28 Aug 2015
Note: This article is meant for intellectuals only
[Replies to Dr. Nikhil’s Questions] Any concept coming from even the human incarnation should be analysed without any consideration because the human incarnation is two-in-one system. We do not know whether God is speaking or the human being is speaking because the incarnation is one phase with two components i.e., God and human being. We are not sure whether the God-component is speaking or the human-being component is speaking. Therefore, assuming all the speech of human incarnation as the speech of human being only, it should be mercilessly attacked. Your inner self should be fully satisfied with the answer given by the human incarnation and then only you should agree to it. Let it be even the Veda, you should not give any consideration and if it is the concept of God, it will certainly pass through all acid and fire tests to give you final satisfaction. The Veda is certainly correct, but the interpretation taken may be wrong. When you opposed the Veda due to lack of self-satisfaction, you are opposing only the wrong interpretation of it. For example, Mandana Mishra started his argument with Shankara, saying that since God is beyond words, the Veda (statements made of words) cannot explain anything about God and hence the Veda cannot be taken as an authority to explain God. According to him, the Veda says that God is beyond words (Yato vacho...) and hence, we should not accept the Veda as the authority to explain the God because the Veda is a book constructed by words only. This is taken in wrong angle by Mandana Mishra, which is that you should not open your mouth about God. The meaning of the Veda is only that the nature or any characteristic of God cannot be explained by words since God is unimaginable. We can speak this sentence made of words about God and the wrong interpretation is that you should not speak anything about God and hence we should not say even the statement ‘No words can explain God’. Like this, when the meaning is taken in wrong angle, you should not accept even the Veda, which means that you should not accept the wrong interpretation of even the Veda.
There are two domains: 1) The unimaginable domain of God and 2) Imaginable domain of the creation (us). At every point, you should be cautious about the domain in which you speak. The process of thinking of God exists in both domains. In the unimaginable domain, the material and the background mechanism of wish are unimaginable to you, standing in the imaginable domain, but, both are imaginable to God in both domains. When you say that God is bored before the creation, the state of boring is completely in the unimaginable domain only. The state of boring of God in the unimaginable domain can be imagined by us also standing in our domain. The only point that the state of boring in the unimaginable domain means that the material and background of the thought of boring is unimaginable. You should not extend that the state of boring itself is unimaginable and hence we should not say that God was bored. The state of boring of God is imaginable to us. In absence of inert energy and nervous system, the material and mechanism of the thought of boring stand as unimaginable to us in our domain. You should not mistake and say that the state of boring is unimaginable and hence we do not know whether God was bored or not. We know that certainly God was bored. Only God, material of thought of boring (since inert energy, which is the material of thought is absent) and the mechanism of thought of boring (since nervous system and brain, which are the machines of thought are absent) are unimaginable. Therefore, we can stand in the domain of imaginable creation and say that God was bored before the creation, which was stated so by the Veda.
The first wish or the first creation containing inert energy and awareness show that the building materials (like cement, sand, water, iron, wood etc.,) are created first and not the building. After constructing the building only, you say that you have created the building. The entertainment comes only from the building (creation) and not from the building materials procured. In the case of this worldly building, you cannot use the word creation for the building materials. You have procured the building materials and subsequently the construction of building proceeds. In the case of world, the building materials were created by God because the shop or factory supplying cement, Iron etc., do not exist already. Hence, I can use the world creation in the case of God even for the procured materials since they are created by God. As soon as the construction of building starts, the wood work will also start, which is not used on the first day itself. In course of time of construction, the wood is used for doors, windows etc., Hence, the first creation is wish or awareness (wood) and inert energy (cement etc.). The construction of building (world) started and when the basement was achieved, the awareness (wood) is used for doors etc. Similarly, the inert energy was used in the construction in creating space, air, radiation and soil (building up to basement level) and then the awareness is introduced as plants and other living beings (like the wooden items). Remember that the wooden door stands on the concrete basement only and similarly the awareness stands in materialised body only. The wood is not used from the foundation day itself, but its work can start from the foundation day. After proceeding with the inert creation up to some stage only, the awareness present in the first wish is used in creating the life. At this stage, the matter and energy are ready in different forms to create the nervous system and the energy can be modified into specific work called awareness. From this stage onwards, the awareness is scientifically created and God need not create the awareness. The process of generation of awareness is systematized in a routine way so that God need not create the awareness every time. It is just like a computerized programme.
When we say that the inert energy (matter is also as a form of energy) of this world is just wish or awareness for God so that this real world is the imaginary world of God, we should be very careful about the domains in which you have to stand. We can stand always in the imaginable domain only. We can never enter the unimaginable domain. This means that we can never imagine the material and mechanism in the unimaginable domain, but, we can imagine what is happening in that domain like ‘God wished so, God got bored so’ etc. A very important warning is that we treat this real world as God’s imaginary world and this does not mean that in the unimaginable domain of God, this imaginable world exists as imaginary world. In the God’s domain, imaginable world also does not exist because the imaginable world is also made by the weak inert energy only. In God’s domain inert energy is totally absent and hence both real and imaginary worlds are absent in His domain and both are present in our domain only. The meaning of this statement is that as you feel your imaginary world very weak and fully controlled by you, this entire real world is very weak and fully controlled by God. In all the statements, beware, that you speak all this standing in your domain only and you are speaking about the God’s domain also in your domain only. Always remember that in the God’s domain, the concepts can be assumed even though the material and mechanism are unknown. Again, remember that God and His power are unimaginable to us only and both these are imaginable to God. Everything (both the domains) is imaginable to God. We speak about the equivalents in terms of the components of this real world only thereby we express the possible news of the unimaginable domain as far as possible.
The purpose of creation of this world is to give entertainment to God, which can be in two ways. The entertainment by seeing the cinema is very less compared to entertainment attained in taking a role and directly acting in drama or shooting of Cinema. The unimaginable power of God (Maya) is indirectly expressing itself as this imaginable world (Prakruti). The possessor of this Maya (Mayi) is God and prakruti is Maya since Prakruti is indirect expression of Maya as said in the Gita (Mayaamtu Prakrutim). This individual soul being a part and parcel of prakruti can know about all this prakruti. Prakruti is completely knowable to this individual soul or human being and thus does not mean that all the prakruti is completely known already to the human being since science continuously knows more and more about this prakruti. Neither Maya nor the link (process of conversion) between maya and prakruti is knowable and hence not known at all by the human being.
In our domain, the inert energy (and matter) and the awareness exist separately and cannot be equalised. The equivalence of this inert energy (and matter) to the awareness exists only in the God’s domain. Both exist in our domain and not their equivalence. Both do not exist but the equivalence of both exists in God’s domain. God enters this world after the full creation. Maya cannot have this facility because Maya has to create this world from the beginning by expressing itself indirectly. The word Maya means that which does not exist by itself (relative reality) and also means wonderful. Both these meanings of the word Maya are applicable to Prakruti also since this world is wonderful and also relative reality. Hence, you can call this prakruti as Maya. The word Prakruti also has two meanings. One is that it is the excellent effect or excellent product. The other is that it is the cause. The five elements (prakruti) happened to be the effect of Maya and also become cause for the subsequent products of creation.
In our domain also when you wished to create your imaginary world, your such first wish itself contains the building materials (inertia of inert energy and awareness of the wish). With the help of these building materials, you create the imaginary world containing inert items as well as the items of awareness. Similarly, this real world being the imaginary world of God, the first wish to create this world contains the building materials.
In our domain, in this real world, the wish to create pot, preparation of pot and the appearance of pot are three subsequent steps. In God’s domain all these three steps happen to be one step only. God being omnipotent with unimaginable power to do anything wishes about a pot and the pot appears without a gap. Even in your imaginary world, the same thing happens. In your imaginary world, the appearance of pot happens as soon as such wish arises. If you propose that the first wish to create the world should precede the creation, such first wish should be in the unimaginable domain only. Such first wish, being unimaginable, should not contain any imaginable creation of material. Since the subsequent creation must be also a wish of God only, the subsequent steps and products of the entire world should be unimaginable only and this world should have been unimaginable to us also. Since the first wish contains the building materials also, we can say that the subsequent creation also has the same building material and thus, there is homogeneity in the first wish and subsequent creation. In such case only, we can call the entire subsequent creation equivalent to His first wish. If you take the first wish to God’s domain, the first wish does not have any imaginable material and subsequent creation has imaginable material. By this, there is difference between first wish and subsequent creation and thus, you cannot say that the entire creation is just the wish of God only. Unless you establish the same material in the first wish and subsequent creation, you cannot have this homogeneity to say that the entire creation is His first wish. For this concept, we have the worldly example given by God only for the sake of our understanding, which is your imaginary world, in which you find the same material in the first wish and subsequent creation. By this point only, we can say that this world is like His wish only and hence He can do anything in this world as you can do anything in your imaginary world. Omnipotence is possible only in your imaginary world and not in the real world. Since this real world is His imaginary world, He can do anything in His imaginary world and this is the only possible explanation for His omnipotence shown in miracles.
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