03 Apr 2009
Note: This article is meant for intellectuals only
[On the Eve of Shri Rama Navami] Dr. Nikhil told “Now the research is being conducted on the existence of Universal Consciousness. If there are some violent ideas in one place, they affect the Universal Consciousness and thereby, the minds of all the human beings are disturbed. The Universal Consciousness is Brahman, which is in contact with every human being as a continuous Universal Medium. Hence, the soul is in union with Brahman”.
Swami replied: If you want to beat somebody, call him as dog and then beat him. Even though he is not a dog; you have confirmed him as a dog for all practical purposes, in order to beat him. Similarly, you want to capture Brahman or God, who is unimaginable and cannot be captured even by intensive process of imagination. Therefore, you name some imaginable item as Brahman, capture it and then claim that you have captured God. Whatever you named or subsequently captured is not the actual absolute God. You have captured some subtle part of the creation itself and claim that you have captured Brahman, which is beyond Creation. I will give a small illustration. One day yourself and your friends jumped for a long time and failed to touch the roof of your house. Therefore, all of you named the roof as unattainable, since it is untouchable by hand. For some years, you have practiced the high jump and could touch the roof by your hand. Now, you declare that you have attained the unattainable. Actually, the roof is not really and permanently unattainable item. The real and permanently unattainable item is the sky, which cannot be touched by you even through millions of births. Similarly, Brahman or God, who is the Creator of this Universe is really and permanently unattainable, since He cannot be imagined even by the sharpest intelligence. The reason for this is that God, the Creator, is beyond spatial dimensions, because He was the creator of this space. The Creator exists before the Creation of this space. This means that God existed even in the absence of the space before its creation. You can never imagine the absence of space, because you and your intelligence cannot go beyond space by continuous efforts even for millions of lives. Even the minutest you imagine, must have minutest spatial dimensions. You can never imagine anything without dimensions. Therefore, when you say that you have captured or imagined something, it must be a part of the creation only. It might have not been captured till today due to lack of scientific analysis and sophisticated technical instruments and it does not mean that it is really unimaginable. It remained unimaginable for a period of time due to lack of equipment, just like the roof of your house remained untouchable for sometime due to lack of practice in high jump. By touching the roof, you should not claim that you have touched the sky. By capturing the universal consciousness, you should not shout that you have captured God. Just like the roof is not the sky, the Universal Consciousness is not God.
Consciousness means awareness. Awareness is nothing but a specific work form of inert energy, which is transport of information from senses to brain through neuron cells. This transport is work only. Work is a form of inert energy only. Therefore, the work is also inert. Even the specific work is inert because the image fallen on the eye, the lens of the eye, the light rays bringing the image, the neuron cells which are just specific chemicals, the force of movement of the cells and finally the brain, which is also a chemical fluid receiving the image – all these are inert, inert and inert only. You have called this specific work by a new name ‘awareness’, which is actually and really inert only. Therefore, the soul and the body are purely inert and function under the controlling power of God only. All the Creation from top to bottom is inert only and the soul is a fine part of the creation called as Para Prakriti by the Gita. If there is any non-inert item, it is just God only. The Veda says that God is the controller of the entire Universe including the souls (Patim Vishvasya Aatmeswaram…). Now tell Me, whether you have captured the non-inert item (God) by capturing the inert consciousness? Consciousness or Awareness is a specific and subtle area of the field of inert energy and inert matter. The capital city is the top most area of the kingdom. It is also in the kingdom only. It is not beyond the kingdom. Similarly, awareness is the top most fine area of the creation, which is a specific work called as Consciousness or Awareness. This does not mean that the awareness or consciousness is beyond Creation and hence, is God. A radio or T.V. is a specific technical instrument working on the principle of propagation of signals in the medium of continuous Universal Energy. Since the soul or awareness in a human being is also a specific work form of the same inert energy, the continuous medium of universal energy itself can act as the common medium for the specific awareness also. There is no difference between a T.V. and a computer or robot in the sense that all are specific designs of machines made of inert materials or chemicals working with the help of the same inert energy modified into specific forms of those works. Hence, the continuous universal inert energy is the common medium for all these specific machines like T.V., Computer, Robot and human being. The word ‘universal consciousness’ is wrong. Consciousness is limited to a human being like the computer technology limited to computer only. There is no universal computer technology spreading all over the universe. The inert energy is spreading all over the universe and is acting as a medium to propagate the signals for the computer. Similarly, consciousness or awareness is a limited item confined to a human being and cannot be universal. The same universal inert energy acts as the medium to propagate a specific variety of signals related to human beings.
Difference Between Science and God’s Superpowers
All the creation is based on scientific logic and the techniques adopted in the nature are purely based on the sharpness of your imagination called as Science. You can talk with a person directly near to you. You can also talk to a person situated far from you through a telephone. Both these facilities are created by God only and are left by Him to your control only. God created this logical nature and presented to the self effort of the human being. He left this nature and became beyond this logical nature. Any human being can attain the powers and facilities of this logical nature and God is not necessary in this field of imaginable items. Even an atheist becomes a great scientist and enjoys all these systematic powers of the nature with the help of self-efforts, techniques and instruments. This is the field of imagination and Science, which is nothing but an advanced state of sharp intelligence. This is one field.
The other field is the unimaginable God with inherent unimaginable superpowers called as Maya. This Superpower can never be isolated from God as said in Gita (Mayinamtu Maheswaram…). This superpower or Maya is the specific power of God used in His play of entertainment as said in the Veda (Indro Mayaabhih…). When God gives a boon to any devotee, the devotee thinks that the superpower of God entered him, which is being used by him. It is a false notion. God may give you a boon that you will create anything by your will. You think that the superpower of God has entered you and that you are creating anything using your superpower. You will realize that this is absolutely wrong, if you realize the actual technique. When you wanted to create something, then that is created. No doubt! But, what is exactly happening? When you wanted to create something, then the invisible God creates that because He has given a boon to you to that effect. Yourself and the other spectators think that it is created by you with the help of the superpower given to you by God. It is only an illusion. Therefore, a real devotee having true knowledge will always say that God has done the miracle, even though the miracle was expressed by him. Therefore, the Maya or superpower can never be separated from God. If you are His true devotee, you can perform the miracles, which are actually done by Him in an invisible way. Therefore, you get the superpower (in the sense of external world) through total surrender, devotion and selfless service to God in His Mission. You cannot achieve the superpower through any amount of sharp intelligence or techniques or instruments or by any self-effort. The basic reason is that you can never achieve the superpower in real sense. The achievement of superpowers mentioned in Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is spoken in this external sense only. This is the field of unimaginable powers or Maya.
In the field of imaginable powers or Prakriti, you can achieve the powers through intelligence, self-effort, techniques and instruments. You should be either a scientist in the field of imaginable nature or a true devotee in the field of unimaginable superpowers. Today, several Gurus are misled and mislead others by standing in the border of these two fields. They want to achieve the superpowers by self-effort called as meditation (Dhyana) or Yoga. The Advaitins stand in this border in a most confused state because they want to become the source of superpowers (God) itself through self-effort, which is a continuous state of meditation thinking continuously “I am God, I am God”. It is just like getting one lakh rupees lottery (God) by just one rupee ticket (continuous theoretical thinking that you are God)! The other preachers of Yoga and other schools of meditation are just like the people offering a lottery of one thousand rupees for one rupee ticket because they offer some superpowers only by meditation. Therefore, be an Indian or a Roman and do not linger in the border of the two countries. You must either live like a scientist in the nature or a true devotee surrendering to God totally in the spiritual field. A clear distinction is necessary both for the preachers and followers. The discoveries of powers of natural forces were done by God only through the Scientists. The use of the discovered and established powers of nature is left to the control of human being. Therefore, even the nature was created by God only and the use of the created nature was only left to the control of the humanity. Hence, you need not feel that you are non-devotional by using the powers of nature as a scientist because the discovery of the powers of the nature was given by God only. If you are getting headache, you take a medicine for that and still you are a devotee and do not feel shy that you are becoming non-devotional by using the medicine. The medicine is discovered and given by God only through scientists and you are using the discovery of God only and not the discovery of the scientist. Some devotees start praying God for curing their headache without taking medicine, thinking that the medicine is man made. The scripture says that all the Science came from God only (Vedaah Shastrani Vijnanam Etat Sarvam Janardhanat…).
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