08 Aug 2022
[Shri PVNM Sharma asked:- You said that God Datta and Parabrahman are one and the same. But, there are differences like: Parabrahman is having no beginning and end whereas God Datta has beginning without end. Is it not a significant difference?]
Swami replied:- Parabrahman is unmediated God whereas God Datta is mediated Parabrahman. When Parabrahman is mediated, you are using the word Datta to refer to the same Parabrahman, not to the external medium. You must compare Parabrahman without medium and Parabrahman with medium. You shall not compare Parabrahman without medium and the medium alone. God Datta is an alternative name for Parabrahman only and not the name of the medium created by Parabrahman before His merge with the medium. The medium is just the relative energetic body with its relative soul and is called as an ordinary energetic being only. This created energetic being became God Datta after the entry and merge of Parabrahman with the energetic body and soul. The medium without Parabrahman is just a part of the creation whereas the same medium after merged by Parabrahman becomes the creator. Devadatta is naked without clothes and the same Devadatta is clothed. The same Devadatta is without and with clothes. We are not comparing Devadatta with the clothes. The medium has beginning because it was created by Parabrahman and the same medium was used by Him by entry and merge. He will never leave the medium because the purpose of the medium is to bless the souls with His vision and worship. The creation is continuous even though it has beginning. When the dissolution of the creation takes place, the creation will go into subtle state (Avyaktam) from gross state so that it can go into gross state whenever Parabrahman or God Datta wishes for the entertainment.
The film real (Avyaktam) can be focused at any time as the visible show. Since the souls are continuous along with the creation, the necessity for Parabrahman to be in visible state for the sake of worship of the souls is also continuous and hence, Parabrahman continues to be mediated God (Datta) forever. Just like the naked Devadatta never becomes visible to anybody, the unmediated Parabrahman never becomes visible to anybody. Datta means simply ‘given’, which means that the unimaginable Parabrahman is given to the world of souls for the sake of worship and hence, Datta is not the name at all. Nobody puts the name of a baby as ‘given’ and hence, Datta has no colour of any religion. In fact, the unmediated Parabrahman is not only invisible but also unimaginable. The clothed Devadatta becomes visible to anybody. One gives you a hundred rupees directly and another gives you a hundred rupees in a cover. Is there any difference between these two transactions? Similarly, the mediated Parabrahman or God Datta becomes visible to anybody deeply desiring to see Him. God Datta or mediated Parabrahman is the first energetic incarnation and is visible to the energetic beings in the upper energetic worlds. He becomes invisible to the devotees on earth because He is the relevant form of God for only the upper worlds and is irrelevant for this human world. The same God Datta becomes further energetic incarnations in the upper worlds and human incarnations in this human world.
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