Posted on: 22 Mar 2023
[Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Blessings on to You and Your devotees today Lord Datta Swami! I am sitting thinking about Your will, and from an answer You gave for a previous question. You mentioned that the unmediated form of God is beyond personality. Whereas the mediated energetic form of God may contain personality traits. It led me to wonder if the will of God including likes and dislikes is conducted by the mediated energetic version? So for example the plan that God has for His creation, how He would like it to be, and all changes that are done to it, including our relationship with God, are from the will of the mediated form, Datta?
This is rather than the unimaginable, inexpressible God, although there can be no misidentification that they are not the same, because the mediated form is God through a mediated expression of His choosing.
My thinking being that will and desire are a form of personality, and that if the unimaginable God is beyond these, then creation must be actualized upon through the mediated form.
This thinking is through the context that creation isn’t real from the perspective of the unimaginable. This would lead to the thought that creation must be upheld by the will of Datta.
If this is also the case, does this mean that the unimaginable form of God is beyond prayer? In the sense that the creation cannot have any effect or interaction with the unimaginable form of God except through the mediated form of God? I apologize if I need to clarify, please enlighten me to any defects in the angle of the question. At Your lotus feet, Talin Rowe]
Swami replied:- You must mainly remember always that the unimaginable God is omnipotent and that there is nothing impossible for the unimaginable God and hence, all logical doubts get answered by themselves for which we need not supply any logical background. Our logical doubts are entertained in the creation done by the unimaginable God or by God Datta. We must remember always that there is no trace of difference between the unimaginable God and God Datta as far as omnipotence is concerned. The only difference is that the unimaginable God is invisible and is also unimaginable whereas God Datta is externally visible and imaginable. The internal core is the unimaginable God only. The external form in God Datta is visible and imaginable while the internal form of God Datta is also imaginable and visible, but, the internal form is having unimaginable nature. Even the external form of God Datta is having unimaginable nature if the unimaginable God extends into the external body in the case of any miracle to be done using the external body. In the case of the unimaginable God, the internal and external forms are not only having unimaginable nature, but also, are directly unimaginable to our imagination. In the case of God Datta, the internal and external forms are imaginable as in the case of any energetic being, but, the form of God Datta (internally and externally) has unimaginable nature. The unimaginable God became God Datta only means that the unimaginable entity having unimaginable nature became the imaginable entity having the same unimaginable nature. This conversion itself is unimaginable and is possible due to the unimaginable nature of the unimaginable God. We shall stop any attempt to analyze the unimaginable-invisible original God and we shall also stop to analyze the unimaginable nature of God Datta even though we are able to see God Datta.
The ‘will’ is a form of inert energy called as nervous energy and is an imaginable item that belongs to the creation. This ‘will’ happened in the unimaginable God even before creation. For the generation of will, inert energy (energy) and a materialized nervous system (matter) are necessary. Before creation, neither energy nor matter existed. Yet, the will is generated in the unimaginable God due to the omnipotence of God and not due to the existence of awareness (material of will) in the unimaginable God. Hence, there is no need of any discussion regarding the will of the unimaginable God. Before the generation of the first energetic form of the unimaginable God, the above explanation based on omnipotence is the only mechanism of will. But, after the generation of the first energetic being, the body and soul (awareness) are generated with which the unimaginable God merged. Now, the omnipotence of God is not required because the will has its basic material (awareness), but, omnipotence exists in such awareness due to the merged unimaginable God based on which the process of creation by God Datta starts. The will is a part of the personality in the form of Datta (before the merge of the unimaginable God), but, the same will of God Datta is having unimaginable omnipotence also due to the merge of the unimaginable God. Datta means a simple energetic being created by the unimaginable God and God Datta means the same Datta having unimaginable power after the merge of the unimaginable God with Datta.