Posted on: 19 Dec 2023
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[Certain flash concepts radiated from Shri Datta Swami from 17/12/2023]
1) A substance can be an element or a mixture or a compound. Gold is an element and copper is another element. An element will have its own individual properties. When gold and copper form a mixture called alloy, the properties of the mixture are average properties of the components (elements). Two elements can form a compound also on reaction producing new properties. The element sodium and the element chlorine are poisonous. But when they react, they form a compound, sodium chloride, which is a non-poisonous food item. Keeping this scientific analysis as background, when the God-component merges with a selected human-component, the result is the human incarnation, which shall be either a mixture or a compound of God and human being. If it is a mixture, the most holy God and the less holy human being shall give the human incarnation average holiness and this average holiness must be lesser than the most holiness of God. This means the human incarnation must be never the highest holy God. If the result is a compound, the resulting human incarnation must be new, other than the holiness, because there is no third new property except holy and unholy. If you consider both merged God and merged human devotee as holy with variation, then, the resulting human incarnation must be unholy, which is a new property different from holiness. But the human incarnation like Krishna is treated as holy as God. In such a case, how do we apply the scientific analysis to the concept of formation of human incarnation from God and a selected human devotee?
The answer for the above question is given here:- Scientific analysis applies only to imaginable created items. The devoted human being is an imaginable item and hence, scientific analysis applies perfectly to any soul. But the second component in the example is the unimaginable God. Science applies to the merge of two imaginable items only. If A and B are imaginable items, their merge can be explained by science. As per science, the resulting product is either a mixture with average properties or a compound with new properties. Since A is unimaginable and B is imaginable, the merge in this case is beyond scientific explanation. The resulting product of the merge between unimaginable A and imaginable B is neither mixture of A-B nor the compound of A-B. The resulting product, called Human incarnation is simply the unimaginable A. The resulting unimaginable A is not called as invisible and unimaginable God but is visible and unimaginable God. How does the invisible-unimaginable A become the visible-unimaginable A? The human souls seeing the human incarnation are relatively real and can see only a relative reality and not the absolute reality. Therefore, the imaginable B (relative reality) can be seen by the relatively real human souls. But, the relatively real B has become the absolutely real A. Human beings can see only relatively real B, which has become absolute real A. Therefore, the conclusion is that the absolutely real A is appearing as the relatively real B. Hence, the human incarnation appears as the relatively real human being (B) only and not as the absolutely real God (A), because the human beings can never see the absolutely real item. This can be illustrated by another example. A naked person in a bathroom (A) is always invisible to any other human being. The same human being is covered by a dress and came out as visible to every human being. A is the person and B is the covering dress. The person, who came out is not covered by the dress fully. Part of the body like face, palms, feet etc., is visible. This means that the unimaginable God is not fully visible but partially visible. This gives the conclusion that the human incarnation is partially visible and partially invisible. Even though you are not seeing the unimaginable God completely through perception, you are seeing the unimaginable God through the miracles performed by the human incarnation. By miracles, you are inferring the unimaginable God. There is no basic difference between perception and inference. In perception, you are seeing the fire emitting smoke. In inference, you are seeing the smoke only and inferring the fire. Similarly, through unimaginable events called miracles of the human incarnation, you are inferring the unimaginable God, who is the source of these unimaginable miracles. Since inference is perception, the unimaginable miracles (smoke) are giving you the perception of the fire (unimaginable God) indirectly through inference. In this way, you have to understand the unimaginable-invisible God and the unimaginable-visible contemporary human incarnation.
2) Life is apparent as well as real. In the apparent life, there is no awareness. Both plants and animals are said to be living beings. In plants, only apparent life exists, which is simply the mechanical process of respiration, in which oxygen is inhaled that is used in the oxidation of the food to produce inert energy. Inert energy is not the non-inert awareness. In this way, the respiration is only apparent life and not the real life because real life means awareness. But the apparent life is linked to the real life because the inert energy produced in the preliminary process of respiration (apparent life) is inert energy and not awareness. This inert energy produced in the process of respiration is called as Praanamayakosha. The physical body in which this respiration takes place, is called as Annamayakosha, since this physical body can be used as food by some other living being. Hence, plants have only Annamaya and Pranamayakoshas and therefore, plants do not have awareness. If any living being is to undergo suffering, it must have awareness or real life. Therefore, in the Veda, God gave the commandment that only plants must be used as food since there is no awareness in plants (Oṣadhībhyo'nnam-Veda). If you cut and eat the plant, the plant is not suffering due to the absence of awareness or real life. The awareness starts only in zoological examples. Plants are botanical examples without real life or suffering. In the zoological examples, the nervous system is developed and when the inert energy produced by respiration (Praanamayakosha) enters the brain-nervous system (Manomayakosha), the awareness is generated. Due to this difference, Biology, dealing with all living beings is bifurcated as Botany and Zoology. Awareness is a specific work form of inert energy generated when the inert energy enters the specific brain-nervous system. Since awareness is generated in zoological examples only, they suffer when you kill them for food. You are killing soft natured animals and birds, which do not harm you at all. If you harm good people or soft natured animals and birds that is the greatest sin as told in the scripture (Ahiṃsā paramo dharmaḥ). The punishment for this sin is that the killed animal or bird is born as a butcher and the present butcher is born as an animal or bird to be cut by that new butcher. This is the meaning of the word flesh (Māṃsaḥ). When an animal or bird is cut, before it dies, it thinks like this: “just like this butcher kills me now, I will kill this butcher in the same way in the next birth” (Māṃ saḥ yathā hanti, tathā paścāt janmani tamahaṃ vadhiṣyāmi). The first two letters together form the word ‘Maamsah’, which indicates the rest of the sentence. As per this statement, God makes the killed animal as butcher and the present butcher as the animal to be killed in the next birth. Based on this scientific truth, God ordered the human beings to take food from plants only. Hence, non-vegetarians saying that cutting plants is as sinful as cutting birds and the animals is scientifically false. Even, in the very big botanical example like a banyan tree containing millions of cells, there is no single nervous spot. Even in a fundamental Zoological example, which is an unicellular organism called amoeba, a nervous spot is present. Even though Bose tried to prove the awareness in plants, this theory was not accepted by a very large number of scientists. The action like folding leaves on touch need not be the action of awareness and it can be a mechanical action and this is not present in all plants. There is no concession in this sin because scripture says that this is the highest injustice. The scripture says that not harming a good person and a good soft natured animal or bird is the highest justice (Ahiṃsā paramo Dharmaḥ). Clever people say that they are not killing the animal or bird directly. But since you are eating the flesh of that animal or bird, the butcher is killing that bird or animal based on demand and supply. Hence, the eater will also get the same punishment that is given to the butcher based on the concept of the scripture (Kartā kārayitā caiva…).
3) God created space and space is relatively real with reference to the absolutely real God just like the shape of a pot is relatively real with reference to the mud with which the pot is prepared. The created space cannot exist in God before its creation. If space existed in God before its creation, it means that space is not created by God since it was already existing in God. This is absurd. Hence, since space is created by God, space did not exist in God. This means that God has no spatial dimensions like length, width, height, area and volume. Any substance, which does not have spatial dimensions can never be imagined by any human being even on concentrating for millions of years. Therefore, God is beyond the imagination of any human being and is called as unimaginable God (Parabrahman). Such unimaginable God is not having awareness because awareness is generated from food as told in process of creation by the Veda. Before the creation of even space, unimaginable God existed and how can awareness be present in such unimaginable God even before the creation of the first item called space? God created space, air, fire, water, earth, plants, food and finally awareness as per the process of creation described in the Veda (Ātmana ākāśaḥ…). Hence, before the creation of space, God cannot have awareness, especially when awareness is the last product of the process of creation. Then, the question comes that how God thought to create the world even before the creation of the world? Any thought requires awareness as the fundamental material. Without awareness, how did He think to create the world? The answer for this question is that God thought even without awareness because God is omnipotent. Omnipotent means that God can do any impossible thing. Due to this omnipotence, God thought even without awareness. This point is explained in the Brahma Sutras taking a different context. The Veda says that God burns all of creation including energy. As per the worldly logic, energy alone can burn anything. Here, God is burning even energy. Hence, He is not burning the world neither with the help of energy nor He is energy. But, still, the burning is possible because God is omnipotent.
Coming to the item of time, in the process of creation as described by the Veda, the item called time is not mentioned anywhere. Hence, time is not even a relative item like space, air etc., which are relatively true with reference to the absolute truth of God. Time is a relative item with reference to another relative item called space. This means that time is not a primary relative item, but, is a secondary relative item. We observe that the time is mentioned as the relative coordinate of the relative space. We hear the expression of time in terms of the coordinates of space while we hear in villages people expressing the time as one hand distance. It means that the sun is at one hand distance from the point of horizon. Therefore, time is assumed (relative) fourth coordinate of space joined with the three assumed absolute co-ordinates (length, width and height). God is absolute and space is relative with reference to the absolute God. Similarly, if you assume space as absolute, time is an assumed or relative fourth coordinate of space. Therefore, the importance of time is very very insignificant compared to the ultimate absolute God. Based on this concept only, Einstein proposed to define any event with the help of four-dimensional space-time model.
4) God Krishna preached the Gita to Arjuna just when the war commenced. After the war, Arjuna asked Krishna to repeat the same Gita because he was unable to be attentive to clearly understand the Gita in the atmosphere of the war. Krishna told that He also does not remember the Gita and forgot it. Due to further requests from Arjuna Krishna told Gita (which was called as Anu Gita) and the new Gita told by Krishna was not famous at all due to lower quality. In this incident the question that rises is that: Is Krishna a human being to forget the original Gita? The answer is that Krishna is God and is quite capable of repeating the original Gita as it is. In such a case, why did He not repeat the original Gita? He wanted to convey a concept through this incident. The concept is that while the Sadguru explains the concept, it should be recorded immediately. If you neglect the immediate recording, the listening devotee as well as the preacher will forget the subject matter of the concept. While the Gita was preached by Krishna to Arjuna in the war, sage Vyasa recorded it in His mind letter by letter due to miraculous power (Vyāsena grathitām…) and hence, the Gita is available for all of us even today without the change of even a single letter. If the concept is recorded immediately, there will be no loss of any point in the concept. This is the lesson given by God Krishna through this incident. The Sadguru may not forget the concept because the Sadguru is the human incarnation of God. But if an ordinary human guru is in the place of the Sadguru, the Guru may forget the concept like the listening disciple because both are human souls only. Krishna indicates another important point, which is that the disciple shall hear the concept with perfect attention while it is preached by a Guru or the Sadguru and warns us that the preaching of spiritual knowledge is not like a bathroom tape recorder, which can be listened at any time you like! If recording is done immediately, the recorded concepts exist permanently for others to follow. If a good concept is revealed by the Guru and heard by the disciple without recording, even the same Guru and the same disciple will forget the concept in course of time and the concept becomes a waste since nobody used it. If it is recorded, the Guru and the disciple may not use it (since both are undeserving), somebody in the present generation or in the future generation, who is deserving, will use it for spiritual progress. The Guru and disciple will also be blessed by God since they have made this facility to be useful for all deserving devotees in all times. The recorded concept is used by a very large number of devotees at present and in the future. The recording person will get merit (punyam) from each person and due to the effect of this accumulated merit, the recorder is also saved by God. If a person thinks that let the concept be wasted since it could not be used by him, he will accumulate a lot of sin and will never be uplifted.
5) God shall be pleased with you due to your true devotion in which aspiration for any fruit in return does not exist and this is the essential meaning of the word ‘Nishkama Karma Yoga’ preached by Krishna in the Gita. Once God is pleased with you through this way, He will not search for merits or defects in you. He is always associated with you. In such a condition, there is no need of exhibiting your merits to Him because your merits cannot attract Him once He is associated with you. If Nishkama Karma Yoga is absent, God will not be attracted towards you by seeing your merits. This means if God is attracted to you by Nishkama Karma Yoga, your merits are unnecessary, which cannot attract Him. If God is not attracted to you by the absence of your Nishkama Karma Yoga, even then, your merits are unnecessary because in such a condition they cannot attract Him. In both ways, your merits are unnecessary to God. If Nishkama Karma Yoga is present, even your defects are not counted. The basic reason is that Nishkama Karma Yoga is true practical devotion. In this context, poet Liilaashuka gives a beautiful example: If the bridegroom is attracted by the beauty of the bride, the jewels of the bride are unnecessary. If the bridegroom is not attracted by the beauty of the bride, then also the jewels of the bride are unnecessary (Rakte virakte ca vare vadhūnām, nirarthakaḥ kuṅkuma patra bhaṅgaḥ).
6) The word ‘talent’ is referred in the Gita in a verse “Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam”. The word ‘Kaushalam’ means talent in work. This verse means that when you develop talent in your profession due to long experience, you can enter Yoga (Yoga means thinking God) while simultaneously doing your professional work. The talent achieved by you in the work will make your professional work to run without any error and at the same time, the time spent in the professional work is also the time spent in spiritual work. We can see this as the best example in the case of ladies singing divine songs and doing prayers simultaneously while cooking of food is done by them. If you are retired from your professional work, you can completely concentrate on the spiritual path. But, today, even after retirement, people are seeking new professions!
7) Intelligence shall not be appreciated based on its efficiency to do a work. An intelligence may be very efficient in doing cheating in worldly work like that of Shakuni, who cheated Dharmaraja in gambling. By this, we can say that Shakuni is more intelligent than Dharmaraja because the efficiency of the intelligence of Shakuni is far higher than the efficiency of the intelligence of Dharmaraja. Even though the intelligence of Dharmaraja is far far lesser than the intelligence of Shakuni, Dharmaraja went to heaven along with his physical body. Finally, Shakuni went to horrible hell. As far as the efficiency of intelligence is considered, Shakuni is a higher intellectual than Dharmaraja. But seeing the final result, the intelligence of Dharmaraja is more efficient than the intelligence of Shakuni. Hence, you must decide the efficiency of intelligence based on its direction and the final fruit attained.
To be continued …