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WHAT DOES SWAMI SAY ABOUT XYZ
An enlightening Article from the H2H Team - Condensed Version
Regarding what Swami says concerning various matters, we must make a clear distinction between two categories. Category 1 encompasses statements about the basics of the principle and the practice of Spirituality. Category 2 pertains to comments that Swami might sometimes make, especially in private, to either individuals or small groups of people gathered around Him. We wish to make this distinction because comments made to individuals are often context-specific, and it would not be proper to take those comments and quote them out of context. For example, to one devotee, Swami might say, “Have full faith in Allah. He will then protect you under all conditions.” To another He might say, “Have full faith in Lord Siva. Then your protection is guaranteed.” We just cannot quote these two and ask, “Now I am an orthodox Vaishnavite Hindu with great faith in Lord Rama. How can I be asked to have faith in Allah or Siva? That is impossible!” This shows the need to be careful in dealing with quotes relating to Category 2.
We agree that this is a trivial example with an obvious resolution, but the point we are making is that often, people do tear statements out of context and then start worrying about what exactly Swami said. Where remarks made by Swami to individuals are concerned, we should be very careful, especially because Swami sometimes merely holds a mirror to the person concerned. The person wants to hear something from Swami, and Swami just obliges. As He once said in a Discourse, “God often says amen to the things that man wants to do.” This was His way of saying that when man has already made up his mind about a particular course of action, God merely says, “all the best!”
To make our point, we shall start with arithmetic. We all know what arithmetic is – it deals with the manipulation of numbers, manipulations that include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Let us take multiplication. To help us multiply two numbers, we learn multiplication tables in school.
When people face a spiritual problem, they must have a ready-made manual, by consulting which they can get answers to their particular problems. In short, they want a book of worked examples. Unfortunately, where Spirituality is concerned, there is no such guide manual that we know of. And even if one tries to write it, it would be useless for an important reason, which is that problems are often individual-specific. Hence the solution that might apply to A need not necessarily apply to B though both A and B might have similar problems. To illustrate, let us say that two persons go to a doctor with similar ailments. One person might be allergic to antibiotics and the doctor cannot use them in the treatment; he has to do something else. The other person might be a diabetic and that might rule out some treatment possibilities that are applicable to the first person. In Spirituality also things are like that; solutions are often individual and context specific.
If you look at textbooks of mathematics and physics published in America , they invariably give a set of problems at the end of the book. The student is expected to try and solve these problems. According to the teachers in America , this is the only way students can fully absorb the main lessons expounded in the various chapters. Fine. Does the author provide answers to the problems? American authors usually provide the answers to alternate problems. The Japanese also have problems at the end of their books but interestingly, they do not give any answers. Once there was a dialogue between a famous American mathematician and an equally famous Japanese mathematician. The American professor asked, “Why don’t you people provide any answers at all at the end of your text books?” The Japanese professor smiled and replied, “You see, life presents so many new problems to which we have no ready answers. When confronted with those problems, we have to find the solution for the first time. By not providing answers to problems in our books, we are merely conditioning our students to get ready for life!”
We do not know whether you agree with the Japanese professor, but in Spirituality, each of us has to discover the answer to the spiritual problems and moral dilemmas we face using guidelines, which are like the multiplication tables!
With all this background, we now return to our basic question: “What does Swami say about this or that?” Swami is basically concerned with teaching us “spiritual multiplication tables” so that we can solve problems on our own, if and when we face them. Our focus should thus be always on the “multiplication tables”. The Lord taught the Gita to man in precisely that spirit. Swami’s Discourses are invariably an elaboration of the Gita, making its message more accessible, and they too are offered in the same spirit – absorb the basics, go through drills to learn how to apply them, and then use them in life.
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