24 Feb 2022
[Shri. Jayesh Pandey asked: Dandvat Namaskaram Gurudev Swami! 1. What are the minimum requirements for achieving Your Grace, that is achieving the grace of God? Does a person need to be of a Satvic nature? Can a Rajasic/Tamasic person not achieve Your Grace? 2. What is this ' God's grace ' Datta that you speak about? What is its nature? What is its type? Please elaborate about this grace effectively Datta. 3. Datta, is this grace of the same type for all forms of God. 4. Datta, In the history of human beings. Our ancestors gave various names for that Unimaginable God. Yahweh, Allah, Shiva, Rama, Narayana, Shakti, Parabrahma etc. These names were chosen by our ancestors to direct at that Unimaginable entity that is, God. You have mentioned that Silence is the most perfect representation of that Unimaginable God. So, do these above-mentioned names serve no other purpose other than representing that Unimaginable God? Can we just give any name, formed by a combination of any syllables, to represent the Unimaginable God? 5. Swami, I read that every form has a sound associated with it. For example, the energetic incarnations with their distinguishable forms have names Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma etc., and the same goes for human incarnations like Rama, Krishna etc. What do these names do when uttered, which are only combination of certain syllables produced by the vocal cord? Does every single sound which is produced by us in our daily conversation serves a higher purpose other than communication?
Please enlighten me and clear my doubts Datta. May the divine fire of knowledge drive away all our darkness of ignorance. And like a phoenix is born from its ashes, may we all get a new birth. Dandvat namaskaram at Your feet Datta, and salutations to Your devotees. Jai Datta!]
Swami replied:- Unimaginable God is called Parabrahman. Brahman means imaginable God. Parabrahman means the God beyond imaginable God, which means that such God is beyond even imagination because He is beyond space and time. Unimaginable God created space and hence you can’t have space in the unimaginable God. When space is absent, there are no dimensions like length, breadth and height, which means that there is no volume at all. Except this unimaginable God, all other forms of God are imaginable since they are mediated. Due to existence of several media, several mediated Gods result and all of them differ only in the external media but not in the internal unimaginable God. There is no difference between unimaginable God and any mediated God because the same unimaginable God is mediated by an imaginable medium. Due to the presence of the same unimaginable God in all the mediated Gods, all the mediated Gods are one and the same essentially. If the employer gives the appointment letter to the employee with a covering envelope or not, there is no trace of difference as far as the subject of appointment letter is concerned. A medium helps the soul to imagine or even to see the unimaginable God through the medium.
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