dattaswami

Without the knowledge of God the society cannot be controlled Mere social service without devotion – gives temporary heaven, Veda and Gita say the same, - such social service is not eternal. If you force rich to help poor, – they will act only, no reality. If you convince the rich – by preaching spiritual knowledge, They will really serve poor, - force will not work forever. Even the poor people after – receiving donation from rich, Do not get satisfied at any stage – without spiritual knowledge. The result of your social service – gives them temporary happiness. Hence, the fruit for your sacrifice – must be also temporary only. A politician gets temporary post – and earns temporary wealth For his social service, – his fame is also not eternal because It does not follow the soul – after death to the upper world. Preaching spiritualism should be – the main activity always Like teaching subjects is main – in a residential college. Boarding and lodging are also given, – but they are not main. Similarly, while turning people – into devotees, you may help The poor people involved in – such divine conversion here. In such case the fruit is eternal, – because the poor people learn To be contented with available benefits, – no end to materialism. In the present socialism – the poor is never satisfied in life, Donor weeps after donation – receiver is never satisfied. This leads to cheating by donor – and revolt by receiver. Both destroy the peace of society, – Pravrutti is disturbed. Nivrutti cannot stand in society – with disturbed Pravrutti. Nivrutti is the play of Lord – Pravrutti is the stage for His play. Yajna is sacrifice for society – that gives temporary heaven. By such Yajna, Dharma Raja – went to temporary heaven only. The same sacrifice of Saktuprastha – to Lord in the guest form Leads him to the eternal abode of God, - Nivrutti is highest. If Nivrutti is preached – Pravrutti is also setup permanently. If Pravrutti alone is preached – even Pravrutti is not settled. Without the knowledge of God – society cannot be controlled. Knowledge of God leads people – to permanent abode of God, Simultaneously it will also setup – the balance of the society.

Atheists say that there is no hell, heaven Atheists do not believe in hell, - heaven and abode of God. The souls will return from hell and heaven, – not from God. For mere social service – God created temporary heaven. On the earth the soul is given - opportunity to develop itself. By social service it may go to – heaven for some time, Or it may reach permanent – abode of God by selecting God in human form here, - freedom is given to soul. God does not want to disturb – the soul on this earth By giving punishments constantly, - earth is not hell. The soul is engaged in effort – with free opportunity here. Hence, the punishments for the soul – are reserved in hell. Similarly heavenly luxuries – may divert the soul here From the possible efforts – for trying for Nivrutti in this life. Hence, luxuries are postponed – to heaven after death. The abode of God as - upper most world is also required, Because for the souls - in energetic bodies after death, A separate world with God – in energetic body is required, so that The liberated soul by Nivrutti – is constantly associated with God. Such soul assists the Lord here – by coming in material body again. Atheists say that today – rockets have gone even to moon, hence, There is no hell, heaven and – the abode of God in the space. But scientists say that space is infinite – no rocket has gone Up to the boundary of space – to say that space ends there. Did you show compound wall – along the boundary of space? If there is a compound wall, - what is present after that wall? The space is infinite and – you have not shown absence of Hell, heaven and abode of God – by showing the limits of space. Of course, we have not shown to you – their presence also. There is fifty-fifty probability – for absence and existence. Let us assume their absence – what is the loss for me, If I believed their presence – and acted accordingly? I might not have enjoyed luxuries – like an atheist here, Due to that my health and – mental peace are conserved well. Let us assume their presence, - what will be your fate? Think. You will be powdered in hell, - here also due to over luxuries You have lost health and peace, - loss here as well as there. Unimaginable miracles are seen – unimaginable events in life give The experience of unimaginable God, - better to believe, Even by logic of probability, – which is scientific concept. Even the infinite space of cosmos – is a standing example for The existence of unimaginable – nature, this is cosmic vision Shown by Krishna to Arjuna, – it is miracle for any one to see. Such belief in God by probability – is a partial faith only, But it is better than no faith – of atheism assisted by science. The full faith alone gives – the final eternal divine fruit. The above partial faith – should slowly result in full faith.

Krishna and Jesus were names – of same God in different tongues The blind fanatic conservative rigidity – of one’s own religion is Leading to communal wars – destroying the peace of society. Common sense and simple analysis – are sufficient to know truth. Every religious fan says that – his God created this earth. Unfortunately there is only – one earth and not many earths. Religions are many with different Gods, - but, sorry, one earth only! This clearly means that there is – only one God, names differ. Then, one God should preach – one syllabus only to the earth. Languages may be different, – but subject is one and the same. God is impartial Father of all souls – existing on this one earth. If you say that Krishna alone is God, – Gita alone is the path, Those who followed Krishna only – are liberated, others to hell, We fully agree, but one small doubt, - when Krishna came here, India was disconnected with – other foreign countries for some time. During that time, foreigners, - who died ignorant of Krishna Went to hell and fault was not in them – they did not know Krishna Due to fault of Krishna only, - if Krishna wished, all countries Could have been linked on His – arrival to India simultaneously. Having known Krishna, – if the foreigners did not follow Him, Their hell is justified, – now Krishna becomes partial to India. God is always impartial, – entire earth is His creation only. All the souls on the earth – are issues of the same divine Father. Partiality is not justified, - if you say India alone has good devotees. It is also not true because – Kauravas opposed Him vehemently. The only solution is that God came – to all countries simultaneously In different names and preached – the same syllabus simultaneously. This logic applies to all religions, – When Jesus came to Jerusalem, India was disconnected for some time, – in that time some Indians Went to hell for not following Jesus, - it was not their fault at all, Jesus need not be partial to Jerusalem – containing good devotees Only, since He was crucified by – the worst priests in Jerusalem. The solution is that same God came – to India and Jerusalem. Krishna and Jesus were names – of same God in different tongues.

God comes in human form in all places of the earth & in every generation God comes in human form – in all places of the earth and also He comes in every generation – that contains both good and bad. If devotees of one generation are – favored by His direct visit, God becomes partial for no reason, – God is not such mad! Priests never accept human form – of God before their eyes. They like the worship of models – that represent God indirectly, So that the results of worship – indirectly come to them finally. Priests did not give place for God – after Buddha in Kali age. Buddha came in the beginning of Kali, – priests showed Kalki At the end of this Kali age, – no human form till the end. Similarly Christian priests – opposed Jesus when He was alive. After Jesus, they say that – Jesus comes only in the end. The psychology of priests – is the same in the whole world! Krishna said that He will come – whenever He is required. ‘Jesus will come again’ means, – He will come in next generation. If the guest says to you – that he will come again to you, Does it mean that he will come – only once in his entire life? In Christianity the soul after death – waits till the final enquiry. In that case the soul meets God twice, – once in its lifetime And finally at the time of enquiry, – this is justified, if no rebirth. Every soul meets God in human form, – once while it exists On the earth in the human body, - finally in final enquiry. This is possible only if God – comes in every generation. Otherwise, souls born - along with Jesus were only lucky, Since they alone met God as Jesus – and in final enquiry. All the other souls have only – one chance to meet finally. This is again blind partiality, – God can never be blind. Any priest in the world – does not like contemporary form Because the benefits of service – to God should come to him. This is possible only if God – is limited to symbolic models. The human psychology is always – selfish and egoistic here. Jesus told that He and His father – are one and the same. This is Advaita, He told that He is – the son of God, this is Vishishtadvaita stating that – son is part and parcel of father. Jesus told that He is messenger – of God, this is Dvaita stating That God is master and – Son of God is His servant. Mohammad stressed on Dvaita, - since all souls are servants, God is the master to be served, - then Son of God is not special. This will remove jealousy of priests – towards the Son of God. This will avoid crucifixion of – Son of God by priests. Remember, Mohammad came – just after Jesus and tried To avoid brutal consequences – of jealousy of priests on The Son of God or contemporary – human incarnation in future. Mohammad said that God – never becomes human being. It is perfectly correct, – current is not converted into wire. It only entered wire – God in flesh, Manushim Tanumashritam, Mean that God entered human body, – not converted into human body. Human body means gross body – with the liberated soul selected By God for human incarnation, – the soul is a part of the body. The soul is causal body, – the qualities in soul are subtle body. The soul acts as personal assistant, – as inert as the gross body Due to total surrender to God, – this soul is the Son of God. Every soul has equal chance – to become the Son of God. Every student has equal chance – to get the gold medal. But in an year only one student – tops and gets gold medal. The other students should not – hate the topper by jealousy. The chance given was not – properly used by other students. Neither God is partial nor – the topper should be blamed. Still there is time, use it, – next time you may be topper. Even during stay of God, – God is God and soul is soul. Even in live wire, current – is current and wire is wire. Wire is only treated as current – for all practical purposes.

Unity in all the religions of world for peace God is unimaginable and - cannot be served directly. There is no other way than – to serve mediated God. Buddha is also misunderstood – as an atheist by followers. Buddha kept silent about God, – silence means unimaginable. Silence does not mean that – God is non-existent, Veda says That words cannot touch God, – only silence indicates God. Shankara says that God is best – explained through silence. All religions can be correlated, – since there is one God only. The concept of one God – should be proved first of all. Then only correlation of – the scriptures of all religions. Without the basic establishment – of the point of one God, If you correlate scriptures, – correlation may be coincidence, since Some times unity may exist – in speeches of different speakers. This will not bring unity in – all the religions of world for peace. If one God is proved first, - all religions must be united subsequently. Shankara united sub-religions – in Hinduism and brought peace. Hinduism in those days was – like the present fighting religions. Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Shakti – Skanda and Surya were Gods. Their followers were fighting – like the present religious followers. Yesterday-Hinduism represents – today-Universal Religions. Today-Hinduism represents – tomorrow-united religions. Shankara brought unity in Hinduism – similarly Datta will bring Unity of Universal Religions – through analytical arguments. God stressed certain aspects – especially in various religions. Pickup those central diamonds – and prepare a garland with them. That will be our Universal Spirituality – for the peace of world. Hinduism is famous for unity – in diversity of various aspects. Christianity is famous for kindness – even for sinners to uplift. Islam stands for sincerity and – strict discipline towards God. Buddhism is for controlling desire – in the service to society. Jainism is for kindness to – all living beings in this world. Similarly you can pick up – gems from various other religions. Science is also a religion – to analyze non-God items of world. Shankara united various – branches of single religion, Hinduism. Then India stood as spiritual guide – for all Indians themselves. Today all religions of world exist – in India, Datta unites them. Now let India stand as spiritual guide – for all religions in world To unite all citizens of the world – to achieve world peace.

Service is action which alone yields the fruit anywhere in world Service is action and action alone – yields the fruit anywhere in world, Service is Karma Yoga, the final step – preached by preacher Madhva. Action results from interest, – when interest to see Bombay arises, You will do all practical efforts – to reach the city and to enjoy it. This interest is devotion preached by – Ramanuja as the second step. Interest is created by the details – or knowledge of Bombay, hence, Knowledge is basic first step, - Shankara preached it as Jnana Yoga. Knowledge and devotion are promoters – like fertilizer and water for Practical sacrifice, the seed that grows – into tree called as the service. The tree alone yields fruit and not – water or fertilizer in any amount. Service is sacrifice of work for saints, - it is called as Karma Sanyasa. Hanuman sacrificed work for Rama, - saints can do work only to God. Householders can sacrifice work - and also fruit of work, the wealth. Gopikas, as householders sacrificed – butter, the fruit of their work. Sacrifice of fruit of work is called as – Karmaphala Sanyasa by Gita. Arjuna, a householder sacrificed work – by fighting with evil forces To establish justice in God’s mission, - Arjuna was not for kingdom. He refused to fight for his benefit, - fought for work of God only. Rama masked His divinity by ignorance – like a pearl in iron box. He did not preach anything, - He did not show any miracle. Krishna was more intensive in test, – pearl was colored red. Krishna appeared as thief and dancer, - did not preach Gita then. He appeared as worst fellow – to test the top most sages. Rama tested angels like Adishesha, – Krishna tested top sages. Sages are of higher level – than angels in spiritualism always. Shankara came for ordinary – human beings on this earth. He expressed divinity through – preaching knowledge always. Human beings cannot recognize – masked or colored pearl. When Datta came as untouchable – with very bad qualities, Even Shankara could not recognize Him, - it is only a message To say that God covered by Maya – misleads even top most.

Importance of service to God You may say that service is impossible, – Hanuman and Gopikas are Exceptional and human beings – cannot sacrifice so much in action. This is totally wrong because – human beings sacrifice so much here For their children, impossible - must be impossible every-where. You are sacrificing your entire work – to serve your children always. In the end you are sacrificing – all your wealth to them only here. In such sacrifice, you are not – aspiring any fruit in return from them. It is the true love, practically proved – truth, none can deny this. Compare God and your child – in the practical love and estimate The percentage of reality – in your love to God without hypocrisy. You are not doing prayers with words – meditation and devotion with Mind, discussions with intelligence – for your child as you do for God. All your love to God is false, - only to get practical benefits from God Through words, feelings and discussions – like a prostitute exactly. Even if you serve God – through work and fruit of work, it is only Advance investment for more profit, – you are just a merchant. Do not be Veshya or Vaishaya before God, – at least be frank, Admit your defects and do not try – to fool God by false show. There are five instruments, – word, mind, intelligence, work and Fruit of work that can be sacrificed – to indicate your love here. The first three are theoretical, - the last two are practical. Practice is a proof for theory, - practice also must be without any Aspiration of fruit in return, - then only the practice is real. Theory must lead to practice – practice will lead to the fruit.

Bible says that you reap – what you sow in the land. Gita says that God reacts – in the same way of your action. Bible says that you reap – what you sow in the land. For your sacrifice of words – through prayers, God will grant you Good voice and language, - for your sacrifice of feelings, God Grants you good mind, - for your deep discussions, God grants you The intensive intelligence, - for your practical sacrifice, God acts Practically in your case, - for your practical service without any Aspiration for fruit, God gives you – the unimaginable eternal fruit. Words, mind and intelligence are – freely given to you by God, Like drinking water supplied to you – by the municipal authority. Even a hotel does not charge you – if you drink water in it, But you are charging God with – practical boons for your Sacrifice of freely supplied words, mind – and intelligence by God! You pray with words, you sing songs – and express feelings In the name of devotion and you – discuss deeply about God. If you do all these without any – aspiration of fruit in return, It is good because this theory – leads you shortly into service. But you are aspiring practical fruit – for sacrificing theory, very bad. Aspiration of fruit in return – at any stage of spiritual effort spoils Your entire value in the eyes of God, - if you treat God as your child And sacrifice work and fruit of work – as in the case of your child Without any aspiration of fruit in return, – you are a real devotee. Then, God will give you eternal fruit, - you are in His inner most circle.

Two deceases in spirituality Greedy selfishness is first decease, – egoistic jealousy is the second. First is due to your family bonds, – second is towards co-human form. First is cured by training yourself – in sacrificing practically in temples. Of course, your sacrifice goes to priest, - let it be, do not worry on it. You are learning practical sacrifice – coming out of your family circle. Here the second decease is also – expected to get cure gradually, Because you are serving statues – having human form only. Your repulsion to human form – gets decreased slowly in doing Service to the statues of human form, - when you are cured fully From both the deceases, you are – now eligible for Jnana Yoga. Rituals in temples purify your mind, – Shankara says this. Jnana Yoga means identifying Satguru, - the human form of God. Then, devotion to Him and then – service to Him gets eternal fruit. If you are identifying the purpose – in your temple rituals, You will reach the goal, one-day or other – tradition expects this. But without knowing the purpose, - if you simply go on like bull, Priests exploit you, – Veda says that such a fool is only The animal-vehicle of angels, - the ignorance stamped by divinity. Gita says that rituals must be done – after knowing their purpose.

God is pleased by knowledge-Foolishness of Priests! Today the priests recite Vedas – in doing various ritual ceremonies, None knows the meaning including priest, – this is biggest tragedy! Gita says that ritual should be – platform for knowledge, Jnana Yajna. Gita praises knowledge saying that – God is pleased by knowledge. Vedas are in Sanskrit, – none learns Sanskrit including priest. Veda itself means knowledge, - knowledge leads to devotion. Devotion ends in practice – practice alone yields divine fruits. Sage Yaska says that a ritual performed – by mere recitation Becomes useless like cooking without fire, – Yaska is Vedic sage. In ancient days this problem was not there – because for sages Sanskrit was mother tongue, - if you see other religions, there The scripture is in mother tongue, – knowledge is attained. In ritual, several gather, – it is a good opportunity for priest To propagate divine knowledge – to generate devotion in them. If devotion is generated – God is pleased with such Jnana Yajna. This is one serious defect – that eclipsed Hinduism in India. The second eclipse is human rebirth, - Hindus believe in human rebirth. Therefore, negligence in spiritual line, - in other religions no rebirth. People fear if there is only one chance – to write the examination. Lot of care and attention in other religions, – Hindus are not caring. In fact, there is no human rebirth, – Shankara says, it is very rare. Very rare means almost impossible – except in some exceptional cases. God is omnipotent to sanction – human rebirth for few deserving. Such exceptional power of God – is not mentioned in other religions. That did lot of good to them – since they become very careful. Hindus generalized the special – exemption to all human beings. This is a misinterpretation and – it harmed a lot giving negligence. Another misinterpretation is that – sin can be nullified by good deeds. It is totally wrong, only priests say this – to earn some money by rituals.

God transfers your sins on to Him Pandavas did lot of good deeds and rituals – only very little sin. Their sin was not cancelled by – their good deeds and rituals done. They went to hell as seen by Dharma Raja – Yama said that Good and bad are to be enjoyed separately, – no mutual cancellation. Gita says that God can relieve you from sin, – it is certainly correct. But if you see the procedure – the fruit of action must be enjoyed. God transfers your sins on to Him – and relieves you from your sins. But this is only in the case of – exceptional top most devotees. Bible also says that He came – to save His people and not all. Due to these misinterpretations – human beings become sinners With an idea to cancel sins – later on by doing certain rituals. The corruption here is in climax – people loot wealth of innocent, For the luxuries of their family members, – who do not share sin. People kill others for the sake of – happiness of their kith and kin. Corruption and crime are maximum – in India compared to others. Shankara says, worldly bond – is unreal in past, present and future. Anything unreal in past and future – must be unreal in present also. The bond between two actors – was unreal before and after drama. Then, same bond must be – unreal during the time of drama also. Your family bonds are unreal even now, – since they were unreal In previous birth and will be unreal – in your future birth. Sage Ashtavakra says to Janaka that – the mother in the present birth Becomes the wife of her son in next birth, – understand unclothed truth. Two actors act as mother and son – in one cinema and the same Actors act as wife and husband – in the next cinema, we see this. For such unreal family bonds – you are doing so many sins, They will not share even a trace – of your sins in the future hell. Narada revealed this truth to Valmiki, – who was robbing travelers. Valmiki became the sage – after realizing this truth practically. Today even basic Pravrutti is dead – Nivrutti is not even in dream.

The fall of standards in Hinduism This country with such climax of – the ancient spiritual knowledge Standing on the sky has fallen – not to earth, even far below earth. India was a unique guide in Nivrutti – for entire Universe, One day. Today in India even Pravrutti lost – even the minimum standard! The reason for such drastic fall – is only misinterpreted scripture. Spiritual knowledge is not – frequently propagated in rituals due to Priests ignorant of the language of scripture, – human rebirth is Another reason for spiritual negligence, - cancellation of sins by Rituals is another misinterpretation, – all these contributed equally For the fall of standards in Hinduism, - it should be revived now.

It is better to be far from worldly atmosphere to get detachment from it The psychology of the people is to get attraction towards the things, which are far and to get detached from the things, which are very close. Infact, this is the general psychology of souls and even angels are not exceptional as said in Veda ‘Paroksha Priya ivahi devah pratyaksha dvishah…’, which means that even angels like any item, which is far and dislike any item present before the eyes. This is the reason for God keeping us in close association with worldly atmosphere and to keep Himself far from us. Whatever God does is always meaningful and we criticize God without understanding Him in depth. You should always be closely associated with the items from which you want detachment. You should always keep yourself far from the items on which you like to maintain your attraction. When the item existing away from you becomes closely associated, your attraction towards it starts diminishing. This is the reason for the repulsion towards the contemporary human incarnation, which exists before your eyes. Similarly, the reason for attraction to past human incarnations and the energetic incarnations of God related to the upper world is that these forms are not before your eyes. Sage Vasishtha says that it is better to be far from worldly atmosphere to get detachment from it. You may think that this contradicts the above statement regarding human psychology. But it is not so as it is clear on sharp analysis. The statement of sage Vasishtha does not apply to the stage of leaving the family permanently. His statement should apply to a temporary period of meditation on God in the case of a householder. The householder gets real detachment from the family being close to the family. Now he wants to concentrate on God for sometime. For this purpose, he should leave the house and go to a lonely place and meditate upon God for sometime. He can meditate upon God in the atmosphere of the house. Therefore, one should leave the house for a short period to concentrate on God in a lonely atmosphere as said in Gita (Vivikta Sevi…). But if one leaves the house permanently and goes to a forest for meditation upon God, everything fails. The concept of leaving the family forever brings tremendous attraction on the family in the mind leading to failure of meditation upon God. Therefore, the statement of Vasishtha in Yoga Vasistha should be taken for a short exit from the house and not in the case of permanent exit.

Once the attachment on God becomes complete, the detachment from the family becomes natural The statement in Veda (Yadahareva Virajet Tadahareva Pravrajet…), which says that you should leave the house whenever you are detached from the family, can be applied for leaving the house for a short period also. The spiritual aspirant can control the mind and attain detachment from the family slowly by such constant practice only (Abhyasenatu… Gita). Once the attachment on God becomes complete, the detachment from the family becomes natural and spontaneous and there need not be any effort for such detachment. After such detachment, one may stay in the house but still he is not attached internally to the family like king Janaka. For such a fully detached soul, even leaving the house for a divine program of propagating the spiritual knowledge will not have any difficulty as in the case of Buddha and Shankara. Once the internal detachment is complete, the external detachment is not at all a problem and even if one is not having the external detachment, still he is completely detached soul only. There is no difference between Janaka and Shankara or Buddha because in all these cases the internal detachment is complete. However, certain people who claim the internal detachment like Janaka without the external detachment can misinterpret this concept. Such cheating the public is of no use because it is deceiving his own soul since one cannot fool the God.

Leaving the house for the propagation of knowledge and devotion should be done on the command of God only When the person is totally absorbed in God, even the surrounding atmosphere of the family cannot disturb him in anyway as in the case of Janaka ( a great devotee). Such person may even leave the family like Shankara and Buddha (previous human incarnations) for the propagation of spiritual knowledge and devotion in the world on the order of God. Such exit is designed in the divine program and cannot be taken as a step in the spiritual effort (Sadhana) of a human being. Shankara and Buddha are human incarnations of God (Siddhas) and they are not to be compared with the spiritual aspirants (Sadhakas). If the spiritual aspirant becomes Janaka by slow practice as said above, such state is equal to the state of Buddha or Shankara, provided the attainment of such state is real with reference to his inner consciousness. Leaving the house for the propagation of knowledge and devotion should be done on the command of God only as stated by Sri Rama Krishna Paramahamsa.

Your spiritual effort should not be against the psychology of the mind You have to tackle the Maya carefully with tactful approach according to the human psychology. Otherwise, one will be insulted and thrown away by the powerful Maya. Your spiritual effort should not be against the psychology of the mind. The detachment from the family should be spontaneous without any effort. The effort means force and mind cannot be controlled by force, which is already attracted to the world. Without the complete attraction to God, if you detach mind from the worldly attraction, the mind will rebel because it needs the process of attraction as its food. If the mind is immersed in the attraction to God, it is satisfied with such divine nectar as its food. In the absence of divine nectar of devotion to God, the mind likes to eat some rubbish food and it cannot remain hungry without food. In the absence of divine nectar of devotion as the food of highest quality, some food of even low quality is needed for the mind. When you are in journey, you cannot get homely food, but you cannot also remain hungry without food. Therefore, you will be eating some nonsense during the journey to pacify your hunger. Similar is the case with mind. If your are served with homely food, you will not go for bad food even by force. Similarly, if you fully pacify mind with the devotion, the mind will not go for worldly affairs even if it is forced. The high quality food should be sufficiently supplied to pacify the hunger. Then only your hunger is put off. Simply tasting a little food of high quality cannot pacify the hunger completely. Therefore, merely tasting the devotion of God is not sufficient to detach the mind from the worldly affairs. The devotion should be completely injected in to the mind so that the hunger of the mind is completely satisfied by the quantitative aspect also. Once your mind is engaged in the devotion always, the worldly affairs cannot deviate you. This is the reason for the diversion of the mind to the world even though the mind has tasted devotion.

The devotion to God should be based on absence of aspiration for any fruit in return The devotion to God should be based on absence of aspiration for any fruit in return. This point is the life of the entire devotion. In all most all the cases the devotion is based on the need for God’s help in the materialistic life or in getting protection from the hell after death. Such need based devotion will lead to atheism one day or other because atleast after sometime, God will keep silent towards such need based devotion. When God becomes silent and the need for God disappears, the devotion also vanishes like the useless tail in the case of human being in the process of evolution. The tail is well developed in the case of animals because it is needed to throw away the flies. But when the animal started walking on two legs and the two hands are well developed to throw away the flies, the tail slowly disappeared due to the absence of its use. A monkey walks on four legs and therefore the tail exists with full vigor to throw away the flies. When the same monkey became the human being in the process of evolution, the hands were well developed and hence the tail disappeared. If you see the physical form of Hanuman, it is fully human form with well-developed hands. The mouth of Hanuman can be seen even in certain human beings and therefore, it cannot prove that Hanuman is a monkey. His mouth was as good as the mouth of a handsome human being and it is deformed when He swallowed the Sun due to burning. In His case, the tail should disappear since it has no use. But in His case, the tail is very long and very strong even though its need disappeared. The tail represents the devotion without need or aspiration of fruit. The long tail represents the continuous devotion without any break even in the absence of need. The strong tail denotes the intensive devotion even in the absence of need. Thus, the very physical form of Hanuman represents His path of devotion, which is very strong and continuous even in the absence of any need. Even though there was no aspiration of any fruit, God gave Him the highest fruit by which He became God Himself.

God is not at all bothered about the atheists or theists who criticize the misery A person (God) cooked food containing sweet and hot dishes (created world containing happiness and misery), served it on the plate (rules the world) and eats the entire food (destroyed the world). An ant (the human being) entered the plate (exists in the world) and tastes the food. The ant criticizes the hot dish and likes the sweet dish for some time but gets bored with the sweet. The ant can neither cook nor serve and nor eat the entire food. If the ant enjoys both sweet and hot dishes, the ant resembles the person at least qualitatively in this one aspect of enjoyment. Similarly, the individual soul can neither create nor rule and nor destroy this world. If the soul is able to enjoy both happiness and misery with equal attitude, at least in this aspect the soul can resemble God in a micro scale (Matbhavayopapadyate….. Gita). Otherwise, the soul does not resemble God in any way and if the soul says that it is God; it is the climax of foolishness. The soul can attain God at least in this one aspect and such attainment is called as Yoga (Samatvam Yogauchyate..Gita). The human beings should understand that God creates this world for His own entertainment and this is not for the entertainment of any soul. If some ants criticize that the person does not exist, the criticism of such ants is not even heard by the person. Similarly, God is not at all bothered about the atheists or theists who criticize the misery.

The nature of real spiritual path to God You are leaving the misery of the world and on attaining God, you think that you will derive the bliss, which is the eternal happiness. By leaving the worldly attachment, you have left the minus. Then, you have attained the intermediate state of absolute peace, which is zero. Now on attaining God, you have attained the plus, which is bliss in your view. The plus is a double minus in which, two signs of minus are arranged one over the other at right angles. This double minus indicates that you have to work more and face more misery in the service of God. The work and misery in the worldly affairs is very much less compared to the misery in work of God. The plus sign indicates the cross and the servant of God has to sacrifice even his own life to please God in the divine mission. You need not sacrifice your life for the sake of your family at any time. Unless you have developed the attitude of enjoying the misery, you cannot face misery in the service of God. Sugriva lost his wife because Vali has taken away her by force. Sugriva did not go to Vali to fight with him for the sake of his wife due to the fear for his life. His life is more valuable than his wife. But the same Sugriva went to Lanka to fight in the war taking the full risk of his life for the sake of getting back the wife of Lord Rama from Ravana. Thus, one has to sacrifice even his life for the sake of God even though he may not sacrifice the same life in any worldly matter. Jesus says that unless one is prepared to carry on his own cross for the sake of the Lord, one cannot be His dearest disciple. The plus sign appears as double negative to threaten you by its facial expression. The final result of plus is not negative at all because its value is only positive. Similarly, if you are prepared for the double minus and intensive sacrifice in the case of God, you will derive the bliss at the end. God tests you to find out your attitude. God wants to know whether you have approached Him for bliss or to work and do the total sacrifice for His sake. Once God is fully convinced about the reality of your attitude, the result is quite different from the test. Finally Sugriva was given a place in Brahma Loka (Vaikuntha), where Sugriva lived with bliss. Ramayana is always taken as guidance in pravrutti (worldly life) by taking Rama as a good son, good husband, good father, good friend etc. Rama was always taken as a human being externally and the inner form of Rama as Lord was always hidden. All the monkeys were incarnations of angels and hence they could recognize Rama as Lord. No Advaita Scholar has become Brahman so far except Hanuman who served Rama as the Lord in the form of the contemporary human incarnation. Only Hanuman became Brahman, who still says that He is the servant of Rama. Therefore, Ramayana, which gives the path to any soul to become Brahman, is the only scripture of Advaita Philosophy in practical sense.

Total surrender to God The total surrender of your self is possible if you know that you are a tiny part of His movable property. A goat is a part of the movable property of the butcher. Every drop of the blood and every bit of the flesh is the property of the butcher only. The butcher is going to enjoy the entire flesh and blood of the goat and therefore there is no individuality for the goat. Similarly, every atom of your gross body and every wave of the energy in your gross body belong to the God. All your qualities (subtle body) and your entire pure awareness (soul or causal body) belong to God only. Hence, total surrender of your self is the complete justice (Tameva Sharanam Gachcha….Gita). To signify this concept, the Lord is called as Pashupati or the owner of the souls, which are like the animals.

Excess of wealth is the real death of any soul the excess of wealth is not poison, if it is linked to spiritual line. A poor fellow was a disciple of Shri Akkalkot Maharaj. Shri Maharaj took that fellow to a forest and showed an abode of snakes. Shri Maharaj asked him to take two snakes in to his bag. The disciple took two snakes with lot of fear and took them to his house. When he opened the bag, both the snakes were found to be two rods of gold. What is the message of this story? Shri Maharaj was the human incarnation of Lord Datta and was called as Samartha Sadguru, which means that He was the capable human form of the Lord appearing as the preacher. Hence, the message must be very capable. The message of Lord Datta in this story is that the excess of money indicated by the abode of snakes is very harmful like the poisonous snakes. Nobody can escape the poisonous bite of a cluster of snakes. The poison is the ego that is injected in to the human brain due to excess money, which kills the life. Here the life is the spiritual life. In the Sanatsujatiyam of Mahabharata, it is told that the death means forgetting God and not leaving the human body. Leaving the old human body is like changing the old shirt, which should be really an occasion of happiness only. Death means an occasion of lot of unhappiness, which is only when God is forgotten. Therefore, the message of Maharaj is that the excess of wealth is the real death of any soul. Only Lord Narayana lying on a big serpent and Lord Shiva wearing serpents as jewels are exceptional cases that are not affected by these poisonous serpents (excess wealth). This means that the excess of wealth is not poison, if it is linked to spiritual line. The Lord advised the devotee to take only two serpents indicating the limited wealth meant for materialistic life. Generally there is a possibility of escaping the bite from two snakes.

The heaven, which is the fruit of doing social service is temporary Another human incarnation of Lord Datta was Manikya Prabhu, who as a boy excreted in the Vedic fire alter and His excretion was found to be a lump of gold. The Vedic fire alter is Yajna, which represents the path to heaven. The heaven means luxurious life, which involves excess wealth indicated by the lump of gold. But the lump of gold was treated to be the excretion, which is considered to be wastage. This means that the luxurious life is wastage only. The heaven, which is the fruit of doing social service is temporary (Ksheene punye….Gita) and is not like the permanent bliss of the Lord. The present politicians who do social service without the name of the Lord, just to become wealthy and lead a luxurious heavenly life, should take the message from the Lord Datta.

You should not misunderstand the silence of God to your prayers in your problems. Why God is careful while granting boons? The treasure of God is infinite and will not exhaust by giving you some money The treasure of God is infinite and will not exhaust by giving you some money. Similarly, if He cancels your sins, there is no body to question Him. Then, why is He delaying in giving money to you and in removing your problems by canceling all your sins? The reason is that His single aim is to transform you in to a divine soul. If He gives you money, what will be the change in your behavior? If He removes all your problems, what will be the change in the practical style of your life? If God is sure that there will be no change in your behavior, He will certainly make you wealthy and will remove all your problems. A doctor is careful to give sweets to a diabetic patient. If the sugar-level of the patient rises, the problem in treating the patient also is on the head of the doctor only. If you become wealthy and get rid of all problems, you may become an uncontrolled demon and disturb the society. You may be immersed in endless luxuries and fall down. In such case, to save the society and to save your self, God has to act. Therefore, God is careful in granting boons. Except this complication, God is not worried in any way because His power and wealth are infinite. If you can become a realized and liberated soul through the spiritual knowledge, then, there will be no change even if you become wealthy and happy. The spiritual knowledge is like the sugar tablet given to the patient in advance. In absence of such medicine in advance, the doctor will not give you more sweets since he is aware of your sugar (ego) level in your blood. Hence, you should not misunderstand the silence of God to your prayers in your problems.

Identifying present human incarnation The main project of Lord in Human form The highest preacher is only God in human form God in human form is to be recognized through the spiritual knowledge preached by Him and not by the miracles. The main project of God to come to the earth is only to guide the souls to the correct spiritual path, which leads the souls to permanent welfare. Therefore, Veda says that the real identity mark of God is the special spiritual knowledge (Prajnanam Brahma). Who will decide that the knowledge is the best? Your own inner conscience is the real judge to give the certificate for the knowledge of the preacher (Pramanamantahkaranapravruttayah). For your level, whatever is the best should be the best for you. The ultimate and absolute best is not relevant to you. Therefore, the certificate given by others is not relevant to you since the levels of others differ from your level. The preacher gives the spiritual knowledge to the souls in different levels according to their corresponding levels. If you are in the highest level and if your conscience is satisfied, such spiritual knowledge is the ultimate and such preacher is the human incarnation of God. The highest preacher can give lower levels of knowledge also but the lower preacher cannot give the higher-level of knowledge. But if your level is low, the highest preacher is of no use and you can treat the preacher of your level as the highest. Even if you catch the highest preacher, He will give you the level of knowledge corresponding to your level only. The advantage with the highest preacher is that you need not change the preacher as you rise in your level. The highest preacher is only God in human form. You must filter Him not only from ordinary human beings but also must filter Him from the other false human incarnations. The most important point is that you must identify your contemporary human incarnation, which alone can clarify all your doubts. Otherwise, you can only follow the text of the past human incarnation and only your other classmates clarify all your doubts. Then, you will be certainly confused further.

The absolute knowledge of the absolute God is impossible The absolute knowledge of the absolute God is impossible because the absolute God is unimaginable. The absolute God comes in human form to give you the experience of His existence, in absence of which, you may deny the very existence of the absolute God and may become atheist (Astityeva….Veda). The identification of the human form in which the absolute God exists is the knowledge of God (Brahma Jnanam or Brahma Vidya). The experience of the existence of the absolute God does not reveal any trace of the nature of the absolute God and hence God is always unimaginable. The only information about the absolute God is that God exists. “Aum Tat Sat” means that God exists and no more information about God is available. The word Tat means that God is beyond your imagination. The word Aum denotes that God is the creator, ruler and destroyer of this world. These three adjectives indicate the works (Creation, rule and destruction) of God only and not the nature of the God. This is called as the information about the existence only (Sanmatra vada). God comes in human form, which is characterized by the awareness or chit. The awareness is fully developed up to intelligence and therefore the human form is indicated and not birds and animals. Such human form (Chit) is not the information about God but it is the information about the medium selected by God to enter the world. Thus, the medium is only awareness (Chinmatra vada) and not the inert materials. The aim of Shankara is about the selection of the medium by the God to enter the world. The Advaita followers, who concluded that awareness itself is the absolute God, misunderstand this. God enters the world through human form for entertainment, since the very basic aim of the creation is only that according to Veda. Such entertainment gives Him continuous happiness (Ananda). Thus, the word Sat-Chit-Ananda denotes the absolute God entering the world for continuous entertainment through the human form.