Posted on: 17 Nov 2019
Swami replied: The original unimaginable God is the absolute Reality, which is beyond even the imagination of our brain. The Energetic Incarnations of God are imaginable, but invisible. One can only get a vision of an Energetic Incarnation for a few minutes after doing long penance because Energetic Incarnations are not relevant to humanity. One can worship them indirectly through representative images or statues. Past Human Incarnations are relevant to human beings since they too possess the common human medium, but they are not available in the present. They too, like Energetic Incarnations, can only be worshipped indirectly through images and statues that represent them. So, clearly, there is no alternative to the contemporary Human Incarnation of God. He can clarify all your doubts and bring you to the correct path in spiritual life. Moreover, if you want to do real service to God directly, the contemporary Human Incarnation is the way.
But the main problem in case of the Human Incarnation is your ego and jealousy towards a fellow-human form. You cannot tolerate even a trace of greatness in your fellow-human beings. How can you tolerate the infinite greatness of God-in-human form? Unless you get rid of the ego and jealousy towards your fellow-human beings, you can never catch the contemporary Human Incarnation. The Human Incarnation is the invisible-unimaginable God given (Datta) to humanity for their vision. Only a devotee, who is Atri and Anasūya can attain the human form of God. Anasūya means the soul who is free of jealousy. Atri means the soul who is free of the three types of ego. The three types of ego are: (1) Sāttvika ego, which is the ego of knowledge, (2) Rājasa ego, which is the ego of power and (3) Tāmasa ego, which is the ego of materialistic possessions. Thus, the soul who is free of both ego and jealousy alone can attain the contemporary Human Incarnation of God.
| Shri Dattaswami | Saattvika Raajasa Taamasa Anasuya