14 Aug 2016
Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami
Kindly give Your explanations to following verses taken from Quran.
Q1) Some muslims say that in Quran it is given that Allah can be seen on the Day of Judgment, can be seen by Paradise Dwellers and also can be seen in Dreams. It is mentioned that Prophet Mohammad saw Allah during the night of ascension and also in this world. Other places it is said that Allah cannot be seen by anyone in this World, or in Dreams, or on the Day of Judgment or in Paradise. The supporting verses are given by some muslims are given below. Kindly enlighten us these contradicting views.
Swami replied: (Introduction) – There are three views expressed here:
1) One can see God here. This means that the unimaginable God merged with human form through the energetic incarnation is clearly seen with eyes of every human being in this world. Since unimaginable God merged with energetic form (Father of Heaven or Holy Spirit) and the energetic form merged with human form (Mohammed or Jesus or Krishna etc.). Mohammed should be treated as God and hence, God is clearly seen here with naked eyes by all human beings. The human form of God also performs miracles or unimaginable events, which indicate the unimaginable God, merged with it. Such human form can be said to be 100% God. Hence, no need to contradict the statement that God is seen here with naked eyes by every human being. Of course, the ignorant human beings treat the human form of God also as an ordinary human being only and hence, God is not seen by all human beings in real sense. Even if the ignorant human beings are preached that a specific human being is human incarnation of God, these human beings will never believe it due to ego and jealousy towards a co-human being. Such human devils will say that the miracles of human incarnation are magic. They say that the spiritual knowledge of the human incarnation is gossip or cunning magic of words to exploit the innocent devotees for money like a tax collector (as said previously regarding Jesus). They interpret the love of the human incarnation to the devotees also as the acting magic for the same above-said purpose. In general, human beings do not accept human incarnation due to repulsion between common media (human body as medium of soul and human body as medium of God) due to the same characteristics of all the human media like birth, growth, death, thirst, hunger, disease etc. These characteristics of the human medium of God are maintained as such without any change so that the human incarnation can freely mix with human beings to develop friendship for freedom of approach. If necessary, the human body of God will exhibit divine characteristics also (since God merges with the body also) as in the case of Krishna lifting huge hill on tender finger of His divine body!
2) The unimaginable God merged with energetic form (Father of Heaven) or formless energy (Holy Spirit) makes God to be seen by the departed souls since such souls are also embedded in energetic bodies only to go to the upper worlds as per their deeds judged on last day. The last day means not the final day of dissolution of this world. It only means the final dissolution of this human body or death. This human body (pindaanda) contains all the components of the world (brahmaanda) and hence, the human body is said to be a micro-model of the macro cosmos. The death of a human being is referred as the final day of judgment with respect to a specific soul. Thus, the energetic incarnation is always seen by the departed souls having energetic bodies. However, there also, the souls in energetic bodies refuse to recognize the energetic incarnation of God for the same above-said reason of repulsion between common media (energetic bodies of soul and God). In this way, even these souls have not seen the energetic incarnation of God in the real sense since the energetic incarnation is also treated as a soul in energetic body as in their case. Such energetic incarnation (Father of Heaven) is eternal since the unimaginable God always is merged and hence, seeing such energetic form of God is also seeing God! Sometimes, the energetic incarnation appears to human beings also for a very very little time only because the energetic incarnation is irrelevant to humanity and is relevant only to the upper worlds containing departed souls and angels in energetic bodies. However, when the energetic incarnation is seen by human being, the latter will be claiming with lot of excitation that it has seen light! The energy without form (Holy Spirit) is claimed as this formless light by the human beings. Since there is no repulsion of common media in the case of human being seeing the Holy Spirit as light, the human being generally believes it as God. But, if the human being is a strong atheist, he will think that he had some illusion of eye! Hence, in this second case also (God in energetic form), God may be realized in real sense (God is seen) or may not be realized in the real sense (God is unseen). The story of repulsion of common media is one and the same here or there!
3) The unimaginable God is always beyond space and time, called as absolute reality, which is beyond all the relative realities like soul, space, time, energy, matter etc. In this case, one has to tell that God can never be seen nor even imagined by anyone in this world. In this way, the absolute God is not only unseen but even unimaginable. However, such absolute God merges with energetic form or human form (through energetic form) and can be treated invisible as as well as unimaginable.
In view of the above three concepts, one can clearly form the total concept of vision and imagination. The absolute God is invisible and unimaginable. The energetic form of God (Father of Heaven) is invisible (but visible if the energetic form reduces its frequency of energy willing to appear to human devotees) and imaginable. The human form of God is visible and imaginable. One can understand the application of this concept to various cases using the facilities available and limitations forcing to make a concise theory.
We must understand the Quran with very very careful attention and deep analysis. Then only, it can be co-related with the scriptures of other religions. You will be easily mislead in understanding the Quran because the correct meaning can be grasped only through highly sensitive and narrow margins of analysis.
a) The Bhagavatam is 100% Nivrutti. Nivrutti means personal love to God without aspiration for any fruit. The devotee, here, is caught by the grip of God and there is no danger of slip at any time. It is like the mother-cat catching its child by its mouth in the journey (marjaala kishora nyaaya). If this is achieved, it is everlasting happiness, but, to achieve this, the effort is very much complicated and frightening!
b) The Bhagavad Gita is 50% Nivrutti and 50% pravrutti. Pravrutti means the employee to have love and respect to employer following the rules of conduct strictly receiving rewards of promotion (heaven) and punishments of demotion (hell) based on own careful attention of the employee without any unlawful protection or penalization from employer. It is like the monkey-child catching the womb of its mother in journey and slip or grip depends on the personal attention of the child only (markata kishora nyaaya).
In the Gita, the main aim is to make Arjuna fight the war for victory of justice and thus, it is pravrutti. To develop faith in Krishna as God (so that the word of Krishna can be followed), Nivrutti is also equally explained and even the greatest miracle (cosmic vision) was exhibited. Though the ultimate aim of this Nivrutti is only pravrutti (making Arjuna fight in war), Nivrutti is equally emphasized, forming half part of the Gita, which becomes a standard scripture for Nivrutti-devotees also.
c) The Bible is a scripture with 90% pravrutti and 10% Nivrutti showing the path of Nivrutti briefly since the main context is to develop sinless society by establishing justice and rejecting the sinful injustice everywhere. However, the receivers misunderstood even this 10% Nivrutti (Jesus telling that He is truth, light and Son of God addressing God as ‘My Father’) due to unlimited ego and endless jealousy. This led to the crucifixion of Jesus, which is the climax of sin and injustice and such sinners have to face eternal liquid fire in the hell. In the time of Krishna also, who preached pravrutti to Kauravas, they also tried to bind Him with chains to imprison and even to kill Him finally! But Krishna used His miraculous power by showing cosmic vision and avoided such highest sin of human beings. Even Jesus could have done so. In fact, Jesus also showed His miraculous power by attaching the cut ear of a soldier in that time. But, He did not use such miraculous power to avoid crucifixion like Krishna. In the case of Krishna, by such miraculous power, what result was seen? Kauravas did not change at all and came to fight with Pandavas. Hence, miraculous powers and physical punishments give only temporary relief like Krishna coming out from such serious situation. Jesus did not use miraculous power and allowed crucifixion so that later on lot of repentance developed in the hearts of sinners, which is somewhat better relief for a longer time. The best and everlasting relief is only propagation of very powerful spiritual knowledge (Prajnanam Brahma - Veda) because knowledge deals with logic of brain whereas emotion deals with heart temporarily. Every human being does actions based on some convinced logical conclusions of brain only and unless this highest faculty of intelligence is attacked and convinced, there can’t be a change in the person. Of course, Jesus propagated the spiritual knowledge based on full logic like Shankara. This pitiable situation brought some change in severe sinners to develop some attention towards His spiritual knowledge. Even in the case of Krishna, He preached a lot to Kauravas and invited various sages also to preach them! Krishna did not do like Jesus since He decided to kill all of them as He knows that sympathy can never rise in the hearts of the demons born as Kauravas. In the case of Jesus, there was a scope of repentance in their hearts and hence, Jesus implemented a different program of pitiable crucifixion, which subsequently created repentance in their hearts. Hence, you need not mistake that Krishna was cruel and Jesus was kind (as some Christians criticize Hinduism). Krishna and Jesus are one and the same God. Their programs differed in view of the difference in the scope of reformation of receivers. Your criticism against Krishna attacks Jesus also because the same one God appeared in those two different forms!
d) The Quran preaches 100% pravrutti only and shows Nivrutti brought down to become part and parcel of pravrutti. If you follow justice, avoiding injustice, that is the end of pravrutti or even the end of Nivrutti because the climax of pleasure of God (Allah) can be attained by such good conduct and character only followed in order to maintain the balance of this society. Hence, there are no separate Nivrutti and pravrutti. Pravrutti itself is Nivrutti. Prophet Mohammed was very much pained by the crucifixion of Jesus and hence avoided the concept of human incarnation. Crucifixion is negative on its both sides. On the side of human incarnation, the human being-component suffers in the same way as any other human being suffers in such punishment! This is the highest sin. On the side of the human beings crucifying Jesus, they become the topmost sinners to be thrown away into flashes of liquid fire in hell forever. The agony is on both the sides. Such idea of crucifixion comes only from Nivrutti standing as a subject separated from pravrutti. When Jesus alone is to be believed as God and all others are not God, the ego and jealousy rise to climax like wind and rain in a cyclone! Even a small achievement by a single human being can’t be tolerated by neighbors, who immediately react criticizing that single person. A human being is an alloy of two metals, ego and jealousy. In the case of the spiritual knowledge of Shankara, at least this cyclone can’t be there because every soul is God or Krishna and there is no sage or Gopika to be examined at all and hence, no scope of exploitation of devotees by a false human incarnation! The whole problem comes only when one is God and others are slaves (daasa bhakti) of God! When Shankara told that He is God (Shivoham), all disciples told the same. But, Shankara swallowed the molten lead and asked them to swallow it. Thank God! The disciples did not crucify Shankara calling all that as magic! They fell on His feet and Shankara declared that He alone is God (Shivah kevaloham). When the cut ear of soldier was attached by Jesus, those people called it as magic and crucified Jesus. The disciples of Shankara were highly realized scholars whereas those people surrounding Jesus were illiterate, ignorant and emotional. God adopts different programs with reference to different receiving media. Mohammed was very harsh in speech but very kind in heart. He wanted to remove this concept of human incarnation to avoid agony on both sides. Hence, the Quran was closed by pravrutti only and no more Nivrutti was allowed thereafter. This is the actual meaning of the seal of the Quran and the no-need of further prophet, who may teach Nivrutti again (Mohammed feared!). This is not lowering the status of the Quran confined to pravrutti only. Such interpretation will be again wrong. The sense is that let the humanity rise to the climax of pravrutti and then only Nivrutti should be thought of. You must finish the degree examination first with serious attention on studies and after passing the degree only, you can think of IAS examination. If you start thinking IAS in studies of degree, neither you will pass degree nor can ever prepare for IAS later on! This is the actual practical view of the most generous Prophet Mohammed, who being human incarnation of God reduced His status to the messenger of God. It is like the IAS officer telling that he is working as a peon in collector’s office!
The Bhagavatam indicates 100% nivrutti whereas the Quran indicates 100% pravrutti. Both are similar in the sense of single concentration. But, while concentrating on one item, the second item should not be neglected. At the same time, the concentration on the second item should not dilute the concentration on the first item. This exact policy can be seen in both the scriptures. In the Bhagavatam, Gopikas were in the climax of Nivrutti, but, at the same time, their pravrutti was not disturbed. They were leading their normal lives with all the worldly bonds unaffected, which were not at all hurt due to the secrecy of their concentration on the human form of God. Similarly, in the Quran, pravrutti is well explained with strict discipline to establish justice against injustice or sin. At the same time, concentration on God was not lowered and in fact, everywhere, concentration on God was given topmost priority. All the ethics should be followed since God dictated so to His messenger. In this way, concentration on one field is not disturbing the concentration on the other field. Both pravrutti and Nivrutti complement each other and do not contradict if both are understood perfectly and dealt with proper balance.
In the Quran, the elimination of Nivrutti is not about the absolute unimaginable God and also not about the energetic incarnation of God. Allah stands for formless energetic incarnation called Holy Spirit, which was also accepted by the Bible. In Hinduism also, the Holy Spirit is mentioned as formless energy with awareness in which unimaginable God exists by merge. This energy is referred as Jyoti (refer Jyotiradhikarana of Brahma Sutras). The same energy having human form is not much favored by Islam because the human form is the root of all the problems in that region. The energy, not having form may be visible as light or fire if the frequency of the energetic medium is lowered. The Persian religion accepts fire as God, which is energy in visible range. Fire is the same visible energetic medium charged by God and awareness. The question of seeing God as light or not seeing as light or fire is a very simple point, which has no connection with the God. If the energetic medium has frequency in visible range, God is seen as light. Otherwise, not seen.
The main problem of human form of God was from the side of devotees, who could not tolerate it and crucified Jesus. The same problem appeared in Hinduism also regarding the human incarnation not from the side of devotees but from the side of false human incarnation exploiting devotees as in the case of Poundraka Vasudeva in the time of Krishna. Even in the case of false incarnation, which has very thin hair-split margin, the concept of God coming as human incarnation and other non-God souls to worship such human incarnation is maintained in toto. The only difference is appearance of a false human incarnation through false knowledge and false love or some miracles to exploit the devotees resulted in the same problem. To arrest this, Shri Madhva appeared establishing perfect dualism. Shankara maintained perfect monism of God with every human soul in order to convert atheists at least to say that God exists, for which this big trick was played. Of course, Shankara maintained the perfect monism in the case of human incarnation. Shri Ramanuja also talked about the two cases of human incarnation and ordinary soul. In the case of ordinary soul, perfect dualism is accepted and in the case of human incarnation also, perfect dualism is accepted even though perfect monism is also accepted since the soul is inseparable. Two inseparable items can be treated as one (almost perfect monism) and dualism is accepted fundamentally. Current and metallic wire are two different items, but, both can be treated as one since both are inseparable in electrified wire. Shri Madhva said that both items are not only different but also separate as in the case of a non-electrified wire and current stored in transformer. These three fundamental concepts are deciding the philosophy of any religion in this world. Dualism of Madhva says that I am in the light. Special monism of Ramanuja says that the light is in me. Monism of Shankara says that I am the light. As per Shankara, Jesus is God. As per Ramanuja, Jesus is Son of God. As per Madhva, Jesus is Messenger of God. The final point is that all the three philosophies are correct in their specific fields of context. The absorption and assimilation of spiritual knowledge by the receiver is most important. Psychology of: a) student in the field of teaching, b) consumer in the field of business, c) spectator in film industry and d) disciple in the field of spirituality is the main deciding factor of the path of preaching. All twists and modifications are done to please student-God or consumer-God or spectator-God. This is true in the case of disciple-God also, but, the twists and interpretations by the divine preachers in the field of spirituality are given in such intellectual way so that the actual concept can come out with its true colors from any modified philosophy whenever a proper context is developed!
In the past time, the spiritual receivers know many points and required to know only few points. Hence, those few points were only stated by God. Those few points were also stated in brief since those receivers had lot of analytical faculty in spiritual knowledge and hence, they themselves could elaborate those few points in their minds. Hence, the previous preachings were quantitatively less. Today, the receivers are not having any touch with spiritual knowledge and also their analytical talent is limited to worldly issues and science only. Therefore, as per the state of the present receivers, all the points should be preached and each point should be elaborated with detailed analysis. This is the reason why this present spiritual knowledge given by God has become so voluminous! The mode of preaching is decided only by the receiver Gods (like consumer Gods in business)! The divine program always depends on the requirement of receivers only.
All the human beings can be classified into various levels in view of pravrutti and Nivrutti in the following way:
1) Below average level: This is far below even the pravrutti and God is very furious in this level. All are serious sinners and severe hell is only the ultimate. All the bad qualities concentrate here along with selfishness. God may be accepted or may not be accepted. The commandments of God are simply rejected.
2) Average level: Both good and bad deeds are not done here. Even if some few activities are done, neutralization takes place between good and bad. Such neutral state makes God also neutral since God is a perfect reflection of the opposite side.
3) Pravrutti level: God is pleased here if the soul follows justice against injustice in practical life. Since there is no personal relationship with God, the spiritual progress of the devotee simply depends upon his/her good performance as in the case of an employee. The child of the monkey is safe as long as it has good grip on the belly of its mother in the journey (heaven). If the grip becomes loose, it falls down (hell). Mother-monkey has no responsibility on its child. Even though aspiration for fruit exists fully, if the deal with the fruits is on justified lines like theoretical devotion giving theoretical fruits and practical devotion yielding practical fruits, God is pleased. Here, love to God is within certain limits and such love is also based on justified business deal. Sometimes, even the business deal may be violated in the love and deal of devotion of prostitute may also appear in which practical fruit is expected from the theoretical devotion. This is unjust side of pravrutti. However, there is no sin in it, but, God knows how to deal with such business of prostitute-devotee. He may grant a practical fruit for theoretical devotion and such fruit may be lost in course of time due to some other apparent reasons! For justified business deal, Sugriva stands as an example in the case of Rama, who promised practical help to Rama if his enemy Vali is killed by Rama. This is a fair business deal of practical service for a practical fruit.
4) Nivrutti above pravrutti, which is below its climax: The aspiration for fruit drops away and sacrifice and service are done just for the love to God’s personality. The sacrifice and service vary in different levels depending on their magnitude. The sacrifice of all worldly bonds may be partial or sacrifice of some worldly bonds may be full with exception of one or few bonds. The love to God is intensive in this phase and can be called as madness also. God is immensely pleased to this Nivrutti because of its purity due to lack of aspiration for fruit. Pandavas and Vibhishana stand as examples here. Here, God takes the total responsibility of the devotee like the mother-cat carrying its child by mouth. However, due to lack of full faith, theoretical threat of slip always appears in the mind of the child. Granting the fruit to become human incarnation is maximum here.
5) Nivrutti in climax: The madness to God reaches climax and all the worldly bonds are totally sacrificed for the sake of God. The pleasure of God towards such devotee also is in climax so that God becomes the faithful servant of such a devotee. Total sacrifice and surrender of even the basic ego ‘I’ is done and not to speak about the lump of all its branches ‘my’. Hanuman and Gopikas stand as examples. The child of the cat has no tension at all since it has full faith on its mother proved by total sacrifice and total dedication in service.
Resurrection Exactly Means Reappearance of Father of Heaven
Summary of verses:
1) Prophet said that the way moon is seen in full moon night and the sun is seen when there is no cloud, in the same manner, Allah also can be seen on the day of resurrection.
Swami replied: Resurrection means the revival of something, which disappeared. It can be also taken in the sense of something, which is hidden and appearing. The unimaginable God appearing in energetic form to souls in energetic bodies in the upper world and the same God (through energetic incarnation) appearing to human beings in human form can be also taken in closely related sense. This word can perfectly apply to the case of human incarnation because the external human medium disappears by death. The energetic incarnation (either existing in the upper world or entering the human incarnation) is always eternal since the energetic body can stand forever unlike the human body composed of five elements bound by force with less randomness and more free energy (as per thermodynamics in science). Hence, this word applies perfectly to the human incarnation in which the external human body has to disappear by death in which disintegration takes place liberating the five elements into free natural state. Now, the point is the reappearance of the same human incarnation again. If a person disappeared from your house wearing red dress and comes back to your house after some time in white dress, what do you say about that person? Do you say that the person died and reappeared? You will say that the same person appeared in a different dress. The red dress might have been destroyed and a new white dress might have been worn by the same person. Here, the dress is immaterial and the person is important. The Father of Heaven or Holy Spirit is energetic incarnation of unimaginable God along with awareness. This Father of Heaven (or Holy Spirit) is the actual person. Jesus, the Son of Mary, is the red dress that disappeared on the cross (if you believe that Jesus died on cross) or disappeared later on after crucifixion (if you believe that Jesus became alive again and disappeared from the cave), the difference between these two options is immaterial since Jesus disappeared then or later on as per the rule of nature. The Son of Mary or external human being-component is only the external dress having birth and subsequent death. That which is born must die as per the Gita (Jaayate…). The actual person is the Father of Heaven (or Holy Spirit), who left Jesus after crucifixion as per the first statement of Jesus (Oh God! Why did You leave Me?). Even if the first option is correct and Jesus was made alive, the Father of Heaven (or Holy Spirit) might have entered Jesus again. Leaving all these superficial points, the essential point is that Father of Heaven (or Holy Spirit) is the God and the external human being-component (Son of Mary) is son of man. The former is the actual person and the latter is the dress worn by the person. Hence, resurrection exactly means reappearance of Father of Heaven (or Holy Spirit) in a new external human being-component like Prophet Mohammed.
2) People of Heaven will be busy in their delights and suddenly a divine light will glitter over them. They will raise their heads to find that their Lord is manifested on them saying ‘Peace be upon you O’ People of Heaven’
Swami replied: People of heaven stand for the devoted-departed souls in energetic bodies in the upper world called heaven. The light appeared is nothing but the Holy Spirit without form as per the main belief of Islam and with form as per the main belief of Christianity (of course, Christianity also believes in Holy Spirit). This is nothing but the appearance of the relevant energetic incarnation of God to the souls in energetic bodies devoted to God. Relevant form of God always appears and speaks. The energetic incarnation of God tells them to maintain peace and not be excited by the vision. Peace makes the preservation of energy necessary for the propagation work and excitation leads to loss of energy to damage the same work. Mere vision need not create pleasure unless the soul participates in the work of God. The upper world also is a replica of this world only because all types of souls (ignorant and enlightened) exist there also. Hence, propagation of spiritual knowledge is necessary in the upper world also. The Gita says that peace should be maintained after coming near to God (Shamah kaaranamuchyate) for the same reason of preservation of energy for work. Ravana saw the energetic forms of Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva. What is the use? He did not serve God in practical way. Vision is not of any use to please God. Even if you have not seen God, if you participate in the work of God to maintain balance and peace of society, God is pleased with you. Rama never had the vision of Lord Shiva or Lord Brahma in His lifetime. He constantly worked to uplift justice in the society (pravrutti). Even though Ravana had vision of God, he was destroyed. Even if Rama did not see God, Rama had always the victory blessed by God.
3) In a vision Prophet was in the presence of ALLAH IN THE BEST FORM. He saw Allah put HIS PALMS between his shoulder blades till he felt the coldness of HIS FINGERS between the two sides of his chest. Then everything was illuminated for him and he could recognize everything (in Heaven and Earth).
Swami replied: This proves that the energetic incarnation having human form (due to presence of palms) is also accepted by Prophet Mohammed. There can be no difference between the Prophets (or human incarnations) in their highest level of spiritual knowledge. They only modify the knowledge temporarily to suit the psychology of receivers so that the receivers are lifted up.
4) The Mighty in power has offered Prophet Mohammad the knowledge. So (equipped), he stood well poised. (With the perfect vision attained) at the highest horizon. Then he approached closer and hung by Allah. Then (both) closed up like two bows, and indeed more closely. And He revealed to His servant what He wanted to reveal.
Swami replied: This indicates the merge of energetic incarnation (along with its merged unimaginable God) in the human being-component called Prophet Mohammed. Since Mohammed was not for merge of Allah with Him (as in the case of human incarnation), for the reason to maintain the concept of messenger only, very closeness of both is only mentioned so that perfect dualism is maintained as Allah and Mohammed. It is not said that both bows merged and became one bow. The bow becomes a circle when both the ends meet. A circle represents completeness. Both Allah and Mohammed have complete spiritual knowledge and by this point, you can no more maintain the dualism between Allah and Mohammed. Moreover, what Allah wanted to reveal is perfectly revealed by Prophet Mohammed word by word, comma by comma and full-stop by full-stop. Such perfect revelation is possible only when Allah Himself directly speaks through Prophet Mohammed. Allah writes the statement in the brain of Mohammed, which is spoken by the throat of Mohammed to others. Perfect monism is indicated here even though fundamental dualism exists. Monism is sounding indirectly while dualism is spoken in elaborate manner here.
5) Peoples' eyes (be it physical eyes or heart eyes or spiritual eyes) cannot see Him, He sees their eyes (them). He has minute vision and is aware of everything. (Al-An'aam – 103).
Swami replied: This refers to the absolute unimaginable God, who is beyond space and time, omniscient and omnipotent. Even the imagination established by the conclusions of very deep analysis (spiritual eyes) cannot also see the unimaginable God. Even the climax of devotion (heart eyes) cannot catch Him. The basic reason is that the original absolute God is beyond space and time. Even the climax of intelligence of any human being cannot imagine God beyond space and time. But, the same God merged with energetic and human forms can be seen directly by the naked eyes and even can be touched directly by the hands. This is the meaning of ‘Datta’, which means that the unimaginable God has become not only imaginable but also visible and is given (Datta) to the world of devotees.
6) Allah said to Musa "you cannot see Me, but look upon the mountain, if it stands still in its place, then you shall see Me". So when his Lord manifested His Tajalli on the mountain, He made it collapse to dust and Musa fell down unconscious. Then when he recovered his senses he said: "Glory be to You, I turn to You in repentance and I am foremost of the believers.] (Al Araf - 143).
Swami replied: This is the reaction of Allah to a devotee having some doubt in His faith on God. Allah spoke to the devotee, but, still, the devotee is not having full faith on the energetic incarnation of God. Nobody can even imagine the unimaginable God and hence, Allah referred here is only the energetic incarnation in which the unimaginable God merged to have a permanent address. The energetic incarnation is giving a proof that the unimaginable God merged with It has created everything in this world, maintains everything in this world and finally destroys everything in this world. The hill standing in still-state is due to the power of maintenance of unimaginable God (we need not separate the unimaginable God from the energetic incarnation because the energetic incarnation happens to be the permanent address of absolute God). By destroying the hill into dust, the Father of Heaven proved that maintenance and destruction are by His will only. Naturally, the will that maintained and destroyed an item must be the creator also. This gives the definition of God as creator, maintainer and destroyer of the world (Yathovaa imani – Veda).
7) When asked whether he has seen Allah, Prophet replied: I saw Light (Muslim, Book # 1, Hadith # 342). Another place Prophet replied "He is light نُور, I saw Him. (Muslim, Book # 1, Hadith # 341). I saw Alllah in the most beautiful form (Tirmidhi).
Swami replied: This means that Prophet Mohammed is accepting both the Holy Spirit (formless) and Father of Heaven (with beautiful human form). The external energy along with awareness and merged unimaginable God indicates that Allah has form as well as no form (Murtam chaa murtam cha – Veda). The energy with or without form, and awareness are creations of unimaginable God only and hence, make no difference between the different media. The unimaginable God, who is the creator, ruler and destroyer alone, is the ultimate goal and not differences between matter and energy, formfull or formless energy etc.
The unimaginable God is beyond form and no form. The form and no form are related only to the external energetic medium. Since Allah means the unimaginable God in energetic medium, the form and no form apply to Allah. But these two points (form and no form) do not apply to the unimaginable God present in Allah. If you confine Allah to unimaginable God only, you have to apply these two points to the outer energetic medium only and say that Allah is beyond form and no form. However, if you mean Allah as both unimaginable God and the external energetic medium merged with each other, Allah has form and no form with respect to the external energetic medium. The analysis of the nomenclature of Allah, unimaginable God and external energetic medium is very important to avoid confusion when we say that Allah is seen or not seen and Allah has form and has no form. ‘Seen and unseen’ concept relates to energetic form depending on its frequency. Birth and death relates to human form. Of course, the energetic form also had birth in the beginning of creation since the unimaginable God created energy as the first item. But, the energetic form continues as long as this creation exists as per the will of unimaginable God. Hence, energetic form is said to be eternal in this sense.
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