The human incarnation exhibits both good and bad qualities.

Lord Datta is having one face only, because Datta means God given to the souls through the same medium in which the souls also exist. When the souls exist in human bodies, He is coming in the same human body. The angels exist in the energetic bodies. The souls after leaving the human bodies also have the same energetic bodies. Therefore God is given to these souls in the upper worlds through the energetic bodies like Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva etc. There are two forms of Datta. One is having a single face and the other is having three faces. The three faces indicate the important concept. No human form is having three faces. It means only that the human form of God exhibits the three qualities.

Sattvam is good quality. Rajas and Tamas are bad qualities. This means that the human incarnation exhibits both good and bad qualities. It is required for the human incarnation to become close with human beings because every human being is a mixture of the three qualities. Shastras say that a single quality of these three can never exists independently. This means that there is no human being who is absolutely good or absolutely bad. Gita says that the human being becomes good in one moment when Sattvam predominates and the same human being becomes bad in another moment when Rajas and Tamas predominate. Therefore the human form of God should also exhibit these three qualities in order to come close to the human beings to uplift them from the mud pond.

When the person jumps into the mud pond to uplift a person who is drowning in it, the person who jumped is also contaminated by the mud. Not only the same human body, but also the same qualities are necessary to become very close to the souls. Therefore the God has to change the qualities also every time. Every time a specified mood is exhibited by the human being in which the three qualities are mixed in a specified ratio. From birth to death, the human being passes through thirty-three crores of moods. Therefore God is also covered by different proportions of qualities. Each mood is a divine form or deity. Thus for the same God, thirty-three crore divine forms (deities) exist so that every human being can be close to God in every moment.

The same God having three faces is divided into three forms. One form called as Brahma has the predomination of Rajas. Another form called as Vishnu has the predomination of Sattvam. Another form is Shiva predominated with Tamas. In each form, the other two qualities are hidden. Such division is again for the sake of human beings only. Some people have the predomination of one quality but they have the other two qualities also in hidden state. God wants to be a reflection of the human being and thus covers Himself with a similar quality.


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

Universal Spirituality
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org