Divine Discourses Vol - 11

DIVINE DISCOURSES
Volume 11
HIS HOLINESS SHRI. DATTA SWAMI
Shri Datta Swami
Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat
Copyright: 2007 Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat, Vijayawada, India.

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CONTENTS
1. STRESS ON THE CONTEMPORARY INCARNATION
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Conquer Ego and Jealousy ................................................................... 1
Approach Satguru in Middle Age......................................................... 2
2. AUTHORITIES OF KNOWLEDGE
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Essence of Mahavaakyas ...................................................................... 5
Conclusion ............................................................................................ 7
3. THE INCARNATION SEVERELY TESTS DEVOTEES
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Lord Rama Is the Ideal for Family Life................................................ 9
Hanuman is the Ideal for Spiritual Life ................................................ 9
Miracles Do Not Indicate God............................................................ 10
Severe Tests of Faith .......................................................................... 10
4. MAINTAINING NIVRITTI AND PRAVRITTI SIMULTANEOUSLY 12
Type 1: People for Whom Pravritti is the Only Goal ......................... 12
Type 2: People for Whom Nivrutti is the Only Goal ......................... 12
Type 3: People Who Maintain Both Nivrutti and Pravritti ................ 13
5. UNDERSTANDING SHANKARAS PHILOSPHY IN THE CONTEXT
OF HIS TIME
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Subtle Actions of the Incarnation Reveal Greatest Knowledge ......... 15
6. COSMIC ENERGY CREATED WORLD BY GODS WILL
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Enjoying Even Unpleasantness is the Highest State .......................... 18
7. BASICS OF NIVRUTTI
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Follow Pravrutti to Avoid Gods Fury ............................................... 21
8. IMAGINABLE AWARENESS DIFFERENT FROM UNIMAGINABLE
GOD
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Little Similarity; Huge Difference...................................................... 24
9. THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF SPIRITUAL EFFORT
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Do Not Mind Doing Adharma If the Incarnation Demands............... 27
Recognition of Human Incarnation .................................................... 29
10. GOD DID NOT MODIFY INTO CREATION
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The Effect Does Not Exist in the Cause ............................................. 31
11. TRANSFORMATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE IS THE
GREATEST
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Special Talent of God in Answering Spontaneously.......................... 33
12. MEANING OF THE GAYATHRY MANTRA
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Spontaneous Liking and Feeling for God ........................................... 35
13. INNER MEANING OF SHRI CHAKRA
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Diagrams to Be Understood; Not Worphipped .................................. 37
Triangles Indicate Competition Between Three Entities ................... 38
14. PRACTICE ALONE YIELDS FRUIT
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Theory-Inspiration-Practice ................................................................ 40
15. DREAM IS AN ANALOGY FOR CREATION
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Metaphor Applies in One Aspect ....................................................... 43
16. MEANING OF ATMAN
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Misunderstood Theory Rectified by Practical Demonstration ........... 45
17. PHILOSOPHY DEALS WITH THE CREATOR
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Knowledge of God Means the Identification of the Incarnation ........ 48
18. SCIENCE AND LOGIC APPLY TO CREATION ALONE
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God is Beyond Logical Analysis ........................................................ 51
All That is in Sanskrit, Need Not Be Divine ...................................... 52
19. WORLDLY BONDS WEAKEN THE ATTACHMENT TO GOD
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20. UNIMAGINABLE GOD ENTERS IMAGINABLE CREATION FOR
DEVOTEES
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Necessity of Coining the New Word Parabrahman ......................... 58
21. IGNORANCE OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE CAUSES SIN
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Knowledge-Fire Alone Burns All Sins............................................... 59
22. DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN INVISIBLE AND
UNIMAGINABLE
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Awareness Is Produced by Information Processing in the Brain ....... 61
Gods Will Enables Individual Variation ........................................... 62
23. SOUL IS NOT THE CREATOR
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Soul is Not Absolutely Eternal ........................................................... 64
24. LIMITED SIMILARITY BETWEEN GOD AND THE SOUL
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Important Differences Remain ........................................................... 66
Mistakes in the Advaitins Analysis ................................................... 68
25. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE ALONE CHANGES SOCIETY
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Grace of God Is the Best and Eternal Fruit ........................................ 70
26. SCIENCE IS NEUTRAL ABOUT GOD
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Science Ends Its Analysis at Space .................................................... 73
Magic Tricks and Miracles ................................................................. 74
27. NO SUFFERING FOR THE HUMAN INCARNATION
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See the Positive Side to Remain Happy ............................................. 77
28. GOD ENTERS BOTH SOUL AND BODY OF INCARNATION
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Prajnanam Does Not Mean Mere Awareness .................................. 80
God Enters Only the Human Form; Not Inert Items .......................... 81
29. KNOWLEDGE MUST BE FOLLOWED
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Unimaginable God is Beyond Logic .................................................. 83
Miracles Have Serious Negative Consequences ................................ 84
Misunderstood Science Encouraged Atheism and Egotism ............... 86
30. BABA PROVES THE UNIMAGINABILITY OF GOD
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Similarities Among Different Incarnations ........................................ 89
31. SAME UNIMAGINABLE GOD IN ALL INCARNATIONS
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Different Programs of Incarnations .................................................... 92
Incarnation: A Two Component System ............................................ 94
Revealing the Difficult Path Bit-By-Bit ............................................. 95
Baba Set Pravritti As the Goal ............................................................ 96
32. ANSWERING THE CONTROVERSIES AROUND THE PASSING
AWAY OF SAI BABA
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Similarity Between Jesus and Baba .................................................... 99
33. TWISTED NIVRUTTI FOR PERFECTION IN PRAVRITTI
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Solution to Present Day Problems .................................................... 102
34. SIMULTANEOUS INCARNATIONS ARE POSSIBLE
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Incarnations Actions Are Messages for Devotees .......................... 105
Same God in Different Media .......................................................... 106
35. THREE PHILOSOPHIES PERTAIN ONLY TO INCARNATION 109
Baba as Shankara .............................................................................. 111
Baba as Ramanuja and Madhva........................................................ 112
Master Necessary for Every Human Being ...................................... 113
36. REAL TRIBUTE TO SRI SATYA SAI BABA
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37. FILTER OUT SELFISHNESS FROM DEVOTION
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Dharma and Dharma Sukshma ......................................................... 117
38. ANALYSIS OF AWARENESS
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39. MEANING OF DATTATREYA
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God Incarnates in Different Forms in Each World .......................... 122
40. SELFISHNESS SUBSIDES WITH TRUE KNOWLEDGE AND
DEVOTION
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Self-Awareness Differs From Selfishness ........................................ 124
41. SUPERIMPOSITION OF GOD AND HUMAN FORM IN
INCARNATION
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42. UNIMAGINABLE GOD REPRESENTED BY INVISIBLE ENERGY
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43. FASTING IN RITUALS
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44. CONCEPT OF GOD IS TRUE
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Fear of God Controls Sin .................................................................. 136
Salvation Is Unrelated to God .......................................................... 138
45. TWO TYPES OF CLASSIFICATION IN THE GITA
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Purusha and Prakruti ......................................................................... 140
Kshara-Akshara-Purushottama ......................................................... 141
46. ANSWERING CONTROVERSIES AT PRASHANTI NILAYAM 143
Carving of Goddess Lakshmi on Babas Sandals ............................ 143
Money Found in Babas Room ......................................................... 144
47. PARIPURNA ADVAITA
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Shankaras Advaita is Context-Specific ........................................... 145
Equal Enjoyment Only Through Gods Grace ................................. 146
The State of an Avadhuta ................................................................. 147
Achieving Gods State of Unattached Spectatorship ....................... 148
Purity Supersedes Quantity in Practical Service .............................. 150
God Grants Devotion As Well As Deviation ................................... 151
48. CAUSES OF NAXALISM AND TERRORISM
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No Private Affair Exists in the Universe Avoiding God .................. 153
Supression of Women in Indian Society .......................................... 154
The Problem of Terrorism ................................................................ 157
49. INCARNATION BEHAVES LIKE GOD ONLY WITH DEVOTEES
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Negative Angle in Idol Worship ....................................................... 160
50. THE RELEVANCE OF THE INCARNATION
162
Providing Guidance is the Essence................................................... 162
51. CREATION IS UNREAL ONLY FOR ITS CREATOR
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World Real for Soul to get Entertainment & Gods Grace .............. 165
52. OMNIPOTENT GOD DOES NOT REQUIRE HECTIC EFFORT TO
REALIZE HE IS GOD
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Truth in Scriptures Stands Any Extent of Analysis ......................... 169
53. DEVELOPING PURITY IN DEVOTION IS THE FIRST STEP
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Selfish Love is the Essence in Worldly Bonds................................. 171
54. PRACTICING SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS
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55. THE ANALOGY OF TWO BIRDS ON A TREE
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Intellect and Soul or Soul and God? ................................................. 175
Subject of Philosophy ....................................................................... 179
56. SCRIPTURE AND THE INCARNATION SUPPORT EXISTENCE OF
HELL AND REBIRTH
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Err on the Safe Side .......................................................................... 181
Supporting Incidents ......................................................................... 183
57. CLOSENESS AND FAMILARITY DEVELOPS NEGLIGENCE 184
58. UNIMAGINABILITY OF GOD LED TO MULTIPLE SCHOOLS OF
PHILOSOPHY
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Awareness: Basic Material of Every Thought.................................. 186
Psychological Treatment of Patients by Advaita.............................. 188
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59. UNIMAGINABLE MEANS BEYOND SPATIAL DIMENSIONS 189
Chain of Causes and Effects ............................................................. 189
Shankara Meant the Awareness of God ........................................... 190
60. NO NEED TO ASK ANYTHING FROM OMNISCIENT GOD
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Inevitable Enjoyment of Fruits Established by God ........................ 193
Inconvenient Punishment Alone Transforms ................................... 194
Preach Knowledge Only After Getting Orders From God ............... 195
61. SELF ESTEEM LEADS TO WRONG ANALYSIS
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62. GOD HATES WEEPING AND BEGGING
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Do Not Intensify Worship in Troubled Times ................................. 199
Identify the True Path Irrespective of Personal Liking .................... 201
63. SECRET OF LIFE
202
Alternating Happiness and Misery ................................................... 202
64. REVELATION OF THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ABOUT GOD
204
Present Sharp Intelligence Suitable for Final Declaration ............... 204
Unity Among the Different Concepts of Unimaginable God........... 206
65. PROLONGING ANYTHING LEADS TO UNHAPPINESS
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God Arranged Good Bad Fruits Alternately .................................... 208
Method of Eradication of Ego and Jealousy..................................... 209
66. CLEAR DIFFERENTIATION OF GOD FROM SOUL
211
Philosopher Interested in Creator & creation related to Creator ...... 211
Meaning of Non-inertness ................................................................ 212
Real Creativity Exists in God Alone ................................................ 213
Awareness: Receiving, Storing and Rare Bits of Creativity ............ 214
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STRESS ON THE CONTEMPORARY INCARNATION

Conquer Ego and Jealousy
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[January 15, 2011] Today is Samkranti, which means transfer of Sun
from south to north. Sun represents the intelligence, which is the basis of
logical analysis. The Gayatri mantra also says that sun provokes the
intelligence. The south represents the path of rituals, which involves the
worship of representatives of energetic forms of God like statues or
formless models of Vishnu, Shiva, etc. and the worship of statues of past
human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, etc. In this path, the statues or
some formless representatives are selected for worship because the spiritual
aspirant has not yet conquered his egoism and jealousy towards
contemporary human incarnation, which in fact is the most relevant address
of God for a human being. The three great epics of the Hindu religion
(Ramayana, Mahabharatam and Bhagavatam) preach about the two great
past human incarnations called as Rama and Krishna. Even the Bible of
Christianity is based on the past human incarnation called as Jesus. The
Islam is based on another human incarnation called as Mohammad. The
Buddhism is based on the human incarnation called as Buddha. Jainism is
also based on the human incarnation called as Mahavir. The human
incarnation is most relevant for any human being because God always
comes in human form only to preach human beings. Even the energetic
form is also in human shape only, which is relevant to souls in energetic
bodies only and hardly there is any practical example that the energetic
from of God preached the human beings. The human energetic form is
again an indication to the human being to divert to the alive human form of
God.
Unless the alive human form of God is caught, clear knowledge
cannot dawn in the mind of a human being. But, the alive human form of
God is recognized only when egoism and jealousy are conquered. Hence,
the path of knowledge (jnana) is represented by the north. The diversion of
the Sun from south to north indicates the human being diverting from the
path of rituals (karma) towards the path of knowledge, which is based on
Satguru or the contemporary human incarnation. This diversion denotes the
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conquer of egoism and jealousy by the spiritual aspirant towards a cohuman form.
The path of rituals denotes the absence of knowledge due to the
absence of alive human form of God. The rituals involved the sacrifice of
valuable materials for the sake of God. These materials are either wasted
or stolen by the priests, business men and managements. Valuable food
materials like ghee is burnt in fire and milk, honey, fruit juice, etc. are
wasted in bathing the statues. This clearly shows full ignorance but the
merit is that sacrifice for God is developed. The wastage of materials is
inevitable because the aspirant has not yet conquered the egoism and
jealousy to recognize the alive human form of God, who has come down to
the earth to enjoy your sacrifice of such valuable materials in His worship
to bless you. Such sacrifice of materials is the proof of practical devotion.
You prove your deep love by such practical sacrifice towards your beloved
family members and hence, there is no debate in this point. In the first
stage, such practical sacrifice is done by the human beings based on the
business to give and take. The sacrifice of wealth and materials is for
getting some benefits in return from God. In the initial stage, God also
becomes a business man like Lord Venkateswara on seven hills. In course
of time, the devotees are expected to develop real love to God by which the
same practical sacrifice is done without aspiring anything in return. When
this is achieved, the training of the human being in the ritualistic path is
completed. Now, if the egoism and jealousy towards a co-human form is
also achieved by doing such practical sacrifice of materials to poor
devotees, the time to catch the contemporary human incarnation has come.
Now, the human being should analyze the real and relevant address of God
through reasoning. Buddha said that without analysis, blind acceptance of
even scripture and tradition is of no use. The scripture is already a wellsettled conclusion of long logical debates. But, unfortunately, the wrong
interpretation of the scripture is always developed through bad logic. This
bad logic must be rejected by good logic, which is the reasonable process of
reasoning. Therefore, when Buddha said that you should not accept the
scripture blindly, means that you should not accept blindly the wrong
interpretation of the scripture.
Approach Satguru in Middle Age

The diversion of Sun from south to north takes place in the middle of
the year, which represents the middle age of your entire life. If you come to
Satguru in the middle age, you will have sufficient energy and life to do
practical service to God. Hanuman met Rama in His middle age. Radha met
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Krishna in Her earlier part of middle age. The people, who are not diverted
towards Satguru, continue to worship the models of energetic forms of
angels and departed ancestors through the blind rituals. When the Satguru is
achieved, these rituals (karma) naturally get dropped as stated in the Gita
(Jnate karma na vidyate). The ritual (karma) is converted into practical
service to Satguru (karma yoga). The word yoga denotes the lucky
achievement of God in human form. There can be no better yoga than
this. Yoga means fortunate achievement. Putra yoga means fortunate
achievement of children. Dhana yoga means fortunate achievement of
wealth. Yoga means the real achievement, which is the fortunate
achievement of God in alive human form. The Gita is called as the yoga
shastra because it is the real achievement of God in alive human form
called as Krishna.
Therefore, the norms for achievement of God are
1) The development of practical sacrifice without aspiring anything in
return and
2) the victory over egoism and jealousy to recognize the contemporary
human incarnation.
The first is achieved during the path of karma and the second is
achieved during the path of knowledge just before the diversion from south
to north. The word DATTA actually means that God is given to the
human beings by Himself through human form in every human generation.
If the yoga is not achieved in this human life, such opportunity may be even
impossible in the future births. Such fortunate attainment is the real
meaning of yoga and without knowing this, people waste time in breathing
exercises and other physical exercises. Of course, such exercises are also
good for the mental and the physical health of the body, which is essential
in the service of God in the human form. A sick and weak person cannot
serve God. Hence, yoga starts with such achievement of good health and
this preliminary state is included in the beginning of yoga. Control of mind
and senses also helps to attain good health. But, if you stop yoga after
attaining good health, it is only a topic of medical science and not spiritual
knowledge. This state is like passing the entrance examination to achieve a
seat in a professional college. The career is not stopped by simply joining
the professional college. You have to put hard work in getting a distinction
in the professional degree to achieve the final fruit. Such professional
degree or the latter part of yoga starts with the recognition of alive human
form of God and serving It. The Gita is such latter part of yoga to help the
human being to catch the alive human form of God. The readers of the
Gita catch Krishna as God and worship the statue or photo of Krishna and
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they have come back again to the pavilion! Such unfortunate situation is
due to lack of victory over egoism and jealousy towards a co-human form.
Such people are again like Jambavan, the bear devotee, who worshipped the
statue of Rama and could not recognize Krishna in person. The bear
represents the rigid ignorant nature of foolish grip without analysis. When
Krishna said that He was God, it means that every alive human form of God
in every human generation is God. Similarly, when Jesus said that one can
reach the Father through Him only, it means that one can see God through
the contemporary human incarnation only. Again, the Christian devotees
are like that Jambavan only. This is the reason behind the statement of
Buddha that reasoning should be done in every step. The followers of
Krishna and Jesus have reached the final state in recognizing the human
form of God, but went back to the original place due to lack of reasoning in
the final state. It is like the state of an un-fortunate student, who did well in
all internal examinations throughout the year and was allowed to the final
examination. But, if he fails in the final examination due to negligence and
he comes back to the same class again in the next year. Therefore,
reasoning should not be missed at any stage. You travelled all along the
path with the help of the glowing torch light and reached the goal. But
unfortunately, your torch light failed as soon as the goal is received. What
is the use of your entire long journey? It becomes a sheer waste. You are as
good as the person, who has not travelled all along the path.
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AUTHORITIES OF KNOWLEDGE
[January 16, 2011] To accept any concept, there are four authorities:
1) Shruti, the scripture, which is the divine text and it is the Veda for
Hindus.
2) The second authority is Smruti, which is the text written by sages.
3) The third authority is logical discussion to find out the correct
interpretation of the scripture.
4) The fourth authority is experience of divine scholars.
Essence of Mahavaakyas
Shruti
Let us examine the first authority, the Veda, which is said to be the
word of God revealed to sages. In this scripture, lot of importance is given
to the four great statements (Mahavaakyaas). One statement says that the
special knowledge is God (Prajnanam Brahma). The special knowledge
cannot mean simple awareness, which is found in animals and birds. The
word jnanam means knowledge and not mere awareness. Awareness is
the basic material but knowledge is the special design of it. When you
appreciate a golden jewel, the appreciation for the specialty is related to the
design of the golden chain and not to the basic gold. You do not appreciate
a lump of gold. The word Pra denotes the Specialty and the word
jnanam denotes the Knowledge. The word Knowledge eliminates all
the living beings other than human beings because only human beings
possess and express knowledge. The word Pra indicates a rare special
human being only, who is possessor of the special knowledge. The result is
that a specific human being, who is the possessor and preacher of the
special knowledge alone can be God like Krishna, who preached the Gitathe special knowledge.
When you say that a king is ruling the country, the word king cannot
mean every living being and you cannot say that an animal or a bird is
ruling the country. The word king also cannot mean every human being
because every human being cannot have the special talent of administration
to rule the entire country. Hence, the word king indicates a specially
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talented human being only. This statement also indicates that the main
purpose of God to come as a human being is to preach the special
knowledge only. Another statement says that an individual human being is
God (Ayamaatma Brahma). The word Atmaa means not only the
awareness, but also the external human body. Atmaa means that which
pervades. The awareness pervades the body through nerves. Awareness is
the neural energy flowing in the nerves. The body also pervades the space
as it grows. Therefore, the word Atmaa stands for the human being, which
is the human body along with the awareness. The three statements saying
that I am God, You are God and He is God denote only the aspiration
that everybody should become God in the near future. The verbs in present
tense like am, are and is stand for the present tense indicating the
immediate future as per the grammar. These three statements also mean
that the human form of God is like Me, you and him for external look.
Since God looks like an ordinary human being externally, these three
statements indicate the aspect of similarity. The fourth statement brings the
difference, which says that God is the Special Knowledge. The possessor
of knowledge can be called as the knowledge itself, when the knowledge
excels in the possessor as per the grammar. Therefore knowledge means the
possessor of knowledge. According to lakshana, the possessor can be called
by the possessor material. A seller of apples is called as apples. All these
four statements indicate the human incarnation only.
The word Narayana referred in the Veda means the source of
knowledge. The Veda says that Narayana spreads all over the world
(vyaapya Naraayanah). It means that the knowledge preached by the Lord
is spreading all over the world. Another Vedic statement saying that this
entire world is God (Sarvam khalvidam) also means the same. The
country ruled by the king, Kalinga, is called as Kalinga only. The region
spread by the rule of Kalinga is called as Kalinga. This does not mean that
the entire kingdom is the king himself in person. All these statements
indicate the knowledge of the human incarnation spreading all over the
world and this should not be misunderstood as the human incarnation
Himself becoming the entire world. In the Rudram, existing in the Veda, it
is said that God hits the people with arrows released from His bow. This
also indicates the human incarnations like Rama and Krishna, who
punished the evil people with the help of bow and arrows. Apart from that,
the bow stands for the knowledge and the arrows stands for the points. God
in human form hits everybody with His points through knowledge to kill
their ignorance. Like this, all the Vedic statements can be rightly interpreted
in the sense of human incarnation preaching the special knowledge. The
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Veda also says that God is unimaginable, who is beyond words, mind,
intelligence and logic and hence, God alone knows God (Brahmavit
Brahmaiva...). You should know that God cannot be known
(Yasyaamatam). But, such God enters the world through a medium
(Tadevaanu Praavishat...) and God becomes that medium while keeping
His separate identity of His real form (Satchatyatcha...). Therefore, the
essence of the Veda is very clear that the absolute God is unimaginable, He
enters a human being as a medium for the sake of preaching knowledge and
He remains in His original form and at the same time gets identified with
the human form also.
Smruti
The second authority is Smruti, which is, the text written by sages
consisting of the three great epics dealing with the human incarnations like
Rama and Krishna.
Reasoning
The third authority is reasoning, which is already taken up from the
beginning of this message. The logical analysis always helps to get the
correct interpretation of both Shruti and Smruti.
Experience of divine scholars
The fourth authority is the experience of divine scholars. Hanuman is
the greatest scholar, who learnt all the scriptures from the Sun. Gopikas are
also the incarnations of great sages, who are the greatest scholars of the
scriptures. Both Hanuman and Gopikas worshipped the contemporary
human incarnations only and not the statues of energetic forms of God or
the past human incarnations. Hanuman never worshipped the statues of past
human incarnations like Parashurama and Vamana or the statues of
energetic forms like Shiva and Vishnu. Similarly, Gopikas did not worship
the statues of Rama or the statues of Vishnu and Shiva.
Conclusion
Therefore, all the four authorities clearly indicate that human beings
should worship the human form of God only for the salvation. The
energetic forms of God are meant only for the energetic forms of departed
souls in the upper worlds. It is not the question of right and wrong, but it
is a question of relevance and irrelevance. We do not say that the
energetic form is wrong for human beings. We only say that the energetic
form is irrelevant and human form of God is relevant for the human beings.
When you worship the energetic forms, you have to either concentrate on
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the imagined form in mind, which is very difficult or you have to worship
the statue of the energetic form. We cannot serve the imagined form. In the
case of a statue, the service becomes waste. But, if you take the human
form of God, all your service is enjoyed by God and becomes fruitful. The
only obstruction to the alive human form of God is the ego and jealousy
towards a co-human form. You may accept the concept of human
incarnation, but, if your ego and jealousy are not completely eradicated,
you will worship only the statues of past human incarnations only and not
the present alive form of God. Thus, for a human being, everything is
concentrated on the contemporary human incarnation only.
Shri Datta Swami
THE INCARNATION SEVERELY TESTS DEVOTEES

Lord Rama Is the Ideal for Family Life
[January 16, 2011 Evening] Knowing that you are not God is as
important as recognizing the contemporary human incarnation. If you feel
that you are also God, there is no use of catching the living human form of
God. As a human being, you should follow the norms of the world and at
the same time, you should serve the living human form of God after
recognizing Him. The first part of your behavior towards world is called as
pravritti and the simultaneous second part of your behavior towards the
contemporary human incarnation is called as nivritti. To preach both these
aspects to the human beings, God Himself took simultaneous dual roles
called as Rama and Hanuman. Both were the incarnations of God but none
felt that they were God. Even though the sages recognized Rama and
praised Him as God, Rama denied their praise by saying that He was only a
human being and that He knew Himself to be Rama, the son of Dasaratha
(Aatmanam manusham manye...Ramayana). This indicates that you
should never feel that you are God even though some ignorant preachers
preach that you are God. Rama followed all the ethics, which are the
commandments of God to the human beings regarding their behavior in this
creation. Rama preached all the values of family life regarding the mutual
loyalty between a wife and husband, regarding the love between brothers
and regarding the respect to be paid to ones parents.
Hanuman is the Ideal for Spiritual Life

Hanuman showed the path of nivritti or the spiritual path. The first
and foremost point indicated by Hanuman is that you should recognize the
contemporary human incarnation and serve Him with utmost loyalty.
Hanuman served Rama in His worldly affairs. This indicates that you
should serve the human incarnation in His worldly affairs also. The next
point is that you should serve the human incarnation, who may be in any
state of worldly life since Hanuman served Rama, who was a householder.
Rama exhibited His blind love towards His wife by running after a golden
deer in spite of the warning from Lakshmana. Rama showed His blind love
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towards His wife on another occasion also by saying that He would go back
without killing Ravana if His wife were returned back to Him. This showed
that Rama was not bothered about the atrocities of Ravana that would
continue after returning Sita. This showed that He was not interested in the
welfare of the world and was only interested in His wife. Hanuman did not
misunderstand Rama in that situation. Later, Rama fell unconscious, when
He was hit by the Nagaastra1 and Hanuman revived Him by bringing
Garuda from heaven. Even after this, Hanuman did not mistake Rama to be
an ordinary human being. All this shows that you will be severely tested by
God in human form regarding your faith in Him.
Another important aspect that you have to learn from Hanuman is that
you should not feel you are God simply by achieving some miraculous
powers. Hanuman had all the miraculous powers. For instance, he had
jumped and crossed the ocean. He had also lifted a huge hill in his hands
and had flown with it all the way to Lanka. Rama on the other hand,
behaved like a helpless human being and crossed the sea only by
constructing a bridge. Yet, Hanuman did not mistake Rama to be a human
being. Therefore, miracles should not be the identity mark for recognizing
God in human form. Even demons can perform miracles. Therefore, you
should behave like Rama in your family life and should behave like
Hanuman in your spiritual life. Both are perfect examples in the
simultaneous dual roles of Rama and Hanuman.
Miracles Do Not Indicate God

Krishna performed several miracles but every miracle was done only
because there was a serious need. Demons perform miracles for the sake of
exhibition due to their ego. Arjuna could not recognize Krishna as God
even though he witnessed the miracles of Krishna. Arjuna recognized
Krishna as God only after hearing the Gitathe special knowledge. Arjuna
himself could perform some miracles and he had also witnessed several
demons performing miracles. Miracles are only for beginners in the
spiritual line to show the existence of the unimaginable God through
unimaginable acts called as miracles.
Severe Tests of Faith

Arjunas impression of Krishna was very much distorted due to the
actions of Krishna in His childhood, like stealing butter and dancing with
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In the epic battle between Rama and Ravana, Ravanas son Indrajit shot the dreaded weapon, Nagastra (Cobra weapon)
at Rama and Lakshmana that left both the brothers unconscious. Hanuman brought Garuda, the Divine Eagle from the
heavens, to free the two brothers from the clutches of the Naagastra.
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girls. Arjuna openly criticized Krishna mentioning these activities in the

context of protecting Gaya. All this indicates that the human incarnation
will test your faith through severe actions. At any cost, your faith should
not be shaken. Dharmaraja always praised Krishna as God. But when
Krishna asked him to tell a lie, Dharmaraja refused and failed in the test.
Justice is not greater than God. In pravritti2, since there is no God, one
should vote for justice and against the injustice. But, in nivritti, one should
vote for God even if it is against justice. The Gopikas voted for God against
justice and reached a higher position than the highest3. God is greater than
justice since He is the protector of justice. You have to follow justice
because it is a commandment of God. In pravritti, since there is no
reference to God, justice stands in the highest position. You should keep
Rama as an example for pravritti. You should keep Hanuman and the
Gopikas as examples for nivritti. Arjuna believed in Krishna as God after
hearing the Gita. But just after seventeen days4, Arjuna did not get down
from the chariot even though Krishna ordered him to do so. This means that
you should maintain the faith that was created by the special knowledge.
Hanuman served the human incarnation even in His worldly affairs.
The Gopikas sacrificed the butter, which was their livelihood. You should
learn the sacrifice of work from Hanuman and the sacrifice of the fruit of
work from the Gopikas for the sake of the contemporary human
incarnation. Kunti5 requested the Lord to always grant her difficulties so
that she could always think of Him. This is a very important aspect and you
should never pray to God to remove your difficulties, since difficulties
surround you by His grace alone. Kuchela also never aspired for any
materialistic help from God and you should learn this aspect from him.
Draupadi insisted that the Lord destroy the Kauravas, who had insulted her.
The Lord fulfilled her desire but got all her sons killed on the last day of the
war. Therefore, you should never insist on the Lord fulfilling your desire.
You should learn the aspects of devotion and service from the devotees
associated with the human incarnations.
Pravrutti is the worldly path, in which the individual interacts and behaves with other human beings in a just manner; it
does not pertain to God and ones interaction with God. Ones interaction and behavior towards God is the spiritual path
or Nivrutti.
3
A special world called the Goloka was created by the Lord for the Gopikas, who were the highest devotees of Lord
Krishna. This is the fifteenth world and is higher than the Brahma Loka which was the highest heaven.
4
When the Mahabharata war was over.
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One of the characters in the Mahabharata. Mother of three of the Pandava brothers, including Arjuna.
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MAINTAINING NIVRITTI AND PRAVRITTI

SIMULTANEOUSLY
[January 17, 2011. Surya asked Swami about the significance of
simultaneous incarnations of God as Rama and Hanuman. Given below is
Swamis reply.]
Rama stands for pravritti, which is your behavior and service to your
family life. Hanuman stands for your behavior and service to God, who is
available as the contemporary human incarnation. Both the incarnations are
simultaneous and separate. This means that you shall maintain pravritti and
nivritti1 simultaneously and separately. Both need not clash since they are
two separate sections. In this context, there are three types of people.
Type 1: People for Whom Pravritti is the Only Goal

People of the first type are those, who feel pravritti itself as God.
They feel that discharging pravritti perfectly itself is salvation. They feel
that discharging their worldly duties itself is God and say Work is
worship. They should be appreciated because by discharging their duties
towards their families, they are not disturbing the balance of the society.
This also pleases God. The balance of the society is the basis for nivritti.
Such people are far better than demons, who disturb the balance of society
by achieving some powers from God. They are failures in nivritti. But
passing in the lower class, pravritti, is better than a failing in the higher
class, nivritti. A first rank student in the school is honored with gold medal
whereas a failure in postgraduate studies at the university is scolded by the
teacher. For this first type of people, Rama stands as the ideal example.
Rama never entertained the spiritual path in His entire life. He behaved like
a Roman in Rome.
Type 2: People for Whom Nivrutti is the Only Goal

People of the second type concentrate only on nivritti. They are the
saints. They never entertain pravritti. They feel that family life is an
obstruction to the spiritual path. For this type, Hanuman stands as the best
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Pravritti is behavior towards family and soceity, Nivritti is devotional service done to the Lord.
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example. This section of people concentrates on the Absolute God, who is

unimaginable. When you cannot even think or imagine the Absolute God,
how can you concentrate or meditate upon that Absolute God? This section
of people should learn from Hanuman, who is also a saint and is perfectly
following the path of nivritti. Hanuman caught the contemporary human
incarnation and served Him in the incarnations worldly matters. Hence,
even the saints should catch the contemporary human incarnation and serve
Him even in the worldly matters. Hanuman, a bachelor, remaining
unmarried to please God, could please God by serving Him in search of His
lost wife! Hanuman never thought about marriage Himself and yet He
served Rama, who was weeping every minute for His lost wife! Therefore,
the path currently being followed by saints is completely wrong
(Avyaktaahi gatihGita) and they will end in unhappiness alone. They
should instead select the mediated God2, especially the living human form
and they should serve Him blindly without criticizing the state3 of God.
God is God in any state; like a diamond.
Type 3: People Who Maintain Both Nivrutti and Pravritti

People of the third type want to maintain pravritti and nivritti
simultaneously like the Gopikas. The Gopikas never allowed any clash
between pravritti and nivritti. They gave butter to Krishna secretly. They
would meet Krishna secretly in the middle of the night. They pleased their
family members as well as God simultaneously. The Gita says that nivritti
should be maintained as the topmost secret (Rahasyam hyetaduttam).
Nivrutti has far higher value than pravritti. But this point should be kept
secret so that your family members feel that your highest love is for them
alone. This is not cheating your family. It is only avoiding a clash and
avoiding the unnecessary displeasure of your ignorant family members.
However, if God brings about a clash as a test, certainly you should choose
God over your family. But you should not bring that situation by yourself
and hurt your family members. If this point is understood, the Gopikas will
not be blamed for cheating their family members. In fact, they stand as the
ideal examples for the people, who want to maintain pravritti and nivritti
simultaneously. In the case of Hanuman, God brought about a clash. A war
was took place between Rama and Hanuman. The mother of Hanuman
wanted to protect some person and Rama wanted to kill the same person. A
clash came up between pravritti, the mother and nivritti, the contemporary
2
Instead of trying to concentrate on the Absolute Unimginable God, which is clearly impossible, they should recognize
that the same God has come through a medium, especially the medium of a human body (mediated God).
3
The state or ashrama (Sanskrit) means the state of a householder or the state of a celibate saint.
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human incarnation. Hanuman took the side of the mother and fought with
Rama. He realized the mistake in the end. In the next incarnation as Adi
Shankara, He rectified the mistake by leaving His mother for the sake of
God4. Both Hanuman and Adi Shankara were incarnations of the same Lord
Shiva. Therefore, the Bhagavatam is the most sacred book for the
householders aspiring for salvation. When Parikshit, a householder asked
sage Shuka for salvation, the sage preached the Bhagavatam to him5.
The first type of people will reach heaven for a temporary trip and
will come back. The second type of people will never attain the goal and
will always keep wandering in the path without reaching the goal. The third
type of people taking the Gopikas as an example will certainly reach the
goal. In fact, the Gopikas reached Goloka, which is higher than Brahma
Loka, the goal. This shows the special appreciation of the Lord for the
Gopikas, who never insulted pravritti and achieved nivritti without any
clash, by their talented dealing. The third section of people should avoid the
clash between pravritti and nivritti as far as possible. But if God creates the
clash, they should behave like Shankara and not like Hanuman. Please
remember that Hanuman is not a real failure. He only acted in that way to
preach the concept. Otherwise, Hanuman Himself is God or the ultimate
goal.
Shankara left His mother to take up samnyasa and propagate knowledge.

The basis for Bhagavatham when the grandson of the Pandavas, Parikshit asks sage Shuka for quickest means to
liberation.
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UNDERSTANDING SHANKARAS PHILOSPHY IN THE

CONTEXT OF HIS TIME
Subtle Actions of the Incarnation Reveal Greatest Knowledge
[January 17, 2011 Afternoon Message] When sages told Rama that
He is God, Rama denied it and declared Himself as an ordinary human
being. Rama knows that He is God but He denied it since He acted in the
role of an ordinary human being to preach the ideal behavior of a human
being to humanity. His aim is that every human being should not declare
that it is God. But, you may doubt about the philosophy of Shankara, which
says that every human being is God. The reason for such concept of
Shankara is quite different and should be understood in the context of the
necessity to preach atheists in the time of Shankara. When this country was
filled with atheists like Buddhists and purvamimamsakas, God came in the
form of Shankara to bring them to the right path. The atheist will never
agree to the separate existence of God. But, he will agree to the existence of
God if he is said to be God since the denial of existence of God results in
the denial of self-existence. By this trick, Shankara made them agree the
existence of God by declaring that the atheist himself is God. Shankara
converted all the atheists into theists by single stroke. The atheists
questioned Shankara regarding the absence of characteristics of God like
omnipotence, etc. in them, if they were God. Then, Shankara replied that
due to strong effect of ignorance (ajnana vikshepa), the achievement is not
materialized even though the theoretical ignorance (ajnana avarana) is
removed.
The shivering of the body due to fear of serpent continues even
though the rope is seen by the lit lamp. Even though the real rope, which
was mistaken as serpent is seen, the fear for the serpent does not disappear
at once. When the realization of serpent becomes more and more strong by
the repeated thought of the rope, then only the fear disappears completely.
Therefore, one should repeatedly meditate upon God to achieve the real
monism with God. This second trick of Shankara made atheists-convertedtheists to become strong devotees. A rigid ignorant fellow can be mould by
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tricks only and not by straight statements. Such special situation of

Shankara need not be applied to the present normal situation.
However, Shankara brought the monism with the state of God in
limited condition. Since God is enjoying the world, the human being also
can enjoy the world in the same way. Just like a producer-cum-director
enjoys the unreal cinema, a peon sitting along with him can also enjoy the
same unreal cinema. We may say that cinema is unreal to both of them
where as the world is unreal only for God. There is a small correction in
your statement. The world is unreal to both God and the realized soul. The
soul is a bit of cosmic energy. The entire world is unreal with respect to the
cosmic energy. The entire world including space is cosmic energy only and
the world is illusory with respect to cosmic energy. Since soul is cosmic
energy, the world should be unreal to the soul also. With reference to God,
the world along with the cosmic energy is unreal. The world is unreal to
both God and soul and the unreality of the cosmic energy to God is
irrelevant and immaterial as far as the common point of unreality of world
to both God and soul is concerned. The soul or cosmic energy is also unreal
to God. But, this point is unnecessary as far as the unreality of the world to
both God and soul is concerned. Therefore, both God and soul can enjoy
the unreal world in a common way. God created the cosmic energy and by
the will of God, the cosmic energy created the world. The cosmic energy
by itself is inert and cannot have will without the nervous system and the
nervous system is absent since matter is not yet got manifested. Based on
the will, you cannot conclude that God is awareness. God can have the will
through omnipotence without being awareness. The soul is cosmic energy
in qualitative sense but in the quantitative sense the infinite cosmic
energy is the infinite ocean and the soul is a drop of it. Due to this
quantitative difference, the soul cannot create the infinite world and only
the infinite cosmic energy creates the infinite world by the will of God.
Since the will of God is absent, the soul, a bit of cosmic energy,
cannot create even a bit of the creation. Only in qualitative sense, we can
say that the soul is creator and the destroyer of the world, that too by the
will of God only. Actually, as far as the enjoyment of the unreal world is
concerned, the aspects of creator and destroyer are also irrelevant due to out
of context. The producer-cum-director might have produced and directed
that cinema. But, as far as the state of enjoyment of such unreal cinema is
concerned, both the producer-cum-director and the peon are one and the
same. The absolute unimaginable God is called as Brahman. The infinite
cosmic energy in which the unimaginable God is embedded is called as
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Eshwara or Hiranyagarbha. The soul is a bit of cosmic energy and hence,

qualitatively both the soul and cosmic energy are one and the same.
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COSMIC ENERGY CREATED WORLD BY GODS WILL

Enjoying Even Unpleasantness is the Highest State
[January 18, 2011] The entire creation other than the unimaginable
God is manifestation of the imaginable cosmic energy, which was created
by the unimaginable God. This process of creation of imaginable cosmic
energy by unimaginable God is unimaginable because any link between
unimaginable and imaginable is always unimaginable. The space is
invisible cosmic energy and the fire is visible cosmic energy. Matter is
another manifested form of cosmic energy existing in gaseous state,
liquid state and solid state. Space (aakaasha), fire (agni), gas (vayu), liquid
(jalam) and solid (pruthivi) are the five elements that constitute the entire
creation. Apart from these five elements, work (karma) is another form of
cosmic energy. Work involves working materials, which may be matter and
other forms of cosmic energy. Awareness is a special work form of cosmic
energy, involving brain and nervous system as working materials. The
transfer of information from senses to brain is a specific work that takes
place in the specific nervous system. Electricity, sound, heat, light,
magnetism, etc. are other different forms of cosmic energy only. Therefore,
the entire creation leaving the unimaginable creator is a continuous infinite
ocean of cosmic energy only. All the manifestations of cosmic energy are
unreal with respect to the basic cosmic energy. The basic cosmic energy is
inert and the awareness is also essentially the basic inert cosmic energy
only. Awareness treated as the basic inert cosmic energy is called as the
soul (Atman) and the awareness treated as the work form is called as
individual soul (Jeeva). The soul loses its boundaries and merges with the
infinite ocean of cosmic energy, which is called as Brahman in the sense
The Greatest.
When the same soul or cosmic energy is treated as awareness, it
becomes a specific manifestation of cosmic energy called as work and
hence, is termed as individual soul. This individual soul or specific work
exists in four ways.
3) The first way of work is mind (manas), doing the work of thinking in
different ways (sankalpa and vikalpa).
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4) The second way of work (buddhi) is making a decision

(adhyavasaya).
5) The third way of work (chitta) is the process of knowing (samjnana)
and storing the information that can be remembered again (smarana).
The individual soul is a bundle of these four types of works
(antahkaranam). Both the soul and the individual soul fall under the phase
of creation, which is imaginable. Even the Brahman, the infinite cosmic
energy, is imaginable only. This Brahman is also called as Karya
Brahman, which is the unimaginable manifestation of the unimaginable
God only. The unimaginable God is called as Kaarana Brahman or
Parabrahman. The word Brahman can be used to any item, which is
greatest in a category. For example, the Veda is called as Brahman since it
is the greatest among the sacred books. If the individual soul goes down
very near to its basis, the soul, it becomes almost inert and becomes devoid
of the activities of doer (kartaa) and enjoyer (bhokta). If you go down
completely and become the soul, you will enter into deep sleep. Just before
deep sleep, you will remain in the state of self awareness, in which you are
aware of nothing other than the awareness. This is the state of perfect
meditation. This state is the junction of awareness and deep sleep. In this
state, you will lose the activity of doer and enjoyer. But, even such
awareness is not God, since such awareness is also dependant on the supply
of inert energy by digestion of food and the functioning nervous system.
Such awareness is limited to a living body only and is not the infinite ocean
of inert cosmic energy. The advaita philosophers stand in this state of
junction between awaken state and state of deep sleep and claim merits of
both the states. They take the merit of awaken state, which is awareness.
They also take the merits of infinite cosmic energy like continuous infinity
and the three characteristics of creator, ruler and destroyer of the world.
Hence, their Brahman is the result of the synthesis from both the states and
has no practical validity of existence.
You can remain in the state of individual soul and enjoy the pleasant
things. You can go down very near to the basic soul, and become immune
to everything that is unpleasant. By this, you can enjoy happiness only and
go into coma-state with respect to unpleasant situations. This is one way.
The other way is to remain very near to soul in every situation. The first
way is better than the second way since you can enjoy at least now and
then. There is a third way, which is better than both these ways. In this third
way, you can enjoy the unpleasant situations also and be happy
continuously. One remains happy even facing the death in this third way
(Sthitvaasyaamantakalepi Gita). Krishna enjoyed even the genocide in
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the end in which all His sons and grandsons killed each other. He enjoyed
even His death with a sweet smile while His foot was continuously
bleeding hit by the arrow. When His father Vasudeva died, He was
externally weeping, but internally enjoys that process of weeping also.
Krishna said that He is like the white thread running through different gems
with different colours (sutre maniganaa iva Gita). The thread may
become black, red, green, etc. while running through the gems of such
colours. But, if the white thread is taken out, it appears white only. The
colours that appeared on the thread are external only and the white colour
of the thread was maintained in all these different colours. In fact, the white
colour only generates the seven colours. The soul is never touched by the
activities like doer, enjoyer, etc. because it is the inert (sthanuh Gita)
cosmic energy only. Even the individual soul is untouched by such
activities in the state of perfect meditation. The unimaginable God is also
not touched by such activities since the imaginable actions cannot touch the
unimaginable entity. By this common property of untouchable nature, either
the soul or the individual soul in the meditation cannot be God because, the
reason for the untouchable nature of God is His unimaginable nature
whereas, the soul and individual soul are always imaginable. Both the
unimaginable God and soul or individual soul in meditation are beyond
all such activities and hence, can enjoy the unreal world without any
involvement. But, the individual soul cannot enjoy in the state of
meditation.
Instead of becoming inert to escape the involvement in these
activities, it is better to remain as individual soul in normal state and enjoy
all the activities like the human incarnation, following the principle of
enjoying every situation realizing the unreality of the basic world. Shankara
preached this monism of continuous bliss through continuous enjoyment of
the unreal world. The cosmic energy becomes creator, ruler and destroyer
by the will of God only and hence, the unimaginable God is only the
Ultimate Creator, Ruler and Destroyer of the world. But, to enjoy the unreal
world continuously, the creatorship, rulership and destroyership are
unnecessary and hence, the limited monism between God embedded in
cosmic energy (Eshwara) and the individual soul (Jeeva) can be achieved as
per Shankara. There is no meaning in bringing monism between the soul or
individual soul and the unimaginable God because the comparison is not
possible between imaginable and unimaginable.
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BASICS OF NIVRUTTI
Follow Pravrutti to Avoid Gods Fury
[January 18, 2011 Evening] Human life is very important because
human being alone can understand the spiritual knowledge and can become
a devotee of God. Therefore, you must always save the life of a human
being by giving food, cloth and shelter. You must always stop the
starvation-death of a human being, be it theist or atheist. You must save the
life of even an atheist because even the atheist may be converted into theist
if the life is saved. After saving the life of the starving human being, you
must concentrate on improving the amenities of poor people so that a
peaceful life is very much essential to concentrate on God. The rich is
becoming richer and poor is becoming poorer in the present day. This will
disturb the social balance and will lead to the human explosion in the
society. When the balance of the society is disturbed, nivrutti finds no
place. Therefore, resist all the wastages that take place in the rituals. Do not
burn the ghee in the name of performing homa. Ghee is most valuable
food material. The actual homa is to put ghee in the burning fire of hunger
of a poor man. The fire of hunger is called as Vaishvanara as said in the
Gita. Similarly, dont burn the oil in the name of Deepaaraadhanam
before the statue or photo of God. The purpose of the light is only to
remove the darkness in the olden days. In the day time, the light is not
necessary. Even in the night, when the light is present supplied from the
electric bulb, the oil lamp is not necessary. You need not burn the perfumes
also, when they are not required for you.
Absolutely there is no necessity of burning anything for God. You are
only worshipping a statue or photo, which is an inert representative model
of God. Similarly, there is no need of burning dhuni in the temples of Sai
Baba. He lit dhuni in the old mosque to repel the poisonous insects,
serpents, etc. Such need is not present today in the temples. Be it a temple
or church or mosque, you must control the burning and other wastages of
materials leading to the environmental pollution, which will upset the
ecological balance resulting in several global problems. You will be
considered as a demon and not a devotee by God and you will be punished
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by God for disturbing the balance of society. In all the temples, churches,
mosques and prayer halls of other religions, remember that only the inert
representative models of God exist and all your services to such models are
not received by God in any way except that they are meant to improve your
devotion. Of course, all these places are necessary to develop your devotion
to God. You can develop your devotion without wasting money in all these
unnecessary ignorant practices. The same money can be spent to save the
life of a hungry person and to improve the facilities of poor people so that
they can have peaceful life and turn to God. God will be pleased by such
activity and not by these foolish practices of blind tradition. As Buddha
told, you must analyze every action before implementing it and you should
not do it blindly based on tradition.
You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food. God has
given enough vegetable food that contains all the ingredients present in the
non-vegetarian food. After all, the source of ingredients of any flesh is
only vegetable kingdom only. Eating the non-vegetarian food is not a sin
because same ingredients exist in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian foods.
But, you have to kill a living being for the sake of non-vegetarian food. The
killing is the greatest sin. You may argue that you have not killed the living
being directly. Such argument cannot stand. Since you are eating the nonvegetarian food, the living being is killed. You are responsible for its
killing. Therefore, you are the principle shareholder of the sin. There is
nothing wrong if you eat a living being after its natural death. In Hinduism,
there is a sect of people called Kapalikas, who eat the dead living beings.
Therefore, they do not acquire sin. The tsunami is always due to anger of
God since you are killing the living beings present in water for food. The
earthquakes are due to killing of living beings that exist on the earth. God in
the form of Buddha and Mahavir preached the non-violence and severely
opposed the killing of living beings. God in some other human forms might
have followed the practice of non-vegetarian food in order to join with nonvegetarian people so that, certain other higher aspects to be preached might
have been taken into consideration. That does not mean that God has
encouraged the killing of living beings through non-vegetarian food. He
might have kept silent on this issue in order to give importance to other
serious issues. God follows the ignorance of the students in order to
become friendly with them. To control a running bull, you have to run
along with it for some distance before controlling it.
All these are the basic concepts of nivrutti, which are the core of
pravrutti. By following the ethics of pravrutti, you will avoid God
becoming furious with you. Then, through nivrutti, you can please God. On
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one hand, you are making God furious by not following the ethics of
pravrutti and how can you please God through nivrutti simultaneously?
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IMAGINABLE AWARENESS DIFFERENT FROM

UNIMAGINABLE GOD
Little Similarity; Huge Difference
[January 19, 2011] When the light rays fall on the object and get
reflected, the image of the object falls on the retina of the eye and this
image is transferred to the brain. The brain receives the image of the object.
The process of receiving the image of the object by the brain is said to be
awareness of the object. All the materials like rays of light, object, image of
object, materials transferring the image like neurons, materials composing
the brain, etc. are either inert matter or inert energy only. The process of
transfer of the image to the brain is also inert work. Therefore, awareness is
not different from the meaning of the word inert. Inert means that which is
controlled by a controller. In the above explained system, the controller
other than the above mentioned inert materials and inert work is not
separately seen. If any of the above materials is absent, the work cannot
take place. Therefore, the materials control the work. The work or
awareness is controlled by the presence of correct materials. Hence, you
cannot say that the work or awareness is the independent controller. Each
material independently cannot be a controller. The combination of these
materials alone generates the work. But, the phenomenon of combination
does not exist separately apart from the materials. Even the process of
thinking of the brain is a play of different combinations of the impressions
received through the senses from the world. Hence, a shrewd analysis also
cannot capture the existence of controller in this system.
Science only speaks about how the earth rotates and cannot speak
about why the earth rotates. Due to inevitable necessity of a controller in
this system, you have to accept the existence of the unimaginable
controller. If the controller is like the human being made of imaginable
inert materials and energies, again, the same problem is repeated. The
controller should be beyond the above inert materials and inert work.
Hence, the controller should be totally unimaginable. The will of such a
controller should not be like the will of a human being, which is the inert
work only controlled by inert materials. The will of God may resemble the
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will of the human being. But, the generation of that will in the absence of
above inert materials is unimaginable. Since the process of generation is
unimaginable, naturally, the generator is also unimaginable. Since the
process of generation and the generator are unimaginable, such a will can
have total independence. Qualitatively, the will of God and the will of
human being may be similar. But, potentially, they differ from each other.
The difference is lot and the similarity is very little. The nature of work
may be same, but the potency differs.
[Example] Krishna lifted a mountain. You may lift a small stone. The
process of lifting is same. But, there is lot of potential difference. Hence,
you cannot compare the will of a human being, which is controlled by inert
materials, to the will of God, which is totally independent with unlimited
potency. Krishna is like an ordinary human being only. But, the potency is
unimaginable since, He showed the entire infinite cosmic energy in Him
through the vision of Vishwa Roopa. By external qualitative similarity,
you cannot say that Krishna is an ordinary human being or every ordinary
human being is Krishna. Similarly, due to external similarity of nature of
work, you cannot say the awareness of God and awareness of a human
being are one and the same. You are considering only one similar point
forgetting the rest ninety-nine different points. The imaginable awareness
can never be unimaginable God.
[Phani asked about the imaginable infinite cosmic energy used in the
message of Swami. Infinite means unimaginable. Then, how the infinite
becomes imaginable?]
Swami replied: If you say that the ocean is infinite, it only means
that the boundary of the ocean is unimaginable and not the ocean. The
ocean contains imaginable water. Therefore, this cosmic energy in which
the manifested world exists is infinite, but, imaginable. The cosmic energy
along with its manifested world is imaginable. The boundary of imaginable
cosmic energy means that the imaginable cosmic energy stops there and its
source, the unimaginable God, starts. When you say that some line is the
boundary of the ocean, it means that the water stops there and the soil starts
from there. Therefore, we say that the soil is beyond the ocean. Similarly,
the unimaginable God is beyond this cosmic energy. The boundary of
cosmic energy indicates the ending point of the imaginable cosmic energy
and the starting point of unimaginable God. Therefore, that point becomes
unimaginable. A joining point existing between two imaginable areas is
imaginable. But, the joining point existing between imaginable entity and
unimaginable entity is always unimaginable. The unimaginable nature of
the boundary is due to the unimaginable God. When the imaginable point
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and the unimaginable point mix, the unimaginable nature prevails. When
the wood and fire mix, fire prevails. Therefore, the word imaginable
infinite cosmic energy means that the cosmic energy, which is the core, is
imaginable and its boundary, which is infinite, is unimaginable. The
adjective imaginable relates to the core cosmic energy. The adjective
infinite relates to its boundary. Hence, the word imaginable infinite
cosmic energy. This cosmos is infinite. The cosmos means the inert
cosmic energy along with its manifested matter. Both the cosmic energy
and manifested matter are imaginable. The boundary of the cosmos is
unimaginable and hence, becomes infinite because, the unimaginable God
starts from the boundary of cosmos and therefore, God is said to be beyond
cosmos.
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THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF SPIRITUAL EFFORT

Do Not Mind Doing Adharma If the Incarnation Demands
[January 30, 2011] Be it worldly affair or be it spiritual affair, your
goal is to please the Lord in human form only. The path is not important.
Only the goal is important. The ultimate goal is to please God in human
form. Hanuman pleased Rama in the worldly affair, which is the search of
His wife and getting back Her finally from the demon. This is a worldly
affair and also a personal affair of Rama. It is not connected to the welfare
of the society also because Rama told that He will go back without killing
Ravana, if His wife is returned. Thus, it is not only worldly affair, but also a
personal affair. Still, Hanuman served Rama even at the cost of His life in
the war since His ultimate aim is only to please the Lord in human form and
the path is immaterial. Similarly, Krishna asked Arjuna to fight and kill
even his grandfather in the interest of establishment of justice in the society.
This is worldly affair but not personal of Krishna. If Arjuna was in the
place of Hanuman, he will not be interested since Rama was highly selfish
by declaring that statement. Since Hanuman was a devotee of higher order,
He could recognize Rama as the Lord and served Him keeping the ultimate
aim as the pleasure of the Lord only. Even though the affair of Rama was
highly personal, but still, it is justified. Since justice is there, Hanuman was
safe in supporting the justice even though He took the risk in serving the
personal affair. Arjuna was very much safe because the advice of Krishna
to fight is not only impersonal, but also justified. In the case of Hanuman,
there is 50 percent risk and in the case of Arjuna, there is no risk at all.
The disciples of Shankara, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad etc. were still
with more safety since they served the Lord in human form to propagate the
spiritual knowledge in the society. This service is neither worldly affair nor
personal and it is very sacred because it is spiritual work related to the
welfare of the society. All these devotees should be appreciated since their
ultimate goal was only to please the Lord in human form whether the
path is worldly or spiritual or personal or social. In all these cases, there is
lot of safety because the service is related to establishment of justice and
there is no trace of injustice. Here, the word safety means that even if the
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human form is not really the Lord, there is no harm because it is only a
matter of supporting individual or social justice or sacred spiritual
knowledge. In all these cases, the recognition of the Lord in human form
need not be very serious. Even if the recognition is a failure, there is no
danger otherwise, since there is no trace of injustice in the service.
If you take the case of Dharmaraja and Gopikas, the Lord asked them
to follow injustice to please Him. Dharmaraja was asked by Krishna to tell
a lie. If that lie is uttered, his own teacher Drona will be killed, which is the
greatest sin and its punishment will be very severe if Krishna is not God.
Dharmaraja could not take risk because his faith in the Lord was not
complete. Even though He praised Krishna as God many a times, there was
some trace of doubt in the heart of his heart and therefore, he could not take
the risk of going to hell. Similarly, Krishna expressed His love to Gopikas
through mischief. Gopikas were sages in the previous births and most of
them had complete faith in Krishna as the God. Therefore, such Gopikas
having complete and real faith, danced with Krishna in the midnights
cheating their sleeping husbands. They also did not object Krishna stealing
the butter from their houses, which was the basic livelihood especially for
their children. Both these activities were serious sins and if Krishna was not
God, Gopikas will go to severe hell. Gopikas did not have even a trace of
doubt in Krishna, but Dharmaraja had a trace of doubt. Hence, Dharmaraja
did not do the sin but, Gopikas did the sin. Dharmaraja was just a scholar of
scriptures and recognized Krishna as God through theoretical knowledge.
Gopikas were sages and realized the God through practical penance.
Penance means realizing God through practical knowledge and to prove
the faith in practical situations, which are very serious, causing lot of
trouble and pain. Such practical standing in testing situations is penance.
The penance, which you understand, is only theoretical in which one sits
closing the eyes and chants the name of the Lord or gains knowledge
through continuous study of scriptures. Dharmaraja was an example of
theoretical penance, whereas, Gopikas, who were the sages, were examples
of practical penance. Krishna was pleased with Gopikas but at the same
time, if Krishna is not God, Gopikas will be severely punished in the hell.
Their faith in Krishna conquered such fear and hence, did even the sin to
please the Lord. But, in the case of Dharmaraja, his faith could not conquer
the fear and hence, went back from doing the sin. Gopikas did not go to
hell for doing this sin, but, Dharmaraja went to hell for not doing the sin.
Of course, this is true if the human being is really the Lord. Therefore, the
devotees should not do sin in the service unless they have complete and
real faith in the human form of Lord, since the risk is very high. Of
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course, it is an acid test for a devotee and unless the devotee is of highest
order like Gopikas, the devotee will fail due to the fear for the punishment
of the sin. The devotee also should be careful in this acid test because there
are several false human incarnations, who exploit the devotees in this line.
These false human incarnations are many in this Kali Yuga. Such false
human incarnations rob the money of the devotees, acting as Krishna
stealing the butter! They also cheat the female devotees in the disguise of
Krishna. Hence, the devotee should be very careful and unless the faith is in
the climax, the devotee should not take such risk and go to hell.
Recognition of Human Incarnation

The recognition of human incarnation should be done by the qualities
of the spiritual knowledge preached by Him. The Veda gives three
adjectives to such divine spiritual knowledge. The first is Truth (Satyam
jnanam), the second is Infinite (Anantam Brahma) and the third is
Excellent (Prajnanam Brahma). The true, infinite and excellent
knowledge indicates the Lord. The knowledge is true because the Lord
need not tell lies to please the people. The human preachers tell lies to
please the people and get some favor from them. The Lord has no such
necessity. In fact, all the human beings are at the mercy of the Lord to get
some favor from Him. Hence, the Lord will always speak the truth whether
you like it or not. Generally, truth always causes disliking. The knowledge
is infinite because the Lord will effectively clear the doubts of infinite
number of devotees and hence, the knowledge becomes infinite. The true
concept is always simple and brief. But, the doubts on it are many. Hence,
the simple true knowledge becomes infinite, when it takes the form of
clarifications given to several corners. The knowledge is excellent because
the presentation of knowledge by the Lord is simply tremendous. The way
of explanation of the concept is impossible to any other human being.
Therefore, you have to recognize the Lord by such spiritual knowledge
alone. Miracles should not be taken as signs of the Lord because even the
demons blessed by the Lord exhibit such miracles. Of course, the miracles
are only due to the power of the Lord only. But, the Lord grants such
powers to the devotees.
The only power that cannot be transferred to anybody is the true
infinite and excellent spiritual knowledge. The devotees are always after
the powers and not after such knowledge. Hence, you need not blame the
Lord for not transferring such knowledge to a devotee. Therefore, the
Lord keeps up this spiritual knowledge alone with Him as His inseparable
sign. You can recognize the Lord through such inseparable sign. However,
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you should not mistake such knowledge as the Lord Himself or as the
inherent characteristic of the Lord. The Veda stated the knowledge as the
Lord since the possessor of an item can be called by that item. The
possessor of apples is called as apples. The married lady wears yellow
thread in her neck. You can always recognize the married lady through such
inseparable yellow thread. But, the yellow thread is not the inherent
characteristic of the married lady like her colour, beauty, etc. You can treat
the yellow thread as almost the inherent characteristic, but, it is not really
the inherent characteristic. Since God is unimaginable, His inherent
characteristics must also be unimaginable. Therefore, the spiritual
knowledge, which is mentioned as the sign of recognition of God, is only
inseparable-imaginable characteristic but, not the unimaginable inherent
characteristic. The knowledge is received and understood by you and
hence, cannot be unimaginable. It can be inseparable because the Lord
always keeps it with Himself without transfer since no devotee is serious
about such transfer.
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10
GOD DID NOT MODIFY INTO CREATION

The Effect Does Not Exist in the Cause
[February 5, 2011] The infinite cosmos [universe] itself is a proof of
the existence of unimaginable God. Infinite means that the boundary of
the universe is everlasting. What is the secret of this everlasting boundary?
Suppose, let us say that the ocean is infinite. It means that you may travel
and travel for any extent of time, you will not reach the bank of the ocean.
The bank of the ocean means the land, which is different from the ocean or
its water. The land, which is beyond the water, is never achieved if the
ocean is infinite. If the boundary of the ocean is achieved, it means the land,
which is separate from water is seen. Similarly, if the boundary of the
universe is achieved, it means that the unimaginable God, who is separate
from the imaginable universe is achieved. But, the boundary of the universe
is never achieved. This means that something, which is beyond the cosmos
or the universe, can never be achieved. What can be beyond the universe?
Only the cause or generator of the universe can be beyond the universe.
From a huge lump of mud, you have created a small pot using some of the
mud. Now, beyond the pot, the rest lot of mud, which is the cause of the
pot, exists. If you are unable to cross the boundary of the pot, the cause of
the pot, which is lump of mud, is never achieved. You can take this
example to certain extent only. In this example, some part of the cause is
modified into the pot and the rest of the part of the cause remains. But, in
the concept [creation from God], no part of the cause is modified.
The fundamental unit of the cosmos is space, which is nothing but
very subtle energy. The cause or the generator of the space must not contain
the space in it. In the case of mud and pot also, the cause may be in the
effect but the effect is not in the cause. The mud may be in the pot but the
pot is not in the crude lump of mud. Therefore, in the concept [creation
from God] also, the space cannot be in its generator. Before the creation of
the space, space cannot exsit anywhere and even in its cause. If space exists
in the cause, the space is already created before its creation. This is one
impossible thing. The other impossible point is that if the space is in the
cause, it means that space created space. Therefore, at any cost, space
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should not exist in its generator. It means that the generator of the space
does not have spatial dimensions. The space means spatial dimensions
only. Length, width and height are the spatial dimensions and the
multiple product of these three is the volume or space. Your intelligence
can never imagine anything, which does not have spatial dimensions.
However much your intelligence may be sharp and however much your
intelligence may take time, it cannot imagine anything, which does not have
volume. Therefore, the generator of this space or cosmos is always
unimaginable and exists beyond the cosmos. This is the reason for the
everlasting space since its generator, which is the bank or boundary of this
cosmos is never achieved by the intelligence. When intelligence itself fails,
there is no possibility of the mind or senses to catch that unimaginable
boundary of the cosmos, which is the unimaginable God Himself. Except
this explanation, no other explanation gives satisfaction to expose the
reason for the infinity of the cosmos.
God is not in the cosmos because God does not have spatial
dimensions and He cannot exist in the cosmos, which has spatial
dimensions. Even if you say that the unimaginable God exists in the
cosmos, it is of no use, because such God is never detected even by the
sharp intelligence. It is as good as saying that God is not in the cosmos.
Therefore, the Veda says that nothing in this cosmos is God, because
nothing contains God. If something contains God, you can say it as God. If
a wire contains current, you can say such wire as current itself. Since no
imaginable item contains unimaginable God, no imaginable item can be
called as God (Neti neti Veda). Even in the case of human incarnation
that contains God, God is still undetectable even by intelligence, even
though you call It as God. The Veda (Tvadevanupravishat) and the Gita
(Manusheem tanum) speak about the special entry of God in human
incarnation for the purpose of preaching the spiritual knowledge to human
beings with exceptional specific talent in clarifying the doubts. Such
special entry cannot be the logical entry of cause into effect during
modification like mud in the pot. Such special entry is based on the desire
of God and not on the logical principle of entry of worldly cause into
wordly effect.
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TRANSFORMATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE IS THE

GREATEST
Special Talent of God in Answering Spontaneously
[February 6, 2011 Mr Anil from Mumbai asked that even the divine
knowledge can be transferred to a devotee, if the devotee desires for it, just
like the power to do a miracle is transferred to a desiring devotee.]
Swami replied: It is said that knowledge is power. Knowledge is the
best form of the power. Knowledge always does the greatest miracle of
transforming a person in the wrong path to a devotee in the right path. Such
transformation is the greatest among all the miracles, if you realize the
real value of a miracle. When God transfers the power of knowledge or
other forms of powers to do other types of miracles, the ability of
balancing that power according to the situation and the capacity of the
administration of the power in a proper talented way lies with God only.
Even if God transfers the power of knowledge, the answer given by a
devotee cannot be equal to the answer given by God. God has given the
miraculous power to kill the demons to several angels and deities. But,
when the case of Hiranyakashipu came up, no angel or deity could use the
power with special talent to kill that demon except God. [Ex:]
Hiranyakashipu achieved the boon of no death from any category of living
and non living beings in the creation. It means that the demon can never be
killed. He also asked that he should not be killed by living and non living
items. He also asked that he should not be killed in day or night. He also
got the grant of no death either inside or outside the house. He cannot be
killed either on the earth or in the sky. All these conditions mean that
nobody and nothing can kill him at anytime or at any place. The power to
kill any demon is already vested in several deities. But, every deity kept
silent since all the doors were closed.
But, see the intelligence of the God! He opened all the doors. A new
category was created because Narasimha was neither a lion nor a human
being completely. The nails can be considered neither living nor non living.
They grow like living but there is no pain when they are cut and this shows
that they are non-living. The time of sunset is neither day nor night. The
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demon was placed on the laps of the Lord, which can be considered neither
as ground nor as sky. The Lord sat in the door, which is neither inside nor
outside the house. Thus, God has shown all the opening points for all the
shut doors. Therefore, the talent of God is inherent to God only. Mere
power is not sufficient. The talent is not an already existing item like the
power, which can be transferred. Talent is a new special flash of
intelligence that is generated in the new situation. The question in the
form of doubt is always new that is created by the active brain of a devotee.
Such questions should be answered with a new flash of talent generated
that projects the existing knowledge in a new form of model. Such a new
model only can perfectly pacify a doubt of an intellectual devotee.
Therefore, handling of the power with a special talent as per the new
situation is possible for God only. In the field of knowledge, the need of
such special talent is required at every step. Therefore, God alone comes to
preach the spiritual knowledge. The elaborate explanations of such answers,
already given by God, can be done by the followers.
Buddhists provoked an elephant towards Shankara. Shankara ran
away from the elephant. Buddhists asked that why should He run away if
the elephant is myth or false. Shankara replied that He told that the entire
creation is false and hence, the process of His running away is also false.
Who can give such answer except God? In fact, Shankara can prove that the
elephant is false. He can stand there itself and the elephant can just pass
through Him without disturbing Him in anyway. He passed through the
locked doors of the house of Mandana Mishra. But, if He does like that, He
can prove that the creation is false for God since He is God by Himself.
But, this cannot be applied to every human being. For a human being, the
creation is true since the the human being itself is a part of false creation.
For false human beings, the rest of the false creation is true. Therefore, the
human being is false, its running is false and the elephant is false. His reply
means all this. He answered the question from the point of a human being
and not from the point of God. Therefore, such talented explanation for the
unexpected situation is possible for the unimaginable God only.
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MEANING OF THE GAYATHRY MANTRA

Spontaneous Liking and Feeling for God
[February 7, 2011 Mr. Kevin Johnson (called as Dattaji) from Texas,
USA sent a gift to Swami and asked Swami to bless him with a mantra.]
Swami replied: The word Mantra is made up of two verbs, 1)
mananaat and 2) trayate. The first verb means that your mind must be
continuously attracted towards a statement or a poem or a song that makes
you repeat it again and again without any trace of effort. The second verb
means that such a statement or poem or song must be related to God and
hence, it gives you perfect protection from all corners, everywhere and
everytime. Therefore, the definition of Mantra is a statement or a poem or a
song, which is related to God and attracts your mind spontaneously to make
it repeat again and again without any trace of effort. Generally, your
attraction to God makes you to be attracted by any statement or poem or
song that is related to God. But, apart from the attraction to God, the beauty
in the meaning and the beauty in the rhythm of the statement or poem or
song make an additional attraction. If both these attractions are in climax,
your attraction to God becomes full. Generally, a song has highest
attraction than a poem or a statement. The attraction increases gradually
from statement to poem to song. Therefore, any song related to God that
attracts your mind to the highest order and makes you repeat it again and
again is called as Gayatri Mantra. Hence, it is said that Gayatri is the
highest mantra. It means that the prayer of God in the form of a song is the
highest attraction. But, people have misunderstood the actual sense and are
thinking that a specific hymn related to God constructed in a specific meter
called Gayatri is the highest. The hymn is not sung at all. It is simply
recited. It is Gayatri because it is in the meter called Gayatri. But that is not
the actual sense of Gayatri. Gayatri means any song related to God that
attracts your mind. God told that He is always attracted by the song than
prose and poetry (Vedaanaam saamavedosmi).
Prose is called as the Yajurveda. Poetry is called as the Rugveda.
Song is called as the Saamaveda. The verbal meaning of Gayatri actually
means the song that protects you (Gaayantam traayate). It can be any song
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since you may like some song and some other may like some other song.
Both songs are Gayatri since both protect you due to the reason that they
are related to God. If the song is related to the human beings or the subjects
of the human beings or to nature, it cannot protect you since the song is
related to creation but not related to the creator. However, if the song
describing the creation hints the greatness of the creator directly or
indirectly, it can also be Gayatri. But, the description of nature or the
subjects of human beings need not hint the creator always to everybody. A
row of white swans was flying below the blue sky. Several people gazed
that scene with excitation resulting from the beauty of the scene. But,
nobody thought about the creator through that scene. Only Shri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was excited by that scene and became
unconscious thinking about the creator of the scene. Therefore, any song
related to even worldly affairs can become Gayatri Mantra, if you can apply
that song directly or indirectly to the God. You may sing a cinema song
linking it to God in your heart. In such case, that cinema song will bring the
grace of God to you and protect you. Others may think that you are
attracted to the world by that cinema song. Therefore, your inner intention
is going to decide everything. Even if you sing a song related to God to
fulfill some worldly desire, it is not Gayatri Mantra. People may
misunderstand that you are a devotee of God by hearing such divine song
from your mouth. Neither you are a devotee nor is that divine song Gayatri
Mantra. You may sing a cinema song of worldly meaning, but if you have
directed it to God from your heart, you are a devotee and your song is
Gayatri Mantra, even though people misunderstand you as a worldly
person. Therefore, the public is not standard. Your intention in your heart is
the standard reference for anything.
A mantra should be selected by the devotee himself or herself from
the existing mantras or the devotee can convert even a non-mantra (worldly
song) into mantra through the intention diverted to God. The guru is like a
seller of vegetables keeping all varieties of vegetables before him and the
devotee is like the customer, who visits the shop of vegetables and selects
the desired vegetables. A devotee can also create his own mantra if he is a
poet.
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INNER MEANING OF SHRI CHAKRA

Diagrams to Be Understood; Not Worphipped
[February 12, 2011] People worship the yantras, which are the
metallic plates containing the flow-sheet diagrams of certain important
spiritual concepts preserved by the ancestors. Such diagrams on the metallic
plates are not meant for worship. The real concepts should be understood
with the help of a real spiritual preacher. Some letters (Bijaaksharas) used
in such diagrams represent certain items like the letters a, b, cx, y, z etc.
used in the flow-sheet diagrams of science and engineering. I cannot
imagine the climax of ignorance of these people, who worship such flowsheet diagrams without understanding the underlying concepts!
Shri Chakra is very important flow-sheet diagram. The word Shri
stands for the wealth, which is the central point of this picture. It is true that
the entire world is rotating around the money and wealth, which is the most
wonderful item of the creation of God. This item is so important since the
real love or devotion can be proven with the help of it only. The Veda
clearly says that you can achieve God only through sacrifice of money
(Dhanena Tyagenaikena). The word money (Dhana) is specifically
mentioned by the Veda because the conversion of money into any other
form of wealth is easy and any basic need can be immediately met with
money. Even the Gita gave the highest importance to the sacrifice of fruit
of work, which is money or wealth only. The Gita says that everything ends
with the sacrifice of fruit of work (Thyagat Shantiranantaram...). The word
Shanti in the verse denotes the final full stop. Krishna, the Lord in human
form, attacked this fundamental point only at the outset in His childhood
itself. Gopikas sold milk, curd and butter in the nearby city for their
livelihood. Krishna started stealing these items, which are their money or
wealth. This money was not even their excess wealth. It was just their basic
need of their lives. Therefore, this test is the same as the test of
Shaktuprastha. Some Gopikas won in the test and were blessed to reach the
highest plane called as Goloka. Several Gopikas failed in this test and
quarreled with the mother of the Lord. This means that even several sages
failed because Gopikas were sages only. Sages are highest learned of all
the human beings. Several sages failed in this test of wealth, not to speak
of ordinary human beings.
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Triangles Indicate Competition Between Three Entities

The Shri Chakra contains the central point, which stands for Shri,
which means money or wealth. It contains three upward triangles and three
downward triangles interlocked with each other giving rise to several
external and internal small triangles. The upward triangles stand for
justified selfishness and the downward triangles stand for unjust
excessive selfishness. A triangle indicates a triangular fight between three
entities. The first entity is yourself. The second entity is the other human
being bonded to you. The third entity is the God in human form. The three
triangles stand for the three strong bonds or eshanas. Your bond with
yourself, your wife and your child are the three strongest bonds.
Dhareshana is the strongest bond with your wife. Putreshana is the
strongest bond with your child. The third bond is with the money leaving
the above two bonds (Dhaneshana), which naturally means yourself. If you
store money without using for any other human being, it means that you
are storing it for yourself only. The upward triangles indicate the justified
bare needs in these three bonds. The downward triangles indicate the unjust
lavish needs in these three bonds. The other small triangles indicate the
bonds with the other relatives resulting from these three bonds. The parents
result from the bond with yourself. The parents-in-law result from your
wife or husband. The daughter-in-law and son-in-law result from your
issues. Like this, other relatives stand in the small triangles. In every
triangle, you stand in one corner, God in human form stands in the other
corner and some human being bonded with you stands in the third corner.
The central point, which is Shri, rotates between the three corners. The
downward triangles denote the competition of God with other human
bonds for the sake of excess of wealth. The upward triangles denote the
competition of God with other human bonds even for the minimum
needed wealth. The essential meaning of the entire Shri Chakra is only the
competition of God in human form like Krishna with the other human
bonds to test Gopikas for the wealth required for the basic and extra needs.
Therefore, Shri Chakra denotes the play of Lord Krishna with Gopikas and
other human beings for the sake of the central point, which is the butter or
money or wealth. Therefore, Shri Chakra indicates the concept of salvation
of sages granted by the Lord after the test related to money or wealth.
What is the use of the daily worship of Shri Chakra without
understanding its basic message? The first criterion of the knowledge
should be truth as said in the Veda (Satyam jnanam). But, truth is always
inconvenient to anybody. What I say is that, you accept the true
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knowledge in theory at least now so that either sometime in this birth or

in some future birth, you can implement the true knowledge in practice
and reach the goal. If you accept the false knowledge and implement it
even now itself, there will be no use of it since you will go away from the
goal by false knowledge at anytime.
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PRACTICE ALONE YIELDS FRUIT

Theory-Inspiration-Practice
[February 13, 2011] People think that Philosophy is totally theoretical
subject. This is a total misunderstanding because Philosophy is totally a
practical subject. Engineering, medicine etc., involve both theory and
practical, whereas history etc., involve only theory. Practice alone yields
the fruit. Of course, theory is the mother of the practice. Theory is
transformed into practice. Therefore, theory is the cause and practice is the
effect. In between theory and practice, the power of transformation or
inspiration is the devotion. Therefore, theory or knowledge (jnana yoga) is
transformed into practice or service (karma yoga) with the help of the
emotion or inspiration or the force of transformation (bhakti yoga). In
general, theory is called as jnana and if it is related to God, it is called as
jnana yoga. Similarly, the inspiration in general is called as Bhakthi and if it
is related to God, it is bhakti yoga. Service in general is Karma and if it is
related to God, it is called as karma yoga. Jnana is like water, bhakti is like
fertilizer and Karma is like the plant that alone yields the fruit with the help
of water and fertilizer. The word yoga denotes the special fortune in
achieving God in human form.
God in the form of a photo or statue can be easily achieved in any
shop and that cannot be even fortune, not to speak as special fortune. The
reason for this difference is that the service done to statue or photo cannot
be real and the sacrifice in such service is totally false. If you offer food to
the statue or photo, it does not eat even a trace of the food. You offer it and
take it back as remains of offering (Prasada). But here, the total food [is]
remained and nothing is eaten by the statue. Therefore, you cannot call it as
remains after offering. Hence, achievement of God in human form alone
can make your service real and the sacrifice in such service alone can
become true. Of course, this does not mean that offering food to statue or
photo of God is wrong. Such offer can develop the theoretical devotion in
you, which is the mother of real service in the future. People should not die
with theoretical devotion only till the end of their lives. They should
understand the significance of the photo or statue, which is always in the
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human form. People are remaining in such theoretical devotion only

throughout their lives because they fear for the real service. Such people
always dislike the concept of contemporary human incarnation. The
theoretical devotion is always convenient, which hides their real practical
sacrifice, greediness and selfishness. Hence, even if they accept the concept
of human incarnation, they will always stick to the photos and statues of
past human incarnations only. Such people misinterpret the spiritual
knowledge to suit to their convenience.
A devotee prepared a cup of sweet to offer to the alive human form of
God. Another devotee also prepared a cup of sweet for himself and his
family. The second devotee did not have either the idea of contemporary
human incarnation or was unable to recognize the contemporary human
incarnation. In any case, the cup of the sweet remains protected in the
fridge. After sometime, the second devotee was able to accept the idea of
living human form of God and was able to recognize it. The second devotee
need not feel for the time lost. Even now, he can offer the cup of sweet to
the alive human form of God and he becomes equal to the first devotee,
who prepared the same sweet for the contemporary human form of God.
The fruit of the work is another form of the work. Sacrifice of the fruit
becomes equal to sacrifice of the work because even in the latter case,
finally the fruit is only sacrificed. Therefore, the Gita stressed on the
sacrifice of the fruit of the work (karma phala tyaga) as the essence of the
entire effort (sadhana). It is the remedial measure for the people, who did
not work for God in their lives due to lack of recognition. Nothing is lost if
they can sacrifice the fruit of their past work since the fruit is another form
of the work only. The misinterpretation here created by greedy, selfish,
intellectual devotees is that if the attachment of the fruit is sacrificed; it
becomes equal to sacrifice of the fruit. So, you have sacrificed your
attachment to the cup of sweet prepared by you and you say that such
sacrifice is the same sacrifice of the cup of the sweet. As long as the cup of
the sweet is in your fridge, your attachment to it is not at all sacrificed.
The proof for the sacrifice of your attachment to the cup of sweet is only
your sacrifice of the cup of the sweet from the fridge. As long as the cup of
the sweet is not eaten by the alive human form of God, the sacrifice is
totally false.
Samnyasa means cutting the desire towards the cup of the sweet.
Yoga or fully called as karma yoga means practical sacrifice of the cup of
sweet to the human form of God and not to the statue or photo. Therefore,
samnyasa and yoga are one and the same (Yam samnyasamiti Prahuh
yogantam Gita). Samnyasa means the practical sacrifice of your sweet
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and yoga means the practical offering of the same sweet to God in human
form. Therefore, samnyasa and yoga are practically one and the same
involving single practical action only. Gita says that sacrifice of work or
fruit of work (samnyasa) is horrible if the receiver, God, is absent. You
cannot remain without any work. if the fruit is offered to yourself or your
family only leaving God you are not protected and therefore, the result
becomes horrible (Duhkhamaaptumayogatah...). Therefore, remaining
without any work or storing the fruit without any sacrifice is not samnyasa.
Working for God and sacrifice of fruit of work to God is yoga, which
naturally means samnyasa, which means working for the worldly people or
sacrificing the fruit of work to the worldly people including yourself. Does
this mean that you have to work for God only or that you have to sacrifice
all the fruit to God only? The answer is both No and Yes. The answer is
No because you have to maintain yourself and your family to serve God
especially when your family is also devoted to God. The bare needs to
maintain the life are not selfish and this is told in the Gita also
(Sharirayatraapichate). This is the normal condition of the spiritual
aspirant. The answer becomes Yes in the special situation when you are
tested by God. Saktuprastha offered even the food needed for the minimum
life also to God during the test. God must always stand in the first position
before anybody including yourself. That alone is the real and highest
devotion that really pleases God. This point should be proved in the
practical test only, which must involve the human form of God only, and
not the statue or photo that represents God.
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DREAM IS AN ANALOGY FOR CREATION

Metaphor Applies in One Aspect
[February 16, 2011] In spite of hectic efforts of atheists, the devotion
of devotees did not decrease even by a trace from the beginning of this
creation. The percentage of devotees also did not decrease and the very
little percentage of atheists also did not increase even by a trace. Do you
think that the reason for this standard devotion is the reality of devotion to
God? No no. The real reason for this is the unimaginable power of the
link between devotion and the materialistic benefits. People believe that
due to the devotion, the worldly life is protected and benefited. This faith is
the life of the devotion. God as the protector of worldly life and as the
donor of materialistic boons is loved by all. Some people love God so that
they will be blessed by God to become God. The real love to God without
expecting anything in return is totally absent. There are some people who
love God without any aspiration in return, but the reason for such selfless
love is that God will be pleased by such love so that they will become God
as a result of such pleasure of God!
Several people think that they are already God and they have to only
remove the ignorance that they are not God. Hence, there is no need of the
element of love to God. Their effort is always to strengthen their memory
power that they are God. They think that they are really God and that they
have forgotten this fact. The basic reason for such concept is that God is the
awareness present in a living being. Actually, awareness is the best
comparison for God. The creation of this world by God is best compared to
the creation of dream by awareness.
1) The awareness can control the dream in any manner as it likes.
2) The awareness can change any item of the dream in to any other item
just by its wish.
Similarly, God can change any object of the creation in to another
object by His will. For this point, the awareness and dream stand as best
examples. On sharp analysis, the comparison shows its own limitation.
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1) The dream in the form of signals collected from the information of

external world already exists in the awareness, but the Universe did not
exist in God prior to its creation in the form of signals.
2) The awareness, which is nervous energy, is modified in to dream,
where as God is never modified.
Neglecting all these limitations, you can take awareness as the best
simile for God. The best simile is always expressed as metaphor. If a person
is exactly as brave as lion, a person can be spoken as lion itself through the
figure of speech called as metaphor. Similarly, God is called as awareness.
The person is not actually lion. The metaphor indicates that the person is
almost as brave as lion. The comparison is in the quality of courage only
and not in other aspects like strong jaws, strong nails, brown basket of hair,
roaring, killing the animals etc. Similarly, God is compared to awareness in
only one aspect, which is changing anything into any other thing just by
will.
The Veda is a collection of poems and poetry always involves the
figures of speech. People have misunderstood this tradition of poetry and
took God actually as awareness. Hence, everybody thinks that he is God.
Shankara used this misunderstanding to introduce theism to atheists. The
atheist will never agree to the existence of the separate God. He will accept
the existence of God only if he is said to be God since nobody denies his
own existence. This trick was used by Shankara to make atheist believe in
the existence of God at the very outset. If the existence is not accepted,
further details will never be heard. When the details were completely heard
and analyzed, one will easily be convinced that he is not God. This is the
development of teaching method as per the psychology of a set of students.
Shankara practically demonstrated to His disciples that everybody is not
God by swallowing the molten Lead and by asking them to drink it
similarly if everybody is God. The Advaita philosopher does not still leave
the hope by saying that he is unable to drink molten led since his memory
power that he is God is not fully restored. He continues the efforts to regain
the full memory power that he is God. He will memorize this concept
through [out] his life time and cannot go even near to molten Lead even
at the time of death. What more foolishness can be there in this world than
this?
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MEANING OF ATMAN
Misunderstood Theory Rectified by Practical Demonstration
[March 18, 2011] The word Atman not only means the self but also
the body covering the self as per the Amarakosha, the standard dictionary in
Sanskrit language. The word Atman is derived from the verb atati, which
means that, which extends or grows or pervades. The body occupies some
space and grows in course of time pervading some more space. The soul is
a specific form of ordinary inert energy. Actually, it is a specific form of
work involving transfer of information from the senses with help of
neurons and the receipt of the information by the brain in the form of
impression is a subsequent step, which is also involved in this specific
work. This step of receipt of the information by the brain is called
knowledge or the process of knowing (jnaanam). Hence, the soul is said to
be the form of knowledge. This specific work takes place in a specific
system called nervous system. The soul also pervades all over the body
through nerves since the soul is a form of inert energy. Since the inert
energy is always in the form of waves occupying some space, the soul can
be called as the Atman that pervades some space. Therefore, the word
Atman means both the body and the soul. Therefore, the word Atman
means totally a human being, which consists of two parts called body and
soul. Body stands for matter and the soul stands for energy. Both matter
and energy are like the two friendly classmates and none is a boss or a slave
to the other. Rama and Krishna are two friends. You can call Rama as
Krishnas friend or Krishna as Ramas friend. If you superimpose the I on
the soul, you will call the body as My body. If you superimpose the I on
body, you will call the soul as My soul. Neither body belongs to the soul
nor does the soul belong to the body because both belong to God, the
ultimate single owner.
The ultimate conclusion of the meaning of the word Atman is only an
individual human being, which is composite of body and soul. The meaning
of the word Atman is very very important in spiritual knowledge because
this word misled several people. The word Atma Jnaanam is very important
because by achieving this, one gets the salvation. People think that the word
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Atmajnaanam means the knowledge of self and start analyzing the soul
leaving the body. Such analysis is based on the error that Atman is confined
to self only. Even if you realize that Atman stands for both self and body
and go on analyzing the self and body, you will not get the salvation. No
doubt the Atman stands for both self and body. But, the word Atmajnaanam
does not mean the analysis of self and body. It only means the analysis of
identification of a specific human being, which is the composite of both self
and body that is pervaded by the unimaginable God. Here, the word
knowledge means the identification of that specific human being pervaded
by the unimaginable God, which exists in this world of humanity like a
specific water drop in the ocean. The word knowledge stands for only the
identification knowledge of the specific human being immersed in this vast
humanity and it does not mean the analysis of any human being. If
somebody says do you have any knowledge of that fellow?, it only means
the knowledge of whereabouts of that fellow. It does not mean the
knowledge of anatomy of that fellow, which is as good as the anatomy of
any fellow. God incarnates in the human form for the sake of humanity
(Manushim tanu maashritamGita). To catch God existing in that specific
human form is the essence of all the spiritual effort (sadhana). Since the
absolute God is unimaginable, the only way to catch such God is catching
that specific human form in which the unimaginable God is existing. There
is no other alternative way than this. Running after the energetic form of
God is also meaningless since such form is irrelevant and such form is also
not the actual God. It is as good as the human form of God. Since God
pervades all over the specific human form, that specific human being can be
treated as God for all practical purposes. Since you receive the shock by
touching any spot of the electrified wire, you can treat the entire wire
internally as well as externally as the current itself. Similarly God pervades
all over the human form internally and externally, the entire human form is
treated as God. The word Atman indicates the pervasion of God all over the
human form to impress you that you need not hesitate to treat such human
form as God in total sense. You can treat not only the soul but also the body
of such human form as God. Gopikas treated Krishna in this way since they
were sages, who were the scholars of the word Atman.
Shankara preached Atma Jnanam to His disciples in the sense that
they should identify Him as the human form of the God. The word Atman
means an individual human being. But, the disciples took the word Atman
in the sense of themselves and thought that they were the human forms of
the God. Thus, they thought that Atmajnanam means the analysis of
themselves. When Shankara told I am God (Aham Brahmaasmi), the
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disciples took the word I applying to each individual self and thought that
each one of them was God. When Shankara told you are God (tat tvam
asi), it means that every disciple is expected to become God shortly. Here,
the verb in the present tense does not mean the actual present time but
means immediate future as per Sanskrit grammar. But, the disciple took the
verb in the present tense only and thought that he is already God. Shankara
told this human being is God (Ayam Atmaa Brahma). Shankara means
that a specific human being like Himself or Krishna is God. But, the
disciple took this to mean that every human being is God. Shankara told
awareness is God (Prajnanam Brahma). It means that God always
incarnates as a living human being and never as an inert object. This means
that awareness is always associated with the incarnation of God. In such
case, you can call the bearer by the possessed item, as you call the bearer of
the apples by the word apples. But, the disciples took this as the possessed
item itself to be the bearer. In such case, the bearer of the apple is the apple
itself and therefore, God is awareness itself. Even if you take the word
prajnanam to mean only simple general awareness, your interpretation is
not fitting here. Infact, the word prajnanam does not mean general
awareness even in the normal usage. It means only the special divine
knowledge that is associated with God in human form only. Therefore, the
disciple misunderstood here also and took himself as God since he is
associated with normal awareness just like any other living being. Hence,
the disciples took that each one of themselves is God like Shankara.
One day Shankara swallowed the wine. The desciples also swallowed
the wine thinking themselves as God like Shankara. Next day, Shankara
swallowed the molten lead. But, the disciples went back to swallow that.
Then Shankara preached them that He alone is God (Shivaha kevaloham).
The word kevala denotes that Shankara alone is God and not everybody.
Then, the disciples realized the true knowledge and surrendered to Him by
falling on His feet (Bhava Shankara deshika me sharanam). Every advaita
philosopher should realize this truth from the practical incident performed
by Shankara. One should know that practical knowledge is more valid than
theoretical knowledge, which can be easily misunderstood. The
misunderstood theory is always rectified by practical demonstration.
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PHILOSOPHY DEALS WITH THE CREATOR

[March 22, 2011] The application of root meaning (yoga) of a word
can result in several items. For example, the word Pankaja by root
meaning means that which is born from mud. It can be a Lotus flower or a
conch shell. But, the root meaning is fixed in one item only (rudha) as per
the strength of general usage. Therefore, the word Pankaja means only
Lotus flower by yoga as well as rudha. Such a word is called as yogarudha.
Similarly, the word Atman means that which extends into space. It can be
soul, which is the nervous energy that can extend into nerves. It can be
human body that extends into space by growth. It can be air that extends
into space in a room. It can be several items, which extend into space. But,
the word Atman is fixed in the soul by way of general usage. As per the
dictionary, the word can be also used in the body. The soul is always
associated with the body. The soul cannot be identified without body. By
way of this constant association also, Atman can mean the body that covers
the soul. Therefore, the word Atman means a human being consisting of
human body with its soul in it. In conclusion, Atman means a human being.
A human being can be Myself or yourself or somebody else. Therefore, it
need not be confined to Myself only. Generally, people take the word
Atman applying through each one of themselves. Such meaning can be
taken, but cannot be confined to that only. Therefore, the word Atman
should mean any human being.
Knowledge of God Means the Identification of the Incarnation

Atmajnanam means the knowledge of a human being. If you take the
word Atman confined to yourself only, you will have to apply the meaning
of the word Atmajnanam to the analytical knowledge of the anatomy of
yourself only. You cannot take that word in the sense of knowledge of
identification of yourself, because you are always aware of yourself. The
analytical knowledge of anatomy of the human body or its soul can be
better indicated by the word Atma Vijnanam. The prefix vi indicates the
intensified deep knowledge of anatomy of a human being through sharp
analysis. The word knowledge generally means the identification of item
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only. When somebody is not found, you will ask people do you have the
knowledge of that fellow?
Scientists have already given the detailed knowledge of the anatomy
of the human body. They have also found out that the soul is nothing but
nervous energy flowing through nerves up to the brain through neurons that
carry the information of the objects from senses to brain. Therefore,
Philosophy need not take unnecessary trouble of giving this type of
analytical knowledge of anatomy of body and soul, which becomes a
repetition only. Such analysis is related to the items of creation and not to
the creator. Philosophy has special dignity of giving the knowledge of
Creator. Unfortunately, the creator is unimaginable since He is beyond
spatial dimensions. This point is elaborately spoken by the Scripture (Veda
and Gita). Philosophy does not attempt the explanation of such
unimaginable God because it is totally impossible. It can only give the
knowledge of identification or the address of unimaginable God existing
in the human being. The knowledge of unimaginable God means only the
identification but not the analysis of composition of God. The human being
in which God exists is as good as any other human being and science has
already given the anatomy of any human being. Therefore, the human being
in which God exists need not be analyzed again. The God also cannot be
analyzed due to His unimaginable nature. Therefore, what remains is only
the knowledge of identification of a human being possessed by the
unimaginable God.
If you can catch such human incarnation of God, you can clarify all
your doubts. You can serve Him and please Him to get the grace of God.
Hence, the word Atmajnanam means only the knowledge of identification
of the present alive human form of God. Such incarnation of God alone is
satguru. The word sat indicates the absolute reality, which is the
unimaginable God. The word Guru indicates the human being that is
possessed by God acting as a visible and audible medium for the sake of
human beings. Guru can explain only the already existing scripture, which
answers almost all the doubts of human beings. But, sometimes a new
doubt arises, which requires totally a new answer, which can be given only
by Satguru. Sometimes a new way of explanation and interpretation is
required to open your eyes completely regarding the truth. Satguru alone
can give such new explanation. Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Jesus,
Mohammad, Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva etc., are the satgurus so far
arrived. The preachings given by these Satgurus are sufficient for general
humanity. But, today the intelligence has become sharper and sharper
through science and technology and a new Satguru is required, called as a
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Great Genius by Nostradamus. You have to find out such new Satguru,
who can open your eyes completely provided you have the real interest.
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SCIENCE AND LOGIC APPLY TO CREATION ALONE

God is Beyond Logical Analysis
[March 27, 2011] There are two channels for the meaning of the word
Atmajnanam. The first channel is to analyze the composition of self and
human body, since the word Atman means the human body also. However,
if you confine the meaning only to the self, it means only the analysis of
self. The analysis of both the self and human body is done by science
already. In fact, science revealed that soul is only nervous energy, which is
the specific work form of the general inert energy that is generated by the
oxidation reaction of the food. The same inert energy is called as
awareness, which is a specific work form of it only since the inert energy
becomes that specific form due to its function in a specific system called
nervous system. It is work form because it is only the work of
transportation of information from senses to brain through neurons.
Similarly, the same inert energy becomes a specific work form called
Respiration since it is work in a specific system called lungs. Similarly, any
work is a specific form of work of the inert energy only in specific systems
like heart, kidneys etc. A scientist defined the life or awareness as the
sound generated from the blowing of drum by stick. Neither drum, nor the
stick nor the inert energy applied through the human hand in blowing is the
sound. The sound is only the mechanical work form of inert energy that is
generated by the transformation of the inert energy in a specific system
called drum, stick and beating of the drum. Similarly, neither food, nor
oxidation of food, nor the inert energy, nor the nervous system is life. Life
is the specific work generated by the transformation of the inert energy in
this specific nervous system.
It is good to analyze the life or awareness through science, which is
the proven logic developed by practical experiments. The ancient logic
[Tarkam] is also analysis of the items of creation without the proof of
experimental knowledge. Hence, the ancient logic may be true or not,
since it is only theory developed by thinking process of brain. In fact, there
is no difference between science and ancient logic in essence since both
deal with the analysis of items of creation only. Conservative people think
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that ancient logic deals with God. It is totally wrong. The ancient logic
never agrees to God because God is beyond analysis and logic means only
analysis. By that way, science also keeps silent about God. Ignorant
people, unaware of the subject of logic, falsely think that logic is related
to God and science is related only to the analysis of creation. The reason
for this is that the ancient logic is in Sanskrit language.
All That is in Sanskrit, Need Not Be Divine

People think that whatever is in Sanskrit must be divine. It need not
be so. Charvaka, the atheist, wrote his concepts in Sanskrit only. The sage
Vidyaranya gave a place to Charvaka also in explaining the six principle
systems of philosophy. What is the reason for giving such place of dignity
to Charvaka? Charvaka told everything wrong about God. But, he is the
only person, who told that the soul is only a generated specific work form
of inert energy by the oxidation of food. You should collect the Gem from
the dustbin also. You did not reject the Gem since it is in the dust bin. All
others thought that self is divine. We shall certainly give the highest value
to self in the items of the creation since self is the most subtle and valuable
item of creation. It does not mean that self is the Creator itself. It is the
greatest item in the creation and hence, self is called as Brahman. The word
Brahman need not mean God only. It can mean any greatest item in a
particular category. The Gita calls the Veda as Brahman since it is greatest
among the scriptures. Brahman also means God because God is greater than
the greatest item of the world, which is the soul. The reason is that God
controls all the selves (Atmeshwaram Veda). Hence, the word Brahman
is not confined to God only. Hence, there is confusion to mean Brahman as
God only. Therefore, a different word Parabrahman can be fixed to God,
which means that God is greater than Brahman because Brahman stands for
every greatest item in a category in the creation. By this, Parabrahman
means the greater item than any greatest item of each category of the
creation. Since Atman means self and the self means Brahman, the word
Atmajnanam means Brahmajnaanam. Beware that the word Brahman here
means only the self and not God.
You should not say that the analytical knowledge of self is waste.
Shankara gave importance to this analytical knowledge of self since it
relieves you from all the worldly tensions. If you know that you are not this
body, all the bonds related to the body disappear since such bonds are not
your bonds. They are bonds of your body only. If you know that you are the
internal awareness, which is the specific work form of inert energy, you
will be relived from all the worldly bonds. If you become sharper in
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identifying the awareness as the basic inert energy only, you will not be
aware of anything and hence, the tension disappears from root. Unless you
are relieved from the worldly tensions, you cannot understand God with
stable mind and serve God with full faith and determination. Therefore,
before identifying the specific human being possessed by God, you should
have the analytical knowledge of yourself to become fit to serve the
contemporary human incarnation. This analytical knowledge of self
serves like sedative injection to get rid of all the worldly tensions. It forms
the basis of your divine service.
Therefore, Shankara stressed on the first channel of the meaning,
which is the analytical knowledge of self and to identify yourself as that
self separating yourself from the human body. Once you achieve the result
of the first channel, you deserve to go for the second channel of the
meaning, which is the knowledge of identification of contemporary human
incarnation. Shankara trained all His disciples through the first channel
through His commentaries and made them fit to serve Himself, the
contemporary human incarnation. During this process of training, the
disciples slipped in taking the word Brahman as God and feel that self is
God and hence, they are God. Shankara corrected them by swallowing the
molten lead and declared that He alone is the God (Shivah Kevaloham),
which is the second channel of the meaning. The disciples, who already
became fit for the divine service by the first channel entered the second
channel and served Shankara in the rest of the period and were finally
blessed by God.
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WORLDLY BONDS WEAKEN THE ATTACHMENT TO

GOD
[March 27, 2011 Evening] Unless you are relieved from the worldly
bonds, you cannot be relieved from the tensions and also you cannot attach
yourself to God completely. If you are attached to the worldly bonds, your
attachment to God becomes impossible since the worldly bonds prevail
over your bond to God. Generally, we pray God for the welfare of worldly
bonds only. It means your bond to God is never stronger than the worldly
bonds. Hence, your attachment to God cannot be the strongest bond.
Therefore, in the absence of the worldly bonds, your bond to God does not
face this problem of competition, in which your bond to God is always
likely to fail. Moreover, your worldly bonds always bring problems and
tensions. If something happens to your parents or wife or husband or
children, you will be always disturbed. When you are disturbed, you will
lose energy and become weak. In such condition, you can never serve God
effectively. Therefore, in the presence of worldly bonds, not only your
bond to God becomes weak but also your service to God becomes
ineffective. Therefore, Hanuman and Shankara avoided these worldly
bonds in the beginning itself by not getting married since prevention is
always better than cure. Both left their mothers and came out to be involved
in the service of God forever. Both of them have perfect fore-sight to avoid
the possibility of problem in the beginning itself.
But, God likes you to be present in the worldly bonds and your bond
to God should prevail over the other worldly bonds. Victory over the
existing opposite force is always appreciable. If the opposite force is absent,
it cannot be called as victory. Gopikas were completely immersed in the
worldly bonds with their husbands and children. In spite of the strong
opposite forces, they could run after Krishna and this is the victory over the
existing opposite forces. When Parikshit wanted salvation in seven days,
the sage Shuka recited the Bhagavatam and not the Ramayanam. The
victory of Hanuman is without opposite forces. But, the victory of Gopikas
is in presence of strong opposite forces.
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Even in the presence of strong opposite forces, you can come out of
the influence of such forces, by detaching yourself from those bonds. You
think that you are the body and hence, you think that all the bonds related to
body are your bonds. The bond with wife or husband is related to the
external body only. The bonds with the parents or the children are related
to blood, which is the main part of the body only. If you analyze and
realize that you are not the body but the soul, which is the nervous energy,
all the worldly bonds, which are related to body only, disappear. The soul,
which is a specific work form of inert energy, is beyond the materialized
body and blood. The nervous energy, which is basically the all pervading
inert cosmic energy, is the soul in qualitative sense. The same soul, which
is a drop of cosmic energy, differs in quantitative sense only. The cosmic
energy is called as Brahman, since it is the greatest created item in
quantitative sense. Hence, the soul is Brahman in this line of logic.
Therefore, by identifying yourself as the soul, you become inert like
the inert energy without any worldly bonds. In such case, all your worldly
bonds disappear and you will be free to attach yourself to God without the
competition. You become mentally stable due to absence of tensions of
worldly bonds. Since the mind is related to body, you become healthy in
the external body also. Therefore, you can attach to God without any
disturbance and serve Him effectively to get His grace forever. Therefore,
Shankara propagated the concept of soul to be identified for attaching
yourself with it to come out of the influence of all the worldly bonds even
while you are immersed in the ocean of such worldly bonds. Gopikas are
the best examples for the philosophy of Shankara. Hanuman is out of this
ocean and does not require such philosophy. Hanuman and Shankara are
exceptional cases and both are incarnations of God. Gopikas are the
ordinary individual souls and represent the common lot of humanity. The
philosophy written by Shankara is not meant for Himself. It is only for the
general lot of ordinary humanity like us.
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UNIMAGINABLE GOD ENTERS IMAGINABLE

CREATION FOR DEVOTEES
[April 03, 2011 Mr. Anil asked, You said that God is beyond
creation and at the same time, You say that God is in human body, which is
in the creation. Is it not a contradiction?]
Swami replied: Unless the contradiction arises and you are unable to
solve it through your analysis, you cannot call it as unimaginable action.
Unless you recognize the unimaginable action, you cannot accept that God
is unimaginable, who is the source of the unimaginable actions. For the
establishment of unimaginable actions, there should be pre-established
imaginable background so that the violation of such imaginable background
can be identified as the unimaginable action. Therefore, God created the
imaginable background, which can be understood by all the humanity
through imaginable logic. Then, on some required occasions, God violates
the imaginable logic so that people fail to analyze such violations through
their imaginable logic and finally conclude that God is unimaginable. Now,
you can understand the necessity of both the imaginable background and
the unimaginable violation of it.
As per the imaginable background, the unimaginable God is beyond
this imaginable creation. God is unimaginable because God has no spatial
dimensions. This creation is imaginable since it has the imaginable spatial
dimensions. Our logic is based on our senses and the sophisticated
scientific instruments. Our senses can grasp the visible items. The
scientific instruments can grasp the invisible but imaginable items and pass
on the information to us regarding such invisible items. You can see a pot
through your eyes but, you cannot perceive the invisible cosmic energy that
pervades all over the cosmos through your senses. But, the cosmic rays can
be detected through sophisticated instruments and you can understand the
nature of the cosmic rays through such instruments. A pot is visible and
imaginable. A cosmic ray is invisible but imaginable with the help of
scientific instruments. Both these examples are parts of the imaginable
creation. You can analyze the visible and imaginable items. Science can
analyze the invisible and imaginable items. Science is sharper than human
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beings but, it does not mean that science can analyze the unimaginable
items.
The violation of the logic of both science and human beings comes
under the unimaginable action of God. The actions of God may be visible
or invisible, but are unimaginable. Krishna lifting up the mountain is visible
but is unimaginable. Krishna hided the Sun with the help of His weapon
(Sudarshana Chakra) and created a false sunset in the war. This action of
hiding the Sun is invisible and also unimaginable. This does not mean that
God is the source of unimaginable actions only. Both imaginable and
unimaginable actions are from one God only. Krishna ate the food given by
His mother. This is visible and imaginable action. Krishna stole the butter
and this is invisible and imaginable action. Therefore, God is the source of
all the actions. God performs the unimaginable action when there is a real
requirement. Through such occasions, not only the requirements are met,
but also the knowledge about His unimaginable nature is given to human
beings.
Coming to the context of the present question, God has created this
imaginable creation and remains unimaginable since He is beyond space.
The generator of the space cannot have spatial dimensions. Therefore, God
remains unimaginable always and cannot be included in the visible or
invisible items of the creation, which are always imaginable. The Veda says
that those who knew God rejected every item of the creation not to be God.
It means God is unimaginable since every item of the creation is
imaginable. But, the requirement is that the devotees of God want to see,
talk, touch and live with God in this world. To fulfill this requirement, God
enters a human being and gets identified with It like the invisible current
enters a metallic wire and gets identified with it. In this example, current is
invisible but imaginable. We can only bring some invisible item of
creation to compare with unimaginable God since there is no second
unimaginable item in the creation other than God. Therefore, you should
not think that the invisible item is unimaginable. Even in the ancient logic,
all the invisible items were detected as imaginable parts of the creation.
But, somehow, the ancient logic could not detect the invisible awareness as
imaginable item. Of course, some schools have recognized the awareness
also as the imaginable item. Even the Gita mentions the awareness
indicated by the word Chetana, which is included in the imaginable items
of the creation. Even the word Jeeva is mentioned as the precious part of
the creation (Prakruti) only.
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Necessity of Coining the New Word Parabrahman

Shankara also differentiated the awareness of all things (Sarvajna)
from the awareness of few things (Alpajna) as Ishwara and Jeeva
respectively. Here, the word Jeeva stands for the ordinary soul and the
word Ishwara stands for the unimaginable God associated with created
general awareness, which is specially qualified by the unimaginable quality
of knowing everything. Here, Ishwara should not be taken as the pure
unimaginable God (Nirguna Brahman). Therefore, awareness should be
understood as a quality or property or the created item existing in the
creation. After all, awareness is an item that is understood by us and cannot
be the unimaginable God. The general awareness existing as common
essence in both Ishwara and Jeeva is only created item and not the
creator. Shankara called this general awareness as Brahman not in the
sense of unimaginable God. The word Brahman can be used for any
greatest item in a category. Awareness is the greatest item due to its
preciousness (Para Prakruti) among all the categories of the creation and
hence, can be emphatically called as Brahman. But, it is only the
imaginable item and the unimaginable God is always greater than it.
Therefore, the unimaginable God or the creator is the absolute greatest item
and should be called as Brahman in the absolute sense in the first place.
The awareness comes in the second place, which is not the creator but, the
greatest item of the creation. Now, if you call both these items i.e.,
unimaginable God and awareness by the same word Brahman, definitely
the confusion starts and as a result, you will certainly mistake the general
awareness as the unimaginable God.
Therefore, Shankara created a new word Parabrahman, which means
that, which is other than Brahman. The word Para also means other than.
He clearly mentioned the meaning of Parabrahman as that, which is
beyond words (Maunavyaakhyaa Prakatita Parabrahma). Only the
unimaginable item can never be expressed by words. In spite of His
clarification, the advaita philosophers continued in the illusion that
awareness is God because the attraction to become God is always very
strong ambition. Awareness is the process of knowing, which is just a
specific work form of inert energy only and we must thank the modern
Science for giving such clarification so that now we know the mechanism
of the process of knowing.
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IGNORANCE OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE CAUSES SIN

Knowledge-Fire Alone Burns All Sins
[April 04, 2011 Ugadi] Generally, people greet others wishing the
happy festival or wishing the happy birthday etc. We must analyze every
word and action of us to find out the truth. The first question you have to
put to yourself is Are you, just a general soul, competent of wishing
something good or bad for other souls? You cannot wish anything good
or bad even for yourself. Therefore, there is no use of cursing or wishing
good for others. The good or bad in your case or in the case of others
happens according to the results of the previous deeds. Your wish cannot
change the established mechanism of the divine system of deeds and fruits.
Only God is competent to change this divine system. Some people are
aware of this fact and therefore, greet May God bless you. This statement
is also wrong on analysis. Are you dictating God or instructing God to bless
somebody or even yourself?
In fact, God never harms or blesses anyone as per the Gita
(Naadatte kasyachit). God has created the divine system of deeds and
fruits and the system acts in mechanical way under the instruction of God
only. The rule maker will never break the rule. In fact, God subjected
Himself to the rule to show that the rule is absolute and inevitable (Evam
pravartitam... Gita). The result of killing Vali by hiding Himself behind a
tree was enjoyed by the Lord in the next birth. Even if you say that you
pray God to help somebody, it is also wrong. Does this mean that you
request God to help some undeserving human being? That means, you try
to influence God to do a wrong thing. If the human being is deserving, God
will help him even without your wish. If you are aware of this fact, you
need not wish. The last possibility of your wish is that some soul is
deserving and God is either ignorant or cruel in not helping it and therefore,
you make God aware of the forgotten point or you are softening the cruel
heart of God. Both these options are totally wrong because God is never
ignorant and is never cruel. Therefore, the meaning of your statement
becomes zero. If you state something, which does not mean anything, you
must be mad.
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If you are interested in the welfare of somebody, the only way is to

state Please pray God on this occasion so that He will change your mind
through divine knowledge and get rid of you from all the results of sins or
all deeds. By such statement, you do not expect the violation of the divine
system in any way. The reason for all sins is absence of divine knowledge
or the firm realization of it to implement it in practice. If you realize your
sins and do not repeat them, all your past and present sins get cancelled.
Mere knowing of divine knowledge is not sufficient to give this wonderful
result. After knowing, you should memorize it again and again so that you
will implement it in practice. Such state of knowledge is called as
Realization. Only realization can cancel the sins. Realization is the
knowledge with deep intensity and is called as knowledge-fire. The Gita
says that the knowledge-fire can burn all the previous deeds. The Bible also
says that Jesus will come to sprinkle fire on the people in the place of
water. Here, water means the process of mere knowledge. Fire means the
intensified knowledge so that practical implementation of it takes place.
Knowledge can be given by any preacher. But, God in human form
like Krishna or Jesus can alone give the knowledge-fire. Therefore, a better
statement will be Please find out the contemporary human incarnation and
get divine knowledge from Him. You memorize such divine knowledge so
that it becomes knowledge-fire and burn all your sins so that you will be
happy in this world, or let it burn all your deeds so that you will get
salvation. In fact, the Gita says that the knowledge-fire should burn all
the deeds, which are good and bad. Such stage indicates the absence of
any selfish ambition for happiness. All the actions of the soul in such state
are meant for God only and there is no selfishness. Such state gives
salvation not only in this world, but also in the upper world. The burning of
sins only gives happiness in this world only.
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DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN INVISIBLE AND

UNIMAGINABLE
Awareness Is Produced by Information Processing in the Brain
[April 06, 2011] The absolute reality is always without spatial
dimensions and the relative reality is always with spatial dimensions. The
creator is the absolute reality and the creation is the relative reality. The
relative reality is always imaginable since it has spatial dimensions. The
creation contains both visible and invisible items. The visible items have
macro-spatial dimensions. The invisible items have micro-spatial
dimensions and hence, the eye cannot catch them. Therefore, a stone is
visible and the atom present in it is invisible. Only the absolute reality is
unimaginable since it has no spatial dimensions at all. It is beyond space
and does not contain space since it is the generator of the space. Therefore,
you must differentiate the invisible from unimaginable. Since there is every
possibility of mistaking the invisible as unimaginable, the invisible item
can be selected as the simile for unimaginable. Out of all the invisible
items, awareness is the best since it is most precious. The awareness cannot
be regenerated after death since the system in which the inert energy is
converted into a specific form of work is damaged. Scientists have created a
robot in which, a new nervous system is created and the inert energy is
converted into awareness. The awareness in the system functions based on
a specific chip introduced in it. After death, this information is lost from
the chip since the soul enters a new energetic body along with the recorded
information. After death, the chip remains vacant with the erased
information. Therefore, even if the scientists repair the nervous system and
convert the inert energy into awareness, the old human being cannot be
regenerated due to the absence of the old information in the chip.
The development of technology of computer education has clearly
demonstrated that the simultaneous micro-processors functioning in a robot
could generate a new human being since brain is nothing but several microprocessors working simultaneously. The brain or the system containing
several micro-processors working simultaneously can grasp all the
characteristics of an item simultaneously in one instance and identify the
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item without step-wise analysis. In a robot, the inert energy is directly

supplied and therefore, other systems like respiratory system, digestion
system, system of kidneys, system of heart etc. are not necessary. All these
systems are involved in the oxidation of food to convert food-matter into
inert energy and also to deal with the side problems of the food introduced.
For example, the system of kidneys is involved in filtering the impurities
introduced by food. All these co-relating systems are not necessary in a
robot since the inert energy is directly introduced through some electric
source. Therefore, repair of human being is very very complicated,
whereas, the repair of a robot is very very simple.
Gods Will Enables Individual Variation

Assuming that you have repaired all the systems of a dead human
being, the lost information from the brain chip cannot be regenerated. This
information is the essence of the recorded informations leftover after erased
weak informations, which were accumulated from millions of births. The
strong informations are always recorded and are never erased. The weak
informations are erased. The variety in the multiplicity of the information
cannot be scientifically explained since it is introduced due to the will of
God. Otherwise, all the human beings should have a similar behavior since
strong and weak informations are already classified. Therefore, it is
impossible to regenerate the exact design of the behavior of a soul.
However, this will of God cannot bring the responsibility of God for the
variation in the behavior of souls. Such will does not specify a particular
human being to have the possibility of development of a specific behavior.
The will of God is responsible for the general multiplicity only but not
responsible to a specific variety in a specific soul. The freedom to develop
a specific variety of behavior is given to every soul since the preaching of
God to all the souls is uniform through similar scriptures.
In fact, God created only happiness for the human beings from the
beginning of creation. The human beings were bored with continuous
happiness like with continuous eating of sweet dishes only. Thus, misery
was born from happiness only. Instead of such useless misery, you can
take up the misery through sacrifice. When you sacrifice your wealth for
the sake of society, it is a loss causing misery. Such misery is useful
because you will be rewarded with temporary heaven in due course. If the
sacrifice is without aspiration for heaven, you will be rewarded with the
grace of God. You may get misery by losing money in business, which is
done due to ambition for extra money. Such misery will lead you to further
misery in the hell also. However, the basic point is that misery is needed as
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a break in continuous happiness. The happiness and misery must alter like
sweet and hot dishes in the meals or like happy and unhappy scenes in the
cinema. You enjoy the sweet and hot items in meals and happy and
unhappy scenes in cinema but not in the real life. Therefore, you should
develop the tactfulness of enjoying the misery also. Even the human
incarnations enjoyed the misery in this way. Therefore, the will of God
responsible for the multiplicity of behavior of the human beings is
completely free from any counter argument.
Your sacrifice in the divine service, which is for the contemporary
human incarnation or real devotees without any aspiration for fruit in return
will fetch you the highest grace of God. But, you should not aspire for the
grace of God and you should be careful in differentiating the false human
incarnations and false devotees from the real ones.
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SOUL IS NOT THE CREATOR

Soul is Not Absolutely Eternal
[April 09, 2011] God gave the ability of creating robot, a duplicate
human being, to the humanity to show that a human being is a created
item only. The human being includes the soul, which is a special work form
of inert energy. The inert energy was created by God as the first item in the
beginning of the creation. This inert energy is manifested in several forms
like light, heat, electricity, magnetism and various work forms. The work
forms become different since the same inert energy works in different
systems. A system needs material, which is matter. For example, respiration
is a specific work from of inert energy and needs the specific system called
lungs. A lung is made of matter. Therefore, the same inert energy is
manifested in the form of matter. The work in general, is called as kinetic
energy. The energy associated with a static body is called as potential
energy. The potential energy can be converted into kinetic energy when the
system works. Matter is in three states called as gas (vayu), liquid (jalam)
and solid (bhumi). The inert energy in invisible state is called as space
(aakaasha) and in visible state is called as fire (agni).
Soul is the general awareness called as awareness of awareness,
which is the specific work form of inert energy functioning in the specific
nervous system. The various sub-modes of the same general work
(awareness) are called as feelings or qualities. The general awareness is
stated as Atman whereas, the same general awareness existing in different
sub-modes is called as Jeeva. The main sub-modes are four types called as
Antahkaranams viz. the mind, the intelligence, the memory and basic ego
identified as I (Manas, Buddhi, Chittam and Ahankara). It is like various
sub-modes of the same working computer. The general functioning of a
computer can be taken as soul and the main facilities of the work can be
taken as Antahkaranams. This general functioning associated with various
aspects of work can be taken as Jeeva. The electrical energy is the inert
energy. If the various systems involved in the generation of the electricity
are also associated with the computer, it represents a human being.
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The Veda says clearly that the soul is generated from food. This
means that the food is oxidized to produce inert energy and the inert energy
is converted into awareness. The Vedic statement is an indirect step of
generation. If you have dollars, you can convert them into rupees and with
rupees, you can purchase any item in India. You can say that you can
purchase any item with dollar and such statement is the indirect statement.
All this means that the soul is an imaginable item of creation but not the
unimaginable creator. In the Bhagavatam it is said that certain souls were
hidden by Brahma and God in the form of Krishna created the same
souls again. This itself proves that the soul is created [item] and not the
creator. If the soul were to be the creator, it cannot be created again by
duplication. However, the soul is permanent or eternal with respect to
human body as said in the Gita (Nahanyate hanyamaane). Such
eternality is only relative but not absolute. The soul enters energetic body
after death, while the human body perishes and such eternality of the soul is
not real, permanent and absolute.
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LIMITED SIMILARITY BETWEEN GOD AND THE SOUL

Important Differences Remain
[April 10, 2011] When similes are selected for the unimaginable
God, the concepts of comparison should be always limited and not to be
fully extended in all other aspects. This principle exists even if you give a
simile to an imaginable item taking another imaginable item. For example,
if you compare the face of somebody to moon, the aspect of simile should
be confined to the pleasantness only. You should not extend the aspect of
similarity to other points and say that the face contains black spots since the
moon also has black spots. If this is the case of simile between two
imaginable items, how can you expect a total similarity between
unimaginable God and any imaginable item? You cannot bring another
unimaginable item for a better similarity to the unimaginable God since two
unimaginable items cannot exist. You can say that two imaginable items
exist because both are imaginable and clearly understood with their distinct
boundaries. Two unimaginable items cannot exist since both are not
understood and hence, cannot be differentiated. Another important point is
that if you find maximum similarity between two items, you should not
mistake that both items are one and the same. The face of somebody may
have maximum similarity with moon in aspects like shape, colour,
pleasantness etc. This does not mean that the moon and the face are one and
the same. Similarly, the soul or awareness has maximum similarity with the
unimaginable God in several aspects. By this, you should not mistake that
the soul and unimaginable God are one and the same.
Let us see the aspects of similarity by which some philosophers are
confused to think that soul is God. The soul is eternal with respect to the
body and its eternality is only relative but not absolute. You cannot bring
another absolute reality as simile for God since God alone is the absolute
reality. There is no other way. Therefore, you should not mistake the soul
as absolute reality. This is clearly stated in the Gita. The Gita says that the
soul has no beginning and is eternal and can never be damaged while the
body can be damaged. This means that the eternality of the soul is with
reference to the mortality of the body. Soul is energy and body is matter.
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With respect to matter, energy is eternal. But, energy is not absolutely

eternal because energy was also created by God (tattejosrujata Veda).
However, you can take the soul as work form of energy because the
awareness is only a specific work form of energy. In such case, everyday,
the soul has beginning and end (Athachainam Gita). The Gita mentioned
this second possibility of the aspect of the soul and never condemned it
since this second aspect of the soul is also not wrong. But if you take the
soul basically as inert energy, it is eternal (Nityaha sarvagatah sthanuh
Gita). The word sthanuh means inert. Thus, both aspects of the soul as per
the outlook of the receiver are mentioned in the Gita. You should remember
that the soul is created item only in any aspect and not the creator. Even
high intellectuals misunderstood Shankara since He is the topmost
genius. Later on, Ramanuja gave the clarification about the concept of
Shankara. Again, some misunderstood Ramanuja and Madhva clarified it. I
am only reminding the essential truth that is lost in the sequential stages
(Yogo nashtah Gita) of the three divine preachers.
The other comparable aspect of soul is creativity. The imaginary
world is created, maintained and dissolved by the soul like the world by
God. Again, there are limitations in this comparison. The soul creates the
imaginary world based on the input gathered from the external world and
therefore, the creativity is not genuine. In the case of God, creativity is
genuine because there was no external world before the creation of the
world. Another limitation is that the imaginary world is only conversion of
a part of the awareness and thus, awareness is reduced by the creation. The
quantity of awareness gets reduced after sometime during the imagination.
But, in the case of God, there is no modification and hence, God is not
reduced after creation. Thus, the process of creation by God is
unimaginable whereas the process of creation of imaginary world by soul is
imaginable.
Whenever an imaginable item generates another imaginable item,
the characteristics of the generator enter the product. No characteristic of
unimaginable God is ever known. Therefore, any simile from the
imaginable items to God utterly fails in this point. Even the awareness is a
known specific work form of inert energy, which is the modification of
inert energy only. Therefore, awareness, the imaginable characteristic,
cannot be the characteristic of unimaginable God. Awareness is not even an
independent item, which is only a dependable property since work is
dependable on the working material. Therefore, awareness is neither God
nor even the characteristic of God.
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Mistakes in the Advaitins Analysis

1) The first mistake is that you apply the analytical conclusions of the
subject of imaginable items to the unimaginable God.
2) The second mistake is that based on the above analysis, you conclude
that the existence of awareness in the world is the entry of cause or its
characteristic into the product. By this, you conclude that awareness is
the cause of the world or at least the characteristic of such cause.
There are several materials and properties existing in the world and
awareness is just one among them. Then, why dont you take other existing
properties also as God and apply the same status of logic? You need not
fear that if God is not awareness, it means God has to be concluded as inert
item. In the items of the world, such conclusion is possible because the
world consists of only awareness and inert items. You must recognize the
existence of unimaginable item, which is beyond these two types of items
of the world. Moreover, by virtue of un-imaginable power, God can know
everything and He need not be awareness to know like the worldly item.
Therefore, you need not fear that if God is not awareness, He cannot know
anything or cannot wish to create the world. If this single point is clearly
understood, the Advaita philosophers will come out of their
misunderstanding of Shankara. Shankara called awareness as God since
God is always associated with a living human being while He comes down.
The Veda and Shankara used the words, jnana and prajnana, which do
not mean mere awareness. Awareness indicates a living being. The word
jnana indicates a human being. Prajnana indicates a specific human
being associated with special knowledge. Of course, prajnana includes
jnana and jnana includes awareness. Jnana means the knowledge in the
imaginable level and Prajnana means the knowledge in the unimaginable
level. The hundred rupees include 10 rupees and 10 rupees include 1 rupee.
Therefore, you should not confine the 100 rupees and 10 rupees to one
rupee only. Moreover, you can call God through the associated item like
calling the bearer of apples by the word apples. Hence, you can call God
by awareness or knowledge or special knowledge. But, such call is confined
to only the context of human incarnation in which God is associated with
the special knowledge. You can call the bearer of apples by the word
apples only when he is carrying on the apples. When he is not associated
with apples, you will not use such usage. Another important point is that
Shankara used this context since His task was to convert atheists into
theists. Atheists never believe God and hence, Shankara attracted them by
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calling them as God so that the existence of God, which means their own
existence, cannot be denied.
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SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE ALONE CHANGES SOCIETY

Grace of God Is the Best and Eternal Fruit
[April 12, 2011 Shri Rama Navami] Festivals have become the
occasional days of enjoying special food items. Holidays are given on these
festivals so that you will allot the time to think about the significance of
these festivals and change yourself to some extent at least. If this aspect is
not served, there is no use of the holiday. Today is Shri Rama Navami, on
which, Lord Rama was born, who was the human incarnation of God. The
next human incarnation was Krishna, which was meant for spiritual path
(Nivrutti). Before that [Lord Krishnas birth], Rama was born to preach the
behavior in the world (Pravrutti). Today, the main problem in the society is
the ambition for money, which results in corruption. Due to this, the wealth
does not reach the poor people. Rich is becoming richer and poor is
becoming poorer. Even the members of any political party governing the
country become corrupt. They are not doing their duties for which they are
elected by the people. Their ambition is only for money, power and fame.
The sincere generations have gone and you can count on fingers the sincere
people in this time. Rama also became the king. Today, we criticize the
monarchy and praise the democracy. If the system is perfect, either
monarchy or democracy is good. Rama was in the system of monarchy but
never was ambitious of wealth or name and fame. Such monarchy is better
than the present democracy.
Rama sacrificed His pregnant wife for the sake of the criticism given
by a single human being in the public. Pregnant lady means wife and
children. Rama sacrificed [His] wife and children for the sake of public. But
today, the rulers in the democracy are looting the public for the sake of
comforts for their wives and children. Even if hundred persons criticize,
they do not mind and give false replies. Unless the mind is changed, the
system will not help in any way. Even the government-officials are highly
corrupt for the sake of comforts of their families. Even the ordinary person,
who is expected to vote for a good person, has become corrupt and votes
by taking money. Therefore, both the government and the public are now
corrupt and there is no use of any system. Only the spiritual knowledge can
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change the present situation. Anybody does some action based on the
strong concept present in his mind. The strong concept in corruption is that
nobody will punish him or her here if the sin is done in undetected way.
Regarding the punishment in hell also, there is no fear because people think
that hell is only imagination. When the kings became highly corrupt and
dictators, Parashurama, the previous human incarnation, punished them here
itself to show that the sin will be punished here itself. All this earth was
donated to sages by Parashurama and since then, the rulers started ruling the
public under the guidance of sages. The council of ministers consisted of
sages. But today, the council of ministers consists of people with
unimaginable corruption. The sages were very simple and did not enjoy any
luxury. But today, the ministers are representatives of luxury. Even if you
dont believe in hell, you have to undergo punishment in the next birth. This
message was given by Rama. He killed Vali hiding behind a tree and the
punishment of such action was met in the next birth. This means that the
punishment is inevitable, whoever so, he or she maybe, since even the Lord
obeyed the rule. You may say that the hell is only imagination since the
rocket has gone up to moon. But, the space is infinite and you have not seen
the limiting boundary of the space to say that hell does not exist anywhere
in the space. Moreover, the departed souls exist in invisible energetic
bodies and therefore, the upper worlds are invisible to your materialistic
eye or any instrument due to very low frequency of the energy of their
bodies that is never embraced by the existing energy spectrum of science.
Rama sacrificed the kingdom to protect the word of His father. But,
you find Aurangazeb killing his father for the sake of kingdom. But, you
should appreciate him, who led a very simple life as king. You should
always take good from others leaving the bad. Rama gave this message and
asked Lakshmana to go to Ravana and learn the public administration from
him. We always see bad in others and mock them. We never appreciate
anybody. We find some defect even in Rama and try to criticize Him also.
Today is an important day for the rulers and officials. If they stop
corruption and serve the poor people, they will be blessed by Lord Rama.
Even the common public should vote for good people rejecting the corrupt
favors and get the blessings from Lord Rama. Otherwise, there is no
meaning in this festival and the holiday is unnecessary. Mahatma Gandhi
always remembered the name of Rama expecting the future rulers and
officials to take the ideals of Rama. Pravrutti is the basic foundation of
Nivrutti. The present human incarnation, Shri Satya Sai Baba, called as Sai
Ram, is totally concentrating on Pravrutti, which is the human value of the
society, like Rama. Corruption is destruction of Pravrutti and the corrupt
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people are cold blooded demons, who will be punished by God severely
here and there. You should not violate the rules of pravrutti. You should not
imitate Lord Krishna and violate the rules. He violated the rule to show that
He is the rule maker and He alone has the power to violate the rules. By
this, He also tested the faith of the devotees in Him. Rama always behaved
like a human being to preach the behavior of the human being and never
even said that He is God. Even though sages praised Him as God, He
refused it by saying that He is an ordinary human being as the son of
Dasharatha. This is a message to all the human beings not to think
themselves as God in spite of such praise from others. This will avoid the
false human incarnations. Rama never preached anything and simply
practiced the rules of God. Krishna declared Himself as God and therefore,
cannot behave like a human being. Even the preaching of Krishna about
Nivrutti is also based on practice or karma yoga only. Practice alone gives
the fruit and the best eternal fruit is the grace of God.
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SCIENCE IS NEUTRAL ABOUT GOD

Science Ends Its Analysis at Space
[April 16, 2011] Science goes up to the space only, which is very
subtle form of energy. Due to bending of space around the boundaries of
object, space cannot be treated as nothing since nothing can bend. The
topmost scientist, Einstein, treats the space as geometrical entity and not
absolutely existing item. He treats space as relatively existing based on the
existence of two materialistic items, since space is the distance between two
materialistic items. If the matter disappears, space also disappears
according to him. If all the matter is converted into energy, you may
imagine the situation as space in which the waves of energy travel. Of
course, according to Einstein, energy also disappears if matter disappears.
In that way, the energy including the space also disappears on the
disappearance of matter. Like that, he is correct in his own way. Energy is
also treated as matter since the fundamental unit of energy is accepted to
have rest mass. Energy and matter become simultaneous forms and are
inter-convertible. While accepting all this, you can also believe that matter
is generated from energy by condensation. You may say that the
fundamental unit of space, which is energy, also has rest mass and thus,
energy and matter are simultaneously created. For the sake of
convenience, you can distinguish matter and energy and you can also
distinguish space from energy and matter and assume the space almost
nothing. All these are various assumptions based on convenience for
analytical studies of the creation. Einstein concludes that matter, energy and
space exist or disappear simultaneously. We also agree to this statement
based on the above scientific analysis. But, we slightly differ in saying that
the space disappears on the disappearance of energy since space itself is
energy. If space is nothing, it should exist even on the disappearance of
matter and energy. When the total energy disappears, space should also
disappear being a part of energy. However, the final conclusion is one and
the same.
Science ends its analysis at the space. The characteristics of space are
the spatial dimensions (length, width and height), the product of which is
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the volume. Ancient Indian logic also says that volume (parimana) is the
characteristic of space. The Veda says that God created energy as well as
space. This contradicts another Vedic statement, which says that God
created space, space created air, air created fire, fire created water and
water created earth etc. The contradiction is that why God is said to be the
creator of space and energy only? If you take the sense of the actual creator
to be God, the Veda should have said God as the creator of every item. In
the sequential steps of creation, the word Agni is used, which is visible
energy. But in the context of God creating the energy, the word Tejas is
used, which is the invisible energy. Since space is invisible energy, the
Veda said God as the creator of space, which is invisible energy. There is
no contradiction since the essence of this apparent contradiction is only to
say that space is a form of invisible energy. X-rays, Gamma rays etc., are
also other forms of invisible energy.
Science keeps silent about God since no analysis is possible in the
case of God, who is beyond the spatial dimensions. Our intelligence cannot
go beyond the spatial dimensions and therefore, can never imagine the
entity, which has no spatial dimensions i.e., volume or area or single
dimension. The difference between science and philosophy is that
philosophy accepts the existence of God, who has no spatial dimensions,
whereas science keeps silent about the existence of God due to absence of
spatial dimensions. However, both science and philosophy are similar in
the inability of imagining God, who does not have the spatial dimensions.
Magic Tricks and Miracles

You may straight away ask that why should you accept the existence
of any item, which does not have spatial dimensions. Science says that the
universe consisting of space, energy and matter is the absolute reality and
has no generator. We dont find fault with the true scientist in keeping
silent about God. But, we oppose the false scientist, who says that God
does not exist. The simple reason is that God is unimaginable due to the
absence of spatial dimensions and consequently due to the failure of
application of any analysis. But, you find the so called miracles, which are
the unimaginable events and science fails to analyze these miracles. But
still, the miracles exist. A true scientist sincerely accepts the existence of
miracles and keeps silent about them. A pseudo-scientist, who has half
knowledge of science is always egoistic and denies the existence of
miracles. Miracles cannot be denied as magic. Miracle may give the same
result as that of magic. But, based on this, you cannot say that miracle is
magic. By magic, you may generate a golden ring by hiding it in the folding
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of hand. Such generation is false because in the real generation, the ring is
prepared from gold. You cannot say that whenever a ring is generated, it is
always done by the false magic only. The false magic cannot disprove the
real generation of the ring. In the real generation, you are only generating
the ring from already generated gold. You are not generating the gold from
energy by way of condensation. In a miracle, the gold is generated from
energy by way of condensation. If the miracle is done by a devotee, the
condensation of gold is from already existing cosmic energy. If the miracle
is performed by God in human form, the energy is created by the will of
God since the already existing cosmic energy was also created by the will
of God. Therefore, in a miracle performed by a devotee by the grace of
God, the law of conservation of energy is followed. This difference
between God and devotee need not be discussed here since both are one and
the same as far as the inability of the human being is concerned.
A human being can neither create energy nor create matter from
the existing energy. Moreover, the instantaneous implementation of the
specific design of the ring is also not possible with the human being. All
these impossibilities make the event unimaginable, which is called as a
miracle. In spite of the impossible unimaginable steps, the basic process of
generation of matter from energy and the generation of ring from the matter
by application of some work form of energy is one and the same and is not
violated even in the miracle. Generation of a product may be done in
several ways and since the product is one and the same, one way of
generation cannot disprove the other way. For example, the same sodium
chloride can be generated by different chemical reactions. You might have
generated it by one specific chemical reaction. It does not mean that the
other ways of reactions used in the generation of sodium chloride cannot
exist. You might have generated some ash by moving the hand with the
help of magic. It does not mean that ash cannot be produced by other real
ways. Your way of generation of ash is false since it is magic. But,
generation of ash by a miracle need not be false because already the
possibility of the alternative real way is existing. Miracle is only an
extension of the real way. The ash is generated by the oxidation of some
matter and this is the real way. In the miracle, the matter is generated from
energy. Therefore, the present real way of generation of ash is only a part of
the entire real process. The entire real process is called as miracle and a
part of the real process is called as the human way of generation of ash.
The miracle establishes the existence of unimaginable entity with the
help of imaginable items. Once the unimaginable entity is practically
established, the saying of the unimaginable entity becomes valid till you
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disprove the unimaginable event. In future, you may disprove it or you

may not disprove it at all. I cannot depend on the first possibility only to
disbelieve the present status of the issue. You might have shown some
petty un-imaginable events as imaginable. That does not mean that you
will show the mega unimaginable event also as imaginable. An ignorant
man thinks that he cannot touch the roof by high jump. He is ignorant of the
fact that anyone can touch the roof by the long practice of high jump. You
may exploit his ignorance and touch the roof by long practice. The ignorant
man thought this as really impossible. Now, he is surprised at this and will
believe that one day or other, you will touch the sky also. He is also
ignorant that the sky can never be touched. But, you cannot fool a wise
man, who knows that the roof can be touched by long practice and the
sky can never be touched by any amount of practice. There was one day,
when the man did not know that a ring can be prepared from gold. In course
of time, the ring was generated from gold. This does not mean that in future
on some day, the man will achieve the power of generating the gold from
energy.
A true scientist is always humble, understands all these aspects and
therefore, keeps silent about God. In no book of science, I have found a
chapter dedicated to denial of existence of God. Science never mentions
God because He is unimaginable. Even Shankara said that the best
expression about God is only silence. Only ignorant and egoistic scientists
with little knowledge of science become atheists, always trying to disprove
the miracles and thereby, try to disprove the existence of unimaginable
God. A true scientist and a true philosopher are one and the same keeping
silent about the unimaginable God and accept the existence of
unimaginable events (miracles) performed by the devotees and human
incarnations. Once you accept the existence of unimaginable God and the
existence of unimaginable events, you have to accept the validity of the
scripture spoken by the unimaginable God. The scripture says that the
unimaginable God created energy in unimaginable way and the entire world
is manifested from the energy in imaginable way.
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NO SUFFERING FOR THE HUMAN INCARNATION

See the Positive Side to Remain Happy
[April 20, 2011] A pseudo-scientist will present irrelevant arguments
like the inability of Shri Satya Sai Baba to cure His own health, who
performed several miracles and cured the illness of several devotees. By
this, he wants to establish that all the miracles performed by Baba were not
genuine. He wants us to realize the truth about His miracles. Actually, he
should realize the truth in the silence of Baba to cure His illness. Baba
wants us to understand that the soul is totally different from body and is not
connected with the issues and bonds of the body. The soul is energy and is
eternal with respect to the body. In the body of Baba, both soul and God are
present. God is absolutely eternal and is also totally disconnected with soul
and body. In the Gita, Krishna says that He is the third entity other than
body and soul (Yesmaat ksharamateetoham). We are unable to
differentiate even soul and body and not to speak of differentiating God
from soul and body. Whether you take Baba as God or soul, the points
related to the body are disconnected to Him. The body is the shirt of the
soul and the soul is the underneath banian for God. The shirt is
disconnected from the banian and the banian is disconnected from the
human being. Here, the human being is the comparison for God. A human
being consists of two items only:
1) The external body, shirt and
2) The internal soul, banian
The human incarnation consist of three components:
1) The external shirt, the body,
2) The internal soul, banian and
3) Innermost God, the human being
In this comparison, the soul is inert energy. Even if you take the soul
as a specific work form of energy, it is inert only. Inert means the item that
is controlled and the Veda says that the soul is controlled by God
(Atmeshwaram). Hence, the body and soul are compared to the two inert
items, shirt and banian. Infact, the awareness of God alone is eternal, which
is generated by His unimaginable power and hence, God is compared to the
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non-inert living human being here. The body and soul are two different
phases of the same component, which are inert matter and inert energy
respectively. By understanding that God is disconnected to matter and
energy, we should understand that the energy is disconnected to matter.
Hence, the soul is not touched by the problems of the body. The Gita
differentiates the soul and body in the beginning so that you will slowly
differentiate God from body and soul. Even in the human incarnation, the
soul is disconnected from the problems of the body as in the case of a
realized human being. Since we identify the soul as body and God as the
human being, which is understood as both soul and body, we
misunderstand the concept. We think that the soul suffers when the body
suffers. We think that God suffers when the body suffers and we assume
that the soul is also suffering since our souls suffer identifying themselves
with our bodies. Neither the soul nor God suffers while the body suffers in
the case of human incarnation. Due to lack of this realization, we mistake
Baba as His body and soul and therefore, we think that He is suffering. If
the shirt is cut by a blade, the underline banian is not cut and not to speak of
the innermost human being. If we understand this, we will realize that
Jesus did not suffer on the cross and Krishna did not suffer while the
bleeding continued on His foot.
We have superimposed the body and the soul with God and talk that
Baba is unable to do anything for Himself. The soldiers also mocked at
Jesus that He was unable to do anything for Himself on the cross. Even the
devotees feel much and their feeling is also based on the ignorance of the
realization. But, in the case of devotees, at least their feeling has a positive
side, which is their love to Baba. This positive side will be appreciated by
God. But, the atheists are not only ignorant but also lack the positive side.
Therefore, the message of Baba is that we should identify ourselves with
the soul and not with the body. We must maintain this realization even at
the time of the death (sthitvasyaamantakaalepi Gita). The Gita says that
the death is a happy occasion, in which the soul leaves the damaged dress
and takes up a new dress. The damaged dress is the old body and the new
dress is the energetic body, which is entered by the soul. Ignorance is the
source of reverse behavior. The atheists always have half knowledge of
science but pose as if they have realized the essence of science. The essence
of any branch of knowledge is the philosophy. Hence, we find the word
philosophy in the highest degree awarded even in science i.e., a doctor of
philosophy. Philosophy is only the deep-most analysis of the subject and
therefore, there is no opposition between science and philosophy.
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You must always differentiate the context of God (Nivrutti) from the
context of human beings (Pravrutti). Krishna punished Kauravas for trying
to uncloth Draupadi. But, the same Krishna did not return the saris of
Gopikas. This appears as a contradiction. The first scene is between two
human beings. One human being is trying to see the naked body of the wife
of the other human being. In the second scene, God is trying to see the
naked body of the human being. In the second scene, the message of God
is that He is already aware of every atom of the creation and is testing
Gopikas whether they realize this in practice. Theory is different from
practice. Only a few Gopikas, who had the realization, lifted their folded
hands.
The atheist has no patience to analyze the concept. He concludes with
half analysis only and tries to project his version as the conclusion. He
always quotes false human incarnations and false devotees only. In that
way, he is doing the divine service since you should be aware of such false
projections also. He should not reject the genuine concepts by showing the
false concepts. Somewhere, copying in the examination may take place and
sometimes even mass copying may go on. By showing this, you should not
reject the sincere attempt of a genuine student in the examination also and
reject the very examination system itself. The student, who passed the
examination through copying, will certainly fail in the interview for a job,
which is a sharper examination. Similarly, you should reject the false
devotees and false incarnations by sharp analysis and catch the genuine
devotees and genuine incarnation to get the benefit. The atheist alarms you
about the side of exploitation, which is more in these days of Kali Yuga.
Therefore, the atheist is also maintained in this world by God. But, the
atheist is unaware of his divine service and is really scolding God and
therefore, is not benefitted after death like Ravana or Shishupala. God uses
the negative approach of atheists in the spiritual path, which is like the
concept of wealth from waste. We should take the positive side of their
negative behavior and should not scold them in return. All this clear
analysis is given only since the question came from the atheist. Therefore,
we should be grateful to him taking the positive side. One will always be
benefitted and feel happy throughout the life if he or she takes only the
positive side of everything.
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GOD ENTERS BOTH SOUL AND BODY OF

INCARNATION
Prajnanam Does Not Mean Mere Awareness
[April 20, 2011] The word Atman means both the soul representing
energy as well as the body representing the matter. The soul or energy
creates the imaginary world, maintains and dissolves it. The soul has full
control on the imaginary world and can do anything. Similarly, God
creates, maintains and destroys this world. God is omnipotent since He can
do anything in this world. All these are good aspects of comparison. But,
there are defective aspects of limitations. The soul is converted into
imaginary world whereas, the unimaginable God is not converted and
hence, the process of creation of this world becomes unimaginable. There is
one total important aspect in which the soul utterly fails. A part of the soul
is converted into imaginary world and therefore, the soul partially becomes
the imaginary world. Due to entry of such soul in the imaginary world, like
mud in pot, you can detect the soul in the imaginary world. There are
certain living beings in the imaginary world. Therefore, the awareness or
knowledge can be detected in the imaginary world, which exists in these
beings.
*People try to say that the entire world is a modification of the
awareness only and hence, the awareness exists everywhere in the world
like the mud in pot. But, awareness is present partially in the living beings
only and there are several inert materials. They support their argument by
saying that the imaginary world, which is the modification of awareness
only, also contains inert items. They say that the inert items in the
imaginary world are also awareness and therefore, the inert materials in this
world are also awareness. This is wrong due to limitation of simile. The
awareness creating the imaginary world is awareness as specific work form
and basically inert energy. Thus, the awareness has two aspects:
1) Specific work form and
2) Basic inert form.
In the imaginary world, both these aspects entered. But, in the actual
world, since both these forms exist, if you say that God is also specific form
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and basic inert form, several complications arise. If God is work form, there
should be a materialized system before the production of God. The nervous
system exists before the production of awareness. In such case, God cannot
be the creator due to pre-existence of matter and inert energy, which are
essential for the production of awareness. Based on this point, people try to
detect God in living beings and therefore, conclude that this awareness is
God. They quote the Veda to support their point. The Veda says that God
created this world and entered it (Tadevaanupraavishat). But, the Veda
also said that God is the special knowledge (Prajnanam), which can be
found only in specific human beings like Krishna, etc. You reduce the
meaning of special knowledge to mere basic awareness and say that God
is in every living being. By this also, you should not conclude that God is
the special knowledge in real sense because even in this context, God is
only associated with the special knowledge and becomes bearer of the
special knowledge to be called as the special knowledge. Leaving this one
occasion of human incarnation, which can be explained only with the help
of unimaginable power of God, the general logic clearly demonstrates that
God can never exist in this world. The reason for this is that the world has
spatial dimensions and God has no spatial dimensions. For this concept,
you can take Atman in the sense of human body as a simile to God
because the human body never enters the imaginary world. Thus, the
second meaning (human body) of the word Atman becomes fruitful in this
context.
God Enters Only the Human Form; Not Inert Items

The word Atman standing for soul (Awareness) as well as the
human body is significant in the human incarnation. When God enters the
human being, the entry is not only into the soul, but also into the human
body. The special knowledge preached by Krishna stands for the soul or
awareness, since any knowledge is only modification of awareness. Due to
unimaginable power of God, this special knowledge becomes unimaginable
knowledge. The unimaginable knowledge does not mean that the
knowledge is unimaginable and cannot be understood. It only means that
the concepts and the presentation of the concept are so wonderful that you
call such knowledge as unimaginable. The human body of Krishna also
becomes unimaginable since it lifted the huge mountain. Thus, the body
and soul are charged by the unimaginable God. God identifies with not
only the soul, but also with the body in human incarnation. Due to
identification with body, God becomes visible and even touchable. Even
the knowledge is heard with the help of the throat, which is a part of the
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body only. Identification of God with matter does not mean that the
statues or photos are also identified with the entry of God. God never
enters the inert statues because the main purpose of preaching the
knowledge cannot be served. If it [preaching of knowledge] is done
through statues, people will be shocked with wonder and they will not
understand the knowledge. They can understand only from a human being
since it is the natural mode. Therefore, God identifies with the inert matter
only when it is associated with awareness. Hence, the human incarnation is
the only possibility.
However, the statues or photos can stand as representative models of
God to develop the devotion. You will understand the concept of spiritual
knowledge in the right sense provided you analyze it from all directions. If
you are unable to analyze, you must read the analysis also from all
directions. The analysis gets magnified as the quality as well as the
number of counter arguments increase. I am ready here to answer any
counter argument provided you have the un-biased capacity of receiving the
truth. You need not fear that the counter argument means that you are
opposing Me. More the counter arguments, more will be the answers. More
the answers, more will be the clarification of the subject. Arjuna posed
several counter arguments and the various answers of the Lord brought the
clarification of the subject in the Gita. In fact, Arjuna helped Krishna to
clarify more and more. Therefore, attacking Me with more arguments is
also a part of the divine service to bring more clarification. Mandana
Mishra was the incarnation of Lord Brahma, who argued with Shankara for
several days. Shankara was the incarnation of Lord Shiva. All his counter
arguments helped Shankara to construct the subject. Mandana Mishra
knows the truth, but argued opposing Shankara only to construct the subject
for the sake of the world. Both Brahman and Shiva are one and the same.
Even Krishna said that He is Arjuna. Arjuna also questioned Krishna in
several ways to get more clarification for the sake of the world.
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KNOWLEDGE MUST BE FOLLOWED

Unimaginable God is Beyond Logic
[April 21, 2011] There is similarity and difference between Shri Rama
and Shri Satya Sai Baba in their programs. The similarity is that both came
down to establish the correct behavior of human beings in the world
(Pravrutti). The difference is that in the time of Shri Rama, there were very
few souls, who were to be punished with death since the transformation was
not possible. Vali and Ravana were such special cases. In the present time,
every human being is like Vali or Ravana to some extent and there is a
possibility of cure by preaching like a patient by medicine. If death
punishment is to be given, all the humanity will disappear. The preaching
succeeds in bringing the total transformation in few cases only. The
preaching is always forgotten since the knowledge is not frequently
memorized. Therefore, constant reading and constant thinking of the
knowledge is essential to bring transformation in practice. People enjoy the
knowledge instantaneously and forget to follow. Due to this, people will
again reach the original status. God will incarnate again and again trying
for transformation through preaching again and again and each time, a few
are definitely transformed. In the end of Kali Yuga, the filtered residue,
which is a great lot of humanity, will be punished with death and this will
be accomplished by the incarnation of God called Kalki. All these souls,
after the killing by Kalki, reach the hell in the energetic bodies and will
be severely treated so that the behavior will change to a great extent.
These will be born again as good souls in the beginning of Kruta Yuga. The
cycle repeats again and again.
Exhibition of miracles is necessary because the establishment of
unimaginable item is possible only through miracles. Everybody is learning
science for the sake of better living. Science keeps silent about the
unimaginable item because science analyses and speaks always about the
imaginable items of the creation. Since the entire creation is made of
imaginable items, the creation is not unimaginable God. Science is
always involved in the analysis of imaginable items only. Therefore,
science deals with creation only and keeps silent about the unimaginable
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creator. There cannot be multiplicity in the creator or the tools of creation.

You are applying the logic of imaginable items to the unimaginable God
and speak God, His power, the materials and tools for creation, etc. The
logic of imaginable items can never apply in the unimaginable God. All
the unimaginable items form only one unimaginable item since you
cannot differentiate the boundaries of any two unimaginable items. It is
always reasonable and meaningful to conclude God, His power, tools and
materials as one entity only and call the single resulting unimaginable entity
as God only. Even the process of creation is unimaginable and cannot be
separated from God. The only imaginable item is this universe, which is the
product of the process of unimaginable creation.
The silence of science about the unimaginable God is mis-understood
as the negation. Similarly, the silence of Buddha about the unimaginable
God was mistaken as negation of God. By this, both Buddha and science
were treated as the sources of atheism. Silence does not mean negation of
unimaginable entity. Even the authority of theism, the Veda, says that the
best expression of God is silence. Even Shankara clearly stated that the
absolute God (Parabrahman) is always expressed by silence. Shankara
debated with the followers of Buddha only on this point and proved that
silence is not the indication of negation of God. Silence is only the
acceptance of existence of unimaginable God. You must say that the
unimaginable God exists. You are authorized only up to this single point.
The Veda says that only the existence of God is acceptable and explicable
(Astityeva). Regarding the further information of God, silence is to be
adopted. The acceptance of existence of unimaginable God is based on the
exhibition of unimaginable events called as miracles. The multiplicity in the
unimaginable events is not the multiplicity in the unimaginable item. There
is only one unimaginable item called as God. He is establishing the
existence of the unimaginable item on several occasions using several
imaginable materials. Therefore, the multiplicity is only in the occasions
and in the imaginable materials and it is not in the final conclusion,
which is the existence of single unimaginable item. Already, we have
established that there cannot be multiplicity in the unimaginable item.
Miracles Have Serious Negative Consequences

Therefore, exhibition of miracles is essential for the establishment of
unimaginable God. All the human incarnations exhibit these miracles in
massive scale or according to requirement of the approaching devotees. The
doctor performs his treatment in two ways. The first way is to treat the
patients approaching him. The second way is to treat the patients by
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approaching them through a medical camp. Similarly, in general, the human

incarnations adopt the first way by performing miracles in the case of
approaching devotees according to the need. Some of the miracles of Shri
Satya Sai Baba belong to the second type to be exhibited to everyone in
large scale on a stage. Generally, there is a severe control on the
performance of miracles because these miracles have a serious negative
angle. That is, these miracles encourage the selfishness of the people.
They always try to apply these miracles to the solutions of their personal
problems. The problems come according to the fruits of sins. If the miracles
start solving the problems, the very basic system of deeds and fruits
established by God Himself gets disturbed. Moreover, the miracles increase
the selfishness and in fact, people accept the existence of God through
miracles not for the sake of negating atheism but the acceptance is adopted
so that the unimaginable God will solve their problems through His
unimaginable power. The devotees may not accept this remark, but, this is
true and the devotees are unaware of the underlying unconscious hidden
truth. But, at the same time, if the miracles are not exhibited at all, the very
basic concept of unimaginable entity is not established. The miracles are
like the chocolates for a boy to go to school. Initially some chocolates are
given for some days. The chocolates may be given till the boy gets interest
in the education. But, the problem is that the boy goes to the school and
exhibits lot of interest in the education as long as chocolates are given to
him. The moment you stop the chocolates, the boy stops going to the
school! Hence, the conclusion is that the boy is never interested in the
education except the chocolates. Therefore, the miracles are always
performed by God in human form in balanced way. If God thinks that the
miracle will not have any negative effect on the devotee, God never minds
to perform it because by performing the miracles, there will not be loss of
any trace of His endless power.
The miracles performed by Baba were of two types. The first type of
miracles relates to the exhibition of miracles on the stage. Such miracles are
impersonal and therefore, have no negative effect. But, such miracles are
criticized as magic with a hidden pre-arrangement. Therefore, the second
type of miracles was also performed, which is personal in the case of the
deserving devotees. By such miracles, the devotees became stronger and
stronger in their devotion. But, in the case of many devotees, the
unfortunate angle is that the devotion became stronger and stronger so that
they will become more and more close to Baba to get more and more
solutions in their problems!
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Misunderstood Science Encouraged Atheism and Egotism

Generally, God is reluctant to perform the miracles due to their
negative effect. Still, God performed several miracles through Baba. The
reason is that the science developed so much and the mis-understood side
of science resulted in the development of atheism and egoism. This is due
to the half knowledge of science. People should understand that science
keeps silent about God like the spiritual scriptures. Even the spiritual
scriptures say that God is unimaginable and hence, silence is the best
expression of explanation of the nature and form of God. Science also never
negates the existence of God. A true scientist, who has gone to the level of
philosophy in science, clearly realizes this. But, silence does not mean the
acceptance of existence of God. Silence can also mean the non-existence of
God. Therefore, you should accept the existence of God and then keep
silent about the explanation of the nature or form of God. Silence is not on
the total aspect of God. Silence is only limited to the partial aspect of
explanation of the nature of God. If somebody asks you, Is there God?,
you should strongly say, Yes. God exists. If there is a further question
asking for the explanation of form of nature of God, you should say, I do
not know because God is unimaginable. Your second answer indicates that
you are silent about the explanation of existing God. Therefore, silence
should be indicated through your reply and this does not mean you should
keep silent about the enquiry. Every enquiry should be answered. Silence
should be indicated through your answer and you should never keep silent
for any enquiry. Therefore, the misunderstood half knowledge of science
made the people to become egoistic and deny even the existence of God.
Hence, the need of the hour is extensive exhibition of miracles, which alone
can establish the existence of unimaginable God because they are
unimaginable. This is only the relevant response of God to the situation and
not egoistic projection of the miraculous power as done by the devils.
In fact, God never wants to project Himself in the world. He always
wants to hide Himself since the real enjoyment of good and bad can be
achieved only if He is hidden. If God is identified, everybody will respect
Him and thus, the enjoyment of respect only is achieved. If He is hidden, at
least some egoistic people will insult Him and the entertainment in
insulting can be enjoyed. If He is recognized, the egoism of the devotee
does not come out and later on, when the same devotee identifies God, God
has no chance of pointing out his egoism. When the egoism is pointed out,
there will be chance for preaching. For this purpose only, God misleads the
devotees even if He is identified. In spite of all this truth, Baba performed
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the miracles extensively as the emergent need of the hour. As a result of the
exhibited miracles, the human incarnation is easily identified as God based
on the general standard of the public. Generally, public detects God
through miracles only. The miracles establish the existence of God but do
not mean that the performer of miracles is always God since even devils
perform miracles. However, even the miracles performed by devils also
establish the existence of God. Based on this positive side of the miracles,
God gives miraculous powers even to devils. However, based on the
general standard of the public, the performer of the miracles is identified as
God. If the performer is a demon, he will say that he alone is God, which is
not truth. But, in the case of human incarnation whether He says or not, it is
truth. Whether it is truth or not, people will not like this declaration that a
human being is God. People get interested in anything, only if they can
achieve it. People never like that somebody alone is God and that they
should serve Him like bonded slaves forever. They do not mind to become
bonded slaves if they have a ray of hope that some way or other, they will
become God. In fact, everybody has the golden opportunity to become God
but strict condition is that they should not have even an iota of hope that
they will become God on some day or other. Hanuman never had even an
iota of such hope to become God. Even though He is informed that He will
become God, He always aspired to be a slave to God only. Therefore, He
became God. Due to this complication only, nobody is becoming God. But,
there are a few exceptional cases, who become God.
Generally, when people identify somebody as God, they serve Him
like slaves to solve their problems and to get some fruits. After sometime,
when most of their problems are solved, the jealousy, which was already
hidden in them due to needs, starts budding up. Even an iota of jealousy or
selfishness based on ego will spoil the spiritual effort. Therefore, till the
maturity is reached, it is better to retain hope of becoming God. Such trick
is Advaita philosophy, which says that you are already God and that you
will really become God provided you attain the perfect knowledge. This
will encourage the people to acquire the spiritual knowledge, which is the
first step. Without knowledge, practice is impossible. This step will attract
even the most egoistic atheists. This trick was developed by Shankara for
the first time. Baba followed the same trick like most of the human
incarnations. The trick was disclosed by Shankara on one occasion when
He swallowed the molten lead and declared that He alone was the Lord.
Similarly, Baba disclosed this trick in one of His speeches like this: Dont
think that you are God and behave as you like. Such disclosure is
necessary when the negative side becomes extensive.
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BABA PROVES THE UNIMAGINABILITY OF GOD

[April 23, 2011] Buddha kept silent about God indicating that God is
unimaginable. When somebody asked Buddha to give explanation about
God, Buddha said that He is silent on the explanation since God is
unimaginable. In course of time, His statement lost its parts and final
residue is that Buddha is silent on God. Further, the interpretation of the
silence was taken as the atheism. Buddha Himself was the incarnation of
God. How can He deny Himself? Due to fear of such misinterpretation,
Baba clearly stated that God is unimaginable since Baba said that nobody
can understand Him.
Baba caught one hair of His head with His hand and asked His critics
to cut it. The critics failed in cutting the hair even with the help of big
instruments. Then Baba told them that even His hair cannot be understood
and not to speak of His nature. The unimaginable power of God entered
into the hair and made it unimaginable. By this statement, you should not
differentiate God and His power. Such statements are made for the sake of
convenience of understanding only because we are well versed in the logic
of imaginable items in which there is a distinction between the source and
the power. Similarly, when we say that God granted the miraculous
powers to demons, it does not mean that the power and God are different.
The unimaginable power and unimaginable God are not two different items
since there cannot be two unimaginable items. Again, this does not mean
that God is existing in the human form, who is the unimaginable power
Himself. This contradiction can be solved by the proposal that God Himself
is doing the miracles while staying outside the demon since God is beyond
space. Hence, God exists in human incarnation only in this world of
humanity. Coming back to the point, Baba demonstrated by this miracle
that God is unimaginable. It means that you have to be silent regarding the
nature and form of God. Thus, Baba removed the misunderstanding on
Buddha since Baba and Buddha are one and the same.
Like Jesus, the statements of Baba are very sharp and straight. The
similarity on both is in the quality of knowledge and excellent similes to
clarify the point. Several miracles also have similarity. Jesus materialized
the bread on one occasion. Baba materialized several food items on several
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occasions. The number of miracles performed by Baba was more because

of the development of science. Like Jesus, Baba raised a dead body. Like in
the case of Jesus, Baba is also mocked by a few people that why He could
not save Himself in the present dangerous situation of His serious illness.
Similarities Among Different Incarnations

Like Krishna, Baba also performed several miracles in the childhood
itself. Krishna was served by Yashoda with motherly affection in the
childhood. Similarly, a devotee called Subbamma served Baba in the
childhood. Krishna preached the spiritual knowledge, which is called as the
Gita. Baba also preached spiritual knowledge extensively every day. In the
preaching of both [Krishna and Baba], pravrutti and nivrutti are extensively
covered. Krishna showed the miracle of cosmic vision during preaching.
Similarly, Baba also performed miracles during preaching to explain the
point more emphatically. Shishupala scolded Krishna but Krishna kept
silent. Similarly, a few people scolded Baba and Baba kept silent. Krishna
showed really some negative side to test the faith of devotees, who were
sages born as Gopikas. Baba never showed such negative side. But, due to
jealousy and egoism, some people attributed the negative side on the
character of Baba. Both Krishna and Baba kept silent about the criticisms of
these negative sides. In the case of Baba, even though such negative side is
absent, yet the attributed negative side served as a testing tool for the faith
of the devotees. Like Rama, Krishna also killed the devils through personal
fights and also through the great war of Mahabharata. The reason was that
some were totally good and some were totally bad. In the present time,
everyone is partially good and partially bad. Therefore, removal of bad
people to protect the good people is not possible. If killing is to be done, all
humanity will be erased and this is going to be done in the end of this Kali
Yuga. Before that, God is making efforts to transform all the humanity
through preaching of spiritual knowledge. Baba did this extensively to
such extent that He lost His voice in the old age.
Like Mohammed, Krishna adopted the war to protect justice as told
already. Baba adopted the preaching since every human being is partially
bad. The serious problem in the time of Mohammed was multiplicity of
God by which the humanity was split to the extent of fights and killings.
Mohammed tried to preach the unity of God. But, the people did not listen
since they were adopted to fights only. The dog will understand anything
in its own language only. Hence, Mohammed resorted to wars to bring the
unification of religions by the concept of single God and He succeeded in
His effort. He preached that God has no form since God in different
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forms was the cause for the religious split. God only takes a form and this
does not mean God is the form. If you take a pencil in your hand, you are
not the pencil. You have the pencil. Similarly, when God takes the form,
God is not the form and you should say that God has the form. God is
unimaginable and cannot be any imaginable item. Every imaginable item
has form. When God takes form, you should not say that God has become
the form. Therefore, when the unimaginable God takes and imaginable
item as His medium, you should not say that God is transformed into
imaginable item. If God is really transformed into imaginable item, there
will be multiplicity of God leading to fights. By taking pencil, if you have
become really the pencil, and after sometime, you take a pen by which you
have become the pen. The war starts between the two persons since
somebody says that you are the pencil and the other person says that you
are the pen. Krishna clearly stated this in the Gita. The Gita says that
ignorant people misunderstand God that the unimaginable God is really
transformed into imaginable form since they do not know that God is
actually unimaginable (Avyaktam Vyaktimaapannam). In the case of God,
the word formless indicates that He is unimaginable. Actually, the
imaginable items of creation are form-full and formless. Sky is formless
and Earth is formfull. In the first step, you have to climb from formfull to
formless and in the second step, you have to climb from formless to
unimaginable. For the people who think that God is formfull, if you say
that God is unimaginable, it will be a double jump, which will be very
difficult. Both formless and unimaginable are unseen. When people think
God is seen like light, etc. you can say that God is the unseen, formless
cosmic energy that pervades all over the cosmos. By this, you have
established God at least as unseen. In the second step, you can say that God
is not even the cosmic energy since it is imaginable and say that God is
unimaginable. In fact, cosmic energy also has form, which is in the form of
waves or quanta and can be seen through powerful microscope. Since the
microscope was not discovered in that time, God was said to be cosmic
energy, which was unseen and formless. Cosmic energy also has form of
waves or quanta. It is a simile that was used when the microscope was
absent. Hence, God was said to be all pervading formless entity. But today,
science has developed so much that you cannot define God as unseen and
formless pervading all over the cosmos. All these similes have to be
dropped because every simile is detected by science and God is left over,
who is beyond detection. Therefore, the time has come to say that God is
un-detectable. Krishna clearly stated that nobody knows God, which means
God is unimaginable (Maamtuveda na kashchana). The words used by
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the human incarnations have their significance in the context of those times.
Therefore, if Mohammed said that God was formless and all pervading.
You should understand that His intention was only to divert from the
concept that God is some visible form and limited. Baba also tried His level
best to unify all the religions of the world and was never confined to any
specific religion. Baba treated all the religions of the world with equality
and He has the devotees in all the religions.
Coming to Mahavir, who is also another human incarnation, He
stressed on the need of non-violence to the extent of not harming even an
ant. The goal set up by Him was extreme. If the goal set up is very high,
people can practice to some extent. If you say that the pass mark is 100,
students will get at least 40. If you set up the goal at 40, students will get 5
or 10 only. Based on this psychology, Mahavir has set up the goal of nonviolence at the extreme end. Baba always preached non-violence and
opposed beating the bulls of the carts even in His childhood. Baba opposed
even the killing of the tiger. Baba asked the hunter to think about the
motherless children of the tiger. Mahavir opposed even the killing of
harmful insects. In this aspect, you will find a tremendous similarity
between Mahavir and Baba.
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SAME UNIMAGINABLE GOD IN ALL INCARNATIONS

Different Programs of Incarnations
[April 28, 2011] Baba has several similarities with Shri Shirdi Sai
Baba. Baba is said to be the re-incarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba. When there
are other human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, etc., why Baba is said to
be the re-incarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba only? Does it mean that Baba is not
the re-incarnation of Rama, Krishna, etc? The answer for this is that the
same unimaginable God exists in every human incarnation and thus, all
human incarnations are one and the same basically. But, the programs
taken up by the human incarnations may be different superficially. The
basis of every program is also the same transformation of humanity or
punishment of a few devils to establish balance in the world. For example,
if you take the four incarnations i.e., Varah, Narasimha, Rama and Krishna,
all these four incarnations are related to a single program, which is the
punishment of the two cursed gate keepers born as demons. Similarly,
Shirdi Sai Baba was involved in the program of unification of the two
religions, Hinduism and Islam. He looked like an Islamic saint (Fakir). In
continuation of the same program, Baba is involved in the unification of
Hinduism and Christianity. Baba looks like a Christian father. Thus, it is
continuation of the same program and hence, Baba is said to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba. The future incarnation is Prema Sai Baba,
who will complete the unification of Hinduism with all other religions and
complete the program.
In fact, one day Baba appeared before Me and told Me to do the
propagation of spiritual knowledge. I told Him that I do not deserve to take
up such divine program. Then, Baba told Me that who else can be deserving
other than Me to propagate this spiritual knowledge? I feared that Baba is
testing Me regarding My resistance to ego. Generally, Datta tests like this
by misleading the devotee. This itself is a clear proof that Baba is the
incarnation of Datta. I simply obeyed His orders without further debate. In
course of time, I found that the spiritual knowledge radiating from Me is
unique and unimaginable. Then I realized that Baba Himself is speaking
this knowledge through Me. In fact, some concepts were tremendous and
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were not covered by Baba in His discourses. The reason is that Baba
wanted to give fame to Me, His servant, and hence, reserved those
concepts. If I do not reveal this truth, it means that I am subjected to ego.
Again, this is another test of Datta. The test of Datta is very very subtle and
you will be easily caught by the clutches of ego and jealousy. Even angels
failed in the tests of Datta. Even Hanuman was tested by Rama on several
occasions and the test was so subtle that so far nobody could detect them
unless God revealed them through Me.
I feel always that I am the most undeserving devotee of God. But the
fun is that some most deserving devotees became My disciples! Most of
them call Me as the human incarnation of God due to this excellent spiritual
knowledge. It is true that God is identified by the excellent spiritual
knowledge only (Prajnanam Brahma) since the miracles are also
demonstrated by devils. I have to accept this new status of human
incarnation based on the Vedic authority. But, at the same time, the soul
component in Me should be very careful to resist ego. The praise of
devotees is only the trial of Datta to subject Me to ego. When the soul
component in Parashurama became egoistic, He was punished. But,
Hanuman, another human incarnation, was never subjected to ego in any
test. Rama and Hanuman were master and servant. But, both were human
incarnations. With respect to the soul components, Rama is the master and
Hanuman is the servant. But, with respect to the component of
unimaginable God present in both, both are one and same. There is a verse
which states that Hanuman told Rama like this, I am your servant from
the point of materialistic medium. I am your part from the point of
energetic medium. Myself and Yourself are one and the same from the
point of the unimaginable God existing in both of us. Matter and energy
constitute the medium, which is the creation. The unimaginable God is the
creator.
Devils perform miracles but cannot preach the spiritual knowledge.
The miracles performed by them will be used by them for their selfish ends
only. The human incarnation also performs miracles according to need only
for the sake of welfare of devotees or for the sake of establishment of the
concepts of spiritual knowledge. Apart from the miracles, the incarnations
preach mainly the spiritual knowledge. The miracles performed by Baba
were always for the sake of the devotees and sometimes, during His
speeches, the miracles were performed to establish the concepts. Baba
always told that everybody is God and this statement always neutralized the
egoism and jealousy in the hearts of devotees. On one occasion, a devotee
asked Baba, How can You say that You are the God? Baba replied, You
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did not hear Me properly. I say that both of us are God. The difference is
that I know this and you do not know this. The devotee kept silent. In the
case of some devotees, the egoism and jealousy are suppressed because
they are in need of the help of Baba for their materialistic welfare. In the
case of some few devotees, the egoism and jealousy are unconsciously
hidden, which will come out on proper occasion. There is no human being
without egoism and jealousy just like there is no building without building
materials.
Incarnation: A Two Component System

The human incarnation is composed of two components, which are
God and soul. The statements of God component should not be mixed with
the statements of the soul component. The soul component in Shirdi Sai
Baba always told that God alone is the master (Allah Malik). The God
component in Him told on few occasions that He is the creator. The soul
component in Krishna always spoke in humble way throughout His life
except the occasion of preaching the Gita in which the God component
emphatically declared that He is God. In the case of Rama, the God
component always kept silent since the program was to behave like an ideal
human being. In the case of Jesus, the soul component stated, Oh God!
Why did you leave Me? etc. The God component told that He is the truth
and light. In the case of Mohammad, the God component kept silent since
just before Him, the crucifixion of Jesus took place due to superimposition
of the statements of God on soul. In the case of Buddha, the God
component kept silent to indicate that the absolute God is unimaginable. In
the case of Shankara, the God component always spoke that He is God and
occasionally the human component spoke itself as a devoted soul, while
composing the prayers to be recited by the human beings. In the case of
Hanuman, the God component always kept silent since the program was
to exhibit the service of an ideal devotee to the contemporary human
incarnation without selfishness, egoism and jealousy. In the case of
Parashurama, the soul component misunderstood that it is God and became
proud for which he was insulted and punished before the public itself.
Therefore, the soul component in the human incarnation should be very
careful in not superimposing God on itself. The soul component may speak
as soul or not, based on the divine program. But, it should be always
internally careful to resist the ego. The ego-serpent moves in curved modes
and somehow tries to enter the soul. Baba never showed egoism except the
self-confidence in His speeches. In the case of a human being, the soul
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should be separated from body. But, in the case of human incarnation, the
soul should be separated not only from the body but also from the God.
Revealing the Difficult Path Bit-By-Bit

Nobody should be decided as God based on the mere miracles. Even
though miracles establish the existence of God, God can do miracles
through anybody. But, mere miracles do not establish the existence of God
in anybody, even though any miracle is done by God only. While preaching
knowledge, God enters the medium and hence, knowledge is the only
identification mark of God. This aspect is stated by the Veda. But, the Veda
says that the knowledge should be excellent to the unimaginable level
(Prajnanam). The Veda also says that the knowledge should be true
(Satyam jnanam). Generally, truth is associated with harshness. Truth
alone helps the human being to reach the correct goal. The path to reach
God is full of thorns and the path to reach hell is full of flowers. If truth is
hidden and the flowery path is shown, the aspirant will go to hell and not to
God. Everybody likes to reach God, but, everybody likes to travel in the
flowery path only. In such case, you may show the thorny path partially
and encourage the aspirant by bringing the goal forward even though the
goal is fixed in its actual place only. Due to the short distance, the aspirant
will be encouraged and moves forward. You can repeat the trick again and
again till the aspirant reaches the goal. For example, Benaras was a holy
centre of knowledge in India filled with several scholars. If you go to
Benaras and attain the knowledge from the scholars, you will get
realization. Such realization will prevent you doing sins again and by this,
your past sins are also excused. In this way, all your sins are destroyed. To
encourage the aspirant to go to Benaras in the initial stage, it is said that if
you take bath in Ganges at Benaras, all your sins are destroyed. Here, the
goal is brought forward. When the aspirant reaches Benaras and takes bath
in Ganges, you should say that if one visits the temple of Vishweshwara, all
the sins are burnt. By this, he is encouraged to visit the temple, where he
meets the scholars and slowly gets their association to receive the spiritual
knowledge. Then it is said if one stays in Benaras forever, he is liberated
from all the sins. The permanent stay in association with scholars will
certainly transform him and really the goal is achieved. This is showing the
thorny path in bits by bringing forward the goal each time, which is not
the truth. However, in this method, hiding the truth is not wrong, since you
are leading the aspirant in the correct path only. If you show the flowery
path and say that it leads to God, it is wrong. But, some preachers adopt this
wrong method because the aspirant is very much encouraged by the flowery
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path and may donate the preacher heavily in excitation. Such preachers are
many in the present time.
Baba Set Pravritti As the Goal

When the programs are different, the nature and behavior of the
human incarnation also differs as per the requirement of the specific
program. The program of Rama was to preach the human behavior in the
society and hence, acted like an ideal human being following the rules of
justice, established by Himself i.e., God. Rama preached Pravrutti through
practice only. Krishna came to show Nivrutti and exhibited the potencies of
God. He violated the rules of justice to show that He is the rule maker and
that the rule maker alone can violate rules. By this, Krishna also tested the
faith of His devotees in Nivrutti. The programs were so different that even
Hanuman failed to identify Krishna as Rama. In the case of Shirdi Sai
Baba and [Satya Sai] Baba, the program is one and the same except
slight difference in the dress. It is a big surprise to see some devotees of
Shirdi Sai Baba do not have faith in [Satya Sai] Baba. God comes down in
different situations and hence, His behavior also differs slightly or more as
per the need of the time and followers. The taste and the mental set-ups
differ from one human being to the other. Even though the chemical
composition is one and the same, somebody likes one vegetable and does
not like the other. Liking towards a specific vegetable is not wrong, but,
disliking the other vegetable to the extent of criticizing and scolding hurts
others. Similarly, you may like one human form of God and it is not wrong.
But, if you dislike other human form of God and criticize it, the religious
disputes start, which will disturb the balance of the society (Pravrutti). For
God, both Pravrutti and Nivrutti are important, which are like the stage and
the drama enacted on it respectively. Where is the drama if the stage is
broken? Pravrutti is the basis of Nivrutti. You have to follow Rama to
please Krishna. Rama is the path and Krishna is the goal. Therefore, God
comes down mainly to establish Pravrutti only and Nivrutti is an associated
activity. Pravrutti is related to the main lot of the humanity. Nivrutti
relates only to a few top-most devotees. If you observe the efforts of Baba,
most of them are concentrated on Pravrutti only. He always tried to
establish justice and hence, is called as Sai Ram. I did not hear anybody
speaking Sai Shyam. Through the demonstration of miracles, He always
attacked the negative effects of science, which are the fundamentals of
atheism and became tremendously strong these days. Through speeches,
Baba tried to establish the human values and morals, which are the pillars
of Pravrutti. To establish Pravrutti, He went to the extent of saying that
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Pravrutti itself is Nivrutti. As far as Nivrutti is concerned, Baba gave the

directions individually to some devotees. In fact, every human incarnation
comes for the establishment of Pravrutti only, which is purely concerned
with humanity only. Nivrutti is related to both God and humanity.
The love between human beings is Pravrutti. The love of human being
to God is Nivrutti. God never encourages Nivrutti because nobody
encourages others to love him or her. It is an aspect related to others only.
In fact, God discourages Nivrutti and sometimes even opposes to know the
strength of your love to Him. Nivrutti is always taught by Him on your
request only. His expectation is Pravrutti only and if you follow Pravrutti,
even some gifts like heavenly pleasures are given by Him. If you follow
Nivrutti, He creates several problems to discourage you so that your force
in Nivrutti is evaluated. Nivrutti is certainly higher and in fact, is the
highest of all. But, when people fail in Pravrutti itself, how Nivrutti can be
thought of? When you are looting the public without any consideration
for the poor, can we expect you to sacrifice for the sake of God? Even if
you sacrifice, it is only to trap God and loot Him for higher profit. If you
have some attitude of some sacrifice towards your co-human beings,
certainly you will have at least the same extent of sacrifice to a specific cohuman being in which God exists. Therefore, Pravrutti is the basis of
Nivrutti. You do not sacrifice anything for the deserving co-human being
because you may not get anything in return. Such a fellow you are and can
we imagine yourself to sacrifice to God without expecting anything in
return? Therefore, Baba introduced the concept of service to humanity
without expecting anything in return. Unless you are trained in Pravrutti to
do service without expecting anything in return, you cannot succeed in
Nivrutti to have the same attitude. Baba did such great service to
humanity, which shall be an eye-opener to the rulers of government.
They should examine themselves about the goal of their service, which has
whether selfishness or sacrifice for the humanity. They can cheat the public
but not the omniscient God and certainly will receive the punishment for
looting and the subsequent cheating. If this single point is learnt from Baba
by the present rulers and officials of government, God need not incarnate
for Pravrutti. You are saving crores and crores in Swiss bank, while the
beggars are dying with hunger and you cannot dream Nivrutti. When you
fail in the examination with zero marks, how can you expect the gold
medal? The expectations of the preaching of Baba are mainly towards the
rulers and officials of the government, who should observe the way of
service of Baba to humanity. Baba stressed on every human being to
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change the attitudes and the best title for Baba would be THE KING OF
KINGS.
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ANSWERING THE CONTROVERSIES AROUND THE

PASSING AWAY OF SAI BABA
Similarity Between Jesus and Baba
[April 30, 2011] There are a few controversies, which appeared
recently regarding the death of the body of Baba.
1) The controversy is that Baba told that He will live up to 96 years, but
the death is preponed by about ten years.
An astrologer told that Baba lived up to 96 years according to the
theory of the cycle of 27 stars. So much strain is not necessary in this issue.
God has full freedom to postpone or prepone the lifetime of any human
being including the human incarnation. It is not like the one hour bell for a
teacher in the classroom. The case of the divine preacher is different.
Generally, we find the teacher spending leisurely the rest of the period if
the topic is over since he cannot quit the class before time. He is bound by
the rules of the institution. But, if the principal enters and speaks for
sometime, there is no binding on the time. Whenever the principal finishes
his speech, he can quit at anytime and the concerned teacher follows the
rest of the period. The human incarnation is the head of the creation. In fact,
the life period of any human being can be preponed or postponed by God.
If the human being is found to be useful, its life is extended. If the human
being is found useless, its life is shortened and is thrown into the lives of
birds and animals, which live only to eat and sleep. The extension and
shortening of life period is mentioned in the ethical scripture also. It says
that if you sleep after sunrise, your life is shortened. It also says that your
life is extended if you serve the elders. Therefore, the life period is not a
fixed item. Baba might have preponed the exit since He found that the
humanity will not change really and might have been vexed with the
changeless behavior of the human beings.
2) Another issue is that why He saluted the devotees with folded hands
on the last occasion.
You can find a similar situation in the case of Jesus also. Jesus
washed the feet of His disciples on the last occasion of His departure. Jesus
explained the reason of His such act. Jesus wanted that the disciples should
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never become egoistic and should treat their disciples with respect always.
The devotees are human beings and their devotees are also human beings.
One human being should respect the other human being. The case of Baba
is different. Baba is God and the devotees are human beings. Baba need not
respect His devotees. But, later on, some of His disciples may have again
disciples and they may imitate Baba thinking themselves also as human
incarnations. All these points stand as the basis for such acts of Jesus and
Baba. Baba is giving the message that you should express gratefulness to
anybody irrespective of the status. Baba is also giving the message that you
should remain as devotee only with folded hands before God. You should
never claim that you are the human incarnation with a blessing hand
always, falling in the trap of the praise of your disciples.
3) Another issue is that Baba told that He will rise after three days from
death of His body.
Even in the case of Jesus, such a statement was made and this shows
the similarity between Baba and Jesus. Shirdi Sai Baba also rose after three
days after death. This miracle is not necessary in the case of Baba, who
arose a dead person, which shows that Baba is the controller of the life.
When Baba can rise other dead persons, cant He rise Himself? Both the
miracles establish the same concept. The point is that whether Baba can do
it or not. If it is established by one type of miracle that Baba can do it,
another type of miracle establishing the same concept need not be done
again. For a wise person, one miracle, which is an unimaginable event, is
sufficient to understand that the unimaginable God exists in that body.
Rama has not done any miracle except one i.e., converting the stone into a
woman by the touch of His foot. Is this one miracle not sufficient to
establish that Rama is God? All the sages understood Rama as God because
they are learned scholars. Rama performed this miracle in presence of the
sage Vishwamitra and Vishwamitra propagated this miracle to other sages.
Krishna performed many miracles. But there were many enemies for
Krishna. Kauravas saw the top-most miracle, which was the cosmic vision,
but still did not believe Krishna as God thinking that it is illusion of eye.
For a human being, with the faculty of intelligence working,
demonstration of one unimaginable event is sufficient. For human
beings, burning with ego and jealousy, even if thousand miracles are
demonstrated, all will be treated as magic or illusion of the eye.
4) Some people say that Baba was harmed by some of His followers.
Is this possible? Can a human being harm God? Assuming that
somebody harmed Baba, it must be the will of Baba only. Jesus was
crucified by some people and it was done by the will of God only. If there
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is any sin in the followers, God will take care of it by giving punishment
in the appropriate time. Why should you worry about it? You follow all the
messages of Baba and try to practice so that God will be pleased with you
and you will be protected by the grace of Baba. You are wasting your
valuable time and energy in unnecessary things neglecting the essential
aspects related to your future welfare. Jesus, while carrying on the cross
told the weeping people that they should weep about themselves and their
children. The reason is that after the momentary pain of crucifixion, Jesus
will sit on the lap of God whereas the people will go to the permanent hell
after this short happy life. You try to stand on the principles preached by
Baba and you neither worry about Baba nor about others. Whether others
follow or not, you follow the principles preached by Baba. Everybody
thinks that he or she need not follow these principles since others are not
following. The entire society thinks like that only. The king asked for the
donation of one tumbler of milk from each house. Everybody thought that
one can pour one tumbler of water, which will be mixed in the milk poured
by others. Finally, the whole drum was full of water only! Everybody
should follow the principles preached by Baba not caring for others
[following]. If you are interested in their welfare, you preach them also
after personal follow-up. If there is no change, even the entire mass will be
punished, which is going to be the future action of Kalki. Dont think that
since it is an issue of the mass, there will be excuse.
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TWISTED NIVRUTTI FOR PERFECTION IN PRAVRITTI

Solution to Present Day Problems
[April 30, 2011] Most of the human incarnations concentrated on
Pravrutti only because if Pravrutti is perfect, Nivrutti can be easily
achieved. Even Shankara constituted all the Nivrutti for the sake of
rectification of Pravrutti only. Baba mainly admired Shankara because the
philosophy of Shankara appears to be pure Nivrutti but its result is
rectification of Pravrutti only. According to Him, you are God, who is the
absolute truth and this world is only your imagination. This statement
makes you to stop all your spiritual efforts to become God since already
you are God and the only effort is that you have to just remember that you
are God. Since this world is only a relative reality with respect to yourself,
the God, you need not strain much to achieve more than the minimum
requirement in this world. If you earn the minimum required livelihood, it
is sufficient. You need not loot the public because this entire world is only
imaginary. You need not spend much time in over-earning by doing sins for
the sake of worldly pleasures because this world is just a dream. You have
to constantly think that you are God so that you will become God since it is
matter of only recognizing yourself [of] what you are already. By such
constant thinking, you will certainly achieve the divine qualities in your
practical life. Everybody knows that God has divine qualities like
selflessness and very liberal attitude. If your selfishness disappears, the
society is safe. If you are liberal, the society will be happy. By this, balance
of society is maintained, which is Pravrutti.
When the world is unreal, your family is unreal and therefore, your
bonds with family will disappear. By that, your selfishness disappears.
Your ambition for worldly pleasures also disappears. All the society will be
happy and will live in peace. This is a tremendous intellectual plot of
Shankara to achieve the perfection in Pravrutti through the twisted Nivrutti.
After achieving perfection in Pravrutti, the twist in the Nivrutti can be
slowly relaxed and you will be very much eligible to get success in Nivrutti
also very easily. If you become selfless due to the concept of unreal world
and if you become sacrificial due to the concept that you are God, you will
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easily succeed in Nivrutti. Unless the selfishness disappears, the sacrifice

cannot appear. Unless darkness vanishes, light will not appear. In Nivrutti
also, you have to sacrifice for the sake of God and devotees reducing your
selfishness. You have already achieved both these by thinking that this
world is unreal and that you are God. In fact, neither you are God nor the
world is unreal because you are a part of this world. World is unreal for
God only. The plot is twisted in the beginning, but in the end, the twist is
removed and the plot becomesg true. By the twist in the plot, which is that
you are God and the world is unreal, you achieve the perfection in Pravrutti.
If you are perfect in Pravrutti, you will succeed in Nivrutti easily and now
the twist disappears and the plot becomes true. When you succeed in
Nivrutti, you have the real possibility to become God. When you become
God, the world becomes unreal for you. Therefore, you are not cheated at
all. You are not going to school. But, you are very much attracted to the
post of collector. We say that you will become collector if you just pass the
school. Then you will complete the school. Now, we will say that you will
become collector after completing the degree and pass the IAS
examination. Now, you will complete the degree and pass the IAS
examination easily and become collector. Therefore, My initial twist did
not cheat you and My initial trick was essential for your welfare.
This plot of Shankara was adopted by Baba straightly because He
aspired for the perfection of Pravrutti in every human being. Baba adopted
the policy of Shankara everytime and told that every soul is God and the
world is unreal. His main ambition was always to establish the four pillars
i.e., Truth, Justice, Peace and Love, which are the fundamentals of
Pravrutti. He propagated that service to human beings is service to God.
Generally, nobody serves humanity because there will not be any return and
certainly everybody is discouraged. People get interested even to serve God
without expecting anything in return because they know that God will be
extremely pleased by such service and subsequently they have the
possibility of becoming God! But, if a human being is served in that way,
you will become the human being only. But, you are already the human
being and hence, there is no use. Now, people start serving the humanity so
that God will be pleased and they can become God. Therefore, there cannot
be spark without fire and there cannot be human being without personal
ambition. Therefore, it is very difficult to achieve the result of Nivrutti and
Nivrutti lies idle. Instead of keeping the Nivrutti idle, it can be twisted and
can be used to achieve the perfection in Pravrutti. You may not become
collector, but at least you will pass the school examination and there is
every possibility to become collector in the future. Similarly, you may not
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become God in this birth itself, but if you achieve perfection in Pravrutti,
you have every possibility to become God in some birth.
When Shankara came, all were atheists and especially the
purvamimaamsakaas were after heavenly pleasures. Today also, the
situation is almost the same. The purvamimaamsakaas openly declared that
there is no God. But, they believed in hell and heaven. They were attracted
to the heavenly pleasures and killed the animals in sacrifice, which was
thought to be the path for heaven. Today, people believe in the existence of
God and the devotion to God is only to please Him by which their problems
can be solved. They doubt in hell and heaven in the depth of their hearts but
believe in the worldly pleasures. They do not mind to do anything to earn
money for the sake of worldly pleasures and family bonds. Killing of
animals in sacrifice was stopped by Buddha. Atheism was condemned and
theism was established by Shankara. Today, there are two problems.
1) The first is the negative side of the development of science. [This]
established the atheism and people do not believe in the unimaginable
God unless the unimaginable events demonstrated before their eyes
establish Him.
2) The second problem is the extensive selfishness due to which, several
sins are committed.
These two problems were before Baba. He demonstrated the
unimaginable events, called as miracles, to neutralize the negative
development of science. The second problem is solved by using the
philosophy of Shankara, which is already developed for a similar situation.
Both the ego developed by science and jealousy towards a specific human
being to be called as God are neutralized since everybody is God. The
concept of the unreal world and the concept of liberal divine qualities of
God can bring down the selfishness to a great extent.
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SIMULTANEOUS INCARNATIONS ARE POSSIBLE

Incarnations Actions Are Messages for Devotees
[May 01, 2011 Mr. Anil asked two questions, 1) You told that Shirdi
Sai Baba did lot of penance in the early stage. Is it necessary for human
incarnation? 2) Can there be more than one human incarnation at a time?]
Swami replied: The very purpose of the human incarnation is to
preach the humanity. For this purpose, God takes the human form and
behaves like a human being. The behavior itself gives the practical
direction to humanity. If God appears in energetic form and gives the
message, people will not follow it because there is no practical
demonstration by a human being. They will think that the message is
practically impossible for human beings. Ofcourse, they will hear the
message with lot of reverence to the energetic form with extensive
excitation. This extensive excitation may also cause disturbance in
receiving the message and understanding it. Jesus also performed penance
on a hill for forty days. Both Sai Baba and Jesus preached that a human
being should do penance and realize God practically before preaching about
God. The penance means the maintenance of faith on God irrespective of
severe practical difficulties. Jesus had no food during penance, which was
for a short period. Sai Baba took only Margosa leaves for several years
during penance. Even Baba did penance in the childhood, which is nothing
but the undisturbed faith that He is Sai Baba. There was lot of torture on
Baba to divert Him and Baba never changed. You find Lord Shiva always
in the posture of meditation closing His eyes. Lord Shiva is God Himself
existing in the energetic human form. In such case, what is the goal of His
meditation? He is giving the message to the souls in the energetic bodies
to meditate upon God in that way. He Himself is the goal of His
meditation.
God can exist in different human forms simultaneously as per the
various programs meant for the welfare of humanity in different aspects.
The intensity of the program also varies as per the different standards of the
receiving people. You have Parashurama and Shri Rama as simultaneous
human incarnations. Parashurama was very furious to warn the kings from
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further atrocities. Shri Rama was very peaceful because His goal is to be an
example for human beings. Both these are simultaneous programs. Even a
human being does two types of activities at a time. In such case, why not
the omnipotent God? Shirdi Sai Baba was very rough and tough since He
preached the villagers. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was very soft since
He preached the educated public of city. Both are simultaneous human
incarnations. It is impossible for a human being having spatial dimensions
to exist in different houses, which have large spatial dimensions. But, God
has no spatial dimensions and hence, can exist in different human forms,
which have spatial dimensions. Here, to some extent, you can take the
simile of current existing in different wires performing different activities.
Simultaneously, the current generates sound in T.V., light in a bulb and
mechanical motion in a fan. You can take this simile to a great extent
because many good aspects of comparison are covered. But, there are
limitations even to this simile. Current is a chain of electrons, which may be
treated as particles or waves. But, God is not a chain of particles or waves.
Both particles and waves have spatial dimensions and hence, current also
has spatial dimensions. Therefore, current is quantitatively divided in
different instruments but God has no spatial dimensions and such
quantitative division is not possible in the case of God.
Same God in Different Media

The Gita says that with respect to the media, which have spatial
dimensions, God appears to be divided. But, the unimaginable God is not
divided since God is beyond space (Avibhaktam Vibhakteshu). Even the
entry of God into human form is unimaginable due to the single reason that
God is beyond space. We always see the process of entry of one imaginable
item having spatial dimensions into another imaginable item, which has
spatial dimensions. We do not have another unimaginable item in the world
to compare to God. The only imaginable aspect here is the existence of
unimaginable God in the imaginable medium. We can only say that God
exists in this medium and God does not exist in that medium. Neither the
entry, nor the nature and nor the actions of God are imaginable. By
simultaneous existence of God in different media, God is neither
qualitatively divided nor quantitatively. But, in the case of current, it is not
qualitatively divided but, it is divided quantitatively in various instruments.
You may say that if the current exists in equal number of watts, it may not
be quantitative division because the quantities are equal. This argument is
wrong because the division is there even in equal quantities because the
current is discontinuous. There is no current at all in the space existing
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between the instruments. This discontinuity means the division of current.

You may say that the space between two human incarnations also does not
contain God and the same quantity of God exists in both the human
incarnations. By this, you cannot say that current and God are one and the
same and hence, current is God or God is current. The above situation can
stand as a good comparison for God and current. The same current flowing
in two different wires with the same potency can stand as a good example
for the existence of the same omnipotent God in two different human
forms. The absence of current between two wires can be a good example
for the non-existence of God in the creation other than the human
incarnations. God having no spatial dimensions is not present in the
creation having spatial dimensions by way of general logic. But, God and
current are totally different items because God is unimaginable without
spatial dimensions and current is imaginable since it consists of electrons
having spatial dimensions. Therefore, a simile to God can help to
understand the knowable concept regarding God. By this, you should not
mistake that the compared item and God are one and the same. The
compared item can be also called as God and such statement is a metaphor,
which is one of the figures of speech. Metaphor is another form of simile.
People having no knowledge of figures of speech mistake that God is
actually the compared item.
The holy scriptures are always the poetic compositions of God. The
Veda says that God is a poet and a scholar (Kavirmaneeshi). Hence, the
Veda says that God is space, life, etc. All these are metaphors only. God is
subtle like space. God is important like life. In the Christian scripture, it is
said that the lamb will come in red robe. God is as pure as the innocent
lamb. When people cut it for eating, it is full of blood, which looks like the
red robe. The scripture says that you should not cut any animal for eating
and killing an animal is like killing God. The scripture says to kill the
animal offering to God. This does not mean that the scripture encourages to
kill the animals. Anyway, people are killing the animals and do not stop on
the advice. To introduce at least the concept of God, the scripture says to
offer it to God. By this, the fear to God may be developed in due course of
time and people may follow the advice of God not to kill the animals. Baba
took this statement to compare Himself to the lamb. The red robe indicates
the red dress of Baba. In fact, the dress means the body in which the mind
is a part. The red robe stands for the matured mind with ripened
knowledge. The fruit becomes red on ripening. This avoids again the
misinterpretation that Krishna, Jesus, etc. are not human incarnations
because they were not in red dress. Baba told that the lamb cries with the
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sound babababa etc. Hence, the lamb stands for Baba. Again, this does not
mean that the human incarnation with the name Baba alone is God. The
scripture gave several metaphors and this is not the only metaphor.
Moreover, Baba means father. God is the Father, who is the creator of all
the souls. The Gita says this (Aham Beejapradah Pita). In this way, you
can apply this simile alone to every human incarnation.
Every human incarnation is one and the same since it is the
imaginable human form in which the unimaginable God exists. The basic
qualities are also one and the same except there is a difference in the
some of the qualities. The difference in some of the qualities is due to the
difference in the programs and due to the difference in the standards and
qualities of human beings, with whom God has to deal. To deal with a cruel
demon like Hiranyakashapu, God is associated with anger. To deal with the
cruel human beings, who kill the animals, God is associated with peace in
preaching. The basic aim of every human incarnation is one and the
same, which is the establishment of peace and harmony in the society and
to guide the few deserving devotees in the Nivrutti. Another basic aim is to
pacify the desire of the devotees to see and directly talk with God for the
clarification of their doubts.
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THREE PHILOSOPHIES PERTAIN ONLY TO

INCARNATION
[May 04, 2011] The human incarnation remains unimaginable with
respect to God in It and remains imaginable and even visible with respect
to the medium. The medium and God become one only, like the current and
wire, which are inseparable during the flow of current. This is monism of
Shankara. Since both are separable in one time or other, both are separate
but become one and the same as long as God exists in the human form.
Both monism and difference exist according to Ramanuja. According to
Madhva, there cannot be monism between the unimaginable God and
imaginable human form. Therefore, according to Madhva, always the
difference is maintained. You must understand that the debate of all these
three divine preachers is only confined to God and soul in the human
incarnation only and this debate does not apply to God and the ordinary
soul in the world. * Context is always important. If you miss the context,
you will be mislead. In a function, the chief guest was president of the
country. In that specific function, since the chief guest happened to be the
president of the country, the chief guest was associated with lot of security.
An ignorant person concluded that the chief guest in every function will be
always accompanied by lot of security. In another function, the chief guest
was the president of a village. The ignorant fellow thinks that the chief
guest in that function also will be accompanied by lot of security. But, not
even a single person of security was found. All this misunderstanding
happened due to the missing of context and generalization of the concept
of a specific context.
Shankara said that soul and God are one and the same. Ramanuja said
that the soul is inseparable from God and hence, the monism is practically
true and the difference is theoretically true. Madhva said that the soul is
always different from God at anytime. All these three angles are about the
soul and God existing in human incarnation only. In a human incarnation,
the soul is charged by God like the wire by current and hence, both are one
and the same for all practical purposes. The electrified wire gives the shock
of current wherever it is touched. If both are not one and the same, the
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shock of the current cannot be exhibited by the electrified wire as its

property. This is the view of Shankara. According to Ramanuja, in the case
of human incarnation also, both soul and God are different because soul is
created imaginable item, whereas, God is the unimaginable creator. Even in
the case of electrified wire, the wire is a chain of metallic crystals, whereas,
the electricity is the stream of electrons. Both are in different forms. In spite
of this difference, they are inseparable during the time of existence of
human incarnation or existence of current in the wire. During such specific
period, the monism should be accepted. The creation is the quality
(Visheshana) and the creator is the substratum of the quality (Visheshya). It
is like fruit and its taste, which are inseparable. Ramanuja maintained both
the inseparable monism and the actual difference. He stands as a bridge
between Shankara and Madhva. Madhva says that even during the period of
the flow of current in the wire, electricity and wire are two different forms
only. In that period also, electricity is electrons and wire is crystals. Hence,
the actual truth is only difference and not the monism. Madhva takes
Hanuman as the best example. The behavior of Hanuman was always with
respect to the soul component only. Even though God existed in the soul
[Hanuman], the soul always felt itself different from God and exhibited
always the obedience to God [Rama]. Parashurama was an example of
contrast. The soul component in him felt that it is God and was punished.
All the three views are simultaneously correct from the point of the angle of
the observer.
A devotee, who worships the human incarnation as God, should
always stick to the angle of monism. Even Hanuman worshipped Rama as
God and never looked at the soul component. From the point of devotee,
the monism is correct. But, from the point of the angle of human
incarnation, the difference must be always recognized by the soul. Rama
never declared or posed as God. Even in the case of Krishna, the
declaration of Krishna as God during the Gita is by the God-component
directly and not at all by the soul-component. Except the context of the
Gita, Krishna never declared that He is God. Shankara always declared that
He is God. This statement was always from His God-component only. But
still, the observer always misunderstands that the soul-component is
making such a statement. Shankara also supported the misunderstanding by
saying that every soul is God. The situation pressed such false
declaration.Such declaration was essential to convert the atheists into
theists. Based on this false generalization, even if you think that the soulcomponent is making such false statement, it is also not wrong. It is only
subsequent consequence of the essential false generalization. In His case,
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He is not wrong in both ways. If the God-component made such a

statement, it is not wrong at all since it is absolutely true. If the soulcomponent makes such a statement, it is also not wrong because a false
generalization that every soul is God is already made by Shankara for the
sake of conversion of atheists. For the sake of initial rectification, a twist in
the higher concept is not wrong. The higher concept is irrelevant at the
initial moment. The twist can be removed and even the reason for the twist
can be explained at a later stage in an appropriate time. Unless the
immediate initial problem is solved, further development is also not
possible. Even if the people do not develop further, at least the initial
progress is better than the ground. One is better than zero, even if hundred
is not achieved. It is better to be a theist accepting the existence of God,
even though he thinks that he himself is God, than to remain as an
atheist.
Baba as Shankara
The case of Baba was similar to that of Shankara. The situations and
the requirements of the programs were also similar. In the time of
Shankara, there were many atheists. In the time of Baba also, the
development of science taken in the negative sense is too much and
practically atheism only existed even though theism existed theoretically. If
the people believe in the unimaginable God, they will have fear for the hell
and the sins shall be minimized. Today, sins in all angles are in climax.
The immediate answer for the practical proof of the existence of God is the
establishment of an unimaginable event called as miracle. Shankara and
Baba performed miracles even from the childhood. Shankara as a child
created the pour down of some golden fruits in the house of a poor person.
A few other recorded miracles performed by Shankara were:
1) Going to the house of Mandana Mishra by the path of sky,
2) Passing through the bolted doors of the house of Mandana Mishra,
3) Entering the dead body of a king for some days,
4) Giving speech to a dumb fellow, etc.
The ego and jealousy of an atheist are always in the climax and the
atheist will never accept the contemporary human incarnation. To pacify
this attitude, Shankara created a twist in the concept of human incarnation
that every living being having awareness is God. By this, Shankara tried to
achieve the goal of Buddha also to restrict the people from killing the
animals, birds, etc. since every living being is God. The present situation is
also not different from that of Shankara. In the time of Shankara, atheism
existed in the name of atheism only. But today, the same atheism exists in
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the name of theism. It is the same old wine in a new bottle. Baba also
performed several miracles to give proof of unimaginable God. Baba also
adopted the same philosophical trick of Shankara to pacify the ego and
jealousy of the human beings. Even in His speeches, Baba admired
Shankara many a times.
Baba as Ramanuja and Madhva

Baba resembles Ramanuja in the development of devotion by singing
sweet devotional songs with sweet voice. Baba encouraged the worship of
idols like Ramanuja since the idols stand as representative models for God
in the case of general mass. Baba resembled Madhva in stressing the
concept of service. Unless you are trained in the service of humanity, you
cannot serve God in human form. You have to eradicate your ego,
selfishness and jealousy towards a co-human form through the service to
humanity. Then only, you will be eligible to serve God in the human form
present before your eyes. Madhva always worshipped Hanuman because
Hanuman worshipped and served His contemporary human incarnation. If
you have reached the stage of realization and maturity to recognize the
alive human form of God, idol worship is not necessary. The idols in
human form also indicate the human incarnation only. Baba told in one
speech, Idol is the finger indicating an object. With the help of the finger,
you have to see the object. Once you see the object, finger is not
necessary. What a beautiful example is given to explain the concept! In
preaching the knowledge, Baba resembles Shankara and Jesus. Had Baba
not arrived in the present situation, the roots of atheism would have cracked
the building of spiritual knowledge leading to its complete collapse. Due to
the development of science, every miracle was thought to be a tale of
entertainment created for the sake of children. Even the concept of God was
thought to be a creation for giving confidence in the human beings who
lack it. Several human incarnations of Lord Dattatreya like Shripada
Vallabha, Narahsimha Saraswati, Manikya Prabhu, Akalkota Maharaj, etc.
have come performing miracles along with preaching. Even in the time of
Shirdi Sai Baba, the science did not develop so much and hence, lesser
number of miracles were performed. But today, the development of science
is very fast and hence, Baba performed the miracles on an open stage.
You will find the preaching of spiritual knowledge with every human
incarnation because it is the essential program and the main goal of God.
Miracle may be or may not be performed as per the requirement. But
preaching the spiritual knowledge is inevitable and hence, the Veda says
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that the spiritual knowledge is the only identifying sign of God in human
form.
Master Necessary for Every Human Being

I have been ordered by Baba to propagate this spiritual knowledge
and even I am surprised about the quality of the knowledge that radiated
from Me. Seeing the excellent quality of the knowledge, I realized that I am
not the author of this knowledge and Baba only spoke through Me. Baba
spoke through Me some concepts not covered by Him in His speeches. By
this, Baba wanted to see that whether I will be tempted to own this
knowledge. The test of Datta is always very subtle. There is also another
reason for this. Baba spoke the new concepts through Me since Datta is
famous to give fame to His devotees. The credit for the acts of Datta is
given to the devotee in this way. This second angle of the test of Datta is
also to see whether the devotee becomes egoistic by the fame. Thus, this
point is a double-edged knife on which the devotee has to walk very
carefully. In this analysis, the word Baba stands for the unimaginable
God-component present in Him and the word I stands for the imaginable
soul-component. Since God is unimaginable and cannot be directly
indicated, you have to take some imaginable medium for the indication of
such God. Unless this sharp analysis is taken up, there will be lot of
confusion in the concept. If you represent Baba or Rama and Myself or
Hanuman by the soul-components only, the concept of master and servant
cannot arise. If you represent Baba or Rama and Myself or Hanuman by the
God-component only, then also, the concept of master and servant cannot
arise. You may doubt that why Baba should be represented by Godcomponent and Myself by the soul-component only and not the vice-versa.
The situation contradicts such possibility. Baba told Me that He has
selected Me for the propagation of knowledge. This situation clearly
establishes that He is the master and I am His servant. Therefore, the Godcomponent in Me and the soul-component in Baba should not be touched.
Two boys or two girls are acting as Rama and Sita in a drama. As per the
drama, you have to take Rama as male and Sita as female. You should not
go deep into the internal basis and say that both are males or females. The
male stands for the God-component and the female stands for the soulcomponent. If you take the soul-component in Rama and Hanuman, both
are females. If you take God-component in both, both are males. But, as per
the convention of drama, Rama is taken as male and Sita is taken as female.
Shirdi Sai Baba declared that Venkusa was His master. Shankara
declared that Govinda Bhagvat Paadaa was His guide. You should not be
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confused by the names. The God-component always does anything worthy

like miracle or radiates the excellent knowledge. The credit is given to soul
component since the soul is His devotee. You may say that Baba never
mentioned any master for Him. Since Baba declared that He is Shirdi Sai
Baba, it naturally means that Venkusa was His master. Rama is the master
of Hanuman. The guides for Rama were sage Vashishtha and Vishwamitra.
The concept of master and servant is always projected by the soul
component of the human incarnation because it is a message to the
humanity. If this aspect is not projected and demonstrated, the devotees
will be attacked by the cancerous disease called ego. When the human
incarnation projects the concept of Its master, you have to take the point to
be related to its soul-component only and not to the inner God-component.
Then only, the human beings will search for the master thinking that when
the human incarnation Itself has master, not to speak of a human being. I
complete this discourse by saluting My master, Bhagvan Shri Satya Sai
Baba.
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REAL TRIBUTE TO SRI SATYA SAI BABA

[May 05, 2011] There is no death for Baba or even for any human
being. Baba is made of two components. The first component is the
unimaginable God. Birth and death are only for imaginable items. Hence,
the unimaginable component, God, has neither birth nor death. God is the
absolute eternal truth. The second component is soul, which is any human
being. Soul is energy. It is eternal in the sense that it is the first created
relative truth. It will end only by the will of God, which we do not know.
Therefore, energy is also treated as almost eternal item. The body of the
soul is another form of energy, which consists of matter. Matter is also
almost eternal since it will end only when the energy ends. Therefore, the
soul-component means both energy and matter, which is any ordinary
human being. Therefore, neither the God-component nor the soulcomponent has birth and death. During the so-called death, the soul leaves
the body and takes the energetic body, which goes to the upper world. In
the case of an ordinary human being, the upper world may be heaven or
hell. But, in the case of a blessed devotee, the upper world will be the
abode of God in energetic body, who is called as Father of heaven. The
energetic body taken by the soul will have the same form of this
materialized body. Therefore, in death, neither energy, nor matter, nor even
the form of the materialized body is destroyed. Therefore, nothing is
destroyed in death. Only your association with the human being in this
world is destroyed.
God takes up the soul-component consisting of energy and body for
the sake of His expression as said in the Gita. The expression is to pacify
the desire of devotees and also to guide them through the true spiritual
knowledge. Since the form of materialized body is also not lost, you can
find Baba in the energetic form, if Baba wishes. Even the departed soul
can appear in the energetic body by the will of God. God selects a soulcomponent from His close devotees and comes down before us. This is
called as the process of human incarnation. Therefore, nobody should think
that death is the destruction of anything. It is only the destruction of our
perceptible association in this world.
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Baba came down to change the present behavior of the human beings
(Pravrutti). You should change yourself without worrying about others. If
every individual thinks like this and changes, the entire society is
transformed and Baba will be happy. Hereafter, you will not have any
direct message from Baba. But, Baba said more than enough. Be truthful.
Follow the justice. Maintain the peace of the world. Love every living
being. These four points constitute the essence of the preaching of Baba.
Once Baba told, You need not come to this place to see Me. Remain in
your house and try to practically implement at least one point of My
message. Then only I will be happy with you. Let us follow His message.
The corruption and violence are the two present dangerous diseases of
the society, which are more dangerous than cancer and AIDS. By cancer
and AIDS, the individual is destroyed. But, by corruption and violence, the
society will be destroyed. The system of deeds and fruits takes care of an
individual. But, if the society is destroyed, God enters and tries to save it. If
the society does not change, it will be totally destroyed by vexed God
Himself in the form of Kalki. But, a few individual souls, who are
transformed, will be protected by God in that time of total destruction of the
society. You try to become one of such few blessed individuals. Your trial
will please Baba, who will help you to succeed in the effort. If the effort is
absent, God will not interfere because He will be charged with partiality.
Baba Baba, the God covered in red sheath,
The soul of souls, lies in You only underneath
Your real tribute to Him will be, henceforth,
To avoid corruption and violence to go to north.
(The Gita says that the soul after death has two paths. One path will
be to south, which is to the hell to be punished for the sins and the other
path will be to north to live with happiness in association with angels).
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FILTER OUT SELFISHNESS FROM DEVOTION

Dharma and Dharma Sukshma
[June 08, 2011] Shri Satya Sai Baba established the four pillars which
are truth, Justice, peace and love in the context of Pravrutti. The truth and
justice result in eradication of corruption. Peace and love result in nonviolence. Therefore, anti-corruption and non-violence are the two
concluding words for the four pillars. If truth and justice are perfectly
established, peace and love are the natural consequences. The government
officials and the political heads swallow almost all the funds. There are no
funds to help the poor and the needy. This is the case with any political
party frankly. There may be very little percentage of officials and political
heads sincerely involved in the cause, but, such little percentage has no
effect on the huge majority. A spoon of sugar cannot sweeten the salty
ocean. Apart from this, the officials often go on strikes to increase their
salaries. They say that the prices have gone up and it is very difficult to
meet both the hands. Can they put this question in the light of poor and
downtrodden, who die with hunger without even one meal per day? The
officials argue that if they save the funds without fighting for increasing
their salaries, the funds are swallowed by the ministers and other members
of the government. They say that the funds will not reach the poor even if
they do not fight since the funds are swallowed by the heads of the
government only. Therefore, they justify their fight. Such arguments are
half way and apparently justified. It will be fully and really justified only if
they donate the excess to the poor and needy.
Baba emphasized the concept of sacrifice and service to every human
being to help the poor and needy. By this way, the sin in corruption is not
only nullified but also this is the right path in the existing circumstances.
The mode of justice gets modified as per the circumstances of the time and
the basic justice is always protected. If justice is called as dharma, the
modified justice according to the requirement of time is called as dharma
sukshma. The ultimate goal of dharma sukshma is only to protect the basic
dharma in the new circumstances. The farmers work very hard but are
unable to earn even their livelihood. There are several other categories of
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the society, who are in that line. All these hungry poor people revolt with
terrorism and there by the peace and love disappear. Therefore, deviation
from truth and justice due to corruption result in violence. In the ancient
times, there was no terrorism at all since every human being was based on
truth and justice only. Therefore, Baba emphasized the importance of truth
and justice from His childhood in order to establish peace and love in the
society. If the society is disturbed, there is no place for Nivrutti also. If the
stage is broken, where is the drama?
We must not worry for the exit of the soul and body of Baba. The
body is visible and imaginable component. The soul is invisible but
imaginable component. Both these components constitute the creation and
can be treated as one component only. Soul is energy and body is the
matter. Matter and energy are two phases of the same component called
creation. The creator is the absolute God, who is invisible and
unimaginable. The human incarnation is thus, a three component system of
God, soul and body. It can be treated as a two component system also if the
soul and body are treated as the two phases of the same component. The
body decomposes into the original five elements. The soul is eternal with
reference to the body. God is the absolute eternal entity. Neither God nor
the soul and nor the body is lost. Only the shape of the body is lost in this
world, which is also preserved in the energetic form in the upper world.
Therefore, nothing is lost. Baba can appear in the same form through
energetic body to the ardent devotees. We must follow the four principles
preached by Baba. At least, if we follow truth and justice, peace and love
are the natural consequences.
The basis of violence is corruption. The basis of corruption is
selfishness. Unless the selfishness is filtered from your devotion to God,
the love in God towards you will not start. You think yourself as the top
most devotee due to the quantity of your devotion. Even the mountain of
devotion is waste in the eyes of God if selfishness is present. God always
sees the quality of devotion.
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ANALYSIS OF AWARENESS
[June 09, 2011] The light energy is quantized and its fundamental bits
are called as photons. A photon exists with certain frequency but the
frequency is variable. The light energy is a part of cosmic energy and
therefore, you should not say that the entire cosmic energy is light energy.
Similarly, awareness is quantized into bits, called as the individual souls.
Even though the light energy occupies a part of the cosmic space, it is
continuous within its limited boundaries. But, the awareness is not like that.
It is not continuous within the specified boundaries. It is discontinuous. It is
just like some jewels displayed in a shop. The gold is quantized into jewels.
But, the jewels in the shop are separate and have no continuity within the
boundaries of the shop. At least, the original gold before modification into
jewels is continuous as a lump within the specific boundaries. This means
that awareness was not even a lump when it was created. The awareness
was not created as a lump like gold and later on it was not quantized like
the gold into jewels. The awareness is limited to a living being. The living
beings have no continuity and are discrete with specified boundaries. The
awareness is generated as a specific work form of inert energy in a
specified nervous system existing in each living being. Since the
awareness or nervous energy exists in the discrete living beings, we can
say that the awareness is quantized into bits called as living beings.
The awareness does not mean simply the homogenous nervous
energy. The bit of awareness existing in a living being is again quantized
into different sub-bits called as thoughts. Each thought is a specific mode of
nervous energy. The thoughts are different like the golden jewels with
different designs. Therefore, a bit of awareness means a bundle of
quantized thoughts only. Of course, the awareness can also exist as a lump
without thoughts during the period of rest without sleep. In the rest period
of deep sleep, the awareness exists as its basic form of inert energy. The
rest of mind without sleep is called as meditation. The dream is again a
bundle of thoughts without interaction with the external world. The bundle
of thoughts interacting with the external world is the awaken state. The
thoughts may vary from time to time due to the changed interactions with
the external world. Such a change is compared to the change in the
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frequency of the photon. The dreams also vary since the thoughts of the
dreams are only the stored external thoughts in the mind, which vary every
day. Of course, the strong thoughts carried on from the previous births do
not change. A dream sometimes involves the thoughts of the previous
births and sometimes involves the day to day stored thoughts from the
external world.
All this analysis of awareness becomes important since awareness is
misunderstood as God. The reason for such misunderstanding is that since
God is aware of everything, God must be awareness. In such case, God
must have the nervous system in Himself with help of which only the
awareness is generated as in the case of a living being. For the generation of
the awareness, the matter in the form of nervous system and the inert
energy are essential pre-requisites. We say that God created matter and
energy. It becomes a contradiction because matter and energy exist in God
even before the creation. Therefore, the awareness of God must be
unimaginable. There cannot be unimaginable God and unimaginable
awareness since two unimaginable entities need not exist. Again, the word
unimaginable awareness is wrong. Awareness is an understood imaginable
entity. If you say that the awareness is unimaginable, there will be self
contradiction because the awareness is always imaginable. Therefore, you
should remove the word awareness and say that only unimaginable entity
exists. This unimaginable entity itself is termed as God. The unimaginable
entity can have the awareness without nervous system and inert energy
through unimaginable way. By this, the unimaginable God can be
associated with awareness and be aware of everything. This is a simple step
and will have no complications. Otherwise, if you take the understood
imaginable awareness as God, all the above complications arise. There
are only two items. The first item is the creator, who is unimaginable. The
second item is the creation, which is imaginable by the grace of God. The
awareness is an item of creation and hence, cannot be the unimaginable
God.
If you take the awareness as God, there will be a chain of slips and
the final result of all these slips will be that you are God. Since the
unimaginable God becomes imaginable for the sake of devotees by
identifying Himself with a human form like Rama or Krishna, the wrong
side effect of this human incarnation is that every human being thinks itself
as God due to ego and jealousy. The identification of unimaginable God
with the human form is perfect and hence, such a specific human form
can be taken as God for all practical purposes. By this angle, the devotees
are satisfied and are benefited. To neutralize the jealousy of some
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unfortunate human beings, a second angle of the concept of human

incarnation can be projected in which, you can say that God is not really
changed into the human form and hence, God and human form are separate.
Both these angles are absolutely correct and hence, are equally important.
The first angle is monism (Advaita) in which the electricity and the
electrified wire are one and the same for all the practical purposes. The
second angle is dualism (dvaita), which becomes clear in the theoretical
analysis in which the electricity, which is a stream of electrons, is totally
different from the electrified wire, which is chain of metallic crystals. The
first angle is practical and the second angle is theoretical. Both the angles
simultaneously co-exist due to the impossibility of the separation of
electricity and wire during the flow of current. This third angle, which
maintains both the first and second angle simultaneously, is called as
vishishta advaita, which is a bridge between monism and dualism. When
you do the practical service to the contemporary human incarnation, you
must be confined to the first angle only. When your mind becomes infected
by ego and jealousy, you must switch yourself to the second angle and
neutralize the jealousy expecting the possibility of yourself also to become
the human incarnation in future. You will be in the third angle, if you
maintain the first and second angles in their respective contexts. Therefore,
every human being must be grateful to the three divine preachers viz.,
Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva and should not confine to one only
criticizing the others. You will insult one of the three aspects of the
supreme divine preacher, Guru Datta, if you insult or oppose any divine
preacher of these three.
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MEANING OF DATTATREYA
God Incarnates in Different Forms in Each World
[June 09, 2011 Evening] The word Dattatreya is combination of two
words i.e., Datta and Aatreya. Datta means the unimaginable God given to
devotees through the human incarnation, which is the human form with
which God is identified. By this process, the unimaginable God becomes
imaginable and visible human being with whom all the spiritual aspirants
can clarify their doubts. The word Aatreya comes from Atri meaning that
God is not three entities. The three entities are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
Brahma represents the unimaginable and invisible God. Brahma is said not
to have the direct worship. Since the absolute God is unimaginable, you can
never worship the absolute God directly. Shiva represents the invisible but
imaginable energy, which is in the form of waves. Shiva is also worshipped
in the form of Lingam, which is in the form of a wave. This energy
indicates the soul. Vishnu represents the visible and imaginable matter
representing body. Vishnu is worshipped in the form of materialized statue.
All these three together constitute the human incarnation. All these three
components together are taken as one entity only without differentiation.
The God is identified with both the soul and body and hence, the human
form consisting of both body and soul is taken as God.
The word Aatreya denotes the human being in which both body and
soul are identified with each other, is taken as God. In this way, the
unimaginable and invisible God is given to the devotees as visible and
imaginable body with which already the invisible and imaginable soul is
identified. This process of transformation of God into human body is true
for all practical purposes even though theoretically each component has
separate identity. In the same way, the unimaginable God is given to the
energetic living beings [exist in upper worlds] in the form of energetic
body, in which the matter is absent. However, the three components can be
still maintained in the energetic incarnation also by taking the inert energy
as the first component representing the body and the second component is
the awareness representing the soul. The inert energy and the inert matter
can be treated as the same component and the only difference is that the
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inert matter is visible and the inert energy is invisible. The common
essential property is that both are inert. The awareness is also energy but
the difference is that the energy is inert and the awareness is not inert. In
this way, the materialized human body of this world, the energetic body of
the upper world and the soul are inter-linked with each other forming the
sub- parts of the creation.
Hence, there is no difference between the energetic form and the
human form of Lord Dattatreya. The only difference is that the energetic
form of Datta is for the upper world and the materialized human form of
Datta is for this world. The energetic form of Datta is also not different
from the other energetic forms of God. The difference is only in the form of
the energetic body. Of course, the energetic form of Datta gives the full
information of the absolute God, which is that God is creator, ruler and
destroyer of the creation and that God is only one. The philosophy of the
human incarnation and the energetic form of Dattatreya is one and the same
representing the single entity of the three components, which is the basic
concept of any divine energetic incarnation or any divine human
incarnation.
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SELFISHNESS SUBSIDES WITH TRUE KNOWLEDGE

AND DEVOTION
Self-Awareness Differs From Selfishness
[June 10, 2011 Dr. Nikhil asked You said that God will start loving
you if your selfishness is completely eradicated. The concept of the self is
the basic principle and even while earning the livelihood the self stands as
the basis. Effort for livelihood is the natural instinct of any living being.]
Swami replied: To retain the identity of self is the fundamental and is
not wrong. It is also the basic requirement in the absence of which you may
be misled to think that you are God.
There are devotees who have even forgotten the livelihood in the
context of God. If you are interested in some topic, you will forget taking
meals. To remove the selfishness completely, the attraction to God must
be intensified to the top level. The power of attraction to God will break the
power of your attraction to yourself and other related selves.
Selfishness is different from self-awareness. Self-awareness means
the knowledge of the reality of yourself and other selves. If you are aware
that you are not God and that you are only a self created by God, this is
self-awareness. Selfishness means your attraction to yourself and other
selves. Generally, it is thought that if you are attracted to yourself and few
other selves only, it is selfishness. It is also thought that if you are
attracted to all the selves in this world, it is not selfishness. This point may
be correct in confined view. But, with respect to deep and broad view, this
is also not correct. If you are attracted to yourself, few other selves and all
the selves in the creation, it is selfishness only. If you are attracted to God,
then only, it is not selfishness. If you rise above yourself and a few selves
and get attracted to all the selves in the creation, then, you will get
temporary heaven only. You will get the permanent place of God, if you are
detached from the all the selves and get attracted to God only. Therefore, in
the attraction to God, there is no attraction to any self including yourself
other than God. Hence, the selfishness totally disappears in the devotion to
God only. But, you must have the self-awareness during the devotion to
God. If self-awareness is absent, there is a danger that you may think that
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you are the God. Earning the livelihood comes under the self-awareness
only and not selfishness. You must maintain yourself and other selves in
the family so that all of you shall be alive to be in the devotion to God.
Without livelihood the self disappears and you must maintain the self to
have at least the self-awareness. You can also help any hungry soul by
providing the food so that the soul will maintain itself and get devoted to
God. God created the souls for the sake of His entertainment. The life of
His entertainment is the devotion for which, the maintainence of the soul
is essential. Therefore, God created the natural instinct in every soul to earn
the livelihood for the maintainence of its life. If any soul resists this instinct
and does not act as per the instinct, such a soul will subject to the
displeasure of the God. If you follow the instinct, you are co-operating with
the maintainence of the drama of the entertainment of God.
Selfishness is involved in the unnecessary extra earning for the sake
of luxuries. The environmental sciences prove that any luxury is harmful
not only to the individual but also to the society. The science also proves
that absence of luxury, maintains perfect health of any human being.
Therefore, selfishness is born out of the ignorance of scientific knowledge.
The knowledge of science in real sense can eradicate the selfishness and
spiritual knowledge is not necessary for this purpose. Selfishness is the
harmful love towards yourself and other selves. Sacrifice is the best
medicine for this disease of selfishness. Selfishness is the excess of love to
self, which is the extra love. The love to self required up to the
maintainence by earning livelihood is appreciable to God also. The
attraction to luxuries indicates the extra unnecessary love to the self, where
the love to God finds no place. When the water tank is full and is over
flowing, where is the space for more water to pump in? Therefore, the heart
must be vacant to fill with the love to God. The minimum water level,
which is the instinct for livelihood is essential. To make the pump work for
sucking the ground water, some water must be poured into the pump. This
poured water is the essential requirement for sucking the ground water.
Selfishness is not some material to be blown away applying some
physical instruments and physical forces. It is conceptual nervous energy
existing in the mind and the concept is totally wrong. A wrong concept can
be removed by right concept only. A diamond can be cut by another
diamond only. Of course, while cutting the diamond, not only another
diamond is required but also the force in the process of cutting is
required. Another diamond is knowledge and the force in the process of
cutting is devotion. Therefore, the right concept associated with devotion to
God can only succeed in destroying the selfishness. When the selfishness is
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cut at the root, your service to God will be perfect and will please God. The
service to God with selfishness will not fetch you the real grace from God.
You can only receive some boons to satisfy your selfishness. In fact, the
selfishness grows more and more by the boons just like the fire grows
more and more by receiving the ghee. The process of pacification of
selfishness increases it more and more. You can never subside the
selfishness by such process of pacification. The selfishness really subsides
when it is cut by knowledge associated with devotion. Then your service to
God without selfishness will fetch you the real and immense grace from the
God.
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SUPERIMPOSITION OF GOD AND HUMAN FORM IN

INCARNATION
[June 10, 2011 Evening] A human being is a mixture of the two
imaginable items viz., the soul and body. The soul being energy is invisible.
The body being matter is visible. Matter is the condensed product of
energy. We understand the process of condensation. Therefore, the process
of modification of energy into matter is imaginable. The link between two
imaginable items is always imaginable. The soul pervades all over the body
and hence, the body can be taken as the soul. Such superimposition
becomes convenient since the soul is invisible and hence, the visible body
itself can be treated as the soul. The word I actually denotes the soul. But,
the word I is taken as the body because the soul is invisible to the naked
eye and the body is visible to the same naked eye. The electrified wire is
visible and the electricity in it is invisible. Hence, the electrified wire can be
taken as electricity. The electricity is invisible energy and the wire is visible
matter. Same is the case with soul and body. But, both the soul and
electricity are imaginable as energy and can be even seen through
sophisticated electronic instruments. Hence, we separate the soul from the
body and electricity from the wire. Since we are able to imagine and even
see both the items separately, we can conclude that taking the body as soul
is superimposition based on the ignorance.
In the human incarnation, the unimaginable and invisible God is
taken as the imaginable and visible human being. The body of the human
being is visible to the naked eye and the soul is visible through intricate
equipments. Therefore, we can conclude that the human being consisting of
both body and soul is totally imaginable and totally visible. In the human
incarnation, the human being is charged with invisible and unimaginable
God. God is clearly different from the human being because God is
invisible and unimaginable, where as a human being is visible and
imaginable. As in the case of energy and matter, we can say that God is the
cause and the human being is its effect. But, the link between God and
human being or world is unimaginable because the link between
unimaginable and imaginable items must be unimaginable only. The human
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being can be a representative model of the world because both the human
being and the world are made of matter and energy only. In the case of
human incarnation, even though I have understood God and human being
clearly as different entities, I cannot separate the human being and God. I
can separate the soul or energy and the body or matter clearly and even see
them separately. In the case of human incarnation, I can see and imagine
human being but I can neither see nor even imagine God separately from
the human being. I know that the human incarnation is also a case of
superimposition but I cannot prove it practically as in the case of matter and
energy in the human being. It is inevitable superimposition. I have to take
the unimaginable God as the imaginable human being. Similarly, I have to
see the invisible God as visible human being. This does not mean that every
human being is to be seen or imagined as God. We have to confine this
point to human incarnation only. Therefore, there is no alternative way than
to see or imagine God as the imaginable or visible human being in the
human incarnation. The Veda says that there is no other way than this
(nanyah panthah) while describing God as a specific human being
(purusha).
The Gita takes the concept of superimposition of the body and the
soul as an example to clarify the concept of superimposition in the second
chapter itself. Shankara also explained concept of superimposition of
body and soul as an introduction for the concept of a specific human
being and God, where the separation is practically impossible. Even in
theory, the separation is accepted but the separation is a failure since the
separated God is unimaginable. Therefore, the monism is prefect in the case
of human incarnation regarding God and human being. In fact, the monism
of Shankara is only with reference to the human incarnation. The
specific reference is lost and hence, monism is generalized to conclude that
every human being is God. You should not take the soul as God and the
body as the world. The Gita has clearly introduced God as the third entity
called as Purushottama (Yasmaat ksharamatiitoham). Therefore, you
must not separate God from the human being in the human incarnation.
Hanuman and Gopikas never entertained such separation even in their
single thought.
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UNIMAGINABLE GOD REPRESENTED BY INVISIBLE

ENERGY
[June 20, 2011] The gross matter is visible and imaginable. The subtle
energy is invisible and imaginable. The common point in matter and energy
is that both are imaginable. Both matter and energy form the two parts of
imaginable creation. Even science says that matter is a form of energy and
both are inter-convertible. But, now, due to development of sophisticated
instruments by science, even the energy becomes visible through
instruments. But, since the energy is invisible to the naked eye, you can still
maintain the difference between the matter and energy saying that matter is
visible and energy is invisible. However, if you consider the energy also as
visible since it is seen by the naked eye through instruments, still the
invisible energy exists. The energy of the bodies of angels is totally
invisible since the frequency of such energy is never embraced by the
existing spectrum of energy of science. It is beyond even the invisible
spectrum of the energy of science, which can be seen through instruments
only. Neither the naked eye nor the instruments can find out the energetic
bodies of angels. However, if the angels wish to be seen by you, the
frequency of the energy of their bodies gets lowered touching the visible
spectrum of the energy of science. By this, the energy of the body becomes
the light energy and thus, the celestial body is viewed by the naked eye.
The human body consists of matter and the soul is the nervous energy
pervading all over the body. Therefore, the soul is invisible to the naked
eye. But, the soul is visible through sophisticated instruments as waves of
energy. Energy is always in the form of waves.
The Gita says that the soul can be seen by the scholars, who are
scientists (pashyanti jnana chakshushah).The difference between the
ancient scholars and the scientists is that the ancient scholars saw the
energetic soul through the limited divine power whereas the scientists see
the soul through instruments. The Veda also confirms this statement
(drushyate tvagrayaa). The second chapter of the Gita, which is the
beginning of the message of the Lord, speaks about matter and energy or
body and soul. Slowly, the Gita introduces the invisible and unimaginable
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God (Mamtu veda na kaschana). The common point between God and
soul is that both are invisible and the difference is that God is
unimaginable, whereas the soul is imaginable. With the help of the common
point, you can jump from the lower level to the higher level. With the help
of the difference, you can distinguish both and avoid misunderstanding that
both are one and same. Therefore, body is not the soul and soul is not the
God. The common point gives the possibility of misunderstanding. Due to
common white luster, you mistake the conch shell as silver. In the olden
days, the energy was not only invisible but also unimaginable. Therefore,
without any trace of doubt, the energetic soul was mistaken as God. Slowly,
the development of science clarified the energy as a part of the imaginable
creation and not the unimaginable creator. The invisible property is lost
because the energy becomes visible through instruments. The nature of the
energy is deeply studied and is well understood that energy is in the form of
waves and the characteristics of the waves like wave length, frequency,
amplitude are well understood. This makes the energy imaginable. Science
has removed the total illusion and perfectly clarified that the soul is neither
invisible nor unimaginable. Hence, it is clear conclusion that the soul is not
God, who is invisible and unimaginable. The separation of body and soul
helps the separation of soul and God. Therefore, the separation of body
and soul is introduced in the beginning itself and the separation of soul
and God is clarified at a later stage in the Gita. As the Gita advances
nearing its completion, the materialized body (kshara), the energetic soul
(akshara) and the unimaginable God (purushotamma) are clearly mentioned
separately as the triad.
There is no problem in separating body and soul since the separated
soul can be seen clearly in the lower receiver and the separated body is
clearly seen on the upper precipitation funnel. Therefore, this separation is a
clear process of separating energy from matter. But, there is a serious
problem in the process of second separation. The upper precipitation funnel
shows the separated soul as the residue. But, below the funnel, the receiver
still remains vacant since the filtered God is neither seen nor even becomes
imaginable. This makes the existence of God doubtful. When the separated
item is not at all proved, even the process of separation becomes doubtful.
You say that the existence of God must be believed without proof of
perception. This is the situation of serious difficulty. Therefore, the God
must be represented by either matter or energy. It is better to represent the
invisible God by invisible energy because the common characteristic of
invisibility favors such selection. The difference that God is unimaginable
whereas the energy is imaginable is set aside for some time, but should be
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kept in mind so that energy is not mistaken as God. Therefore, God is

always represented by the energy pervading all over the cosmos as the
representative model. God is also indicated by a specific energetic body
charged by the unimaginable God, called as Lord Narayana, Lord Shiva,
Father of Heaven etc. The representative model (cosmic energy) does not
contain God, whereas the Father of Heaven is a direct model containing
God. Even though subtle energy represents God in a better way due to
common invisibility, if you take the case of the specific energetic body
charged by the unimaginable God, it is as good as a materialized human
body charged by God. The reason is that in both the cases there are only
two items viz.,
5) the unimaginable God and
6) the medium charged by the unimaginable God.
Hence, Jesus, the materialized human incarnation said that He and His
Father of the Heaven are one and the same. He emphasized that the
energetic medium is materialized medium since matter is a form of energy
according to science. This is the meaning of His further statement I am the
light. However, in view of ego and jealousy of human beings causing the
repulsion between the common media, the energetic incarnation is always
preferred than the materialized human incarnation. If this problem of ego
and jealousy is conquered, there is no difference between energetic
incarnation and materialized human incarnation. In fact, materialized
human incarnation is far better than the former since it is easily available
and very convenient for the preaching of knowledge and clarification of
doubts. The energetic incarnation is very difficult in achievement itself,
which requires lot of severe long penance, whereas the materialized
human incarnation is available to you in this world without any effort.
The reason of illusion to think soul as God is clarified by science and
people have understood it very well. But, the pity is that the false
conclusion still persists in the mind of the people to think that soul is God!
The reason for such strong clinging of the false conclusion is the
satisfaction of the wonderful ambition that you are already God without
any effort!!
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FASTING IN RITUALS
[June 21, 2011 Shri G Lakshman asked about the significance of
fasting on the days of rituals and for the sake of God.]
Swami replied: Pravrutti is the subject that is related to the human
beings with respect to other living beings in this world. The rules of
Pravrutti are called as dharma. The basic rule is that you should not hurt
any living being including yourself. As long as this basic rule is not
violated, the rules can be changed in any manner you like as per the need.
God becomes angry and will grant you the hell provided you violate the
basic rule. But, some ignorant people apply this punishment in hell to every
change of rule even though the basic rule is not violated. It is their
foolishness and rigidity of ignorance. They quote the rules and insist that
such rules must be strictly followed without any violation, even though the
violation of such rules does not damage the basic rule. It is the climax of
the ignorance that sometimes some foolish rules are insisted in spite of
the violation of the basic rule by such rules! Such climax of foolishness is
due to lack of knowledge of scriptures and lack of right analysis. Let Me
illustrate this with an example. On the day of the ritual related to the
anniversary of the departed parents, the foolish rule is that the doer of the
ritual should not drink even water till the priests eat the food. It is said that
the departed parents eat food through these priests. It is also said that if the
doer does not fast on that day, the departed souls become angry and curse.
The doer of the ritual is really tortured because while the priests enjoy the
food on one side, on the other side, the doer has to prepare the balls of food
(pinda). The doer is burning with hunger and before him, the priests enjoy
the food. At the same time, he has to prepare the pinda by mixing the food
with ghee and dal resisting himself from eating.
Really, the departed parents are pained since their issue is suffering
with hunger and curse the priests for doing such sin in ignorance. The first
point is that the departed soul will not eat the food through the priest. By
giving food to the deserving priests, a good action (punyam) is done, the
fruit of which is protection of the departed souls. But, remember that if the
priests are undeserving, the donation of food becomes a sin and the
departed souls will undergo more punishments in hell. A departed soul is
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always in the energetic body and the energetic body takes energy only as
food. The departed soul in hell is actually punished with hunger since the
supply of energy is stopped. Since energy is nervous energy, the soul will
have hunger and thirst (manomayah pranashariraneta Veda). In the
heaven, there is no hunger and thirst due to continuous supply of energy
(ubhetirtvaa Veda). In between heaven and hell, the soul may go to
pitruloka and the supply of energy is from moon (nirvishtasaram). These
three ways are for a non-devoted soul. The fourth path for departed devotee
is the abode of God and such ritual is not at all necessary (nahitenapathaa
tanutyajah). Therefore, the departed soul never requires the materialized
food. But, giving food to a deserving priest is recommended to help the
departed soul. The departed soul is said to enjoy the food through the priest,
but this is said to make everybody to perform this good action atleast by
fear. Therefore, such a fabricated trick is not applicable to a person, who
does the good action even without the necessity of such fear. Such a
fabricated trick is meant for a miser, who does not donate food to anybody.
Such a trick is also necessary, which is called as arthavada. Therefore, the
entire ritual is based on a single point that whether the priest is deserving
or non-deserving.
In these days, the deserving priests are almost nil. Assuming that we
have achieved the deserving priest, the doer should not fast and become
weak. He cannot perform the ritual in the absence of energy in his body. If
he suffers with hunger, the departed parents will be pained and will curse
the priest. Even the scripture says that the doer of a ritual should take
limited food on the day of a ritual. The scripture says that a Brahmin should
take milk and other castes can take some solids also, on a ritual day (payo
brahamanasyavratam Veda). You should not fast without food leading to
weakness and you should not over eat resulting in sleep. Fasting means
taking limited food. Brahmacharya means confining to one wife and does
not mean not marrying at all. The Veda and the Gita say that limited food
is always good (yuktaahaara, adyatetticha). According to the
constitution, you can take liquid or solid food in limited quantities on that
day. Here, Brahmin means delicate constitution with weak digestion and
hence, milk is recommended. Therefore, if you recommend fasting without
water, it is against the scripture also. But, these ignorant priests recite only
the scripture without knowing its meaning.
When the mother of Shankara died, He became ready to do the rituals.
Ignorant priests resisted that and He was not allowed to go to the burial
ground because a saint should not perform the rituals. Therefore, He
cremated His mother in the backyard of her home. When priests opposed it
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saying that it is inauspicious, Shankara replied that such rules of ignorant

people succeed to exploit the other ignorant people and not to a scholar like
Him, who knows the entire truth. Nivrutti is the subject of God and
Pravrutti is the subject of this creation. As long as you do not hurt any
other living being including yourself, God is not bothered about the rules of
Pravrutti. By fasting, you hurt your own soul and the Gita criticizes it
(karshayantah). Your self is also one of the souls in the universe.
According to medical science, on the day of fast, the digestive system starts
digesting the remains of excretory matter left over in the rectum, which
means that the fasting person eats his own excretion on that day leaving the
pure food from outside. This point is stated in a book Vemana Shatakam,
written by the famous saint Yogi Vemana. Fasting can be done for a limited
time to solve the problem of indigestion, which is a medical remedy.
Hurting yourself in Nivrutti is also foolish like fasting for the sake of God.
However, hurting yourself required in the divine service is appreciable,
which is a sacrifice. Hanuman wanted to commit suicide, when Sita was not
found. The logic given by Him was that on hearing the negative report on
Sita, Rama will not be alive. Therefore, hurting the self here has logical
requirement. If somebody tries to commit suicide without any such
requirement for the sake of God, it is a foolish sin. Fasting can be a natural
consequence of absorption in God. It is appreciable because the hunger will
not be experienced at all by you. Jesus and Sai Baba fasted for sometime
and such fasting was not forcible since they were absorbed in God.
Forcible fasting can be detected by the feeling of hunger. Shankara
told a simile supporting His reply. A knife can cut the vegetables but not a
stone. The stone is not at all cut and on the other hand the edge of the knife
is spoiled (shilaaprayukta kshuraadivat). The knife is the ignorant rules
of the ignorant priests. The vegetables are the general ignorant public. The
stone is the scholar knowing the whole truth. If you think that burning a
dead body in the backyard of the house is inauspicious, burning the dried
grass present in the husk in the backyard of the house is equally
inauspicious. The green grass has life and hence, the dried grass is a dead
body. The chemical combination of a human body reveals that it contains
some inert elements and inert compounds, which are generally found in the
materials of the world. Science is the authority as far as Pravrutti is
concerned. Shankara is a true scientist in Pravrutti and hence, burnt the
dead body like dried grass in the backyard of the home. Science is not
related to God and hence, God is irrelevant to Pravrutti as long as none
hurts none. The difference between the scientist and Shankara is that the
scientist keeps silent about God, whereas the Shankara stressed on the
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existence of God. Therefore, Nivrutti should not be dragged into Pravrutti

as long as the basic principle is not violated.
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CONCEPT OF GOD IS TRUE

Fear of God Controls Sin
[June 21, 2011 Mr. Anil asked, Some people asked the question
who created God? How to reply them?]
Swami replied: It is true that a few people exploited the concept of
God for personal benefits. But, based on the few exceptions, you should not
remove the basic system itself. A few railway accidents happen and due to
such accidents, you should not cancel all the trains. You should concentrate
to avoid the accidents. Similarly, some students might have copied in the
examinations. Try to catch, such students. But, do not remove the system of
examination itself. The system serves majority, doing lot of good. You
forget the vast positive side of the system based on the minor negative side.
The concept of God controls the sin in the society. If the concept of God is
removed, lot of people will do lot of sins since already the ways to escape
the punishment in courts are already available. The society will be crushed
into pieces in the absence of the fear for sin. If God disappears, the hell
disappears subsequently. The concept of sin will drown and destroy the
society like a Tsunami. However, this does not mean that the concept of
God is again a created view only to save the society. Such conclusions are
not correct. The concept of God is basically true and we have explained
the positive side of such concept. It is a real concept and hence, the positive
side is also real. Of course, the minor negative side is also real and control
should be implemented to check-up such negative exploitations.
God Himself comes down in human form to give practical proof for
the existence of the unimaginable God through the exhibition of
unimaginable events called as miracles. Jesus told that He has come down
to fulfill, what is said in the scripture. Krishna also said that He came down
since there is a necessity and He said that He will come down whenever
there is a necessity. The necessity is the requirement of practical proof for
the theoretical explanation of God given in the scripture. Then only, the
validity comes. Science is valid since every concept in the book is
experimentally proved in the laboratory. A student of science always
attends the practical class in the laboratory after the theory class. The doubt
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about the existence of God is quite natural because there is every chance to
doubt about the existence of anything, which is not understood even by
intensive imagination. The human incarnation declares the existence of God
after giving the practical proof. In fact, people experience the unimaginable
events in their life, which indicate God. But, people do not care to analyze
and remember God thereby. Even if we dispose all the miracles as magic
show without careful analysis, the existence of unimaginable boundary of
universe, which can be realized by anybody at anytime, is a clear proof for
existence of unimaginable entity called as God.
God is said to be beyond this universe. It means that God can be seen
after crossing the boundary of universe. You will reach the land after
crossing the boundary of the ocean since the land is beyond ocean. You can
never reach the boundary of the universe by any amount of even intensive
imagination. This means that you can never imagine God and God is
always unimaginable. Beyond the boundary of space, space should not exist
just like beyond the boundary of ocean, water (ocean) should not exist.
Since God is beyond space, space or spatial dimensions cannot exist in
God. You can never imagine anything, which has no spatial dimensions.
Therefore, Gods existence is proved by the unimaginable miracles and
God is unimaginable due to absence of spatial dimensions. The Veda
clearly says that God is beyond words, mind, intelligence and the logic. It
also says that anything in the space or universe is not God since everything
in the universe has some spatial dimensions (Neti...Neti...). It also says that
God is the generator of space (Atmana Akashah). The generator should
not have the product in itself since the product should not exist before its
generation. Therefore, God has no space or spatial dimensions and hence, is
unimaginable. The Veda finally concludes that the only imagination about
God is that He is unimaginable (Yasyaamatam) and the only information
about God is that He exists (Astityeva).
Science says that the universe has no cause but exists. The same
status can be extended to God. Therefore, God need not have a creator.
The existence of unimaginable God is proved by the existence of
unimaginable boundary of this universe. You call the unimaginable
boundary of the universe itself as God. When we say that God is beyond the
universe, we mean that God is just at the unimaginable boundary of the
universe like the land beyond the boundary of ocean. Now the link between
God and universe as cause and effect can be inferred by the inference of the
existence of an intellectual administrator for the wonderfully arranged
systematic universe for which mere inert randomness cannot be the cause.
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Salvation Is Unrelated to God

[Mr. Anil asked, about the concept of Salvation.]
Swami replied: Generally people think that salvation is related to
God. Salvation is not at all related to God since it means only liberation
from misery and stress and hence, is related to the soul and not God.
Salvation can be achieved atleast temporarily with the help of a Psychiatrist
or drugs etc. Salvation can also be achieved by self-realization as
propagated by Shankara and it can be achieved with self effort. He was in
the time of atheists and hence, introduction of God was not indicated since
the atheists do not relish it. But, introduction of self is a higher level than
the basic level of materialized gross body. Jumping from materialized body
to energetic self will help the next jump, which is from subtle energetic self
to unimaginable God. Therefore, Shankara laid up the foundation for the
spiritual knowledge in the minds of atheists. If you identify yourself to the
materialized human body, all the bonds with body trouble you throwing
yourself into misery and tension. If you think that you are the subtle energy
in the body, all these bonds with the materialized body get disconnected. In
such case, you will have the salvation through self-realization. Thus,
salvation is a topic of Pravrutti and hence, there is no reference of Nivrutti
in this. Salvation is a natural instinct of every living being. Any living
being tries to come out of the problems and hence, there is no
relationship with God. It is the very basis of Pravrutti. Salvation is a
natural instinct present in every living being. Even an insect tries to get rid
of the tension. Hence, there is no element of divinity in salvation.
You may think that getting relief from problems and tensions and
attaining peace and happiness is the highest level and call such state itself
as God. In fact, Shankara called such state as God to satisfy the ego of
atheists. But, by achieving such level through self-realization, the real status
of the real God is not attained. Hence, the status of miraculous powers is
not attained. In such case, it is only assumed imaginary status of God and
not the real practical status of God. Shankara satisfied the atheists by
another trick saying that such real status of God is unreal since the world is
unreal. The controlling powers of the unreal world must be unreal. All this
means that the real status of God is not relevant to you. He made the world
as zero. Zero means unreal, which again means that it is not relevant to you
in the present context.
Salvation is purely related to selfishness. You try to go near to God
thinking that you will get the bliss from the blissful God. It is just like
approaching the nearness of the fire to achieve heat in the winter. You can
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become close to God only when God is pleased with you. God is not like
the inert fire to be approached at your wish. You must satisfy God in His
tests through your sacrifice of anything including life for His sake. When
God is satisfied by your true devotion, you will become very close to Him
and this is called as Sayujyam, which is quite opposite to Moksha or
salvation. You have to prove yourself as a true devotee through practical
sacrifice to attain Sayujyam. Sayujyam is the subject related to God
(Nivrutti) and Moksha or salvation is subject related to you (Pravrutti).
Hanuman tried to sacrifice His life in searching for Sita and Gopikas
sacrificed their lives by jumping into fire after Krishna. Therefore, Nivrutti
is full of sacrifice, problems and tensions, which is called as the path of
thorns. Salvation or Pravrutti is the path of effort to achieve happiness for
the self. The ignorant people due to lack of knowledge and analysis use the
word salvation in the spiritual path. When Krishna was suffering with headache and the dust of the feet was declared as medicine, no devotee
including the wives of Krishna and even Narada came forward fearing for
the hell. Everybody wants relief from the torture of the hell even though
God is tortured by the head-ache. But, Gopikas came forward to give dust
from their feet and were ready to go to hell because their sole aim is only
happiness of God and not the self happiness.
Therefore, all the devotees are in the path of salvation and Gopikas
and Hanuman alone are in the path of Sayujyam. All the practices of yoga
are only medical exercises and are related to salvation only without any
reference to God. But, ignorant people are mislead to think that yoga is a
divine practice related to God. Jesus gave life through crucifixion for the
sake of God since it was the program designed by God. He imagined the
torture and prayed Lord to avoid it if possible. This prayer indicates the
climax of torture. But, finally, He said that the will of God must prevail.
Through sacrifice and torture only Jesus became very close to God and sat
on the right lap of the Lord. Since there is no liberation of the self from the
tension here, this is not salvation but is a case of Sayujyam. Even Shankara
denied salvation as the first item in the list of items of rejection (Na
mokshasyaakaankshaa). If the salvation is divine, He should not have
rejected it. This is the best supporting evidence of the concept.
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TWO TYPES OF CLASSIFICATION IN THE GITA

Purusha and Prakruti
[June 22, 2011] The Gita gives two types of classifications.
7) The first classification is Purusha and prakruti.
It is a classification of two items. Purusha stands for the unimaginable
creator and prakruti stands for the imaginable creation. In this
classification, Purusha stands for the invisible and unimaginable God. The
prakruti stands for both invisible-imaginable-energetic soul and the visibleimaginable-materialized gross body. The Gita itself says that the soul is
called as paraprakruti and the body is called as aparaprakruti. The word
prakruti applied to both these items clearly indicates that both body and
soul are sub-divisions of the same prakruti.
The sub-division of prakruti cannot be beyond the prakruti itself.
Purusha, the Creator, is beyond the prakruti, the creation. Therefore, in this
classification, you cannot call the soul as purusha. But, generally, the word
purusha stands for a human being, which is the soul embedded in the
human body. This means that the meaning of purusha is prakruti only,
which is both the body and the soul. If prakruti is the meaning of the word
purusha, there need not be this classification of two items. There should
be one item, which is purusha that means prakruti. This contradiction can
be removed by a specific clarification. Purusha is the invisible and
unimaginable God. Prakruti is the imaginable human being consisting of
both invisible soul and visible body. Both are clearly separate items. But,
during the formation of human incarnation, God charges the human being
i.e., Purusha charges the prakruti. Purusha gets identified with prakruti.
Since the prakruti takes birth, purusha appears to be born. This is clearly
explained in the Gita (prakrutim svaam...). Therefore, the above
contradiction is removed with the help of the specific case of human
incarnation. If you leave this specific case, the basic concept is Purusha
denotes God and prakruti denotes the human being.
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Kshara-Akshara-Purushottama
8) The Gita gives another classification at a later stage, which gives three
items. The first item is kshara standing for the visible and imaginable
gross body. The second item is akshara standing for the invisible and
imaginable soul. The third item is Purushottama standing for the invisible
and unimaginable God.
The second classification does not contradict the first classification. In
both the classifications, the unimaginable and invisible God is one item,
which is called as Purusha in the first classification and Purushottama in the
second classification. The prakruti of the first classification is split into two
items viz., kshara and akshara of the second classification. Hence, both the
classifications are one and the same.
The Advaita philosophers take purusha as the soul, which itself is
God and prakruti as the gross body as per the first classification. But, the
second classification contradicts the first as per this view. Then, they split
the soul or God into two sub-divisions;
i. Atman, which is the pure awareness and
ii. Jeeva, the pure awareness modulated into different forms or subchannels called as gunas or feelings.
Atman is un-modulated basic pure awareness and jeeva is a bundle of
ideas, which are various modulations or signals of the same pure awareness.
They justify the jeeva as the akshara or eternal since jeeva is not destroyed
with reference to the destroyed body. Now, they take atman as
Purushottamma or God. We do not oppose the sub-division of atman and
jeeva. The sub-division is correct. But, we say that the un-modulated pure
awareness called as atman is not God or Purushottamma. God is the creator
of this infinite real world. The un-modulated pure awareness is unable to
create even an atom of this real world. Therefore, atman is not even a tiny
part of God. Creation of dream by atman cannot be justified since dream is
not even a tiny part of the real world. Therefore, atman is not
Purushottamma. Atman is the inert energy generated by digestion of food,
which is converted into a specific work form in a specific machine, called
as nervous system. The bundle of the various modulations of the same
atman is called as jeeva. Atman is just like standstill water and jeeva is a
bundle of waves present in water. By practice, the modulations can subside
and atman can be achieved by the disappearance of jeeva through the
process of meditation. Atman is basically a small quantity of inert energy,
which is a part of the infinite inert cosmic energy, called as Brahman. The
word Brahman is used for several great items of the creation. In this way,
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atman is a part of Brahman in quantitative sense. In qualitative sense, atman

can be taken as Brahman itself. Brahman can also mean God. But, to avoid
this confusion, Shankara Himself called God as Parabrahman. The word
Parabrahman means God, who is other than Brahman (param brahmanah iti
parabrahma). The advaita philosophers should patiently understand
Shankara involved in the task of converting atheists (Buddhists and
purvamimanskas) into theists in His time.
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ANSWERING CONTROVERSIES AT PRASHANTI

NILAYAM
Carving of Goddess Lakshmi on Babas Sandals
[June 23, 2011] Recently there is a criticism that the photo of
Goddesses Lakshmi was carved on the wodden chappals (Padukas) of Shri
Baba and this hurts the feelings of Hindus. Sometime back, some foreigners
have also done the same in some foreign country and Hindus were hurt.
The first question in this issue is whether Baba Himself ordered for such
padukas or some devotees presented those padukas with such a decoration.
If there is any proof that Baba Himself ordered for the preparation of such
padukas, we can easily say that Baba is not the human incarnation of God.
Only demons with very high ego do such things. Since Baba is the human
incarnation of God, I am sure that some devotees, who have immense faith
in Baba as Lord Narayana, must have presented those padukas. The human
incarnation always reacts in the same line as the devotee approaches with
full faith. This is said in the Gita (Ye Yathaa maam...).
The human incarnation behaves exactly in such a way so as the
faith of the devotee is fully protected. Such a behavior of the human
incarnation should be taken with reference to the corresponding devotees
only. Others should not touch that. Shri Baba was born as soon as the
special worship to Lord Satyanarayana was over. Hence, Baba was named
after the same. When the mother of Baba was pregnant standing near the
well, a beam of blue radiations entered her womb and she became
unconscious. All these show that Baba was the incarnation of Lord
Narayana. Goddesses Lakshmi always sits at the feet of Lord Narayana.
Hence, the action of the devotees, who believed this very well, is in the
same line. This should not be generalized. Baba never declared in His
speeches that He was Lord Narayana. We cannot compare Baba with the
ordinary human beings in a foreign country. Their behavior is objectionable
to everybody.
In fact, the human incarnation is a two component system. The first
component is God and the second component is the human soul. God
identified with a human being is called as human incarnation, just like an
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electrified wire in which the electricity is identified with the wire. Since the
wire gives the electric shock anywhere, we do not differentiate the wire and
electricity. Similarly, the human being and God are not differentiated in the
human incarnation. For the ordinary looks, the electrified wire looks like an
ordinary wire only. But, if the looks are impregnated with analytical
knowledge, the same wire is just the electricity. Similarly, Baba is a human
being for ordinary public. For devotees, He is just Lord Narayana. You
cannot bring both the angles to one place in one time since both contradict
each other.
Money Found in Babas Room

There were thousands of covers with cash presented to Baba by
devotees. Baba did not hide this cash in the walls of the room or in the
Swiss bank. The room is open in the campus, which was simply locked.
The room is not hidden in the underground even though the doors are
simply locked. That room could have been raided at anytime by the Tax
officials even during the life time of Baba. In the place of Baba, if any
human being is present, he would have hidden the cash somewhere. There
may be lapses in the case of some human beings, who were involved in the
financial administration. Generally, the money of God is not touched by
many people for the fear of punishment, unless they are atheists. People are
crying on such unnecessary issues. The public should worry about the
huge public funds, which evaporate by hot summer like corruption. The
pity is that the members of public themselves do corruption. The major lot
of the public itself is to be blamed because most of the voters have become
corrupt, who votes the corrupt people by taking money for the vote. The
transformation should come in the heart of every human being by the
messages given by Shri Satya Sai Baba.
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PARIPURNA ADVAITA
Shankaras Advaita is Context-Specific
[July 03, 2011] The true Advaita of Shankara is only in the aspect of
enjoying this creation by a soul just as God enjoys it. The following
analogy is given to understand this concept. The director-cum-producer of a
cinema, after producing the cinema, himself sits in the audience to watch
and enjoy it. His helper also sits along with him and enjoys the cinema. In
this aspect of enjoying the cinema as spectators, there is no difference
between the two. Of course, this similarity does not make the helper
identical with the producer of the cinema. In the context of the producing
of the cinema, the difference between the two always remains. But, once
the cinema is already produced, there is no relevance of bringing in that
difference, which is present in the context of production. Only the context
of watching and enjoying the cinema is relevant. In this context, there is no
difference between the helper and the producer.
God is that director-cum-producer of the cinema of creation. The
ordinary individual soul is the helper. In the context of producing the
cinema, there is obviously a difference between the two. God has created
this creation while the soul cannot even create an iota of creation. But, once
the process of creation is over and it is time to merely watch it like a
cinema and enjoy it, there is no need to bring in that difference between
God and the soul. God enjoys all the aspects in this creation-cinema. He is
not disturbed by the tragedies or comedies in it but derives equal enjoyment
from both. Likewise, the soul too can derive equal enjoyment from both if
the soul can remain uninvolved with the creation. Hence, Shankara said
that the soul is the same as God. This is Advaita or monism. For the process
of watching and enjoying the cinema of creation, awareness (Chit) alone is
required; no creative powers are required. This awareness is the essence of
this common spectatorship of both God and the soul. Shankara called this
common awareness as Brahman. In the aspect of this awareness (Brahman),
both Jiva (soul) and Ishwara (God) are said to be equal. Hence, Shankaras
view is also called as Chinmatra Vadathe view that awareness (Chit)
alone is true (relevant). The Jiva can remain in the same God-like state of
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an unattached spectator as long as it considers itself to be Brahman

(awareness) and does not get attached to the world. In this context of
spectatorship, the status of God as the Creator, Maintainer and Destroyer of
creation is irrelevant. Similarly, the status of the soul as a created item is
also irrelevant. To indicate this irrelevance and to highlight that
awareness alone is relevant for spectatorship, Shankara reduced the
difference between the Jiva (soul) and Ishwara (God) to zero by calling it
Mithya (unreal).
Equal Enjoyment Only Through Gods Grace

Shankara thus proved that God and the soul can equally derive
entertainment or enjoyment from watching the creation-cinema consisting
of tragedies, comedies and a variety of other scenes and situations.
However, there is an important practical difficulty in this. The essential
secret of being constantly entertained by both the tragedies and comedies is
in remaining unattached or uninvolved with the creation. This is the biggest
challenge for the soul. In theory, the soul can have the God-like state of
constant entertainment as long as it considers itself to be Brahman
(awareness) alone. But, the question is, how long can the soul remain in
that state without getting involved in the world? For God, who has
produced the creation-cinema, it is natural and automatic to realize the
unreality of creation and remain unattached to it. He has created every
scene and situation in the creation-cinema. Every moment, it is crystal clear
to Him that this world is His own creation that is meant for His own
entertainment. Creation is very obviously unreal with respect to Him. So,
He can effortlessly remain in the state of an unattached spectator and
continue to enjoy creation. Even when God enters creation as a human
incarnation and is an active participant in the creation-cinema, He can
internally remain the same unattached spectator. This is seen from the life
of Lord Krishna, who enjoyed even the tragedy at Prabhasa that caused the
end of His entire family. Moreover, He also witnessed and enjoyed the
death of His own body when He was shot in the foot by a hunter. However,
the soul is made of the same fundamental elements and qualities that
constitute creation. It is a part and parcel of creation. The soul was not
involved in the process of producing this creation. Unlike God, the soul
does not have the experience of creating this world. So, the soul cannot
realize the creation to be unreal. Whenever a soul watches creation, it gets
attached to it. Additionally, the soul is also a participant in the creationcinema. This makes the soul even more susceptible to getting attached to
the creation-cinema. Once attached to the creation-cinema, the soul loses its
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constant entertainment through the tragedies and comedies of creation. It

becomes the doer and the enjoyer. It suffers and enjoys alternately.
Thus, the constancy of the souls entertainment is interrupted. In fact, the
soul, right from its birth has always been in the attached state. It is the
souls very nature to get attached to creation and the soul is totally
helpless in this matter. It has never experienced the God-like state
(Advaita) of being an unattached spectator of the world. Hence, the soul has
only enjoyed the world intermittently. It has never achieved the ideal Godlike constant entertainment throughout all the happy and miserable
moments in life.
Thus, Shankaras reduction of the difference between God and the
soul to zero (Mithya) is merely a theoretical assumption. Practically, there
is a huge difference in the status of God as the Creator of the world and that
of the soul as a created item. This difference cannot be neglected. Then,
how can the soul ever attain the God-like unattached spectatorship or
Advaita? Shankara said that the soul can achieve that state only with the
grace of God (Ishwaraanugrahat eva Shankara). This is the most
profound and critical statement. It clearly marks the main obstacle in the
attainment of that state and it also indicates the direction that one must take
to attain it. Without His grace, it is impossible to remain as an unattached
spectator of creation. Yet by reminding oneself repeatedly that one is
awareness (Brahman) alone, the soul can experience that state of unattached
spectatorship for short periods. This is helpful in removing the stress
developed from the miseries and problems that one faces in the world. But,
alas, it is only temporary.
The State of an Avadhuta

[Nikhil asked whether the Avadhutas, who appear completely
detached from the real world like madmen, are actually enjoying only this
temporary phase of unattached spectatorship of the world. Swami
responded as follows.]
The Avadhutas are totally disconnected from the world. They are not
even enjoying. Their state is similar to a coma. In the earlier analogy of
watching the cinema, they are the people, who have closed their eyes and
stopped watching the cinema altogether. They are like the person, who has
taken a sleeping pill in the cinema hall. This state is far from the state of
God, who is consciously watching the cinema and deriving enjoyment out
of it. Such Avadhutas are souls, who fearing the attachment to the world
have completely disconnected themselves from the world as if by taking a
sleeping pill. They tried to be like God in one aspect i.e., not being affected
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by the joys and tragedies of the world. But, unfortunately, they chose the
path of disconnecting themselves from the world. So, they have even lost
the enjoyment or entertainment from the world. In this aspect, they have
gone far from the state of God. Gods state of unattached spectatorship is
very different from such Avadhutas. God is unaffected while enjoying the
creation where as avadhuta is unaffected by disconnecting himself totally
from the enjoyment. The final effect is one and the same but there is lot of
difference in the background.
The state of the Gopikas is different from the Avadhuta. Their case is
like that of the helper, who sits in the cinema hall with the producer, but
stops watching the cinema and instead turns towards the producer to win
his favor. The Avadhuta is one, who stops watching the cinema but does
not turn to the producer either. He simply goes off to sleep. The Gopikas
turned away from the world and turned towards Lord Krishna. They knew
that only through His grace, it is possible to enjoy the creation-cinema in an
unattached manner. So, they turned to Him to attain His grace, through
practical devotion (service). There is one thing common between the
Gopikas and the Avadhutathey both have stopped watching the creationcinema. But, the major difference between them is that the Gopikas are
turned to the Lord and are taking effort (sadhana) to achieve His grace.
They have surrendered to God. There is hope that they will attain His grace
and with that grace, they will attain the God-like state of constant
entertainment as an unattached spectator of creation. The Avadhuta has no
such hope, since he is not even trying for the grace of God. He foolishly
thinks that he is already God, simply because he has disconnected himself
from creation and is not affected by it. He is actually full of ego and he will
never attain the state of God. In fact, he has no hope of even attaining the
state of the Gopikas.
This path of turning away from the cinema and turning towards
God (like the Gopikas) is called as Nivritti. Nivritti contains Pravritti.
Nivritti is impregnated with Pravritti. They are not different. The reason for
the detachment from the world must be the attachment to God.
Achieving Gods State of Unattached Spectatorship

[Nikhil expressed the difficulty in keeping ones attention focused on
God. It is common for a seeker to get distracted by the world and get
attached to it.]
The case of Gopikas is that of the final stage of sadhana (spiritual
effort). They were able to focus their attention on God and disregard the
world. It is called siddhi (successful attainment). However, sadhakas
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(seekers) have to go through all the earlier stages, where they can get
distracted by the world. When selfishness enters ones mind, one falls from
the state of pure (selfless) devotion. But, in spite of these failures, one must
repeatedly practice turning to God again. The Gopikas were sages in their
past birth. They too had gone through all these stages earlier. Turning to
God means developing attachment to God. Attachment to God will
automatically reduce the attachment to the world. It is not necessary to
forcibly detach from the world. Such forcible detachment is worthless and
it will never be permanent either. In fact, one should not try to do it.
Forcible detachment is going on the path of becoming an Avadhuta. This
is certainly not the goal. One should taste divine nectar (Amritam). The
attachment to coffee or any other worldly drink will automatically vanish.
There is no need to take any special effort to forcibly develop detachment
from coffee. One should take efforts to develop attraction towards ones
studies; not forcibly abstain from watching the television. Thus, ones
effort should only be towards developing attachment to God. The
weakening of the attachment to the world will be an automatic
consequence. Attachment to God is called devotion. Prahlada never tried to
detach from the world (Vairagya). He only developed devotion (bhakti).
His detachment towards the world was automatic. Thus, Vairagya is an
automatic consequence of bhakti.
Devotion is the product of knowledge. Without knowledge, there
cannot be devotion. Jnana yoga (path of knowledge) is the foundation of
bhakti yoga (path of devotion). Therefore, Lord Krishna started preaching
the Gita with the Sankhya yoga (path of knowledge). Even Rukmini first
got knowledge about Lord Krishna from sage Narada. That knowledge of
the Lord automatically developed devotion for Him in her heart. Through
knowledge, the devotion for God gradually increases in our heart.
Proportionally, our attachment to the world also weakens. Bhakti or
devotion automatically leads to practice (service). Service need not be
considered as a separate step. It is the second part of devotion called as
practical devotion. In fact, knowledge too is not different from devotion
since it causes devotion. It can be said to be the causal factor or foundation
for devotion. Thus, devotion encompasses all three
9) knowledge, which is the foundation for devotion
10) devotion itself, which is the strong determination in the mind
11) service, which is practical devotion or the proof of ones devotion.
Thus, jnana yoga (knowledge) and karma yoga (service) are included
in bhakti yoga (devotion). The three steps of knowledge, devotion and
service can be reclassified in any way as per ones convenience. In fact,
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they are only one. Hence, Lord Krishna says that the one, who sees
knowledge and action as one, is the true seer (Ekam Sankyam cha yogam
cha Gita). Knowledge and action (service) can be seen to be one in the
intermediate step called devotion. The two merge in devotion. Turning
towards God or developing attachment towards God means all these three.
Sadhana, thus includes knowledge, devotion and service.
No doubt the sadhaka will slip and fall on this path of sadhana. But,
he has to rise again taking the support of the rope of knowledge. The
knowledge will again generate devotion to God. That devotion will be
tested in the sadhakas ability to do practical service for the contemporary
human incarnation of God. Thus, he has to proceed persistently. The state
of continuous entertainment through unattached spectatorship is
Paripurna Advaita (full and complete oneness with God) and it can be
attained by such persistent effort. This is the state of the human incarnation
of God. This state is even higher than the state of the Gopikas. This status is
given to that soul, who has attained the grace of God through his spiritual
effort (sadhana). God enters such a soul and he becomes a human
incarnation of God Himself. Then, He can enjoy the world as a cinema
without getting affected by it. He can enjoy like God because He has
become God. This is Paripurna Advaita.
Purity Supersedes Quantity in Practical Service

Purity is the most important factor in practical service. It is far more
important than the quantity of service. Let us take an example. Let us say
there are four samples of sugar. There is one gram sample of impure sugar,
one kilogram of impure sugar, one gram of pure sugar and one kilogram of
pure sugar. Clearly, the one gram and one kilogram samples of pure sugar
are appreciable while the two samples of impure sugar are both useless,
irrespective of their quantity. A devotee offers some food offering in a
temple (Naivedyam) and expects the satisfaction of some selfish desire by
God. His sacrifice of that food is a small sacrifice and it is also impure. It is
like one gram of impure sugar. Ravana chopped off his own heads and
offered them to Lord Shiva. His sacrifice was great but he had a selfish
interest in doing so. So, his sacrifice was like the one kilogram of impure
sugar. Both these cases are worthless. Shabari fed a few berries to Lord
Rama with a pure heart, completely free of any selfish desire. Her sacrifice
was like one gram of pure sugar. Kannappa plucked out his own eyes and
donated them to the Lord. He expected nothing in return. His sacrifice was
like one kilogram of pure sugar. Both Kannappa and Shabari are
appreciated.
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The quantity of Kannappas devotion might appear huge in

comparison to that of Shabari. But in fact, that difference in quantity is not
very significant. This is because, both Shabari and Kannappa were pure
(selfless). The difference in the quantity of their service was only due to the
context of the situation. There was no requirement for Shabari to donate her
eyes to Lord Rama. All that Lord Rama needed from her was some food
and directions to find His lost wife, Sita. Shabari merely responded to the
requirement of the situation with full purity. If there had been a requirement
to even sacrifice her life for the sake of Lord Rama, she could have done it
since she was already selfless (pure). Thus, in spite of the apparent
quantitative difference between the practical sacrifice of Kannappa and
Shabari, both their sacrifices can be considered to be almost equal. Hence,
the sadhaka must focus on developing purity in practical service. The
quantity of service will be decided by Gods requirement in the situational
context.
God Grants Devotion As Well As Deviation

[Phani asked Swami to always keep him in the state of devotion.]
When a person is having his meals, the server serves both hot dishes
(chillies) and sweet dishes to him. The alternate combination of the
contrasting flavors gives real enjoyment to the eater. If the server serves
only hot dishes or only sweet dishes, the eater will get bored with the same
flavor. God is that server. He grants us devotion as well as ignorance
(Maya) or temporary deviation from devotion. Here, you must remember
that He, who gave the hot dish, will also give you the sweet dish. Both are
necessary for full enjoyment. Even continuous devotion will become
boring. The devotee, who thinks he can maintain continuous devotion to
God, is ignorant. He will get bored in that state and fall from it anyway.
Hence, deviation from devotion is given as an interval. In fact hotter the hot
dish, the greater will be the pleasure in eating the sweet dish later on. Thus,
deviation from devotion is given only so that one enjoys the devotion even
more.
The one, who understands this, will never blame God when he slips
from his state of devotion to God. In fact, he will never ever blame God for
anything in life. Even that slipping from devotion is the grace of God. God
is the Master Caterer and knows the perfect art of catering. He knows,
which dish is to be served, when and in what form. The person, who has
complete knowledge, understands God like this. He never rejects anything
or anybody in creation. He understands that all the tragedies and
comedies of life are all necessary for the highest entertainment in this
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world. He will be grateful to God for them all. He will thank God every
moment of his life; even during the greatest tragedy. God Himself enjoys
creation in this way. Lord Rama enjoyed even through the many tragedies
in His life.
Thus, one does not see any difference between the three gunas (three
fundamental qualities in creation). The qualities of Rajas (activity, passion)
and Tamas (ignorance, rigidity) are the so-called bad qualities. They are
represented by Lord Brahma (Creator) and Lord Shiva (Destroyer)
respectively. Sattvam (purity, knowledge) is the good quality, which is
represented by Lord Vishnu (Maintainer). Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are
said to be equal. This means that the qualities that they represent are also
equal. Good and bad are equal. Chillies and sweets are equal. All the three
qualities are equal because they are equally important as means for getting
complete entertainment in creation. The chillies are necessary to enjoy the
sweet later on. The hero and the villain of a movie, both get equal
remuneration. Both are equally important in giving entertainment to the
audience. None is to be rejected or criticized.
This is the highest perspective. It is called the Brahmi Sthiti (God-like
state). The person, who is established in this state, is never disturbed by the
joys or tragedies of the world. Even as he breathes his last, he enjoys his
own death, like God (Esha Brahmi SthitiBrahma Nirvana Mrichchhati
Gita). This was the state of Lord Krishna. He enjoyed throughout His entire
life. He enjoyed as He cheated the Gopikas and stole their butter (Vanchate
Parivanchate Shri Rudram, Veda). Even the Gopikas enjoyed that
cheating. That is the highest state of devotion, which is possible only with
the highest knowledge. Krishna enjoyed even His own defeat by running
away from Kalayavana. Finally, He enjoyed His own death too. This shows
how Krishna and His devotees (Gopikas) practically saw the oneness in the
three gunas and derived constant entertainment.
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CAUSES OF NAXALISM AND TERRORISM

No Private Affair Exists in the Universe Avoiding God
[July 14, 2011 Guru Purnima] Guru Purnima indicates the divine
guide, who guides not only the spiritual life but also the materialistic life. In
fact, the spiritual life is always mixed with the materialistic life. Pleasing
God is spiritual life. The materialistic life is not to annoy God by not
going against His commands (Dharma) given in the divine scripture
(Veda). First, you must not annoy God. Then only, you can please God.
Following justice and opposing injustice will satisfy God. Unless you
satisfy God through dharma or pravrutti, you cannot please God by nivrutti.
The Gita is the scripture of nivrutti, but it is related to pravrutti also in
getting the justified share of kingdom to Pandavas from Dhrutarashtra, who
is also internally blind by the love to his son. In fact, Dhrutarashtra
criticized Krishna not to poke His [Krishnas] nose in the affair of property
of his family. But, Krishna is God and God gives the punishment for every
sinful action of every human being. There can be no private affair, which
can be avoided from God. Krishna preached Gopikas by stealing their
clothes that there is no private part even in the body that avoids God. Any
amount of devotion is waste, if dharma preached by God is not followed.
Ravana was the greatest devotee but was not blessed by God, since he did
not follow justice. Therefore, pravrutti and nivrutti are inseparable. Hence,
the human incarnation of God, which is the complete guide in pravrutti and
nivrutti, should be understood on this occasion of Guru Purnima. You
cannot please anyone by any means after disobeying Him. If you disobey
justice (pravrutti) preached by God through the divine scripture in this
materialistic world, you cannot please God in the spiritual world through
any path like meditation, worship, knowledge, service etc. Obedience to
God in pravrutti is the first step through which only, you can reach the
second step, which is pleasing God in the nivrutti. If you have real love to
God, you will not disobey Him in any subject.
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Supression of Women in Indian Society

1) The reason for terrorism is the lack of knowledge of unity of
religions.
2) The reason for naxalism is the silent economic looting of poor people
by rich people.
Everywhere, the looting of money exists, which is not only in
business and politics. The economic looting takes place either openly or
silently. The father-in-law and husband loot the share of the property of the
girl in the form of dowry. The father and brother loot the share of the
property of the same girl silently. We have brought Section 498 to control
the open looting. Even though the acts of 1950s established the right of the
property of the girl, the implementation exists nowhere. The wonderful
thing is that the father and brother of the girl charge the father-in-law and
the husband as looters. When you point out somebody with your finger, the
fatty thumb points out at you. Both sides of the girl loot her property in the
pretext that the female is always a dependant and cannot protect her share
of property. The Veda says that Manu has given his property to his children
(manuh putrebhyah). The word putra here means children irrespective
of sex. The words putra, bhrata and pita mean children, brothers and
sisters and parents respectively. Unfortunately, these three words are often
misinterpreted in the sense of males only. Suppose the share of the girl in
her paternal property is Rs 3. Re 1 is looted by father-in-law and husband in
the name of dowry. The second rupee is spent in her marriage to satisfy the
ego of father and father-in-law to perform the function in the grand way to
please their friends and relatives. Thus, the second rupee is jointly looted by
both father and father-in-law. The third rupee is swallowed by the father to
divert it to his son. The girl is thus economically looted in total by the entire
society. She is made to have a psychological feeling that she is always
economically dependent either on her father or on her father-in-law and
husband. The dowry system is a joint corruption of the father and fatherin-law. The father is giving Re 1 to father-in-law in order to save Re 1 for
his son. The scripture says that the father-in-law and the husband should not
touch the money of the bride (stri vitta madhamaadham). In the same
verse, the scripture also warns the father and brother by saying that the
money of the sister should not be touched (adhamam bhraatru
vittamcha). The scripture is a double edged knife warning both sides to
protect the share of the property of the girl. The father of the girl should
adopt justice in the case of his daughter and also should preach this concept
to the father of his daughter-in-law. He should not think that he is the looser
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in the case of his daughter and gainer in the case of his daughter-in-law
because the share is important and not the magnitude of the share. There is
no question of profit and loss, when you do not look in the angle of the
magnitude of the share. You must think that you are just following the
justice, which is the command of God through the scripture. If this
concept is followed by every individual in the society, the present crimes on
the girl will naturally subside.
Traditional practice is also built up in a special way to feel that
daughter is an outsider and the son belongs to the family. In order to
accomplish this, the surname and gotram of the girl are changed after the
marriage. The surname and gotram give the address of genetic
characteristics of an individual, which can never change. If you keep the
mango fruit in the basket of bananas, the mango will not become banana
fruit. This change is only apparent (gauna) and not real (mukhya). When
you keep your child in the house of your friend, you say that the child is
their child. Really, the child never becomes their child. Similarly, when the
daughter is sent to others house, you change her surname and gotram so
that they feel that the girl belongs to their line of dynasty. Thus, this change
is only apparent and not real. Therefore, the child born to a couple gets
both surnames and both gotras. Hence, the child should not marry in
future in both gotras. You may be called by one surname and gotram. The
other surname and the other gotram remains silent. Suppose you have a
long name. People call you by a part of your nane only for convenience. It
does not mean that the other part of the name is vanished. Therefore, the
daughter of maternal uncle is sister and the daughter of the sister is also
daughter. Marrying both is against the sanction of ethical scriptures. This
aspect is exploited to feel that the girl is an outsider.
The parents are also threatened by the son that if entire property is not
given to him, he will not perform the rituals after death. This is again
exploitation of misunderstanding only. Actually, the soul after death enters
energetic body and has no connection with the food fed to the priest after
death. The soul after death goes in two paths as said in the Gita (shukla
Krishna gatee). In the first path, the soul goes to the abode of God and in
this path, the soul does not require the food given to priest in the annual
ceremony (nahi tena pathaa tanutyajah tanayaavarjita panda
kaamshinah). In the second path, the soul either goes to heaven or Pitru
Loka or hell. In heaven, there is no need of food and water
(ubheteertvaa). In Pitru Loka, the food is the light of moon (nirvishta
saaraam pitrubhih). In hell, the soul is tortured suffering with hunger and
thirst and no food and drink are allowed (jaayaswa mriyaswa...). In all
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these four paths, the soul is covered by energetic body, which does not
require any matter as food. Energetic body requires energy only as food.
This does not mean that you should not give food to a deserving priest. If
you give food to any deserving person in the name of the departed soul,
the soul is certainly blessed. Giving food to a deserving person need not be
done with specific tradition only. In such case, such specific tradition does
not exist in all the countries of the world. There cannot be universality of a
specific tradition, which does not exist everywhere in the universe. If you
stress on the specific tradition, the universality is disturbed and God
becomes partial for giving such tradition to a limited part of the world only.
The essence of the ritual is giving food to any deserving person. This
essence is universal and is being practiced everywhere in the world.
Therefore, even the daughter can give food, clothes and subscription
(dakshina) to a deserving person in the name of her departed parents.
Such act becomes equal to the ceremony conducted by the son in a specific
tradition. The essence of the ritual is important and the tradition has no
significance. The doubt comes about the ancient saying that if you do not
perform the ceremony, the departed parents suffer with hunger. This is
called as artha vaada, which means a lie proposed to achieve some good
purpose. A greedy person may not sacrifice food to a deserving person
unless the fear (that his departed parents suffer with hunger) does not exist.
This is created for a good purpose, which is exploited by the son, to
demand the entire property. A lie is not wrong if it serves good purpose.
The mother feeds her child saying that the moon comes down if the child
eats the food. The mother has told a lie for good purpose only and hence, it
is not wrong. Charvaaka criticized that how the departed soul can get the
food if the priest is fed? He told that in such case, the father sitting in the
upstairs should get his food that is given to somebody else in the down
stairs. This criticism of Charvaaka is not completely correct. The departed
soul does not get the food since it is in the energetic body. But, the fact is
twisted to inculcate the sacrifice in a greedy person. Charvaaka has not
understood the whole background. Of course, we should condemn the
exploitation of this by somebody. The economic suppression of women is
the reason for the poverty of the country because the deity of wealth,
Shree Maha Lakshmi is also a woman. This is the reason for the revolt of
women against the males. Similarly, when the poor people are exploited
and are looted by the rich business people and politicians due to their blind
love to their families, the poor people revolt. This is the background of
naxalism, which is the cause for the birth of naxalists, who want to
transform the society through riffles. But, such transformation is not real
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and permanent. Knowledge is the most powerful riffle and the preacher of
the knowledge is the most powerful naxalite.
The Problem of Terrorism

Now, we shall examine the problem of terrorism. There can be many
religions on the earth, based on the difference in the culture and the
civilization existing in the various parts of the world. In the above topic,
we have seen that the traditions are different, but the essence of the
traditions is one and the same. Similarly, religions may differ, but the
essence of the religions, which is the spiritual knowledge, is one and the
same. The spiritual knowledge says that there is only one God for this
entire earth or even for the entire creation. This point is agreed by all
religions. The names and forms of the absolute unimaginable God are
different in different languages and different dresses of culture. Krishna and
Jesus are one and the same, dressed differently as per the difference in the
culture of the regions of this earth. If you say that Krishna alone is God and
the Gita alone is the scripture, several generations passed away without the
knowledge of Krishna and the Gita in the past, when there was no
communication between the countries, till the discovery of India by other
countries. In such case, those generations have gone to hell since they did
not worship Krishna and did not here the Gita. This is not their fault due to
lack of inter-continental contact. In such case, God becomes partial without
reason. It means, God should have been mad. God is the Father of every
human being and He cannot be partial to some children only without
reason. If God is impartial, He should have appeared as Krishna in all
countries and delivered the Gita simultaneously. Had it been done, it
becomes justified to say that those, who worshipped Krishna, went to God
and those, who refused Krishna, went to hell. This argument applies to the
conservative followers of every religion. The solution for this is that the
same God appeared in different forms and delivered the same knowledge
in various parts of the world simultaneously. The forms may be different
but God is one and the same. The languages of the scriptures may differ but
the essential knowledge is one and the same. Thus, there is simultaneous
delivery of knowledge to everybody in the creation. Hence, God, the
Father, is impartial to His children, who are all the human beings. If this
single truth is realized, there will be no violent terrorism in the name of
God. The terrorists always kill the followers of other religion. They do not
know that they are killing the devotees of their own God. Suppose there is
a police officer. He sits in his office in the uniform and another police
officer is his best friend. The police officer sits in his house in civil dress.
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He has another friend in civil dress. The son of the police officer is always
exposed to him in the civil dress. Hence, the son praises the friend of the
father in civil dress and scolds the other friend in uniform. The ignorant son
does not know that his father in the civil dress is the same person in the
uniform. He mistakes his father in the uniform as an outsider and even
scolds him.
Both naxalism and terrorism should be removed to bring the peace in
society, which is the main essence of pravrutti. Unless you follow the
ethics, which is the commandment of God, how can you please Him in
nivrutti or spiritual path? If you disobey God in pravrutti, you cannot please
Him in nivrutti because God is one and the same in both the subjects.
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INCARNATION BEHAVES LIKE GOD ONLY WITH

DEVOTEES
[July 15, 2011] God is unimaginable and hence, cannot be even
imagined by even sharp intelligence. Therefore, there is no possibility of
any kind of interaction with God. God knows all of us, but, we can never
know God. Hence, the interaction with unimaginable God is one sided
only. But, we like to have an interaction, which is in both sides. We like to
know, see, talk, touch and live with God. We like to serve God because
service is the practical proof of love or devotion to God. For this purpose,
God comes down in the same medium in which we exist. Hence, God
comes in human form. If God comes in the form of an inert object, our
service becomes impossible. For the sake of inert objects, He has to come
in the inert form. But, the inert objects do not interact at all. If He comes
down as a bird or animal, the birds and animals may interact and the human
beings cannot interact. In such case, you cannot talk with God since you
cannot talk with a bird or animal. We cannot clarify our doubts with God in
such case. If God comes down in the energetic form, we cannot touch God
and cannot live with Him for a long time. Therefore, the human form is
the best suited to the human beings. The energetic form of God is relevant
to the departed souls existing in the energetic bodies in the upper worlds.
But, the human form of God is not easily available. Even if it is easily
available, most of the human beings suffer with ego and jealousy towards a
co-human form. Any human being does not agree the greatness of a cohuman being.
Therefore, the human incarnation interacts with those few selected
devotees only, who conquered the ego and jealousy. For other human
beings, the human incarnation behaves like a co-human being only
following the usual social norms. Krishna behaved like a human being
only with all the people and behaved like God for His close devotees.
Therefore, God comes down for the needy only.
In general, the major lot of humanity does not require the human
incarnation. Even if they require, they cannot recognize due to their
inherent ego and jealousy based on the repulsion between common media.
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Therefore, there is no use of human incarnation for the major humanity.

But, they also require God. For their purpose, God is represented by statues
and photos of energetic forms. Since the energetic forms like Vishnu, Shiva
etc, are not available, a photo or statue representing them can be only
worshipped. Even, the past human incarnations like Rama, Krishna etc, can
be worshipped through the photos and statues. Since direct photo is not
possible, only imaginary photos and statues are worshipped. Even the alive
trees, animals, birds etc, are worshipped because they are not alive human
forms. But, all these statues and photos represent human form only
indicating that the final goal is the alive human incarnation only. The
Shivalingam is just a round stone, which indicates that the human beings in
this world can interact only with matter and not with the unimaginable God
directly. The Shivalingam is in the form of the energetic wave representing
energy and there by indicates that energetic form is necessary for the
worship of unimaginable God by the departed souls existing in energetic
bodies in the upper world.
Therefore, the Shivalingam denotes both matter and energy, which
are the media required for the expression of unimaginable God in this
world and upper world respectively. Even the body of human incarnation is
matter only. Therefore, the Shivalingam represents the first step of
interaction, which is matter. The second step is the carved human form in
the matter (stone). The third step is the alive human incarnation. Hence, the
idol worship is meant for the major lot of humanity suffering with ego and
jealousy in the initial stage. Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba told that just like
the finger indicates the flower, the idol indicates the goal. Once the flower
is seen, the finger is not necessary, Baba said. It means, once you catch the
alive human incarnation, these photos and statues of energetic forms and
past incarnations in human form only are not necessary. The goal of all
these statues and photos is alive human incarnation only with which you
can interact and serve in all angles including the clarification of your
doubts.
Negative Angle in Idol Worship

The idol worship is not wrong, but is limited to the initial stage. It
serves good purpose in the initial stage by developing devotion. Even
service and sacrifice is done in the idol worship. People sacrifice lot of their
earnings to serve the temple containing idols. Devotees are ready for
practical sacrifice to God even in the initial stage. But, the ego and jealousy
to a co-human form prevents them to do sacrifice and service to human
incarnation. This weak point is exploited by some bad priests to earn. This
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is the negative angle of the idol worship. To remove this negative angle, the
idol worship is condemned by Swami Dayananda Saraswati, who was also
a human incarnation. He opposed the concept of human incarnation like
Mohammad since there are some negative aspects of this concept. The
genuine human incarnation may not be properly received by the public
suffering with ego and jealousy and their violent reaction was seen in the
case of Jesus. The other negative angle is that the fraud human incarnations
may exploit the society.
The policy of the programme of any human incarnation depends on
the psychology of the public with which it has to interact. Swami
Dayananda rejected the idol worship since a rat stole the food offered to
Shivalingam in a temple. Swami told that there is no Lord in the
Shivalingam since it is only a stone. This concept arrests the exploitations
of the idol worship. This does not mean that Swami is unaware of the
merits of idol worship. Sometimes, the concept should be de-rooted
completely in order to condemn the strong exploitation of the concept.
Once the exploitation disappears, the concept can be again re-installed. Shri
Ramakrishna Parama Hamsa also existed in the time of Swami Dayananda.
Shri Parama Hamsa was a priest in the temple worshipping the idol. He
supported the idol worship. He said that you should view the idol as the
alive form. This means that you must catch the alive form of God through
the idol. Shri Parama Hamsa Himself was another human incarnation and
declared that He was Rama and Krishna. This means, He never asked you
to sit in the stage of the idol worship. The sense of His statement is that you
should feel as if you are worshipping the alive form during the service of
idol. Then only, the real devotion grows. The total story is that on one side,
Swami Dayananda condemned the negative sides of idol worship and on
the other side, Shri Parama Hamsa supported the positive sides of the idol
worship. The same God spoke simultaneously through both these human
forms.
The conclusion is that you should utilize any concept, accepting the
positive views and avoid the negative exploitations of the same concept.
Ignorant people misunderstand that Shri Parama Hamsa and Swami
Dayananda opposed each other. All the preachers existing in theism should
always be correlated in other concepts since the fundamental point of
existence of God is not violated. The difference in Them is only due to the
existing circumstances in their times, which have to be reformed.
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THE RELEVANCE OF THE INCARNATION

Providing Guidance is the Essence
[July 17, 2011] The energetic incarnation like Vishnu, Shiva etc., is
energetic body charged by the unimaginable God. It is like a letter delivered
in Bombay from USA. But, you are in Hyderabad and therefore, that letter
delivered to the citizen in Bombay is irrelevant to you. Of course, you are
attracted to the special envelop of USA, which is externally different from
the Indian envelop since it is made of costly paper. The same letter comes
to you in the Indian envelop and this is the human incarnation of the same
unimaginable God. The human form is mostly made of matter with little
energy. But, the energetic form is made of fully shining energy only. The
internal letter in both the envelops is one and the same. Similarly, the
internal unimaginable God is one and the same in both the incarnations.
The contents of the letter are also one and the same. Similarly, the spiritual
knowledge given by God is also one and the same. Hence, there is no
difference between Vishnu and Krishna except that the external body of
Vishnu is made of fully energy, whereas, the external body of Krishna is
made of matter and little energy. In fact, matter and energy are interconvertible forms and thus, there is no basic difference. The USA cover and
Indian cover are basically made of paper prepared from wood only. The
USA cover has more luxtre and the Indian cover has less luxtre. The energy
shines more and the matter with little energy shines little. Your special
attraction to USA cover is due to your constant exposure to Indian covers
only and lack of your exposure to USA covers. The constant exposure of
anything develops negligence and repulsion, which is the basis for
developing ego and jealousy towards the human incarnation.
Coming to the idol worship, it is like the envelop prepared by you,
which is not stamped and also does not contain letter in it. The idol or
photo is prepared by you, which is not chosen by God to come to you. It
only resembles a postal envelop. It does not give any message of guidance.
But, the envelop prepared by you is made of the same paper even though it
has no practical utility. Similarly, the photo or idol contains the same matter
or its inter-convertible form of energy that constitutes the basic material of
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USA cover or Indian cover. The photo or statue of Vishnu or Krishna does
not speak to you. You like this very much because you can express any
unjust desire before God and pray for its fulfillment. If Krishna or Vishnu
exists in the place of that statue or photo, certainly God will speak to you
and warn you against the unjust desire. The statue or photo keeps silent to
your unjust prayer and hence, you live with a hope of its fulfillment by
God. For this purpose, you do not want God to exist before you and hence,
God is not present in the photo or statue. You are rigid of your desire and
hence, the presence of God is not liked by you. This is also the reason for
your dislike to human incarnation since it criticizes you to turn you to the
right path. If there is a photo or statue of Krishna in the chariot, Arjuna
would have spoken his argument and simply would have returned from the
battle field. Majority of humanity belongs to such type of rigid ignorance
and hence, worships the idols only. God also responds to their prayers
fulfilling their unjust desires. What is the reason for such behavior of God?
God knows that you will not change by preaching the spiritual knowledge.
Since the stage of transformation has not come, God fulfils your desire so
that at least your faith in the existence of God is strengthened. In future,
you may believe the human incarnation as God and thus, accept Its spiritual
advice given by It and transform yourself. The already strengthened faith
with God will help you to implement the spiritual advice immediately in
practice. Some people recognize the human incarnation as God, but, do not
implement the advice of God due to lack of strength in the faith.
Dhrutarashtra knows that Krishna is God, but, could not implement His
advice in practice due to lack of strength of faith in God. Hence, the idol
worship is not waste and should not be criticized. It helps in strengthening
faith and devotion in God in the initial ignorant state of human being. It is a
sort of training in created false atmosphere. The soldier is trained to shoot
the target, which is inert. In the actual war, he has to shoot the counter
soldier, who is alive. Since the target is inert, you should not say that the
training is useless. Therefore, the statues and idols are sufficient to fulfill
your materialistic desires. Even though God is not present in the statue or
photo, the omniscient God hears your prayer and responds to it. Even if you
pray in open place thinking that God is formless, the omniscient God hears
your prayers. But, if you do not come to the real path by recognizing the
human incarnation, you cannot exploit God continuously. After
sometime, He leaves you to your fate, which is the cycle of your deeds
only. The chocolates are given in the initial childhood to go to school. If
you continuously demand the chocolates, the practice is discontinued
because excess of chocolates will lead you to diseases.
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The main aim of human incarnation is the spiritual knowledge, which

is like a torch light for a traveler in the darkness. The materialistic boons
are like the food packets required by you while sitting in the intervals of
the journey. If you avoid the journey and constantly sit eating the food
packets continuously, your health will be spoiled. You may not require the
torch light while sitting and eating the food packets. But, once you start the
journey, the torch light is essential. The journey in the right path guided by
the torch light only helps you to reach the goal quickly. If you constantly
sit at one place eating the food continuously, you will not only reach the
goal but also become sick. If you dont have torch light in the journey, you
may travel but will not reach the goal since you are trapped in the wrong
path. Therefore, the main aim of the human incarnation is only the spiritual
knowledge, which guides you in the right path. Hence, only the spiritual
knowledge is the identification mark of God in human form as said in the
Veda (satyam jnaanam anantam Brahma). The knowledge given by God
is always true and hence, will be harsh. God will not go back in giving the
true knowledge because He does not aspire anything from you in return.
Such true knowledge is infinite because it is the chain of clarifications of
infinite number of doubts coming from infinite number of human beings.
Truth and infinity are the two adjectives given by the Veda, which qualify
the knowledge of God.
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CREATION IS UNREAL ONLY FOR ITS CREATOR

World Real for Soul to get Entertainment & Gods Grace
[October 26, 2011 Deepaavali] Buddha kept silent about God
indicating that God is unimaginable. This means that the existence of God
is accepted but the imaginable possibility is not accepted. But, the
followers of Buddha took that the existence of God is also not accepted.
The reason is that anything exists if it is imaginable only. That which is
unimaginable does not exist. This is the norm of the psychology of general
public. Buddha also propagated that the creation does not exist with respect
to God. Therefore, the followers of Buddha have taken that neither God nor
the creation exists. This resulted in Shunyavada, which means that nothing
exists. This is the result of misunderstanding of Buddha and the result is
misinterpretation. When Shankara came, this was the situation and every
one became an atheist of extreme. Generally, atheist negates the existence
of God but not the existence of the creation. The followers of Buddha are
extreme because not only God but also the creation is negated. The
followers of Shankara accept the existence of God but negate the existence
of creation. The atheists are vice-versa, who accept the existence of creation
but negate the existence of God. The followers of Buddha negate the
existence of both God and creation. The followers of Ramanuja and
Madhva accept the existence of both God and creation. Thus, there are four
categories:
1) The followers of Buddha negate both God and creation
2) The atheists negate God but accept creation
3) The followers of Shankara accept God but negate creation
4) The followers of Ramanuja and Madhva accept both God and
creation
Neither Buddha nor Shankara nor Ramanuja and Madhva
misunderstood truth. But, their followers and atheists have misunderstood
truth and misinterpreted truth. The truth is that God exists but is
unimaginable. The creation does not exist with respect to God but exists
with respect to the souls. The soul can not negate the existence of the world
because it is a part and parcel of the world. If the soul negates the world it
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negates itself, which is meaningless. Therefore, you cannot give a single

statement about the existence of the world. You cannot demand us to say
whether the world exists or does not exist. A single angle is impossible in
the case of creation. You cannot conclude about the existence or nonexistence of the world. Such a situation is represented by the Mithya, which
means neither it is existent nor non-existent. It is a special case. This is the
concept of Shankara about the world (Sadasat Vilakshana). This is the
concept of Buddha, Ramanuja and Madhva also because all these four are
incarnations of the same God. The total concept is known to all the four
incarnations. But according to the then existing situation, a convenient part
of the concept is stressed. This does not mean that the other part of the
concept is negated. The silence about the other part of the concept is due to
the requirement of the then existing situation. If the total concept is
stressed, people may not digest. Therefore, based on the relevant
requirement, the relevant part is only stressed. This mechanism is called as
psychology, which must be followed by the teacher. This serves the
purpose and the first generation of the followers were always rectified. But,
the other generations of the followers of the same school always
misunderstand due to the absence of the original preacher of the school. To
clarify the misunderstanding, God appears again and again. This process is
continuous and God also gets the opportunity of continuous engagement.
When Shankara came, the Buddhists negated both God and world.
The immediate requirement was to establish the existence of God. The
reason is that there is no dual possibility regarding the existence of God.
God always exists. But, the world has the dual possibility. In one sense,
with respect to God, world does not exist and the same world exists with
respect to soul in other sense. Therefore, even if the existence of world is
denied, it is correct with respect to God. But, the existence of God should
not be negated in any sense. Therefore, Shankara accepted the non
existence of the world and in such case it must be with respect to God.
Shankara never touched the angle of souls here. If the world is unreal, there
must be somebody to realize the absence of this world. That somebody
must be God only because the world is unreal for God only. Therefore, the
awareness of God only is referred by Shankara and not the awareness of the
soul in this context. Awareness is only a property and is not an
independent object. Therefore, awareness does not mean soul since soul is
an independent object. Awareness is the possibility or capability or the
process of knowing. A king and beggar see the rising sun and know that it
is the rising sun. Since, both are aware of sun, both are not one and the
same. Awareness is a common property of both king and beggar. Similarly,
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God and soul have the awareness. You say that awareness is soul and
therefore, soul is God. Then, you have to say that awareness is beggar and
therefore, the king is beggar. King and beggar are the two independent
entities. Awareness is a dependable property of both king and beggar.
Shankara feared that the soul may misunderstand that it is God and
therefore, consequently may think that the world is unreal. If the soul is
God and if the world is unreal to the soul, Shankara must have maintained
one angle only and might have told that the world is unreal (Asat). But,
Shankara told that world is neither real nor unreal in single angle since, it is
real in one angle and is unreal in another angle. Therefore, He stated that
the world is both real and unreal or neither real nor unreal since it is real in
one angle and unreal in another angle. Both these angles are referred by
Him as Paramartha dasha and Vyavahara dasha. The first stands for the
angle of God and the second stands for the angle of the soul. The world is
called as Maayaa, which means both wonderful (Maya- Vychitrye) and nonexistent (Yaa Maa Saa Maayaa). For the soul, the world is wonderful and
for God, it is non-existent.
All the above mentioned four categories are partially wrong and
partially correct. Even the atheists are partially correct because the world is
true for the soul. This aspect should never be forgotten by the soul because
it is a practical experience. A walking human being is always obstructed by
a wall since the wall is always real. The human incarnation like Shankara
may pass through bolted doors of the house of Mandana Mishra because
God is identified with the human being in that case and such context
becomes the angle of God in which the wall is proved to be unreal. But, by
this aspect alone you should not decide the human incarnation since a
demon like Ravana can also pass through the wall. Both Krishna and
Ravana can pass through the wall. But, Krishna alone can preach the Gita
and not Ravana. You can understand the difference if you can understand
the statement all gentlemen are human beings but all human beings are not
gentlemen.
The soul should never think that the world is unreal. In such case, the
soul itself becomes unreal since it is part and parcel of the world. The entire
world including the soul is unreal to God but the unreal world cannot be
unreal for the unreal soul. Unreal for unreal is always real. The God is
always unimaginable and the soul can never catch God. If the soul thinks
that the world is also unreal, then everything becomes zero including itself.
The real God is grasped by the soul when the real God identifies Himself
with a part of this real world. Such part is the human being and such part is
called as Human incarnation. The reality of the world is indicated by the
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respect given to the Divine Mother by Shankara and Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa. If the world is real, you can have real entertainment in this
real world. You can also approach the unimaginable God through this real
creation only. You can attain worldly pleasures and also the grace of
unimaginable God through the reality of the creation only, which is the
devotion to the Divine Mother. The aspect of unreality of the creation to
God is always unnecessary and irrelevant to the soul at anytime because the
soul is never transformed in to God even in the case of human incarnation.
You may take wire as current as long as current passes in it, but the wire is
never transformed in to current. However, this point should not mislead you
to disregard the human incarnation since the electrified wire is electricity
for all practical purposes. The Veda says that there is no other way than this
to approach the unimaginable God (Nanyah Panthah). The behavior of
father towards mother should never be imitated by the son. The father may
scold the mother but the son should always respect the mother. His
relationship to her is quite different from your relationship to her. For Him,
she is unreal, but for you she is real. You must always respect her.
Now I compose a verse on the Divine Mother for the sake of the
worship of the Divine Mother, so that we can get some real entertainment
with real objects in this real world, which is called as Eihika and also the
grace of unimaginable God through this real world only because a part of
this real world becomes Human Incarnation for the approach and worship
towards the unimaginable God, which is called as Amushmika.
Aartim Chindi manobhayam hara mahamaayee jaganmaatrukee
Praaptam vaardhakamaartimulamadhunaa chintaakaram santatam
Tvayyaamushmika maihikamcha kalayee Brahmaatmikohyaat paraa
Drushyaa panchavibhutibhutavapushaa sarvam madambaavasham.
Meaning: Oh! Divine Mother! Oh! Mahaa Mayaa! Oh! Mother of the
world! Crash my suffering. Remove the fear of my mind. Now I have got
this old age, which is the source of all sufferings and which always gives
tensions. I find both the worldly fruit and the salvation fruit in you only. In
the Human Incarnation the internal soul is the unimaginable God, Who is
perceived through the human form only. This human form is a part of the
visible world only. The worldly pleasures are derived from the visible
worldly objects only and such world is your external body. Therefore, both
super natural and natural fruits are in the control of My Divine Mother
only.
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OMNIPOTENT GOD DOES NOT REQUIRE HECTIC

EFFORT TO REALIZE HE IS GOD
Truth in Scriptures Stands Any Extent of Analysis
[October 26, 2011 Deepaavali Evening Message] The Advaita
philosophers believe that this world is unreal for them also and that God
alone is real. This is absolutely correct with respect to the angle of God. In
the angle of the souls, the world is absolutely reality because the soul is
always absolutely real for itself since the soul is part and parcel of the
world. The soul cannot grasp God, who is beyond this world since God is
the ultimate absolute reality. However, in the view of advaita philosopher,
the soul itself is God and hence, the world is unreal from the angle of the
soul also. In such case, what is the necessity for doing the hectic effort to
become God? God may be immersed in the ignorance for a very short span
of time to entertain Himself in the world. Such omnipotent God can regain
His original nature in a fraction of second with single thought. The
omnipotent God does not require hectic effort to realize Himself as God.
The soul does not become God in spite of hectic effort. Does this mean
that the strength of ignorance is more than the strength of the omnipotent
God?
Therefore, the logical conclusion is that the soul is not the God and
hence, there is no use of any extent of hectic effort [to become God]. In
such case, the soul should not treat this world as unreal. But, the Advaita
philosopher is rigid that the world is unreal for him. He wants to please the
real God by sacrificing the unreal items of this unreal world. He wants to be
benefitted by catching the grace of the real God through the sacrifice of this
unreal world. Such sacrifice is not real. The sacrifice becomes real only if
the soul sacrifices the real items of this real world for the sake of God. The
detachment of the Advaita philosopher is based on cheating business since
unreal world is sacrificed to get the grace of real God by which he wants to
become God. Shri Totapuri came to Paramahamsa shouting that the Divine
Mother, who represents this world, must be neglected since the world is
unreal. He suffered with severe stomach pain and failed even to commit
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suicide in Ganges. Then, he realized that Divine Mother, representing the

world, is real for all the souls.
You can realize the reality of the world through analysis only. You
should not give value to anything except analysis. You should not try to
give value to a statement in the scripture because it is in the scripture. The
concept of the statement of the scripture is always true and the truth
stands always in any extent of intensive analysis. Truth never fears to
stand before the verification by any extent of analysis. If the statement in
the scripture fails in analysis, it means you have taken the statement in the
angle of some wrong interpretation. If the statement of scripture is taken in
its original correct angle, it never fails in analysis. The Gita starts with the
praise of analysis (Sankhya Yoga or Buddhi Yoga). The last verse of the
Gita says that Arjuna should analyze everything said in the Gita and accept
only after analysis. Shankara condemned the atheistic Sankhya Yoga of
Kapila. Then the opponent said that Kapila is said to be omniscient.
Shankara refused the validity of such statement stating that tomorrow
somebody may say that some Tom, Dick and Harry are also omniscient.
The validity of the truth comes only from the analysis and not by any other
undue consideration. Actually the omniscient Kapila, who was the human
incarnation of God, is different from the Kapila, who is the author of the
atheistic Sankhya Yoga. This confusion is exploited by the opponent.
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DEVELOPING PURITY IN DEVOTION IS THE FIRST

STEP
Selfish Love is the Essence in Worldly Bonds
[October 27, 2011 Shri Anil Antony asked why the lives of devotees
are always full of difficulties and miseries? Does this mean that God is
always associated with misery and not bliss?]
Swami replied: God is always associated with bliss. Everybody
approaches God to get that bliss just like you approach the fire to get the
heat. You love God only to get happiness, benefits and protection from
God. Such love is instrumental love and not the ultimate love. Instrumental
love means that you love somebody or something because that person or
that thing is the instrument to give you happiness. This is stated by the sage
Yajnyavalkya in Bruhadaaranyakopanishat. He says that anybody loves
anything or anybody to fulfill his desire for happiness from that person or
that thing (Atmanah kamaya sarvam priyam bhavati). One loves his wife
because she gives him happiness. One loves his son because he serves him
in the old age. One loves money because it gives all sorts of comforts in the
life. If the wife or son or money gives problems and misery, one throws
away these. From the childhood, the human being is habituated to love
anything or anybody for the sake of its happiness only. The child loves its
mother because she gives milk when it is hungry. All the worldly bonds are
thus, selfish only. Nobody loves anybody for the sake of that person.
Therefore, the human being is trained from the childhood with such selfish
love only.
Therefore, when the human being loves God, naturally such selfish
love only flows towards God. The human being thinks that its devotion to
God is very pure and of very high level. No doubt, it is of very high level,
but the entire love is impure only. The magnitude of anything with minus
sign is to be condemned more and more only as its value becomes more and
more. You should not appreciate the intensity of the devotion of a demon
because such intensity of devotion is directly proportional to the intensity
of his selfishness only. In this aspect, there is no difference between a
human being and demon. This concept of the devotion is not known to the
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human being and hence, it thinks that it is the greatest devotee. In fact, it is
not even one percent devotee because its devotion is with negative sign.
This point should be clarified to the devotee. Therefore, God gives
difficulties and miseries to the devotee. In such case, the devotion vanishes
away. Then the devotee will realize that his devotion is only instrumental
but not ultimate. The devotee should not try to increase his devotion
because the devotion is in negative sign.
Therefore, the first step is to transform the devotion from negative
sign to positive sign. The positive sign is to love God without aspiring any
benefit or happiness in return. For this purpose, God gives misery to the
devotee. By this, one should not misunderstand that God is not associated
with bliss and is associated with misery only. The context here is to preach
the devotee to purify his devotion. This should not be mixed up with the
other context that God is always associated with bliss. The very fact that
God is associated with bliss spoils the devotees to get attracted for getting
bliss from God. The root meaning of the word Durga is that the God is to
be gained through misery (Duhkhena gamyate iti Durga). The meaning of
this word contains all the above analysis.
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PRACTICING SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS

[October 28, 2011 Shri Surya asked How to achieve the purification
of devotion that can really reflect in practice?]
Swami replied: For the projection of a tree, seed, water and fertilizer
are necessary. Similarly, for the practical implementation of pure
devotion, the knowledge of concept, intensification of concept by
theoretical means and practice are necessary. First you must have the
correct concept that can be received from Sadguru. The concept gains
strength when you preach and discuss with others. The concept existing in
your mind can be implemented in practice to little extent at least. The
practical implementation of the concept even to little extent takes you near
to God. The nearness can be recognized by the happiness that comes in
your mind from the blissfulness nature of God. As the concept is
implemented more and more in practice, you become nearer and nearer to
God indicated by more and more happiness. The practice of the concept
increases the strength of concept in you. Therefore, the concept gets more
and more intensified by the gradual implementation in practice as well as
the theoretical preaching and debates of the concept. The intensification
of the concept by theoretical discussions is like the growth of the plant from
the seed by the water. The growth of strength of the concept by the gradual
practice is like the growth of plant from seed by the supply of fertilizer. The
basic concept is the seed. The seed must be good. The good concept can be
obtained from Sadguru only. Thus, the purification of devotion can be
attained more and more by both the theoretical and practical steps.
You must train yourself in the concept in the society before you
approach God. A solider is trained properly in the training center before he
approaches the actual war. The training center is the society itself. First you
serve the humanity without aspiring anything in return. You will become
perfect in the concept by the training in the society. Then you will win in
the presence of God. The Gita preaches that you must do any work without
aspiration of the fruit. Such training purifies the human being and when it
approaches God, its devotion will be also pure. But, you must be careful in
the society because some cheats may exploit you and extract your work for
their benefit. Therefore, you must develop the concept in the case of
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deserving people only. What is the first criterion of the deserving receiver
of your help or service? The Veda says that the essential criterion of the
receiver is not to expect anything from you. Thus, the receiver also is
trained in the same concept. Some people do not express their desire by
mouth but expect your help in their minds so that they impress upon you as
deserving. You are not omniscient to know the hidden ideas in their minds.
Therefore, there is every chance for you to slip in serving the undeserving
people. As far as possible, you must analyze and analyze.
You can do the help or service to any extent provided you conclude
the deserving receiver. Do not be hasty in doing service. Of course, the
basic needy, who are extremely poor, need not be analyzed. Since they are
in need of basic needs only, you need not apply the analysis to their case.
There is a saying: service to humanity is service to God. The meaning of
this statement is that you must train yourself in the service of humanity so
that you will succeed in the case of God, whenever the opportunity comes.
In the case of poor people, there is no chance of expecting anything in
return. Therefore, that is the best area to develop the pure devotion by
serving without aspiring anything in return. You serve the humanity. You
will also develop love to the human form, which will be useful in serving
the contemporary human incarnation of God without any repulsion to cohuman form. All the social service is only training for the service of God.
Without the ultimate service to God, mere social service gives you only
heaven from which you have to return after sometime as said in the Gita
(Kshene Punye).
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THE ANALOGY OF TWO BIRDS ON A TREE

Intellect and Soul or Soul and God?
[October 29, 2011 Shri Phani Kumar asked Is there difference
between soul and intelligence, which are described as the two birds by
Shankara? You said the two birds as God and soul in the context of human
incarnation.]
Swami replied: The Mantra in the Veda says that there are two birds
on the tree. One bird eats the fruits and the other shines without eating.
Shankara took these two birds as the soul and the intelligence. I have
taken these two birds as the unimaginable God and imaginable soul
existing in the human incarnation. If you carefully analyze, both these
versions become one and same. God was called as soul and the intelligence
as the individual soul by Shankara. The tree is the human body in both the
interpretations. The words only differ but the concept is one and the same.
Different words have to be used based on the relevant atmosphere of the
receivers of Knowledge. In the time of Shankara, even the word God could
not be used and not to speak of the human incarnation, since all the
receivers were atheists only. The human body of the human incarnation is
actually the tree. Shankara kept silent about the human incarnation and only
the human body was referred and the followers misunderstood that God and
soul exist in every human body without realizing the problem of Shankara,
surrounded by atheists. Atheists could conveniently digest this since the
human body was acceptable to them. In the human body of the human
incarnation, God and soul co-exist. In the place of God, the soul is brought
and in the place of the soul, the intelligence is mentioned by Shankara. The
human body of the human incarnation can be easily compared to the
human body of the human being since both are one and the same. The
main predominant component in the human being is the soul. Intelligence is
only 1/4th part of the four faculties of awareness (antahkaranams). Hence,
the intelligence becomes minor component only. Similarly, in the human
body of the human incarnation, God is the major component and the soul is
the minor component only. Shankara explained the comparison only and
kept silent about the concept since atheists will not accept the concept of
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human incarnation. There is a special style of preaching in which, the

simile is elaborated in the beginning and at the end, the concept is briefly
introduced so that the concept is clearly understood through the already
explained simile. In the Gita also, the soul in the human body is explained
in the beginning by which the God in the human body of the human
incarnation can be easily understood and subsequently the human
incarnation was mentioned. Jesus also explains in this way.
Intelligence is a thought, which is the faculty of decision and it is the
head of other faculties. It represents all the faculties of awareness. It is a
specific mode of awareness. Awareness itself is the specific work form of
inert energy. We experience the thoughtless awareness in the stage of
meditation. Awareness itself is a mode in which it is aware of itself. The
general awareness in the meditation itself is in a big mode and hence, such
awareness should be also called as a big thought. When we call this as
thoughtless awareness, it only means that all other thoughts are absent in
this thought. We say that a lump of gold is formless from which several
ornaments with different forms can be evolved. We say that the lump of
gold has no form, which means that the other forms of ornaments are absent
here. Actually, the lump also has a form, which is irregular circle. In deep
sleep, the awareness disappears totally and the basic essence of awareness,
which is inert energy, is left over. This inert energy attains a specific mode
due to working in a specific machine, called nervous system. Once the
specific mode of the inert energy appears, such inert energy in that specific
mode is the thought or awareness in general. The general awareness is like
a big water wave in which other minor thoughts like minute waves exist.
These minor thoughts are called as Gunas or Bhavas, where as the major
thought is called as Sattva Guna (general awareness). The water in the
simile can be compared to the inert energy. In fact, the soul is inert energy
only as said in the Gita (Sthanurachaloyam). This inert energy is called
as Atman. The same inert energy in the form of a specific work is called
as awareness. Both the inert energy and the awareness are essentially
kinetic energy only, but, the difference like inert and non-inert classifies
them into two categories. The similarity in both is that both are kinetic
energy. The difference is that one is inert and other is awareness. The deep
scientific analysis brings both these into one phase, called as kinetic energy.
Even if you take the example of water wave, water is matter and the wave
is energy. This difference disappears since both matter and energy are interconvertible and stand in one phase, called creation. In all these similies,
Creator is not touched because the simile should be always from creation.
All these four items i.e., water, water wave, inert energy and awareness
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stand ultimately in one phase only, which is the creation. Therefore, if

you are explaining the soul and intelligence, you are explaining only the
simile and not the concept. We can say that there are only two different
items without any similarity, which are the unimaginable God and the
imaginable creation. When you say that there are two items, the number
two is based more on the difference but not unity. The Vedic Mantra starts
with the word two, i.e., Dvaa. Therefore, when there are two items with
total difference, you need not go to other two items, which have lesser
difference. Hence, the number two in reality must refer only to
unimaginable God and imaginable creation. The unimaginable God and the
imaginable soul (representing the imaginable creation) exist only in the
human body of the human incarnation. Except the human incarnation, there
is no other place where these totally different items co-exist. The Mantra
says that one bird is affected, where as the other bird is not at all affected by
the process of eating. Eating is an action (Karma) by which all the coexisting items of the creation will be directly or indirectly affected since all
the items in the creation are inter-linked. The soul (inert energy) and
intelligence (a faculty of awareness) are the two items in the creation,
which co-exist together as cause and effect since inert energy transforms
into awareness. The inert energy is the cause, which is generated by the
oxidation of the food. The awareness is the effect. The cause and effect
may be different in one angle but inseparable in other angle.
If you hit the mud pot with your leg cursing the ugly shape (effect)
only, not only the pot is insulted but also the mud in the pot, which must be
inevitably touched by the leg. The mud and pot (shape) are inseparable. We
agree that cause and effect are separate items because when you break the
pot, the shape is destroyed but not the mud. Mud is the matter and shape is
the kinetic energy introduced into the mud through the workmanship of the
pot maker. Matter is the cause and shape is the energy. These two items are
different to certain level only, because matter and energy are interconvertible and form the same phase of creation. Even though we agree that
they are two difference items, but they are inseparable and linked with each
other in the mud pot. Hence, the process of insulting by hitting one item has
to affect the other item also.
On one side, we agree the initial difference between the cause and
effect but on the other side we have to agree to the inseparable link between
the two, which makes one item to effect the other. This point relating to the
soul (cause) and Jeeva or intelligence (effect) is clearly explained in the
Gita (Naanyam Gunebhyah Kartaram). Therefore, one item affected by
the process influences the other item also in reality. However, taking the
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basic initial difference, it is said that the other item is not affected. You
cannot bring perfection of the concept in the simile. This also proves that
the soul and intelligence stand only as an example but not the actual
concept. Shankara has taken the simile only in the relevance of atheists.
The actual concept was also revealed by Him, when He stated that He was
the human incarnation of God. When the atheist was converted into
devotee, the actual concept was revealed by Shankara.
In both the concept and simile, the two items are closely associated
and the close association is stated by the Mantra (Sayuja Sakhayaa). The
unimaginable God identifies Himself with the soul and the body also as
stated in the Veda (Antarbahishcha). In the case of ordinary human
being, the soul and intelligence are inseparably associated like water and
wave. Therefore, the effect of one item naturally falls on the other item.
But, this happens as a rule in the case of soul and intelligence since both are
imaginable items closely associated with each other. In the case of God
and soul (or even body), God is unimaginable and the soul is imaginable.
The effect of the imaginable item can never touch the other unimaginable
item i.e., God even if they are closely associated as in the case of human
incarnation. The simile for this concept must involve imaginable items only
since there is no unimaginable item other than God. When you take a simile
in which two imaginable items are closely associated, the interaction of the
effect one item on the other is inevitable because both are imaginable items
and also closely associated. When the unity or similarity between the two
imaginable items is more, the extent of interaction between them is also
more. All the imaginable items are basically linked to each other since
every imaginable item is basically energy only. Such basic unity and the
close association are favorable for the transmission of effect from one item
to the other. You have to forcibly stop the transmission of the effect at least
based on the assumed superficial difference. Then only you can explain the
concept through the simile. For this purpose, the assumed external
difference is magnified in the simile. You can say that the water remains as
water only irrespective of the magnitude of the kinetic energy that decides
the size of the wave. The water is one and the same in a small wave or a big
wave. This angle helps to explain the absence of effect of one item on the
other item. For the sake of explanation of the concept, you have to confine
to this angle only. You should not take the other angle in which the
formation of wave has affected the peaceful and standstill water leading to
the modification.
The water molecules in the wave are highly agitated due to influence
of the kinetic energy, whereas the same molecules in the stand still water
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are unaffected. This angle proves that the effect of one item falls on the
other item. We have to forget this physical change of water and be satisfied
that there is no chemical change in the water. The absence of chemical
change should be only taken from the simile to understand that the
unimaginable God is not at all affected by the imaginable soul. Whenever
you take a simile for the concept, the desired aspect in the simile should
be only taken neglecting the other undesirable aspects. If you compare the
moon with the face, only the aspect of pleasant nature should be selected
rejecting the other aspects like black spots, appearance only in the night
etc., Similarly, in the simile i.e., soul and intelligence, the desirable aspect
is only that the soul is not affected by the intelligence like the absence of
chemical change in water due to formation of wave. Though, only the
convenient aspect is taken, it does not mean that the inconvenient aspect
does not exist. Hence, the Gita mentions both the aspects of unity and
difference between Atman (Soul) and Jeeva (represented by intelligence) in
the above mentioned verse.
Subject of Philosophy
Philosophy is the subject, which always deals with the concepts of
God only. Therefore, the unimaginable God and imaginable soul in the
human incarnation only can stand as the concept. The soul and intelligence
in an ordinary human being involving two imaginable items can be taken
only as a simile to explain the concept. If the subject is psychology or
zoology or physics, you may take the soul and intelligence as the concept
and bring water and wave as the simile. But, remember, here, both the
concept and the simile involve only imaginable items. Here, you explain
one part of the creation with the help of the other part of the creation. In
philosophy, the concept always involves the Unimaginable Creator and
the simile for the concept is always taken from the creation involving
imaginable items.
One way is to treat the soul as inert energy and the awareness
represented by intelligence as the other non-inert item. The awareness is a
specific work form of inert energy. In this way, the difference between the
soul and intelligence is very easy because the soul is inert energy
unaffected by the tensions of all the thoughts of awareness. This way is
mentioned in the Gita since the soul is said to be eternal (Nityah), all
pervading (Sarvagatah) and inert (Sthaanuh) cosmic energy. The limited
soul in the body is a minute drop and the external cosmic energy is the
infinite ocean. Even the body made of matter that separates the soul from
the external cosmic energy is also another form of energy, you can
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understand the continuity of discontinuous ocean of cosmic energy. In the

Gita, another way is also mentioned, which was not contradicted by the
Lord. In this alternative way, the soul is the thoughtless general awareness
that is observed in the state of meditation. In this alternative way, the soul
appears and disappears everyday (Atha Chainam Nitya Jaatam). In this
alternative path, the soul is not the inert energy, which can be detected in
the deep sleep. Now, if you take the soul as awareness and intelligence as
one of its faculties, the difference between soul and intelligence is very
very little and subtle. In such case, the soul is a macro wave of general
awareness (awareness aware of itself only) and the other faculties are only
small waves of same awareness. In this case, you can differentiate the
general awareness of meditation from the awareness in the form of various
thoughts. But, this difference does not help since in the daily life (other than
the state of meditation), the general awareness cannot be isolated from the
thoughts to establish that the general awareness is not disturbed by
thoughts. Hence, in the explanation of Shankara, the soul is taken as the
basic inert energy only so that the difference between the soul and
intelligence is very very clear because the inert item is clearly different
from the non-inert item. This means that the soul taken as pure general
awareness by the present Advaita Philosophers is not the correct version
of Shankara. The correct version of Shankara is that the soul is inert
energy only as said by Him and that the soul is left over in deep sleep
(Sushiptyekasiddhah) and this is the elaborated view taken by the Lord
Krishna all along the second chapter of the Gita. In deep sleep, since the
nervous system stops functioning, the transformation of the inert energy
into awareness stops. Even though current is supplied, if the grinding
machine stops functioning due to some damage, the transformation of
current into grinding work is stopped and the current remains as current
only. Similarly, in deep sleep, the inert energy remains as inert energy only,
which is the essential form of the soul. Awareness is a specific work form
of inert energy like grinding work.
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SCRIPTURE AND THE INCARNATION SUPPORT

EXISTENCE OF HELL AND REBIRTH
Err on the Safe Side
[October 30, 2011 Shri Ajay asked Generally people are worried
about death and issues after the death. Please enlighten on this.]
Swami replied: Scientists and atheists feel that death is a simple
phenomenon of nature like stopping of a condemned old machine. The
digestive system along with the respiratory system is like the condemned
battery unable to generate the current. The oxygen from the respiratory
system oxidizes the digested food in the digestive system generating the
inert energy, which is supplied to different systems of the body like brain,
heart, kidneys etc., The inert energy is transformed into a specific mode of
work in each specific system. Such specific mode of work form of the inert
energy in the brain and nervous system is called as awareness. If the
generation of inert energy is stopped, the subsequent transmissions of inert
energy into various modes of work are also stopped. If the systems are
damaged due to old age, the damage of the system is also a coinciding
factor. This results into the natural old age death. Sometimes, some
important system may meet untimely damage and the dis-function of that
system may affect the function of other systems leading to untimely death.
Human body is like a factory containing various systems as
machines. The long work may result in the wear and tear of the systems.
Brain and nervous system is like the computer control room. The digestive
system along with the respiratory system is like the power room. When the
total factory like body is shut down, the death is declared. The information
disk in the computerized control room is called as Jeeva or individual
soul. The current from the power room is called as the Atman or Soul.
When the factory is closed [death], what happens to the information panel
of the computer room? The disk may lie idle in the factory along with the
other systems, which are decomposed in long time. Scientists maintain this
view and say that the individual soul also decomposes along with the other
systems. This concept is generally expected in the natural way and there
need not be any confusion.
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The whole confusion started with a practical aspect that is observed in

the world in almost every country i.e., the concept of rebirth of the same
individual soul. When the factory is closed [death], somebody has taken
away the information disk from the factory [human body] and established it
in a new factory [new body]. There are several cases of rebirths with
perfectly verified information of the departed souls.
How is the disk stolen from the old factory?
Who has stolen this?
Where is this disk present during the interval time?
What happened to this disk in the interval time?
These are the logical questions that arise on the observation of the
proven cases of rebirth. The scriptures of all the religions say that the
individual soul goes to hell or heaven to enjoy the fruits of its deeds for
sometime before it takes a new body on this earth for a rebirth. Christianity
does not agree with rebirth, but there is a version saying that Jesus also
accepted the rebirth. Anyway, rebirth is a proven fact appearing before our
eyes. The same individual soul takes rebirth in this world after sometime of
the death. There need not be any discussion on this aspect. The debate is
only about the issues in the interval period. The Scripture says that the
soul goes to hell and heaven in the interval. Now, the doubt is whether this
soul goes to hell and heaven or takes rest in some place in the cosmos?
Since there is no direct proof for this affair in the interval, there is a 50-50
probability. A wise man will opt for the presence of hell and heaven
because there is no harm if one takes precautions to avoid the hell. Nothing
is lost by these precautions if the hell is absent. But, if the hell is present
due to 50-50 probability, the negligence of precautions will result in
serious damage. Regarding the proof for the existing place of hell in this
infinite cosmic space, the 50-50 probability can be again applied i.e., I have
not shown you the hell in this infinite space and at the same time, you have
also not shown Me the absence of hell in this infinite space by taking Me
up to the ending boundary of the universe. In such 50-50 probability, the
wise decision will be to believe the existence of hell. If precautions are
taken to avoid the hell, there is no loss even if the hell is absent. But if
precautions are neglected and if the hell is really present, there is a serious
damage. Therefore, the conclusion of all this scientific analysis is that the
individual soul goes to hell or heaven for sometime and returns to this
world for rebirth. Please note that I have not taken any mystic faith based
on blind belief in this analysis and hence, all My dear friends, who are
scientists and atheists, will adopt this view.
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Supporting Incidents
To give support to the above story of the interval, there are some
experiences of some people, who went up to the verge of death and came
back. They said that they have travelled long distance in darkness and then
light appeared in which a divine personality was seen. You may say that
these are poetic fabrications of these people. It is again a 50-50 probability.
It is better to accept their experiences, which coincide with the concept in
the above scientific analysis.
Another supporting point is that the human incarnation, which has
proven the existence of unimaginable power through unimaginable events
(miracles) also says that the concept of the scripture is correct. You must
give validity to His saying, since the unimaginable event was proven by
Him though demonstration. You may do away with the human incarnation
by saying that the miracles are magic. However, the acceptance of the
possibility of the scriptural concept already stands firm in the above
scientific analysis.
Hence, there is no harm in accepting the experiences of some
people, scriptural descriptions and the messages of human incarnations
supporting the scriptures, which are in line with the 50-50 probability
presented in the above scientific analysis. Therefore, the final conclusion is
that everyone, be it an atheist or a theist, should accept the rebirth, hell and
heaven declared by the scripture and follow all the scriptural precautions
carefully in this world. This concept rises in every mind in the old age since
the death is near and hence, this concept is clarified removing all
confusions.
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CLOSENESS AND FAMILARITY DEVELOPS

NEGLIGENCE
[October 31, 2011 Naga Panchami, Shri Ramanaiah asked What is
the reason for the God to be always unimaginable by which the devotee is
always dissatisfied due to the impossibility to know God?]
Swami replied: The actual reason is that the intelligence of the
devotee can imagine anything, which has the spatial dimensions (length,
breadth and height). Anything, which does not have the spatial dimensions,
becomes logically unimaginable. You can test this point by closing your
eyes and constantly try to imagine anything, which is not having spatial
dimensions. Even the minutest particle that you can imagine must have
some least measurable or atleast spatial dimensions, which can be
calculated atleast by calculations if not by instruments. Therefore, the
problem to understand the God lies with the devotee and not with God. You
have to keep God beyond the space because God is the generating cause
of the space. You cannot find pot in the lump of mud before the generation
of the pot. If you say that the pot exists already in the mud, you cannot say
that the pot is generated after the preparation of the pot since the pot
already exists in the mud. Therefore, the effect should not be in the cause
before its generation. Hence, the space should not exist in God before its
generation. It means the original God before the generation of space does
not have the characteristics of space, which are the spatial dimensions. This
logic inevitably keeps God beyond space and hence, unimaginable.
You may argue that nothing is impossible for the omnipotent God. All
impossibilities called as miracles are possible for God. Therefore, the
unimaginable God by His unimaginable power or capability can make the
devotee to imagine even the unimaginable God. The answer for this is that
God never breaks the general logic to be followed by the souls in Pravritti.
Of course, God performs these unimaginable events to establish the concept
of unimaginable nature. But, this one point stands as an exception and the
other miracles are sufficient to establish the existence of unimaginable
nature. For another reason also, you should not say that God is not
omnipotent due to incapability of this exception since there is a valid reason
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for this in the interest of not only the devotee but also God. Such valid
reason is: the human being is made of ego, jealousy and negligence over the
attained or known things. As long as an item is unknown and is not
attained, the negligence, ego and jealousy subside. The human being
always regards the distant item and neglects the item, which is present
before the eyes. We can find this human nature by several examples and I
can give one or two of these. People worship the statue of the serpent today,
the Naga Panchami, with unimaginable devotion since the actual serpent is
not seen. When it appears, it is immediately killed! People neglect their
parents when they are alive and do not give meals even with one side dish.
But after their death, their yearly ceremony is performed with meals
containing at least dozen side dishes! In the case of serpents, the fear for
selfish harm is the reason. In the case of parents also, the same fear for the
selfish harm is the reason because if the yearly ceremony is not performed,
there is a fear that some harm will happen to him. This is the inherent
nature and even the angels are not exceptional to this as said in the Gita
(Paroksha Priya ivahi Devaah).
Even in the case of contemporary human incarnation, devotees
worship it with lot of devotion for sometime and negligence starts slowly.
God tested whether the human being makes God an exception to this
inherent nature. Such test is the observation of the human incarnation after
living with the devotees for sometime. The human being perfectly proved
that even God is not an exception to its inherent nature. Even the devotee
like Rukmini could not overcome this. She was daily drinking the hot milk
and the Lord was normal even after drinking the hot milk. One day
Rukmini gave the same hot milk to Radha. When Radha took that milk, the
skin of the Lord became red due to heat. The Lord told that this happened
since He is in the heart of Radha. The conclusion showed that the Lord was
not in the heart of Rukmini. Rukmini asked the Lord for the reason. The
Lord told that Radha was staying far and hence, the value of the Lord was
maintained by her. This proves that anybody staying far away will have
value. Therefore, God wants to stay far from the devotees by always
becoming unimaginable so that the value can be maintained. When the
value is broken, the Lord will feel more for it. He does not want to see the
break of His value and feel for it. Hence, God avoided this one miracle not
only in the interest of the devotee but also in His interest. The interest of
the devotees is that the devotee should not lose the Lord due to such
negligence.
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UNIMAGINABILITY OF GOD LED TO MULTIPLE

SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY
Awareness: Basic Material of Every Thought
[November 04, 2011] Shankara told that the awareness, which is
filtered from all types of thoughts and left over with a single thought that it
is awareness, is the absolute God (Nirguna Brahman). All the thoughts can
be classified into three types, which are called as Trigunas. Awareness,
aware of itself is a thought by itself, which is the inherent characteristic
of the awareness and is called as awareness in general. The Sattvam is
one of the three types of thoughts. The type Sattvam represents all good
and divine thoughts. The general awareness (jnanam) is also included in
this first category i.e., Sattvam. The word knowledge (jnanam) basically
means to know something including itself. The word jnanam is fixed
(rudha) in special knowledge but it can be taken in this basic sense (yoga)
also.
The basic material of every thought is general awareness. Therefore,
the basis of all the three types of thoughts is general awareness, which
should not be confined to the first type only. Based on this logic, Shakara
isolated the general awareness from the three types of thoughts and called it
as absolute God. Hence, the absolute God is above the three types of
thoughts (Trigunas) and hence, called as Nirguna Brahman. This word
means that the absolute God is beyond and separate from the three Gunas.
But, the general awareness itself is a specific work form of the inert energy
only, which is generated from the oxidation of food. The general awareness
disappears in deep sleep and appears in the awaken state. Hence, the
general awareness has daily birth and daily death as said in the Gita (Nitya
jaatam). You cannot call the general awareness as thoughtless entity and
claim that it is beyond all the thoughts or Gunas. The thoughtless entity is
the inert energy in deep sleep and therefore, cannot be the awareness. If you
say that the awareness is thoughtless, the awareness itself disappears and
becomes inert energy. It is just like saying that the lump of gold is formless
and the ornaments only have the form. This view is allowed in normal way
but the sharp analysis shows that the lump of gold also has some form,
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which may be irregular. Therefore, the general awareness can be allowed to

be beyond all the thoughts (gunas) in such normal way.
What is the reason for Shankara to do all this exercise and promote
the general awareness to the state of absolute God? Shankara knows very
well that absolute God is unimaginable (Mouna Vyaakhya Prakatita).
Unimaginable means that it is beyond awareness and also beyond inert
entities. You cannot even imagine God and where is the possibility of
attaining or becoming God? In such case, there is a free license to attribute
any imaginable item as the absolute God and the license should be
appreciated if some good purpose is served. If I say that a specific
imaginable item is the unimaginable God, you can never negate My
proposal. The reason is that you yourself cannot prove and define the
unimaginable God on your side. When you cannot establish something, you
cannot oppose anything.
The unimaginable status of the absolute God creates the pre-license
to name any imaginable item as absolute God. This is the reason for the
multiplicity of the schools of philosophy. Each school proposes some
imaginable item as the absolute God according to its liking. This is the
reason for the evolution of several religions and several schools of thoughts
in the same religion. This is the basis for all the sacred quarrels! The
reason is that the basic free license cannot be opposed by anybody since
you cannot define the absolute God before opposing somebody. However,
this free license is appreciated if some good purpose is served. The same
free license should be condemned by the powerful logic establishing the
unimaginable nature of God as the generator of the space in the context of
avoiding these sacred quarrels, which lead to unsacred harmful results.
Therefore, Shankara can be appreciated since He selected the general
awareness as absolute God. It was necessary for Him since everybody
became atheist by denying the existence of God based on the reason of
unimaginable nature. Some imaginable item should be selected as absolute
God to deny the atheism. The atheists (Bhuddhists) concluded that
everything is nothing based on the concept of relativity. In the force of
relativity, the basis also became nothing. The theory of relativity became
endless. Then, Shankara proposed the existence of awareness to grasp this
relativity. Otherwise, the relativity itself becomes nothing. If the awareness
is non-existent, this nothing becomes nothing since nothing is not
established, which is not grasped by the awareness. By this logic, Shankara
stopped the endless concept of relativity at the basis of awareness.
Awareness was used as the temporary stop gap by Shankara to stop the
endless relativity, the result of which is endless nothing (Shunya).
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Psychological Treatment of Patients by Advaita

Apart from the above essential good aspect, another good aspect is to
remove the strain of tensions and to introduce perfect detachment and
confidence in the case of general public. Everybody was strained by the
mental tension, which is the result of continuous thoughts. When the
thoughtless awareness is set to be God, everybody tried to enter this state of
awareness without thoughts. This gives perfect rest to mind and mental
strain is removed. Everybody gets attracted because such a state is the
absolute God and you also become God by such state!
3) By keeping yourself in such state, you become God and you need not
crave for worldly things.
4) By becoming God, you need not aspire for anything because you have
attained everything.
5) This leads to the detachment from the worldly things and avoids lot of
sin in the society.
6) This also gives full confidence and full satisfaction to the self because
you have become the highest omnipotent God!
All this is the psychological treatment for the mental patients and
every human being is a psychic patient in reality. Shankara, the human
incarnation of God is the psychiatrist, who came down to cure His children
from the mental illness. Most of the people follow Advaita Philosophy for
these good benefits only and we need not condemn this philosophy in the
view of establishment of truth and spoil these good benefits given by
Shankara to the society. But, once the human being is cured from these
mental defects, the truth must be established so that it can progress in the
true spiritual path to attain the ultimate grace of God. You must distinguish
the mental patients attracted by the Advaita Philosophy from the greedy
lot of human beings to become the highest God resulting in egoistic
demons. We should sympathize the first group and not reveal the truth. You
must open the truth to the second group and rectify them.
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UNIMAGINABLE MEANS BEYOND SPATIAL

DIMENSIONS
Chain of Causes and Effects
[November 04, 2011 Evening] The Buddhists took the concept of
cause and effect to analyze this creation. The effect is always unreal with
respect to the cause. But, when the cause is analyzed, it becomes the effect
of some other internal cause. Mud, the cause, is real whereas its effect, the
pot, is unreal. When the mud is analyzed, it becomes the effect and the
particles become the cause. Hence, the mud, which is real with respect to
the pot, becomes unreal with respect to its cause, the particles. If you go
deep like this, the particle is the effect and the crystals in it become its
cause. The crystal again becomes effect with respect to its cause, the subatomic particles. Like this, the creation is analyzed and the analysis
becomes endless, since the ultimate cause, God, is unimaginable. The
entire creation, which is imaginable, becomes unreal with respect to the
ultimate cause, the unimaginable God. The unimaginable God is the
ultimate reality. In the analysis of creation, the ultimate imaginable item
is the space, which is the subtle energy. Therefore, the Buddhists have
ended in space or vacuum, which is considered as nothing (Shunya). In fact,
the space or vacuum is not nothing, which appears as nothing. There is
nothing like nothing since everything is something. The existence of
everything is derived from the existence of the ultimate cause. According
to Buddhists, the ultimate cause is nothing and hence, everything is nothing
(Asatkarya vaada). Even the space, which is the subtle cosmic energy,
becomes nothing in the stream of the analysis of relativity. The effect is
unreal by itself, but, is real due to existence of its cause. This unreal
real duality of the effect is called relativity. The effect is said to be
relatively real with respect to the cause. Shankara pointed out that if the
ultimate cause is non-existent, then, the non-existence of the ultimate cause
should pervade into the chain of causes and effects. In such case,
everything should have been told as non-existent. But, we say that
everything is existing. Therefore, the ultimate cause of this creation
should exist. All the causes and effects in the ladder are non-existent by
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themselves, since all these are ultimately the effects of the ultimate cause
only. Hence, all these effects are said to be existing, since their existence is
the existence of ultimate cause only. Even the modern scientists end with
space or energy only as the ultimate cause. The modern scientists have
identified the space as energy through the concept of bending of the space
around the boundary of the object. For the scientists, the space or vacuum is
energy, which is the ultimate cause that exists. Therefore, the entire
creation exists for scientists. The Buddhists just differed from the scientists
by one point only, which is that the space or vacuum is also absence of
energy and hence, non-existent. Hence, for Buddhists, the ultimate cause is
the non-existent vacuum and hence, the entire creation is non-existent. Both
Buddhists and scientists are partially correct and partially wrong. The truth
is that the vacuum or space is energy. But, the energy is also non-existent,
since it is not the ultimate cause. The energy is the first effect of the
ultimate cause [God]. First, the energy is produced and hence, first the
space is also produced, because space is energy. Therefore, the Veda says
that God created the space in the beginning. The same Veda says that God
created energy in the beginning. There is no contradiction because the
space is the same energy. The ultimate cause, which is the generator of the
space, should not have space (spatial dimensions) in it. Hence, the ultimate
cause becomes unimaginable due to absence of spatial dimensions. The
existence of unimaginable cause is also established in experience through
the exhibition of unimaginable events called as miracles. We have to
accept the existence of unimaginable entity through the unimaginable
miracles. Unimaginable means the absence of spatial dimensions only
because anything with spatial dimensions becomes imaginable. Thus, the
absence of spatial dimensions establishes the cause of space since only the
cause of space does not have spatial dimensions. All these points with the
experience prove the existence of the ultimate unimaginable cause.
Shankara Meant the Awareness of God

Shankara established the need of the existence of awareness to
understand the non-existence of this unreal world of Buddhists. Such
awareness must be present for the existence of the non-existence of the
world. Otherwise, the non-existence of the world becomes non-existent.
Therefore, there must be the existence of awareness, which grasps the nonexistence of the entire creation. Here, the very important point is that such
awareness, which grasps the non-existence of the entire creation, must be
related to the ultimate cause only, since the entire creation is unreal with
respect to the ultimate cause only. Since this ultimate cause is called as
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God, the awareness, referred by Shankara here for the sake of Buddhists,
must be the awareness of God and not the awareness of the soul. Soul is not
the ultimate cause, which is an imaginable item, existing in the chain of
relative causes and relative effects only. At this point, Shankara did not
mention the word God because the atheistic Buddhists will not accept
God. Therefore, Shankara kept silent in naming the ultimate cause as God.
Therefore, Buddhists have accepted the existence of awareness and dropped
their concept of Shunyavada i.e., everything is nothing. Shankara did not
meddle with the concept further because at least the existence of something
is established, which is a step for the future establishment of existence of
God. But, there is a serious problem at this stage because the awareness
or soul is misunderstood as the ultimate cause and hence, the entire
creation becomes unreal for the soul. Shankara kept silent in spite of these
negative effects since any slight disturbance may reverse the atheistic
Buddhists. The serious result of these negative effects is that, the soul or
awareness is the ultimate Creator (Cause) of this entire creation. Since God
is the name given to such ultimate cause, Buddhists did not mind to say that
the soul, the ultimate cause, is called as God. Therefore, Buddhists agreed
that God is the ultimate cause of this Creation and God exists. The desired
result is achieved, but, the undesirable negative side effect is that such God
is the soul itself.
Shankara allowed these negative side effects in view of the greatest
success achieved in converting atheists into theists. These negative effects
resulted in the spiritual knowledge (Nivritti) were used to rectify the
worldly issues (Pravritti). The soul became God due to negative effect, but
this is used in positive sense to bring social justice. When you feel that you
are God, there need not be any scope for ambition because the highest is
achieved. It also brings self-confidence and full self-satisfaction. The
ambition for the worldly things leads to the concept of sin in the society.
This ambition is further reduced by another negative effect, which is that
the world is unreal for the soul, the ultimate cause. There is no need of
ambition to attain any unreal item. Thus, Shankara used all these negative
effects to establish the social balance. Such detachment from ambition is
also required in the effort to achieve the grace of God. Thus, these negative
effects are not only useful for Pravritti but also for Nivritti.
Soul is not the ultimate cause because soul is the awareness and
awareness is only the product of energy. Awareness is a specific work form
of the inert energy. Energy consists of particles or waves, which have
spatial dimensions. Therefore, soul, a form of energy, has spatial
dimensions and is imaginable. Since soul has space (spatial dimensions) in
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it, the soul cannot be the generator of the space. The reason is that space
should not exist in its generator before its generation. Hence, space is not
the unimaginable God. Space is not the ultimate cause since it cannot create
even an iota of this real world. It may be the generator of the imaginary
world but not the real world. The awareness was established by Shankara as
a requirement to grasp the non-existence of the entire creation. But,
awareness is not an independent entity, which is only a dependable process
of some independent item only. Awareness is the process of knowing
something, which is work. Work is dependable property of some
independent working element. The awareness is the dependable work and
the independent working element is the soul, which is the inert energy.
Similarly, God is the independent item and the awareness of God is a
dependable property of God. Of course, all the items of the creation
including the soul are dependable properties of the ultimate independent
God. Hence, awareness is neither the soul nor the God. Even though all the
items of the creation are dependable properties, one dependable property,
the soul, can get the independent status of the working element with respect
to the other dependable property, the awareness and all this happens by the
will of God. Hence, the awareness proposed by Shankara can neither be
taken as soul nor as God. Hence, we said that the awareness proposed by
Him was the awareness of God. But, that awareness is misunderstood as
soul and here also it means that it is misunderstood as the awareness of the
soul.
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NO NEED TO ASK ANYTHING FROM OMNISCIENT GOD

Inevitable Enjoyment of Fruits Established by God
[November 05, 2011] The Gita says that you should totally surrender
to God (Tvameva Sharanam). After your prayer and worship to God,
you need not ask Him for anything even in the mind because He is
omniscient. You are treating Him as an ordinary human being having
limited knowledge. You should follow this principle even in the case of
human incarnation. The external human form misleads you to think that He
is an ordinary human being. But, when you worship the photos and statues
of energetic forms like Vishnu, etc., you should have the sense of
omniscient God. The human form in the photo and statue may again
mislead you. But, there are some devotees, who believe that God is
formless and omnipresent. They do prayers sitting in open space. I expected
them at least to have the sense of omniscient God. To My surprise, I find
even them expressing their desires. This type of behavior proves that the
God prayed by you is limited and not omniscient. Such God cannot be
omnipotent also. In such case, how can such God respond to your prayers
and answer through His omnipotent miraculous power? In your prayers,
you praise the God as omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. But, at
the end of the prayer, your behavior contradicts all the above adjectives of
God. Actually, you are a limited human being and do not know what is
really good for you.
Most of the boons asked by you are only harmful to you. The
omniscient God knows what is really good for you in the long run. With
your limited knowledge, you do not know the multi-dimensional network
of your past deeds. Such network is very complicated to understand as said
in the Gita (Gahanaa Karmano Gatih). The results of your past deeds
come to you in a particular order that is convenient to you. The periods alter
generally, which can be known from astrology (Jyotisha Shastra). A period
may be bad for some horoscope, but, some sub-periods in that period are
good, which serve as recreation intervals in a long bad period. Similarly,
in a long good period, the sub-periods of bad planets also come to become
intervals for change. The continuous good also bores like eating sweets
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continuously. This is the reason for the nine planets to rotate through their
sub-periods in a long good or bad period. Therefore, God has arranged the
incidents in your life in the best convenient manner for you. Hence, you
must allow the incidents of your life to take place in their own natural
way, which were set up by God. The fundamental role should not be
forgotten, which is that, you must enjoy the good or bad results of your past
deeds. Cancellation is impossible under any circumstances. Due to your
insisting prayers and worship, God postpones the bad results. But, you have
to enjoy them with compounded interest in the future. Dont be clever to
argue that God is not omnipotent if He cannot cancel a result. This
process of inevitable enjoyment of the results of the deeds is established
by God only. If He contradicts His own procedure, He becomes a bad
administrator. God is always the best administrator. Your ignorance of this
network and procedures of God makes you think that God cancelled your
bad result in the case of its postponement.
Inconvenient Punishment Alone Transforms

Another way to help you due to your prayers and worship is to select
the most convenient way of the punishment. Each sin has a list of
alternative punishments. If you pull the chain in the train without reason,
you should go to the jail for six months or pay thousand rupees as fine. For
a rich business man, the convenient way is to pay the fine and not sitting in
the jail for six months and losing all his business. Similarly, for a beggar,
the convenient way is to sit in the jail getting free food since he cannot pay
the heavy fine. If both worshipped God, the favour from God is to fine the
businessman and to put the beggar in the prison. Otherwise, the real
punishment will be to put the business man in the jail and to fine the
beggar. The inconvenient punishment is only the real punishment
because it only transforms the soul through suffering to some extent at
least. Therefore, the sin does not end with the convenient punishments. The
balance of the sin will give the inconvenient punishment in future with
compound interest. If the business man is favoured with fine, he will repeat
the sin again and again paying the fine again and again. Similarly, if the
beggar is favoured with prison, he will repeat the sin again and again to
continuously stay in the jail and get food throughout the life. Hence, the
inconvenient punishment is necessary to transform the sin. If God feels
that your transformation, which was delayed from a long time, is essential
by that time, He may allow the inconvenient punishment in your case in
spite of your prayers. The ignorance and illness should not be delayed for
long since they become incurable after long time. In such case, you will
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misunderstand God for His silence to your prayers. It is like the decision on
surgery of the doctor in spite of the protests from the patient. Therefore, do
not ask God for anything and meddle with the best way of already set up
system of deeds for you. God says that the devotee tries to interfere with the
already set up cycle of deeds and he is a useless stupid (Evam Pravartitam
Chakram Gita).
Preach Knowledge Only After Getting Orders From God

There is only one way for the cancellation of all your bad results.
Such way will be clear to you if you know the real aim of the punishment.
The real aim of the punishment is only to permanently transform you.
The permanent transformation comes only through the true knowledge. The
truth in the knowledge has the power of transformation. If the knowledge
of a preacher is unable to transform you, such knowledge is not true. If
you are partially transformed, such knowledge is partially true. Sometimes
the total transformation comes, but it stays for a temporary period only.
In such case, the defect does not lie with the knowledge but with you only.
The knowledge should be heard and discussed or debated continuously, by
which the knowledge gets intensified and becomes fire to bring permanent
transformation in you. Hence, the Gita speaks about the knowledge-fire
(Jnanaagnih). Therefore, you must take up the propagation of knowledge
after hearing it, which involves continuous discussions and debates with
others. Hence, the benefit of propagation is more for you than others. But,
you should hear the right knowledge from right person. Otherwise, the
wrong knowledge not only harms others but you also due to intensification
through propagation. Hence, Shri Paramahamsa told that you should not
become a preacher of spiritual knowledge unless you have command
form God. Therefore, all your sins get smashed, if you are permanently
transformed through knowledge. Hence, Shankara gave top most
importance to knowledge. However, in the absence of knowledge, the
punishment brings temporary transformation. Hence, something is better
than nothing. The temporary transformation is thus possible in two ways.
7) The first way is to hear the right knowledge avoiding its propagation.
8) The second way is to undergo the punishment for the sin.
The permanent transformation is possible by hearing the right
knowledge and subsequent participation in its propagation since the right
knowledge is the top most path. The main purpose of God coming in
human form is only to preach this right knowledge (Satyam Jnaanam
Veda). The ignorant people preach wrong knowledge and scholars of the
Scripture affected by misinterpretations, preach partially correct
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knowledge. In their case, the Scriptural knowledge is correct, but the

misinterpreted knowledge from wrong commentaries is wrong. The
scholars, learning the right knowledge from the Scripture with right
interpretations from the human incarnation, can alone preach the right
knowledge in the society.
Some people say that if the punishment given in the hell is in their
memory, they will not repeat the sin. This is not correct because the thief
punished in the police station becomes good for sometime, but, again
steals due to the environment and circumstances. He remembers the
punishment, but, still the circumstantial influence overcomes it. All the
previous lives and the stay in the hell are forgotten by the soul due to the
will of God only because God wants to give a fresh mind to the soul in the
new life. The punishment in the hell has its temporary effect in the subconscious state due to which only, the children behave good and pure in
their childhood. As they grow, they are influenced by the external
environment and the internal hidden thoughts (Smaskaras), which were
temporarily suppressed by the punishments in the hell. With the strength of
the environmental influence, these hidden ideas become strong and project,
directing the actions of the soul in the new life.
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SELF ESTEEM LEADS TO WRONG ANALYSIS

[December 03, 2011] Pravrutti (worldly life) is the important basic
stage for Nivrutti (Spiritual life). If Pravrutti is correct and strong, Nivrutti
can stand on it with peace and balance. Today, the position of Pravrutti is in
high danger. In fact, God often incarnates Himself to establish Pravrutti
only. He never encourages Nivrutti because the devotion to God is the
subject of the devotee. God takes up the responsibility for Pravrutti since
He is the creator of this universe. In fact, God opposes Nivrutti so that the
real devotee can come out with successful colors. The examiner gives
difficult question so that the student will expose his real knowledge.
Therefore, in the Gita, God said that He comes down to establish the justice
related to Pravrutti only (Dharma samsthapanaarthaya). He never
mentioned that He comes down to establish the devotion.
The fundamental concept in the social behavior of the human being is
in its way of thinking without proper analysis. Everybody sees his own
defect, which is in the size of a mountain as if it is in the size of an atom
only. Everybody sees others defects as mountains even though they are
in the size of atoms. This is the fundamental mistake for the destruction
of peace in the society. Everybody should see his own atom-size defect as
mountain and should see the mountain-size defect in others as atom. If this
view is developed by everybody, there will not be violence in the society.
The human being misunderstands the truth of the topic due to his wrong
view. The analysis of God will be always different. You should not judge
the conclusion of a case since you are a part of it. People, who are scholars
in the ethical scriptures, should judge the case. The ethical scriptures are
written by sages based on the preaching of God. Therefore, the ethical
scripture should be viewed as the direct commandment of God. Even in the
case of a third party, we often misunderstand based on human sentiments.
The analysis should be always beyond any sentiment. Let us take the case
of Shri Rama leaving Sita based on the bad comment of a washerman.
Since we see Sita shocked by grief in weeping state, we conclude that
Rama is cruel and Sita is punished without her mistake. Even the men are
moved by such situation and not to speak of women, who always support
Sita in favor of their own gender. If you analyze this case with shrewd brain
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rising above all the sentiments, the truth is totally different. For such
situation, the reason is that Ravana stole away Sita in the forest. What is the
reason for such stealing of Ravana? The reason is the unimaginable cruel
words of Sita to Lakshmana, who protected her on the order of Rama.
While going away, Rama told clearly that the demons will play several
tricks and that Lakshmana should not leave Sita under any
circumstances. In spite of such serious message of Rama, Sita scolded him.
Lakshmana also told her that Rama is incarnation of God and nothing will
happen to Him. Sita created a false angle, blaming Lakshmana for his
unjust attraction towards Sita. Lakshmana said that he never looked at her
above her feet. What is the reply of the so called Associations of Women
for this unimaginable foolish behavior of Sita? Because of such behavior
only, Lakshmana left her and Ravana stole her and due to this only, the
statement of washerman is generated. Is not Sita responsible for this whole
episode?
Therefore, everybody concludes himself as good and others as bad
when he is the part of the case. In such situation, everybody should
immediately think in the reverse way and see the possibility of himself
being wrong and others being right. In fact, the analysis of God in the upper
world regarding your case is going to be always reverse. All your proposals
generally get disposed by God since your analysis is generally wrong. Try
to always think the reverse of your way of thinking. Then only, you can
understand the truth. Then only, the Pravrutti gets established with perfect
love and peace. This leads to the peace and harmony of the world.
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GOD HATES WEEPING AND BEGGING

Do Not Intensify Worship in Troubled Times
[December 03, 2011] The devotee interested in the spiritual line
should study more about the successful devotees. The study of God is not
so important as the study of the personality of a true devotee. You should
concentrate more on Prahlada, who could succeed in pleasing the Lord and
your concentration on Lord Narasimha is not so important. You should
always examine the personality of Hanuman in the spiritual line because
God is extensively pleased with Him, which can be seen in the awarded
fruit. Hanuman is made the future creator of this universe and this is the
highest fruit, which means that God is extensively pleased with Him.
Hanuman is famous for His courage and dignity. He never wept and begged
before God. If you are a true devotee, you need not weep or beg before
God. If you have money in your pocket, you will go to the market of
vegetables and purchase the vegetables with courage, confidence and
dignity since you are going to pay the proper price. When you do not have
money in your pocket, you will weep and beg before the seller of
vegetables for donation of one or two vegetables at least. Therefore, if you
weep and beg God for His grace, it means that you do not have the real
devotion in your heart to pay the exact price of the grace of God. You know
that your devotion is not true. Therefore, you are resorting to weeping and
begging for Gods grace.
You think that at least you can get a little grace of God freely
without paying any amount of actual price. When Draupadi cried begging
the Lord for clothes, the Lord was not moved by her cry and begging. The
Lord immediately checked her account book to see whether there is any
credit in it that can be drawn along with its interest. The Lord observed one
practical sacrifice of Draupadi for the sake of the Lord done previously as
the credit in her account. Once the finger of Krishna was cut by the blade of
a sugarcane. All the wives ran to the different sides of the house for a piece
of cloth to be used as the bandage for the wound. But, Draupadi
immediately tore the edge of her costly sari and the resultant piece of cloth
was used as the bandage. Generally, women are fond of jewels and saris.
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Due to this reason, the wives of Krishna could not do that act. That piece of
cloth sacrificed for the Lord was multiplied as thousands of saris because
the rate of interest of the bank of God is infinite since the wealth in it is
infinite. If this service was done to a human being, hardly two or three saris
could have been supplied. Hence, the Lord could have supplied those saris
even if Draupadi did not weep. Even if she was silent leaving everything to
God, this miracle should have been done. The reason for the miracle is not
her weeping and begging. The reason is her practical sacrifice to God
especially the human incarnation. You may have faith in God but it is very
difficult to recognize the human incarnation and maintain continuous
faith in It. It has been the worst practice in all the religions since devotees
everywhere developed different talents and techniques in the art of weeping
and begging. Some devotees should be awarded Padma Vibhushan for
developing new trends in weeping and begging before God! God hates
you if you weep and beg anything from Him because you are aware of your
false devotion to Him. Your real devotion is towards yourself, your wife,
your children, your parents, your relatives and your friends only.
You know the truth of your false devotion and now you are trying to
cheat God by your art of weeping and different discovered sentences,
poems and songs of begging. It is a double crime. Hence, do not beg and
weep before God. Be always brave and dignified before God like Hanuman.
When you know that you do not deserve due to your false devotion, then
also you maintain the dignified way before God. In such case, it is only one
crime, which can be also rectified in course of time by developing true
devotion. You need not ask God for anything even in your mind. If there
is some credit of your true devotion in your account proved by practical
sacrifice, the reward will come from God spontaneously in the required
situation. Generally, people try to worship God in the times of difficulties.
The omniscient God knows that your intensity of the worship is generated
by the ambition for the solution of your problem and that it is not generated
by the true love to God. You should not intensify the worship in the time
of problems. You can fool the people but not the omniscient God. You
should maintain the same intensity of worship in all the times without
linking it to benefits and solutions of problems. Such true devotion will be
credited to the account. When Draupadi tore her sari and sacrificed for the
Lord, then she was in happy situation. Therefore, your sacrifice is valid if it
is done in the happy moment when there is no need for the help of God. At
any cost, you should stop weeping and begging before God and learn the
constant courage of Hanuman.
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Identify the True Path Irrespective of Personal Liking

Another important worst aspect of a devotee is to decide the possible
way for him as the only real way to God. His way may be lowest in quality
but in his argument, such way becomes highest since he can travel in that
way only. All other ways, which may be of far higher quality, are not at all
the ways as per his argument since he cannot follow such ways.
I will give an example. Let us take the case of a greedy person. He
cannot sacrifice even a single paisa or penny for the sake of God and
therefore, he criticizes that money cannot purchase God. He will argue that
the devotees, who sacrifice their bonds with money for the sake of God as
the foolish people trying to purchase God by money. Even though such
devotees are far higher than him in sacrificing the most valuable money for
the sake of God, he will not tolerate them because he cannot sacrifice
money for the sake of God. The possible way for him is to recite prayers
and to do different worships involving rigid religious customs. He will say
that such religious customs only please God. In fact, such a devotee is the
lowest since he cannot do any practical sacrifice and he is only theoretical.
God appreciates only the practical sacrifice. God gave thousands of saris to
Draupadi as a reward for her practical sacrifice especially to God. God
did not reward her for her different forms of worship and different prayers
recited. The human psychology is to raise the status of the path that is
possible to him and to degrade all other paths, which are impossible for
him. This is stupidity plated with ego and jealousy. One should search for
the real path to please God and try to follow it slowly if not today, after
sometime later on. The constant effort will lead to the success one day or
other. Instead of doing effort for such practical way, people try to give
importance to theoretical ways, which are nothing but expressions of
devotion through words, mind and intelligence only. Since, they are experts
and talented in such stupid theoretical and religious ways, they try to give
highest status to such ways since they can follow such ways only. By such
behavior, they may get false satisfaction in following the true path to please
God, but they utterly fail in reality. A false thing does not become true by
arguments and propaganda. Truth is always truth whether all the people in
this universe accept or not. This is also another type of behavior of devotees
to be rectified.
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SECRET OF LIFE
Alternating Happiness and Misery
[January 01, 2012 New Year Message] The human being is reluctant
to miseries and enjoys the happy situation. The human being can be
compared to an ignorant child, who enjoys the sweets only and is
reluctant to chillies. Hence, such a human being is ignorant. The grown up
adult enjoys both sweets and chillies in the meals. Similarly, a realized soul
enjoys both happy situation and misery in the life. Therefore, it is only
ignorance, which is the inability of art of enjoyment. God created this
world with happiness and misery. People enjoy the cinema, which contains
both pleasant scenes and tragic scenes. Similarly, people enjoy both sweet
dishes and hot dishes in the meals. People enjoy the day and night. People
enjoy the hot summer and the cold winter. The whole life and creation is
full of alternating happiness and misery. If a person can enjoy both happy
times and miseries in the life, he is equal to God. You may say that God
enjoys the creation from outside. God also enters the creation in the form of
human incarnation and enjoys both pleasant times and miseries in the life
span. We see this truth in the life history of Rama and Krishna. The Veda
says that God enters the creation after creating it (Tadevanupraavishat).
Therefore, if you always crave for happiness only and reject miseries, it is
unnatural and also ignorance of a child. The knowledge of the Gita
preaches that you should enjoy even a top most misery, which is the time of
death (Sthitvaasyaamantakaalepi).
If you enjoy both miseries and happy situations, you are in a
continuous state of enjoyment. You think that continuous enjoyment comes
only through continuous times of happiness in the life. It is not correct. You
get bored if you are served only with sweet dishes in the meals. Boring is
misery. Therefore, misery is inevitable like summer after winter and winter
after summer. The Indians denote happiness through cooling. The
foreigners represent happiness through warming, which is heat. Therefore,
the happiness to one is misery to the other. What is the reason? The
foreigner is mainly exposed to winter, which bores him. Therefore, for a
foreigner, the heat is happiness. The Indian is mainly exposed to summer
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and therefore, cool atmosphere is happiness to him. This is a practical proof

that the enjoyment is not confined to happy scene or tragic scene only. This
also proves that you can enjoy both happiness and misery. Therefore, it is
ignorance to ask God for removal of misery and sanction of continuous
happiness. Happiness should lie in the process of enjoyment. Whether it is
misery or happiness, you will find real happiness in the process of
enjoyment of both. The happiness neither lies in the sweet dish nor in the
hot dish. The happiness lies in the process of eating the dish, which may be
hot or sweet. If this secret of life is known, you will never pray God for
removal of problems and tensions. You will enjoy the problems and
tensions and hence, there is nothing to pray God for something. Your
prayer to God must be due to your attraction to Him for His excellent
personality. Your praise of God must be based on your love for His divine
personality. But, today we find most of the people praying God for sanction
of continuous sweet dishes. Therefore, the desire for something gets
smashed if you know the secret of this concept. Hence, there is no
meaning in wishing somebody for a happy new year because continuous
happiness bores and leads to misery only. The aspiration for continuous
happiness through out the year is based on foolishness and ignorance.
On the New Year, you must pray God thinking His divine personality
and get attracted for His divine qualities. You must at least achieve one of
His basic qualities, which is enjoying both happy scenes and tragic scenes
in the creation. On the Telugu New Year day, people generally take sweets
and sour items mixed as offering of God (Prasadam), which shows the same
concept of enjoyment of both happy and tragic moments in the life. This is
the divine knowledge in nutshell present in all the divine scriptures of all
religions. This is essence of the Gita preached by Lord Krishna. He enjoyed
continuously in His life and even in the last situation, when He was shot
dead by a hunter. This is essence to be learnt and practiced by every human
being in this world. This is message of Lord Dattatreya to this entire
humanity on the eve of this New Year 2012.
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REVELATION OF THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ABOUT GOD

Present Sharp Intelligence Suitable for Final Declaration
[January 07, 2012] The real and absolute nature of God is
unimaginable. The previous Preachers knew this point very well since They
performed several miracles, which were unimaginable events only. The
miracles stand as practical proof for the existence of the unimaginable
Entity that performs the unimaginable events. When the preachers
performed so many miracles, cant They know the existence of
unimaginable item? It is very simple and no effort is necessary for the
performer of the miracles to understand the existence of unimaginable
entity and to propagate the same concept. In such case, why did not the
preachers say that God is unimaginable? There may be difficulty to believe
this concept by looking at others performing the miracles. But, there
should be no trace of difficulty for the performer Himself to understand this
concept, which is demonstrated by Himself. Even demons performed
miracles, but they were unable to grasp the concept due to their devilish
nature of ignorance. Thus, demons can be excused but not the intellectual
preachers in revealing this concept. There must be some strong reason for
the preachers in not revealing this concept inspite of the demonstration by
Themselves. Such strong reason is that the intellectual level of ancient
people was simply constituted by the conclusions of theoretical logic
exercised through debates and discussions only. There was no experimental
phase to arrive at steady conclusions. Today, lot of practical evidence is
required to contradict any concept. In the ancient times, mere sharp logic
was sufficient to contradict the concept. There was no steadiness in the
establishment of the concept and the fate of the concept was depending on
simply the intellectual sharpness of anybody. In such time, if God was
declared as unimaginable, the immediate danger was the possibility of nonexistence of the unimaginable items. In such case, the very basic existence
of God becomes critical to be believed.
In fact, before the arrival of Shankara, the fast logic of intelligence
ended in the final conclusion that everything is unreal including God. The
theory of relativity was applied to every item of the creation with high
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speed. At any step, the cause is real and the product is unreal since the
reality of the product is based on the reality of the cause. But, the cause
itself is the product of another cause. This analysis went on ad-infinitum
and the final conclusion was that everything is unreal (Shunyavada of
Buddhists). In such situation, if you say that the ultimate cause is
unimaginable, people would just laugh at it by saying that the unimaginable
ultimate cause must be disposed more conveniently as unreal. The word
unimaginable indirectly means negation of a logical answer. With this
fear, Shankara proposed God as pure awareness having no attributes
(Nirguna). Later on, Ramanuja and Madhva also proposed God as
awareness with attributes as qualified (Saguna). This difference is
immaterial because the basically real unimaginable God was not projected.
Only mediated God was presented by all three, who was the awareness
charged by unimaginable God.
Today, the logical analysis is not only sharp but also steady due to
experimental verification of every concept. The receiving nature of the
people is quite stable due to the scientific analysis. People are not fast in
applying the theoretical tautology1 to arrive at hasty conclusions. In view of
the stability of the phase of intelligence, the projection of the real
unimaginable nature of God will not face the danger of non-existence. The
scientist may not believe any miracle and may say that nothing is
unimaginable2. But, the scientist must accept the unimaginable boundary of
the universe. Even in there, the scientist may argue like this: When the
universe is imaginable, made of imaginable cosmic energy as the
fundamental cause, how can you say that the boundary of the universe is
unimaginable? Just like the ocean is water, the boundary of the ocean must
also be the same water. Hence, the boundary of the imaginable universe
must be also imaginable. This type of argument is not acceptable if you
analyze the subtle point of a boundary. When you reach the edge of the
ocean and stand on it, you must find water on one side and land, which is
not water, on the other side. The knowledge of both water and land is
necessary to fix the boundary of the ocean. Land is not water. If that land
is also water, then the boundary of the ocean is not achieved. Similarly,
when you reach the boundary of the imaginable universe, you must
perceive the imaginable nature of the universe on one side and the
1
Tautology, is using different words to say the same thing even if the repetition does not provide clarity. Tautology also
means a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because the statements depend on the assumption
that they are already correct.
2
The scientist might argue that the so-called unimaginable is only something that is presently unknown. In future, we
can know it. Thus, he might claim that nothing is truly unimaginable.
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unimaginable nature on the other side. If the unimaginable nature is also

imaginable, then the boundary of the imaginable nature is not achieved.
When the unimaginable nature cannot be imagined by your intelligence, it
means you have never reached the boundary of the imaginable universe.
Unless you perceive both imaginable and unimaginable natures, the
boundary of the imaginable nature is not achieved. Hence, the boundary of
the universe is always unimaginable from the other side. Some scientists
say that the diameter of the universe is 200 billion light years. Another
scientist laughed at this by asking that if he travels all this diameter and
reach the compound wall of universe, what is present beyond such
compound wall? One scientist says that the universe is constantly
expanding! This is again a laughable concept since it finally means that you
can never achieve the boundary of the universe. Hence, by all means, the
scientist has to accept the existence of the unimaginable entity, which is the
other side of the boundary of the universe. It is not the boundary if the
other side is not achieved.
Unity Among the Different Concepts of Unimaginable God

The scientist has stable and steady intelligence to realize the truth in
this argument unlike a theoretical ancient tautologist. The unimaginable
item, which is beyond the boundary of this imaginable universe, is called as
God. When this universe is projected from God, you will touch God on
reaching the edge of the universe. You can never touch God since He is
unimaginable. It means that you can never reach the boundary of this
universe. Today, this fundamental concept is revealed due to confidence
on the stable and steady analytical faculty of real scientists. Ofcourse,
foolish conservative scientists also exist even today in small number and
this is inevitable at anytime. Moreover, today, there is lot of demand for
the revelation of this basic concept in view of the violent terrorism that
arose from the differences between the religions. One religion says that
the God is awareness. Another religion says that God is all pervading
cosmic energy. Another religion says that God is light and another religion
says that God is fire etc. Like this, different created items of this universe
were taken as the basic real God. Hence, quarrels started, which were
intensified by debates. People sitting before a dining table quarrell with
each other since one says that the vessel is gold, another says that the plate
is gold, another says that the spoon is gold and another says that the
tumbler is gold. This quarrel will never end because no item on the dining
table is gold! Everyone is treating a particular item as gold. Treating an
item as gold is totally different from the actual item to be gold.
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Similarly, the reality is that God is unimaginable, who is beyond this

imaginable universe. The simple reason for this is that the universe is
fundamentally constituted of space or volume, which is the basic subtle
energy and God is beyond the space since God has no dimensions. Now,
you can treat any meritorious item of the creation as God based on the
merits liked by you, neglecting the defects. The awareness is not God
because it is not all pervading. The cosmic energy is not God because it is
inert. The light and fire also cannot be God for the same reason that they
are inert. But, any of these items can be treated as God for the sake of
meditation and worship. Such worship is called as the worship of
representative model (Pratika Upasana). The direct worship (Sakshat
Upasana) is also possible when God enters a human being to give right
direction through propagation of right spiritual knowledge. In such case
also, every such human being is God and the unimaginable God exists in
such every human being. The human being is only the medium of God, but
such charged human being can be treated as real God like the electrified
wire being treated as the electricity itself. Hence, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus,
Mohammad etc., become God and there need not be any quarrel in this
point also for the sake of world peace based on the harmony of religions.
This fundamental concept is revealed since simultaneously it is fortunate
that today there is confidence on the receiving power of the stable and
steady scientific analysis of human beings.
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PROLONGING ANYTHING LEADS TO UNHAPPINESS

God Arranged Good Bad Fruits Alternately
[January 07, 2012] Shri Anil asked, Several people are asking that
how can the physical pain received by a person be enjoyed? This question
is with reference to the New Year message given by Swami for 2012.
Swami replied: There are several illustrations to prove that the
physical pain can be also enjoyed. In boxing, when the opponent embraces
you strongly, you feel unhappy because such a situation leads to your
defeat. But, when you are embraced by a beautiful girl, you feel more
happiness and the degree of your happiness is proportional to the strength
of the embracement! Therefore, the physical pain in one situation is
unhappy, whereas the same physical pain in another situation leads to
happiness. Even when you eat the hot dish, your tongue burns due to the
vigor of chillies and your eyes shower the tears. All these symptoms are the
indication of unhappiness only. But, still you enjoy the happiness in eating
the hot dish. Therefore, you cannot link the enjoyment with mere external
material. Ofcourse, the external material gives rise to the feeling and the
feeling may be pleasant or unpleasant depending on one factor, which is
that whether the external material is interacted continuously or not. If you
interact with any item or situation of the creation continuously, you become
unhappy. Even the embracement of the beautiful girl becomes unpleasant,
if such embracement continues without gap. If you are exposed to the heat
for a long time, you feel happiness in cold as in the case of the Indian. If
you are exposed to cold for a long time, you feel happiness in the warmness
and heat as in the case of a foreigner. Hence, the process of enjoyment
depends on the alternating interaction with the external items or situations
in this world. Hence, any continuous interaction with the same item or
situation gives unhappiness, whereas the change in the interaction gives
happiness.
God is the Father of the souls and hence, arranges the life cycles of
the souls with alternating pleasant and unpleasant scenes. Even though you
have done sins continuously for some long span of time and good deeds
continuously in another long span of time, God does not arrange the life
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cycles with the continuous misery and continuous happiness proportionally

in corresponding long spans of time. God neglects this continuous span of
time and arranges the life cycle in such a way, so that every life cycle is
fixed with alternating fruits of sins and good deeds. The re-arrangement of
the good and bad fruits in alternating fashion by drawing good and bad
fruits from both these span is done by God, who is omnipotent. You may
expect God to cancel all the sins due to His omnipotent nature. If it is
done like that, you will not enjoy since continuity of anything leads to
misery. Hence, even in such case, misery is inevitable. Therefore, if you do
not pray God for removing the miseries, God has already arranged the life
cycles in best way to give you continuous enjoyment. You are praying God
to remove the difficulties, which are the fruits of your bad deeds. The law
of justice does not accept the cancellation of the fruit of any deed. Hence,
due to your prayers, the difficulties are postponed to latter births by God
along with compounded interest. You also pray God to give continuous
happiness. For this, God draws the good fruits from the future births with
reduced interest to the present life cycle. Due to such continuous enjoyment
of good fruits, you are again bored with misery. Hence, you are totally
foolish in disturbing the already designed life cycles of God. As a result of
this foolishness, your future births will be full of continuous miseries. The
continuity of the misery gives you unhappiness just like the continuity of
happiness. Therefore, pray God always attracted by your love to His divine
personality and not for disturbing the already best designed life cycles by
God due to His paternal affection. Therefore, you will be continuously
happy by enjoying the alternating pleasant and unpleasant scenes of life and
by not asking anything from God.
Method of Eradication of Ego and Jealousy

[Shri Anil asked Swami, How to help the foolish people, who are
caught by such continuous troubles in their life from birth to death?]
Swami replied: If such people happen to do some good deeds, the
good fruits of such good actions will be immediately introduced to give a
break in the continuous suffering. God is always positive and tries to help
His children even if there is a trace of possibility. But, remember one thing
that God will not do anything by your simple continuous praise in
prayers. Unless some good deed exists, His hands are tightened. When
Draupadi cried praying Lord Krishna for help, the Lord immediately
verified her account book to see whether there is any credit of her good
deed. The Lord found such credit, which was infinitely multiplied by Him
into infinite number of saris. The infinite multiplication can be done by God
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provided there is some basic credit from your side. Hence, you should
always believe in practical philosophy than continuous begging and
weeping before God through prayers. The practical philosophy can be
according to your level and you need not worry about its magnitude since
God can multiply it to the required extent. But, the extent of practical
philosophy should not be below your capability imagining that God will
multiply to any extent. The realization of all these concepts is called as
jnana yoga or knowledge. The praise of God through prayers without any
aspiration in return is called as bhakti yoga or devotion. The
implementation of the practical sacrifice is called as karma yoga or action,
which alone is the fundamental basis for God to bless you.
In any case, the practical sacrifice should be without any aspiration in
return. Draupadi sacrificed a piece of her valuable sari to bind the wound of
the finger of the Lord without any aspiration in return. Even when she cried
for help, she never thought about it since she did it without any expectation
in return. Practical service to the society without the name of God gives you
temporary heaven. The same service in the name of God brings the grace of
God so that when you are ripened, God comes down in the human form to
receive your service directly. If you servE the humanity in the name of
God, you will render the service to God in human form even if you dont
recognize Him. Serving the humanity removes the inherent repulsion to a
co-human being due to ego and jealousy. Service to all the living beings is
the basis since it is the starting stepping stone by which the service to inert
statues and photos is stopped. Such service to inert objects is waste since
the service is not received by the receiver. However, even such service is
inevitable in the case of beginners, who are unable to eradicate their ego
and jealousy towards living beings and especially to the human form of life.
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CLEAR DIFFERENTIATION OF GOD FROM SOUL

Philosopher Interested in Creator & creation related to Creator
[January 08, 2012 following is a very close discussion of Swami with
His devotees clarifying their doubts.]
Lakshman: You say that the awareness is the product of inert energy
and also that awareness is non-inert. Where from the characteristic of noninertness entered the awareness?
Swami: Let Me know your intention. Did you put this question to
establish awareness as God like the Advaita philosopher? If so, it is a waste.
I have elaborately dealt that awareness is not God and the reasons are that
i)it is not all-pervading, ii)it is not the creator of any item of the real world,
iii)it is not the controller of any item like a hitting stone, iv)it is not the
destroyer of any item of the real world, v)it is generated from inert energy,
vi)it has birth in the beginning of the awaken state and death at the
beginning of deep sleep etc. There are only two categories:
1) God, the Creator and
2) the universe, including the souls, the creation.
When it is clearly proved that awareness is not the creator, the other
inevitable option is that awareness is a part of the creation. Now the
discussion about the characteristics of the awareness becomes the subject
related to the analysis of items of creation only, which is science or ancient
logic (tarka). Philosophy deals with the Creator and the analysis of
creation is also done provided it is related to the Creator.
Phani: The Veda says that the sages have analyzed every item of the
creation and rejected every item as not God (Neti Neti). In such a case,
the analysis of awareness should be done deeply before rejecting it as God.
Swami: Exactly that is what I am telling. The awareness is
thoroughly analyzed and is established that it is not God. A special
attention is already given by Me because it is the topmost important item
of the creation that competes with God. Your suggestion becomes valid
regarding with any other item, which is not so carefully analyzed by Me.
Lakshman: I agree that awareness is not God and I was convinced in
2007 itself after reading Your knowledge. You can assure me as a scientist
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asking this point. In the analysis of this point, fortunately, there may be a
possibility for the awareness to become God based on the luck of Advaita
philosophers.
Meaning of Non-inertness
Swami: Often, we use the words in a loose sense and not in the sense
of conclusion after strict analysis. The non-inertness word indicates that it
is different from inert energy and does not mean that there is no similarity
with awareness. If you say that Mumbai is non-Delhi, it does not mean that
there is no similarity between Delhi and Mumbai. In fact, both Delhi and
Mumbai have hundred similarities; only one difference is that Delhi is the
capital of the country, whereas Mumbai is the capital of a state. The
difference is based on single point only and should not be extended to all
other points. You should not say that Delhi is city and Mumbai is cow. You
should not say that Delhi contains houses, whereas Mumbai contains
forests. You should not say that Delhi contains people and Mumbai
contains ants. The word non does not negate all the similarities and
make Delhi and Mumbai totally different from each other. If you analyze
the awareness strictly, every side of the awareness is totally inert.
Awareness means grasping the information of objects from the external
world, storing the information in the brain and creating some new idea. If
you take the first side, the impressions of objects are received through the
senses like receiving the impressions by the camera (eye), tape-recorder
(ear), etc. If the recording of information in the instruments is an inert
mechanism, the same recording of information by the senses should also be
inert.
Nikhil: Today, inert instrumental materials are also employed in the
place of senses by which the recording of information can be carried on in
the usual manner.
Swami: Nikhil acted here as a Madhyamika supporting the Siddhanti
(Swami). Lakshman is the Poorva Pakshi and Phani acted as a Madhyamika
supporting the Poorva Pakshi.
Let us continue with the topic. The other side is the storing of external
information. This is also done in the instruments like a computer and
information is stored in the form of pulses. Science has clearly proved that
the information is also stored in the brain in the same way. In fact, this
point was discovered even by the ancient logic which says that the
information is stored in the form of pulses called sphota. The entire group
of pulses is called as chitta. Hence, this side is also an inert mechanism.
Previously, the computer employed a single microprocessor and it could not
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recognize the object by one step. It has to recognize the object after noting
the characteristics of the object one-by-one in a sequential chain.
Therefore, the awareness of a human being, which recognizes the object
in one step, was thought to be superior to a computer. But, in course of
time, several microprocessors in a computer, functioning simultaneously
solved this problem and hence, the brain became exactly equal to a
computer. This clearly proves that the receiving and storing of external
information is inert only. The last side of the awareness is creativity. This
can also be proved as an inert mechanism. If the awareness created the idea
of a new animal with eight legs and two tails, it is only a random selection
of a new probability of mixture from already existing components of
information. The tail already exists and the leg also already exists in the
information. The usual mixture is four legs and one tail. Such random
probability makes the computer also to give new ideas and tell poetry.
Nikhil: From the pre-existing knowledge of language, a vocabulary of
words and some rules about rhyme and poetic meter, one can construct new
verses. This is poetic creativity, which essentially is a mere mixing of
existing information and hence, not truly creative. Nowadays, in order to
discover a large number of new molecules for applications in drugs,
computer programs are employed to make a huge number of combinations
of certain known chemical groups in different ways. This field of chemistry
is called combinatorial chemistry. It is an example of how even a computer
can show creativity and it supports the assertion that the so-called
creativity is also an inert function involving new combinations of existing
bits of information.
Real Creativity Exists in God Alone

Swami: Such creativity is not genuine since it is only a random
probability of mixing the various components pre-existing information
only. By this, it is clearly proved that all the sides of awareness are inert
mechanisms only, which are duplicates of the processes taking place in
the inert instruments like a camera, tape-recorder, computer, other audiovisual appliances etc. Robot has clearly proved to be the exact duplication
of the human being. The real creativity is the generation of entirely new
idea in absence of any pre-existing information. You can find such real
creativity in God, who has created this wonderful universe with so many
items and phenomenae without the pre-existence of any information. If you
say that the creativity is the real characteristic of awareness, then, such
awareness is with God only. Such creativity is unimaginable because any
imaginable human being does not possess such creativity. Such awareness
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is unimaginable and we can say that such awareness becomes unimaginable

due to the charging of it by the unimaginable God. Since awareness is an
imaginable item, you cannot call such awareness directly as God. You can
treat such awareness as the Unimaginable God like treating the electrified
wire as electricity. Therefore, you should not take this opportunity also to
call awareness as God. In such awareness, the component of awareness is
imaginable but its unimaginable nature, which belongs to God, is a different
component. Shankara treated such unimaginable awareness (Sarvajna) as
God and did not isolate the unimaginable God from It due to the fear of
atheism, which negates the existence of God since He is unimaginable. The
isolated unimaginable God is called as Parabrahman and the awareness
charged by the unimaginable God is called as Brahman by Shankara.
Brahman associated with the unlimited cosmic energy or a limited energetic
form can be called as Ishwara and the quantitative difference here is not
considered because the unimaginable power of Parabrahman makes both
one and the same.
Anil: If awareness is also inert, what is the significance of the noninert awareness?
Awareness: Receiving, Storing and Rare Bits of Creativity

Swami: The word non-inert means here that the awareness is not the
simple basic lot of inert energy. The inert energy is soul, which is leftover
in the deep sleep. In the states of dream and awaken, the awareness exists
as a composite of the mechanisms like receiving and storing external
information along with the so-called creativity now and then. The state of
meditation is almost deep sleep since the thoughtless awareness is almost
the inert energy. But, the awareness in the meditation is leftover with one
thought that it is aware of itself. In deep sleep, this single thought also
disappears and hence, the awareness, which is the work form of inert
energy, is totally reduced into inert energy. Even though the mechanisms
are inert processes only, the basic inert energy is devoid of these
mechanisms. The absence of these mechanisms in the inert energy brings
the difference between inert energy and awareness. However, these
mechanisms are also inert and strictly speaking, the awareness is also inert,
in the deep sense. These mechanisms are absent not only in the basic crude
inert energy but also in any system of the body. They are specific, limited
to the nervous system since the nervous system itself is specific, differing
from every system of the body. Hence, all the mechanisms of other systems
are called inert due to the absence of these specific mechanisms in other
systems. Hence, the word non-inert is firmly fixed in these three specific
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mechanisms of the specific nervous system. Hence, the other mechanisms

like digestion, respiration, circulation of blood etc., are inert. In other
words, the word non-inert is strictly fixed to these three mechanisms of
the nervous system only and due to the absence of those mechanisms
elsewhere in the body, the word non-inert awareness cannot exist
anywhere in the body. The exact duplication of these three mechanisms in
the inert instruments proves that these mechanisms are basically inert.
The word non-inert does not mean that they are not inert. But, it only
means that that these mechanisms are highly specific, existing in the
nervous system only and are absent in the basic inert energy and in any
other inert system of the body. This word acts as a specific name (samjna
vachaka) of a specific person differentiating him from other persons,
without analyzing it for its meaning. Every city is basically like Delhi but
every city is non-Delhi because no other city is the capital of the country.
Lakshman: Which component of the cause is responsible for this
non-inertness of awareness?
Swami: The cause is not only the basic material (upadana) but also
other associate working elements (nimitta). For the pot, mud is the material
cause and the pot-maker, mould of the pot, water, furnace, etc. are the
associate causes. The circular shape of the pot is not in the material cause
but is in the associate cause, which is the mould. This circular shape of the
pot resembles the non-inertness of the awareness. The inert energy is the
material cause of the awareness. Hence, the non-inertness is not from the
inert energy. The associate cause is the specific nervous system. The
specific design and style of function of the nervous system introduces the
specific mechanisms denoted by the word non-inert. In fact, the nervous
system is also made of inert chemicals only. Thus, in the analysis,
everything is inert in the real basic sense. All this is only theoretical debate
but in practice, the shape of the pot cannot be isolated from the mud at any
time. Similarly, these specific mechanisms are also specific work-forms of
inert energy only. Hence, these specific mechanisms cannot be isolated
from the material cause at any instance. This point proves that these three
specific mechanisms are also inert for all practical purposes. If you
strictly analyze and isolate the real awareness, it can be found only with
God and not with any soul.
Hence, the Advaita philosophers cannot expect the soul to be God. If
a human being says that he is God based on the Veda (Aham Brahmasmi),
the same Veda says that all this creation is Brahman (Sarvam Khalvidam
Brahma). How can you say that the world is unreal? In such a case, you
also become unreal. For an unreal entity, another unreal entity is real. Then
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also the world is real for you. Here, the word Brahman means Karya
Brahman or cosmic energy. The word Brahman is used in several great
items. The Gita says that the Veda is Brahman. Any greatest thing in a
category can be called as Brahman. These Vedic statements mean that you
are cosmic energy and the world is also cosmic energy. The entire world is
only an apparent modification of cosmic energy or Brahman. The apparent
modification is always unreal. The stone is the unreal, apparent
modification of cosmic energy. You are the real cosmic energy. In such a
case, why the unreal stone damages the body of the real soul against its
will? Theoretically, it is true that the stone is unreal and the soul is real.
But, practically, the soul does not control the stone because the stone is not
isolated from its causal energy. When the stone falls on you, it falls along
with its causal energy. This is interaction of two quantities of energy and
not the interaction of unreal stone and the real soul. Due to this practical
difficulty, the Advaita philosopher extracts the true concept by logic from
theory but fails in practice. You are able to lift a small stone and unable to
lift a big stone. Both the stones are real because, they are not isolated from
their causal energies. You are able to lift a smaller stone, which is a smaller
quantity of energy and unable to lift a big stone, which is a larger quantity
of energy. But, Krishna lifted even a huge mountain. Krishna, like any
human being, has the materialized gross body (tamas), the inert energy
associated with it (rajas) and the awareness (sattvam). If these three have
lifted the mountain, everybody should lift the mountain. Apart from these
three, the fourth component, the unimaginable God, exists in Krishna,
which lifted the mountain. The inability of mere awareness to lift the
mountain clearly proves that awareness is not God.
Nikhil: The hitting stone damages the external gross body only and
does not touch the awareness at the energy level.
Swami: The soul is strongly wishing that the stone should not damage
its gross body. This is a practical experience in any case. But, the will of the
soul does not control the stone resulting in the insult of the soul. In such a
case, the soul is proved not to be the controller of the external world. But,
God is the controller of everything. In the same incident, Krishna can
control the stone due to the presence of the unimaginable God in Him. This
clearly differentiates God from the soul.
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STRESS ON THE CONTEMPORARY INCARNATION

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Approach Satguru in Middle Age

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THE INCARNATION SEVERELY TESTS DEVOTEES

Hanuman is the Ideal for Spiritual Life

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Miracles Do Not Indicate God

Severe Tests of Faith

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girls. Arjuna openly criticized Krishna mentioning these activities in the

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MAINTAINING NIVRITTI AND PRAVRITTI

Type 1: People for Whom Pravritti is the Only Goal

Type 2: People for Whom Nivrutti is the Only Goal

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example. This section of people concentrates on the Absolute God, who is

Type 3: People Who Maintain Both Nivrutti and Pravritti

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Shankara left His mother to take up samnyasa and propagate knowledge.

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UNDERSTANDING SHANKARAS PHILOSPHY IN THE

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tricks only and not by straight statements. Such special situation of

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