.. and we have to enquire if we don't know. i.e., knowledge is required to identify
any person. This knowledge is called divine knowledge if the aim is to identify the Lord,
which actually only is to be propagated.
Lord created this universe for the enjoyment without any selfish motive and we human
beings are enjoying the creation. Like through nice parents, wife, children, beautiful
nature consisting of pleasant looking mountains, rivers, sea, nature, changing weather etc.
If we cannot please the Lord, the human life is incomplete. We serve our family members
by spending our hard earned money and also physically. Are we not serving family as
Servant, and these family members are nearly equal to us. Where as, Lord is omnipotent
and requires no help from us, many times satisfied our desires, saved us from mishaps
etc. and if we cannot bow our head in front of Him, it is very ridiculous. It is very great
honour to serve Him, this is the path followed by His real devotees. These real devotees
could overcome ego and always wants to serve Him as servant.
Jesus preached the gospel and His followers participated in His mission as servants for
further propagation of divine knowledge. These great devotees never hesitated to serve
Lord Jesus and their names have also been known even today.

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154. The Fight between Atheists and Theists

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156. Correlating Evolution theory of Darwin and spirituality

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160. Atheists and Unimaginable God

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163. Worship of some body mistaking as God will not be a waste

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164. Indirect worship of God Vs direct worship of contemporary human incarnation

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165. Indirect service to God is a total waste

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168. The unimaginable knowledge indicates the existence of God in a particular

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170. Reason for suicides in society

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172. The importance of spiritual preacher

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176. Purpose of human life

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179. Dattaswami answers questions from a Christian devotee

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180. The Spiritual Knowledge and Logic

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181. Fate of a soul

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182. Types of Love to God

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183. Levels in Spirituality

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184. Defects and merits of Christianity , Hinduism, Islam

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186. Conditional Love Vs Unconditional Love to God

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187. Some fine points of Christ and Krishna

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