God's Planning and Creating the World

Q. How God, mind, imaginary world & knowledge of creation of world existed separately in God?

[Śrī J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Do You mean that when God planned to create this world, God (subject), mind (instrument), imaginary world (object) and knowledge of creation of world (result) existed separately in God? If all these four are unimaginable and all the four become only one unimaginable, how to maintain these four separately?]

Swāmi replied:- You are correct in your logic. The actual statement to be told is that the unimaginable God created the imaginable world through some unimaginable mechanism. Even though, this statement alone stands perfectly correct, I have mentioned unimaginable subject, unimaginable instrument, unimaginable object and unimaginable result as four separate items because, the planning of creation of a part in the mind of pot maker involves these four different items. Unless I follow the worldly logic involving these four different items, you will not understand the concept since your mind is always accustomed to the worldly logic. When I say that God planned to create this world, immediately your mind thinks about these four items. Unless I mention, these four items, you will not be perfectly convinced with the process of planning of God to create this world. These four items are separately mentioned in order to convince you to understand the planning process of God.

Even though, I mentioned these four items separately, I followed the subsequent process of eliminating these four items through the subsequent logic, which is that in the absence of awareness (due to the absence of inert energy and matter in God before creation) these four items shall be called as unimaginable items. When all these four items become unimaginable (since all these four items are made of awareness only and since such awareness is absent in the beginning of creation), I brought the rule that any number of unimaginable items result as one unimaginable item only. With the help of this rule, all these four unimaginable items disappear and become only one unimaginable item i.e., the Subject or God only. Therefore, even though, I mentioned these four items for the sake of your clarification, I made these four to disappear and become one unimaginable God only. After this, I gave a concluding statement that the unimaginable God has created this imaginable world. Not only these four items disappear, but also, the fifth item called as mechanism of creation also disappears by the same above said rule because, the mechanism is also unimaginable like the above mentioned four unimaginable items. Therefore, the simple resulting statement is that the unimaginable God created this imaginable world. If I say this final statement, you will not be satisfied because, your mind is always working with worldly logic only. When the same resulting statement is mentioned after going through all this above process, then only you will appreciate this final resulting statement.

The above two paragraphs explain the creation of this world by the unimaginable God. You may ask that the first energetic incarnation carried on the creation of this world. The first energetic incarnation has a relative soul made of awareness and external energetic body. Since relative awareness or soul exists in the mediated God, there is every possibility of the existence of the above mentioned four items in the mediated God. Then, the planning of creation of world can be explained with the help of the above mentioned four items, why not we explain the planning of the world with the help of these four distinct items, which are made of relative awareness? Moreover, we said that the unimaginable God created the space, which is subtle energy, with the help of which only the first energetic being, called Hiraṇyagarbha (Datta) was created (Tat tejo'sṛjata– Veda). Here, the word Tat or ‘it’ indicates the unimaginable God. We also said that the unimaginable God merged first energetic being and such first energetic being became first energetic incarnation. We also said that the first energetic incarnation carried on the process of the further creation of the world. Such first energetic incarnation created the rest space needed for the world (Atmana ākāśaḥ sambhūtaḥ– Veda) and carried on the process of creation of the world. In this explanation, We said that the unimaginable God merged with the first energetic being to become the first energetic incarnation and as a result, the first energetic incarnation became exactly the unimaginable God. When unimaginable God merged with the entire first energetic incarnation it means that He merged with the soul and body. Due to this, both the soul and body attained the unimaginable nature of unimaginable God. Due to this, the above four items present in the first energetic incarnation also become unimaginable. Therefore, We have to say that the first energetic incarnation, which is having unimaginable nature (though, the first energetic incarnation is imaginable and visible) created this world through unimaginable mechanism. Now, all the five items have unimaginable nature. Again, the same above resulting statement results here also. All this means that the unimaginable God existing in the first energetic incarnation alone creates this imaginable world. The unimaginable God became the first energetic incarnation not for the sake of creating this world, but, became the first energetic incarnation for the sake of the meditation of the future souls to be created. If you understand that the unimaginable God (Nirguṇa Brahamn or Parabrahman) became the mediated first energetic incarnation (Saguṇa Brahman or Datta) just only for the sake of the meditation of future souls and not for the purpose of creation of this world, you will not be confused between non-mediated God and mediated God in the context of the creation of this world. The context of creation of this world is totally different from the context of mediation of souls. The first context is totally related to the unimaginable God and the second context is totally related to the mediated God or first energetic incarnation.

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