Conversations with My Master His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

[dattaswami]

Conversations
with
My Master
His Holiness Shri Datta Swami



This is a collection of telephonic conversations with my Master, His Holiness Shri Datta Swami over a period. These conversations include the queries raised by many people all over the world in the discussions, on the knowledge preached by Swami. This is compiled as per the wish and advice of Swami for the benefit of devotees in their spiritual effort.

With a prayful mind I dedicate this book at the Lotus Feet of my Master
At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

Universal-Spirituality
Universal Spirituality for World Peace

[dattaswami]

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

1. Devotion should come spontaneously but not by effort. Is it not contradicting?

The devotion on God should be spontaneous. Love is in the heart and it shall come by its own without any force or compulsion. Knowing more and more about God is the spiritual effort. The devotion will increase by such effort, but love on God can only be spontaneous. I will give an example, if a boy asks his girl friend to have more and more love on him, is it not foolishness? Love should be complete, not partial and then only it becomes spontaneous. The love should withstand in troubles also. Even if the girl neglects him, still if he loves her, then it is the true spontaneous love. Likewise, in the case of God, even if one loves Him inspite of troubles or negligence from side of the God, then it is the real love, which is expressed spontaneously.

[dattaswami]

2. You preached that, souls rotate in the same cycle repeatedly with a specific ratio of the samskaras. What is the meaning of this?

I told about the specific ratio of the samskaras as constant in all such births, the reason is that the qualities developed in a soul is so huge and always diverted to world, it can be assumed constant, due to the magnitude. These qualities have strengthened from one birth to the other, and have become like rock and have attained a saturated state. Such attitude can change only by hearing the spiritual knowledge. The attitude is a kind of wrong knowledge only, such knowledge can be destroyed by the right spiritual knowledge, spoken by the contemporary human incarnation available to you now on this earth.

[dattaswami]

3. God competes with justice and reveals the background to successful devotees. Please explain?

[God competes with justice and at last reveals the background of such competition to those devotees who is successful during the test. Please explain the meaning of this?]

A devotee considers the acts of God in two angles. First is that, whatever God does is justice only. The second angle is that whatever acts done by God become the justice. In the first case, the devotee gives more importance to justice than the God. In the second case, this reverses. The second approach only can please God. God reveals the background after the test to such successful devotees. If any incident is linked to previous birth, in such case also, Lord will reveal the incidents of the previous birth to that devotee, who can accept those incidents by his belief. God can make the devotee understand the concept of previous birth to such devotee because He is omniscient and for Him everything is possible.

[dattaswami]

4. ‘God cannot help the undeserving’. Why it is so?

The meaning of the statement is that if God excuses everybody irrespective of one’s acts, then every soul will do deeds, which are prohibited and undesirable. This makes God ineffective, partial and irresponsible. God is impartial. If somebody is punished for no reason also, how can it be tolerated? Punishment is only for transformation and it is as per the deeds committed by the souls. If the punishments are not there, then there is no need of mentioning ‘Liquid Fire’ in scriptures.

[dattaswami]

5. Who is ‘Hiranyagarbha’?

God is unimaginable and nobody can see God. Such God charges a medium to give His presence. The God charged first created being is the Hiranyagarbha. It is equivalent to the saying of Christian ‘The Heavenly Father’. When one say heavenly father, immediately one can imagine Him. Thus, God expresses through a created item, which He charges by entering it. Such first created item is the Hiranyagarbha.
Hiranyagarbha also means he, who has gold in the womb. Womb means hidden. A pregnant woman has a child in her womb and the child is not seen outside. Here, ‘garbha’ means hidden and ‘hiranya’ means gold. What is the gold? Gold is said to be most precious metal.

God hidden in human form is called as Hiranya Garbha or human incarnation. Jesus is Hiranya Garbha because God is hidden in Him. It is applicable to any human incarnation. We should not take the literal meaning. It is just like the usage of the word ‘lamb’in Old Testament to denote God. It means as lamb is innocent, God is also innocent, straight and clear. Hence, the word ‘lamb’ denotes God.

[dattaswami]

6. Krishna told Anu Gita but not God. Why?

Human Incarnation is a two-component system in which God and soul exists as a homogenous mixture like an alloy of two metals. Both God and soul are mixed in homogenous phase and properties of each phase (God and soul) are expressed. For example, take the case of Jesus. Jesus told that ‘Oh God! Why did You leave Me?’, and also told that ‘I am submitting My soul to Father’. This proves that human incarnation is a two-component system in which God and the soul exist simultaneously.