Conversations with My Master His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

[dattaswami]

15.   What is Abode of God and Heaven, please explain?
[If you say that the taste of God is million times more than heaven and hence, You prefer Nivrutti, God cannot help because God is God and heaven is heaven always. Please explain?]
In Christianity and Islam, heaven means abode of God. In Hinduism, heaven means a place of enjoyment of fruits of good deeds and it is temporary. Happiness of heaven is similar to the happiness you derive from this world itself. The place only differs. However, the abode of God is permanent and the bliss is everlasting. One can never compare Heaven and Abode of God. Social service will fetch you temporary heaven and service to Lord in human form without any desire fetches you His permanent association in His abode.

[dattaswami]

16.   Bliss is the inherent characteristic of God. Please explain?
[The highest taste of God is inherent characteristic of God and is not by the will of God. Please explain?]
Bliss is the inherent characteristic of God. Sweetness is not separately created by the sweet. Similarly, highest taste of God is not a created item. It is an inherent characteristic of God. God need not create the bliss separately. It is inherent in Him.

[dattaswami]

17.   Do the Theory of deeds and God are independent?
[I do not believe in God, but I do believe in the theory of fruits of deeds.]
If one has done some crime, and think that he has fooled the police and court and escaped from the punishment fully, then, he is not a believer in God and such a person, do not consider God and infact he neglects Him. For such people, who do not believe in God, the unimaginable nature of God, i. e., miracle has to be exhibited to turn him into a theist from the state of atheism. If one believes in karma chakra, then he indirectly believes in the divine administration of God because God only gives the fruits of deeds to the souls since God only founded the Karma Chakra.

[dattaswami]

18.   Please explain the concept of Adam and Eve and their relevance in spiritual effort?

Questions like this do not carry any value related to spiritual effort. If God created Adam and Eve then, how their children are married with each other? or whether such concept is equally applicable to all the religions? or whether God created many souls at a time so that they are not related and hence, can be married? or God created animal kingdom first and then by evolution human beings came etc. All such questions have no relevance at all for the spiritual effort. These things do not help the present problem of spiritual life. In the present situation, the spiritual effort should be to get maximum grace of God by pleasing Him and the ways and means for that. All other things are immaterial and are time waste only. Unimaginable God can use His power in any way to create the creation. The concept of evolution is a scientific approach and is of interest for science and it is not a matter of spiritual knowledge. What way it is going to help us?

But we know that, present humanity is there as a result of the creation. Already the creation and humanity are there and exists. Now, our thinking and effort should be to escape from these established worldly bonds and to form a bond with God. Shankara wrote that grinding a fine powder of rice grain repeatedly is meaningless and it is a wastage of time and effort only because it is already powdered in to fine particles. Similar is the case of evolution related queries. In the spiritual field, every point need not be analyzed. Points, which are helpful to us in spiritual effort, only need to be considered and pursued.

[dattaswami]

19.   What is the meaning of ‘God coming down’? [Dec. 31, 2007]

‘Coming down’ does not mean distancewise or spacewise and it is not a statement of spacial dimensions. It does not mean that coming from sky to the earth. It is a question of God coming to this world in human form. We are at a lower level. He is in the higher level. He comes from higher level to the lower level. Here, level means level of dignity or level of status. Suppose a king comes to the hut of a begger, we will say that the king has come down to the begger’s house. This does not mean that the king’s house is in the upper level and begger’s house is at the lower level. God is certainly at the highest level than all of us. Here, the word ‘down’ indicates respect to the highest position of God. Suppose a professor teaches to LKG students, we say that the Professor has come down to the level of LKG. This means that he has come down in level of standard.

It also means creator is beyond creation. All the creation is pervaded by space. Our mind cannot cross the space and God is beyond the space. The creator, who is beyond space, enters the space i. e., creation. He becomes mediated. He enters a medium and the mediation of original God is known as ‘coming down’. It is only a poetic language and a figurative speech.

[dattaswami]

20.   How to explain the miracles by black magicians, demons etc?
[Devotee cannot perform any extra miracle without the sanction of God. What about black magicians, demons etc., who do miracles?]
The power given to demons, black magicians etc. are the general powers, which they derived from God forcefully by penance. It did not come under the specific program drawn by the God. The general power sanctions to them will ultimately going to destroy them only. But, the miracles done by them give a proof of unimaginable nature and the existence of God. In case of a devotee only, God draws a divine program and acts according to it but not otherwise.

[dattaswami]

21.   Was Swami Vivekanada the re-incarnation of Arjuna?
[How can we believe that Swami Vivekanada was the re-incarnation of Arjuna, since puranas do not support such argument?]
Even puranas are corrupted. Therefore, puranas itself is not an authority. The concept is introduced here to stress the point that Lord comes in human form in every human generation, and only very few devotees accept Him as God. Most of the people cannot accept Him as God due to repulsion of the common media, which is the human body and they slip in attaining His permanent abode. If X is not authority, then quoting Y, which is also non-authority for building up of a strong concept like the concept of contemporary human incarnation, is not wrong. The concept itself is very strong.

[dattaswami]

23.   Is destroying mind good since it helps in sadhana?
Destruction of mind is foolishness. Anything in this world is good since God created it. The desire on the world should be diverted to desire for God. Desire itself is a tool to achieve God. I want to go to Madras in a car. However, by mistake I went to Mumbai. Here, instead of diverting it to Madras, if I destroy the car, it is utter foolishness. Only man has created bad in this world misusing his independence. Hence, it is his responsibility to destroy the bad by diverting it to God and then it will become good.
Illegal sex is the most bad act. But, Gopikas diverted it to God. They very well knew Krishna as God. Thus, such worst thing has become most powerful. They were not illiterate inside. They recognized Lord in Krishna. Similarly, Jesus looked upon everything with love and in His eyes, everything was beautiful and He loved everybody. But, the priests hated Him and created bad things by their own actions. Bad things are always created by men and not by God.

[dattaswami]

24.   How the knowledge about God competes with the knowledge about World?
Worldly knowledge is not eternal with respect to knowledge about God. The various bonds with worldly items become relatively stronger with each other. For example, the bond with your colleagues, friends etc are not as strong as the bond with your family members. Thus, in this case the bond with family members is relatively eternal compared to bond with your colleagues etc. But, if one does not have the knowledge about God, His constant help to us in all the births, His efforts in uplifting us, His carrying of our sins for our sake etc, one will not give priority to the bond with God. But, if one knows this eternal bond of God with us through the divine knowledge, automatically, bond with God becomes the strongest and eternal compared to all other worldly bonds. Thus, when you realize the more eternal bond among other bonds, it becomes the strongest bond. The knowledge about God makes such priority.

[dattaswami]

25.   Is it true that the sin of a person can transfer to a priest through the money we give to them?
Actually, sin does not cancel by selling it to the priest by giving money to him. In fact, the priest is earning extra sin by accepting money in the name of God and doing the ritual as business to make money. This exploitation by the priest makes priest sinner and he suffers the extra sin and it appears that the sin has transferred from the devotee to him.

[dattaswami]

26.   One person asked ‘why can’t Swami perform a miracle in front of him so that existence of God is proved to him’?

Miracles are performed according to program and wish of God. If somebody asks for a miracle and if it is included in the divine program, it will happen. Human incarnation is a two-in-one system. God acts in the medium as current. Only current does the miracle. The fan (the son of God) cannot move without current. Miracles happen by the will of God. It is between the one who wants proof as miracle and the God. It is upto to God to respond to him. Ultimately, the miracle occurs through the medium. The response to this answer must be from God. I am not claiming that I have done the miracle. I explained it clearly in My work the ‘Mahima-Yamuna’. I only act as a mike. I am not the creator of the knowledge or miracle. I am just an amplifier or mike and He is the speaker.

Sometime back, one day Shri Lakshman, Mumbai, after reading the knowledge given by Me, telephoned in the night around 10 pm. He asked Me that he has a desire to experience scent of lotus flower as a miracle from Me. I replied to him that you want to test Me whether when you ask this, will it happen or not. I told him why you should go down to such a low level. After this conversation, he kept the receiver back. Immediately for next one hour, he was immersed in deep scent (in the measures of buckets poured on to his head) even after he reached his house. His mother also experienced the scent. At last, unable to bear the scent, he telephoned Me to stop the scent. I stopped it. In this case, God responded to Him. It depends on the will of God.

[dattaswami]

27.   What is the message You want to give to the devotees when such scents are experienced by them?
It indicates the happiness of the God and His presence as a small incident to prove this.

[dattaswami]

28.   What is the meaning that people are under Maya?
Maya is in everybody except God. Maya means wonderful and unimaginable. If you want to cross Maya then you have to cross ultimate space. No intelligence can go beyond limits of space and hence, nobody can cross Maya other than God and nobody can know God due to this.

[dattaswami]

30.   Please clarify the wrong notion about marriage?
[It is said that in a house, the first girl cannot marry the first boy from other house. They will be unhappy if they get married. Is it correct?]
It is a sheer foolishness. Some people are ready to get fooled by the ignorant people around them who made such traditional rules.  If grace of God is there, nothing will happen. If grace of God is not there even if one follow the instruction of such foolish tradition it will fail. Ignorant people who do not know the divine knowledge lead ignorant people into ditch. Both will fall in the same ditch. Therefore, forget about such foolish things. Try to please God by participating in His mission of divine knowledge propagation without any expectation or selfishness.

[dattaswami]

31.   Why people kill each other other than due to religion?
[People have been killing people for no religion sake for thousands of years and this death toll surpasses that due to killing of people for religion sake. Please explain?]
Violence is the samskara developed in the soul through many previous births. Religion is a spoon, which gives spiritual knowledge to the people. Religion is like a cup, which contains the medicine for such abnormal behavior like violence. For the medicine, cup is needed as the container. World religion is not a vacant cup. The internal medicine is one and the same even though cup material may be different. Thus, religion is a convenient cup. Krishna is a cup of medicine. Likewise, Jesus also is a cup containing medicine. But, what is the use of cup, if the spiritual knowledge is not followed and neglected?