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One should not be tempted to become human incarnation The human incarnation means the existence of God in the human being You will not get any advantage by becoming human incarnation and will not get any disadvantage by remaining as its humble servant You should not be tempted to become human incarnation since no extra undue advantage can be obtained by you by becoming human incarnation. The service rendered by you to God in the human incarnation gets the same fruit, whether you internally serve God as human incarnation or externally serve as a devoted servant. No extra advantage will be shown on you since you are serving internally. Similarly, your sin will be punished equally whether you are serving Him internally or externally. Your sin will not be neglected since you are the human incarnation and your merit will not be also neglected since you are existing outside as a devoted servant. The human incarnation means the existence of God in the human being. The human being means the inert human body as the tree with the individual soul as its owner-bird. The God, the ultimate owner of all birds and all trees, lives on the same tree along with its owner-bird as said in Veda (Dvaasuparnaa…..). The sin of the individual soul, which is the owner-bird of the body-tree will be equally punished as the sin of the bird of any other tree. The merit of bird of any other tree will be rewarded in the same way. Rama is the human incarnation in which the individual soul exists merged with God. Rama killed Vali hiding Himself and this sin belongs to individual soul and Rama received the punishment of this sin in the next birth, born as Krishna. Hanuman is an individual soul existing out side as the servant of Rama and Hanuman was rewarded with the post of God. Therefore, there is no discrimination between the souls regarding punishment or reward. The soul in which God exists by merging punishes the same soul for its sin. The teacher takes disciplinary action against his own son in the school even though his son lives with him only the same house. The teacher gives I st mark to any deserving boy even though such boy stays outside his house. Therefore, you will not get any advantage by becoming human incarnation and will not get any disadvantage by remaining as its humble servant. In such case, your jealousy on human incarnation is also meaningless. Hence, you should concentrate on the merits of your sacrifice and service only avoiding the aspirations regarding all the fruits including the fruit of becoming human incarnation. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The fruit depends on the quality of your practical sacrifice Hanuman served His contemporary human incarnation without any aspiration and finally God merges with him to make him incarnation. The fruit depends on the quality of your practical sacrifice only and does not depend on the distance between you and God. It makes no difference whether you are closest to God by becoming human incarnation or far from God by remaining a devoted servant. In fact, there is higher fruit than becoming the human incarnation. You can become equal to God through human incarnation. But there is a higher state than this, which is to make God as your servant. Gopikas remained always very far from their contemporary human incarnation, Krishna, since Krishna left Brundavanam as a boy and never returned back to see Gopikas staying in Brundavanam. But, they received this unique fruit since a separate world called as Goloka was created by God above His head. The quality of their sacrifice is unimaginable since they sacrificed everything for the sake of Krishna. Such sacrifice is possible only to sages and is impossible to any human being or any angel also. They sacrificed all their wealth, which is the stored butter through which only their livelihood is maintained. Sages are highest souls in the entire creation. Datta, the sage incarnation of God is highest for the same reason. They sacrificed their sacred character, even though such sacrifice leads to intensive punishment in the hell. They jumped in to the fire when they heard that Krishna was no more and thus they sacrificed their life for God. Therefore, the qualify of your practical attitude brings the fruit and not the distance between your self and God. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Spirituality Vs Religion 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.

Your intelligence can never imagine the original God Any amount of logical analysis of intelligence fails to imagine the original God The original God, having no spatial dimensions, is beyond space. If you want to see such original God, you have to cross the space. In doing so, you have to reach the boundary of the space. Unless you cross the boundary of Andhra Pradesh, you cannot enter Tamilnadu. If you reach the boundary of Andhra Pradesh, you can see Tamilnadu from there. Similarly, if you reach the boundary of space, you can see the original God starting from that boundary. But, space is infinite and hence its boundary can never be achieved. If the original God has spatial dimensions, it means, the space is in God. It means, you have not achieved the boundary of space. Your intelligence can never cross the spatial dimensions and can never go beyond space. This means, your intelligence can never imagine the original God. Intelligence is the highest faculty having the power of imagination after thorough analysis. Any amount of logical analysis of intelligence fails to imagine the original God. Veda says this (Namethayaa….,Naishaatarkena….). There is no need of saying that lower faculties like mind, life etc., fail to imagine the original God. Life has very dormant power of thinking. Mind has the power of thinking but cannot analyze anything. Veda says that God generated the space. If God has spatial dimensions, it means that God has space. In such case, space exists in God even before its generation. This contradicts the statement that God generated the space. The mud generated pot. The pot is not in the mud before its generation. This is the starting point or foundation of the spiritual knowledge. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Real meaning of God is said to be ‘omnipresent’ The unimaginable God exists everywhere through His unimaginable power God is said to be omnipresent. It means, God exists everywhere in the space. By this, you should not think that God pervades the entire space and hence God exists everywhere. This logic applies to the imaginable objects. If you say that the air is everywhere in the room, it means that the air is pervading all over the room. Both air and room are imaginable objects with spatial dimensions. The molecules of air occupy some little space and this is the real volume of the air. Under high pressure, such real volume can be measured. Therefore, air has spatial dimensions. In ordinary conditions, the molecules move freely in the room and the space of the room is available for the free movement of the molecules. Hence, the air is said to have the volume of room or container, which is the space available for the free movement of the molecules in this context. When you say that the light pervaded all over the space of the room, the light energy has waves having certain wave length. Length is a dimension of the space. Thus, all conclusions are based on the items having spatial dimensions. The logic derived based on such conclusions cannot be applied to God having no spatial dimensions. The world is imaginable item having spatial dimensions. But, God pervading the world has no spatial dimensions. Therefore, you cannot say that God pervades all over the world like the air or light in the room and hence God exists everywhere. You should say that God is present everywhere because He is beyond space. The unimaginable God exists everywhere through His unimaginable power. You should be very careful in understanding the meaning of the word ‘omnipresent’ in the case of God. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Meaning of God is said to be ‘omniscient’ God exists even in the absence of space God is beyond space Characteristic of God should be solved through His unimaginable power only and not through the logic derived based on the imaginable items having spatial dimensions. Similarly, God is omniscient. It means that God knows everything. Since, God is omnipresent through His unimaginable power, He is also omniscient to know everything. If you are everywhere, you will know everything. Here, people take a new direction and say that the very process of knowing is the inherent characteristic of awareness and hence God is awareness. This direction cannot be accepted. If you say that God is awareness, God becomes imaginable item. Awareness is imaginable, which is a special form of work energy as a result of the function of inert energy in the specific machine called nervous system including brain. Any work requires the existence of space. If God is awareness or work form of energy, God also requires space for His existence. But, God being the generator of space, exists even in the absence of space and therefore we say that God is beyond space. Now, you may say that if God is not awareness, the process of knowing cannot be justified since the process of knowing is only the inherent characteristic of awareness. This is again ruled out because the process of knowing becomes possible for God through His unimaginable power. This unimaginable power is responsible for the process of knowing and for the existence everywhere without pervading all the world. Any activity or power or characteristic of God should be solved through His unimaginable power only and not through the logic derived based on the imaginable items having spatial dimensions. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Meaning of God is said to be ‘omnipotent’ Arguments of Vedantins and Shakteyas God is said to be omnipotent. This is accepted straightly without any analysis because omnipotence means that God can do anything. It clearly means that God has unimaginable power. Again, you should not say that God becomes unimaginable due to the unimaginable power only. Hence, you may say that the power is greater than God. You cannot distinguish two unimaginable items. In the process of explanation, we have used the word unimaginable power, since the explanation to any human brain is in the phase of imaginable dimensions. The unimaginable God and the unimaginable power are not different. In the imaginable items there may be such possibility. The sun and light or heat may be different at least in the quantitative sense. The intensified power is source and diluted power is its property. The quantitative difference is based on the difference in the intensity, which is based on space only. More power in less space is the source having high intensity. Less power or the same power in more space is the property having less intensity. Thus, the difference is based on the measurement of volume and hence this is related only to items having spatial dimensions. We do not mind to say that God knows everything due to Himself only. Here the word “Himself” means the power itself. We do not mind to say that the unimaginable power itself is God. We have the existence of independent electromagnetic radiations traveling in the space without any source. There cannot be two unimaginable items and therefore you have to say either God or independent power. If you differentiate God and power, both become imaginable items with spatial dimensions. Hence, the quarrel between Vedantins, supporting God and Shakteyas, supporting power is meaningless, since the source of the quarrel is the logic derived from imaginable items observed in this imaginable world. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Meaning of God said to be ‘Sat- Chit- Ananda’ The relative existence of the world is in the view of God only and not in the view of the soul God is said to be existence - awareness – bliss (Sat- Chit- Ananda). God is not awareness and this is established already. Even though God is not awareness, He knows due to His unimaginable nature. Bliss is intensive happiness and is the property of awareness only. When awareness itself ruled out, where is the place for its property? Still, you can say that God is happy due to His unimaginable nature. The word existence can be straightly accepted. God is the absolute existence and world exists relatively with respect to the absolute existence of God. When the rope is mistaken as snake, the existence of snake depends on the existence of rope only. Hence, the word Sat means the absolute existence. The relative existence of the snake is in the view of rope only and not in the view of snake. Therefore, the relative existence of the world is in the view of God only and not in the view of the soul. The reason is that the soul itself is relative and is a part of the relative world. The soul is awareness and awareness is a special work form of energy. The awareness requires space for its existence since no work can be done in the absence of space. For the relative soul, the relative world cannot be relative and is absolute only. A person in the dream can never realize the relative existence of the dream in which he himself is part. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

There is no second unimaginable item to be compared to God When the imaginable items are given as examples to explain the unimaginable God, you have to be very careful in confining yourself to the context of the aspect explained only and should not extend to other aspects, which will lead you into chaos of confusions. Such God enters a human being to direct the devoted souls in the correct path. The entry of God should not be understood as the entry of electricity in to a metallic wire. The electricity is a stream of electrons and has spatial dimensions. The metallic wire is a chain of crystals having spatial dimensions. God enters the human being due to His unimaginable nature only. Everywhere, for activity of God, the unimaginable nature is the only reason and logic, which can never be understood. When I speak any action of God, immediately your brain applies the logic of imaginable items to understand such activity. It is the routine procedure of the brain since it itself is imaginable item and only understands the imaginable items of the world at anytime. For the sake of explanation, we take the imaginable items only like current, wire etc., as examples, since there is no second unimaginable item to be compared to God and this problem is mentioned in Brahma Sutras. Therefore, the immediate impression of understanding of brain leads God to be an imaginable item only. To avoid this continuous danger, the human being charged by God called as mediated God (SagunaBrahma) is always referred, which is an imaginable item indicating the existence of unimaginable God in it. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Real God is not seen by seeing energetic form The present human incarnation is more useful It is the climax of ignorance of scientific knowledge to think that some energetic form like Vishnu to be taken as the absolute God. The matter existing in human being and the energy existing in the energetic form are inter convertible and both exist in the same phase having spatial dimensions. The ignorant people due to lack of scientific understanding think that the real God is seen by the vision of some energetic form. When you understand that matter and energy are relative parts of the Universe, you will not differentiate Krishna, the human incarnation and Vishnu, the energetic incarnation. When you realize that Krishna was the past human incarnation and is in no way different from the contemporary human incarnation since the medium is one and the same human being made of space, energy, matter and different work forms of energy. In fact, the present human incarnation is more useful, since you can clear all your doubts with it and such advantage is not possible with the past human incarnation. When you read Gita, you get so many doubts and you are approaching other human beings for clarification regarding the unimaginable God. A blind man cannot help another blind man regarding the explanation of Sun! www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The hard nut for atheists The scientific atheists say that the cosmic energy is the ultimate God from which this entire creation is generated through big bang, maintained and destroyed. He says that another unimaginable God as generator of cosmic energy is unnecessary. If we say that an agent of intelligence is required to maintain all this creation in such a systematic manner, the atheists disagree saying that randomness with probability based on theory of evolution can be the reason for such systematic administration. We cannot completely rule out this answer of the atheists. In such case, the unimaginable God disappears and the imaginable cosmic energy becomes God. The concept of energy is clearly understood only through intricate scientific analysis like thermodynamics etc. and hence, an entity understood with difficulty can be treated unimaginable for the time being. If we say that the genuine miracles stand as perfect proof for the real unimaginable concept, the atheists still weaken us by saying that there is atleast 50% probability in the future for the revelation of such genuine miracle also. When such situation stands before us, the only concept of perfect unimaginable concept is the existence of infinite entity. This cosmos is infinite without beginning and end. Its boundary is perfectly unimaginable since even scientists agree that it can never be reached. Even if you reach the boundary of cosmos, will there be a compound wall indicating the limits of the universe? If such compound wall exists, what is present beyond that compound wall? Therefore, in this case, the real unimaginable boundary of the infinite cosmos has to be accepted even by science. There is no trace of possibility in future to explain the boundary of cosmos. This is the only proof for the real existence of an unimaginable concept indicating the unimaginable God. We can say that God exists beyond the limits of the universe and thus, it means that God is always unimaginable. Arjuna had the vision of this infinite cosmos containing infinite matter and energy. The only statement given by Lord Krishna is that there is no end to this cosmic vision, which clearly means that the limits of the creation are infinite and unimaginable (Naantosti mama …). www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Shankara brought down the atheists to the line of worship to God The background of each spiritual preacher is not a new interpretation from my mouth. This background is reflected in their own statements. Shankara always told that He is God (Aham Brahma Asmi) or God Shiva (Shivah Kevaloham). Shankara told about the path of the soul to become God and He introduced the requirement of spiritual effort (sadhana) to become God even though the soul is already God. The position of sadhana contains the whole secret because if the soul is already God, there is no need of sadhana to become God! He maintained the status of the chocolate stating that if ignorance is strong, sadhana is required to remove its practical effect (vikshepa) and for this He recommended the worship to the Lord. While maintaining the initial twist, He brought down the atheists to the line of worship to God! His statement that He is God indicates that the soul in His body became God since God charged it. This chance of the soul becoming God is opened to every soul. Any soul by spiritual effort can become the Son of God. Thus, we are not denying the possibility of the soul to attain Advaita. We are only opposing the view that the soul is already in the state of Advaita, in which case Shankara would have not introduced the sadhana(spiritual effort) to attain what the soul was already. Of course, Shankara proposed this concept of the soul already being in the state of Advaita, but you must understand it as a twist of the scripture prepared as a chocolate for the sake of the atheists initially. Even there, the scriptural interpretation is maintained so that the atheists will not think that it is a twist. Here, in the twist, the soul is said to be already Brahman. But here Brahman means the greatest item in the creation but not the God, who is unimaginable and can be indicated by silence only. Of course, Brahman can also mean God because God is greatest being greater than the greatest soul. Atheists took the word Brahman in the sense of God and were attracted. If anyone quarrels with Shankara, He will say that the sense of Brahman in Advaita is only the greatest item. Shankara exploited the possibility of multiple meanings of the word Brahman. Therefore, on one side while the twist is maintained for atheists, the same twist legally stands justified for the scholars on the other side. Such unimaginable genius can be only God!

Atheists, Buddhists and Human Incarnation If God is introduced through the medium of human body, atheists will not agree. Hence Shankara ( a human incarnation of God) selected the pure awareness (soul) as the medium of God for introduction. Even in the human incarnation, the pure awareness (soul) acts as a medium charged by God. Let us isolate that part of soul only from the human incarnation and all this isolation is only an assumption. In general, the pure awareness alone can act as the medium of God, since basically there is no objection for any item of the creation to act as medium for God. The medium charged by God can be treated as God like the metallic wire charged by current. In this way you can call the assumed pure awareness or soul charged by God in the human incarnation as God. But a soul without God exists in every human being and Shankara called every soul as God due to the possibility of a soul to be charged by God and due to the existence of the soul charged by God in human incarnation. What is the use of all this? The atheists are mainly characterized by ego and will not accept God other than themselves. This rigid psychology of the atheist cannot be condemned in the beginning. The preacher must follow the psychology of a rigid ignorant student and should slowly uplift him. Hence, there is no other way to uplift the atheists existing in the time of Shankara (Budhhists and purva mimasakas). Shankara told that the soul in every human being is God and this satisfies the rigid psychology of the atheists. At least they have accepted the existence of God as the existence of themselves. Buddhists were in a very pitiable condition since they were thinking that everything including themselves is nothing (shunya). Shankara brought them up by stating that there should be the soul to experience the nothing. Otherwise, when nothing is not experienced, nothing cannot be established. The Buddhists came up and accepted the existence of the soul that experiences nothing (the school of prajnavada of Dignaga). Since that soul is God, they have accepted the existence of God. But they were rigid of nothing except the soul and therefore Shankara had to follow their rigid psychology of nothing except the soul. Hence Shankara told that the soul is truth and God and except the soul or God everything (world) is nothing. (Brahma satyam….). The ego of the atheist was also satisfied because the soul itself is the supreme God. The purva mimasakas were already accepting the existence of soul and world. Now there is a contradiction between Buddhists and purva mimasakas in the existence of the world though not in the existence of soul. To convince both these rigid and ignorant students, Shankara told that the world is neither existent nor non-existent (mithya). A negligible trace can be treated almost as non-existent and is existent in the strict sense. Since the world is a negligible dream of the soul, it is existent as well as non-existent. Thus he combined both in the concept of the world and made them accept the existence of God as a soul. The purva mimasakas were interested in achieving the happiness in heaven by doing rituals. Shankara exploited their ambition for happiness and stated that the God or soul is infinite happiness (ananda). This attracted the purva mimasakas to concentrate on God than on heaven. But in practical experience all of them found the absence of the experience of the natural infinite happiness and this raised the doubt whether the soul is actually God in its original state. Shankara had to drag these atheists further; otherwise, they will go back to their original atheism. Then Shankara applied another trick by stating that the ignorance of soul must be removed practically due to its long-standing effect. This long-standing influence of ignorance is called as vikshepa. Even if you awake from the dream and realize that the tiger in the dream was unreal, its effect like vibration and fear will not cease immediately. The theoretically realization removes only the apparent layer of ignorance called as avaranam. For this removal of practical effect of ignorance, Shankara suggested about the meditation of a completely liberated soul called as Eshwara, who is just a leader of the same class. Both the soul and the Eshwara are essentially the students of the same class but Eshwara, is a more meritorious student whose help can be taken by the soul. The atheist is trapped here because basically there is no difference between himself and the Eshwara. He thought that there is nothing wrong to take the help of a meritorious student of the same class so that the less meritorious student can become the same meritorious student on one day or the other. Shankara maintained the essential equality of Eshwara and the individual soul as Brahman to satisfy the continuing ego of the atheist. The atheists started meditating upon the Eshwara. See the wonderful talent of Shankara who made the atheist not only to accept God but also meditate upon God! That is the talent of the Satguru when God comes in human form. Nobody can handle this situation except God. The technique used by Shankara was in the line of Vedic tradition only. Veda is also attracting the theists by projecting God as the source of materialistic benefits here as well as in the heaven. The worship of God is introduced through this attraction (kamya karma). Slowly the theist tastes the nature of God and gets attracted to God leaving the other attractions. Shankara has extended the same to the atheists also. If you take the path of Shankara as the absolute truth, you must have been an atheist like Buddhist or purva mimasaka. You are a grown up student going to college and should not aspire for the chocolates given to kids to go to school. Shankara was correct in that time for those atheists since the final result was in their eternal welfare only. A psychological trick with good application for the benefit is always appreciable because ends justify means. You should take Shankara as the Guru with affection on ignorant students and not as a mere scholar who just reveals the absolute truth and goes away without bothering about the practical uplift of the students.

Miracles cannot satisfy atheists, who are always ready with alternative interpretations. Smt.Shrutakirti ( Hyderabad ) revealed her Divine experience like this; “On 24-12-2006 I slept with some worry and I got a divine dream in which swami walked into my house. He was radiating bright light of thousand Suns. Every footprint of Him was shining with pure golden color. Swami consoled me and preached the Divine knowledge. At the end Swami told that He is giving a proof for the reality of his entrance into the dream. Then Swami told that if I verify the calendar of 2007, the Star on 21st May is PUNARVASU. This statement was repeated three times by Swami who disappeared. I awoke in the early morning and told about the dream to my husband. We did not yet purchase the New Year calendar. My husband rushed to the neighbor and brought the calendar to verify the truth. We were extremely surprised to see the name of PUNARVASU Star on that Day. Even the composer of the calendar cannot say this. I immediately phoned to Swami and told this. Swami told, “ Any proof in the dream will be treated as the dream only and cannot be realized as truth in this world on awakening. Some days back I told you that I am coming to your house on a particular day. On that day there was profuse scent of lotus flowers in your house, which was absent outside the house simultaneously in every direction. That was a proof for my entry into your house in the awakened state. If I exhibit the same scent in your dream, it is not a real proof because it becomes a part of the dream and will be treated unreal along with the unreal dream.” I phoned to all our devotees immediately and told about this experience. Swami spoke: If the human incarnation materializes matter, you say that it is the trick of magic. If the Lord gives Divine visions, you will say that it is the illusion of the eye. You know that Smt.Bharati saw the Divine vision of Lord Datta. She put her finger in the bright radiating wheel revolving on my finger to test the possibility of illusion of the eye. You know that she immediately fell down and was unconscious for a long time. You know that the Doctor also stated that she got heart shock and her finger was stiff for three days and the Doctor stated that her body was shocked by the attack of high voltage electricity. In spite of all this, doubts still click in your hearts. Now analyze this small proof in the dream. Though it is small it is most perfect from all angles. You know that Shrutakirti is very innocent and ignorant. How can she tell this even in the awakened state? Perhaps some mathematical genius may tell this after doing some calculations and such calculations are impossible in the state of dream. Miracles cannot satisfy atheists, who are always ready with alternative interpretations. But what sort of interpretation they can give for this? At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

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).

Datta Swami Answers Atheists Questions........ Today atheists have met in a conference in this city and talked, as they like. I can answer every point raised by them provided they are not rigid conservatives of atheism and have open mind to accept the truth. Atheist: There are 33crores of deities in India but poor people are suffering. Swami: There are several teachers in a school who teach classes equally. Why the students are not of equal standard? The cloud rains the same water drops. Why one drop fallen in the pearl shell becomes pearl and another drop becomes mud fallen in mud pond? The creator is equal to all but the creation has differences by its own nature of merits and defects. Are there no differences in the people in foreign countries where there is only one God? The 33crores of water drops (deities) have the same content of water (God). Due to the association of different materials, some drops became pearls and some became mud. The difference in the deities is due to the superimposed multi nature of human beings. You have indirectly indicated the inevitable differences in the nature. Atheist: Religious exploitations have led into misery of poor people. Why there should be golden jewels on the statue in the temple when poor people are suffering? Swami: I agree that there is some religious exploitation done by selfish priests. But these exploitations are not of such magnitude to cause poverty of some people. The politicians and rich people are responsible for the poverty of some people. Even the terrorists are attacking such rich people only but not the priests. You are diverting the main issue to the wrong direction of a minor negligible issue. Your main issue is negation of the existence of God. It is a path in philosophy and hence Vidyaranya gave a place to atheism proposed by Charvaka. But now you are trying to get the support of poor people by such diversion. Now you are no more a philosopher and you are now a politician. Actually you are harming the poor people who live peacefully with pure devotion on God. Their devotion is excellent and God is giving them the peace and lot of happiness. The rich people are not blessed with such peace and bliss due to their impure devotion. Money is not the single criterion of life. The religion is doing social service along with devotion to God so that the suffering people get the blessings from God. Take a patient of Cancer or AIDS. Your social service cannot change his worry. Only the concept of spiritual knowledge and devotion can console him completely. Sometimes the grace of God may give even a permanent cure. The society is peaceful to a large extent based on the belief on God and fear for hell. Now if you remove these concepts, the society will end in chaos. Thus you are finally turning into anti social element. If atheism spreads, the corruption, killing each other etc. will go to the climax. All the rich people will kill all the poor people and perhaps you want to remove the poverty in that way! The rich people and the Politicians are controlled to a large extent due to belief on God and hell only. You want to remove that also and support fully the rich people! How can you tell that hell does not exist? I could not show the hell to you but could you show the absence of hell by taking me to the end of this space? In the case of equal probability it is better to be careful believing the hell. You have criticized about the golden jewels on the statue in the temple. The statue is a representative model of God to give a strong impression in the minds of ignorant people. The concept of God has several sociological uses like giving confidence, peace, happiness, control of sin etc. God is poor man’s heaven, which cannot be purchased by rich people. You are criticizing the material used in the model, which is building up such most important concept. A villager says that the material used in building up the experimental models conveying the scientific concept is a waste, which can be used to feed poor! Why do not you criticize the heavy jewelry of rich ladies in highly expensive function, which have no representation of any useful good concept? Why have you conducted your conference in highly expensive five Star Hotel? Atheist: The spiritual knowledge is having no reason and perception. Hence we do not believe in it. Swami: There are several things, which are beyond reason but their existence is experienced through inference. This is accepted even in science due to inefficiency of measuring techniques (refer to Heisenberg’s uncertainity Principle). Work is a form of inert energy, which is neither energy nor the machine and nor the motion. But it is inferred by the final effect. The limit of space is beyond even imagination and reason. The life is from food (Matter) and matter is from energy. Energy has no cause. Do you not believe the existence of energy, which has no cause? A boy loves a girl even though she is totally rejecting him. This is a factual case even though the reason does not exist in it. If love is reason, the reason of such love is absent and the question returns to the original state. Again the love is abstract, which is invisible but inferred from the above case. All these points are created by God to give the information about Himself that He is unimaginable and His existence is only inferred through the experience. This does not mean that space, love, work (awareness) are God. These indicate God by giving the indirect information about God. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Science is the best religion exposing the existence of God to every ordinary human being on this earth including atheist. If you see just a leaf and observe it deeply with the knowledge of Botany, you will be shocked with the miraculous work of God which reveals its unimaginable design, unimaginable co-ordination of functions of various cells etc. Through such unimaginable structure of the leaf you are first recognizing the unimaginable super power (Maya) of God. Immediately you will accept the possessor of the super power (Mayi) who is the Lord as said in the subsequent line of the same verse (Mayinamtu Maheshwaram….). Therefore, the deep analysis of the nature which is Science is exposing the miracle of God to every body in this world and there is no need of a separate miracle. Therefore, Science is the best religion exposing the existence of God to every ordinary human being on this earth including atheist. Therefore, I have given a place for Science in the symbol of Universal Spirituality. A scientist does not require a separate miracle to recognize the existence of God like a realized soul since the deeper analysis of this nature reveals the unimaginable power of God and there by His existence. A scientist who does not believe the existence of God is not a scientist at all. Thus, an ordinary ignorant devotee is helped by God through unimaginable ways. The exceptionally excellent devotee finds God’s help even through the natural ways. He thinks that even the natural respiration is by the grace and power of God only. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Atheism The atheists believe in logical conclusions based on practical experience and in things present before the unclothed eye (perception). The real spiritual knowledge can satisfy all these requirements. The human incarnation of God is right before the eyes; in flesh-and-blood. All the bonds with family and wealth are before the eyes and liberation from such bonds, which is called salvation, is also before the 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 ‘salvation while living’; right here. What ever one achieves while living, that alone continues with the soul after death. Thus perception is the basis for even the invisible future. At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

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. This is to say that 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. At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The logic of atheists is based on perception (Pratyaksha Pramana), which was propagated by the sage Charvaka. Perception means the knowledge derived from the observation with the unclothed eyes. Infact in the logic (Tarka Sastra) all the means of knowledge are based on perception only. In the inference (Anumana) also, the fire on the hill is inferred by its smoke. But the relationship between the fire and smoke is perceived with the unclothed eyes only. Similarly other means of knowledge are also based on the perception only. Thus Charvaka forms the basic of the entire logic and without logic there is no knowledge. The statement that the God is above logic must be proved only by perception. The divine miracles performed by the human form of Lord prove that there is a power above the logic. These miracles are seen by the unclothed eyes. The atheists must be allowed to prove whether the miracles are simply magic tricks. When they cannot prove, they must accept the existence of super power above the logic. If they do not accept this they are contradicting their own basis, which is the perception. The divine miracles are experienced by the devotees and the experience cannot be contradicted. If the experience is contradicted, the experience of the atheists is also contradicted. Therefore atheists must be open-minded and should not be conservative. If they are conservative they have no right to criticize the religious conservatism. The theory of Vedas and Bhagavath Gita never contradicts the perception and therefore the logic of atheists becomes the basis of the spiritual knowledge. The Lord comes in human form and this human form is perceived by the unclothed eyes. Even the miracles performed by demons establish the existence of super power. Therefore to convince the atheists the miracles of the Lord are not necessary. When they are convinced about the existence of the Super power (Maya), the possessor of the Super Power, the Lord, coming in human form must be also accepted because the form is seen by the unclothed eyes. The salvation is breakage of the bonds in this world. Since the bonds of this world exist based on the perception, the salvation is also existing based on the perception. Since the family members and the money are perceived by the eyes, the bonds with them are also perceived. Thus the salvation (Moksha) must be accepted by the atheists. A single bond with the human form of the Lord is called ‘Saayujya’ or ‘Kaivalya’. Since the human form is perceived, Sayujya or Kaivalya is also perceived and must be accepted by the atheists. The Bliss is derived by the devotee from the divine knowledge of the human form of the Lord. Therefore the Bliss is also true according to atheists. Thus the goal, the means to please the Lord (Sadhana) and the fruit of Sadhana (Moksha and Kaivalya) are perceived and exist in this world itself. Veda says ‘Yat Saakshat Aparokshaat’, ‘Pratyagatmana Maikshat’ which mean that the Lord in human form is perceived by the unclothed eyes. Veda also says ‘Ihachet Avedeet’, which means that everything is true as seen in this world itself. This is called ‘Jeevanmukthi’, which means attaining the salvation while one is alive and not after death. The salvation after the death is not true because that has no basis of perception. Thus if the atheists are little bit patient and leave their aggressive nature of criticism, they are best fitted in the true spiritual knowledge of Vedas. In fact Swami Vidyaranya included the philosophy of Charvaka in his book as one of the logical philosophies (Darsanaas).

Hell, Heaven and Kingdom Of Lord This universe is infinite. I am unable to show the existence of these super worlds to you. I accept my incapability. But you are also incapable to prove directly the non-existence of these super worlds. Have you taken all over the universe and said, " Here ends the universe. Beyond this point there is no universe. This is the compound wall of the space. Your super world does not exist anywhere’’. Therefore, there is equal chance for the existence and non-existence of the super worlds according to the theory of probability. Now let us analyse of our cases. Both of us are eating to live. The basic needs are satisfied in the cases of both of us. You have spent extra time also in earning more money, which may give you some problems of health like sugar, B.P etc., due to over enjoying. I have not earned more money and I am healthy due to normal food. None of us will carry the money with us after death. The money given to the children may also be lost in several ways. Therefore, I do not find much difference between us, once the basic needs are satisfied. I am poor because I have spent my extra time in the service of God. Suppose after my death, you are correct and there are no super worlds. In such case what I have lost? There is no loss for me. But after your death, suppose I am correct and there are super worlds. You have lost every thing and God will not save you. Thus, even on accepting your argument, based on the equal probability, it is better to serve the Lord by sacrificing the extra time and energy for the Lord after earning the basic needs. You must read the theory of probability, which is perfectly a scientific theory.

Cycle of Deeds The human being is entangled in the cycle of deeds called as karma chakra. The thought in the mind is the seed, which grows and generates action. The action certainly gives its result. Even if you escape the result of your action in this world you cannot escape from it in the upper world. In fact the result in the upper world is very severe due to the compounded interest due to the delay in getting the result. Therefore blessed are those who are punished in this world itself. Jesus says “It is better to punish yourself for your sin in this world itself than to fall into eternal hell”. The punishment reduces the thought (which caused the deed) to the state of a tiny seedling. However the punishment cannot destroy the thought completely. The thought exists in a very minute called the state of subconsciousness. Even you are not aware of your subconscious thought. When the soul comes from hell to the earth and enters a new human body, the child contains all the qualities or thoughts of previous births, hidden in the subconscious state. Therefore the child is unaware of anything and appears to be the most innocent and sacred. In the child the thoughts are like seeds that have not germinated. Whatever may be the external atmosphere in which the child grows; those strong thoughts will certainly germinate and grow up to be tender plants if not strong trees. But if the external atmosphere is favorable, the strong thoughts become trees, and weak thoughts will become plants. These germinated thoughts will result in corresponding actions. The actions will give their own fruits whether here or there. The fruits are the punishments, which will again reduce the thoughts to seeds. This is the cycle of the deeds. When it is said that you are enjoying the fruit of the action of your previous birth, it has to be understood in the context of this cycle. The action of your previous birth was punished in hell and has reduced your thought to the form of a seed. In this birth the seed grows and results in its corresponding action. Such action can give you its result in this world if you are captured here itself. The judicial system in this world also functions under the direction of the Lord only. If you have escaped the judicial system in this world, it too is by the will of Lord alone. The Lord might have judged your case and might have given you a chance of transformation. Sometimes you are punished wrongly in a case. Do not abuse the court or God. Perhaps you are punished for some other sin. Do not think that you have escaped a punishment that you deserve just because the court finds you ‘not guilty’. Perhaps God is directing you for a severe punishment in hell, which cannot be provided by the court here. Therefore do not think that you have fooled the court or that the deity of justice is blind with a cloth tied on her eyes. Even this court is functioning according to the will of the Lord because the Lord governs everybody and everything in this world. Therefore do not blame God or do not say that God does not exist if some criminal escapes punishment of human courts. Destroying the Seed Now the main point is how to escape from this cycle? You cannot escape from this cycle by preventing the deed or punishment. If you are tied with a rope, you will not do the deed as long as you are tied. You will do the deed as soon as you are released from the rope. You may escape the result of your deed here by someone’s recommendations, but you cannot escape from it in hell. The only way to stop this cycle is to destroy the thought which is the initiating seed of this cycle. How to destroy it? The seed is a thought which is a living property (sentient property) or a property of life. If it were an inert property like light or heat, it could be prevented by physical methods. Only knowledge, which is another living property, can destroy this thought. Only a diamond can cut another diamond. The wrong knowledge, which generates this sin, is dangerous. Ignorance, which is zero, is better than wrong knowledge, which is minus (negative). Therefore only righteous knowledge can destroy wrong thoughts. You can differentiate the right knowledge from the wrong knowledge through careful, patient analysis and discrimination. The knowledge of God alone can create devotion in your mind and develop it. Thus by knowledge alone can you get rid of this cycle and attain and please God. Shankara says “Jnanat eva tu kaivalyam”, which means that knowledge alone can give salvation. Jesus preached the same spiritual knowledge throughout His life.

Resolving contradictions between different scriptures The same Lord came to different parts of the world in different age to preach the same Divine Knowledge. All the scriptures of the world are the records of the knowledge given by the same Lord and hence cannot contradict each other. Yet we find sometimes that there are some glaring contradictions between different scriptures of the world. This is in part due to fact that the Lord taught the same truth in different ages and places in a slightly different way, so as to suit the culture and language of the people. This is only an extraneous difference. The essential knowledge is the same. Correct interpretation will remove the contradiction. Sometimes there may be an apparent difference even in the essential meaning. In such as case the inconsistency is probably caused by corruption of the scripture over generations. Comparison with other scriptures of the world will help in removing the corrupted portions in each scripture. Here it becomes essential to bring in experience as a prama?a or a valid means of knowledge. While comparing contradictory views in different scriptures, the view which agrees with experience or anubhuti should be taken as correct. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

How to Worship Jesus? For ignorant people the personality of Jesus is a human being crying on the cross and shedding the blood. This personality will kindle the heart of any human being. Initially this will be the attraction for the beginners. But if you stick to this personality only, that body has gone once for all. You can now only worship an imaginary statute of His form on the cross. That human body will never appear again in the same physical level. For such ignorant people Jesus will never come again because the same physical body will never appear again. Only an energetic form can appear to the eyes for a few moments. If you say that you have seen the same physical body, now also, you cannot show it to others. When Jesus was alive and some one told "He is the Jesus", every visitor saw Him with his eyes. Now that same situation is not present. The real inner personality of Jesus is His divine knowledge, which is the Holy Bible. That divine knowledge is inseparable characteristic of the inner unimaginable God. Then that inner God comes in another human body. This divine knowledge appears again, as it is the inseparable sign of the God. Jesus is the inner personality for the realized scholars. Similarly the beautiful Krishna with flute attracts the beginners but His inner personality is His divine knowledge, which is Bhagavat Gita. When Jesus told that He will come again and Krishna told that he will come again and again whenever there is necessity that refers to the inner personality. The unimaginable God along with His inseparable sign, which is the divine knowledge, is coming again. This interpretation is reasonable. The inner God by himself is unimaginable or irrational and is beyond reason. When such inner God wants to give His experience to the human beings, He can not follow the irrational or unimaginable ways, in which case, He can not be experienced. The purpose fails. Therefore, the irrational God adopts rational procedures and enters rational medium to give experience to human beings. God is unimaginable but His experience should be imaginable. For this purpose He enters reasonable medium i.e., human body that can be seen and touched. Only the human body can live with us (Emmanuel) and we can clarify our doubts only with the human body. You blame me that I am introducing God in to human body, but what have you done? You have blended God with the human body of Jesus and say that only Jesus is God. You say that Jesus became alive again since the dead body disappeared. I agree. He might have controlled His life for some more time. It is against the rules of nature and science, if you say that the same physical body is alive even today. It is completely irrational because you should show the physical body of a person even to a non-believer. Now to avoid my argument you say that the rationality must be rejected. I apply the same argument even to the body of Krishna. It was cremated by Arjuna and can not return back. Of course the Lord can use His special power to make it permanently alive. But that will violate the rules of His own administration. All the rules in the creation are His rules only. No sensible administrator will violate his own rules, when an alternative is possible. The alternative is to come again in another human body. The body is like a shirt as told in Gita. The person is not the shirt and shirt is not the person. Gita says that the God is not modified into the human body (Avyaktam Vyakti Mapannam……). The person did not become the shirt but He wares the shirt as said in Gita (Manusheem Tanum …). The Lord wares the human body and does not become the human body. If you touch the shirt present on His body you are getting the experience of the inner body. Similarly the inner God gives His experience through the external body. You are blaming Me for introducing God into human body but you have made the God to become the very human body itself. You have made another mistake by saying that God is that particular human body only, called as Jesus. It is a mistake because in such a case when the human body is destroyed, God is not destroyed. The shirt is torn into pieces but the person is not cut. Recognition of this inner personality in all the shirts of various religions, which are various human incarnations, is universal spirituality. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Jesus used Reason If you see Bible, Jesus gives reason everywhere in His concepts. For every statement He gives the reason. When the priests asked Him that He should not have saved the animal, which has fallen in the pit on the festival day, He gave the reason for His effort to save that animal. He analyzed the Old Testament and gave logical interpretations. He did not mind to cut some irrational blind statements present in the Old Testament, by giving rational modifications. He has fulfilled His duty to be the true guide of the humanity. Whenever He leaves the world these rigid people twist and pollute the meanings of scriptures. To rectify He comes again and again. When the teacher leaves for a few minutes the class becomes undisciplined. The teacher comes to the class again and again. For teaching, the human form is essential. A statue can not teach you. If you think Him formless, He is not speaking to you from the sky or space or air. The human body is most convenient medium for the human beings to hear preaching of the God. The main goal of God is to preach the human beings and correct them to put in the right spiritual path. For beginners, He does some miracles as signs for His presence in the human body. The realized souls will detect Him even without those signs. Sheep see the shepherd and come near by recognizing him with eyes. Some milder sheep come near by hearing his voice, which is a miracle. The mildest sheep try to go away and are punished by the stick of shepherd, which is nothing but permanent hell. Therefore, if you keep Jesus in the place of the present human incarnation and place the same blind priests in the place of present blind followers, you can understand the truth because the same story and the same cinema is repeated with different actors having different names. This is the best way of understanding the truth. Those priests also opposed Jesus, when He argued with wonderful reason. The duty of the teacher finishes by teaching clearly to the class. It is up to the student to grasp it and pass or twist it and fail following the sweet emotional advises of bad blind friends. The Lord is not worried about the percentage of pass because there is no fault in His teaching. He should not be blamed for the pass or failure of the students. A student himself is to be blamed. When the messenger comes to the earth, he delivers his duty so that the God is pleased with him in the upper world. He is not bothered about the fame in this world or the number of followers. God will not find fault with the messenger if the human beings did not pass. He finds fault with the messenger if the message is not properly delivered. Jesus never bothered about propagation of His knowledge. His aim was only to sit on the right side of His pleased Father after doing the duty assigned by Him. He never cared even if the people rejected, insulted and even crucified Him. His aim was God but not the world. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace