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Divine Discourses His Holiness Shri. Datta Swami DIVINE DISCOURSES Volume 19 HIS HOLINESS SHRI. DATTA SWAMI Shri Datta Swami Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat Copyright: © 2007 Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat, Vijayawada, India. All rights reserved. Shri Datta Swami Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat CONTENTS 1. SOME PEOPLE CRITICIZE EVERYONE WITHOUT ESTABLISHING ANYTHING FROM THEIR SIDE 1 Meaning of Shrauta and Smaarta 1 Religion- Specific God & Mode of Worship 7 Conservative-negative Approach Belongs to Ignorant Followers of Any Religion 8 No Point Registered As Property of Any Human Being 20 There is Tradition in Hinduism To Stress On Any Point As Absolute23 2. IF PURE NIVRUTTI-BOND EXISTS ONLY GOD’S WORK SEEN AS EXTERNAL VISIBLE PROOF OF INTERNAL INVISIBLE LOVE TO GOD 31 Develop Devotion to God So That Worldly Bonds Become Weak & Disappear Gradually As Natural Consequence 31 No Social Service Pure & Effective Without Spiritual Background 34 3. DEVOTION MEANS SACRIFICE OF ONE’S OWN MONEY & NOT GOVERNMENT’S MONEY SECRETLY 37 Ruler Should Care Comments of Every Citizen in His Kingdom 37 Money of King Not Be Spent for Any Purpose Including Divine Service Without Permission 38 Response of Rama Through His Practical Actions 40 4. ONLY HOUSE HOLDER HAS BOTH OPTIONS TO SACRIFICE WORK AND WEALTH 42 Repeated Practice Means Blind Traditional Practice 42 5. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 45 Burning Self In Fire Of Knowledge Is Penance 45 6. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 51 Phases – Properties – Time – Angle of Reference 51 Entry of Unimaginable God in Human Form Never Direct 53 7. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 57 Top Most Scholars Even Neglect Miracles Giving Top Most Importance To Spiritual Knowledge Only 57 Knowledge Can’t Be Received By Hard Minds Due to Intense Ignorance 59 8. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 61 God Monitors Progress of Every Soul 61 Full Rigidity & Full Flexibility Alter as per God’s Wish That Alone Brings Full Reformation 63 9. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 65 Doubts & Misunderstandings Proportional To Size of Knowledge 65 10. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 68 1 Shri Datta Swami Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat Energetic Incarnation Starting Point of Entire Philosophy Instead Unimaginable God 68 11. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 73 Sins Done Till Yesterday in This Birth Itself Can Be Considered As Sins Done In Previous Births 73 Permanent Eradication of Sin Only Done By Knowledge 74 12. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 77 Creator, Controller & Destroyer of Sleep-Dream is Bundle of Thoughts Stored in Your Memory 77 No Change in Love of Real Devotee to God Even If Miracle Not Exhibited 81 13. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 90 Treat Disease As Fruit of Past Sin if Not Cured By Medical Treatment90 14. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 92 Human Incarnation Back Bone of Spiritual Knowledge Especially for Humanity 92 Soul of Human Incarnation God Always in Lifetime or Even After Death of Body 94 You Can Preach Pravrutti to Gathering of Devotees But Never Nivrutti 97 15. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 101 Job of Spiritual Knowledge Propagator Starts With Introduction of Existence of God to Punish Sin 101 Nivrutti Means Love to God & Love From God Existing in Dynamic Equilibrium 103 16. PREFACE TO MAHIMA YAMUNA 107 Glimpse of Spiritual Knowledge of Swami 109 17. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 116 Devotion Should Grow Gradually Step By Step & Such Devotion is Sacrificial 116 Similarity of Medium & Constant Nearness Responsible For Repulsion 119 18. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 123 Tomb of Human Incarnation of God Most Sacred Place of Worship123 The Scripture With The Sound Marks is Shruti 127 19. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 131 Control of Luxuries Not Loss & In Fact Beneficial To Get Good Health 131 20. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 136 Awareness Separated From Existence Otherwise Every Item of Creation Has Awareness 136 Practical Proof Experience Contradict False Monism 142 2 Shri Datta Swami Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat Add ‘The Ability to Do Proper Things Only’ to Omnipotence Side by Side 150 21. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 153 Power of Attraction in My Knowledge is Only Truth 153 Inbuilt Resistance to Sin in Heart of Every Citizen From Childhood - Responsibility of Education System 155 22. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 157 Each Soul Develops Its Own Direction Based On Free Will Given By God 157 Percentage of Charitable Part Not Depends on Magnitude of Total Wealth 159 23. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 162 Decision of Rebirth in Hands of God And Soul Should Better Think No Chance of Rebirth 162 Preacher Should Be Scholar in Both Subject & Psychology 171 24. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 177 If Every Human Being is God, It Should Pass Through Bolted Door Even If It Does Not Know That It Is God 177 25. SARASWATI RIVER OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 190 Miracle is Unimaginable Event & Characteristic of Unimaginable God 190 3 Shri Datta Swami Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat Chapter 1 SOME PEOPLE CRITICIZE EVERYONE WITHOUT ESTABLISHING ANYTHING FROM THEIR SIDE Meaning of Shrauta and Smaarta O Learned and Devoted Servants of God, [August 28, 2016] MESSAGE-1 Following are the objections raised by two users to Your recent article on Sri Shirdi Sai Baba: (forwarded by Shri Kartik) Objections from user 1: 'The Swami has no idea what smaarta means. smaarta has no relation with Advaita as such (it only happened in the late 1700s on a mass scale with the rise of Kanchi Sankara maṭha). It simply means someone who performs the basic Śrauta karmans and not any other philosophy specifically. So no Pañcarātra, Śaiva Siddhanta or any Śaiva stuff(because all of them are classically declared to be Veda-bāhya by most smaartas,cf. Aparāditya, Kumarila, etc, etc. on Manu). The only Vishnu-focused thing left is Vaikhānasa. Also,the cluster of Hindu subreligions will formally pay respect to the Veda,Varnashramadharma (which most people here will blanch at,etc). They can be placed in a nice cluster and religions with a similar background (Sikh,Jain) can be excluded from this "Hindu" cluster. Also, just claiming oneness doesn't make it so. Most of Hindu stuff outside advaita strongly opposes this "one-ness" business. And I don't need to mention Āpadeva, that great commentor on the Vedanta primer Balabodhini who would have condemned this affair as well.' (I have posted a message on Shri Shirdi Sai Baba in ‘Reddit’ forum on which the two users expressed criticism. Swami neglected the criticism, ignoring it even though I informed it to Him. I posted again another message on analysis of scripture and User 2 again expressed criticism on it. Now, Swami took it seriously and replied to both criticisms. First, I am sending the reply on the criticism of first message. After sometime, I shall post the reply on the criticism of second message also. Swami told me “Criticism is always good because it opens new points and new areas of debate. But, while submitting the criticism, one should confine himself to the point only and not 1 Shri Datta Swami Sri Datta Jnana Prachara Parishat to pass unnecessary, extra damaging remarks like ‘Swami does not know the meaning of Smaarta and Swami did not read Gita, etc.’ Such negative comments sidetrack the issue on main points leading to personal grudge and retorting back hurting each other. Such extra words only lead to the conflicts between the pure philosophies of religions leading to hatred between religions. Ego and jealousy of some people resulting in such negative comments reflect as differences between religions. Religions start fighting with each other due to such people in the background, who lit the fire through negative comments. I request the users to apologize Me for using a similar language in My reply-criticisms because one can understand anything in his own language only! I beg the users to stress on their points of criticism without using negative comments. I also request the User 2 to express the point clearly so that I can also clearly submit My point. Please do not put comments like ‘doubtful’, which do not express any point at all. Please do not use the poll survey like saying ‘many do not believe’, etc., since our debate is only on the point and not regarding passing the point of the bill in parliament getting support from majority”. —Karthik) (Introduction for Both Users: Let me introduce Shri Datta Swamiji, author of 100 books in Sanskrit (on philosophy and Sanskrit grammar like Panini sutras etc.,), by 16 years age and performed Ashtaavadhaanam in Sanskrit in 11th year. All these books are mainly based on the correlation of three philosophies of Hinduism. Shri Paramacharya of Kanchi Peetham heard the commentary on ‘Tattvamasi’ and expressed full satisfaction by giving a basket of fruits to Swami. Swami got Ph.D (chemistry) in 19th year and is Retd. Professor. Lord Dattatreya appeared before Him and asked to propagate spiritual knowledge for world-peace. After saying this, Lord Datta merged in Shri Datta Swami and after that, several miracles were done by Shri Datta Swami as a proof of the merge. Accordingly, He is doing this spiritual work and Swamiji says that whatever He speaks is from Lord Datta only. —Surya) Swami replied: Thinking that I am also a person, who is master of none and jack of all trades, they have gone to the extent of climax of their ego and climax of jealousy (to others), to go to such level to say that I don’t know the meaning of the word ‘Smaarta’ (as user 1 says) and that I have not read the Gita (as user 2 says)! Some people are of the nature to criticize every one without establishing anything from their side and such type of comments are called as ‘Vitandavaada’.
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