Posted on: 12 Dec 2023
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, Is it true that the associated characteristics of God like unimaginable powers (ability to do miracles) and special knowledge (true spiritual knowledge) are transferable to souls, but, inherent characteristics of God (Unimaginable nature) are not transferable to anyone?]
Swami replied:- If everything that belongs to the unimaginable God is transferred to an energetic or a human being, the person will become exactly the same God, resulting in two Gods. This can be continued to other beings resulting in several Gods. But, the Veda says that there is only one God (Ekamevādvitīyaṃ Brahma). Now, the question is how the contemporary human incarnation is treated exactly as God? In the case of the contemporary human incarnation, the properties belonging to God are not transferred to the selected human devotee to form the contemporary human incarnation. Here, the God component homogeneously merges with the human being component so that there is no difference between the God component and the human being component. Here, the process is not dualism (a second God is not produced) but monism (the same God becomes the same God). Hence, transfer of all properties of God to the devotee will not take place. If a demon forces God through terrible penance to give His powers to the devoted demon, all powers are not given. For example, the three types of power as creator, maintainer and destroyer of the world, can never be transferred to the devoted demon (Jagat vyāpārpa varjyam – Brahma Sutram). The divine spiritual knowledge can never be transferred from God to another devotee as said in the Gita (Jñānītvātmaiva…).