Posted on: 10 Oct 2021
[Smt. Priyanka asked: There is another part of the same or different discourse that I came across, which has created a new confusion in my mind. I have quoted that text as follows.
"The unimaginable God wished to create this world for entertainment as per the Veda. This first wish itself is the first imaginable creation. Wish is thought and thought is imaginable. The source of this thought is always hidden being unimaginable. The first imaginable creation is this wish. The junction of these two (Unimaginable God and imaginable wish) is also unimaginable. The junction of awareness and thought is imaginable since both awareness and thought are imaginable. If you take this junction as Mūlamāyā, it is unimaginable. If you take the product coming out of this junction, which is an imaginable wish as Mūlamāyā, it is imaginable. The unimaginable God and unimaginable junction are with respect to the intelligence of human beings. Hence, if you want every word to be understood by you, it is better to call Mūlamāyā as the imaginable product".
I have understood the discourse (Difference between God Datta and Ādiparāśakti) by Your divine grace, but when I read about Mūlamāyā, I am again confused between the terms used. Please pardon me Swami, but can You please confirm if Mahāmāyā and Mūlamāyā mean the same, or is there a difference between them in a different context? At Your divine lotus feet, Priyanka]
Swami replied:-
1) If the cause is imaginable the product must be imaginable only and the relationship between cause and product must be also imaginable.
2) If the cause is unimaginable the product may be unimaginable or imaginable. In both cases the relationship between cause and effect is unimaginable.
Please keep the above two concepts strongly in your mind without bothering about the names used. Mūla māyā or Mahā māayā (both are one and the same) is unimaginable cause understood as the independent power like an electromagnetic radiation travelling in the space without any medium. The imaginable world (product) was created from this unimaginable independent power (cause). As per the above mentioned 2nd point, the relationship between unimaginable cause and imaginable product is also unimaginable. Therefore, not only the unimaginable cause, but also the process of generation of imaginable product from unimaginable cause is unimaginable as per the above second point. I hope, all your doubts are cleared.