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Shri RaadhaaKrishna Gita: Chapter-6: The Association of Enquiry Regarding Gender Difference (Verses 25-47)
(Liṅga Bheda Vicāra Yogaḥ) Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:- [Shri Radha Devi spoke:-] 25) Matkāma dānavaṃ hanmi, tvatkāmā muddhara syaho!। Samā vāvāṃ hi pitarau, nyāyas sarvatra dṛśyatām॥ [When some demon gets attracted to My beauty, I kill him immediately. But, when a female is attracted by You, You will uplift that soul. Both father and mother must be equal. The solution for a specific problem must be seen everywhere without any variation.]...
The Path to Attain Guru Datta
The Veda says that "Satyaṃ Jñānam anantaṃ Brahma". It says that Swami is the true, infinite Brahman. Swami means Guru Datta. Whether you like it or not, Datta will preach you the truth. That is why Datta has not become popular so far. But now He is becoming popular. Because these days people are realizing the value of truth. The fruit attained through truth is true and eternal. People usually...
Shri RaadhaaKrishna Gita: Chapter-7: The Association of Enquiry About Penance (Verses 1-19)
(Tapo Vicāra Yogaḥ) Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:- [Shri Raadhaa Devii spoke:-] 1) Saṃśayo'pa gataḥ Kṛṣṇa!, samādhānena bhāsvatā। Andhakāra iva spaṣṭā, sā'haṃ phullā sarojavat॥ [O Krishna! My doubt is removed by Your answer like the darkness is removed by the Sun. Now, I am clear like a fully blossomed lotus flower in the daytime.]...
Swami answers questions of Shri Avinash Kakumanu
1. What is meant by liberation from cycle of deeds or bond of deeds? [Shri Avinash Kakumanu asked: Namaskaram Swami, This is asked in reference to points 24 and 26 in Part 1, Chapter 1 of Sri Dattaguru Bhagavad Gita. What exactly is meant by liberation from cycle of deeds or bond of deeds? For liberated souls, how does the deed “fruit and deed” thought cycle behave? Is it different from other souls? When You said, I will liberate only My servant, does...
విశేష జ్ఞానము కలది బ్రహ్మము మాత్రమే
Updated with Part-3 on 27 Sept 2025 Part-1: [05.12.2003] వేదము ప్రకారము జ్ఞానము, ఆనందము, ప్రేమ ఈ మూడును పరబ్రహ్మము యొక్క స్వరూప లక్షణములు. ఈ మూడును గుణములు. గుణములు ఒక ద్రవ్యమును ఆశ్రయించి ఉండవలయును. కాంతి, వేడి సూర్యుని స్వరూప లక్షణములు. సూర్యుడు ఒక ద్రవ్యము. ఈ ద్రవ్యము ఈ గుణముల యొక్క సాంద్రరూపమై యున్నది. అట్లే జ్ఞానము, ఆనందము, ప్రేమ అను ఈ మూడు లక్షణముల యొక్క అత్యంత సాంద్ర స్వరూపమైన ఘనమే బ్రహ్మము. దీనినే “ప్రజ్ఞాన ఘనః," "బ్రహ్మ పుచ్ఛం ప్రతిష్ఠా" అని శ్రుతి...
Divine Message on Datta Jayanti
Updated with Part-2 on 06 Oct 2025 Part-1: [19.12.2002] If I am judged personally by My good qualities, I am the lowest of human beings. I am rich in bad qualities. It is indeed all of you are gold and silver wires, I am an iron wire. But in this iron wire, electricity, named Lord Datta, entered and did many miracles. “You left the deserving and selected an undeserving like Me. Why did You give such miraculous power to the undeserving?” That is what I asked...
What is the internal meaning of the following indirect miracle?
[Shri J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāraṃ Swami. Swami, one Sai devotee was telling me that Shri Satya Sai Baba was given poison through His food and then, Baba transferred His miraculous power to His mother to create sacred ash eating which Baba was cured. What is the internal meaning of this indirect miracle?] Swami replied:- The background concept of this incident is that the miraculous powers possessed by the human incarnation of God cannot be used for Himself or for His family members. The reason is that the human incarnation...
Shri RaadhaaKrishna Gita: Chapter-9: The Association of Enquiry About the Intention And Fruit (Verses 1-15)
(Saṅkalpa Phala Vicāra Yogaḥ) Śrī Rādhā Devī Uvāca:- [Shri Radha Devi spoke:-] Jīvaṃ Kṛṣṇaṃ manyate sā, Kṛṣṇaṃ jīvaṃ tathā janaḥ। Rajju sarpa bhramo dṛṣṭaḥ, dvidhā dvāvapi naśyataḥ॥ [During the rāsa-dance, the Gopika is thinking an ordinary human soul (created by God Krishna having His own form) as God. An ordinary ignorant soul is thinking that Krishna is an ordinary human soul. In this way, illusion exists in both places. At one place, the rope is mistaken as snake and at another...
Proving Bond with God
[29.11.2003] O My son! Listen carefully. Practice and get uplifted in spirituality. It is not considered great what we can give to God. It is considered great what cannot be given by us is given to God and this proves...
Shri RaadhaaKrishna Gita: Chapter-6: The Association of Enquiry Regarding Gender Difference (Verses 1-24)
(Liṅga Bheda Vicāra Yogaḥ) Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:- [Śrī Rādhā Devī spoke:-] 1) Trivarga triguṇai raṃśaiḥ, tattvaṃ kathaya Keśava!। Sāmyaṃ sidhyati kim Kṛṣṇa!, liṅgābhedena jīvinām॥ [O Keshava! Tell me the essence of sweet devotion based on the three Puruṣārthas (dharma, artha and kāma) and three qualities (sattvam, rajas and tamas). O Krishna! Is it possible to attain equality between two souls of different genders?]...
భగవంతుని కళ్యాణగుణ మాధుర్యపు రుచితో లౌకిక బంధములు నశించును.
[12.03.2003] సౌందర్యము అనునది ఒక కల్యాణగుణము. సౌందర్యము యొక్క ముఖ్యమైన స్థానము ముఖము. ముఖము మనస్సునకు అనుగుణముగా యుండును. అందుకే "face is the index of the mind" అన్నారు. జ్ఞానము, ప్రేమ, శాంతి మొదలగు కల్యాణగుణము లన్నియు మనస్సును ఆశ్రయించి యున్నవి. మనస్సు కల్యాణగుణములతో పరిపూర్ణమైనపుడు ముఖము నందు సౌందర్యము పరిపూర్ణమగును...
What is the Real Spiritual Effort?
[09-01-2003] Some people think that sādhanā is simply chanting mantras, some people think that it is mere meditation and some people think it is just worship. This is how different people think in different ways about sādhanā. By practicing any of these, God is attained, but the attained God is not maintained for long. Any of the above practices are like calling Swami into our house. Swami is coming...
Datta Vedaantah - Jiiva Parva: Chapter-7: Avidyaa Guna Karma Tattva Jnaanam
(Knowledge of The Qualities and Deeds Based on Ignorance) 1) Awareness has four functional faculties:- 1) Mind or Manah, which causes thinking in one way and in other way also. 2) Intelligence or Buddhi, which does logical analysis and arrives at conclusion. 3) Basic ego or ahamkaara, which indicates the individual soul as the central part of awareness denoted by a constant thought pulse ‘I’ and 4) Identification and memory or chittam, which grasps information of any external thing through senses (samjnaanam) and stores it for memory (smaranam) based on the root word...
Paths of Nivrutti and Pravrutti
[December, 2003] Since Hanuman was incarnated in the monkey race, we respect every monkey as Hanuman. When Hanuman appears directly to us, to avoid mocking and neglecting His form, we are first developing reverence for the monkeys. In the same way, when the Paramatman incarnates in human form, and the Paramatman is to be served with love (path of Nivrutti), then the nature...
Satsanga at Vijayawada on 25-09-2025
(Many local devotees have attended this Satsanga given by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami) Health is the real wealth. The essence of the ancient science of ‘Ayurveda’ is that a healthy person attains longevity in life and this longevity must be utilised in the service of God to please God and earn His grace so that the soul is protected here while alive as well as in the upper worlds after death. God’s grace is important not only to attain salvation in spiritual life (Nivrutti), but also to attain...