Posted on 29 Mar 2026. 
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[Shri Lakshman asked:- Padanamaskaaram Swami. I have a question regarding Your recent reply to Smt. Chhanda’s question in which You said that since all the four aashramas are different from each other, God Datta can’t be in all the aashramas at the same time, which brings the unimaginable nature to His aashrama that was called by Him as Turiiya Aashrama. I felt it should be that He can be in all the aashramas at the same time. Otherwise, it will contradict his Unimaginability.]
Swami replied:- There are three angles for souls:-
i) Imaginable angle of a common man about God: In this angle, since God cannot be in all the four aashramas simultaneously as per the worldly logic, God shall be in a separate fifth aashrama called ‘Turiiya’ aashrama.
ii) Unimaginable angle of a scholar about God: In this angle, the scholar understands that God can exist in all the four aashramas simultaneously due to the unimaginable nature of God and such existence in all the four aashramas simultaneously is called as Turiiya Aashrama.
iii) Both angles of a scholar about God: A greater scholar than the above said scholar in Type-ii maintains both imaginable and unimaginable angles simultaneously regarding God with respect to common man and a scholar respectively to present the total picture of God in the view of both common soul and a scholarly soul.
Out of these three angles, one can speak by selecting any angle or can speak by selecting all the three angles simultaneously.
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