The unimaginable God is Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient

          The original God, having no spatial dimensions, is beyond space. If you want to see such original God, you have to cross the space. In doing so, you have to reach the boundary of the space. Unless you cross the boundary of Andhra Pradesh, you cannot enter Tamilnadu. If you reach the boundary of Andhra Pradesh, you can see Tamilnadu from there. Similarly, if you reach the boundary of space, you can see the original God starting from that boundary. But, space is infinite and hence its boundary can never be achieved.

If the original God has spatial dimensions, it means, the space is in God. It means, you have not achieved the boundary of space. Your intelligence can never cross the spatial dimensions and can never go beyond space. This means, your intelligence can never imagine the original God. Intelligence is the highest faculty having the power of imagination after thorough analysis. Any amount of logical analysis of intelligence fails to imagine the original God. Veda says this (Namethayaa….,Naishaatarkena….). There is no need of saying that lower faculties like mind, life etc., fail to imagine the original God. Life has very dormant power of thinking. Mind has the power of thinking but cannot analyze anything. Veda says that God generated the space. If God has spatial dimensions, it means that God has space. In such case, space exists in God even before its generation. This contradicts the statement that God generated the space. The mud generated pot. The pot is not in the mud before its generation. This is the starting point, or foundation of the spiritual knowledge.

          God is said to be omnipresent. It means, God exists everywhere in the space. By this, you should not think that God pervades the entire space and hence God exists everywhere. This logic applies to the imaginable objects. If you say that the air is everywhere in the room, it means that the air is pervading all over the room. Both air and room are imaginable objects with spatial dimensions. The molecules of air occupy some little space and this is the real volume of the air. Under high pressure, such real volume can be measured. Therefore, air has spatial dimensions. In ordinary conditions, the molecules move freely in the room and the space of the room is available for the free movement of the molecules. Hence, the air is said to have the volume of room or container, which is the space available for the free movement of the molecules in this context. When you say that the light pervaded all over the space of the room, the light energy has waves having certain wave length. Length is a dimension of the space. Thus, all conclusions are based on the items having spatial dimensions.

The logic derived based on such conclusions cannot be applied to God having no spatial dimensions. The world is imaginable item having spatial dimensions. But, God pervading the world has no spatial dimensions. Therefore, you cannot say that God pervades all over the world like the air or light in the room and hence God exists everywhere. You should say that God is present everywhere because He is beyond space. The unimaginable God exists everywhere through His unimaginable power. You should be very careful in understanding the meaning of the word ‘omnipresent’ in the case of God.

          Similarly, God is omniscient. It means that God knows everything. Since, God is omnipresent through His unimaginable power, He is also omniscient to know everything. If you are everywhere, you will know everything. Here, people take a new direction and say that the very process of knowing is the inherent characteristic of awareness and hence God is awareness. This direction cannot be accepted. If you say that God is awareness, God becomes imaginable item. Awareness is imaginable, which is a special form of work energy as a result of the function of inert energy in the specific machine called nervous system including brain. Any work requires the existence of space. If God is awareness or work form of energy, God also requires space for His existence. But, God being the generator of space, exists even in the absence of space and therefore we say that God is beyond space. Now, you may say that if God is not awareness, the process of knowing cannot be justified since the process of knowing is only the inherent characteristic of awareness. This is again ruled out because the process of knowing becomes possible for God through His unimaginable power. This unimaginable power is responsible for the process of knowing and for the existence everywhere without pervading all over the world. Any activity or power or characteristic of God should be solved through His unimaginable power only and not through the logic derived based on the imaginable items having spatial dimensions.

         

          God is said to be omnipotent. This is accepted straightly without any analysis because omnipotence means that God can do anything. It clearly means that God has unimaginable power. Again, you should not say that God becomes unimaginable due to the unimaginable power only. Hence, you may say that the power is greater than God. You cannot distinguish two unimaginable items. In the process of explanation, we have used the word unimaginable power, since the explanation to any human brain is in the phase of imaginable dimensions. The unimaginable God and the unimaginable power are not different. In the imaginable items there may be such possibility. The sun and light or heat may be different at least in the quantitative sense. The intensified power is source and diluted power is its property. The quantitative difference is based on the difference in the intensity, which is based on space only. More power in less space is the source having high intensity. Less power or the same power in more space is the property having less intensity. Thus, the difference is based on the measurement of volume and hence this is related only to items having spatial dimensions. We do not mind to say that God knows everything due to Himself only. Here the word “Himself” means the power itself. We do not mind to say that the unimaginable power itself is God. We have the existence of independent electromagnetic radiations traveling in the space without any source. There cannot be two unimaginable items and therefore you have to say either God or independent power. If you differentiate God and power, both become imaginable items with spatial dimensions. Hence, the quarrel between Vedantins, supporting God and Shakteyas, supporting power is meaningless, since the source of the quarrel is the logic derived from imaginable items observed in this imaginable world.

          God is said to be existence - awareness – bliss (Sat- Chit- Ananda). God is not awareness and this is established already. Even though God is not awareness, He knows due to His unimaginable nature. Bliss is intensive happiness and is the property of awareness only. When awareness itself is ruled out, where is the place for its property? Still, you can say that God is happy due to His unimaginable nature. The word existence can be straightly accepted.

God is the absolute existence and world exists relatively with respect to the absolute existence of God. When the rope is mistaken as snake, the existence of snake depends on the existence of rope only. Hence, the word Sat means the absolute existence. The relative existence of the snake is in the view of rope only and not in the view of snake. Therefore, the relative existence of the world is in the view of God only and not in the view of the soul. The reason is that the soul itself is relative and is a part of the relative world. The soul is awareness and awareness is a special work form of energy. The awareness requires space for its existence since no work can be done in the absence of space. For the relative soul, the relative world cannot be relative and is absolute only. A person in the dream can never realize the relative existence of the dream in which he himself is part. When the imaginable items are given as examples to explain the unimaginable God, you have to be very careful in confining yourself to the context of the aspect explained only and should not extend to other aspects, which will lead you into chaos of confusion.

          Such God enters a human being to direct the devoted souls in the correct path. The entry of God should not be understood as the entry of electricity in to a metallic wire. The electricity is a stream of electrons and has spatial dimensions. The metallic wire is a chain of crystals having spatial dimensions. God enters the human being due to His unimaginable nature only. Everywhere, for activity of God, the unimaginable nature is the only reason and logic, which can never be understood. When I speak any action of God, immediately your brain applies the logic of imaginable items to understand such activity. It is the routine procedure of the brain since it itself is imaginable item and only understands the imaginable items of the world at anytime.

For the sake of explanation, we take the imaginable items only like current, wire etc., as examples, since there is no second unimaginable item to be compared to God and this problem is mentioned in Brahma Sutras. Therefore, the immediate impression of understanding of brain leads God to be an imaginable item only. To avoid  this continuous danger, the human being charged by God, called as mediated God (SagunaBrahma) is always referred, which is an imaginable item indicating the existence of unimaginable God in it. It is the climax of ignorance of scientific knowledge to think that some energetic form like Vishnu to be taken as the absolute God.

The matter existing in human being and the energy existing in the energetic form are inter convertible and both exist in the same phase having spatial dimensions. The ignorant people due to lack of scientific understanding think that the real God is seen by the vision of some energetic form. When you understand that matter and energy are relative parts of the Universe, you will not differentiate Krishna, the human incarnation and Vishnu, the energetic incarnation. When you realize that Krishna was the past human incarnation and is in no way different from the contemporary human incarnation since the medium is one and the same human being made of space, energy, matter and different work forms of energy. In fact, the present human incarnation is more useful, since you can clear all your doubts with it and such advantage is not possible with the past human incarnation. When you read Gita, you get so many doubts and you are approaching other human beings for clarification regarding the unimaginable God. A blind man cannot help another blind man regarding the explanation of Sun! 

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Sri Dattaswami

Dattaji
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He will baptize you with fire

MATTHEW 3 : 11

“I indeed baptize you with water ….He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire”

Veda says ‘Prajnanam Brahma’ which means that the Holy Spirit is the divine knowledge. Gita says ‘Jnana agnih’ which means that knowledge is fire. This means that the acceptance of Holy Jesus should be through His knowledge radiating through His sentences, which are like diamonds coming out from His mouth. The acceptance should not be just by sprinkling some water. If you accept Holy Jesus just for some money or bread or some materialistic benefits, that is not the real conversion. Your spirit i.e., the soul, should be attracted directly by His powerful knowledge.

The Holy water represents rituals without knowledge. Unless you study Vedas (Upanishaths) and Bhagavat Gita and realize the knowledge by putting it in practice you cannot be a Hindu. A true Hindu is always a true Christian because the practical sacrifice is the same in any religion. Whether you can leave your family and money and come to God or not is same in any religion. The knowledge is same in all the scriptures. Whether you are a doctor studied in English medium or French medium, you can cure the disease of any patient and perform the surgery. Religions are only languages and knowledge is the content of the syllabus. Anybody does not understand the Brotherly-hood of all the religions.

If you travel along the religion–river you will reach the Spiritualism–ocean. Live as a sea fish and don’t be stagnant as a river fish by stopping your journey which should be along with the flow of religion–river. If a Hindu insults Holy Jesus and Holy Bible, he has insulted Holy Krishna and Holy Gita. Same thing applies to the follower of any religion. Let each human being understand all the religions by reading the scriptures of all the religions. An Indian goes to a foreign country and takes a degree in medicine studying the subject in that foreign language. If he comes back to India he can practice applying the subject he studied to any human being. He can perform the surgery to any person. You are purchasing a diamond from a foreign country, but you are throwing it away since it is the foreign diamond.

You are using the fan, the electric bulb the television etc., which are invented by foreign scientists and you are using these things in your daily life. Why not you use the diamond-like concepts from the foreign scriptures like Holy Bible in your spiritual life also? This question applies to the follower of every religion.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Sri Dattaswami

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True Essence of Yoga

Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning. When you say a face as a moon, fools search for moon in that face. But, wise people see similarity in the face and moon. Similarly, wheels and lotus flowers should not be searched in the spinal card. Spinal card is the main nerve representing mind, which is the base of love.

All these wheels or lotus flowers are the bonds of love in the various relatives like parents, wife or husband, children etc. They are compared to wheels or the revolving whirlpools in the ocean, which attract a swimmer and drown him. Similarly, these love wheels are compared to lotus flowers, since the lotus flowers attract the bee by sweet fragrance and bind it. Similarly, these love flowers attract anyone and bind him. “Kundalini” is the mind, which is the energy travelling as waves like a serpent. [One] should cross all these love wheels connected to 7th lotus flower in the head called “Sahasrara”, which is Buddhi or intelligence that takes the decision, which is the firm love on God.

Bhagavat Gita is called as the main scripture of Yoga (Yoga-Sastra). Why there is not even single reference to these wheels or lotus flowers in anywhere in Gita or even in Upanishats? Since they are not real, they are not even mentioned. The author of the Gita was Krishna, who was called Master of Yoga (Yogeswara). Krishna also says that the real yoga was lost since long [ago] (Sa kaleneha mahata….). This means that in the beginning, Sages in India knew the real yoga and loved God only, crossing all their family bonds. In due course of time only, this true yoga was lost. Why? The middle age Indians were unable to cross their family bonds and so failed to succeed in Yoga.

They wanted to cover their inability by twisting the very concept of yoga. The family bonds were removed from the concept and only wheels or lotus flowers are left fixed. Now, they close the eyes and say that they have seen the lotus flowers or wheels, which are only imaginary. Now they cross these wheels by their imaginary “Kundalini” and say that they have succeeded in Yoga. These blind teachers are also not to be blamed, because they were trained like that by their blind teachers. This misinterpretation was done long time back and hence, even at the time of Krishna He told that yoga was lost since a long time [back].

We cannot catch those original culprits, who were the top-most twisting masters and so the present tradition also cannot be blamed. Only rectification is the way left over. Some say that they see light, which is only an imagination. After all, the mind is a form of energy and on its concentration imaginary light can be imagined. Instead of such a week light, you better see a strong light with your open eyes. What is the use of these imaginary lights and colours, without achieving the Lord through your love, which excels the various worldly, loves.

I pity the foreigners, who are trapped in this false imaginary line of yoga, who are wasting their precious lifetime and energy. In fact, they are the best to succeed in yoga, if the reality of the yoga is exposed. Their family bonds are very weak and their love towards God is real, which is proved by their huge sacrifice of money to God’s work. Money is the fruit of work and its sacrifice for God’s work is “Karma phala tyaga” as mentioned in Gita. Again, the middle age Indians twisted this word “Karma phala tyaga” as sacrifice of the fruit of the work like praying God instead of sacrifice of money.

The reason was that these Indians were unable to sacrifice money to God due to their strong love on their children. Foreigners ask their children to earn after certain age. Indians store money even for ten generations and still continue to store only. Since prayers, meditation and knowledge are very much diverted to God, India was blessed by God with good language, good mind and good knowledge.

Since foreigners are good in sacrifice, God blessed them with good wealth. Even Indian spiritual centres were strongly funded by foreigners only. Swami Vivekananda cried, “Why my India suffers with poverty in spite of so much spiritual knowledge?” Sacrifice of money (Karma phala tyaga) and sacrifice of work (karma Sanyasa) put together constitute the God’s service, which is the real Yoga (real proof of love) called “Karma yoga” in Gita. Foreigners are the best in this karma yoga and so they easily succeed in yoga. Throughout Gita, this karma yoga was explained as yoga and wheels or lotus flowers are not at all mentioned.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Sri Dattaswami

Dattaji
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One can cross the Maya with the help of Maya

Veda says, ‘Avidyaya mrutyum Tritva Vidyaya Amrutamasnute’, Which means that one can cross the Maya with the help of Maya only and can catch God only with the help of true knowledge. This means that you can capture God by truth and sincerity only. But you cannot win the world by the same truth and sincerity. The world is full of falsehood or Maya. To reach God you have to cross this world by false means only. Therefore, you have to learn both Maya and true knowledge to be used for the world and God respectively. If you reverse, you will neither cross Maya nor attain God.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Shri Datta Swami

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There is the possibility of the same God coming in different forms in the same time

In this time of kali, which human incarnation is to be worshipped?
A) Suppose you have identified some human forms as incarnations. Now the problem comes; who is the real human incarnation among these? Suppose you have worshipped all so that the risk of missing the real human incarnation is avoided. Suppose you have taken one form and it may not be real human incarnation. Even then, you need not be worried. Such human form may not be God but certainly he must be a very close devotee of God. Since your filtration is to such high level, the other forms must be exceptional devotees of the highest level. Suppose you have taken such a strong devotee as human incarnation. I assuredly tell you, that you are more lucky than the person who serves the real human incarnation. The reason is that God is more pleased if such strong devotee is worshipped, because God loves such strong devotee more than Himself. Therefore you will receive a better fruit in quicker time. Apart from this there is also the possibility of the same God coming in different forms in the same time. For example, Parasurama and Shri Rama and AkkalKota Maharaj and Shridi Saibaba were simultaneous human incarnations.

At the lotus feet of His Holiness, Sri Datta Swami

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God comes in human form in all places of the earth & in every generation

God comes in human form in all places of the earth and also He comes in every generation that contains both good and bad. If devotees of one generation are favored by His direct visit, God becomes partial for no reason. God is not such mad! Priests never accept human form of God before their eyes. They like the worship of models that represent God indirectly, so that the results of worship indirectly come to them finally. Priests did not give place for God after Buddha in Kali age. Buddha came in the beginning of Kali. Priests showed Kalki at the end of this Kali age, – no human form till the end.

Similarly Christian priests opposed Jesus when He was alive. After Jesus, they say that Jesus comes only in the end. The psychology of priests is the same in the whole world! Krishna said that He will come whenever He is required. The statement that 'Jesus will come again’ means, He will come in next generation. If the guest says to you that he will come again to you, does it mean that he will come only once in his entire life?

In Christianity the soul after death waits till the final inquiry. In that case the soul meets God twice, once in its lifetime and finally at the time of inquiry. This is justified, if no rebirth. Every soul meets God in human form; once while it exists on the earth in the human body, finally in final inquiry. This is possible only if God comes in every generation. Otherwise, souls born along with Jesus were only lucky, since they alone met God as Jesus and in final inquiry. All the other souls have only one chance to meet finally. This is again blind partiality, – God can never be blind. Any priest in the world does not like contemporary form because the benefits of service to God should come to him.

This is possible only if God is limited to symbolic models. The human psychology is always selfish and egoistic here. Jesus told that He and His father are one and the same; this is Advaita. He told that He is the son of God; this is vishishtadvaita, stating that son is part and parcel of father. Jesus told that He is messenger of God; this is Dvaita stating that God is master and Son of God is His servant.

Mohammad stressed on Dvaita, since all souls are servants. God is the master to be served, then Son of God is not special. This will remove jealousy of priests towards the Son of God. This will avoid crucifixion of Son of God by priests. Remember, Mohammad came just after Jesus and tried to avoid brutal consequences of jealousy of priests on the Son of God or contemporary human incarnation in future. Mohammad said that God never becomes human being. It is perfectly correct; current is not converted into wire. It only entered wire. God in flesh, Manushim Tanumashritam, mean that God entered human body, not converted into human body.

Human body means gross body with the liberated soul selected by God for human incarnation. The soul is a part of the body. The soul is causal body. The qualities in soul are subtle body. The soul acts as personal assistant, as inert as the gross body due to total surrender to God. This soul is the Son of God. Every soul has equal chance to become the Son of God. Every student has equal chance to get the gold medal. But in any year only one student tops and gets gold medal. The other students should not hate the topper by jealousy. The chance given was not properly used by other students. Neither God is partial nor the topper should be blamed. Still there is time, use it, – next time you may be topper.

Even during stay of God, God is God and soul is soul. Even in live wire, current is current and wire is wire. Wire is only treated as current for all practical purposes.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Sri Dattaswami

Dattaji
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God has to come in human form in every generation

God has to come in human form in every generation because as soon as God exits, selfish people misinterpret His message constantly. The misinterpretation satisfies the majority of the people, which is incapable of practicing in the right path. For example God decides that 70% is the distinction. When God exits, the majority of the students, which is incapable of getting the distinction like to bring down the percentage so that they can also have the satisfaction of the distinction.

A student who gets 7% wants to have distinction. Now the misinterpretation is given like this. In the number 70 there are two numbers. One is 7 and the other is 0. Since 0 has no value, 70 must mean 7. Therefore, the student getting 7% can get distinction. Such misinterpretation by a mischievous teacher is admired by a large majority of students. Now he is the greatest teacher with large majority of followers! This is the present situation of false preachers misleading the vast majority. The distinction can be neither given by the teacher nor by the students. The board of interview selecting the students of distinction for service has the acknowledgement of the distinction for which only there is real fruit.

Hence, God gives the divine fruit only to the real distinction since He is well aware of the marks of distinction, which were prescribed by Him only. Therefore, God had to come again and again and also everywhere simultaneously (especially when there was no electronic communications in the world) to establish the correct interpretation in the entire world. This correct interpretation attracts only the merit students and the majority consisting of incapable students will reject this. God is also not bothered about such majority because even if the truth is established to them, there will be no use in the case of such students. Krishna never preached spiritual knowledge to many people in His life. In His entire life, He chose only one occasion to preach Gita to just Arjuna only.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness, Sri Dattaswami

Dattaji
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