29 Dec 2021
[Smt. Priyanka asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, I once came across a situation where I was asked to define God. That person asked me, "Can you define this term, God? What is God and Who is God?" I was not sure where to start and where to end. Swami, You have made us realize that God is unimaginable to the human mind, but we can continuously learn about Him through His qualities even though we can never fully understand God. If we say God is the supreme unimaginable power, the real truth, who is beyond space and cannot be defined but only experienced, then these people can say that if you cannot define it, then it does not exist. How should we correctly answer this question to people who ask this question? At Your divine lotus feet, Priyanka]
Swami Replied:- God (Nirguṇa Brahman) is defined as the unimaginable item since He is beyond space and time, but, at the same time also definable and visible when He enters and merges with a visible medium (Guṇa), which is either energetic form or human form to become quite visible (Saguṇa Brahman) to the souls. From a genuine miracle, which is clearly perceivable, but, unimaginable or inexplicable, we can infer the source of miracles as the unimaginable God. By the perception of miracle, God is inferred and this inference can be treated as the perception of unimaginable God, Who is also directly seen through a visible human medium called human incarnation. Every soul will realize the existence of God in the last minutes of death when there is no time leftover to worship Him and this is the greatest of all tragedies!
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