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Questions asked by devotees and answers by SWAMI.

 

Q.80) What do you mean by Pari Prasna?

 

Pari prasna means a question that can be posed to your

Guru or a scholar. In order to know the truth while

you are asking the Guru, you must salute and serve

Him. If you are asking a scholar, salutation and

service are not necessary. But your question should

be an enquiry only, which should not be mocking or

abusing. You can contradict the point of the scholar

or Guru by showing an equal authority. You must quote

Sruthi against Sruthi or Smruthi against Smruthi. Of

course, if you quote Sruthi the opposing Smruthi is

condemned. You must have an equal logic. Discussion

should be between two equal scholars. Prasna means

question. Pari means the question, which is

associated with equal authority, logic and experience.

Experience, logic and Smruthi should follow Sruthi.

You should confine to the point only. Even if you

win in your point, you should not mock or scold the

opponent, even if the opponent mocks or scolds you.

You must leave the opponent for the punishment to be

given by the Lord. You should not punish him. When

Ramanuja contradicted the commentary of Sankara, He

never mentioned the name of Sankara. He only

mentioned the disciples of Sankara. He never used any

foul language in His commentary. A scholar called

‘Bellamkonda Rama Rao’ scolded Ramanuja as a child

(Sisu) and animal (Pasu). Ramanuja was the

incarnation of ‘Adi Sesha’. This scholar died at his

thirty eighth year by the bite of a poisonous

creature. You can easily convince a scholar or

ignorant person but never a fellow who argues with

egoism and

jealousy possessing little knowledge. When Indra came

and posed a question to Brahman, Brahman disappeared

without answering Indra. The personal assistant of

Brahman called ‘UMA’ appeared and told Indra to do

penance for thousand years to talk with Brahman

because Indra was egoistic at that time. Thus you

should not discuss with a fellow having half

knowledge. It will be like throwing a stone on the

mud. When you are getting a doubt on the point of the

opponent, you must have all the good manners to pose

the doubt. You should not resort to scolding or

mocking in the first step itself, even if the point

of the opponent is wrong. When an employee goes wrong,

a polite Memo should be given for explanation before

taking action. The aim of all discussions must be only

to find out the truth. This is called as Vada

Maryada, which means the minimum dignity and decorum

of the discussion. Ancient sages maintained this

through out their spiritual discussions (Satsanga).

Otherwise the Satsanga becomes only the barking of two

village dogs. In spiritual path you must get rid of

anger, jealousy and egoism. Without removing these

three, you can never attain the grace of the Lord.

Sankara says that Sama and Dama are required for

spiritual path. Sama means controlling the inner

senses (anger, jealousy and egoism). Dama means

controlling the outer senses like your tongue.

 

Q.82) What is the balanced role of capacity (Sakthi)

and devotion (Bhakthi) in sacrificing the work and the

fruit of the work?

 

A) Sakthuprastha could achieve Brahma Loka with

little flour. Sudama achieved lot of wealth by

sacrificing little rice to Lord Krishna. Dharma Raja

sacrificed lot of wealth but could not be equal to

Sakthuprastha. Dharma Raja gave lot of jewels and

silk clothes to Lord Krishna while doing the Aswamedha

Sacrifice. But Lord Krishna did not give any wealth

to Dharma Raja. Therefore the Lord does not see the

value of your donation. He will see the percentage of

your donation out of your total wealth. Sakthuprastha

and Sudama sacrificed what ever they had to the Lord.

Therefore what ever the Lord can give was given by the

Lord. Here both the Sakthi and Bhakthi were complete.

Even when you are sacrificing the work, the Lord sees

whether you have sacrificed all your energy or not.

The squirrel was showering some sand particles in the

ocean during the construction of the bridge. The

monkeys were putting stones. The monkeys and the

squirrel sacrificed full energy in their work. When

the stones were drowned, the monkeys stopped the

construction of bridge due to lack of complete

devotion. But the squirrel continued its work with

full devotion. Therefore the Lord patted the squirrel

and blessed it. Therefore in sacrificing the work or

the fruit of the work, both the capacity and devotion

should be fully satisfied.

 

Q.83) You said that Duryodhana started the

MahaBharatha war on Amavaasya after consulting

astrologers. But Lord Krishna brought Amavaasya one

day before by joining Sun and Moon. But this story

has no validity in Maha Bharatha especially regarding

the Amavaasya. How can you justify?

 

A) I have taken this story that is circulated among

the scholars in this world. The essence of this story

is that the Lord is beyond all the planets and He is

the controller of the planets. Therefore the Lord is

above the astrology. The concept of this essence is

in Veda. Veda says ‘Natatra Suryo Bhathi,

Bhishodeti’. Gita also says the same (Na Tat

Bhasayate). Therefore the final conclusion of the

story is important and not the story. The Maha

Bharatha has now one-lakh twenty five thousand verses,

which were written by scholars and were penetrated.

Originally Vyaasa wrote only seven thousand verses

under the name ‘Jayam’. Therefore the validity of

your point in Maha bharatha itself is doubtful. The

author of Maha Bharatha is also the author of Gita.

Therefore the Maha Bharatha cannot contradict the

essence of this story which is mentioned in Gita.

Even if you say that Vyaasa in Maha Bharatha wrote

your point, it is only Smruthi. The conclusion of this

story is in Veda and cannot be contradicted by the

Smruthi. The essence of the story is to be taken

always and not the story.

 

Q.84) You say that Ramanuja is the Re-incarnation of

Sankara. Sankara said that any individual who is

interested in the Lord is eligible for the spiritual

effort. But Ramanuja said that only a Brahmana who

read

Veda is eligible for spiritual path. How can you

solve this contradiction?

 

A) As I told you, you must understand any commentary

of Acharya from His practical life. Ramanuja left His

wife for observing difference between a Brahmin and a

non-brahmin. How such Ramanuja can say that the

Brahmin

alone is eligible for spiritual path? Therefore you

must know the inner meaning of His commentary.

Brahmana means He who knows Brahman. Brahman means

pure awareness, which is the soul. Therefore Brahmana

means any one who has attained the knowledge of

Brahman or self. Upto this, Sankara preached to

attain the knowledge of self (Atma Jnana). Sankara

showed the next half of the journey to reach Eswara.

By attaining Atma Jnana, one gets lot of peace so that

he can withstand the suffering in the next half of the

journey. Veda means knowledge.

Therefore a Brahmana who read Veda means any

individual who attained the knowledge of self.

Sankara told that the qualification to attain the

self-knowledge is spiritual interest. The

self-knowledge is the qualification to attain Eswara.

Therefore the intermediate goal of Sankara is the

qualification to start in the path of Ramanuja.

Therefore there is no contradiction and both made the

same continuous spiritual path in the sequence of

time.

 

Q.85) My son who died in an accident was an excellent

devotee of the Lord. The Lord who has to protect him

killed him. Is He not cruel?

 

A) Your question shows that you are not the real

devotee of the Lord. Your son must have been a real

devotee as expressed by your own words. He was born to

you by his previous action (Prarabdha). In your

association, he will be certainly spoiled. Therefore

the Lord wanted to change him as a son of another real

devotee. He allowed some time to see whether you will

change as a real devotee so that your son may continue

with you. But you have not changed because you are

scolding the Lord for cutting your bond with your son.

Actually all the family bonds should be cut for the

sake of the bond with the Lord. Just like you will

change your son from a school containing bad students

to a school with good students, the Lord changed your

son to the atmosphere of a real devotee. Thus the

Lord protected your son. In His view, removing this

external body is just like removing the shirt. In

your view, such removal of shirt is cruelty.

Therefore always have firm faith that the Lord is

always the protector and He is kindest towards all His

real devotees.

 

Q.86) What is the difference between Rama and Krishna?

 

Rama followed Dharma and was number one in that. Due

to this, Dharma thought that it is greater than the

Lord. Immediately the Lord in the form of Lord

Krishan broke Dharma severely. Dharma realized and

followed the Lord Datta as a cow. In Gita, Lord

Krishna told ‘Sarva Dharmaan Parityajya’ which means

that the Lord is greater than Dharma. As Rama, the

Lord practiced the spiritual path keeping silent and

controlled His mind. He indicated the Yoga in which

the energy wasted through words and feelings can be

preserved and can be diverted and concentrated in the

action (Service). Krishna indicated the other path.

He sang by flute and preached through words (Gita).

He showed lot of love in the form of feelings in

Brindavanam. He indicated that if the energy is

wasted through words and feelings, one cannot do any

action. Therefore He did not participate in the war

and took the help of Arjuna to do the divine work of

destroying evil people. But at the same time, He

destroyed all the enemies by His advises (mind and

words) only. This aspect is confined to the Lord only

and not for the ordinary souls. For

ordinary soul, Yoga is the path in which all the

energy wasted by words and feelings should be

controlled and diverted in the work only as was done

by Hanuman.

 

Q.87) What is the difference between Brahman and

Eswara? Who is Datta?

 

Brahman is pure awareness. You can attain peace and

bliss by becoming Brahman, which is your self itself.

If you detach from the body and feel that you are

Brahman, you can attain peace and bliss. But you

should remain in peace and bliss thinking that you are

pure awareness even if you are beaten in the hell.

Such detachment is essential. Eswara means Lord Datta

who appears peaceful and as if having the bliss. He

donates His peace and bliss to His devotees and does

not enjoy the peace and bliss internally. Veda says

the same (Esha Hyeva Anandayati). Datta means

sacrifice and not enjoyment. He takes the fruits of

all the sins of His real devotees and is a ocean of

unhappiness internally. He alone can come as human

incarnation in this world. Any living being is

Brahman because the pure awareness is present in all

living beings. The peace and bliss are to be attained

by the grace of Eswara only, even in this stage of

self-knowledge as said by Sankara (Eswaraanugraha

Deva). Otherwise you can become just the pure

awareness only by Advaita. The pure awareness may be

associated with peace and bliss when you are sitting

in the meditation by the grace of Eswara or may be

associated with unhappiness and disturbance while you

are beaten in the hell. Therefore Eswara is the final

goal and not the Brahman, since Brahman is already

achieved by any living being. Even a worm in the

drainage water has already achieved the Brahman. The

path towards Eswara is full of sacrifice because the

very nature of Eswara (Datta) is sacrifice. As you

achieve more and more sacrifice you are practically

becoming more and more Datta.

 

Q.88) Sankara told Bhaja Govindam which means singing

songs on Lord Krishna or Vishnu as the path to please

the Lord. But you are preaching the Karma Yoga

(Service). Please explain?

 

A) Bhaja - Sevayaam. The meaning of Bhaja means

Service and not singing songs. Similarly the word

Govinda does not mean Krishna or Vishnu. It can mean

even Lord Shiva. Actually the word Govinda means the

Lord in

human body. The word 'Go' means the human body which

is the composite of all the senses. The word 'Vinda'

means the Lord who attained the human body. Therefore

Govinda means the Lord in human form. The meaning of

the sentence means the practical service and

participation in the mission of the Lord in human

form. Knowledge is very important step before you

follow the spiritual path. After attaining the true

knowledge only, you can choose the true path to reach

the goal. To find the true path is the first step and

to walk in the true path (Karma Yoga) is the next

step. Therefore knowledge and practice are the only

two steps . In between these two, the words and

feelings (prayers and devotion) have no place at all.

When you know the true path to reach Delhi, what will

be your next step? Your next step is only to follow

the path practically. There is no intermediate step

in which you express your feelings and sing songs on

the path or on the goal i.e.,Delhi. This intermediate

step is brought as a twist by the people who are

unable to practice the knowledge. First you must have

the knowledge of the goal i.e., Delhi. After this you

may praise and develop desire to reach Delhi. This

stage is Bhakti in which you do prayers, meditation

etc., This Bhakti will strengthen your determination

to reach Delhi. Once you are determined, you must

search for the knowledge of the path and once you have

obtained the knowledge of the path, you must walk

i.e., you must practice Karma Yoga and there is no

need of Bhakti at this stage. If you are again going

to Bhakti, means your

determination was not complete. First you must have

the knowledge of the goal.

 

Q.89) Why the human form is not generally accepted and

what are the factors for failing in the test of Datta?

 

A) The human form of the Lord which comes to test you

is itself called Datta. People are fond of statues

because there is minimum guarantee of the business

with the statue. You give one chocolate to the Lord

aspiring for ten chocolates. The ten chocolates may

be given or may not be given. But at least the one

chocolate which you have given must not be lost. This

is the minimum guarantee business which only you

prefer in the world. Therefore when you offer one

chocolate to the statue, it will not eat it. The ten

chocolates may come or may not come. At least your

one chocolate is saved but if you give one chocolate

to the human form of the Lord, He will eat it and thus

the minimum guarantee is lost.

 

The factors involved for your success in the test of

Datta are:-

 

1) Can you give more value to the Lord than any thing

and any body in this world?

 

2) Can you believe the human form of the Lord which

has approached you completely without any trace of

doubt?

 

Majority of the people fail in the first point itself

because they are using the Lord to achieve happiness

to their families. Such instrumental God cannot have

more value than the money or the family. A very few

top most devotees succeed in the first point. But

they fail in the second point to recognize the human

form of the Lord and to believe the human form of the

Lord completely. Therefore they fail in the second

point. Only one in millions and that too in one birth

out of millions of births can succeed in both the

points. Gita says the same (Kaschitmaam Bahunaam

Janmanaam). The factors that will help you to pass

the test are to catch the Sadguru who can alone

explain the true path from Vedas and the mental

determination which is attained by you either in this

birth or in the previous births.

 

 

Q.90) Where is the existence of all the deities

(Devas)?

 

A) Veda says ‘Yavateervai Devataah’ which means that

all the deities are present in Satguru who can preach

the true meaning of Veda. In this Mantra, Satguru is

referred as Brahmana. Brahmana means the Satguru who

knows Brahman. Brahman means Veda. The Lord alone

knows the true meaning of Veda as said in Veda

(Brahmavit Brahmaiva). The Lord comes in human form

and appears before the eyes of the human beings here

itself as said in Veda (Yat Saakshaat Aparokshaat).

Therefore such a human form of the Lord is the abode

of all the deities. Arjuna could see all the deities

in the Viswa Roopa of Lord Krishna. Arjuna saw the

Viswaroopa with the help of ‘Divya Netra’, which is

also called, as ‘Jnana Netra’, which is the eye of

Knowledge. The eye of knowledge means Knowledge

itself. The word Deva means form of light. Light

means the Satvam quality and Satvam means Jnanam’

(Knowledge). Knowledge means the various ideas made of

awareness. The awareness is like gold and the various

ideas are like different golden ornaments. Therefore

the different deities mean the different feelings of

the human form of the Lord, which are different forms

of His awareness. The true knowledge of such Satguru

is Brahma. His love, which rules the devotees, is

Vishnu. His anger to punish His devotees for their

ignorance is Rudra. His auspicious bliss, which does

not change by the worldly matters, is Shiva. His

preaching is Saraswati. The Guru Dakshina given to

Him is Lakshmi. His super power is Parvati. His

capacity to finish His mission in spite of obstacles

is Ganapati. His courage without any fear is Hanuman.

His severe anger to punish the atheists is Veera

Badhra. Removal of the dark ignorance by His

preaching is Surya. Enjoying the role through

ignorance is Rama. Attraction of the devotees is

Krishna. Removal of the sins of His devotees by

transferring them on Him is Venkateswara. His

ordering capacity is Sastha. His nature to give the

results to all the living beings according to their

deeds is the nine planets. Like this the Satguru in

human form is the composite of all the deities. Such

human

form of Lord is coming in every human generation so

that He is not partial to a particular human

generation only. The entire world is in His body.

There is nothing outside. Everything is in the

Satguru. People are worshipping the external inert

forms without knowing the real nature of Satguru.

“Bahirmukha sudurlabha” means that there is nothing in

this external world. “Antar Mukha Samaradhya” means

that the internal form of the human incarnation is the

real Lord. The human body of the Lord called as

Satguru is the modification of Maya and He is

Prakruti itself. Such human body follows the rules of

nature and is behaving like any other human body,

which is weak and is called as Lalita. The word

Lalita means the Prakruti which represents the human

body of the Lord and that is tender without any divine

strength. There is no other way than to worship the

external form of human incarnation

because the internal form is beyond imagination.

Therefore Lalita (human body) is only the alternative

to worship the Lord. The Lord with human body is

called Saguna Brahman, which means the Lord associated

with Guna (Quality). The quality is depending on the

substance only and is surrounding the substance. The

super power Maya is the root deity. The different

forms of the Maya are the different deities. Maya is

called Para Sakthi, which means simple awareness. The

different forms of awareness are the different

feelings. These feelings are the different deities.

Therefore the Satguru (Lord) can show the form of any

deity just by getting that feeling. His will

materializes as the form of the deity and you can look

at Him as that deity. You must have firm faith on such

Satguru and this firm faith is the entire essence of

your spiritual effort (Sadhana). Surya (Sun) can

remove only darkness but not the ignorance. The Sun

is the inert planet, which is a model for ignorant

people. As the Sun removes darkness, the Lord removes

the ignorance. Therefore the real deity form of Sun

is the Satguru and not

the inert Sun. Such Satguru enlightens the

intelligence as said in Veda (Dheeyo yonah). Such

Satguru is compared to the Sun (Savita). The inert

Sun can only remove sleep of the body but the

preaching of Satguru removes the ignorance that covers

the intelligence. Therefore it is told “Na

Guroradhikam, Gurussakshaat Para Brahma” i.e., nobody

is greater than the Satguru and the Satguru is the

final Lord.

 

Q.91) Why people insult and neglect the human

incarnation?

 

A) An ignorant person neglects Mahatma Gandhi seeing

his cheap cloth. He cannot estimate the real value of

Gandhi. He will give lot of value to a cinema actor

who is in a colourful dress. Similarly when the Lord

comes in the human body, which follows all the rules

of the nature, an ignorant person insults Him seeing

the ordinary human body, since he does not recognize

the value of the internal form. This is told in Gita

(Avajaananti Mam Mudhaah). The Lord can make His body

to be divine and above the rules of nature by His

super power. But He does not do this because He does

not like to violate the rules of nature, since He is

the creator of those rules. One will not generally

contradict His own rule and insult himself. An

ordinary soul in the form of a Yogi or a demon,

frequently exhibits his body to be beyond the rules of

the nature because he is not insulted since he is not

the creator of the rules of the nature. By such petty

miracle, the ignorant person believes such Yogi or

demon as the Lord. The Lord is the ruler of Yogis

(Yogeswara). Once a saint walked on the river but Shri

Rama Krishna Parahamsa who is

the human incarnation of the Lord came by a boat

paying one rupee. The Saint proudly told Shri

Paramahamasa that he obtained the power to walk on the

water by Sadhana for the past thirty years. The saint

asked Paramahamsa whether He did such tedious Sadhana

in His life. Paramahamsa told simply with a smile

that the cost of his thirty-year-old Sadhana is one

rupee and that He never did such cheap Sadhana.

Arjuna prostrated to the feet of Lord Krishna before

all the soldiers without egoism and jealousy. Krishna

was a human being like Arjuna. Moreover Krishna is

only the driver whereas Arjuna is the owner of the

chariot. Arjuna recognized the value of the internal

form of Lord Krishna and therefore Krishna revealed

His inner form as Viswa Roopa to Arjuna. Therefore

those people who get rid of jealousy and egoism can

only give the value to the human incarnation.

 

Q.92) What is the goal of the three Acharyas? Is it

Brahman or Eswara?

 

A) Brahman is called as Nirguna Brahman, when the

Brahman is without Maya. When Brahman is associated

with Maya it is called Saguna Brahman or Eswara. Maya

is called as Guna or power or quality. The quality

always depends on the substance. The substance is

Brahman. Brahman is beyond even the imagination as

said in Veda. The Maya is nothing but the simple

awareness, which is the mind of Brahman. We can only

say that the Nirguna Brahman exists as said in Veda

(Astheetyeva Upalabdhavyah) and nothing more is known.

There are only two

authorities to know the existence of Nirguna Brahman:

1) Veda 2) Anumana Pramanam: For this world there must

be some cause. Scholars say the same (Aptavaak

Anumanaabhyam Sadhyam). All the three Acharyas could

go

up to Maya only, which is pure awareness. This world

is the modification of Maya. Therefore they could

touch the root cause of this world which is Maya. But

they could not touch the base of this Maya, which is

the Nirguna Brahman. Since Nirguna Brahman is beyond

imagination, it can be never touched. Therefore all

the three

Acharyas called this simple awareness (Maya) as

Brahman because no body can go beyond the Maya and

touch the Nirguna Brahman. Nobody can even explain

the process of generation of Maya for Nirguna Brahman.

How can

one explain the production of the world from Nirguna

Brahman directly? The world is only the modification

of Maya. Therefore Eswara can be the cause of the

world through His power Maya. Eswara without Maya

(Nirguna Brahman) cannot be explained as the direct

cause of the world. Sankara explained all this. When

the people misunderstood His theory, Sankara came as

Ramanuja and Madhva to clarify the misunderstandings

and condemn the misinterpretations of the true theory.

The word Brahman mentioned by the three Acharyaas is

only Eswara (Saguna Brahman) because Nirguna Brahman

is beyond even imagination. Even in the case of

Eswara the power associated with Him called as Maya,

which is simple awareness or His mind, could only be

touched as the cause of the world. The actual internal

form of Eswara (Nirguna Brahman) could never be

touched. Similarly in the case of human incarnation

also, the internal form is only the Nirguna Brahman

and cannot be touched. You can only

see and worship the external form (human body) which

is called as Prakruti and which is the modification of

Maya.

 

Q.93) Priests say that the sacred water (Teertham)

removes all sins and diseases. But all the people

are not relieved of their diseases. Why?

 

A) Gita says ‘Nadatte Kasyachit Papam’ which means

that the Lord will not take the sins of any soul. The

verse recited by the priests while serving Teertham,

says that all the sins will be removed. This

contradicts the verse of Gita. The verse of Gita is a

stronger authority. Another verse says that one has

to undergo the results of all his deeds whether good

or bad (Avasya manu bhokthavyam). Therefore at the

time of taking the sacred water a person might have

completed the result of his sin, which is in the form

of disease. Others may have to continue with the

disease because the sin was not completed. Therefore

the theory of the verse of the priests is wrong. We

do not doubt the power of the Lord. But we say that

the power of the Lord is not in the Theertham. The

power of the Lord cannot fail in any case. Even in

the cases of Sun and Fire, which are controlled by

God, are not failing in their powers. Sun always

removes darkness. Fire always removes cold. Of course

the incarnations of Lord Datta clearly show the

transfer of sins of His devotees on Him and Lord Datta

suffers the sins of His real deserving devotees.

Therefore neither your worship nor the sacred water is

powerful without the will of the Lord. The will of

the Lord toundergo the punishment of your sins comes

only when you are a real devotee by serving Him

practically without aspiring any fruit in return. The

Lord gave the judgement and He only gives the results

of your deeds. He will not contradict His own

judgement. The Dharma deva (Judge) is only His

external dress. He is the internal person in all the

forms of deities. Therefore He cannot contradict His

own judgement in another form of deity. Once in a

college a head of the department resigned his

headship and the letter was sent to the principal.

But the same head

was also the principal. The head went to the

principal’s office and rejected his own letter!! This

incident actually happened in an engineering college

in which I was also working as a professor. The Lord

will not cut such a joke. The present tradition is

making the Lord as such a joker.

 

Q.94) From a long time several people have set up this

tradition. How can you contradict by your knowledge

in such a short time?

 

A) Suppose there is a vacant room. Even if hundred

people said since one hundred years that the room is

filled with pots, it cannot be true. I may be one

person and might have told you just ten minutes back

that the room is vacant. Which is true? Therefore

you analyze what I say and what they said. Then you

can know the truth. You must see the room with your

own eyes and decide who told the truth. The number of

the people and duration of time cannot stand as an

authority for truth. Thousand blind people may say

that every thing is darkness only, even

though the Sun is shining. But that cannot be true.

Veda says the same (Andhenaiva). Blind followers lead

by blind preachers will fall into the well, which is

the hell.

 

Q.95) The knowledge preached by you is really

wonderful. Why the previous incarnations of Datta did

not reveal this knowledge? For me it appears that you

are the fullest incarnation (Pari Purna Avatara) of

Datta. What do you say about my opinion?

 

A) You still have a small doubt about me. You have

not confirmed that I am the fullest incarnation of

Lord Datta. Therefore your knowledge about me is not

complete. Hence I should not say that I am the

fullest incarnation of Datta. I will say this to a

devotee who develops very firm faith in me on this

point. Lord Krishna never told

anybody that He was the Lord. Even to Arjuna, He

never told this point during His lifetime except in

the battlefield while preaching Gita. He revealed

that He was the Lord because Arjuna surrendered to

Krishna with full faith. It is very dangerous to

reveal the divine truth unless one deserves by His

complete faith. However, you say that my knowledge is

wonderful and that it has not come in the past. The

reason for this is that the situation in the past was

different. Some people were ignorant due to lack of

the divine knowledge, some people were ignorant of

some points in the divine knowledge and some people

were complete scholars. The complete scholars were

unable to explain properly to the other two

categories. No human being can explain effectively to

another human being. Therefore the previous

incarnations of Datta must have been either partial

incarnations (Kalavataras and Amsavataras) or the

incarnations of the disciples of Datta. They might

have been the complete incarnations of Datta also and

Datta might have not revealed this wonderful knowledge

since there was no need in that time. But today there

is a real need for this wonderful knowledge because

people have become wonderful. Today the people are

not ignorant about the true knowledge. They know the

truth but they don’t like the truth. They want the

goal of the true path but do not want to proceed in

the true path. They want to reach the true goal by

false path, which is convenient to them. For this

purpose they twist the meanings of Vedas and Gita.

Today the people are over intelligent. Even Lord

Datta is sometimes astonished by the twisted meanings

of these people. Therefore there is a need at present

for Lord Datta Himself to come down and reveal this

wonderful knowledge to the wonderful people. If the

people

are not following the true path even by this effort,

there is no other alternative than to face the final

incarnation of Datta (Kalki). Lord Datta needs a

human body to preach the knowledge. Accidentally and

incidentally He chose my body. There is nothing

special in me. There are ten pens in the pen stand. A

poet wants to write a poem on

the paper. He takes one of the ten pens and writes

the poem. The credit of the poem goes to the poet and

not to the pen. I am just one of the several pens.

In fact better pens are also available. But by

chance I happened to be that lucky pen. All the other

pens will definitely scold the pen with which the poet

is writing. This will happen to any pen. Jealousy

of human beings is inevitable and the scolding to the

selected pen is also inevitable. Unless one gets rid

of egoism and jealousy, one can never accept the human

incarnation. Some people doubt and some people even

insult the human incarnation as said in Gita

(Samsayatma, Avajananti Mam).

 

Q.96) The mind is not firm on a single point. It is

always wavering from one point to other point. How to

fix the mind?

 

A) The very nature of the mind is wavering. The Lord

created the mind with such nature. You cannot change

the nature of mind because the Lord created both the

mind and its nature. How can you change the creation

of the Lord? The Lord must have created the mind with

such wavering nature for some good purpose only. You

do not understand that purpose and therefore you are

making a futile attempt to change its nature. You

must divert your mind from the world to the Lord. The

mind is always moving from one point to the other

point in the world. When you divert the mind to the

Jnana Yoga (Knowledge) of the Lord, then also the mind

varies from one point to the other point. The Lord

has several divine qualities. To understand His

greatness, to understand the real path and

to understand you, the mind is diverted from one point

to the other. Therefore the nature of mind suits to

the study of Jnana Yoga which is the base for devotion

(Bhakti) and from Bhakti, Service (Karma Yoga)

results, which finally brings the grace of the Lord.

Therefore your effort must be to divert the mind from

the world to the divine

knowledge. Both the world and divine knowledge

consist of various points and both these suit to the

nature of the mind. You must withdraw the mind from

the world and repeatedly try to divert to the

knowledge of the Lord. Gita says the same

(Abhyaasenatu). In such case you will succeed in the

spiritual path because you will be strained and

finally fail if you try to change the nature of the

mind. Try to use the same nature of the mind in your

spiritual effort. Any item in this world is good

because the Lord created it only to help your

spiritual effort. All the bad qualities like Kama,

Krodha, Lobha etc., can be diverted towards the Lord

and they can be used to attain the grace of the Lord.

Any thing becomes bad only when you use it for the

world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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