God term is conscious principle in all living beings. That energy exists in all living beings. When someone dies, that energy separates from the mind-body complex. Human beings are more conscious of their life so they have more God consciousness. So the statement “I am seated in the heart of all” is correct. Here “I am” represents the Self.

God within wants to live in peace. God without wants universal peace. God wants nothing because God is complete.

What is that experience? It’s the experience of eternal peace. But the peace comes in degrees. The more the mind gets pure, the more peace God is experienced. The mind-body complex is the instrument of experience. Liberation means merging in that supreme truth (God).

A light bulb is needed for the electricity to make light. There is electricity but without the light bulb it will not make light. Similarly mind-body complex is needed to experience divine presence within. If a person is liberated, it means the person is merged in the Self. No separate identity exists.

Desire for God is called devotion. Desire and attachment are expressions of individual’s existence or ego. “I know I exist because I desire, I work to achieve, I fight, I get violent,” etc. All these are expressions of the ego. The ego has a simple definition: “I am.” Desire for God is based on ego but this desire is for liberating the spirit from worldliness.

Desire for God doesn’t strengthen the ego of individuality (I-amness) unless there is pride in it. Human mind always clings to some object. If it clings to God, then its desire for the world weakens and vice versa.

Yes, it depends on the quality of love and devotion. Delusion is created by the ego. Delusion appears in an ignorant person’s mind as well as in the mind of intellectuals. An ignorant person can have more love and devotion for God and an intellectual can have doubts about God. But when exclusive love for God develops, then no delusion can exist.

In pain people’s minds are so confused that they don’t listen to reasons. But we always play tricks in answering questions. We bring God or destiny. You can’t answer why it happens. But you have to answer, so naturally you bring God in this matter. In reality God has nothing to do with it but you have to say, “that’s the way God wanted” or “it was her destiny”.

Romance goes up and down. It’s the same with God. If God would just give us $100 per hour to meditate, then we would go very deep, expecting that maybe God would give us $200 per hour. So a carrot is necessary for a donkey to run fast. I mean some spiritual experiences. Without going deep in meditation, we don’t experience divine presence in a form of peace or bliss. Without having any experience, we feel meditation is dry. If you go on meditating even if it is dry, then one day it will change.

When the cause is not known, we say it’s an accident. God has no plans; it’s all in nature. In nature sometimes imbalances in energies can happen.

It is offered by prayer. It’s offered by not seeking self-interest. It is offered by self-surrender.

The self in the body is I-consciousness. The Self in the universe is called God or universal consciousness. “I-consciousness,” when it functions in the world through the mind and intellect, is called the ego (jiva).

The true nature of the Self is the pure conscious principle; that’s all. But it reflects through the mind and intellect in all thoughts, actions, and feelings. It becomes ego of individuality (jivahood) and goes through the cycle of birth and death. All our karmas and samskaras are caused by the ego self.

It can be one or several; it depends on the universal situation.

The actions declare and not the words. The God incarnate’s actions will be selfless and divine. That way the God incarnates become known.

Everything gets old so the creation as a whole also gets old. As in old age, all kinds of problems arise. Similarly in nature all kinds of problems develop. Population increases. The earth doesn’t increase. The atmosphere is polluted. It creates diseases, over-population, develops hate and violence. It is decline of righteousness. There is no other place to go. In such conditions, a reformist (God incarnate) appears and reforms the human society. The change can be violent or peaceful.

Microcosmic level in the decline of virtue means individually how much we are degraded from the spiritual path. Anger, lying, hypocrisy, cheating: all kinds of negative activities in our thoughts and actions indicate decline of virtue.

Evilness comes from the egoism which is from prakriti (nature). But prakriti is not independent so we can say that both virtues and vice come from God.

It’s one’s own karma which brings reward or punishment. God is a conscious principle in all functions of nature. If someone lives a spiritual life, the person will be rewarded by his/her own spiritual samskaras. Similarly and evil person will get punishment.

The divine or God directly doesn’t protect but the divine energy in people appears and protects them from evil-doers.

Again the divine doesn’t help directly but through a saintly person the child gets help.

In the Gita it’s said that one who has known the Self becomes the Self or God. But here God incarnates have a special purpose, that is “to remove evilness” and establish path of spirituality. Enlightenment is in degrees. One who is totally enlightened is similar to God incarnate.

Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed.

First human birth or life of a person who first incarnates? Different religions have different beliefs regarding human incarnation. Some believe humans are born as humans and some believe life progressed gradually to human form from a single-celled animal. In reincarnation theory, samskaras are considered the cause. Samskaras are the imprints of action in the mind. They are eternal. They temporarily become dormant but never get destroyed. According to samskara philosophy there is no first and last. It’s a cyclic order which never ends. You can’t be separated from God because the conscious energy in all beings is God.