27 Apr 2012
Unreal Thought for God; Material Reality for Man: The Veda says ‘God alone could not enjoy. Hence, He thought of the second item, which is the creation. He created this entire universe. After creation, He entered this universe. After entering this universe, He maintained Himself as the absolute truth and also became the medium, which is the relative truth’ (Ekaaki na ramate sa dvitiyamaichchat sa idam sarvamasrujata tat srushtvaa tadevaanupraavishat tadanu pravishya satcha tyatchaabhavat…). If you analyze this, you can carefully understand the basic story of creation. In the previous message, it is already analyzed that one alone can never enjoy and therefore, this universe, which is the second item is created. In the case of God, both the thought of creation and materialization of the thought are one and the same. At the same time, this creation appears as thought to God and this same universe appears as materialized creation to the human souls. Therefore, there are no two steps like thought and materialization of thought. The two steps are mutual and simultaneous and are different based on simultaneous angles of God and human being. This same existing universe appears to be a thought for God and the same universe appears to be materialized form for the human souls.
The enjoyment can be received in full extent only when the universe is materialized form and also the creator is directly interacting with it by entering it. Certainly, you receive some enjoyment by looking at it. But, the enjoyment is not complete with such unreal form, which is not materialized. If the same cinema happens to be your real life, the enjoyment is complete. Instead of seeing a cinema, you get more enjoyment when you participate in the drama. But, even in drama, the enjoyment is not to the maximum extent because you are aware that the drama is unreal. Therefore, even if the cinema is materialized into a drama, the enjoyment is not perfect since you are not completely ignorant due to your awareness of the reality. Even if the same drama happens to be real life for God, there is no possibility of such realization that the real life is unreal. Hence, both materialization of thought and the total ignorance are essential for complete enjoyment. God, through His state of human incarnation, can achieve these two aspects, which are the materialization of thought and total ignorance. Therefore, God enters a medium, which is the human being. For human being, this universe is a complete materialization since the human being is a part and parcel of the universe. For the same reason that the human being is a part and parcel of the universe, the universe can never be unreal to the human being. Therefore, the human being always feels this universe as real. The universe, including the human beings, is unreal thought only for the absolutely real God. Therefore, there is no trace of possibility for the human being to feel this universe as unreal. Hence, there is no danger for the total ignorance of the human being to feel this universe as a total reality. Here, we call that the human being is ignorant for feeling the unreal world as real and we call so from the angle of God only. From the angle of human being, there is no ignorance since the world is really real for the human beings. Hence, the human being alone can really interact with this real universe and can really enjoy. When God enters the human being, God shares that real enjoyment. The Veda says that God and human soul are the two birds sitting on the common tree, which is the human body. One bird, the human soul, enjoys the world and the other bird, God, also enjoys by sharing the joy without involving with the world (dvaa suparnaa…).
God Gets Complete Enjoyment Through the Incarnation
God identifies Himself with the human being, while remaining as God. The current is identified with the metallic wire in which it flows. During such identification, the current remains in its original state as the stream of electrons. But, the shock of the current is experienced by touching the wire at any spot. Hence, the wire is identified with the current and the current is identified with the wire. Wire is a chain of metallic particles and is totally different from the current, the chain of electrons. Therefore, we can conclude that the current remains as the chain of electrons as well as identified as the chain of the metallic particles. Therefore, God remains in His original state, which is the absolute reality and also becomes the human being due to identification with It, which is the relative reality. Hence, in the state of human incarnation, God is both the absolute reality (sat) and also the relative reality (tyat).
Therefore, from the beginning of the creation, God entered this universe as human incarnation to enjoy through intensive interaction with the second item. You cannot enjoy the food item seen in cinema. You cannot also enjoy the real food item present on the stage in a drama keeping yourself as the spectator from outside. Only when you can eat it, you can enjoy it. As long as God remains in His original state, the food is always in the form of a thought only. When God becomes the human incarnation, the thought of food becomes real food and can be enjoyed. As human incarnation, God can also become spectator. You can enjoy seeing the sky in the real life as well as an actor in a drama in the open theater. Hence, the enjoyment as spectator is not spoiled even in the role of human incarnation. Therefore, the enjoyment of the spectator as said in the Veda (sakshi cheta…) is also included in the human incarnation. Hence, the enjoyment is complete in the human incarnation and you should not think that the spectator type of enjoyment is lost by entering the universe as human incarnation.
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