23 Apr 2011
Buddha kept silent about God indicating that God is unimaginable. When somebody asked Buddha to give explanation about God, Buddha said that He is silent on the explanation since God is unimaginable. In course of time, His statement lost its parts and final residue is that Buddha is silent on God. Further, the interpretation of the silence was taken as atheism. Buddha Himself was the incarnation of God. How can He deny Himself? Due to fear of such misinterpretation, Baba clearly stated that God is unimaginable since Baba said that nobody can understand Him.
Baba caught one hair of His head with His hand and asked His critics to cut it. The critics failed in cutting the hair even with the help of big instruments. Then Baba told them that even His hair cannot be understood and not to speak of His nature. The unimaginable power of God entered into the hair and made it unimaginable. By this statement, you should not differentiate God and His power. Such statements are made for the sake of convenience of understanding only because we are well versed in the logic of imaginable items in which there is a distinction between the source and the power. Similarly, when we say that God granted the miraculous powers to demons, it does not mean that the power and God are different. The unimaginable power and unimaginable God are not two different items since there cannot be two unimaginable items. Again, this does not mean that God is existing in the human form (i.e demon), who is the unimaginable power Himself. This contradiction can be solved by the proposal that God Himself is doing the miracles while staying outside the demon since God is beyond space. Hence, God exists in human incarnation only in this world of humanity. Coming back to the point, Baba demonstrated by this miracle that God is unimaginable. It means that you have to be silent regarding the nature and form of God. Thus, Baba removed the misunderstanding on Buddha since Baba and Buddha are one and the same.
Like Jesus, the statements of Baba are very sharp and straight. The similarity on both is in the quality of knowledge and excellent similes to clarify the point. Several miracles also have similarity. Jesus materialized the bread on one occasion. Baba materialized several food items on several occasions. The number of miracles performed by Baba was more because of the development of science. Like Jesus, Baba raised a dead body. Like in the case of Jesus, Baba is also mocked by a few people as to why He could not save Himself in the present dangerous situation of His serious illness.
Similarities Among Different Incarnations
Like Krishna, Baba also performed several miracles in the childhood itself. Krishna was served by Yashoda with motherly affection in the childhood. Similarly, a devotee called Subbamma served Baba in the childhood. Krishna preached the spiritual knowledge, which is called as the Gita. Baba also preached spiritual knowledge extensively every day. In the preaching of both [Krishna and Baba], pravrutti and nivrutti are extensively covered. Krishna showed the miracle of cosmic vision during preaching. Similarly, Baba also performed miracles during preaching to explain the point more emphatically. Shishupala scolded Krishna but Krishna kept silent. Similarly, a few people scolded Baba and Baba kept silent. Krishna showed really some negative side to test the faith of devotees, who were sages born as Gopikas. Baba never showed such negative side. But, due to jealousy and egoism, some people attributed the negative side on the character of Baba. Both Krishna and Baba kept silent about the criticisms of these negative sides. In the case of Baba, even though such negative side is absent, yet the attributed negative side served as a testing tool for the faith of the devotees. Like Rama, Krishna also killed the devils through personal fights and also through the great war of Mahabharata. The reason was that some were totally good and some were totally bad. In the present time, everyone is partially good and partially bad. Therefore, removal of bad people to protect the good people is not possible. If killing is to be done, all humanity will be erased and this is going to be done in the end of this Kali Yuga. Before that, God is making efforts to transform all the humanity through preaching of spiritual knowledge. Baba did this extensively to such extent that He lost His voice in the old age.
Like Mohammed, Krishna adopted war to protect justice as told already. Baba adopted preaching since every human being is partially bad. The serious problem in the time of Mohammed was multiplicity of God by which the humanity was split to the extent of fights and killings. Mohammed tried to preach the unity of God. But, the people did not listen since they were adopted to fights only. The dog will understand anything in its own language only. Hence, Mohammed resorted to wars to bring the unification of religions by the concept of single God and He succeeded in His effort. He preached that God has no form since God in different forms was the cause for the religious split. God only takes a form and this does not mean God is the form. If you take a pencil in your hand, you are not the pencil. You have the pencil. Similarly, when God takes the form, God is not the form and you should say that God has the form. God is unimaginable and cannot be any imaginable item. Every imaginable item has form. When God takes form, you should not say that God has become the form. Therefore, when the unimaginable God takes an imaginable item as His medium, you should not say that God is transformed into imaginable item. If God is really transformed into imaginable item, there will be multiplicity of God leading to fights. By taking pencil, if you have become really the pencil, and after sometime, you take a pen by which you have become the pen. The war starts between the two persons since somebody says that you are the pencil and the other person says that you are the pen. Krishna clearly stated this in the Gita. The Gita says that ignorant people misunderstand God that the unimaginable God is really transformed into imaginable form since they do not know that God is actually unimaginable (Avyaktam Vyaktimaapannam…). In the case of God, the word ‘formless’ indicates that He is unimaginable. Actually, the imaginable items of creation are form-full and formless. Sky is formless and Earth is formfull. In the first step, you have to climb from formfull to formless and in the second step, you have to climb from formless to unimaginable. For the people who think that God is formfull, if you say that God is unimaginable, it will be a double jump, which will be very difficult. Both formless and unimaginable are unseen. When people think God is seen like light, etc. you can say that God is the unseen, formless cosmic energy that pervades all over the cosmos. By this, you have established God at least as unseen. In the second step, you can say that God is not even the cosmic energy since it is imaginable and say that God is unimaginable. In fact, cosmic energy also has form, which is in the form of waves or quanta and can be seen through a powerful microscope. Since the microscope was not discovered in that time, God was said to be cosmic energy, which was unseen and formless. Cosmic energy also has form of waves or quanta. It is a simile that was used when the microscope was absent. Hence, God was said to be all pervading formless entity. But today, science has developed so much that you cannot define God as unseen and formless pervading all over the cosmos. All these similes have to be dropped because every simile is detected by science and God is left over, who is beyond detection. Therefore, the time has come to say that God is un-detectable. Krishna clearly stated that nobody knows God, which means God is unimaginable (Maamtuveda na kashchana…). The words used by the human incarnations have their significance in the context of those times. Therefore, if Mohammed said that God was formless and all pervading. You should understand that His intention was only to divert from the concept that God is some visible form and limited. Baba also tried His level best to unify all the religions of the world and was never confined to any specific religion. Baba treated all the religions of the world with equality and He has devotees in all the religions.
Coming to Mahavir, who is also another human incarnation, He stressed on the need of non-violence to the extent of not harming even an ant. The goal set up by Him was extreme. If the goal set up is very high, people can practice to some extent. If you say that the pass mark is 100, students will get at least 40. If you set up the goal at 40, students will get 5 or 10 only. Based on this psychology, Mahavir has set up the goal of non-violence at the extreme end. Baba always preached non-violence and opposed beating the bulls of the carts even in His childhood. Baba opposed even the killing of the tiger. Baba asked the hunter to think about the motherless children of the tiger. Mahavir opposed even the killing of harmful insects. In this aspect, you will find a tremendous similarity between Mahavir and Baba.
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