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Can we call unimaginable God as 'Satchidananda'?

[A question by Shri Anil]

Swami replied:- You can call unimaginable God only as Sat, which means that the unimaginable God exists (Astītyeva… Veda, Om tatsaditi... Gita). Other details of His unimaginable nature are unknown to anybody except the unimaginable God Himself (Avijñātam… Veda, Brahmavit Brahmaiva… Veda). Cit means awareness. Unimaginable God is neither awareness nor possesses awareness. Scholars mistook that unimaginable God must be awareness or at least must possess awareness because He was thinking to create the world (Tadaikṣata… Veda) and for thinking awareness is essential. This is wrong because awareness was created by God in the last stage of creation (Annāt puruṣaḥ). Such a last item of creation cannot exist with God even before the creation of this world. For God to think, awareness is not essential based on worldly logic. He was thinking even before the creation of awareness, without presence of awareness due to His omnipotence. Hence, the word ‘Cit’ cannot come near the unimaginable God. When Cit itself has no admission, Aananda or bliss cannot find a place since bliss is the property of awareness only. Therefore, we have to call the unimaginable God as Sat or Absolute existence only. You can attribute all these three words to the mediated God like God Datta and His incarnations because the medium contains Cit and Aananda in the medium.

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