Posted on: 22 May 2021
[An online spiritual discussion was conducted on May 16, 2021, in which several devotees participated. Devotees’ questions answered by Swāmi are given below.]
[Śrī Anil Antony asked: Swāmi, You mentioned that before God created this Creation, the design of it was already present in the unimaginable God as an unexpressed thought. You also said that space does not exist in God. In fact, God created space and He is beyond it. If before creation started existing as a separate entity from God, the entire design of it was present as an unexpressed thought or knowledge in God, can we say that space was present in God before its creation?]
Swāmi replied: This is the basis for every confusion in spiritual knowledge. The unimaginable God burns the world into ash and immediately you will conclude that God is the physical fire based on your worldly logic developed by worldly observations. Similarly, if I say that God thought to create this world, you will immediately ask that God is awareness or God has awareness so that God is inert energy to burn the world or God is the awareness or having awareness, which is generated from His inert energy and nervous system present in Him. What I say is that God is neither fire to burn nor has awareness to think and God has burnt the world by His unimaginable power and God thought by His unimaginable power. You shall not judge the unimaginable actions of unimaginable God with the help of your imaginable worldly logic based on imaginable observations of the imaginable world. When there is no logic between God and His action, how can we put such questions like God is having space in Him or not? If He has already space in Him, He can’t be the generator of the space because the space already present in Him came out and is expressed as space. If God has space in Him, He must have spatial dimensions and must be seen by the naked eye or at least by a nanotechnologist with the help of a powerful microscope.