19 Sep 2010
The original God, having no spatial dimensions, is beyond space. If you want to see such original God, you have to cross the space. In doing so, you have to reach the boundary of the space. Unless you cross the boundary of Andhra Pradesh, you cannot enter Tamilnadu. If you reach the boundary of Andhra Pradesh, you can see Tamilnadu from there. Similarly, if you reach the boundary of space, you can see the original God starting from that boundary. But, space is infinite and hence, its boundary can never be achieved. If the original God has spatial dimensions, it means, the space is in God. It means, you have not achieved the boundary of space. Your intelligence can never cross the spatial dimensions and can never go beyond space. This means, your intelligence can never imagine the original God. Intelligence is the highest faculty having the power of imagination after thorough analysis. Any amount of logical analysis of intelligence fails to imagine the original God. The Veda says this (Namethayaa…, Naishaatarkena…). There is no need of saying that lower faculties like mind, life etc., fail to imagine the original God. Life has very dormant power of thinking. Mind has the power of thinking but cannot analyze anything. The Veda says that God generated the space. If God has spatial dimensions, it means that God has space. In such case, space exists in God even before its generation. This contradicts the statement that God generated the space. The mud generated pot. The pot is not in the mud before its generation. This is the starting point or foundation of the spiritual knowledge.
Meaning of Omnipresent
God is said to be Omnipresent. It means, God exists everywhere in the space. By this, you should not think that God pervades the entire space and hence, God exists everywhere. This logic applies to the imaginable objects. If you say that the air is everywhere in the room, it means that the air pervades all over the room. Both air and room are imaginable objects with spatial dimensions. The molecules of air occupy some little space and this is the real volume of the air. Under high pressure, such real volume can be measured. Therefore, air has spatial dimensions. In ordinary conditions, the molecules move freely in the room and the space of the room is available for the free movement of the molecules. Hence, the air is said to have the volume of room or container, which is the space available for the free movement of the molecules in this context. When you say that the light pervaded all over the space of the room, the light energy has waves having certain wave length. Length is a dimension of the space. Thus, all the conclusions are based on the items having spatial dimensions. The logic derived based on such conclusions cannot be applied to God having no spatial dimensions. The world is imaginable item having spatial dimensions. But, God pervading the world, has no spatial dimensions. Therefore, you cannot say that God pervades all over the world like the air or light in the room and hence, God exists everywhere. You should say that God is present everywhere because He is beyond space. The unimaginable God exists everywhere through His unimaginable power. You should be very careful in understanding the meaning of the word ‘Omnipresent’ in the case of God.
Meaning of Omniscient
Similarly, God is omniscient. It means that God knows everything. Since God is Omnipresent through His unimaginable power, He is also Omniscient to know everything. If you are everywhere, you will know everything. Here, people take a new direction and say that the very process of knowing is the inherent characteristic of awareness and hence, God is awareness. This direction cannot be accepted. If you say that God is awareness, God becomes imaginable item. Awareness is imaginable, which is a special form of work energy as a result of the function of inert energy in the specific machine called nervous system including brain. Any work requires the existence of space. If God is awareness or work form of energy, God also requires space for His existence. But, God being the generator of space, exists even in the absence of space and therefore, we say that God is beyond space. Now, you may say that if God is not awareness, the process of knowing cannot be justified since the process of knowing is only the inherent characteristic of awareness. This is again ruled out because the process of knowing becomes possible for God through His unimaginable power. This unimaginable power is responsible for the process of knowing and for the existence everywhere without pervading the entire world. Any activity or power or characteristic of God should be solved through His unimaginable power only and not through the logic derived based on the imaginable items having spatial dimensions.
Meaning of Omnipotent
God is said to be omnipotent. This is accepted straightly without any analysis because omnipotence means that God can do anything. It clearly means that God has unimaginable power. Again, you should not say that God becomes unimaginable due to the unimaginable power only. Hence, you may say that the power is greater than God. You cannot distinguish two unimaginable items. In the process of explanation, we have used the word unimaginable power, since the explanation to any human brain is in the phase of imaginable dimensions. The unimaginable God and the unimaginable power are not different. In imaginable items, there may be such possibility. The sun and light or heat may be different at least in the quantitative sense. The intensified power is source and diluted power is its property. The quantitative difference is based on the difference in the intensity, which is based on space only. More power in less space is the source having high intensity. Less power or the same power in more space is the property having less intensity. Thus, the difference is based on the measurement of volume and hence, this is related only to items having spatial dimensions. We do not mind to say that God knows everything due to Himself only. Here the word “Himself” means the power itself. We do not mind to say that the unimaginable power itself is God. We have the existence of independent electromagnetic radiations traveling in the space without any source. There cannot be two unimaginable items and therefore, you have to say either God or independent power. If you differentiate God and power, both become imaginable items with spatial dimensions. Hence, the quarrel between the Vedantins, supporting God and the Shakteyas, supporting power is meaningless, since the source of the quarrel is the logic derived from imaginable items observed in this imaginable world.
God is said to be existence-awareness–bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda). God is not awareness and this is established already. Even though God is not awareness, He knows due to His unimaginable nature. Bliss is intensive happiness and is the property of awareness only. When awareness itself is ruled out [to be God], where is the place for its property? Still, you can say that God is happy due to His unimaginable nature. The word existence can be straightly accepted. God is the absolute existence and world exists relatively with respect to the absolute existence of God. When the rope is mistaken as snake, the existence of snake depends on the existence of rope only. Hence, the word Sat means the absolute existence. The relative existence of the snake is in the view of rope only and not in the view of snake. Therefore, the relative existence of the world is in the view of God only and not in the view of the soul. The reason is that the soul itself is relative and is a part of the relative world. The soul is awareness and awareness is a special work form of energy. The awareness requires space for its existence since no work can be done in the absence of space. For the relative soul, the relative world cannot be relative and is absolute only. A person in the dream can never realize the relative existence of the dream in which he himself is part. When the imaginable items are given as examples to explain the unimaginable God, you have to be very careful in confining yourself to the context of the aspect explained only and should not extend to other aspects, which will lead you into chaos of confusions.
Such God enters a human being to direct the devoted souls in the correct path. The entry of God should not be understood as the entry of electricity in to a metallic wire. The electricity is a stream of electrons and has spatial dimensions. The metallic wire is a chain of crystals having spatial dimensions. God enters the human being due to His unimaginable nature only. Everywhere, for activity of God, the unimaginable nature is the only reason and logic, which can never be understood. When I speak any action of God, immediately your brain applies the logic of imaginable items to understand such activity. It is the routine procedure of the brain since it itself is imaginable item and only understands the imaginable items of the world at anytime. For the sake of explanation, we take the imaginable items only like current, wire etc., as examples, since there is no second unimaginable item to be compared to God and this problem is mentioned in the Brahma Sutras. Therefore, the immediate impression of understanding of brain leads God to be an imaginable item only. To avoid this continuous danger, the human being charged by God called as mediated God (Saguna Brahma) is always referred, which is an imaginable item indicating the existence of unimaginable God in it. It is the climax of ignorance of scientific knowledge to think that some energetic form like Vishnu to be taken as the absolute God. The matter existing in human being and the energy existing in the energetic form are inter-convertible and both exist in the same phase having spatial dimensions. The ignorant people due to lack of scientific understanding think that the real God is seen by the vision of some energetic form. When you understand that matter and energy are relative parts of the Universe, you will not differentiate Krishna, the human incarnation and Vishnu, the energetic incarnation. When you realize that Krishna was the past human incarnation and is in no way different from the contemporary human incarnation since the medium is one and the same human being made of space, energy, matter and different work forms of energy. In fact, the present human incarnation is more useful, since you can clear all your doubts with it and such advantage is not possible with the past human incarnation. When you read the Gita, you get so many doubts and you are approaching other human beings for clarification regarding the unimaginable God. A blind man cannot help another blind man regarding the explanation of Sun!
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