03 Nov 2024
(Shri G. Lakshman and Smt. Chhanda from Mumbai and Smt. Priyanka from Canada participated in this Satsanga along with some local devotees.)
Shri Phani asked:- Veda said that God is bored with the continuous single type of state, which is existing alone (Ekakii na ramate). Here, the God referred must be unimaginable God existing before creation. In such case, who has seen the boredom of God?
Swami replied:- Seeing something and getting information is perception (Pratyaksha Pramaanam). Assuming the information without perception is inference (Anumaana Pramaanam). Fire emitting smoke in the kitchen is seen by you and this is called perception. From the top of the hill, smoke is coming down and assuming the existence of fire on the top of the hill through smoke is called inference. Perception is impossible in the case of unimaginable God because He cannot even be imagined by any intelligence trying for infinite time. In such case, only inference is the way to get the information about the unimaginable God or Parabrahman. God is with full bliss all the time (Ānando Brahma). In such case, why should He create this creation and get unnecessary headache? This means that He must have been bored with loneliness. By this, don’t think that His bliss is reduced by the boredom. Boredom means only the absence of entertainment with a second item and this is not affecting the bliss of God in any way. A king is very well off in his palace. There is no deficiency of anything in his palace and in such case, the king cannot get even a trace of misery. Still, the king likes to go to forest for hunting and becomes very much tired in the forest. Only his boredom in the palace is removed by the change of continuously existing atmosphere of the palace. Here, boredom is not misery.
Misery comes only when some deficiency results. In the absence of any deficiency, this boredom is resulting and hence, you cannot say that boredom is misery due to which, God’s bliss is reduced. Boredom is removed just by the change in the continuously existing single type of atmosphere. Such boredom due to loneliness can be removed only by the presence of a second item. Hence, the Veda says that God created a second item to end His boredom (Sa Dvitīyamaicchat). In the case of God, wish and materialization happen to be a single step because wish itself is materialization (Icchāmātraṃ prabho ssṛṣṭiḥ). If a single monotonous second item is created, it may also give boredom after sometime. By creating a multiple natured creation, the chance of boredom coming again in the future is removed forever. Therefore, the second item called creation is created or materialized with multiplicity in it resulting in several items and several phenomena, which are also happening by His will only.
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