11 Apr 2023
Shri Kishore Ram asked:
1. Namaste Swami, what is the difference between Life Energy, Inert Energy and Awareness?
Swami replied:- Life energy is also inert, which is a prerequisite for the generation of awareness. Inert energy is the general inert energy or cosmic energy. Life energy is the inert energy generated by the oxidation of food in mitochondria. This inert energy becomes electrical pulses called neurons travelling in the nervous system. These electrical pulses travelling in nerves is exactly called life energy, which is certainly inert, but, is capable of carrying information from senses to the brain. This carrying on process is awareness, which is non-inert. Life energy and awareness are very closely associated and the distinction between these two is very very sharp. Plants have life energy due to absorption of oxygen, but do not have awareness. The zoological kingdom of animals, birds, human beings etc., have both life energy and awareness. Light, heat, electricity, magnetism etc., are various forms of the general inert energy. For awareness, life energy is required but the presence of life energy does not indicate awareness invariably.
2. Is Paramavyoma and God Datta (energetic form) one and the same with respect to the imaginable space and the external form?
Swami replied:- Paramavyoma is subtle energy whereas the energetic form and soul of Datta created by Parabrahman belong to gross energy. Essentially both are one and the same, but, differ in their frequencies. Frequency of subtle energy is very high compared to the frequency of gross energy.
3. In deep sleep, can we say the inert energy is the soul? I understood that the soul is awareness (work form of inert energy in the nervous system).
Swami replied:- In fact, strictly speaking soul (Aatma) is the inert energy only, which is the causal matter for the awareness. The individual soul (Jiiva) is called as awareness. In the second chapter of the Gita, soul is said to be the inert energy (Sthāṇuracalo'yam…). The difference between the soul and entire cosmic energy is only quantitative and not qualitative. This concept is taken by Shankara since cosmic energy resembles God (Brahman) in creating, maintaining and destroying the cosmos as material cause. Cosmic energy is rejected to be God since it is inert. The inert energy in the human body can be transformed into awareness due to the presence of materialized nervous system, but, cosmic energy can’t be transformed into awareness due to the absence of universal materialized nervous system. Cosmic energy is imaginable item whereas God or Brahman is unimaginable item.
4. How is the “I” getting identified in every birth?
[Out of the four working faculties (chit, ahankara, manas and buddhi), is the 'I' or ego the same in all the births of a soul? How is the 'I' getting identified in every birth?]
Swami replied:- ‘I’ is only a working faculty of general awareness, called chit. This faculty identifies the body along with awareness as meaning of the word ‘I’. If this ‘I’ becomes very strong, it will be ego and pride. Normal body temperature is not dangerous and moreover a required essential item, but, increased body temperature is fever, which is dangerous to the health of the body. Similarly, ‘I’ is essential for the human being without which no activity can be performed. But, if the ‘I’ is thought to be the word of the meaning of God, it is the very dangerous typhoid fever.
5. Why is the soul not able to identify the details of its previous birth, which are stored in its faculty of memory?
[Chit is the storing faculty, which stores the important information gained by the soul (awareness). Why is the soul not able to identify the details of its previous birth which is also stored in the same faculty chit?]
Swami replied:- Chit means general awareness and chittam is the faculty that stores the information. The chittam has some strength but has maximum limitations. Even though you are capable of supplying food in infinite quantity, the digested system has limited capacity to digest the food and release the inert energy. A specific portion of this inert energy (about 20%) only becomes awareness in the brain-nervous system. Hence, the faculty of awareness, called chittam has also limited capacity to store information. Can you store infinite information in your computer? Hence, the general tendencies of the information, called as basic qualities are only stored and the specific details are erased due to the limited capability of the storing system. The quality is the essence of any incident in your life and the same quality may continue as essence for several incidents. As the incidents increase, the strength of the quality also increases. The details of all these incidents get erased since they are not significant and only the common essential quality, which is very strong gets stored. Hence, the incidents of the previous birth are not remembered in this birth, but, the strong qualities of previous births continue into this birth. For example, there might have been several incidents in the previous births in which you were very much fascinated to your children. In all those incidents the common quality is fascination to your children, which became very very strong as births pass on. In this birth, you have received that strong fascination to children even though the details of all those incidents were erased from your individual soul. The individual soul is nothing but a bundle of all the strong qualities acquired through millions of births. Even if your previous births were of animals, birds etc., the fascination to children was very much inevitable and hence, this fascination to children is the strongest quality of all qualities and nobody could cross it so far and due to this reason, it is called ‘Anaahata cakra’ meaning that this wheel has not been beaten by anybody so far in the creation. Due to this wheel, not only is the soul unable to reach God, but also goes to hell due to severe crimes done in earning sinful money for issues.
6. Can You please elaborate on Karana (causal body) and Maha Karana (root causal body)?
Swami replied:- The causal body (Kaarana shariira) is the ignorance (Avidyaa) due to which the unreal world superimposed on God cannot be identified. The great causal body (Mahaakaarana shariira) is more powerful than the above ignorance and this is called Maayaa that is responsible for the real entertainment of God. The former body is fully supported by the second body. Otherwise, this human being could have realized God in this creation just with the help of a lamp light.
7. What is the difference between Datta merging with only the soul, only the body, or both the soul and body of a human incarnation?
[Can You please explain the difference between Datta (God) merged with only the soul of the incarnation, only the body of the incarnation, and both soul and body of the incarnation?]
Swami replied:- When God Datta merges with a selected human being, the unimaginable God present in Him has no restrictions put by the rules of creation. Being omnipotent, the unimaginable God merges with both body and soul. If there is a necessity like the body shall not be divinized so that the fellow human beings can freely mix with the incarnation, the unimaginable God withdraws Himself from the body and gets limited to the soul only. If there is the necessity like a tender boy like Krishna should lift the huge hill, the unimaginable God extends Himself again into the body to lift the hill. In this way, even though the unimaginable God merged with the entire medium, based on the necessities, He will withdraw from the body or extend from the soul to the body.
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