22 Aug 2010
Mohammad was also human incarnation of God like Jesus, Buddha and Krishna. The unimaginable God possesses a human being, who is a deserving devotee, selected by God to become a member of His inner most circle. Just like the current enters a metallic wire, the unimaginable God enters an imaginable item of creation, which is always a human being. Here, the current is not transformed into the wire. Current did not become the wire. Current only entered the wire. The wire is the medium for current. Similarly, God is not transformed into human being or God did not become the human being (Avyaktam vyaktimaapannam—Gita). God only entered the human being, which is a medium only as said in the Veda (Tadevanupravishat…) and the Gita (Manusheemtanumaashritam…). Sometimes, God may enter the human being from its birth and stay in it till its death and such human incarnation is called as Purnaavatara. Sometimes, God may enter the human being for some purpose and when the work is over, God will leave it and such human incarnation is called as Aveshaavatara like Parashurama. In any case, the human incarnation can be treated as God as long as God stays in it. The metallic wire is called as current as long as current flows in it. This does not mean that the wire became the current or current became the wire. Therefore, neither God became the human being nor the human being became God. If you do not understand the concept of human incarnation, you will mistake the human being possessed by God, who claims Himself as God. When the human incarnation says that He is God, it means that God in human incarnation is stating that and it is not the statement of the human being present in the human incarnation. People mistake this statement as the word of human being since God is invisible.
Every statement of the human incarnation is attributed by normal public to the visible human being and not to the invisible God. Therefore, people should recognize God in the human being in the case of human incarnation before understanding its statements. Otherwise, the statements of human incarnation lead to confusion and misunderstanding, which may sometimes result in insult (Avajanantimaam—Gita) or even torture and killing as in the case of Jesus. In order to avoid this confusion in the case of normal human beings, Mohammad denied the very concept of human incarnation. Just after Jesus, the 41st prophet, Mohammad, the 42nd Prophet, appeared and the subject of misunderstanding the statements of human incarnation was the burning topic. The God component in the human incarnation Jesus stated that He is the truth and light. This statement clearly says that He is the absolute God and such statement is straightly from the God-component only. Since people could not recognize the existence of God in a human being due to the absence of knowledge of the concept of human incarnation, people misunderstood this as the statement coming from an egoistic human being and therefore, insulted and finally crucified Jesus. Since the concept of human incarnation could not enter the brains of people, this entire calamity happened. People could have excused Jesus, if He declared Himself as a Prophet or Messenger at least. When the concept does not enter the brains of the people in spite of hectic effort of Jesus, Mohammad thought that it is better to remove the concept temporarily and be in line of the public.
A PG [post graduate] course concept cannot be introduced in the LKG class. Even though the PG concept is avoided, there are several LKG concepts to be introduced. Similarly, even though the concept of human incarnation is avoided, there are several basic concepts like fear for God and sin, to be introduced to maintain the balance of the society. Therefore, Mohammad declared Himself as the Prophet or Messenger only and not as human incarnation. In fact, He was the human incarnation, but He hid this truth from the view point of the prevailing level of minds of the public. Suppression of PG concept in the LKG class does not mean that the PG concept is negated and false. You have to travel along with the ignorance of the people for sometime and have to introduce the proper concept at the proper time only. It is like the temporary running along with a strong bull before you stop it. You have to accept and support the strong ignorance for sometime to become the friend of the ignorant people and slowly have to remove the ignorance in course of a long period only. You should not clash with strong points of ignorance in the beginning itself to become their enemy. In such case, you can never advise them and they will not listen any other light point also. All this is psychology and a teacher should be well versed in knowing the psychology of the students before teaching the concepts.
God Enters But Does Not Get Transformed into a Human Being
God is omnipotent and can enter the human form and nobody can object His omnipotence. Therefore, you cannot oppose the concept of human incarnation based on the inability of God. When it is possible for God, why should you object to it? You may say that the greatest God should not be insulted by degrading Himself in becoming an ordinary human being. Your objection may be sustained if there is real transformation of God into human being. Here, the concept is that God is situated in the human being for sometime for a special purpose. If the king entered a hut and stays in it for sometime for some specific purpose, the king is not degraded. The king did not become the poor man, who is the owner of hut. The king entered the hut and the owner of the hut is serving him as a slave. Similarly, when God enters the human being, the soul becomes His slave and serves God. The main specific purpose is to clarify the doubts of devotees directly. The prophet or messenger brings the message of God and delivers it to the people without any change in it. Such messenger is the best. Some messengers change the message as per their liking. Therefore, the best is that God delivers the message directly to the people through the mouth of human incarnation. Fortunately, Mohammad is the human incarnation and not simply the messenger and therefore, the message, Quran, was not at all polluted. Similar is the case with the Bible. There need not be any doubt about the Gita since Krishna Himself declared as God. Even Buddha was a human incarnation and kept silent about the concept of human incarnation. In His time, most of the people were atheists (Purvamimamsakas), who even denied the existence of God and involved in performing the sacrifices (Yajnas) to go to heaven for fulfilling their excess desires. The atmosphere was not congenial even for introduction of concept of the existence of God. Therefore, Buddha kept silent about God and His silence was meaningful because the absolute unimaginable God cannot be explained by words. He concentrated on the eradication of desires, which will help in getting the grace of God through selfless service. This suppression of the fact in view of the prevailing atmosphere was mistaken by the followers, who thought that Buddha was an atheist. All the followers of Buddha became atheists, but they developed some discipline over the control of desire. A defect is allowed for sometime in view of growing some merit. Even though atheism was allowed, the control of desire was achieved. A strong defect should not be contradicted in the beginning and it is better to concentrate on some other easier concept to be introduced.
The direct preaching of right spiritual knowledge and direct clarification of doubts is the primary aim of human incarnation. Nothing can be achieved if the knowledge is imperfect or incomplete. While serving this primary aim, other secondary aims like desire of devotees to see, touch and live with God are also accomplished. If you go to Delhi to attend a seminar on behalf of your job, you have served the primary aim. You may purchase a sari for your wife in Delhi and this is a secondary work. There is nothing wrong with the secondary work as long as the primary work is not disturbed.
[A devotee said ‘People have developed surprising logic to support human incarnation! People say that God enters the humanity in the form of a human being to know the problems of human beings. The omniscient God can know the problems of humanity even without such entry.’]
Swami Replied: I wondered at this statement. Who are the people, who developed such surprising logic? Nobody said like that. You yourself developed this laughable logic and you yourself condemned it! If you want to beat somebody, call him as dog and then beat him since he is dog according to you! The devotees wanted to see, touch, talk and live with God. All these desires are secondary only and are accomplished while serving the primary purpose, which is to come in human form to preach and clarify the correct spiritual knowledge directly. While serving the primary purpose, the secondary works, which are the above desires of devotees, are also fulfilled.
The unimaginable God is invisible to even your imagination and therefore, can never become visible to your eyes. He is always unimaginable since He has no spatial dimensions. Such state of God maintains the greatest and highest status. Since, such God is never modified to become any imaginable item of creation, His highest dignity was always maintained. The human incarnation does not mean the modification of God into human being. The human being is only an extra medium or house for God to stay to accomplish the divine primary purpose of preaching the true spiritual knowledge. The human incarnation does not mean also God staying in human body. It is only a visit of king to the hut, while the owner of hut also exists along with the king to serve him and get his grace. The Veda says that two birds live on a tree and one bird is shining without eating while the other bird is eating the fruits (Dvaasuparnaa…). This means that God has nothing to do with the fruits of the deeds of the human being while He stays in that human body. The insult of Parashurama was the fruit of his own ego and God in him has nothing to do with it. Therefore, God is neither transformed in to human being nor even entangled with the fruits of the human being, even though He stays along with the human being in His human body. The king has nothing to do with the crimes of the owner of hut, since the king stayed in it for sometime. In fact, the king himself is going to punish the owner of hut for his crimes. God staying in the body of Parashurama only punished Parashurama for his ego. Therefore, the God is not polluted in any way by becoming the human incarnation. God remains impartial to every human being and will not spare even the human being associated with Him in the human incarnation. Ofcourse, the human being in the human incarnation will be separately rewarded for his service to God. A student will be given gold medal for his excellent performance in the examination but will not spared from the disciplinary action for his wrong behavior. The human being in the human incarnation is as good as any other human being in the world either in the case of reward for his service or in the case of punishment for his sin. The sin will never be excused by the prayers or good deeds, which will have separate rewards. Ravana was rewarded with miraculous powers for his worship and penance. But, he was punished by God for his sin towards Sita separately.
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