Pujya Swamiji's message at 'DAM' Datta Natha Kshetram, Gunturu

  • 17 Oct 2021
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Jaya Guru Datta.
Now that Swamiji is here, you must be silent for at least 15 minutes. Then you will get 15 years’ worth from the words. If you keep creating chaos, I will create chaos and leave. It is wrong for you to continue talking. I will lose and so you will you. We did not come here for that. You are here to take something back in your heart and mind. Through his words, the Saduguru keeps showering diamonds your way. In the ancient times, the great souls traveling on carts would scatter money and diamonds along the way and the poor villagers would collect them to use during difficult times.

 

(Swamiji instructed devotees to turn off their phones.)
What is so urgent? You will not lose anything in 15 minutes. If you think someone is about to breathe their last at your home, go stand outside. You are here so that your home be blessed too. Why are you on the phone 24x7? You look at the phone while eating. You look at the phone several times when you wake up during the night. Even if you own a big business, you must maintain time and discipline for good health. If you keep sacrificing everything in pursuit of money, what is the use? You must also be happy. If you are always beset with mental anxiety, where is the happiness? Always being on the phone is not good. If you are expecting news of someone’s demise, that may be an exception. Otherwise, you are with Sadguru, you must forget everything. Then, your power and energy will increase. Your health, radiance and lifespan will improve. Sadguru's words are medicine; Sadguru’s words are diamonds. You must collect them in the box called your head. During difficult times, you must open the box and use those gems one by one to remain peaceful. Do not always dwell on problems and difficulties. Do not live in fear of problems coming your way. You are the one holding the pillar tightly and crying for release. You must let go. You embraced difficulties; if you cry for release from them, they will not leave until they destroy you. You must release yourself. You should not even get into problems. If you do, more and more will come your way. Be satisfied with what God is giving you.

 

Look at people who live in slums. They were barely touched by coronavirus. Scientists have researched these areas in Mumbai, Karnataka, Delhi etc. Perhaps 1 in 1000 who live in slums were infected with coronavirus due to contact with the outside world. The rate of infection was much higher outside. People in slums have much better resistance and immunity. They have sound sleep for a full eight hours. They do not have any diseases, except for occasional headaches. They sleep in dirt. Their problems have turned into greater resistance to diseases. Because we have grown up with such comforts, we worry about falling sick. We are afraid of small ailments. We have no resistance. We worry over mosquito bites causing malaria; instead, we should take precautions to keep mosquitoes away. The government has instructed that everyone wear a mask and save their lives. Many are not wearing a mask. People always wear a mask in the Jain tradition. They do not want insects to enter their mouth. They do not even wear slippers. They want to be careful about stepping on insects and other small creatures. But in our careless overconfidence, we end up killing millions of ants and insects. Those insects do not hurt us unless we hurt them. The snake is said to be saintly, but we do not believe it. The snake does not bite us without provocation, it only bites in self-defense. All the stories of snakes pursuing their victims are only fiction. The snakes do not even know when they are in the wrong place. We just need to get a snake catcher to release it into the wilderness again. The scorpion is also like that. Venomous creatures do not come after us. We should walk carefully watching our step, so we do not hurt them. These days, we have sprays and other means to prevent them from entering our homes. In the old days, they would sprinkle turmeric around pickles, jaggery and other eatables to keep away ants and other insects.
Even today, before eating a meal, water is sprinkled around the plate/leaf. The Brahmins eat very slowly, unlike us who gobble the food and swallow it with water. Are you just stuffing your stomach or are you eating with satisfaction? You are alive due to food, yet you are wasting food. You do not sleep at the right time. You watch movies until 2am and therefore do not get enough sleep. Your eyes get red and tired, and you suffer from headaches. You take a medicine for relief. We do not have restful sleep. The stomach is not a bin. You must eat peacefully. The animals eat very quickly; they have two main chambers in their stomachs, while we only have one. The animal swallows any amount of food you give it. After swallowing the food, it rests and extracts food from one chamber and then digests it slowly into the other chamber. Then, that food gets transformed into the nutrition it needs.

 

Monkeys for example are the same. God gave them the ability to save a few kilograms of food in their jaws. After sleep, these monkeys eat the food saved in their jaws whenever they are hungry. We cannot do that, nor do we have additional chambers in the stomach like animals do. You must eat food peacefully and carefully, not in a hurry. Eating in a hurry will lead to poor health. You will damage your intestines and kidneys. And then you will need swallow medicines. If you do not have the right exercise, you gain weight, grow a belly and are unable to walk. How long can we live off medicines?
The ancients lived long because they had discipline. We lack discipline. We eat and sleep at erratic hours. We are on the phone 24 hours a day. When we always place the phone by the ear, it damages the nerves and gradually weakens the heart. One must not talk on the phone for so long. The intelligent ones use speaker phone. If you have some secret, you can get off speaker. But you seem to have secrets all the time. The Americans are always on speaker phone. They have no embarrassment. They will openly say 'I love you' on the phone. But you have hundreds of lies and secrets that is why your phone is always on your ear.

 

When you come to see Swamiji, take a break from work. Take a vacation if needed to come to see Swamiji. That is good etiquette. Tell your employer you are going to see Swamiji. Stay off the phone. That will make me very happy. But you come here and step away at exactly the right moment to answer phone calls. And most of the time for trivial reasons. It might just be your mother-in-law calling to ask you what vegetables are to be purchased today. Or your son calling to ask if you he could take your bike out for a ride. Or someone else in the family asking what time the train would arrive day after tomorrow. Or the daughter in law may be calling to ask you if you would watch the TV series with her. There are so many more such examples I can give you with such petty reasons. This is very bad. You must tell them beforehand that you may not be able to answer the phone. But you want the phone all the time. If you can maintain discipline, you will be much healthier. When you go watch a movie however, you will not answer an urgent phone call because you are afraid of missing the movie scenes. You think Swamiji's discourse is not as important as those movie scenes? The next time we see you on the phone during the discourse, we will offer them as sacrifice in the fire. We can do ashtottara – ‘This is Mr. Reddy’s phone…svaha’ and so on – with 108 phones sacrificed in the fire.
You can channel the words of Sadguru when you are in difficult times. You will find the answers you need. Everyone – even trees and stones have problems. That is the circle of our journey. Those are not really difficulties. On the way from one station to another, there may be other stations. You did not buy the ticket for a non-stop train because that would cost more. You cannot be angry about the stops in between. Why do you bother about every little thing and get bogged down by other’s problems? Each one must experience his/her own karma. When others are suffering, give them courage if you can, but do not get bogged down. You must always fight for justice even at the cost of your life. Why should you face losses? When we give someone our hard-earned money, you should not be afraid regardless of who you are facing up to. You must fight for justice. Do not fall into doubt and incur a loss. Why should the body or the mind or your money suffer when you have worked hard for it? Set your lives right.

 

Concentrate when you are listening to Swamiji. Swamiji narrated the Mahabharata for several months. There were up to 5000 people tuning in to Facebook Live during Mahabharata narration. If each house had 4-5 people watching, that is up to 25,000 people listening to the entire Mahabharata. Instead of sending random WhatsApp messages, devotees would share these Facebook Live links to their networks. You must not make excuses about not being able to watch Mahabharata because you did not know about it, or due to power cuts. Many have written to the Ashram that they found the answers they needed and found the courage through Swamiji’s Mahabharata narration. They feel like that mantra or Puja that Swamiji chanted on Facebook Live was just for them. The unmarried got married, the childless begot children etc., after following Swamiji’s instructions through the narration.

 

This is due to the love they have for Swamiji. Swamiji has countless names, he is called Appaji or Swamiji or Guruji. Devotees would wait for the evening broadcast at 6:30pm. When Swamiji did not give Darshana on Facebook Live one day, or would cough during the live broadcast, devotees would worry and send messages to find out why. They would be concerned about Swamiji. That is real love. They have so much devotion for Swamiji. Then Guru will automatically take care of their troubles. But if you are worried about your troubles, then Swamiji will leave those troubles to you and will take care of those who have surrendered to Swamiji. You must develop wholehearted complete devotion. Many lack full faith. Lip service is not enough. I know exactly who has sincere devotion and who is faking it. When you do not have full faith, you will not get the results expected. I keep giving you chances over and over hoping you would set yourself right. I wait and wait endlessly. If I do not punish you, you will never learn and will complain instead demanding that Swamiji should have corrected you earlier.

 

Never hurt anyone, do not cheat anyone, be fair, we will not take any money with us when we go. So many died during Covid. You could not even see their bodies when they died. They do not let you cremate the body even. What use is this good looking well-decorated body? This is all a puppet show by God that we are playing in. We are playing like little children do. It’s akin to how children build sandcastles and build two figures in that castle and get them married and build two other figures that look like children. They do all the things we do as adults.

 

Children emulate us. If we do the right things, they will follow suit. Parents stand in front of Swamiji but force their kids to bow to Swamiji. I chide the parents and tell them to bow first so that the children can watch and learn. Why will the children do it if you do not? You are overweight and unable to bend. Atleast do namaskara so the children follow. You bear kids and then ask Swamiji for blessings that your children grow up dharmically as good devotees and know all our scriptures. But you are barely home, and you go to parties and watch TV. When children have exams, you should not watch TV. If you lead by example, the children will learn. You must sit with your kids when they study. You can read Mahabharata and they can study their lessons. Those who made it to IAS and IPS today had hard working parents. We act as we please but expect children to be disciplined. The child will also keep looking at WhatsApp and perverted content online. If you ask your children to study while you do not lead by example, the children will not listen. I am like a parent to you, that is why I put away the phone. You must do the same with your children. You worry about hurting your kids by depriving them of a phone; they may be hurt for a day or two, but they will soon learn to study well. Those who are accomplished today had parents who worked hard with the kids.

 

You just force your kids to study well. You put your kids in hostels all their childhood. How will they know your love? We hear so much news of children getting perverted or exploited in hostels. Keep the child with you, put them in a school close to home, send them to tuitions, ask them what their troubles are, engage with them. When a girl turns eight years of age, start asking her if anyone said anything unusual to her or if anyone was looking at her differently or anyone is touching her inappropriately. Very often, the ones who are close may be the culprits. The girl is afraid to tell her parents. And she will develop a strange mindset that you will not be able to fix later. You will then bring her to Swamiji and ask for help. You did not do your job. Create a comfortable and safe environment for the child to open up to you.

 

You are listening to Swamiji’s words. That is your wealth just as education is the wealth for children. You must enhance that. You must teach your children about Swamiji, then they will improve and become good people. Since this in Guntur, which is known for its chilies, I am speaking with some spice. Swamiji is giving you the chili of His love. I love you all very much, that is why I speak to you this way. Swamiji speaks with his eyes. You must learn to understand what they mean. I barely even speak to my children who serve me every day. We do so many big events and if I talk about every single thing for every event, I will lose my voice. But the children understand without me speaking. Swamiji communicates with his eyes.

 

I now feel that Guntur Ashram is very nice, and I can do a Saptaham here. I also want to go to the neighboring villages to give them Darshan and uplift them. You must also help and do Guru Seva. So many helped with building this hall. One person alone cannot do it. Just as little drops of water make an ocean, all your contributions made this wedding hall possible. I like coming here once a while, but could not due to Covid. You may wonder why I am not wearing a mask. I am wearing a mask inside my nose. It filters out even the virus. We replace it every 6 hours. The filter turns black from dust after 6 hours. This external mask becomes an additional mask I wear.

 

Drink only water brought from home, only buy sealed water bottles. If you are buying water, crush the water bottle or break it before you dispose it. Otherwise, the bottles are being reused to sell unfiltered water. Drink only filtered water. Always wear shoes, but do not enter the house with them. Disinfect the house. Only wear clean, washed clothes. If you must wear the same pair again, dry it in the sun and leave it outside before coming in. Maintain distance while sitting down to eat. Continue following all these Covid restrictions. Do not keep buying eatables at random places. Wash vegetables with hot water. Now, there is also a UV sanitizer that disinfects food. Many are surprised they were infected even when they did not go outside. They go infected due to their negligence. When relatives visit, disinfect the house/sofa etc. frequently. Do not worry about how long covid is going to be around. It will be around till Ugadi. Keep weddings simple. Give food packets rather than serve/feed people right there.

 

Datta Jayanti will be in Ganagapur. I had earlier wanted only those who visited the Datta Kshetras to come to Ganagapur, but that restriction has been lifted. Everyone can attend Datta Jayanti celebrations.