dattaswami

Do not attach much importance to this material life Do not attach much importance to this material life because it is just like a short one-hour journey and it hardly matters whether you traveled by 1st class or 3rd class i.e., whether you are rich or poor. All will get down at the same station and will leave to lead the life there. That part is more important than the journey. So, the scene in the upper world after death is important.

Only service proves your real love (Bhakti) to God Guru Dakshina is the money offered in the service of God. Money is the fruit of work. Therefore money and work are inter-convertible forms. In the Gita, donating money is called as Karma Phala Tyaga and donating work [your voluntary efforts in God’s mission] is called as Karma Sanyasa. Both these put together are called as Karma Yoga or Seva (Service). One can do service by doing both or any one of these two according to one’s convenience. Only this service proves your real love (Bhakti) to God. In front of service, the expression of feelings and meditation by the mind and the prayers by the mouth are like pickles in the plate without the central item i.e. bread. One can eat the bread without pickles, but without bread, only pickles cannot be eaten. If only pickles are eaten, that will burn the stomach. We are giving only pickles to God. That is why He is not responding to our chantings of His name. Anybody will respond if he is called out by name even once. But you are calling God lakhs [hundreds of thousands] of times by His name. He is not responding once even by saying “Hello”. This shows the anger of God. If a prostitute called somebody by name, he will not respond since his prestige will be lost in the respectable society. Similarly God is not responding to us since if He responds, His prestige will be lost among sages and angels. Many devotees are really like prostitutes because their devotion to God is only to get some benefit from God. In order get some material benefits, these devotees spend money for God. Astrologers, priests etc., are exploiting the people and are earning money in the name of the super natural powers of planets and deities. The money of the devotees is wasted and stolen. There is only one God in all deities and planets and all the super natural powers in the creation belong to God only (Bheeshodeti… Veda). Such God comes down in human form only, to this earth as said in the Gita “Manusheem…” and not in any other inert form. The Gita condemns the worship of inert forms like statues “Bhutejyanti…” The statues are useful only to have a vision of the past human incarnations (Drastavyah… Veda). Only the present human form of God is to be worshipped. Worship again means not mere words and feelings but by participating in his mission through service. His mission is only to spread the divine knowledge and devotion in this world and to uplift everybody.

The only way The very purpose of going to a church should be to develop devotion to God, so that a true and permanent bond with God is formed. You should not go to the church with any desire. Prepare yourself to suffer the result of your own sins. If you pester God, He will postpone your sins, and you have to suffer in future with interest. Your future life will be miserable. Instead of this, if you develop devotion without selfishness, God will be pleased and will get you released from your sins. He will come down in human form and suffer, by taking your sins. Except this way, there is no other way to avoid the suffering of your sins.

Only one God created this world Hindus say that Brahman is the creator, Muslims say That Allah is creator, Christians say that the creator is Jehovah, all say that the creation is this entire world. If Hindus say that Brahman created India, and if Muslims say that Allah created Arabian countries and If Christians say that Jehovah created the western countries, The problem is solved, there can be three Gods together, Who have created the three parts of the earth separately. But this is not so, each religion says that their God only Created the entire world, unfortunately there is one world! One world only! Come on, all of you sit together here And give me the final conclusion after debate, otherwise, The scientists are laughing on all of you! Shame to all! They criticize that these religions do not have even The basic logic, which is the fundamental common sense. Because of you, the greatest God is also mocked by them They say that the religions are rigid conservatisms! Even a small boy is putting this question to all of you. Stop all your discourses and first answer this question. If you want to say that God created the entire world, You have to accept that there is one God only always And that His names are all the above three names. We see in the world a single person having three names. If there is one God, He only created this entire world. All the human beings are invariably His children only. No Father is partial to a single child and therefore He must have preached the same knowledge to all In different languages and in different methodologies To different levels, this is Universal Spirituality. At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami www.universal-spirituality.org

The essence of all the religions is one and the same The essence of all the religions is one and the same since the Universal God gives it. The religions are different from each other because the religious leaders who are the human beings create the material that surrounds the essence. The skeleton is one and the same and there is no difference in the skeletons of the human beings. The difference lies only in the external materials covering the skeletons, which are flesh, skin etc., in these external materials differences arose due to deficiencies. Suppose there are two students. One is weak in physics and the other is weak in chemistry. Each student mocks the other for the deficiency. Therefore, the deficiency is the root of difference and quarrels in the religions. The reason for the deficiency is the human brain that developed the external body of the spiritual knowledge. Therefore, the spiritual knowledge is the skeleton and the religion is its body. The deficiency in a religion can be removed by taking the merits of the other religions. Every religion has deficiency and the rectification of that deficiency should be from other religion without any ego and jealousy. Do not think that you are without defects. Do not think that your parents have no defects. Do not think that your teachers and preachers do not have defects. Therefore, observe others and take the merits from anybody without prejudice. The blind thinking that your nation, your state, your district, your town or village, your caste, your family, your parents, etc., is the best or highest should be eradicated from your brain. Always base your self on your analysis and commonsense that is observed from the examples in the world. Your elders might have polluted the scriptures but this world is the best scripture written by God. This world-scripture is Universal without any color of any religion. You can develop the entire spiritual knowledge by observing this world and the scientific knowledge existing in the various examples or items of the world. Any human being cannot pollute these. You must be scientific and analytical in your belief. The ignorant and clever religious elders always exploit blind belief. At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

Critizising other Religions The Lord is universal but the human beings in the universe differ in their attitudes. The same single Lord adopts a different procedure in a different region and such different procedure appears as a different religion. A few criticize the Lord of other religion. You are criticizing your own Lord of your own religion. The external behavior of the Lord differs due to different internal and external behaviors of the human beings in this universe. The external form, dress, language, food habits and culture of human beings differ from one region to the other. Accordingly the external form, dress, food habits, language and culture of the Lord also differ to suit that particular region. The internal Lord and the internal essence of the same Lord is one and the same in His different human incarnations which have come in different regions or religions. At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

Logic Only can bring unity among religions Today the development of science is terrible, which is the faculty of logic and analysis. Today the heart is reduced and the brain is expanded. The old generations were having a broad heart and less brain. The heart can be inspired by appeals but the brain will not be satisfied by appeals. If you appeal “All the human beings are one and the same internally and externally. God is one only. Do not quarrel with each other and be united as one family”, the effect of such appeal is temporary only. When the devotee returns back, the emotion is subsided by next day itself. The reason is that his or her intellectual facility (Buddhi) is not satisfied. You have not given the logical analysis of such concepts. You have worked at the level of mind only and not at the level of intelligence. Mind is the steering rod and the intelligence is the driver. Mind is in the hands of intelligence. Due to this reason only, the Lord started Gita with the concept of knowledge and analysis (Buddhi Yoga). The driving knowledge of the driver is more important than the driver. The correct driving depends on the correct driving knowledge imparted on him by the teacher of the driving school, who is the Satguru. In the case of Arjuna, the teacher of the driving school himself became the driver! You cannot imagine the fortune of Arjuna. When God Himself became the driver, He is called as Satguru. The word Sat is used to mean God. Guru means guide. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

Unity of Religions The correlation of the scriptures of various religions was done in a detailed way by several prophets who aimed at the world peace. Even I have done this correlation in major topics like human rebirth, concept of human incarnation etc. The effect of such correlation is not much because the devotees of various religions are neither influenced by the unity of the scriptures nor by the unity of human beings having the same bodies of matter and energy externally and the internal souls made of the same pure awareness. Scriptures are the concepts given by various forms of God. Devotees feel that these forms of God are totally different from each other. Unless you bring the correlation of the various forms of God belonging to different religions, the problem is not solved in the root. You have to come from top to bottom in the solution for difference. The correlation of unity in the scriptures and in the human beings is an attempt of solving the problem from bottom to top. If you can prove the unity of the forms of God and establish the concept of single God in various religions, the scriptures have to be correlated forcibly because one God cannot speak contradicting concepts in various religions. Like this if you come from the top for the solution, there is always a tremendous binding force acting on the heads of devotees to correlate the scriptures. Even if some little variations exist in the scriptures, they have to be unified by force in the light of unity of God, who is the single speaker of various scriptures. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

Can we use all the Religions in our spiritual effort? Think that you are the universal human being and not a Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim. You belong to all the Religions, which are the same syllabus in different languages. The same Lord appeared in different forms. Every Religion has a Gem. Use all the Gems in your spiritual life. Are you not using the Muslim petrol, scientific technology of Christians and analytical brain of Hindus in your materialistic life? Similarly you can use the merit of each Religion. Suppose paddy is grown in one part, pulses are grown in another part and vegetables are grown in some other part of the country. The department of civil supplies is moving rice, pulses and vegetables through out the country so that every person in the country has rice, pulses and vegetable curry in his meal plate. Such a meal only can give the full satisfaction to every body. Muslims are famous in regularity, discipline and firmness in the faith of the Lord. Even if it is not a holiday and even if it is working time and even in the journey they will pray the Lord. Hindus worship the Lord in the leisure time and Christians worship the Lord on a holiday. Similarly the love of Christians is a Gem. They love even their enemies and give funds to the spiritual centers of other Religions also. In Hindus tolerance is the Gem. They worship different forms of the same Lord. Therefore have firm faith and discipline like a Muslim. Show love even to your enemies like a Christian. Worship the different forms of the same Lord of all the Religions in the same manner like a Hindu. All these merits are like rivers merging in the ocean of spiritualism. Be a sea fish. Don’t be a stagnant river fish. All the Religions in the advanced stage mix and become one and the same in the spiritual ocean.

Sefless love Selfless love is like sugar that can be sometimes seen even in the worldly bonds, which do not deserve it. Selfish love is the salt, which is also white like the sugar and is generally seen in worldly bonds. The worldly bonds are like pickles which deserve only the mixing up of salt and not sugar. God is like the Badam Kheer (special delicious sweet) and it deserves only sugar. If you put salt in Badam Kheer and sugar in pickles, you will lose the taste in both the places.

Illusion of fame [A devotee asked about the bliss that can be derived in the fame obtained by doing social work.] When social work is done, people will praise you. Such praise will enter your brain and cause intense happiness. Suppose, a person is imagining the same social work to be done by him and also imagines the consequent praise, such imagination can also generate the same intense happiness. The feeling gives happiness. In the first case, hearing the praise generates the feeling. In the second case imagining the praise from people can also generate the same feeling. Once the feeling is the same, the result of the feeling (happiness) is also the same. You are in no way greater than the second case. If you consider the eternal fame even after your death, you are in no way connected with it to derive happiness in the next birth. Therefore, do not fall in the illusion of fame, which is also Maya. If you serve God and do social service under the guidance of God, God is pleased with you. The pleasure of God is real and is not illusory as in the above case of the fame.

Realization of Truth on Death Bed The effort in achieving the grace of the Lord is the most important goal of human life. This point will be realized when the human being is in the last minute of this life cycle because at that time of juncture, the upper world starts appearing practically to the eyes through the arrived messengers of Lord. Unfortunately there will be no time for spiritual effort at that juncture, even though realization comes. Lord Jesus told me the following two verses in Sanskrit and asked me to memorise these two verses ten times a day so that the mind will be fixed on God. The first verse means ‘At the time of death the last knowledge dawns to the mind by which the human being realizes that for those whom he has spent his energy and lifetime, are unable to protect him from that moment onwards. The Lord who can protect is not arriving then because no time and energy was spent for Him’. The second verse means ‘When the time was there, this realization did not come and when the realization came, there is no time. By this the human being undergoes silent suffering, which is the agony’. Lord told me that every human being will be given this last knowledge and this agony in the last couple of moments. I started remembering these verses every day ten times and the result of their memory is this wonderful divine knowledge.

Do not ask anything from God, which is either related to present or future Do not ask anything from God, which is either related to present or future. When you ask something in present or something in the future, it clearly means that you are reminding Him about the corresponding reaction that is to be immediately implemented in the need. This indirectly means that God is not alert as you are. This is insulting God. Due to such sin the requirement is not answered. If you are asking to protect yourself or somebody else, it indirectly means that He is not aware of the things to be done due to the irresponsibility and this also indicates that He is not as kind as yourself. It means that God has potency to help but not kind enough to render the help. On contrary, it also means that you lack unfortunately the potency. It means if you fortunately have the potency you could have immediately responded and helped. Therefore, whenever you ask for anything it clearly means indirectly that God has some type of defect, which does not exist in your case. When you ask Him to fulfill the desire it looks as if that your desire is constitutionally justified. But God is not positively reacting due to either lack of positive response immediately or due to lack of knowledge of the constitution or due to lack of kindness to help the needy. All these points are very very subtle. But God is the subtlest and therefore, the knowledge of this analysis will certainly restrict you from asking fulfillment of any of your desires. Never bring present and future before God. Confine to the past always before God. Look back at your past life. Hundreds of incidents are there where you were helped by God. Even if you dispose some incidents through the incidental probability of success or through the efficiency of your efforts, certainly there are plenty of instances in which the help from God is clearly evident. Atleast remember those few incidents and express your gratefulness along praise to God for His kind help that was already done. The word Krutajnata [faithful] means remembering the past help. Kruta means the past help done. Jna means identifying it by analysis. If you confine to praying the Lord and thanking Him always about the past helps from Him, the Lord will be immensely pleased. Then the present and future are spontaneously taken care of by the God. But do not adopt this technique with a mind that God will help you in the present and in the future by following this procedure! You should really follow this path and you should really forget the present and the future.When large number of people came to hear the message from Jesus, they were hungry by the noon. This point was brought to the notice of Jesus. He never asked God to provide food for those hungry people who came to hear God’s word. Had He asked for that, He would have insulted God. God knows His responsibility very well towards the devotees who came there to hear about Him. God has the power to fulfill His responsibility even in the last fraction of second. Had Jesus told God to bless the devotees with food, it clearly means that God is not as kind as Jesus. Jesus never asked for anything. He came to know that there were four breads. He took them and showed to sky. He thanked God for providing those four pieces of bread. Immediately the present was responded and the four breads became four thousand breads. This application of analysis is limited to Nivrutti only. You should not extend this to Pravrutti. When you are hungry you have to beg the other souls because they are not omniscient to know that you are hungry. Pravrutti and Nivrutti should never be mixed.

The reason why India suffers with poverty The Veda says, “Bhunjithah magridhah” which means that all this is the wealth of the Lord. Take the minimum needed. If you take extra, you are a thief, as Lord does not permit it. Therefore return it back to the Lord. Indians never donate even a single penny for God’s work; they only donate their words (prayers) and mind (meditation). Even if they have earned enough to last ten generations, they will still keep working for the eleventh generation. But if you see foreigners (particularly westerners), they donate a lot for God’s work and ask even their children to live independently after a certain age. This is the reason why India suffers with poverty and the west is blessed with wealth. God blessed India with good language for their sacrifice of their words and with good knowledge for their sacrifice of mind. Swami Vivekananda wept looking at the sky asking the Lord, “Why does my country suffer with poverty in spite of so much rich spiritual knowledge?”

Try to love the Lord rather than respecting or fearing Him Try to love the Lord rather than respecting or fearing Him. You are respecting your parents with fear because they have already spent a lot of wealth on you and they are expected to give their property to you. But you love your children and not respect them. This is because you are spending a lot of money on them and you are going to give your property to them. You respect and fear the Lord since you are expecting some benefit from the Lord. You never give anything to the Lord and so you do not love Him. The Lord creates the human incarnation for your sake, to give you the fortune of His vision, touch, conversation and living with Him. You ignore His most wonderful creation and worship the inert statues and pictures, which are imaginary forms and are prepared by the other human beings. You are not accepting the human incarnation since He is in human form like yourself. Likes always repel each other. You are therefore trained to worship statues and pictures, which are only in human form. By such worship you are expected to get rid of your repulsion to the human form. Slowly you are made to worship the statues in which life is initiated (by the ritual of Prana Pratishta). The inert human form of the statue, combined with the initiation of life, is equated to a living human being. This is a slow training to develop the worship of the human form of God. The Lord is never in inert objects as said in the Veda (Natasya Pratima Asti). Neither is the inert object the Lord nor is the Lord in the inert object. The Lord is not even touching this Universe [He is beyond it]. Therefore no living being or inert object is the Lord as said in the Veda (Neti Neti). The Gita says that the Lord is not in the world (Natvaham teshu). The Gita also says that the world is in God and also that the world is not in God (Mat Sthani Sarva Bhutani, Nacha Mat Sthani). This means that the man is in the cot but the man has not penetrated into the cot. Similarly the world is in God but the world has not penetrated into God and neither has God penetrated into the world. God is only the base of the world like the cot. God penetrates into a certain human body and that human body enters into the world as said in the Veda, “Tadevanupravisat”. Such a human body is the human incarnation, which enters the world. Therefore God enters the world only through a human form. God did not enter every human form or every inert object. Even though God is the base of the world, the world does not touch Him as the man touches the cot.

Sacrifice that Which you don’t give to Anybody It is always great to give God that which you cannot give to anybody. What is the greatness in giving that which you can give to anyone? People easily give words and mind and there is no greatness in sacrificing such things. It is very difficult to sacrifice the fruit of work (money). Therefore the greatness lies in sacrificing work or the fruit of work. The Gita emphasized on Karma Phala Tyaga in view of the nearing Kali Yuga. Soon after the Mahabharata war, Kali entered. Since the Lord knows that in the Kali age, money, which is the fruit of the work, is going to be the topmost item, He emphasized the sacrifice of money (Karma Phala Tyaga) everywhere in the Gita. There are three Eshanas which are very strong bonds: 1) Bond with money 2) Bond with wife or husband 3) Bond with children. Unless these three bonds are completely broken, salvation is not complete. Indians are very poor in the sacrifice of the fruit of their work, which is the real essence of the whole spiritual effort to reach God. In order to revise the syllabus for the benefit of the dull students in the class, the teacher conducts several revision sessions. Therefore the Lord is coming again and again in several human incarnations to India since Indians did not digest His preaching. Ironically, Indians take pride in the fact that the Lord incarnates so often in India! In foreign countries one incarnation was sufficient and therefore there was no reincarnation. The foreigners have digested the actual essence of the spiritual path by one lecture itself. They practice the Karma Phala Tyaga to the full extent.

In whatever route you approach God, He will approach you in the same route Today, there is no Indian who sacrifices his work or fruit of work to the Lord without aspiring for anything in return. If he gives ten rupees he expects ten thousand rupees in return. An even worse fellow gives ten rupees to the Lord only after first getting ten thousand rupees from the Lord. The worst fellow wants to get ten thousand rupees from the Lord and does not give even one rupee to the Lord. He wants to get the money by sacrificing his words and mind through chanting hymns, devotion etc. Money is a form of work. When you sacrifice work, then alone will the Lord give you work (money, riches) in return. If you give Him words, He will give you very good language skills. If you give Him love through feelings and words, the Lord also gives the same thing in return [you will be greatly loved and praised]. If you discuss about the Lord through your intelligence, He will bless you with good knowledge. When you sacrifice work, He will also work for you. When you sacrifice the fruit of your work (money) He will also give money to you. In whatever route you approach Him, He will approach you in the same route. You are coming to God to spend your leisure time for your entertainment, which costs nothing to you. Moreover other costly entertainment is avoided and your money can be saved. Added to this benefit, by spending this leisure time for God you may get some extra money also from God by His grace. Thus the Indian intellectuals are thinking about God as a multi-benefit saving scheme, like the present financial schemes. But the Lord is very very intelligent. He gives the money as desired by the people in return for such worship through words and mind. But that money gained along with the money already he has earned is lost by way of thieves, diseases etc. Only when you completely sacrifice to the Lord, will a graceful look of the Lord fall on you. One can keep the money that is necessary but the extra money should be returned back to the Lord. Ravana had his own wife called Mandodari. She represents the necessary wealth. But Sita was the extra money stolen [Ravana had kidnapped Rama’s wife, Sita]. Therefore Sita has to be returned to Rama. Ravana did not do so and was destroyed. Ishavasya Upanishat says in the very first hymn that one should return back the extra money to the Lord stolen by him.¬¬¬

Business with God!! This is purely business in that you offer something to God and get back something in return. The Lord encourages even this path of business ‘Vaishyamarga’ since it is better than ‘Veshyamarga’ [path of a prostitute]. In the latter path, you are aspiring for something in return practically, by offering only theoretical [imaginary, insubstantial] items like praise by words, devotion by mind and discussions about the Lord by your brain. The prostitute also expects money in return (practically) by sacrificing sweet words and sweet feelings of the mind. Atleast in the first path, the devotee offers something practically and also expects something practical in return as in the case of business. This business-devotion is better than the prostitute-devotion in which devotees offer prayers by words and feelings of love through mind and expect practical boons in return. But even in the business-devotion, new developments have come. People ask God to grant a boon first and only then will they do practical sacrifice. The present day devotion of almost all the devotees is according to these two ways.

Pay your tax to God Infact you should feel that you are paying tax to the Lord for all the cosmic facilities that He has provided to us. The Lord says that first this divine tax must be paid to the Lord and only then can you should enjoy (Yajnashishtaamruta—The Gita) the facilities. He condemns the atheists who enjoy the cosmic facilities and even deny the existence of the Lord. The Lord says that such atheists are actually enjoying sin (Bhunjate tetvagham). It is very important to note that getting all the amenities for one’s self and one’s family members are included under the mission of the Lord [unless one provides for the basic needs of one’s self and one’s family, one cannot be fit to serve in the mission of God]. But there should be some limit for these basic amenities. Luxuries should not be argued to be basic needs or facilities. Therefore you can divide the people into three categories. The first category has earned money beyond all their needs. They should sacrifice the excess wealth for the sake of the mission of the Lord. In the case of the second category of people, who do not have much excess wealth, whatever they waste in the name of entertainment, can be sacrificed to the Lord. By this, they will avoid going to hell and instead will go to the divine abode of the Lord. The third category of people is those who earn and store only for their basic needs. Such people need not pay the divine tax but in their case, another point comes: Are they are capable of doing more work so that they can earn more? If they are capable but are not doing the extra work, such people are instructed by the Lord to do work to the full extent. By doing such extra work, the fruit of that work may be paid as the divine tax or may be stored for their basic needs. But under any circumstances, one should not enter into luxuries. All luxuries, if properly analyzed, lead to loss of health and peace and finally lead to hell.

Mere social service without the divine mission is useless Mere social service without the divine mission is useless. Infact such social service will make God angry. The reason is that any human being is suffering here due to his sins. The Lord has punished him and the punishment is meant to change him and not for vengeance. Interference in the punishment disturbs the divine administration. But if you help them in the name of the Lord, and try to convert them into devotees, it will help them in their transformation, which is the actual goal of the punishment. In that case, the Lord will be pleased with you.

Meaning of Karma The word Karma means work in general but this word karma also means the work done for the sake of selfishness and his family members. The word Karma Yoga means the work done for the sake of the Lord. The word Vikarma means the work done in excess [for selfish gain alone] even after achieving the wealth required for the necessities of family (Karmanohyapi…). Therefore, Karma means the necessary work or duty done to acquire wealth for the basic needs for your family. Vikarma means not only earning excess wealth but also wasting the wealth in luxuries. Both these types of Vikarma are sin and should be avoided. When you sacrifice the excess wealth to the Lord, you must sacrifice it with fear and shyness [not with pride] because the entire creation is the wealth of the Lord (Kasyasvit Dhanam—The Veda). Even while sacrificing work to the mission of the Lord, you should know that the Lord alone supplies you the energy required to do the work. Therefore, you should not feel [proud] that you have served the Lord (Naivakinchit, Ahankara Vimudhatma, Brahmanyadhaya, Navadvare).

Sacrifice of Money to God When boons are granted, the results of good deeds to be enjoyed in future births are drawn back [pre-poned to the present] with reduced value and are given to you as boons. The present results of the bad deeds are postponed to the future births along with increased interest. Therefore you can never escape the result of your bad deed and the boon given to you is always the result of your own good deed (Nadatte Kasyachit). The Lord says that the sacrifice to the Lord should be done in such a way that a feeling of love is generated (Bhutabhavodbhavakarah). Love or devotion exists under ignorance and emotion. If you realize that all the wealth belongs to the Lord alone, you will feel that you have just returned the money of the Lord to Him and the Lord will also feel that His own wealth is returned to Him. Neither is there any feeling of real sacrifice in the mind of devotee nor is there a real feeling of love in the heart of the Lord. The Lord also feels the love of the devotee, if the Lord thinks that the devotee really sacrificed his hard-earned fruit. But in such love, egoism may come up, since the devotee can feel proud of his sacrifice. In order to rectify this, the devotee is enlightened with knowledge so that he should know that the entire creation is the wealth of Lord and get rid of his pride. Thus there is an alternate release and withdrawal of knowledge and ignorance so that the devotees do sacrifice with love under ignorance but without any pride owing to knowledge (Mattah Smritih—Gita).

Suffering of Human Incarnation The Lord certainly has the power of Maya to avoid pain while suffering the sins of devotees. But that will be cheating the Lord of Justice who is Himself. It is a violation of His own constitution as a judge. You fine your son as a judge and as a father you pay the fine. Here you should really pay the fine. You should not just pretend as if you paid the fine. Then you are cheating your own department [justice department] and yourself since you are the head of that department. Jesus experienced all the pain of crucifixion. Unless the pain is experienced the sin will not be pacified.

Realize the main aim of this human life I once again tell you to realize the main aim of this human life and forget the insult in the side activity. For a student the education is the main activity and he should be upset if he fails in the unit tests. But, he should not be worried, if he fails in a game conducted as an extra-curricular activity in the college. All this worldly life is only a game of extra-curricular activity only. If you fail in your efforts to achieve the grace of the Lord, you shall get tension because the spiritual effort is the main activity and aim of this human life. Othello killed Desidimona and ended his life also doubting her character and his doubt was actually unreal. But I assuredly tell you that this entire worldly life made of these unreal dramatic bonds is really unreal and even if Desdimona is wrong, if Othello is a realized soul, he will neglect the total issue as an extra-curricular activity. Love in free atmosphere alone is worthy and in a compelled atmosphere the hypocritic love is useless. Before matter, energy is negligible because energy condensed is matter. Before energy, awareness (soul) is negligible, which is the weakest form of energy. Before awareness the feeling is negligible, which is only the wave of awareness. Qualitatively matter and energy are one and the same energy. But quantitative difference brings the negligence to be treated as almost unreal (Mithya). These bonds are feelings only and you can laugh at these bonds as said in the Gita (karmabandham prahasyasi). At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Where from Satan came? Then people ask from where Satan came and from what source he got his power? The answer is that the same producer and director of the movie, who appointed one actor as hero has appointed another as the villain. The villain is also remunerated like the hero. Sometimes the producer-ejaculate-director can enter the movie in the role of a hero and such a role is called as the human incarnation of the Lord. The villain opposes the hero in the cinema. The hero wins over the villain, giving a good message to the spectators. But remember that the hero, who is the producer, has remunerated the villain and also directed every action of the villain as the director of the whole picture. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org