PROF ANIL KUMAR QUESTION & ANSWERS

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"bijam mam sarvabh utanam, God is the seed of this entire creation. God is the

seed of all beings." For example, you see here a mango seed. You sow it in the

ground. The seed, as days pass, germinates. In the process, the seed produces a

root, then a stem, a leaf, branches, and flowers gradually. The seed is latent

in every part of the plant, as all parts directly or indirectly emerge from it.

Finally, in the hard seed of the fruit also the initial or the original seed is

present. So, God is present in the entire universe. The whole world is a tree,

God is the seed, and fruits are the beings or creatures born of the tree of the

world. Q18) Swami! When the same

divinity is present in everyone, why should differences exist? Divinity being

the same, why are we so different from each other? Bhagawan: Ekamevadvitiyam

brahma, "God is one without a second", says the scripture. Then, how do we

account for the variety, diversity, differences, and so on? A small example to

understand this. Power supply being the same, don't you find the difference in

the voltage of the bulbs that illumine? A bulb with a low voltage gives you

light of low intensity and a bulb with a high voltage illumines more brightly.

Don't they? But, at the same time, electricity is one and the same. Bulbs are

different in their voltage and this determines the intensity of light.

Similarly, our bodies are like those bulbs with the inner current of the same

Divinity. Swami! You said that divinity is in everyone. Then, before we were

born where had it been? Does divinity exist even after our death? Bhagawan: The

Divine exists. Divinity is imperishable, pure and unsullied. It has neither

birth nor death. It is eternal and stable. It is beyond time and space.

Divinity transcends all physical laws. Now, your

question is: where did divinity exist prior to your birth and where will it be

after your death, while it is in you during this lifetime? You see, there is an

electrical wire on the wall, and also holders here and there to which bulbs are

fixed. You get light only if a bulb is fixed to a holder and not otherwise.

Why? The current passes through the wire that enters the bulb fixed to the

holder. If you hold the bulb in your hand, it does not illumine, as there is no

power supply. What you have to understand is this. The current has not been

newly produced to get into the bulb. It was already there in the wire. If you

remove the bulb, what will happen to the current? It will be there in the wire

only. The only difference is that you will not experience its presence as

illumination. Similarly, the bulb is the body, the current of divinity flows

into it as the illumination of life. When this bulb of the body is removed,

even then, the current of divinity persists hidden or latent, so

much so divinity has all along been there before you were born, during your

lifetime and will even be there after your death like the current of

electricity. Q19) Swami! It is said that God is hr dayavasi, dweller in our

heart. Is it the same heart, which is on the left side in on our chest?

Bhagawan: No, no. That is the physical heart. But the seat of God is the

spiritual heart, which is also called hrdaya. It means hr + daya = hrdaya. The

one filled with compassion is

hrdaya, heart. Today compassion is a matter of fashion. People put on

kasayavastra, ochre robes but they have kasayihrdaya, hearts of butchery. The

physical heart is on the left side while the spiritual heart is on the right

side. The spiritual heart is the temple of God. In the Gita, Lord Krishna says,

isvarah hrddese arjuna tisthati which means God resides in the altar of your

heart. Knowledge, be it physical, secular, scientific or technological, relates

to the head and not to the heart. But love, compassion, truth, sacrifice and

forbearance concern the heart.

MARGIN-RIGHT: 9px" align="justify">Q20) Swami! Can divinity be probed into? Is

it possible to know it by reasoning? Bhagawan: All worldly experiences are

bound by time and space. Your senses help you to experience all that is in

the outer world. Science and Technology investigate the five elements, make

certain combinations and permutations, and provide certain additional

conveniences and comforts for mankind to lead a better life. These include

electronic gadgets, computers, and so on. A scientist conducts an experiment,

but a spiritual aspirant's experiences of divinity cannot be conducted in a

laboratory. How do you expect to convey anything about

divinity, which is beyond expression? How do you imagine divinity, which is

beyond comprehension? How do you investigate and experiment upon divinity

which transcends all your reasoning and senses? Science is based on

experiments, and religion on experience. In science, you analyse, but in

religion, you realise. (Sharing With Sai Love) Ram.ChuganiRam

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