07 Jan 2012
The real and absolute nature of God is unimaginable. The previous Preachers knew this point very well since They performed several miracles, which were unimaginable events only. The miracles stand as practical proof for the existence of the unimaginable Entity that performs the unimaginable events. When the preachers performed so many miracles, can’t They know the existence of the unimaginable item? It is very simple and no effort is necessary for the performer of the miracles to understand the existence of unimaginable entity and to propagate the same concept. In such case, why did not the preachers say that God is unimaginable? There may be difficulty to believe this concept by looking at others performing the miracles. But, there should be no trace of difficulty for the performer Himself to understand this concept, which is demonstrated by Himself. Even demons performed miracles, but they were unable to grasp the concept due to their devilish nature of ignorance. Thus, demons can be excused but not the intellectual preachers in revealing this concept. There must be some strong reason for the preachers in not revealing this concept inspite of the demonstration by Themselves. Such strong reason is that the intellectual level of ancient people was simply constituted by the conclusions of theoretical logic exercised through debates and discussions only. There was no experimental phase to arrive at steady conclusions. Today, lot of practical evidence is required to contradict any concept. In the ancient times, mere sharp logic was sufficient to contradict the concept. There was no steadiness in the establishment of the concept and the fate of the concept was depending on simply the intellectual sharpness of anybody. In such a time, if God had been declared as unimaginable, the immediate danger was that people would have immediately concluded that the unimaginable Entity (God) was non-existent. Thus the very basic concept of the existence of God would be threatened.
In fact, before the arrival of Shankara, the fast logic of intelligence ended in the final conclusion that everything is unreal including God. The theory of relativity was applied to every item of the creation with high speed. At any step, the cause is real and the product is unreal since the reality of the product is based on the reality of the cause. But, the cause itself is the product of another cause. This analysis went on ad-infinitum and the final conclusion was that everything is unreal (Shunyavada of Buddhists). In such situation, if you say that the ultimate cause is unimaginable, people would just laugh at it by saying that the unimaginable ultimate cause must be disposed more conveniently as unreal. The word ‘unimaginable’ indirectly means negation of a logical answer. With this fear, Shankara proposed God as pure awareness having no attributes (Nirguna). Later on, Ramanuja and Madhva also proposed God as awareness with attributes as qualified (Saguna). This difference is immaterial because the basically real unimaginable God was not projected. Only mediated God was presented by all three, who was the awareness charged by unimaginable God.
Today, the logical analysis is not only sharp but also steady due to experimental verification of every concept. The receiving nature of the people is quite stable due to the scientific analysis. People are not fast in applying theoretical tautology[1] to arrive at hasty conclusions. So, today, the real concept of the unimaginable nature of God can certainly be revealed. Due to people’s stable intelligence, there is no danger anymore that they might make the wrong conclusion that God is non-existent.
The scientist may not believe any miracle and may say that nothing is unimaginable[2]. But, the scientist must accept the unimaginable boundary of the universe. Even there, the scientist may argue like this: “When the universe is imaginable, made of imaginable cosmic energy as the fundamental cause, how can you say that the boundary of the universe is unimaginable? Just like the ocean is water, the boundary of the ocean must also be the same water. Hence, the boundary of the imaginable universe must be also imaginable”. This type of argument is not acceptable if you analyze the subtle point of a boundary. When you reach the edge of the ocean and stand on it, you must find water on one side and land, which is not water, on the other side. The knowledge of both water and land is necessary to fix the boundary of the ocean. Land is not water. If that ‘land’ is also water, then the boundary of the ocean is not achieved. Similarly, when you reach the boundary of the imaginable universe, you must perceive the imaginable nature of the universe on one side and the unimaginable nature on the other side. If the unimaginable nature is also imaginable, then the boundary of the imaginable nature is not achieved. When the unimaginable nature cannot be imagined by your intelligence, it means you have never reached the boundary of the imaginable universe. Unless you perceive both imaginable and unimaginable natures, the boundary of the imaginable nature is not achieved. Hence, the boundary of the universe is always unimaginable from the other side. Some scientists say that the diameter of the universe is 200 billion light years. Another scientist laughed at this by asking that if he travels all this diameter and reach the compound wall of universe, what is present beyond such compound wall? One scientist says that the universe is constantly expanding! This is again a laughable concept since it finally means that you can never achieve the boundary of the universe. Hence, by all means, the scientist has to accept the existence of the unimaginable entity, which is the other side of the boundary of the universe. It is not the boundary if the other side is not achieved.
Unity Among the Different Concepts of Unimaginable God
The scientist has stable and steady intelligence to realize the truth in this argument unlike a theoretical ancient tautologist. The unimaginable item, which is beyond the boundary of this imaginable universe, is called as God. When this universe is projected from God, you will touch God on reaching the edge of the universe. You can never touch God since He is unimaginable. It means that you can never reach the boundary of this universe. Today, this fundamental concept is revealed due to confidence on the stable and steady analytical faculty of real scientists. Of course, foolish conservative scientists also exist even today in small number and this is inevitable at anytime. Moreover, today, there is lot of demand for the revelation of this basic concept in view of the violent terrorism that arose from the differences between the religions. One religion says that the God is awareness. Another religion says that God is all pervading cosmic energy. Another religion says that God is light and another religion says that God is fire etc. Like this, different created items of this universe were taken as the basic real God. Hence, quarrels started, which were intensified by debates. People sitting before a dining table quarrell with each other since one says that the vessel is gold, another says that the plate is gold, another says that the spoon is gold and another says that the tumbler is gold. This quarrel will never end because no item on the dining table is gold! Everyone is treating a particular item as gold. Treating an item as gold is totally different from the actual item to be gold.
Similarly, the reality is that God is unimaginable, who is beyond this imaginable universe. The simple reason for this is that the universe is fundamentally constituted of space or volume, which is the basic subtle energy and God is beyond the space since God has no dimensions. Now, you can treat any meritorious item of the creation as God based on the merits liked by you, neglecting the defects. The awareness is not God because it is not all pervading. The cosmic energy is not God because it is inert. The light and fire also cannot be God for the same reason that they are inert. But, any of these items can be treated as God for the sake of meditation and worship. Such worship is called as the worship of representative model (Pratika Upasana). The direct worship (Sakshat Upasana) is also possible when God enters a human being to give right direction through propagation of right spiritual knowledge. In such case also, every such human being is God and the unimaginable God exists in such every human being. The human being is only the medium of God, but such charged human being can be treated as real God like the electrified wire being treated as the electricity itself. Hence, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad etc., become God and there need not be any quarrel in this point also for the sake of world peace based on the harmony of religions. This fundamental concept is revealed since simultaneously it is fortunate that today there is confidence on the receiving power of the stable and steady scientific analysis of human beings.
[1] Tautology, is using different words to say the same thing even if the repetition does not provide clarity. Tautology also means a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because the statements depend on the assumption that they are already correct.
[2] The scientist might argue that the so-called ‘unimaginable’ is only something that is presently unknown. In future, we can know it. Thus, he might claim that nothing is truly unimaginable.
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