02 Jun 2013
Creation Sustained by Logic but not Creator: The absolute God is unimaginable since He is beyond the space. Such absolute God is omnipotent and hence, can do anything beyond logic. He is beyond space and logic. The space and logic sustain this entire creation. Hence, the creation is not beyond space and logic. Any item of the creation like a human being having spatial dimensions needs the association of awareness, which is a special form of energy called as nervous energy to do the process of thinking. Such nervous energy requires the presence of nervous system and the inert energy generated from the digestion of the food oxidized by the air inhaled by the respiratory system. Therefore, the awareness or nervous energy requires the pre-existence of matter and energy. Before the creation of this universe, matter and energy did not exist. Only the absolute God existed. Such absolute God thought about the creation of this universe (Tadaichchata… Veda). You may immediately think that such thought requires the existence of awareness. Hence, you conclude that awareness itself is the absolute God. But, your logic is forcibly cut from its extension. Your logic indicated the necessity of requirement of awareness for the thought. The same logic should be extended so that you should think that the awareness also requires the necessity of existence of matter in the form of nervous system, digestive system and respiratory system along with the necessity of existence of inert energy generated by these systems. Hence, the extension of the logic shows that matter and energy existed before the creation of this universe. Since the universe itself is composed of matter and energy, there cannot be the existence of matter and energy before the creation of the universe. Hence, the awareness itself could not exist before the creation of this universe.
In the case of a human being, which is a part of the creation, all this logic holds good. You can conclude that human being containing these systems is associated with awareness for the process of thinking. In the case of the human being, you can conclude that such awareness (soul) is the very human being. But, this logic, confined to the creation, cannot be extended to the creator existing before the creation itself. Therefore, the absolute God thought without the association of awareness before the creation. Such thought could be done by the absolute God due to His omnipotence. Hence, the absolute God can think even without awareness due to omnipotence. The same absolute God is incarnated in human form after the creation of this universe. The human form associated with the absolute God has awareness due to the presence of the required systems. Now, the absolute God need not use His omnipotence to think since awareness, the basis of thinking, is available. A person cooked his own food in the absence of any other family member. But, when the family is available, there is no need of self-cooking. The family members cook the food and the person simply enjoys the cooked food. Similarly, the absolute God enjoys without doing anything in the case of human incarnation (Anashnan anyo abhichaka shiti... Veda). The human form associated with God is thus serving the God. Hence, the absolute God selects such a serving devotee only to incarnate Himself as human incarnation.
The advaita philosophers say that the awareness itself is God due to the process of thinking to create this universe. It is a slip of logical analysis due to censoring the extension of same logic. They say that awareness is all pervading and is the creator of this entire world. They also say that the awareness sustains this world and also dissolves it. All this argument holds well in the case of the inert energy, but not in the case of awareness. Mere inert energy cannot be awareness. It cannot also generate the awareness without the above said materialized systems. The awareness is not a continuous entity like the inert energy. All your description holds well if the inert energy is the subject. But, the inert energy cannot have experience without being transformed into awareness in absence of the systems. This all pervading inert energy can be also called as Brahman since the word Brahman means the greatest or infinite. The word Brahman need not be confined to God only. If you take such infinite inert cosmic energy as the meaning of the word Brahman, such Brahman cannot have experience being inert. The awareness confined to discontinuous living beings loses all the merits like continuity, creatorship of the universe etc. and hence, the very word Brahman should be withdrawn. You cannot have both these words i.e., Brahman and experience together in one item. Therefore, such experience cannot be called as the experience of Brahman (Brahmanubhuti). The advaita philosophers try to become Brahman through logical analysis by making awareness as God. It is something like calling somebody as dog before you beat him! Your ambition to become God makes you to call the awareness as God.
You can become God if the absolute God likes to enter you for some Divine purpose. Your becoming God is not in your hand but it is in the hand of the absolute God. The first requirement for you to become God is that you should never aspire to become God and you should always think to serve God by doing the Divine work even after becoming God. This aspect should be learnt from Hanuman, who thought Himself as the servant of God even after becoming God.
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