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Religion / Datta Swami's Knowledge Characterised By Correlation Of Philosophies by dattaswami1: 10:17am On Sep 29, 2022

DATTA SWAMI'S KNOWLEDGE CHARACTERISED BY CORRELATION OF PHILOSOPHIES

Shri Ajay asked: Please give us some more advises in the context of the propagation of this excellent spiritual knowledge.

[b]Shri Swami Replied: [/b]This knowledge is exceptional and excellent given by Lord Dattatreya to all of us for the propagation in this world to uplift the humanity by removing the differences and by bringing unity in the concepts through the exposure of correct interpretations. This knowledge is mainly characterised by the correlation of various philosophies and concepts so that the divine peace can be established in this world without quarrels rising from differences in the arguments of the spiritual concepts. Such contradictions were responsible for the birth of contradicting other religions in this world disturbing the peace of the entire humanity. The extreme development of differences between the religions has gone up to the climax of terrorism. If all the religions realize that there is only one God for the entire creation called by different names and that there is only one spiritual knowledge expressed in different languages, the religions will disappear in course of time like the rivers losing their identities on mixing with the ocean. In such atmosphere, there will be no fights based on the differences between religions and the entire humanity has the same one God. Every human being of the world will feel any other human being belonging to any part of the world as his own brother or sister. In such case, the identities of the countries like Islamic country, Christian country, Hindu country, Buddhist country, etc., also disappear. Every human being is concerned with the welfare of any other human being in the entire world. This is the ultimate aim of this Divine programme.

The spiritual knowledge is generated and propagated by the human incarnations like Buddha, Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Jesus, Mohammed, etc. The human incarnation consists of two components: 1) God component generating the spiritual knowledge and 2) the human being component propagating the spiritual knowledge in this world. Since the human incarnation is a two component system of God and soul, not seen separately in the human body, the activities of generation and propagation of knowledge are separately performed by the same one human incarnation. It appears as if the human incarnation is one item performing both these activities. But, the actual truth is that the two components separately not visible to the naked eye are doing their corresponding works separately, which appear as if one human incarnation itself is doing both the works. The devotee (human being) - component does very little work by grasping the spiritual knowledge given by God and expressing it in a systematic language. The goods to be transported indicate the spiritual knowledge given by God with higher value compared to very low value of money paid to the communicating vehicle from one place to the other place. The devotee is like a tape recorder or like a typist typing the matter with the throat - type writer, while the boss (God) sits by the side and dictates the matter. I do not deny that this work done by the devotee component in the human incarnation is also a type of work only. What I am telling is that the strain involved in this work is very less because the devotee is simply transporting the goods supplied by God. In the propagation work, the task is very high since during the propagation an individual human being is dealt with by the devotee. You have to study his/her psychology, which is the digestion capacity to receive a specific level of knowledge and then only you can select the level and mode of preaching. Lot of preliminary work of the study of the psychology of the receiver is to be done and accordingly you have to modify the presentation of knowledge to exactly suit the receiving frequency of the receiver.

We think that a preacher can transform large number of souls. It is not correct at all. If one soul is transformed by one human incarnation, God feels that His visit is very fruitful. Lord Krishna said that one only can realize Him (Kaschinmaam vetti). He preached the Gita to only one person called Arjuna. This Arjuna violated all the preachings of God just after 10 days and also on 18th day. After 10 days, when Abhimanyu was killed, Arjuna told that he will drop from the war as if he was fighting! Krishna told him on the first day in the Gita that He Himself is going to kill the warriors in the war. After hearing all this and seeing the cosmic vision also about this, Arjuna spoke like this thinking that the war will stop once he withdraws from it! On the 18th day, the same Arjuna did not get down from chariot and waited for the driver, Krishna, to get down first to open the door of chariot. On the first day Krishna preached that He is the Absolute God and Arjuna also realized the same. Now, see the behaviour of Arjuna! Therefore, the work done by devotee in the human incarnation is just 1% only whereas the work done by the devotee in the propagation is 100%. There is lot of variation in the fruits also according to the values of works. The devotee in the human incarnation becomes equal to God since God merges with the devotee to identify Himself with the devotee. In the work of propagation, God is so much pleased with the devotee that God treats such devotee as His master becoming his servant! This is the reason why every human incarnation did the propagation of knowledge after its generation. The reason is that generation of knowledge was done by God and the expression of that knowledge was done by the devotee-component, which is very very less (1%) as the work of a typist or tape recorder. The devotee likes to do more than 1% service to please God through propagation. Therefore, the devotee component actually does the propagation also and it appears as if the human incarnation is doing that work since the devotee cannot be isolated separately by the naked eye of any spectator.

Coming to My personal case, I did the 1% work, which is inevitable to any devotee existing in the human incarnation. This devotee was doing the propagation work from the childhood debating with several eminent Sanskrit scholars and wrote more than 100 books on philosophy in the Sanskrit language. This devotee was offered the headship of Shankara Peetham in Varanasi in his 17th year, when Lord Dattatreya spoke 102 meanings for the single word (tu) in explaining the Brahma Sutra (Tattusamanvayaat) in the debate of scholars on the occasion of Mahakumbha Mela in Prayag. This devotee was prepared for it, but, his father did not give permission to it. Later on, this devotee asked the Lord for the reason to miss such golden opportunity. The Lord said that this devotee has a different universal programme in the future with universal scope through English language. The Lord said that programme through Sanskrit language cannot cover the wide range. At that time, this devotee could not understand anything from the answer of the Lord and became silent. Now, this devotee understands the statement of Lord spoken long ago. We can never understand the vision of the Lord in the future.

The medium in to which the Lord entered has its own limitations like life and energy since it maintains its own properties and the Lord generally will not interfere with the nature of the medium unless some special occasion arises. Every item has its own property maintained, which may be sometimes hidden or sometimes exposed. The electrified wire is compared to the human incarnation, which shows three items: 1) God (Electricity), 2) Human soul (Metallic wire) and 3) Human body (external plastic cover). Shock is the property of the electricity. No shock is the property of the metallic wire. The colour and soft nature are the properties of the external plastic cover. During the flow of current no item has lost its property. When you view (darshanam), the property of electricity (shock) is hidden and the property of metallic wire (no shock) is exhibited so that you will feel the electrified wire also as non-electrified wire. The reason is that the hidden property of electricity is not grasped by you and only the exposed property of the wire (based on your ignorant idea that this wire is also ordinary wire, which does not give shock) is grasped. But, when you touch the electrified wire, the real experience (Anubhava) shows that the property of electricity (shock) is exposed where as the property of the wire (no shock) is hidden because the shock is experienced and no shock is not experienced. Hence, the human body of the human incarnation also has the same natural properties without any variation during your view creating a false impression in your mind that the human incarnation is also an ordinary human being only. The houses of the Prime Minister and a beggar are equally subjected to cracks in the time of earth quake and natural erosion of ceramics. Now, this human incarnation is not doing the propagation due to the limitation of time since most of the time is involved in the generation of knowledge only.

One Can Enter Inner Circle of God Through Service of Propagation

The value of this knowledge is infinite. If you propagate this, the value of your service also becomes correspondingly infinite. Unfortunately, I am unable to earn that infinite value through propagation since the generation itself is consuming lot of time. Even though the generator, the Lord is ready to do any amount of work, this medium has natural limitations with which the interference of God is unnecessary as per the view of the Lord. You learn this excellent knowledge from Me and earn the infinite value for your service through propagation.

Since the devotee in propagation becomes the master of God, the devotee can order the God to come down and speak through him. Such order is obeyed by God due to the infinite value of the service in propagation. The devotee in the human incarnation is always ordered by God because of very low value of his service. Remember, your position in the eyes of God is highest for doing such valuable service. Propagation itself has higher value than typing the generated knowledge from God. Since the value of knowledge is extreme, correspondingly the value of the service also raises more and the service of the propagation of this unique knowledge becomes highest. Based on this concept, you must know that propagation of wrong knowledge gives negative value in the form of even punishment in the hell. Propagation of the knowledge like science has zero value since the fruit of such propagation is collected from the receivers. The fruit of true knowledge is unimaginable in the form of divine reward. Through this service of propagation only, one can enter the inner circle of God. Therefore, do not lose this unique opportunity offered by God to you. You will receive the highest fruit for your service. But, do the service without any trace of aspiration for the fruit. In fact, the service of God itself is treated as the fruit. The service itself is the salary and for the act of receiving salary, you cannot claim another salary for it. All this is told only to make you devoid of aspiration so that you will be eligible to receive the highest fruit from the golden hands of God, which you should forget now.

As I already told you, you must be careful with the human beings regarding their hospitality towards you during propagation. The majority of humanity has only starting problem. They are also correct because of the divine exploiters increasing day by day in the name of preachers and human incarnations. Naturally, any human being will be overcautious in the beginning itself since your value is not recognised in the beginning. Naturally, they will insult you before knowing your value and before knowing the value of this excellent knowledge. You must have lot of patience to withstand their insults. The first four stages explained by Me in the previous message (Kutichaka, Bahudaka, Yati and Hamsa) are common to both the devotee in propagation and the human incarnation. In the fourth stage, they recognise your value and start worshipping you as God. The fifth stage (Paramahamsa) is applicable to the human incarnation in which they worship it with perfect recognition as God in human form. There is no difference between 4th and 5th stages as far as the practical worship is concerned. In the 4th stage, you are treated as God and in the 5th stage, you are believed as God. The 5th stage is only in the mind, which is a theoretical form only. The way of practical worship is one and the same in the 4th stage and the 5th stage. Sometimes, the 4th stage may be extended to 5th stage if such true devotee involved in the propagation is blessed by God to become human incarnation. Human incarnation need not be from birth only. Please recognise that the value of the devotee is based on the value of the work done by him/her and not by the place of the devotee. The devotee may be placed in the human incarnation, but, since the work done by the devotee there is 1% only, the fruit given to the devotee is also least. Therefore, you should sincerely do the work of propagation without the aspiration to become human incarnation, which is just a formality only to generate the knowledge and has nothing to do with the value of the work. I give an example for this concept. In one devotional film called ‘Annamayya’, one actor acted as Lord Venkateshwara appearing in a guest role now and then in the cinema. Another actor acted as the devotee Annamayya, appearing throughout the film. The guest actor in the role of God was paid one lakh rupees and the full time actor in the role of devotee is paid 10 lakhs. Therefore, the value of the actor in the role of devotee is estimated by the value of work and not by the value of the place of the role. The actor appearing as the Lord was seen for a few minutes now and then. The actor acting as the devotee Annamayya appeared throughout the film. The remuneration is proportional to the work done by the actor and not to the value of the role. Here, only the actors are paid and not the roles. The actor acting as the Lord did not fight that he should be paid more because his role was God and that the actor as devotee should be paid less since he was just his devotee. The devotee fell on the feet of the Lord several times in the cinema. This did not raise the value of actor in the role of God and did not lower the value of the actor in the role of devotee.

All the devotees should take care of ego irrespective of the role and remuneration. You should always watch about its attack, which travels always with you waiting for the opportunity to bite you like the snake. The devotee in the human incarnation has lot of risk because the speech of the Lord should be expressed carefully by saying everywhere that the Lord did every good work and the soul was responsible for every defect. Sometimes, the Lord speaks directly through the throat of devotee. This is not the ego of the poor devotee, which may be misunderstood as the ego of the devotee in the human incarnation. When Jesus told that He is the truth, it refers to the speech of God through the throat of devotee. The same Jesus told “Let Thy will be done” and here the speaker is the devotee. You can easily identify the speaker based on the context and should not misunderstand the devotee in the human incarnation effected by ego. The devotee in the human incarnation is very near to God and under the total control of God and cannot be touched by ego. In the Gita, the speaker throughout was only God and hence it is called as the Bhagavad Gita (speech given by God) and not Krishna Gita (speech given by the human being-component).

Religion / Divine Knowledge In Video Form by dattaswami1: 4:38pm On Sep 27, 2022

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Religion / The Original Absolute God Is Unimaginable And Omnipotent by dattaswami1: 3:24am On Sep 26, 2022

The original absolute God is unimaginable and omnipotent. Between these two adjectives, I give more importance to ‘unimaginable’ because we say that God is said to be omnipotent when He does an impossible thing and such potency of God is naturally unimaginable. If you say that God is omnipotent, the word ‘omni’ may be interpreted by somebody as all possible things and in such case the word ‘omni’ can’t mean all impossible things also. If you say that the word ‘omni’ means all impossible or unimaginable things, the other meaning of the word ‘omni’, which is all possible things is automatically included.

This means that God doing all impossible things can naturally do all possible things also. The unimaginable power doing all impossible things is called Māyā and the imaginable power doing possible things is Prakṛti. God is specifically told as possessor of Māyā (Māyinaṃ tu Maheśvaram- Gītā) doing impossible things because it automatically includes possessor of Prakṛti doing all possible things also. Just like a father retains some property with him and gives some property to issues, God kept Māyā with Him exclusively and gave the power of Prakṛti to His issues called souls.

But, the souls are trying to become the absolute unimaginable God also just like the issue tries to grab the property possessed by the father. Anyway, the father will give his property to his issue only through will and similarly, God will give His Māyā power to the soul whenever He has will. Hence, calling the original absolute God as ‘Unimaginable God’ is more proper than to call Him as ‘Omnipotent God’. Unimaginable God naturally means omnipotent God and reverse may not be proper based on the above analysis.

4) Unimaginable God naturally means omnipotent God and also naturally means Omniscient and Omnipresent because omniscience and omnipresence are unimaginable or impossible aspects for any item. Even though the cosmic inert energy is omnipresent, it is not omniscient since it is inert. The omnipresence of the Unimaginable God shall be taken in the effective sense only and not in the literal sense because if God is present everywhere (omnipresent) everybody and everything in this world must be pure and sacred and demonism should not have existed at all.

You need not doubt that how God can be omniscient without being omnipresent because God is omnipotent and any impossible thing is possible to Him. Even in this imaginable domain of creation, a king knows everything happening anywhere in his kingdom with the help of his power of the department of secret agents. Therefore, Unimaginable God means omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent (Omnipresent in the effective sense only.).

5) The word ‘unimaginable’ means either substratum or substance (dravya) or nature or quality (guṇa). Then, we can say that the unimaginable quality depends upon God, who is the substratum. The quality is always a form of energy and the substance is a form of matter only. The school of substratum (Vedanta) says that a substratum is needed as the support for any quality. They say that the blue colour (a form of energy) is based on the lotus flower (a form of matter).

The school of energy (Śākteya) says that God is the unimaginable quality itself and no substratum is needed for the energy. This school is also correct because the electromagnetic radiations travel in vacuum without the support of any medium. Both these schools are quarrelling based on the examples of the imaginable domain or creation. They forget that the Unimaginable God or creator is Unimaginable domain. We can’t say that the Unimaginable God is either matter or energy.

The fun is that Vedanta says that awareness is the substratum and awareness itself is a specific work form of inert energy resulting in a specific functioning nervous system! The analysis of the items of the creation is the actual subject of ancient logic (Tarkaśāstra) or modern science. Therefore, the conclusion is that the Unimaginable God is beyond imaginable domain and no quarrels can take place in understanding the Unimaginable God. If a discussion takes place about Unimaginable God, it will be a quarrel among some deaf people!

By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: GCK Daily 491 || Escaping The Bait || Pastor W.F. Kumuyi by dattaswami1: 3:16am On Sep 26, 2022

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God is said to be omnipresent. It means, God exists everywhere in the space. By this, you should not think that God pervades the entire space and hence God exists everywhere. This logic applies to the imaginable objects. If you say that the air is everywhere in the room, it means that the air is pervading all over the room. Both air and room are imaginable objects with spatial dimensions. The molecules of air occupy some little space and this is the real volume of the air.

Under high pressure, such real volume can be measured. Therefore, air has spatial dimensions. In ordinary conditions, the molecules move freely in the room and the space of the room is available for the free movement of the molecules. Hence, the air is said to have the volume of room or container, which is the space available for the free movement of the molecules in this context. When you say that the light pervaded all over the space of the room, the light energy has waves having certain wave length. Length is a dimension of the space. Thus, all conclusions are based on the items having spatial dimensions. The logic derived based on such conclusions cannot be applied to God having no spatial dimensions.

The world is imaginable item having spatial dimensions. But, God pervading the world has no spatial dimensions. Therefore, you cannot say that God pervades all over the world like the air or light in the room and hence God exists everywhere. You should say that God is present everywhere because He is beyond space. The unimaginable God exists everywhere through His unimaginable power. You should be very careful in understanding the meaning of the word ‘omnipresent’ in the case of God.

Similarly, God is omniscient. It means that God knows everything. Since, God is omnipresent through His unimaginable power, He is also omniscient to know everything. If you are everywhere, you will know everything. Here, people take a new direction and say that the very process of knowing is the inherent characteristic of awareness and hence God is awareness. This direction cannot be accepted. If you say that God is awareness, God becomes imaginable item. Awareness is imaginable, which is a special form of work energy as a result of the function of inert energy in the specific machine called nervous system including brain. Any work requires the existence of space. If God is awareness or work form of energy, God also requires space for His existence. But, God being the generator of space, exists even in the absence of space and therefore we say that God is beyond space.

Now, you may say that if God is not awareness, the process of knowing cannot be justified since the process of knowing is only the inherent characteristic of awareness. This is again ruled out because the process of knowing becomes possible for God through His unimaginable power. This unimaginable power is responsible for the process of knowing and for the existence everywhere without pervading all the world. Any activity or power or characteristic of God should be solved through His unimaginable power only and not through the logic derived based on the imaginable items having spatial dimensions.

God is said to be omnipotent. This is accepted straightly without any analysis because omnipotence means that God can do anything. It clearly means that God has unimaginable power. Again, you should not say that God becomes unimaginable due to the unimaginable power only. Hence, you may say that the power is greater than God. You cannot distinguish two unimaginable items. In the process of explanation, we have used the word unimaginable power, since the explanation to any human brain is in the phase of imaginable dimensions. The unimaginable God and the unimaginable power are not different. In the imaginable items there may be such possibility. The sun and light or heat may be different at least in the quantitative sense. The intensified power is source and diluted power is its property. The quantitative difference is based on the difference in the intensity, which is based on space only. More power in less space is the source having high intensity. Less power or the same power in more space is the property having less intensity. Thus, the difference is based on the measurement of volume and hence this is related only to items having spatial dimensions.

We do not mind to say that God knows everything due to Himself only. Here the word “Himself” means the power itself. We do not mind to say that the unimaginable power itself is God. We have the existence of independent electromagnetic radiations traveling in the space without any source. There cannot be two unimaginable items and therefore you have to say either God or independent power. If you differentiate God and power, both become imaginable items with spatial dimensions. Hence, the quarrel between Vedantins, supporting God and Shakteyas, supporting power is meaningless, since the source of the quarrel is the logic derived from imaginable items observed in this imaginable world.

Meaning of omnipotency of God

Unimaginable God means omnipotent, who is capable of doing any imaginable or unimaginable work. All impossibilities are possible to Him. He can convert anything into anything. But, He follows the principle of doing meaningful (proper) things only avoiding the meaningless (improper) things even though He is able to do all things. Doing meaningful thing only is also a power since everybody is unable to do meaningful things only. Omnipotence must have this power also and hence He is not doing meaningless things. ‘Not doing meaningless things’ is a special ability and not at all the inability to do all things since He is capable of doing all things by omnipotence. This point of ability to do a meaningful thing and ability to avoid doing meaningless thing is the guiding light for us in the analysis to know what God is actually doing.

If He has not done a meaningless thing, you should not label it as incapability to do all things, which should be labeled as the power of ability to avoid doing meaningless things. As long as this search-light is in your hand, no confusion comes in the spiritual knowledge since control of use of omnipotence for everything you like is achieved. Otherwise, you may say that God is smoking due to His omnipotence since you are a smoker! You must remember that God can avoid the negative health by smoking and that you are incapable of such power. Due to this reason, you should also avoid smoking on seeing Sai Baba smoking.

He is omniscient, due to His unimaginable omnipotence. Omniscience is exceptional knowledge (prajñānam). But being omniscient without being omnipresent, is the greatest unimaginable wonder. Greater the unimaginable nature of an entity, the closer the entity is to the absolute unimaginable God. If God’s Incarnation had been omniscient because He was omnipresent, it would have been less of a wonder.

According to worldly logic, one must be present before something in order to get knowledge of it. So, to have all knowledge (omniscience), one must be present everywhere (omnipresent). If we say that God is omniscient only because of His omnipresence, we are trying to bend God before worldly logic. When it is said in the Gita that the (finite) Son of Vasudeva is everything (infinite), it is said in this effective sense alone (Vāsudevah sarvamiti—Gita). This statement can also be understood in the sense that the whole world is under the control of Vāsudeva, who is the Human Incarnation. Krishna, sitting in Dvārakā, knew that His devotee Draupadī, was being insulted in far away Hastināpuram, due to His omniscience. He protected her while sitting in Dvārakā itself, due to His omnipotence.

1) As per worldly logic, omnipresence is essential to become omniscient. Unless You are moving around in all the rooms of Your house constantly, You cannot know what is happening in each room. Even if You are moving around constantly in Your house, by the time You go to the next room, You do not know what is instantly happening in the room that You just left. Hence, the soul can never become omniscient because constant omnipresence in every place, is not possible for the soul.

2) The same is the case with My finite body also. But, due to the presence of the unimaginable God in Me, I attain unimaginable nature. There is no trace of difference between Me and unimaginable God. I become omniscient without being omnipresent. Worldly logic stands as the basis of the concept that in order to become omniscient, one must be omnipresent. But I am omniscient due to My omnipotence without being omnipresent, since I am beyond worldly logic.

3) If I were to become omnipresent, which is also possible for Me with My omnipotence, it might lead to several doubts in the minds of people. People may ask how such a horrible sin happened in a certain place when God is also present in that place. Of course, I can be omnipresent without being touched by the sins happening anywhere. But people will not go into this depth and will hastily ask the above question. Since I already know what happens in any place, without being there, omnipresence is unnecessary for Me. On knowing everything, taking place everywhere, I can respond even though I am not in that place.

4) As the pure unimaginable God, I am beyond this creation. As the mediated unimaginable God (Īśvara or Datta), I exist in this creation, maintaining My unimaginable nature. The unimaginable God exists above creation when non-mediated, and He exists in creation when mediated. The non-mediated unimaginable God can exist in this creation also, but nobody can even imagine Him. Hence, the unimaginable God, mediated by an entity of this creation alone exists in creation.

- By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: Peace Safety And Sudden Destruction [of The Wicked] by dattaswami1: 3:16am On Sep 26, 2022

MrPresident1:

We now understand that 'Peace and safety' is between the Iranians (Persians) and the Americans (Babylonians) via the JCPOA mediated and moderated by the whole world [Powers]. [/b]

Another Peres moment is in the offing but we do not know the exact time, the LORD has told us that it will happen suddenly

God knows every bit of creation since He is omniscient. He can also control every bit of creation since He is omnipotent. He is indeed ruling over creation and He is certainly punishing all sinners in proper time. We think that God delays the judgment of sinners. The delay is not because God has to go through some long procedure to find out the truth in each case, like human courts. Since He is omniscient, as soon as the criminal commits the crime, God is ready with the correct judgment, in a fraction of a second. He does not need any witness, evidence, advocates or arguments.

After death, when a soul faces an inquiry for ten days, all the sins committed by the soul are already available and are played like a running film. That system which secretly records all the crimes as they were taking place is called Citragupta. The secret witness is protected in the form of that film-show (Citreṇa gopayati sākṣyam iti Citraguptaḥ). Hence, during that ten-day inquiry in the Preta Loka, which is the world of the dead, no other witness, no arguments and no lawyers are needed. The inquiry proceeds merely by running the recorded film show of the soul’s sins before the eyes of the soul, who is present in a subtle body.

Therefore, the delay in God’s judgment of sinners is not a procedural delay. The whole delay in the court of God is only an intentionally-given time for the reformation of the soul. God gives a sufficiently long span of time to the soul to get reformed through the three steps of realisation, repentance and finally, the non-repetition of the sin. When the wicked Kauravas, tried to disrobe Draupadi in the royal court, God Krishna protected her immediately by giving an unlimited supply of cloth to keep her covered. But He did not punish Kauravas immediately. God gave 13-years-time to the Kauravas during which He was observing whether they could realise the sin that they had committed and rectify it. Had they realised and got reformed, they would have given the rightful share of half the kingdom to the Pāṇḍavas. They could have at least granted them five villages, which was the bare-minimum demand of the Paṇḍavas.

That way, they could have saved themselves.

The loss of a good victim is always compensated by God immediately. The victim need not get ferocious for revenge since he has already been compensated. He need not worry about the delay in the punishment of the sinner. If the victim does not get compensated by God, it means that the victim had harmed the criminal in the previous birth. So, the present sinner has only harmed the present victim in retaliation for a previous sin, as per the judgment of God. No compensation is due to the present victim, in such a case. Hence, My friend, why should you worry that there is injustice taking place in this world? You are getting emotional only due to your lack of knowledge of the overall background.

A criminal killed several innocent and good people previously, which you have not seen with your eyes. You are just seeing the criminal being hanged by the jailer and you are sympathizing with the criminal and abusing the jailer! The jailer is only killing him following the judgment given by the judge. Similarly, somebody is harming another, only based on the judgment of God. If you argue that you have not done any crime towards your criminal enemy, it is not correct because you only have the knowledge of the present birth. If you had really not harmed your enemy in the previous births, you would certainly have been compensated by God immediately. Your enemy would also certainly receive punishment from God, in due course of time, if your enemy fails to get reformed during the time-period granted by God. You should not worry about this delay in the punishment of your enemy because, even if the enemy were punished immediately, your loss would not get compensated in any way. Seeing your enemy getting punished only pacifies your vengeance; it does not bring any real compensation to you.

What is the use of such mere pacification of your feelings, if your loss is not properly compensated? Hence, the delay in punishment should not be misunderstood as the victory of injustice. The judges gave the punishment to the criminals of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case after seven years. Do you criticize this as the victory of injustice? The delay in punishment is common in both the court of God and the court of human judges. But the reasons for the delay are different. In the human court, it is due to the long procedure needed to find the truth, whereas, the delay in the court of God is due to God’s patience in giving sufficient time to the criminal for reformation. Once your loss is well-compensated, you have no right to criticize God for His delay in punishing the sinner.

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Religion / Re: Is Harvest Really Giving To God? by dattaswami1: 2:56am On Sep 26, 2022

Itiaba007:
So every year,all the church members are gonna go to the market to buy expensive food stuffs and other items,take it to the church and pastor is gonna collect it as HARVEST,then at the end of the service elders of the church are gonna sit down with the pastor to share the stuffs in their proportion and hierarchy and the members go back empty hand.telling us we are giving it to God who has never come down to get these stuffs himself,it still goes back to them,meanwhile we have hungry people everywhere in the streets,prison,orphanage and even our immediate surroundings,but no we think taking it to the church is best,as we are giving it to God directly.lets just stop deceiving ourselves,if we can not give it to the needy and the hungry,then something is wrong somewhere.enough of all these brain wash,let us take all the gathered items to the streets,prison and orphanages and share.......from my own view i feel we are not doing the right thing.

Defining Basic Needs and Extra Wealth

[Ms. Amudha asked: Dear Lord! Om Shri Datta Swami Namaḥ! Dear Lord, kindly enlighten me by answering my queries. Swami, I am grateful for all Your grace. One of Your discourses mentioned about the “extra money” which people earn and which should be given back to God in the form of donations. How can we define the basic needs in life and what is extra money? Kindly enlighten me on the above questions. Yours obediently, Amudha.]

Swami replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God! Generally, food, clothing, shelter and the medicines required to cure illnesses are treated as the basic needs for the simple living of a person of high thinking. These basic needs differ from the view of one person to another. The length of the list of basic needs depends upon the person’s view of worldly life.

If the knowledge of God (spiritual knowledge) is well-realised, the length of the list of basic needs is very short. This is because, the goal of such a devoted soul is the attainment of God’s grace by pleasing the Lord through practical sacrifice. Of course, it is theoretical devotion that alone leads to the practical sacrifice. Hence, the value of theory should not be underestimated. The theory is the basis and it precedes practice. Without spiritual knowledge and devotion, which together constitute the theory, practice is not possible. Practice or karma yoga includes sacrificing one’s work (service) and the fruit of one’s work (donating money) to the Sadguru.
If the devotee is committed to both pravṛtti (worldly life) and nivṛtti (spiritual life), the length of the list of basic needs depends on the percentage of the person’s commitment to pravṛtti.

The greater the percentage of commitment to pravṛtti, the longer will the list be. God helps souls in both pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Hence, the practical sacrifice (donation) of the devotee depends on the devotee’s percent commitment to nivṛtti. The greater the devotee’s commitment to nivṛtti the greater will be the devotee’s donation to God.

But here, we must be very careful and remember that God does not need even a trace of the service or donation from any soul to carry out His divine work on earth since God is omnipotent. Yet, the donation of the devotee’s hard-earned wealth, called karma phala tyāga, is greatly stressed in the Gītā and is given the highest importance.

The final step of the spiritual effort is said to be this very donation of one’s hard-earned money (karma phala tyāga) to God for His divine work. Beyond this final step there is nothing. The spiritual effort is completed. Full stop (Tyāgāt śāntiranantaram)! The sacrifice of offering our service and our donation alone reveals our real love for God since God does not have the slightest need for it.
The Veda recommends the donation of money (Dhanena tyāgena), but the Gītā is even more specific. It recommends donating the money earned by hard work. This is because, a person’s bond with his or her hard earned money is stronger than the bond with his or her ancestral wealth. The practical sacrifice of one’s strongest worldly bond for God alone proves that one’s bond with God is stronger than one’s strongest worldly bond.
Offering both service and donation to God is the practical sacrifice which is the proof of one’s real love for God. Saints can only offer their service (karma saṃnyāsa), whereas householders can offer both service and money (karma saṃnyāsa and karma phala tyāga). We have real love for our children. So, we are able to sacrifice all our hard earned money along with our ancestral property only to our children.

Sacrificing one’s hard earned money to the loved one is the practical fire-test of the strength of the theoretical love for the person that exists in one’s mind. God grants you practical fruit only for your practical sacrifice. When a king performs a ritual sacrifice (yajña), the entire fruit of the sacrifice goes only to the king. It does not go to anyone else like the paid priest or paid servant who helped in making the arrangements for the ritual. None of them shares even a trace of the divine fruit.

A prostitute expresses sweet words and feelings for a person and only pretends to love him. The sweet words and feelings can be said to be theoretical love, which is unreal. In exchange for her theoretical devotion, she expects some practical fruit from the person. This insincere love is called prostitution devotion.

A devotee who merely prays, sings and preaches about God, but avoids doing practical sacrifice to God, comes under this lowest category of prostitution devotion. A businessman expects practical fruit from the other side in return for some practical sacrifice from his side. This is business devotion. Business devotion is practical devotion, but there is an expectation of receiving some fruit from the other side.
A devotee expecting some practical fruit for his practical devotion is somewhat better than the previous type of prostitution devotion because at least business-ethics are maintained in it. But even though it is better than prostitution devotion, business devotion is only a form of unreal love. It is not real love for God. The best form of devotion is issue-devotion and it alone is real devotion. It is the type of love we show to our issues or children. We render practical service to our children and sacrifice the fruit of our hard work (money) to them, whether they serve us in return or not.

We should try to develop this kind of attitude towards God. We should consider God to be our issue (child) and we should practically serve Him and sacrifice our wealth to Him, irrespective of His response towards us! This type of devotion alone is real love and we should try to develop such devotion for God. God is called Datta. ‘Datta’ is also the word used for an adopted son in Sanskrit. So, taking God Datta to be our adopted son, we should show the real issue-devotion towards Him. Unfortunately, we do the reverse. Very cleverly, we make God our father and we become His issues. The hidden intention behind this is that God should help us practically, irrespective of our character and irrespective of how we behave with God!

All this explanation does not mean that the real love of a devotee is measured by the magnitude of the devotee’s donation. So, we cannot blame God to be a money-minded shopkeeper. Our real love is proportional to the percentage of our donation of the total wealth possessed by us. When a beggar, whose entire wealth was just one coin, donated that one coin to God Jesus, he had donated 100% of his wealth and he was praised by God Jesus. On the other hand, rich people donating several thousands of coins, which amounted to less than 1% of their total wealth, were not even acknowledged.

Wealth or money is the item created by God in this world only for the purpose of testing the real love of devotees for God. Śaktuprastha offered just four plates of food to God in a severe drought, neglecting even the severe hunger of himself and his family.

He was blessed by God here and there. Sudāmā was hit by severe poverty and was suffering with severe hunger along with his family. Such a Sudāmā borrowed a handful parched rice to donate to God, without aspiring for anything in return from God. God blessed Sudāmā with immense wealth, along with salvation. The truth is always harsh, but helps the devotee in the real sense. God responds to us in the same way as we approach Him (Ye yathā māṃ prapadyante...—Gītā).

-By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / The Killing Is The Greatest Sin by dattaswami1: 2:54am On Sep 26, 2022

You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food or for offering to God (applicable for all religions and all people including atheists)
Instead of killing a goat he or she can donate that money to very poor widows, children who cannot work, aged people so that they will utilize the money properly like buying medicine and basic food(not non-veg food) etc.
The killing is the greatest sin

You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food or for offering to God (applicable for all religions and all people including atheists)
Instead of killing a goat he or she can donate that money to very poor widows, children who cannot work, aged people so that they will utilize the money properly like buying medicine and basic food(not non-veg food) etc.

The killing is the greatest sin

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 non-vegetarian 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 non-vegetarian 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 one hand, you are making God furious by not following the ethics of pravrutti and how can you please God through nivrutti simultaneously?
NEVER KILL ANIMALS! IT IS A GRAVE SIN

My dear disciple! Listen Me. Non-violence is the roof of the justice. The animal nature shall be killed and not the animal! If you succeed in pravrutti, God will drag you in Nivrutti also.

[The greatest sin is violence (ahimsaaparamodharmah), which means hurting or killing any good living being. People have misunderstood that animals are to be killed in sacrifice done for God. The Veda says that the animal to be killed is the rigid ignorance and stupidity of the animal-nature and not the actual animal itself (manyuhpashuh - Veda)!

The word ‘ajaa’ means goat as well as food grains stored for three years (so that they are not useful for germination) from which the flour is prepared and a paste of it is used to prepare the statue of the animal. Such statue of animal is to be cut as a symbolic act. Without understanding the latter intended sense, people have started killing the goats in sacrifice!

Any animal including cow or bird of soft nature should not be killed for the sake of food. Scripture says that a Brahmin should not be killed, but, Ravana (Brahmin) was killed by God. Brahmin means any living being (including human being) that does not harm you even if you harm it (ghaatamnaghaatayetviprah).

The deity of justice surrendered to God Datta in the form of a cow. Cow slaughter means slaughter of justice. If justice is slaughtered, the cow is slaughtered and not reverse. Any soft-natured animal including cow or bird or human being should not be slaughtered.
Slaughter of justice is the whole and slaughter of Cow is a part of it. This is the essence of the climax of justice. If you are not doing the three sins mentioned in the Gita, God will be very much pleased with you and pushes you in the path of Nivrutti also to make you His nearest and dearest!]

Plants only have the mechanical process of respiration but they do not have a nervous system for the generation of awareness. Mechanical respiration itself is called life (prāṇamaya kośa). But it is not the real meaning of life. Real life is found only in animals, which are zoological beings and not in plants, which are botanical beings.
The real meaning of life is the awareness generated by the nervous system (manomaya kośa). The awareness is produced in the nervous system as a result of the oxygen supplied by the process of respiration. But the mere supply of oxygen, without a functioning nervous system, cannot be called life.

When some living being is killed, the soul in it experiences torture. This torture is the greatest sin and avoiding such torture is the greatest among the good deeds (Ahimsa Paramo dharmah). For this reason only, the non-vegetarian food is prohibited by the scripture.
There is no difference between vegetarian food and non-vegetarian food since the chemical composition of both (like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals etc.,) is one and the same. Therefore, eating the non-vegetarian food is not a sin. The process of getting the non-vegetarian food by killing and torture is the sin. If one eats a living being, which is dead due to some accident, it is not wrong.
Eating a living being dead by disease or old age is avoided due to medical reasons. The Kapalikas eat dead bodies and are not considered as sinners. They are respected as the followers of a sacred branch of Hindu religion. Therefore, torture and violence is the main sin.
You should not argue that killing a living being in unconscious state by giving some anesthesia may not be sin. Any living being undergoes the pain of death in any unconscious state. Moreover, you are forcibly ending the life given by God in which a living being enjoys the facilities of creation and feels happy.

You must keep yourself in the place of such living being and understand the logic in the best way. You should not also argue that you are not directly killing the living being and hence, you are not the sinner. The living being is killed by somebody since people like you purchase it. Therefore, the sin is shared by you also (Kartaa kaarayitaa chaiva).

- By Shri Datta Swami
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Religion / Re: I Wish We All Make It To Heaven by dattaswami1: 2:51am On Sep 26, 2022

Ilamina:

There are three stages in the spiritual development of any human being in this world. They are duṣpravṛtti(doing bad deeds), pravṛtti(doing justice), and nivṛtti(complete love and surrender to God). They are related to a person’s fascination (overattachment or Moha) to worldly bonds.

The three main worldly bonds of a soul are the bond with money, the bond with one’s life-partner and the bond with one’s child. A limited attachment to these worldly bonds is acceptable as long as it does not cross the boundaries of justice. Excessive attachment to these bonds causes the soul to commit injustice.

Duṣpravṛtti is the lowest stage in which the soul is completely affected by the six vices. The six vices are lust, anger, greed, overattachment, ego, and jealousy. Such souls always support injustice and are severely punished by God here as well as after death in hell.

They are attached to illegitimate worldly bonds and they often neglect or even cause harm to their legitimate bonds. In other words, they engage in illegitimate relations and illegitimate ways of earning money.

Pravṛtti is the middle stage in which the soul possesses good qualities and always supports justice. Such a soul is blessed by God with happiness here and happiness in heaven after death. This soul rejects illegitimate bonds while maintaining a limited attachment to the legitimate bonds.

Nivṛtti is the stage in which the soul is completely filled with the real love for God. Such a soul goes beyond justice and injustice. This soul rejects all worldly bonds, both legitimate and illegitimate, and is totally fascinated with having a single bond with God (Ekabhaktirviśiṣyate—Gita). In this stage, all the worldly bonds drop off naturally, as a result of the divine bond to God.

There is not the slightest force involved in this detachment from worldly bonds. Nivṛtti means total detachment since all worldly bonds are totally dropped in this stage.

If a person leaves his lawful wife due to his attraction for a prostitute, he is on the downward journey from pravṛtti to duṣpravṛtti. If a person leaves his lawful wife due to his attraction for God, he is on the upward journey from pravṛtti to nivṛtti. A soul starting from the lowest stage of duṣpravṛtti must first reach the middle stage of pravṛtti before proceeding to nivṛtti.

The first part of the journey, from duṣpravṛtti to pravṛtti, is described in the Rāmāyaṇam and the Mahābhāratam. The second part of the journey, from pravṛtti to nivṛtti, is described in the Bhāgavatam. The Bhagavat Gita speaks about both these parts of the journey in both the upward and downward directions. Hence, it is recognized as the total authority for both ethical knowledge (pravṛtti) as well as spiritual knowledge (nivṛtti).
True Nivṛtti

Nivṛtti does not mean the dropping of all bonds since the mind cannot remain without any bond. Nivṛtti means the natural dropping off of all worldly bonds due to the formation of a single, extremely strong bond with God. If the mind is forced to not have any bond, it is both unnatural and impossible. A person’s soul is awareness and the thoughts and qualities in the awareness are the mind. The mind naturally seeks objects and develops bonds. Forcing the mind to be without bonds or thoughts is forcing oneself to become inert, like a stone.

It is a pity that Advaita philosophers take a lot of effort to attain this unnatural forced state. They try to drop all their worldly bonds, feeling that the world is unreal and illusory. If all the worldly bonds drop off naturally due to the strong bond with God, then that state is correct. But these Advaitins do not have any bond with God because they feel that they are already God. Having a bond with oneself is meaningless!

They neither have a bond with God nor do they have a bond with the world. This is a forced state of the mind which they call as the state of Advaita or monism. But unfortunately, it is neither the true state of monism nor can it be sustained for a long time.

The Advaita philosopher Totāpuri criticized Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa for His inability to reach this forced state of ‘monism’. Later, one day, Totāpuri developed a severe stomach-ache. It was so unbearable that he even tried to end his life.

But even that failed. Then, the universal Divine Mother appeared to him and preached to him the path of devotion to God, which is based on the fundamental dualism between God and the soul. It was the path that Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had followed all along.

Hence, in all the three stages of duṣpravṛtti, pravṛtti, and nivṛtti, the soul always remains in a state of dualism with God. It cannot reach the state of God in which this world becomes unreal to the soul. Therefore, nivṛtti does not simply mean the dropping of all bonds.

It only means the dropping of all worldly bonds due to the formation of a very strong bond with God, which is based on a fundamental dualism between God and the soul. From the angle of the soul, this fundamental dualism alone is true at all times. Monism is true only from the angle of the absolute God.
Overcoming the Six Vices in the Journey
Duṣpravṛtti is the result of the attachment to illegitimate sex (kāma), illegitimate anger (krodha) and illegitimate greed (lobha). The three are said to be the three main gates to hell in the Gita. Naturally, pravṛtti means rejecting the above three vices and adopting the opposite good qualities, which are legitimate sex, legitimate anger, and legitimate greed.

Overattachment (moha) to illegitimate worldly bonds leads to duṣpravṛtti while limited attachment to legitimate worldly bonds leads to pravṛtti. Excessive attachment even to the legitimate worldly bonds is a danger because it provokes the soul to commit sins.

The attachment to legitimate worldly bonds can be reduced by developing attachment to God. The attachment to illegitimate worldly bonds can be completely eliminated with a combination of the fear of hell and the faith in God.

Faith in God, the fear of hell and the development of devotion to God together completely reform the soul. The soul then rises from the first stage of duṣpravṛtti, through the middle state of pravṛtti, all the way to the third stage of nivṛtti.

The last three vices are illegitimate attachment (moha), ego (mada) and jealousy (mātsarya). They automatically get associated with the first three vices which are illegitimate lust, anger and greed. Moha is the overattachment towards worldly bonds. But the worldly bonds are related to lust and greed. So, overattachment is related to lust and greed.

Similarly, one develops pride or ego due to materialistic achievements, which are related to greed. One also develops jealousy (mātsarya) towards fellow humans based on their worldly achievements. So, the last three vices are based on the first three vices. Therefore, only the first three are stressed in the Gita as the three main gates to hell.

Religion / Re: Jesus is coming soon. This thread is for faithful watchmen by dattaswami1: 2:46am On Sep 26, 2022

MrPresident1:
The need for us to be sober and watchful unto the very end cannot be over emphasized.

Every day we are buffeted with the cares of life that tries to drown out the still small voice that constantly appeals to us to keep watch.

I am creating this thr............rkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. [/b]

HUMAN INCARNATION OF GOD

Even before creating this world, the unimaginable God descended down as the first Energetic Incarnation called Datta or Father of heaven (also called as Allah, Yahawe etc). He did this to express Himself for the sake of the souls who were to be created later. Datta, which is the name of the first Energetic Incarnation, means ‘given’.
It means that through the form of Datta, the absolute God, who is beyond space and time, and who is unimaginable to all souls, can now be grasped by the souls. So actually, God did not incarnate because of the desire of souls.

The concept of incarnation was not the idea of souls. It was the noble idea of the unimaginable God Himself. It was due to His kindness that He descended in the form of an Incarnation. Through the Incarnation, He can interact with souls, help them in every justified way, and uplift them.

Along with this primary aim of God, His secondary aim is to have entertainment in a positive manner. Ignorant people wrongly blame God thinking that His entertainment is negative like that of a sadist.

God enters the upper energetic worlds in the form of Energetic Incarnations. On earth, He appears in the form of Human Incarnations(like Jesus, Krishna, Rama etc). Both these types of Incarnations are equal in all aspects.

But the Human Incarnation is relevant to human beings on earth while the Energetic Incarnation is relevant to energetic beings in the upper worlds. When human beings die on earth and their souls pass on to the upper worlds, they too get energetic bodies. Then, the Energetic Incarnations of the upper worlds become relevant to them.

Relevance is decided by the common medium. In an ordinary human being, the physical body is the medium for the soul. The medium allows the soul to experience the outside world and interact with other souls. In the case of energetic beings, their external body, which is the medium of their soul, is non-material. It is made out of energy. When God incarnates in any world, material or energetic, He enters a devoted being (called as Son of God) from that world.

The external body and soul of that devotee(Son of God like Krishna, Rama, Sai Baba, Jesus, Muhamamd etc) become the medium of God. It allows God to interact with other souls who too are present in the same medium in that world.

This arrangement is most wonderful like the divine nectar (amṛtam). It provides the greatest benefit to souls. It allows them to interact with God and be uplifted. But before souls can be benefitted by this divine nectar, they have to survive a horrible poison. This poison is the repulsion between common media. The repulsion is the mutual ego and jealousy that exists between all fellow-beings of the same kind (common media).

As a result, the energetic being is repelled from the Energetic Incarnation and the human being is repelled from the Human Incarnation. Due to this poison, the soul in a human body rejects the Human Incarnation here on earth and upon reaching the upper energetic world, rejects the Energetic Incarnation there too. The end result is a total loss for the soul, every time and everywhere!

The aim of the Incarnation is only to re-establish the right path and the balance of the world, whenever it is disturbed. This is clearly stated in the Gītā (Yadā yadā hi...—Gītā). The same concept was also stated by Jesus, who said that He would come again. It means that the order in the world gets disturbed often and there is an emergent need for God to enter into His creation again and again to rectify it.

When a factory is established by a person, he visits it every day so that he will be available to solve any problem that arises at once. It is necessary for the smooth administration of his establishment. No owner comes to the factory only when called by the workers after a problem has arisen. The owner has his own fundamental right and sense of responsibility to visit his establishment as many times as possible and no invitations are necessary for him.

Invitations are valid when a person is invited to visit the property of someone else. In this case, all of creation is God’s own property. So, He needs no invitation from souls within His creation to enter into creation. This analogy of the factory and factory-owner has its limitations since it is an example from this world, which is the imaginable domain.

In the actual concept, the unimaginable God exists in His original place surrounding the boundary of this world. At the same time, using His unimaginable power, He also visits this world which is surrounded by Him. He enters creation in the form of multiple Energetic and Human Incarnations. The various Incarnations as well as the original unimaginable God, exist simultaneously. Even though God appears to be divided, He remains undivided as clearly told in the Gītā (Avibhaktaṁ vibhakteṣu...—Gītā). This is possible only with His unimaginable power.

While attending to His primary justified responsibility of establishing justice in the world and destroying injustice (Paritrāṇāya...—Gītā), He also fulfills the desires of His climax devotees as a secondary or associated activity. Fulfilling the desires of devotees is only an associated activity from the angle of coincidence. But it is also the primary activity from the angle of importance.

The Human Incarnations of God are of two types, based on how long it takes to solve the problems. If long-term problems exist, Datta, the Energetic Incarnation of God selects a devoted human soul and merges with that soul. Datta is born on earth merged in the body and soul of that selected soul.

This is how normal Human Incarnations are born on this earth. Apart from this, God also comes to earth in the form of temporary Incarnations. Sometimes, when a climax devotee is facing an urgent problem, God suddenly merges with any ordinary human being present nearby to help the devotee. Once the devotee has been helped, God leaves that human being into whom He had temporarily entered. These temporary Incarnations are called Āveśa Avatāras.

If necessary, God can even appear in the form of a newly-created Human Being by His unimaginable power. As soon as the purpose is over, the new Human Being disappears. God thus helps human beings by appearing in human form (Daivam mānuṣarūpeṇa) and this concept applies to both the long-term (normal) Human Incarnations and the temporary Human Incarnations. In any case, the incarnation of God in human form is always need-based and is meant for the sake of His real devotees. The term ‘Emmanuel’ in the Bible, means the Incarnation of God, who comes here to save His own devotees.

The same unimaginable God exists in every Incarnation and He always possesses His full power. So, one should not differentiate one Incarnation from another. Quantitative and qualitative differences are inherent in creation. So, two Incarnation appear to be externally different. But the same power of God always exists with God in every Incarnation. In fact, God, the Possessor of the unimaginable power is not different from the unimaginable power. The Unimaginable Entity must only be one. There cannot be two unimaginable items since if they can be counted as two, or differentiated from each other, they are not unimaginable at all! So, God’s unimaginable power is the same as the unimaginable God Himself.

The power possessed by all Incarnations is the same. But the power exhibited by different Incarnations may differ based on the need of each specific program. When an Incarnation exhibits only a ray or the 1/16th fraction of God’s power, He is called as a Ray-Incarnation or a Kalā Avatāra. When an Incarnation exhibits a somewhat larger fraction of God’s power, He is called a partial Incarnation (Amśa Avatāra). When an Incarnation exhibits a major part of God’s power (more than 12/16th fraction) and the power remains with Him throughout His life, He is said to be a complete Incarnation (Pūrṇa Avatāra). When an Incarnation exhibits the entire power of God throughout His life, He is called the most-complete and greatest Incarnation (Paripūrṇatama Avatāra). One should never insult any Incarnation by thinking that one is lower than another since this classification is only based on the power exhibited by the Incarnation. The power possessed by each Incarnation is always the entire unimaginable power of God.

The devotees propagating the true spiritual knowledge in all regions of the world are also Incarnations of God since God merges with such devotees to carry out His own work. There may be one cook in the kitchen, but there are several waiters distributing (propagating) the cooked true knowledge in this world. Krishna cooked the true knowledge-food in the form of the Gītā. Sage Vyāsa recorded it and several sages propagated it. Krishna, Vyāsa and the other sages, who propagated the Gītā, are all Incarnations of God since only God can do His work. They all are different media of God and God did His work through them. It only appears as if they did the divine work. The reality is that the kind God, who actually does His own work secretly, gives the fame of carrying out His work to His devotees. While doing His divine work through them, He uplifts all these devotees in various angles and stages.

God incarnates everywhere in the world in every generation. By propagating His knowledge everywhere, He exhibits the power of His divine knowledge in a form that is suitable to the devotees present in each place. This propagation of His knowledge everywhere shows His kindness for humanity since all people can be benefitted by His knowledge where ever they live. If He were to incarnate only in one place many people would not be able to visit Him. Based on all these aspects related to Incarnations, we cannot limit the number of Incarnations of God. The Incarnations of God are infinite in number as said in the Bhāgavatam (Avatārāhyasaṅkhyeyāḥ…).

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Religion / Re: Story Of Adam And Eve Makes Sense To Me by dattaswami1: 2:45am On Sep 26, 2022

budaatum:

And note, "story", before anyone starts asking me to prove some imaginary made up God created some imaginary made up Adam or imaginary made up Eve or Image! For "story" it may be but evidence shows many are still programmed by it.

If everything is done by God only, do you want yourself to be an inert mechanical robot? Even if God makes you like that, you will immediately weep that the cruel God has not given any trace of freedom to you to have some individual responsibility. If freedom is given, one type of weeping comes out.

If freedom is not given, another type of weeping comes out. God is very much fed up with these souls, who neither like to live like males nor like to live like females! If they are made neutral, the souls will cry with very loud voice for the injustice done to them!!
The hormones are created by God so that the male and female will be able to generate issues. This is to extend the future humanity for the service of God to continue His entertainment with the souls being born in every generation so that God visits this earth in every generation. Again, this does not mean that the souls are suffering for the entertainment of God. This is foolish blame because no injustice is done in the creation and the aim of God is not only His personal entertainment, but also, the entertainment of souls following justified set up in the creation.

Electricity is supplied to all houses with the aim that all people will use electricity following certain minimum precautions. If a foolish person neglects all this background and touches the main source of electricity committing suicide, a case cannot be filed in court that the department of electricity is responsible for the suicide!

When God is running the administration protecting justice and punishing injustice, why does not the soul also be happy and entertain itself with the creation like God? Is the soul such an inefficient to follow even the minimum precautions? If the soul is so inefficient, why then does it weep for free will to get rid of the rigid boredom?

Go to the following website and read the divine knowledge from there,

-By Shri Datta Swami

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxwPeghu3cM

Universal Spirituality for World Peace

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Religion / Re: Freewill. Some Ain't Got Any! by dattaswami1: 2:45am On Sep 26, 2022

budaatum:
Why choose t........e darkness dissapear?

If so, how, and what with?

The soul is given full freedom in choosing the right path or the wrong path (Svabhāvastu pravartate—Gita). God does not force souls to leave the wrong path and turn to the right path. Using logic, God fully explains to souls about both paths and the results of following each of them. It is the souls who must feel attracted towards the right path preached by God and follow it, using their own free will. Krishna only preached to Arjuna what the right direction in his situation was. After presenting the complete logic before Arjuna, Krishna finally told Arjuna to analyze whatever He had said thoroughly and make his own decision, using his own free will (Yathecchasi tathā kuru).

Krishna could have just forced Arjuna to fight the war, even without preaching the Gita. His mere will was sufficient to change the mind of Arjuna, in a fraction of a second. Then there would have been no need to preach all the eighteen chapters of the Gita! But God honors the free will that He Himself has granted to the soul. The change in the soul should not come through divine force. Instead, it should come through divine knowledge. It is for this reason that the soul must correctly grasp the concepts preached by God and assimilate them, in order to bring them into practice.

If the soul had no freedom and acted only as per the direction of God, the question posed by you would not even arise. The divine father, being greatly interested in the welfare of all the souls created by Him, would only direct them on the path of justice and they would all follow justice. Thus, there would only be peace and harmony in the world. In fact, such a situation actually existed for a very long time in the period called the Kṛta Yuga. But after that long time, souls got bored of always strictly following the directions given by God, without any freedom to choose what they wanted. So, they desired a free-will.

The divine father always aims at the pleasure of His children and hence, He granted them a free-will, using which they had full freedom to choose what they wanted. But God expected souls to use their free-will in a responsible manner, using the powerful intelligence given to them to discriminate between the right and wrong paths. He clearly explained to them about the right and wrong paths through the scriptures. Knowing that souls are likely to misunderstand or deliberately misinterpret His preaching, He has repeatedly incarnated in human form, to eliminate the doubts and misinterpretations and preach true spiritual knowledge to every generation. In His preaching, He stresses on souls following the right path, again and again.

God is the divine Father of all souls, whereas, you are only a brother or sister to other souls. You should realize that He is far more concerned about their welfare than you are and He wants all souls to return to the right path. But God will never violate the free-will that He Himself has granted to souls. Under these circumstances, there is no other way than to repeatedly preach to souls about following the correct path while, at the same time, giving them full freedom to choose what they want. The souls who follow His preaching progress spiritually, while those who reject His preaching do not. Souls who wish to change must choose to follow His guidance, using their own free will. There is no other alternative, under the circumstances.

Religion / Re: Is Islam Technology Averse? by dattaswami1: 2:44am On Sep 26, 2022

bushjeph:
Greetings everyone! I have for a long period of time pondered on this fact and even researched upon it and have decided to throw the question to thinkers here: Is Islam technology averse and why? To clarify further even as we contribute to the topic Imagine how much development that is happening all over the world then compare that index with every country that are majorly muslims to see the difference in acceptance of development and disruptive ideas and technologies.

: The scientific logic leading to inventions is blessed by God. Hence, the energy required for a scientific process and the resulting discovery are certainly due to the grace of God (Janaardhana) only. The application of the discovery is the direction of the invention in the further journey. This direction is due to the psychology of human being. Matter is a form of energy and matter can be converted into energy. The equation of this principle given by Einstein is due to grace of God. But, the huge energy released in such conversion can be used as power of the light and the energy used for computer, which are useful in the spiritual effort. The same energy can be misused in the form of atom bomb. The horse is the vehicle for your journey. But, using the horse, whether you are traveling to a forest to be robbed by thieves or traveling to the house of a friend in the city depends upon the direction of your free will.

If you go to a forest, you are robbed. If you go the city, you are honored by your friend. The horse is one and the same for both purposes. But, the resulting directions ending in different fruits are based on your psychology developed due to your freedom of will. This freedom is given to all souls and each soul develops its own direction based on the freedom of will given by God to the souls in this world. This world is called as karma loka or world of doing actions as per the freedom of the will of a soul (svabhaavastu pravartate… Gita).
The upper worlds like hell and heaven are called as bhoga lokas or places for enjoying the fruits of past deeds without any freedom of the will. You cannot blame God for giving such free will to souls in this world because due to this free will, all souls are not spoiled. In spite of this freedom of will, there are several souls, which are benefited much. If you remove this freedom of will from this world, there is no real enjoyment of the fruits resulting from actions based on free will.

This creation is not only created by God for His entertainment, but also for the entertainment of souls. Hence, the present system of actions yielding corresponding fruits (there is no freedom for you to change the fruit of a specific action) having freedom in selecting a specific action is a mixture of hot and sweet for entertainment. If you put finger in fire, it will burn. If you put your finger in water, it will be cool.

There is no freedom for you to change the specific fruit of a specific action. But, there is full freedom for you to put your finger in fire or water. If this freedom is also absent, the souls become inert robots only. In such case, God has to enjoy the good or bad fruits of all actions. In the present system, God does not enjoy the fruit of any action done by you. God is completely free from the blame since He propagated the right knowledge of fire and water from the beginning of the creation. Therefore, release of energy from matter is by God and the direction in which the energy is used (karma) and enjoyment of its destined fruit (bhoga) goes to the soul only.

Hence, God is doer (karta) and enjoyer (bhokta) up to the first stage of release of energy from matter. The same God is entertained (bhokta) by this first step only. From the second step onwards (process of using the released energy), the soul is doer (karta) and enjoyer (bhokta) of use of energy. You cannot fix God as doer and enjoyer for both the steps. You are only responsible for your good and bad deeds for which heaven and hell are related places respectively. Hence, the use of energy (karma) and its enjoyment (bhoga) are totally related to you only.
Energy, in the form of electricity, was used in ancient India, which was called as vaidyutaagni. The same energy was also used as atom bomb in ancient India, which was called as Brahmaastra. In the Mahabharata war, the atom bomb (Brahmaastra) was used and its full description along with all the posterior effects (as observed in Hiroshima) were clearly explained.

In that ancient time, when this weapon was given to disciples, several controlling instructions were given side by side. Due to the background of vast spiritual knowledge, this weapon was almost out of use. In the present time, due to lack of such vast spiritual knowledge, controlling psychology is almost absent. Even in Mahabharata war, it was misused due to defective psychology.

Similarly, whether the computer is used for spiritual work or at least for the development of technology in the worldly benefits of humanity or whether the computer is used for doing cyber crimes or used in useless entertainments, it depends upon the attitudes and psychology of human beings in the absence of lack of stress on the spiritual knowledge in the present system of education. Hence, God is used as a vehicle only.

The process of the direction of its use (path) and its fruit depends upon the driver (human being) of the vehicle. The Veda says that God is used as the vehicle (abadhnan purusham pashum). The word ‘pashu’ here means an animal like horse used as vehicle in the journey. Thus, God is limited to the energy of the action (kriyaa shakti) only and is not related to the direction of the action or enjoyment of its fruit.

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Religion / Re: Does It Mean That God Already Knew We Will Be Black, Poor And Miserable by dattaswami1: 2:40am On Sep 26, 2022

Chizzyjforce:
Righteousness2, you'll have a better answer I guess

The soul is given full freedom in choosing the right path or the wrong path (Svabhāvastu pravartate—Gita). God does not force souls to leave the wrong path and turn to the right path. Using logic, God fully explains to souls about both paths and the results of following each of them. It is the souls who must feel attracted towards the right path preached by God and follow it, using their own free will. Krishna only preached to Arjuna what the right direction in his situation was. After presenting the complete logic before Arjuna, Krishna finally told Arjuna to analyze whatever He had said thoroughly and make his own decision, using his own free will (Yathecchasi tathā kuru). Krishna could have just forced Arjuna to fight the war, even without preaching the Gita.

His mere will was sufficient to change the mind of Arjuna, in a fraction of a second. Then there would have been no need to preach all the eighteen chapters of the Gita! But God honors the free will that He Himself has granted to the soul. The change in the soul should not come through divine force. Instead, it should come through divine knowledge. It is for this reason that the soul must correctly grasp the concepts preached by God and assimilate them, in order to bring them into practice.

If the soul had no freedom and acted only as per the direction of God, the question posed by you would not even arise. The divine father, being greatly interested in the welfare of all the souls created by Him, would only direct them on the path of justice and they would all follow justice. Thus, there would only be peace and harmony in the world. In fact, such a situation actually existed for a very long time in the period called the Kṛta Yuga. But after that long time, souls got bored of always strictly following the directions given by God, without any freedom to choose what they wanted. So, they desired a free-will.

The divine father always aims at the pleasure of His children and hence, He granted them a free-will, using which they had full freedom to choose what they wanted. But God expected souls to use their free-will in a responsible manner, using the powerful intelligence given to them to discriminate between the right and wrong paths. He clearly explained to them about the right and wrong paths through the scriptures. Knowing that souls are likely to misunderstand or deliberately misinterpret His preaching, He has repeatedly incarnated in human form, to eliminate the doubts and misinterpretations and preach true spiritual knowledge to every generation. In His preaching, He stresses on souls following the right path, again and again.

God is the divine Father of all souls, whereas, you are only a brother or sister to other souls. You should realize that He is far more concerned about their welfare than you are and He wants all souls to return to the right path. But God will never violate the free-will that He Himself has granted to souls. Under these circumstances, there is no other way than to repeatedly preach to souls about following the correct path while, at the same time, giving them full freedom to choose what they want. The souls who follow His preaching progress spiritually, while those who reject His preaching do not. Souls who wish to change must choose to follow His guidance, using their own free will. There is no other alternative, under the circumstances.

Religion / Re: My Greatest Sexual Temptation As A Christian by dattaswami1: 2:39am On Sep 26, 2022

IrepChrist:
My testimony is a proof that every sin starts from the mind. While I was serving some years ago, it's was a rural community In northern Nigeria. There was this corper colleague that must have had sexual escapades with some fellow male corpers.

That faithful weekend everyone in the lodge had either travelled home or gone to town for the weekend. I was left with this lady. Around midnight she knocked my door and said she couldn't sleep alone. Sincerely I believed her because it was a quiet compound and the grave of the man who owns the house was there and everywhere was dark.

She came in and we shared the bed together. No one would ever believe me that we never had sex not even a romance.

The truth is my mind was not there and not that I was perfect... Afterwards everything went back to normal.

1 Corinthians 6:8
Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

I couldn't run that night but God saved me.

Religion / World Religions by dattaswami1: 2:38am On Sep 26, 2022

WORLD RELIGIONS

If anyone says that his/her religion is the only path to God and that other paths lead to hell, I have one humble question. The question is for every religion without any trace of partiality. The simple question is: Today I have heard your Religion and if I follow that, I reach God and if I refuse I will go to the hell for my own fault. This is very much reasonable. But before your ancestors discovered our country, the literature or even the name of your religion was not known to our ancestor and he could not reach God for no fault of him. But your ancestor reached God through your religion at that time.

Even if I assume that my ancestor will take rebirth now and will follow your religion to reach God, such possibility is ruled out because you say that there is no rebirth for the soul. Thus my ancestor suffered forever for no fault of him and the responsibility for this falls on the partiality of God. Had the God been impartial, He could have revealed your religion to all the countries at a time. Had that happened, my ancestor might have also reached God as your ancestor. Therefore your statement proves your own God partial.

The only way left over to you to make your God impartial is that you must accept that your God appeared in all the countries at a time in various forms and preached your path in various languages. The same form did not appear everywhere and the same language does not exist everywhere. The syllabus and explanation are one and the same, though the media and teachers are different. Can you give any alternative reasonable answer to my question other than this? Certainly not! Any person of any religion to any other religion can pose this question.

Moreover every religion states that their God only created this world. Unfortunately this world is one only and every God cannot create the same world. There are no many worlds to justify that each God created His own world. Therefore any human being with an iota of commonsense has to agree that there is only one impartial God who created this one world and He came in different forms to different countries and preached the same path in all the languages simultaneously at one time.

Let this logic sword of the divine knowledge cut the rigid conservatism of the religious fans in this world to establish the Universal Peace. I need not beg all these religious followers to be united and harmonious to each other for the sake of world peace. Such begging appeals are made enough in the past. The religious fans feel that there is no unity really in the religions but they have to be united since their kind hearts melted by these appeals. Thus a temporary change was only brought. At the maximum one generation of the followers got united. The next generation fights with each other because they feel that there is no real unity in them due to lack of the real unity in their religious scriptures.

A permanent solution for this does not lie in the begging appeals, which may or may not unite the followers. Even if the appeals unite such unity is not permanent. If the real unity in all the religious scriptures is exposed through the logical divine knowledge, the followers have to be united for generations together. Therefore, My attack is not on the hearts of the followers through love and kindness. My attack is on all the religious scriptures through intellectual logical analysis of divine knowledge. The unity of hearts through love can be only temporary. The unity of brains through intellectual analytical divine knowledge will be permanent. Hearts agree but brains realize. Agreement is temporary, but realization is permanent. Thus this is My first blow of My divine Conch shell for the permanent unity of all the religions aiming at eternal Universal Peace.

The unimaginable God and His unimaginable power (māyā) are one and the same, whereas God’s imaginable power is different from Him. It has undergone modification to become creation (prakṛti) or it appears to be creation. How the unimaginable God possesses an imaginable power, which is different from Him, is unimaginable. Such a wonder is possible only due to His unimaginable power! Our logical analysis and entire knowledge are limited only to this creation, which is the imaginable domain. Hence, it is a waste of time to think about any aspect of the unimaginable domain.

This world, which is the imaginable domain, has plurality. The plurality supplies different media for the unimaginable God for His expression. It enables Him to enter into various selected human devotees in order to become Human Incarnations of God. The human devotee becomes a medium for the entry of the unimaginable God. Thus, God has incarnated in this world in different regions in different times to establish the different religions in the world. Of course, the unimaginable God does not directly enter any medium.

At the very beginning of creation, the unimaginable God first created subtle energy or space. He created the first form or body out of that subtle energy and entered into it to become the first Energetic Incarnation. This first energetic form became the first medium of God. This first mediated form of God or the first Energetic Incarnation is called as Datta or Īśvara in Hinduism and Father of heaven in other religions. There is no trace of difference between the unimaginable God and the first Energetic Incarnation, except that the former is unimaginable while the latter is imaginable. The energetic form of Datta is visible to energetic beings in the upper worlds.

For humans on earth, Datta is invisible but still imaginable. The first Energetic Incarnation, Datta, is also eternal like the unimaginable God; i.e. both have no end. The only difference is that Datta had a beginning from the point of view of His energetic medium, while the unimaginable God has no beginning. It is this Datta that enters a selected human devotee to become a Human Incarnation. The unimaginable God is permanently present in the energetic medium of Datta. That Datta, containing the unimaginable God, enters into the physical medium of a human devotee. Thus, the unimaginable God is equally present in the Human Incarnation.

God incarnates in human form on earth in every human generation. The human media into which God Datta enters each time is different as a result of the plurality that is inherent in the imaginable domain. In other words, one Incarnation looks different from another Incarnation. One Incarnation may appear in a place where people follow say Hinduism, while another Incarnation may appear in a place where people follow a different religion. The Incarnation’s external dress, language, and manners will naturally be according to the culture of the place where He has appeared. This enables Him to mix freely with the people He has come to preach and uplift. But these differences are only external.

From the point of view of the first Energetic Incarnation, Datta or Father of heaven, present in each of them, all Incarnations are one and same. From the point of view of the unimaginable God present in all the Incarnations too, they are one and the same. Thus, all these different mediated Gods are actually one in essence. If you look at the medium, which is part of the imaginable domain, there is plurality. If you look at the internal God Datta or the unimaginable God present in all of them, then there is only one. This truth applies equally to the sub-religions within Hinduism or the different world religions. This analysis is the fundamental basis for bringing unity among the sub-religions of Hinduism and among the various religions in the world.

Universal spirituality is the solution for these problems.. The Universal Spirituality is the basic universal knowledge or philosophy. The one God, who created this entire creation and who is the kind Father of all humanity, preached the same common universal knowledge to people in different places and times. The Universal Religion is the universal practical path of worshipping that one God and maintaining justice and peace in the world. The mode of worship is a part of culture and the variations in it are a matter of personal choice. The spirituality and religion are thus the theoretical and practical parts of the spiritual path and both are universal.

Universal Spirituality and Universal Religion have been established by God Datta now through this Datta Swami. Earlier, Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had experienced the unity of all religions by practicing every religion for some time. Śaṅkara had similarly, established the unity of all the sub-religions within Hinduism. Shri Shirdi Sai Baba and Shri Satya Sai Baba too had established the unity of world religions. Every religion will lead a person to the same God. So, conversion to another religion is the biggest foolishness that any devotee can do. When all roads lead to the same center, is it not the height of foolishness to leave your road and laterally cross over to another road that leads to the same center? Good times for this entire world are very near. This Universal Spirituality and Religion will bring tremendous unity among all religions. You said that you are following the philosophy of Hinduism. In the spiritual knowledge or philosophy there is no name of any religion since knowledge is always universal.

Parents take complete care of their children during their childhood. The efforts taken by the parents for their children is service, which is also known as the sacrifice of work. Finally, the parents also transfer all their wealth to their children through their will. This transferring of the wealth is called the sacrifice of the fruit of their work since wealth is the fruit of work. So, the sacrifice of the parents for the sake of their children in terms of the sacrifice of work and the fruit of work is complete. Yet most parents save some wealth for their own old age believing that they will live until they become old. They feel there is a risk in sacrificing their entire wealth to their issues while they are still alive. There is a possibility that if their children are not good, they might not take care of the parents in the future when the parents become old. Sometimes, even if the children are good they could be incapable of serving their parents due to some unfortunate circumstances.
The case of God is different from one’s children. God is not bad; He is extremely good. He is also never incapable. In fact, He is omnipotent. Another important difference is that while one’s children are seen with one’s eyes, God is not seen. There is insecurity for those who depend on the children who are seen by their eyes. But there is complete security for those who depend on the unseen God. Ignorant souls only believe in perception. Giving more importance to their unreliable children who are seen, they shower their real love upon the children. The proof of real love is karma yoga. The sacrifice of work and the fruit of work together are called karma yoga. It is the proof of real love since we practically serve and sacrifice our money only for those whom we truly love. Ignorant people truly love only their children and so they do this karma yoga only for their children who are unreliable. They do not truly love God and they do not do karma yoga for Him even though He is supremely reliable, just because He is unseen. Real devotees are the ones who believe in God through inference. They believe in the unseen, unimaginable God by observing His miracles which are visible but unimaginable. Inference, of course, includes perception since the miracles are perceived. This mentality of the majority of human beings is the climax of blind ignorance. Such blind ignorance is actually not based on either perception or inference but is based only on solidified worldly fascination!
Not only can one adopt any mode of worship, but one can also pray to any form of God belonging to any religion, based on one’s personal liking. The different forms of God of various religions are not different since the one and only God exists in every one of them. When this is the truth of even the forms of God in different religions, then what to speak of the different modes of prayer in religions?
One can adopt any mode of prayer of any religion if you like it. This is the basic right of every person in the Universal Religion, which is based on Universal Spirituality.

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Religion / Re: Prayer Points On Today's Open Heavens: Sunday, September 25,2022 by dattaswami1: 5:25am On Sep 25, 2022

femoint007:
*Prayer Points on Today’s Open Heavens: (Sunday, September 25, 2022) - From Prophecy To Decree*

Special Note.
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You may not add, subtract or rearrange these prayer points. The Holy Spirit is the author, though He used someone, who, out of humility has refused to take glory for it, by not putting his name. It is plagiarism to use, or pass as your own, someone's else writing or work. The original author of these prayer points is the Holy Spirit. So, share, but don't share His glory with Him in the process. Remain blessed, as you obey, in Jesus name.

Do not ask any thing from God which is either related to present or future. When you ask some thing in present or some thing in the future, it clearly means that you are reminding Him about the corresponding reaction that is to be immediately implemented in the need. This indirectly means that God is not alert as you are.

This is insulting God. Due to such sin the requirement is not answered. If you are asking to protect yourself or somebody else, it indirectly means that He is not aware of the things to be done due to the irresponsibility and this also indicates that He is not as kind as yourself.

It means that God has potency to help but not kind enough to render the help. On contrary, it also means that you lack unfortunately the potency. It means if you fortunately have the potency you could have immediately responded and helped. Therefore, when ever you ask for anything it clearly means indirectly that God has some type of defect, which does not exist in your case.
When you ask Him to fulfill the desire it looks as if that your desire is constitutionally justified. But God is not positively reacting due to either lack of positive response immediately or due to lack of knowledge of the constitution or due to lack of kindness to help the needy. All these points are very very subtle. But God is the most subtle and therefore, the knowledge of this analysis will certainly restrict you from asking any fulfillment of your desire.

Never bring present and future before God. Confine to the past always before God. Look back at your past life. Hundreds of incidents are there where you were helped by God. Even if you dispose some incidents through the incidental probability of success or through the efficiency of your efforts, certainly there are plenty of instances in which the help from God is clearly evident. At least remember those few incidents and express your gratefulness along praise to God for His kind help that was already done.

The word Krutajnata means remembering the past help. Kruta means the past help done. Jna means identifying it by analysis. If you confine to praying the Lord and thanking Him always about the past helps from Him, the Lord will be immensely pleased. Then the present and future are spontaneously taken care of by the God. But do not adopt this technique with a mind that you will be helped by God in the present and in the future by following this procedure!

You should really follow this path and you should really forget the present and the future. When large number of people came to hear the message from Jesus, they were hungry by the noon. This point was brought to the notice of Jesus. He never asked God to provide food for those hungry people who came to hear God’s word.

Had He asked for that, He would have insulted God. God knows His responsibility very well towards the devotees who came there to hear about Him. God has the power to fulfill His responsibility even in the last fraction of second. Had Jesus told God to bless the devotees with food, it clearly means that God is not as kind as Jesus. Jesus never asked for any thing. He came to know that there were four breads. He took them and showed to sky. He thanked God for providing those four pieces of bread.

Immediately the present was responded and the four breads became four thousand breads. This application of analysis is limited to Nivrutti only. You should not extend this to Pravrutti. When you are hungry you have to beg the other souls because they are not omniscient to know that you are hungry. Pravrutti and Nivrutti should never be mixed.

- By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: What Do You Want From God Today? by dattaswami1: 5:25am On Sep 25, 2022

JOSH54:
Ask God to do something special in your life today, that special testimony you need.
Ask and it shall be given, knock and the door will be open, seek and ye shall find. Mathew 7:7.
When we ask that is when God respond because He will only give us what we request from Him as long as we ask in accordance to His will.
I pray your heart desire will be granted today in Jesus name JESUS LOVES YOU!

Religion / Re: How God Revealed To Me This Deep Secrets Of The Underworld. by dattaswami1: 5:24am On Sep 25, 2022

SilasIBB:
Praise the lord!

Isa 42:9, 43:20, Gal 5:1, 6:17
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Good morning brethren! Greeting in the name of Jes......nd do it together...the wiser shall become the greatest benefactor." I heard the hawk delibrates clearly.

More....typing

There is nothing important in the nature of death. It is just the liberation of the soul from this gross body (sthūla śarīram) to enter the new energetic body (sūkṣma śarīram) that is arranged by God to go to the upper worlds. Souls leave this sub-world called Karma Loka (Earth), which is a material world and they go to enjoy the fruits of their good and bad deeds in heaven and hell respectively.
Just above this world on our earth, there is a sub-world called Preta Loka, which is an energetic world. Above Preta Loka exist two other energetic sub-worlds called Naraka Loka or hell and Pitṛ Loka, which is a sort of inferior heaven. Pitṛ Loka is located on the moon. All these four sub-worlds put together are called Bhū Loka.

Above it lies the Jyotir Loka of the stars and above it is the Svarga Loka which is heaven. In the Preta Loka, souls face the enquiry of their deeds. The enquiry is very formal because there is no debate between advocates there. All your deeds run before your eyes with the help of a divine audio and video facility, which is called Chitragupta meaning the witness that is protected through recording.

The person dying by accident need not become a ghost on earth. If the soul is very greatly attached to the fascinations of these worldly bonds, the soul becomes a ghost and wanders here for some time more. But it has no connection with the nature of death. Suicide is the greatest foolishness and the greatest ignorance because the soul is rejecting the golden opportunity of human life given by God in this world.
Human life is the greatest opportunity to achieve the grace of God. People committing suicide enter a terrible hell called Asūrya forever, which is filled with the most condensed dark ignorance (Andhena tamasā vṛutāḥ…—Veda). The upward and downward journeys of souls have been well-described in the Brahma Sūtrams.

There are three ways: (1) The way to God, (2) the way to heaven and (3) the way to hell. The souls going to heaven and hell will be reborn on this earth and remain entangled in worldly fascinations. The souls going to God will be reborn on this earth in the service of the contemporary Human Incarnation of God. Only those souls, who have reached God can identify the contemporary Human Incarnation of God on this earth, surpassing their ego and jealousy, without any trace of doubt in their minds.
-By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: The Kingdom Of The World Has Become The Kingdom Of Our Lord And Of His Christ by dattaswami1: 5:24am On Sep 25, 2022

JesusChristLord:
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ

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The statement of Jesus has two meanings:

(i) The first is that every soul is ruled by God, but the Human Incarnation is very close to God since God lives in the Human Incarnation. It is like the palace of a king is very close to the king. But the palace is also located within the kingdom. In fact, it is the most important part of the kingdom and all the rules of the country are finalized by the king in the palace itself. This means that the palace is the real kingdom.

(ii) The second meaning is that the term ‘Kingdom of God’ does not mean a political government in a physical sense. But it is an invisible government that exists within the physical kingdom, pervading all over the kingdom. If one wins a case in a human court through false means, the court of God existing within and above the human court punishes the sinner at the proper time, surpassing the human court. Hence, the administration of God is invisible existing within this world itself and it is the ultimate. Hence, Jesus said that the kingdom of God is amidst human beings.
-By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: The Test Of True Salvation. by dattaswami1: 11:47am On Sep 24, 2022

Steep:
Not everybody who claimed he has recieved Jesus as their true Lord and saviour has truly received christ.
Many just say it with their mouth but however it ........ut righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

SALVATION

1) Salvation means simply liberation. Generally, devotees pray God for salvation. But, they don’t know from what they desire the salvation! The word salvation is a general word. When You specify the item from which You desire the salvation or liberation, the meaning of the word salvation changes from one item to other from which liberation is desired.

2) Generally, the desire of majority of people is to get liberation from the worldly miseries and tensions while the soul is alive in this world. This is the ‘Jiivanmukti’ or liberation from worldly miseries while alive. Several scholars suggest meditation in the name of Yoga to get such salvation. But, as soon as the meditation is over, again miseries are attacking and hence, this is not the remedy at the root level.

It is only a temporary first aid treatment for the wound caused by miseries. It is just like putting wet cloth to lower the temperature of the body caused by fever, which is due to infection from germs. The root level treatment is to kill the germs by using antibiotic medicines.

3) Similarly, You have to analyse to root cause of the misery, which is the punishment stipulated by the constitution of God for the sins done by the soul in the past births and present birth. These sins are done due to uncontrolled excessive fascinations to self and own family members. If the fascination to self and family is in controlled level, sins are certainly avoided.

The only way to reduce family fascinations is to develop more fascination to some other item and that item can be none other than God. The personality of God is also more attractive if all the details about God are thoroughly obtained from spiritual knowledge. The servant of God propagating spiritual knowledge in the world gets more and more digestion of it, which develops more and more fascination towards God.

4) The fascination towards family bonds is real due to practical sacrifice done to these in the service of these bonds. A real fascination to God can be identified when it weakens the other real fascination to self and family. The reality is proved by the practical service done to the family.

Such real fascination to the family can be cut only by another real fascination to God, which is the practical service to God. Reality of love lies in the practical sacrifice of service and sacrifice of fruit of work only. Hence, the servant of self and family gradually becomes the servant of God. Such diversion of fascination through service from family to God can alone control the sins so that the liberation from miseries while alive becomes possible.

5) As the sacrifice through service increases more and more, the climax of devotion appears for the servant of God. Then, he becomes fully engaged in the service of God so that there is no time and energy to think about doing a sin for the benefit of self and family. In such case, there is no place for sin and misery in the life of the soul and this type of salvation has full proof from all sides. This is the salvation in Pravrutti attained through Nivrutti.

6) Another type of salvation from miseries is getting reformation of the soul and not doing any sin from today onwards so that God cancels all the pending punishments provided the reformation is real forever. This is getting salvation from miseries through Pravrutti itself. The fruit for this salvation and above said salvation is one and the same as far as salvation from miseries, while alive, is concerned.

But, in the former salvation a real advantage of having bond with God is achieved as a separate profit. In the latter salvation, avoiding loss by avoiding miseries is obtained. Of course, avoiding loss is also a type of profit only. But, the latter salvation is real substantial profit, which is achieved by the real devotee of God or the servant of God alone.

7) There was very good control of sins in the souls in ancient times since much concentration on the spiritual line was given. When I came as human incarnation called as Rama, there was no need for Me to exhibit miracles since every soul had natural control over sins. I simply exhibited the ideal behaviour of a human soul in this world and all the people respected it since they were following the same ideal behaviour.

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When I came as Krishna, the ideal behaviour of human being is lost to some extent and attraction for miracles increased in souls, which were aspiring the help from God in cancelling the sins done by them. Today, the condition is worst since souls are only attracted to the miracles of God aspiring His help in getting success in doing sins due to over fascination to self and family! These ignorant people don’t understand that such unjust materialistic progress doesn’t give happiness to them or to their families. In addition, miseries have to be faced for the sins done.

9) As Rama, I left the kingdom and went to forests indicating that God alone is the king and the soul shouldn’t aspire for the position of God. When My left half (Shakti) asked My right half, the preacher (Shiva) for the path to cross this worldly ocean (taarakam), the preacher-half said that the path of Rama shall be followed, which is not to have aspiration for the kingship of God. Hanuman had miraculous powers, but, became the servant of Rama, who didn’t exhibit any miraculous power. This means that miracles are not necessary for theists, who must concentrate on the good qualities of God only.

Liberation

Liberation while associating with gross body and without it shall be analyzed carefully along with total liberation.

[Mukti means simply liberation. Jevanmukti means liberation from the bond of fascination to worldly bonds here while this gross body is alive in this life itself. This means that the worldly bonds exist, but, there is no fascination to these worldly bonds here, which is not liberation from these actual worldly bonds here. Videhamukti means the liberation of the soul from the gross body or sthula sharira (first body), which is burnt after death. Deha means that which is burnt by fire (dahyate iti dehah). Even after death, the soul is associated with energetic body, which cannot be burnt since the body itself is made of energy. This energy is in the form of nervous energy called as vaasanaa or sukshma sharira or subtle body, the second body.

Apart from nervous energy in the form of ideas, inert energy also exists as the minor component of the second body (manomayah praana shariranetaa - Veda). Major component of the subtle body is nervous energy (sukshmastu vaasanaamayah). The major component or sukshma (subtle) is a bundle of ideas (vaasanaas) that leads the minor component or inert energy called as Praanasharira. The awareness or nervous energy without ideas is called as causal body or Kaaranasharira, the third body, which is present in the ideas as the composing entity like gold in jewels. The cosmic inert energy having very subtle nature, called as cosmic energy (space) is the cause for the third causal body (awareness), which (space) is called as the root-causal body or Mahaakaarana Sharira, the fourth body.

Beyond this fourth body, only unimaginable God exists. All these four bodies come under the category of creation or imaginable domain. Hence, if the soul is liberated from the fascination of worldly bonds related to the first gross body here, such liberation is called as jeevanmukti or liberation from fascination of worldly bonds related to first gross body. The next videhamukti doesn’t mean liberation from worldly bonds since worldly bonds continue after the death also. Only the bonds related to this earth-world are liberated. The bonds related to upper energetic world (like bonds with associating departed souls) start and hence, we can never say that the worldly bonds (existing as surrounding atmosphere) are totally removed.

If the fascination to worldly bonds disappears here as well as there while the bonds still exist around the soul in detached way, it is called as vimukti as said in the Veda (Yavat na vimokshye…). In such case, the soul exists as pure awareness without fascination to this world and upper world. Even though both worlds exist surrounding the soul, such total liberation from entire fascination to both worlds is called as vimukti (total liberation from both worlds).

The maximum stage of salvation up to which this soul can reach is the soul existing as pure awareness or third body, even though it is externally associated with both worlds. The soul can never reach the state of fourth body or space beyond which only unimaginable God exists. If the soul reaches the fourth state or space, the soul itself disappears being the awareness. The fourth state or space is subtle inert energy (aakaasha) only, which is generated from the unimaginable God.

Hence, the soul even in its ultimate third state also (existing in association with first and second bodies in this world and upper world respectively) is without any fascination since it is filled fully with the fascination to God only and this state is called as vimukti or ultimate salvation by the Veda. In this state only, God merges with the soul to become incarnation, which is the monism of Shankara.

Shri Paramahamsa told that even sage Shuka is travelling still in the infinite space (Mahaashunya), which means that the soul or pure awareness can never reach the fourth state to become inert, which means that the soul is converted into a state of inert stone as extreme punishment! Even if the soul becomes inert subtle cosmic energy and a stone (since awareness can become inert energy, which can become matter), it can’t be converted into unimaginable God. Conversion of imaginable in to unimaginable or vice-versa is impossible (Avyaktam vyaktimaapannam- Gita). The unimaginable God also generated the inert cosmic energy by unimaginable power only and this is not modification or physical conversion.

Hence, the soul in the third state while remaining as pure awareness merging with unimaginable God is the ultimate salvation, which does not mean the disappearance of association with both worlds, but, only means disappearance of total fascination to both worlds, which indirectly gives the estimation of total fascination of the soul to God. Even the unimaginable God is always associated with His creation (both worlds) and its bonds and is entertained continuously with bliss due to absence of fascination to this creation and its bonds.

In such case, this petty soul imagining actual detachment from world and its bonds is foolish! Shankara described God as always liberated (Nityamuktasvabhaavam) and this means only that God is always liberated from the fascination to world and not actually liberated from the world and its bonds.]

- By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: Proof For The Existence Of God by dattaswami1: 8:03am On Sep 24, 2022

LordReed:

All you need to do is pass through a solid brick wall under laboratory conditions. This your long epistle proves nothing.

:- Miracles indicate the existence of unimaginable God in a specific medium. But, miraculous powers can also be transferred by unimaginable God into a soul doing rigid penance in which case (of demons) unimaginable God need not exist in the specific medium (of demons).
Miracles exhibited by anybody indicate certainly the existence of unimaginable God as a basic concept. By miracles, you can’t be sure of the existence of unimaginable God in a medium performing the miracles. Miracles need not indicate the existence of unimaginable God in a soul.
Miracles, love with bliss and excellent true spiritual knowledge exist together in the incarnation of God Datta. In every incarnation of God Datta, the spiritual knowledge and love with bliss exist without any exception. Miracles also exist with the incarnation, but, exhibition or non-exhibition of miracles depends on the will (real necessity) of unimaginable God.

Religion / Re: What Happens When A Believer "Dies In Sin"? A Biblical Exposition Of What Sin Is by dattaswami1: 3:13am On Sep 24, 2022

jiggaz:
What Happens When A Believer “Dies In Sin”. A Biblical Exposition Of What Sin Really Is And What Jesus Did To It

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As soon as death occurs, the soul leaves this earth in an energetic body. The physical Earth that we live on is called Martya Loka, which is the first sub-world of the first world, called Bhū Loka. Martya Loka is called Karma Loka, which means the world of deeds, since souls are meant to perform deeds here.

They are supposed to enjoy the fruits of their deeds in the other worlds, which are called Bhoga Lokas or worlds of enjoyment. After death in the Martya Loka, the soul enters into the second sub-world of the Bhū Loka, called the Preta Loka. Preta Loka means the world of the dead. In that world, the soul faces the inquiry of its qualities and deeds for ten days. After those ten days, the soul leaves Preta Loka as said in the scripture “Itaḥ paraṁ preta śabdo nāsti”.

To indicate this, the priest throws away the stone representing the soul during the ritual on the tenth day. The soul then enters Naraka Loka or Pitṛ Loka. These two worlds are the third and fourth sub-worlds of Bhū Loka. Naraka Loka is hell where the soul enjoys the fruits of its sins. Pitṛ Loka, which is located on the moon, is a place meant for enjoying the fruits of the soul’s neutral deeds.

Most people live and perform deeds in the Martya Loka (earth) only for the sake of themselves and their family. They work expecting some benefit in return. Such self-centered people can only reach Pitṛ Loka. Pitṛ Loka means the world of ancestors since most of our dead ancestors reach this world.

But some souls, if they serve the public without aspiring for any fruit in return, can even enter the second world called Bhuvar Loka. Souls that have performed even higher meritorious deeds enter the third world called heaven or Suvar Loka. Preta Loka is right above Martya Loka. So, even though the soul has just completed its life in Martya Loka and is in Preta Loka, it has not gone far from the Martya Loka.

Due to the extreme closeness of Preta Loka with Martya Loka, the soul in Preta Loka can almost be considered to be still present in Martya Loka. This is the reason why people say that the soul is close to earth for ten days after the death of its body. The reality is that as soon as the person dies in Martya Loka, its soul in an energetic body enters the second sub-world, Preta Loka to face the inquiry for ten days.

Religion / Re: Amputated Finger Grows Back In Extra Ordinary Breakthrough Global Crusade VIDEO by dattaswami1: 3:10am On Sep 24, 2022

OLAADEGBU:
Amputated Finger Grows back In Extra Ordinary Breakthrough Global Crusade

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Miracles Practically Validate Spiritual Kowledge

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God! Nobody opposes science because the fundamental concepts in science are based on practical experiments. Spiritual knowledge must also start at the basic level of the practical experience of miracles, which alone can convince atheists and scientists. Thus, the experience of miracles serves as the foundation of spiritual knowledge. The concept that God is unimaginable is stated in the Veda (Yato vāco, aprāpya manasā, Na medhayā, Naiṣā tarkeṇa etc.) and in the Gita (Māṃ tu veda na kaścana). So, no soul can ever know the true nature of God.

That is why miracles play a crucial role in spirituality. Miracles have always been performed by several genuine God-men, but they have also been performed by several devilish black magicians. We are only concerned with the miracle and not the qualities of the performer of the miracle. When a scientific experiment is demonstrated by a demonstrator, we are only concerned with the experiment and not the qualities of the demonstrator. No matter who performs the miracle, it proves to the persons witnessing the miracle that an unimaginable power exists, which is not different from the unimaginable God Himself!

It is only in view of this positive angle, that God allowed even devils to perform these unimaginable acts called miracles. The miracles allow all people in this world to recognize the existence of the unimaginable power or the unimaginable God. Ultimately, the source of the unimaginable events must be the unimaginable God Himself. Thus, miracles serve as the direct proof, based on perception for the existence of the unimaginable God. Of course, miracles only prove the existence of God. The nature of God always remains unimaginable. Most recently, Shri Satya Sai Baba performed a variety of miracles and fortunately, there are several recorded videos showing His performance of the miracles.

The scriptures speak about the unimaginable God and unimaginable miracles are often exhibited by God-men. In spite of the clear existence of both the theoretical and the practical basis, the exact link between the concept of unimaginable God and the observed unimaginable miracles had not been clearly established by anybody, so far. The credit for the same goes to God Datta who established this fundamental link through the medium of this Datta Swami. With this link established, we can introduce the concept of unimaginable God on the basis of practically-experienced miracles.

Miracles in spiritual knowledge, thus, serve the same function as practical experiments in science. They conclusively prove the theoretical concepts. Linking miracles to the theoretical spiritual concepts as the practical demonstration of spiritual concepts, formally makes them part of spiritual knowledge. When spirituality is equipped with this practical proof in the form of miracles, it becomes a systematic subject with the same reliability as science. Then nobody can speak anything against it, just as no body can speak against science today.
Advantages of the Unimaginable God

The advantages of recognizing that God is unimaginable are: (1) When God is known to be unimaginable, we realize that He cannot have any imaginable boundaries. So, there cannot be more than one unimaginable God and the concept of one God has to be accepted. (2) If instead, we were to take an imaginable item as God, that imaginable God would have specific imaginable boundaries. It brings in the possibility of multiple of Gods of different religions which, in turn, leads to quarrels between various religions.

(3) Knowing God to be unimaginable, even when a certain person, who is an imaginable item, is seen to perform miracles, we can understand that He is a Human Incarnation. The unimaginable God has merged into His human medium and is performing the miracles through Him. It means that the different imaginable Gods of various religions are Incarnations of the same unimaginable God.

They all performed unimaginable miracles because the single unimaginable God had merged with their media (bodies) to perform the miracles. Through this concept of the single unimaginable God, unity is established between the Gods of various religions. When unity is thus established at the highest level of the Gods of all religions, all the other following concepts of the religions are spontaneously unified. (4) Every religion says that its God created this Earth and humanity on it. But unfortunately, there is only one Earth, with only one humanity. This means that there must be only one unimaginable God, existing in the different forms (Incarnations) of God. Each Incarnation has a different external medium (body) and a different name, but the single unimaginable God is found merged in each.

Sadguru Sai

We know that Swami Vivekananda worked for the unity of religions. The same unity of religions was also the most fundamental goal of the divine program of the very recent Human Incarnation of God Datta, Shri Satya Sai Baba. All Human Incarnations of God Datta are famous for performing miracles. The excellent knowledge preached by Shri Satya Sai Baba differentiates Him from devilish black magicians who also perform miracles. The divine love that Baba had for His devotees is also seen in several incidents when Baba bore the suffering for the sins of His devotees on His own body.

The divine knowledge given by an Incarnation like Shri Satya Sai Baba represents God Brahmā. The divine love showed by Him for His devotees represents God Viṣṇu. The miracles performed by Him represent God Śiva. Datta is the single God, who is seen as these three different Gods, when viewed from different angles.

Shri Satya Sai Baba stressed greatly on pravṛtti, which is following justice and resisting sins. All human beings, in their old age, recall the various past incidents in their lives. They correlate their past actions and the fruits of those actions that they received later on. That analysis done by old people has established the strong belief in society that God’s divine administration delivers rewards and punishments to souls, even in this very world. This divine administration existing within the boundaries of human governments is referred to as the Kingdom of God by Jesus.

The Kingdom of God is not somewhere else, but it is here itself, pervading all of humanity on Earth. Every Incarnation of God stressed on the pravṛtti of human beings, which is following justice and avoiding sins. Pravṛtti is the minimum and maximum expectation of God from humanity. Hence, pravṛtti is mandatory, whereas devotional life, known as nivṛtti, is optional.

At the top most level, the absolute reality is the unimaginable God, known as Parabrahman. God Datta, the first Energetic Incarnation is the middle level. The base-level is the Human Incarnation like Shri Satya Sai. It is this concept that is conveyed by the following Sanskrit verse composed by Me. It is a verse expressing My reverence for the sacred chain of My Divine Preachers (Sadgurus):
Parabrahma samārambhām,
Śrī Dattātreya madhyamām,
Śrī Satya Sāī paryantām,
Vande Guru paramparām.

Go to the following website and read the divine knowledge from there,

-By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: Eternal Security : A Believer's Assurance Of Salvation - Ralph Yankee Arnold by dattaswami1: 3:08am On Sep 24, 2022

jiggaz:
Can a person who has been saved lose his salvation? This question has been a perplexing question to many. Maybe you have been questioning the genuineness of your salvation. Are you really saved? Are you really sure?
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Salvation means the liberation from worldly bonds. This liberation is expected to be an indirect measure of the person’s attachment to God. The scale that measures the depth of the water in a river can be taken as an example. Let us say that the total height of the scale is 100 ft. Let us say that 40 ft of the scale is exposed outside from the level of the water. This means that the depth of the water is 60 ft. The detachment from the worldly bonds is 40 ft, which is visible to us. The depth of the attachment to God, is 60 ft, which is hidden in the heart of the devotee. Seeing the exposed length of the scale above the water, we can calculate the hidden length of the scale under the water.

Similarly, seeing the extent of the devotee’s salvation from worldly bonds, we can calculate the devotee’s inner attachment to God. But the detachment from the world need not always indicate the attachment to God. A person on the wrong path of duṣpravṛtti may be fascinated by a prostitute, as a result of which, he might be detached from his legitimate worldly bonds of pravṛtti like his wife and children. A 100 ft scale might be buried in the soil up to a depth of 60 ft. So, seeing the exposed 40 ft, we cannot say that the water is 60 ft. We can only say that the level of duṣpravṛtti is 60 ft. Duṣpravṛtti is not nivṛtti at all!

The attachment to God should be real love. It must not just be theoretical love, but there should also be some practical love. Real practical love is proved by sacrifice. The devotee should sacrifice his work (service) to God (karma saṃnyāsa) and he should also sacrifice the fruit of his work (karma phala tyāga) to God. If the devotee is a householder, he is expected to do both. His sacrifice of the fruit of his work should always be accompanied by the sacrifice of work too. A saint cannot sacrifice the fruit of his work (sacrifice of wealth) and can only sacrifice his work (service). Hence, if the sacrifice of the fruit of work alone is mentioned, the sacrifice of work also automatically follows. If the sacrifice of work alone is mentioned, the sacrifice of the fruit of work need not always follow, as in the case of a saint. Hence, in the Gītā, it is said that knowledge is better than blindly performing a traditional ritual without analysis (abhyāsa).

Then it is told that devotion is better than knowledge and further, it is told that the sacrifice of the fruit of one’s work is better than devotion.

Here, the term ‘sacrifice of the fruit of work’ includes the sacrifice of work (service) also. The term actually refers to karma yoga as a whole and karma yoga includes both the sacrifice of work and the sacrifice of the fruit of work (śreyo hi jñānamabhyāsāt…—Gītā). The essence of this is that karma yoga or practical devotion must always be performed. Karma yoga is the proof of theoretical devotion, which includes spiritual knowledge and devotion. The theoretical devotion (asambhūti upāsanā) is the mother of practical devotion (sambhūti upāsanā). The Veda says that both must exist together to achieve the divine fruit (Sa siddhimāpnoti…—Veda).
-By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: Frank Edwards: 'Jesus Is Interested In That Soul You Are Praying To Die By Fire' by dattaswami1: 3:07am On Sep 24, 2022

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Salvation means the liberation from worldly bonds. This liberation is expected to be an indirect measure of the person’s attachment to God. The scale that measures the depth of the water in a river can be taken as an example. Let us say that the total height of the scale is 100 ft. Let us say that 40 ft of the scale is exposed outside from the level of the water. This means that the depth of the water is 60 ft. The detachment from the worldly bonds is 40 ft, which is visible to us. The depth of the attachment to God, is 60 ft, which is hidden in the heart of the devotee. Seeing the exposed length of the scale above the water, we can calculate the hidden length of the scale under the water.

Similarly, seeing the extent of the devotee’s salvation from worldly bonds, we can calculate the devotee’s inner attachment to God. But the detachment from the world need not always indicate the attachment to God. A person on the wrong path of duṣpravṛtti may be fascinated by a prostitute, as a result of which, he might be detached from his legitimate worldly bonds of pravṛtti like his wife and children. A 100 ft scale might be buried in the soil up to a depth of 60 ft. So, seeing the exposed 40 ft, we cannot say that the water is 60 ft. We can only say that the level of duṣpravṛtti is 60 ft. Duṣpravṛtti is not nivṛtti at all!

The attachment to God should be real love. It must not just be theoretical love, but there should also be some practical love. Real practical love is proved by sacrifice. The devotee should sacrifice his work (service) to God (karma saṃnyāsa) and he should also sacrifice the fruit of his work (karma phala tyāga) to God. If the devotee is a householder, he is expected to do both. His sacrifice of the fruit of his work should always be accompanied by the sacrifice of work too. A saint cannot sacrifice the fruit of his work (sacrifice of wealth) and can only sacrifice his work (service). Hence, if the sacrifice of the fruit of work alone is mentioned, the sacrifice of work also automatically follows. If the sacrifice of work alone is mentioned, the sacrifice of the fruit of work need not always follow, as in the case of a saint. Hence, in the Gītā, it is said that knowledge is better than blindly performing a traditional ritual without analysis (abhyāsa).

Then it is told that devotion is better than knowledge and further, it is told that the sacrifice of the fruit of one’s work is better than devotion. Here, the term ‘sacrifice of the fruit of work’ includes the sacrifice of work (service) also. The term actually refers to karma yoga as a whole and karma yoga includes both the sacrifice of work and the sacrifice of the fruit of work (śreyo hi jñānamabhyāsāt…—Gītā). The essence of this is that karma yoga or practical devotion must always be performed. Karma yoga is the proof of theoretical devotion, which includes spiritual knowledge and devotion. The theoretical devotion (asambhūti upāsanā) is the mother of practical devotion (sambhūti upāsanā). The Veda says that both must exist together to achieve the divine fruit (Sa siddhimāpnoti…—Veda).
-By Shri Datta Swami

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Religion / Re: My Experience With The Jehovah's Witnesses Organization by dattaswami1: 3:05am On Sep 24, 2022

Templee333:
PREFACE TO THIS STORY
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Over-intelligence and ignorance leads to several misinterpretations that result in false criticism of God. God always tried to solve the problems of souls in the best possible way without breaking justice. He is not only the Father of souls, but also, the judge and author of the constitution. Whenever a problem was created by the souls, He solved it and the solution given created another problem due to ignorance or over-intelligence of souls. A criminal said in the court that he killed a person by the order of God since it is said that nothing happens without the order of God. The judge replied that the punishment of death is given to the criminal by the order of same God only!

Let us remember the problems, solutions given by God and further criticisms of souls on God like the opposition party always criticising the ruling party!:- i) Souls had no freedom due to perfect faith in God and were in continuous happiness (situation). Souls developed boredom due to continuous happiness and wanted freedom also (problem). God gave freedom to souls and sins were committed so that there is a break of continuous happiness due to punishments of sins.

God also arranged good fruits and punishments in alternative way so that the soul enjoys continuously both like sweet and hot dishes in meals without boredom of one item only (solution). ii) Many wise souls are happy by this arrangement (situation). Without understanding this background, some foolish souls started pressing the divine Father through worships to remove suffering of punishments and grant happiness by giving good fruits (problem).

God doesn’t cancel the sins (punishments) without reformation of the soul since punishments were created only to bring at least temporary reformation. Hence, without hurting justice, the punishments were postponed to the future births with increased interest so that temporarily misery disappears. Similarly, as per justice, good fruits can’t be given without doing good deeds.

Hence, God drew back the good fruits with increased values placed in the future births and granted those now itself with reduced values so that happiness appears. The soul misunderstood this as permanent cancellation of punishments and attainment of good fruits without doing good deeds (solution). iii) The foolish souls are also happy along with the wise souls (situation). But, in the case of foolish souls, the future life cycles are filled with continuous punishments with increased interests only. Their lives become horrible with continuous miseries (problem).
There is no solution to this since God, being the judge, will not disturb the justice. Still, God gave a permanent solution for these permanent miseries by saying that if the soul is reformed and doesn’t repeat the sin, all the present and pending punishments get cancelled since the logic behind this is that any punishment is for the reformation of the soul so that the soul doesn’t repeat the sin again.

If the soul is already reformed through spiritual knowledge, there is no need of further punishment (solution). iv) The soul is unable to permanently reform itself through spiritual knowledge and hence, is not becoming eligible for this solution. All such souls are subjected to punishments here and there at least for getting temporary reformation through fear. They started criticising God about His creation of this world for His selfish entertainment! This criticism disappears once this deep analysis is done with lot of patience to understand the truth.
People doing this criticism are either totally ignorant of this analysis or totally over-intelligent (even though this analysis is known thoroughly) to throw mud on God to get some relief from God (confused by them) like advocates supporting unjust party (for money) do clever cross examinations of the opposite party having justice so that the deity of justice gets confused by their over-intelligence to give a way for their injustice to win!

Adam and eve

The divine Father is very much concerned for the happiness of souls created by Him. Hence, He gave freedom to souls, which was misused by the souls to get punishments of their sins. Even though the sins were done continuously, the punishments were not arranged continuously following strictly the sequence of deeds. The punishments (tensions) were arranged alternatively with fruits of good deeds (happiness) so that the boredom of continuous happiness disappears. By this, the problem of boredom was removed.

But, some people are seen with continuous tensions and so they criticise God for not doing such above said arrangement. The reason for a specific situation like this is that the souls worshipped God to solve their problems and get happiness. God was forced to do this. But, the basic principle of His constitution is that no fruit of good deed can be given without doing good deed and the punishment of a bad deed can never be cancelled unless the soul is reformed.

Based on this, God postponed the present punishment to future life cycles with interest added so that the present punishment disappears. He brought the good fruits arranged with increased values from the future life cycles with lesser values to the present birth and gave happiness. The ignorant soul is thinking that the punishment is cancelled and good fruit is given by God even though it did not do any good deed.

Due to this, the future life cycles are leftover with punishments only without good fruits in the intervals. Hence, we shall never worship God for getting any benefit and our true love to God must be without aspiration for any fruit like removing the tension or granting benefit. Without understanding this background, we criticize God unnecessarily. Actually, we must criticize ourselves only.

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Religion / Re: The Greatest Word by dattaswami1: 2:54am On Sep 24, 2022

tfrancis:
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

God, being beyond space, is unimaginable. Just after the creation of space or subtle energy, He expressed Himself as the First Energetic Incarnation, which is known as Datta, Īśvara or Father of heaven or Allah or Yehawah.

He incarnated in a form so that the souls, who were to be created later, could grasp Him. The three potencies of God namely, creation, maintenance and destruction of the world are expressed in the form of the three Divine Personalities namely, God Brahmā, God Viṣṇu and God Śiva respectively.

These three Divine Forms represent the three divine qualities called rajas, sattvam and tamas respectively. The word Datta simply means ‘given’ and it stands for the unimaginable God who has ‘given’ Himself to souls in the form of the First Incarnation. Datta has no connection with any specific religion. This eternal God Datta is the First Energetic Form into which the unimaginable God has completely merged. He further merged with other Energetic Forms in the upper energetic worlds to form more Energetic Incarnations namely Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva. The same God Datta also merges with selected human devotees on earth to become Human Incarnations of God.
Energetic Incarnations are relevant to souls in the energetic worlds and the Human Incarnations are relevant to human beings. There is absolutely no difference between the unimaginable God and God Datta since the energetic form of the eternal God Datta is the permanent address of the unimaginable God.

The starting point is unimaginable God, who is one only (since two unimaginable items can’t exist) and existed before the creation in isolated state. Such unimaginable God (Parabrahman or Jehovah or Allah or God indicated by silence of Buddha and Science or God negated by atheism) created some little imaginable space and the mechanism of this creation is unimaginable (Since in the world, we are aware of imaginable item creating other imaginable item through imaginable mechanism.).

The space is not absolute ‘nothing’ since it is subtle energy. The unimaginable God created an energetic body with the help of this subtle energy occupying some space (A part of that original ‘some little space’ already created is used in the preparation of this energetic body. Other remaining part of that original ‘some little space’ is used for the occupation by this energetic body created.). The unimaginable God merged with this energetic body and became the first energetic incarnation called as Datta or Eshwara or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva or Father of heaven.

The word Datta does not belong to any religion since it means only ‘given’ (unimaginable God is given in imaginable form to the future souls) and hence, Datta Swami is fascinated to use this word. Shankara used the word ‘Eshwara’. Ramanuja and Madhva called this Datta as ‘Narayana’ since Narayana is the name of God in the present time in which the world is maintained by God. Other religions in the world called Datta as Father of heaven.

After this, further creation was done by Datta. Datta is the unimaginable God mediated with this first energetic form and the creation is always done by the unimaginable God viewed through this medium only. Datta has no end since the unimaginable God will never separate from Datta. Datta created the five elements (including creation of further space) from which the plants were generated and from plants the food is prepared in the form of grains, fruits etc. From this food, the soul (awareness) is generated.

The energetic beings like angels (souls in energetic bodies) exist in the upper worlds whereas human beings (souls in human bodies made of matter and energy) with materialised bodies exist on earth. God as Datta entered some energetic and human beings and identified Himself with them to become energetic or human incarnations. Even the human being on this earth becomes energetic being since the soul from human body enters energetic body after death and goes to the upper worlds. The subtle energy, originally created by unimaginable God is inert energy, called as Muulaprakruti from which matter and awareness were also generated by its modifications. Upper worlds are made of inert energy only, which along with energetic beings are invisible to human beings on the earth due to will of God having unimaginable power.
[The unimaginable God is the creator of every item of the world and knows everything even though He is not awareness.

He burns everything in the end even though He is not the fire. He does everything since He is the creator of everything in this world. Such unimaginable God became Datta or God given to the souls as imaginable form by merging with the first created energetic form or Lord (after creating space or subtle energy or the root material of creation called as Mula prakruti. Hence, whenever you start with the first energetic incarnation or Lord, the Mula prakruti co-exists as the material cause of further creation. Hence, the unimaginable God before creation is in unimaginable absolute plane whereas the Lord is always in the relative plane doing further creation using Mula prakruti.
Shankara refers the unimaginable God in absolute plane before the creation of even the space or Mula prakruti. Ramanuja and Madhva always refer to the Lord, Who exists along with already created Mula prakruti.). Such Lord Datta(Father of Heaven) is eternal since the unimaginable God will never leave this first energetic incarnation called as Father of heaven or Datta or Ishwara or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva.

When the human incarnation(like Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Shri Datta Swami etc) is formed, the unimaginable God does not enter the human form directly. He enters the human form as Datta only to merge with it so that the merged human form becomes the human incarnation. Here, the medium of Datta (inert energy) is similar to the medium of human incarnation (inert energy along with inert matter. Since the inert matter is another form of inert energy, the inert matter can be also taken as the inert energy. Not only the inert matter, but the awareness is also a special work form of inert energy only. Hence, the medium of Datta containing awareness and inert energy is similar to the medium of human incarnation, which contains awareness, inert energy and inert matter).]

The energy of the body of the first incarnation is only a part of cosmic energy and it is the same as the cosmic energy in qualitative sense and not in quantitative sense. The unimaginable God present in the first energetic incarnation created further cosmic energy, which is qualitatively the same as that of the energetic body of Datta, but, different in quantitative sense. The quantity of energy of the energetic body of Datta is very less compared to the quantity of cosmic energy. But, the little energy of the energetic body of Datta is omnipotent since the unimaginable God merged with Datta.

Adishakti is the entire cosmic energy, but, the Gopika( a female closest devotee of God) is created by the same unimaginable God representing this entire cosmic energy. Every human being is a mini-representative model of Adishakti only like Gopika since the body and the soul are modification of the cosmic energy only. The energetic body of Datta is having relative awareness (created by the modification of inert energy) with which the unimaginable awareness or unimaginable God is merged. The awareness in the body of representative model of Adishakti (Gopika or any human being) is also relative without unimaginable awareness, which is the soul.

The difference between Gopika and ordinary soul is that Gopika is the real devotee of God and has the full grace of God on her. Such a real devotee of God becomes the master of God and hence, is praised as the divine Adishakti.

The first energetic incarnation (Eshwara or Datta) is again absorbed in three energetic forms called Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to make them God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva respectively. The first energetic incarnation is called as Datta because Datta means the first energetic form through which unimaginable God is donated to the souls in energetic bodies in the upper world. Datta is also the first energetic incarnation that is introduced to humanity also because rarely for a very short time Datta appears to human devotees also.

Datta, the first energetic incarnation in human form, is also called as Divine Father by Christianity. Islam takes this first energetic incarnation in formless lump of energy called as Allah. Christianity also accepts this formless energy as Holy Spirit. In the Veda also this formless first energetic incarnation appeared to angels in the name Yaksha or Brahma, for the sake of which, the king of angels (Indra) did penance for thousand years. In view of the energy being close medium of unimaginable God, this Yaksha is also told as Uma, who is very closely associated to unimaginable God called as Shiva.

You need not doubt that the unimaginable God in this lump or human form of inert energy has inert energetic medium only without awareness since nervous system (matter) was not yet created by the time of expression of Datta (Divine Father) or Yaksha (Uma or Holy spirit). The reason is that the unimaginable God in the inert medium develops awareness by His unimaginable power.

If you analyze sharply, awareness is not an entity like house, tree etc. It is only a specific mode of work and the work itself is a specific form of energy. Other modes of work are talking, walking, looking etc. Awareness means just the process of knowing only and is not an entity to be called as God. Hence, we can say that the formless energy or energy in human form is not inert due to the presence of unimaginable God, who can do anything including the process of knowing or awareness due to His unimaginable nature.

Therefore, Datta in Hinduism or Divine Father called as Jehovah in Christianity (first energetic incarnation of unimaginable God in human form) and Uma or Yaksha in Hinduism or Holy Spirit in Christianity or Allah in Islam is inert energy with form and without form respectively, which are full of awareness due to the inner unimaginable God. Thus, the first type (Datta or Jehovah) and second type (Yaksha or Allah) are one and the same since the difference is only in having form or having no form only. This difference is only a theoretical angle because form is not as real as the material cause. In this way, you can find the unity in Trinity, which is the Unity in the Philosophies of Hinduism, Christianity and Islam.

Datta or Father of heaven is first energetic being and not human being.After merge with unimaginable God, the first energetic being became Father of heaven or Datta. Adam and Eve are the first set of human beings created by God Datta or Father of heaven, who told Adam and Eve not to touch a specific fruit. The Father of heaven tested the human couple for its faith in Him.

Religion / Re: Can You Lose Your Salvation? Hebrews 10:26 - Paul Ellis by dattaswami1: 2:52am On Sep 24, 2022

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Religion / Re: What Is God's Will And What Are His Works That We Must Work? - Olamide Obire by dattaswami1: 2:51am On Sep 24, 2022

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God can any work without others help. But He allowing His real devotees for His work so that the devotees get benefited due to repeated propagation and memorization of various divine knowledge concept.

In fact, God never asks anybody to help Him in His work. Even if He advises devotees to participate in His work of propagation of spiritual knowledge in this world, it is only for their spiritual welfare. The propagation of His spiritual knowledge strengthens the concepts in the devotee’s mind due to repeated revision. It leads to the reformation of the devotee who is propagating the knowledge. By advising certain blessed souls to participate in His work, God is only providing an opportunity for them to rise higher on the spiritual path. This progress on the spiritual path is a permanent attainment that follows the soul in every birth. On the other hand, pravṛtti is the work related to one’s worldly bonds and is confined only to this birth.

In fact, God never advises souls to proceed on the path of nivṛtti, which is establishing a strong personal bond with God. Nivṛtti is the path discovered by the devoted souls themselves. It was not introduced by God. In fact, God discourages the path of nivṛtti by creating several difficult hurdles which serve as acid tests to prove the deservingness of the soul. The only path introduced and encouraged by God is pravṛtti. It is the path of protection of justice and the rejection of injustice in worldly life. His entire focus is only on pravṛtti. He introduced worldly and heavenly benefits for following justice. To discourage sins and injustice, He also introduced punishments in this world and in the upper world. God descends into this world in the form of Incarnations for this very purpose of establishing pravṛtii. In that case, how can anybody blame God for supporting nivṛtti at the cost of pravṛtti?

In fact, God created this world having all the souls and gave them the commandments to strictly follow pravṛtti. Souls are supposed to strictly follow justice and avoid injustice in their worldly life. God remained as the unimaginable domain, aloof from this world, which is the imaginable domain. It is just like parents staying aloof from their grown-up children after helping them settle down in life and giving them proper instructions on leading a happy life through discipline. Had these souls followed the instructions of God and maintained the balance of society perfectly, God would never have had to visit creation. He would have been happy simply to see all souls living together happily. This point answers the question of atheists, who ask why it is even necessary for human beings to think about God in their worldly life. If souls could have lived happily following the discipline necessary to maintain the balance of the society, there would have been no need for souls to think about God.

Old parents, staying aloof from their grown-up children, are not interested in unnecessarily visiting the homes of their children as long as the children are leading a disciplined and happy life. When the children break the discipline and create havoc in their own lives and in society, the parents rush to their homes to set things right. They come to the homes of their children to solve the crisis created by the children and not to get free food or service from their children. Now, human parents are ignorant and they are not omnipotent either. In fact, they themselves might be in need of financial and other help from their children. So, it is possible that they might visit the homes of their grown-up children expecting some help. But God is omnipotent and does not require any help from souls either in terms of service or in terms of money. The service rendered by a devotee to God is called karma saṁnyāsa and his hard-earned money offered or sacrificed to God is called karma phala tyaga. Both service and the sacrifice of hard-earned money together are called karma yoga. Karma yoga or service and sacrifice of money are not needed by God at all!

In the case that the parents are strong and healthy and are also financially well-off, they need neither service nor money from their children. In spite of that, if the children serve the parents and give money to them, it is due to the children’s love for their parents. The service and the money given are the practical proof of the mental love they have for their parents. God is like these strong and rich parents who do not need anything from their children. Unfortunately, some clever children exploit this point, saying that they do not serve their parents or give them any money since the rich and strong parents do not need any of it. These grown-up children are missing the point. The service rendered to the parents and the money offered to them is not because of the need of the parents. It is the proof of the real love that the children have for their parents. Many people in the world also think in the same manner about God. They too must understand that service rendered to God and the money sacrificed to Him is only the proof of one’s real love for God.

Your friend’s comment is like that of a son, who says to his poor and dependent parents living with him in his home “If I serve you and spend my money on you, how can I look after my family towards which I am duty-bound?” The comment is completely out of place for the context of God and souls. The case of God and a soul is similar to that of rich and strong parents who have been caring for and financially supporting the son and his family from the beginning. So, whatever service the son renders to such rich and strong parents and whatever money he sacrifices to them, is not because they need it. It is only the practical proof of his real love for them. Thus, your friend’s thinking, which is also the thinking of a lot of other people, is based on an illusion and ignorance. It is God who has been helping and supporting the devotee in all possible ways. He needs nothing from souls! The love that the devotee has for God is in the mind. It is theoretical. It cannot be seen. A person may falsely claim that he loves God. Therefore, proof becomes necessary. Service and sacrifice of one’s hard-earned money to God are the practical proof of real love for God. They are called karma saṁnyāsa and karma phala tyaga respectively, and they are the proof of devotion.

They can be said to be practical devotion.

Of course, the devotee can practically prove his theoretical devotion either through service or through the sacrifice of money. Service is work done for God. It is the sacrifice of one’s energy for God. Money is said to be the fruit of one’s work since we earn money in return for our work. Offering money to God is the sacrifice of the fruit of one’s work to God. Service or karma saṁnyāsa represents the sacrifice of energy. Karma phala tyāga represents the sacrifice of matter since money stands for matter. Since both energy and matter are mutually interconvertible, service and sacrifice both constitute karma yoga. Both are equivalent and a person can do any one or a combination of both as per one’s convenience. Service is convenient for a renounced saint who does not earn or possess money.

For a householder, a combination of the two is usually convenient. Since he earns and possesses money, he can sacrifice some money. In addition, he also has some spare time in which he can serve God. The extent to which a devotee should do this karma yoga is told as “yathā śaktiḥ, yathā bhaktiḥ”. This means that it can be done as per one’s capacity and as per the depth of one’s devotion. In this regard, it is very important to realize this essential truth and keep it permanently in one’s mind: God never needs any service or from souls, He never forces anyone to sacrifice anything to Him and He never has any intention to cheat any soul. The service and sacrifice are entirely voluntary from the side of the devotee who is totally free to choose.

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Religion / Re: The Glory Of The Lord by dattaswami1: 2:49am On Sep 24, 2022

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Beloveth, we are in different dispensation… Christ having died on the Cross… The veil at the temple torn from top to down and at resurrection and ascension we were confirmed with fire – Holy Spirit… we became God’s temple …. Wow!

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GOD IS HELPING YOU MILLION TIMES MORE THAN YOUR FAMILY

Assume that your death is going to take place in five minutes! If you are in this mood forever, you are always attentive about God (as said in the Mahabharata). This is not mere assumption. Are you sure that this can’t take place? In any moment death can attack anybody at any place! If you are ready with the grace of Datta, you need not worry at all.

A passenger having a ticket in his pocket need not fear for the checking squad, which may appear at any time. You need not fear for the cruel money-lender, if you are ready with cash to be paid as per the pronote. You need not fear for the attack of money-lender at any time.

Human being is ungrateful like an animal and hence is called as Pashu (animal). Both are enjoying this world created by God without any gratitude towards Him. Hence, such an atheist will be born as animal only forever. When both have same nature, what is the use of human rebirth for such soul?

How much happiness you are receiving from the service of five elements created by God?

1) Space: How much happiness you are getting while you walk in vast free space without any disturbance?

2) Air: How much you are pleased when you are in cool mild air in the vacant place in evening?

3) Fire: How much pleasure you feel while you enjoy the Sun-bath in winter and while eating just cooked hot food?

4) Water: How much satisfaction you gain in taking water bath and in drinking water in summer?

5) Earth: How much you enjoy in eating food given by this earth? You are always trapped by the pleasant experience in enjoying the five elements. Why are you not thinking even for one minute about the creator of these elements in your service? Even before you are created, God created all these five elements for your service to give pleasure to you!

When you use soap, you become more clean in your bath. Try to use the Datta-soap while you take bath in this world-ocean. You are becoming more and more dirty by this worldly mud. A pig never bothers about bath or soap. It always is in pleasant state while immersing itself in the mud pond.

You are going to holy places and dipping in holy rivers and lakes to become pure. If you are with desires for worldly fruits, all the holy places are mud ponds only! Vemana Yogi told in his poems that a pig will not become elephant by going to holy Kashi city.

I am called Datta or ‘given to the world’ as a soap to remove your worldly dirt. My words are certainly harsh to you like painful injection for the patient. The words of false preachers are like sweets to bring serious illness for the same patient.

God is omniscient and knows what to be given to whom and not to be given to whom. When we are analysing such issues, our doubt about the Divine administration of God is reflecting. If we have firm faith in God, we must have more firm faith in His capable Divine administration also. Such faith will not result in any doubt in the administration of God.

We shall never doubt the equity and justice in the administration of God and such confirmation of faith in God will remove even the budding of such doubts on the capability of God. If you criticize the administration of God, you are indirectly criticizing God, which will spoil the purity of your devotion to God. It is always better to concentrate on the devotion to God than allowing our curved brains in developing such useless doubts on the administration of God. Such doubts arise in our minds since we didn’t develop the pre-confirmed faith on God.

Due to absence of aspiration for returns, love of God is more than love of thousands of parents.

[The love of God to the devotees is unassuming because it is the love shown towards souls without any selfish benefit in return. Such true love is seen in this world to great extent in the case of parents loving their children. In the loves of worldly bonds, this love (issue devotion) is unparallel. God, the creator of souls, is also showing the same devotion towards the souls, which is both paternal and maternal affection.

In the case of parents showing love to issues also, some times, in some cases, some defects are seen. The parents in their old age blame their issues for not serving them back in spite of their unassuming services done previously to those issues. In the case of God, not even a trace of such defect is seen because He does not need any service from anybody! Hence, Shankara says that the affection of even thousands of parents can’t be equal to the affection of God towards the souls created by Him!]

We are not having even a trace of the true love shown to our issues in the case of God.

[The biggest tragedy is that we are not showing love to Him, which is even equal to the love shown by us toward our issues. In spite of their negligence towards us and sometimes even serious insults, we serve (karma samnyasa) our issues with utmost care and finally write will transferring all the remains of our earnings to them only! We don’t show even a trace of such love to such God! Our love to God is always based on some fruits from Him in return in this life here or after death there. Shankara says that the pre-requisite for spiritual knowledge is not to have aspiration for any fruit from God here and there (Ihaamutra phala viraagah).]

Parents take complete care of their children during their childhood. The efforts taken by the parents for their children is service, which is also known as the sacrifice of work. Finally, the parents also transfer all their wealth to their children through their will. This transferring of the wealth is called the sacrifice of the fruit of their work since wealth is the fruit of work. So, the sacrifice of the parents for the sake of their children in terms of the sacrifice of work and the fruit of work is complete. Yet most parents save some wealth for their own old age believing that they will live until they become old. They feel there is a risk in sacrificing their entire wealth to their issues while they are still alive. There is a possibility that if their children are not good, they might not take care of the parents in the future when the parents become old. Sometimes, even if the children are good they could be incapable of serving their parents due to some unfortunate circumstances.

The case of God is different from one’s children. God is not bad; He is extremely good. He is also never incapable. In fact, He is omnipotent. Another important difference is that while one’s children are seen with one’s eyes, God is not seen. There is insecurity for those who depend on the children who are seen by their eyes. But there is complete security for those who depend on the unseen God. Ignorant souls only believe in perception. Giving more importance to their unreliable children who are seen, they shower their real love upon the children. The proof of real love is karma yoga. The sacrifice of work and the fruit of work together are called karmayoga.

It is the proof of real love since we practically serve and sacrifice our money only for those whom we truly love. Ignorant people truly love only their children and so they do this karma yoga only for their children who are unreliable. They do not truly love God and they do not do karma yoga for Him even though He is supremely reliable, just because He is unseen. Real devotees are the ones who believe in God through inference. They believe in the unseen, unimaginable God by observing His miracles which are visible but unimaginable. Inference, of course, includes perception since the miracles are perceived. This mentality of the majority of human beings is the climax of blind ignorance. Such blind ignorance is actually not based on either perception or inference but is based only on solidified worldly fascination!

Gratefulness to God:-

If our files are opened in the divine enquiry done after our death, the human rebirth is impossible. Still, God sanctioned us the human rebirth based on a trace of hope of our reformation. For this, we must be grateful to Him. After giving us the human rebirth, He has given us all facilities of life and He fulfilled most of our genuine desires placed before Him. We shall be grateful to Him for all these things. We must express gratefulness to Him, several times in everyday.

We are not doing this forgetting what is already done to us by Him. Before placing our fresh desire, first, we shall remember all the favours already done by Him to us and express gratefulness. Are we doing this? – not at all. We place our fresh desire straight before Him and if there is delay, we neglect or even scold Him! A donor is giving 100 rupees to a beggar every day. One day, there was delay in his donation.
The beggar forgot all the previous donations and started scolding the donor! A fresh donor, who refused the first donation, was respected much by the beggar, who said “the fresh donor is a great person of policy whereas the old donor is bloody in breaking his policy”! Whenever a miracle was done by the Father of heaven, Jesus used to thank Him without failing, always passed the credit of miracle to Him only and never owned it. You shall never own any merit since every merit or unimaginable action is always from God only.

Don’t be foolish to pray Me for My help to Your children. They are Your children in this birth only whereas they were My children, including You for millions and millions of births continuously without any break. Keeping Yourself as the basic one foot scale, You can’t even measure My concern about them. I always do the best for any soul even if it misunderstands and scolds Me. Don’t be disturbed to maintain these few children for this one birth. How many children are maintained by Me for the past millions and millions of births?

If you see just a leaf and observe it deeply with the knowledge of Botany, you will be shocked with the miraculous work of God which reveals its unimaginable design, unimaginable co-ordination of functions of various cells etc. Through such unimaginable structure of the leaf you are first recognizing the unimaginable super power (Maya) of God. Immediately you will accept the possessor of the super power (Mayi) who is the Lord as said in the subsequent line of the same verse (Mayinamtu Maheshwaram….).

Therefore, the deep analysis of the nature which is Science is exposing the miracle of God to every body in this world and there is no need of a separate miracle. Therefore, Science is the best religion exposing the existence of God to every ordinary human being on this earth including atheist. Therefore, I have given a place for Science in the symbol of Universal Spirituality. A scientist does not require a separate miracle to recognize the existence of God like a realized soul since the deeper analysis of this nature reveals the unimaginable power of God and there by His existence.

A scientist who does not believe the existence of God is not a scientist at all. Thus, an ordinary ignorant devotee is helped by God through unimaginable ways. The exceptionally excellent devotee finds God’s help even through the natural ways. He thinks that even the natural respiration is by the grace and power of God only.

1) I have created scientific laws in the nature according to which the nature is functioning. You have studied and understood these natural laws due to My grace only. You have developed ego to say that I do not exist and only nature is existing! In order to remove Your ego and make Yourself to recognise My existence, I performed miracles in this world, which break the natural laws to prove Your knowledge as wrong by which Your ego will be crashed. I am exhibiting miracles for Your welfare only since You are My issue.

2) All the natural phenomena also are taking place on My will only. If I wish, the natural law disappears. The fire couldn’t burn even a dry grass blade in My presence. All the supernatural phenomena (miracles) also happen on My will only. You are confining Me to miracles only and delete Me from natural phenomena. Real scholars realise that the natural phenomena also are My works based on My will only and hence, they do not give special importance separately to miracles. For them, miracles are not necessary. Those, who believe Me seeing this nature and without seeing My miracles, are the real scholars of spiritual knowledge because they recognize Me as the source of the natural phenomena also.

If you have to be grateful to your parents, wife and children, how much you should be grateful to God on the same basis of help done to you? Since you have not realized the help of God, you are less grateful to God. You have over estimated the help of your family and you are more grateful to the worldly bonds. God is helping you million times more than your family and His help is continuous for millions of births even though you are not grateful to Him. The help from your family is limited to this birth and if you analyze you will find that business is always hidden in your worldly bonds. Veda says that any soul loves you since you are the means of its happiness (Atmanah kamaya….). Hence, voting for God and rejecting worldly bonds is not violation of justice but it is based on the same very very justice only.

Lack of deep knowledge and analysis makes it to appear as voting for God against justice. But in fact, it is only voting for highest justice and rejecting higher justice. When you reject prostitute before your wife, it is voting to higher justice against lower justice or injustice. Justice and injustice are only comparative terms. If a bachelor loves a prostitute and marries her as social reform, such love to the prostitute becomes justice only. Hence, justice becomes injustice and vice-versa in different contexts. It is only a relative concept. Therefore, establishment of justice means establishment of both Pravrutti and Nivrutti (identifying the present human form of God and selfless service to Him). You can identify the justice at every level through the torchlight of analytical knowledge. Therefore, if you cannot identify justice in Pravrutti, how can you identify justice in Nivrutti? If you cannot vote for your wife against a prostitute, how can you vote for God against your wife?

Hence, analytical knowledge and voting for justice continue without any change in both Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Hence, Lord stressed on establishment of justice only and this covers both Pravrutti and Nivrutti. The high justice becomes injustice before higher justice.

-By Shri Dattaswami
www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace

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