[O Krishna! What do You mean by Parabrahman? and what do You mean by Brahman? What is the difference between these two words? What is the essence of the divine incarnations? What is the place for logical analysis?]

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[The ultimate God was called by the word ‘Brahma’, which means the greatest as per its root meaning (Bṛḥ-bṛṃhaṇe, vṛddhau) since the ultimate God is the greatest among all other items, which are the greatest among certain limited specific groups. For example, the Veda is the greatest among the scriptures, food is the greatest among inert materials and life is the greatest among all created entities etc. (Brahmākṣara samudbhavam –Gītā, Annaṃ brahmeti…, Prāṇo brahmeti…- Veda).]

[In order not to confuse the absolute ultimate God with other relatively greatest items like the Veda, food, life etc., Shankara says that the ultimate God is to be indicated by a separate word ‘Parabrahman’, which means that the ultimate God is different from other relatively greatest items. He also says that since Parabrahman is beyond creation, He cannot be touched by words and He can be expressed through silence only (Mauna vyākhyā prakaṭita Parabrahma tattvam). People misunderstood this transcendental nature and thought that Parabrahman or Nirguṇa Brahman or unmediated ultimate God is not related to the creation, maintenance and destruction activities of the world since It is beyond creation and imagination.]

[Shankara took Brahma or mediated ultimate God or Saguṇa Brahman by the name Īśvara for doing the activity of creation etc. Both Rāmānuja and Madhva took Brahma or Saguṇa Brahman or mediated ultimate God by the name Nārāyaṇa for doing the activity of creation etc. It is misunderstood that Nirguṇa Brahman and Saguṇa Brahman are separate items. Parabrahman or Unimaginable God or Nirguṇa Brahman is the naked person taking bath in the closed bathroom not seen (unimagined) by anybody and the same person coming out clothed (mediated) seen by all is Brahma or Saguṇa Brahman or God Datta. This means that same Parabrahman exists in two different states called unmediated and mediated.]

[The medium of Saguṇa Brahman is energetic. Since Parabrahman first created energy (Tat tejo'sṛjata—Veda), this means that first the energetic medium was created by Parabrahman. Even though we say that the mediated God is involved in the activity of creation, since Parabrahman merged with energetic form created by Him (after such merge only the energetic form is called Saguṇa Brahman), it is clear that the mediated Parabrahman is actually the creator.]

[Parabrahman is beyond imagination and beyond the creation. This only means that the nature of Parabrahman is unimaginable to any level of intelligence. This does not mean that Parabrahman is not doing the activity of creation etc. The nature of any substance is not linked to its efficiency to do a particular action. The trinity is famous for the three divine actions, which are creation, maintenance and destruction of the world. Nārāyaṇa is for the maintenance and ruling of the world. Īśvara is for the destruction of the world. The creation is related to Hiraṇyagarbha, who is told as the first divine form in the Veda. Creation is the first divine action of the first divine form called Hiraṇyagarbha (Hiraṇyagarbhas samavartatāgre -Veda).]

[The Veda says that the definition of the ultimate God is that He does creation, maintenance and destruction of the world and that the ultimate God is one only (Yato vā imāni…, Ekamevā 'dvitīyaṃ). Among the divine energetic forms of God, the one energetic form doing these three divine actions is available as God Datta, who is the first energetic incarnation or mediated Parabrahman. He is one divine personality only and does the three divine activities representing His three capabilities by the three faces called as Hiraṇyagarbha, Nārāyaṇa and Īśvara.]

[Parabrahman or unmediated—unimaginable God is Nirguṇa Brahman. The same Parabrahman mediated with the first energetic form created and merged by Himself is Brahman or Saguṇa Brahman called as God Datta. God Datta created energetic forms (first trinity called Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and later on other energetic forms) and merged with those forms to become energetic incarnations. He created human forms and merged with those forms to become human incarnations also. There is complete monism among Parabrahman, God Datta, divine trinity, other energetic incarnations and other human incarnations. Monism is not between God and soul, which is a misunderstanding. Monism is only among Parabrahman, God Datta and His energetic and human incarnations.]

[The unimaginable Parabrahman alone can do the unimaginable events called miracles. Parabrahman is the source of all miraculous powers. Every energetic or human incarnation of Parabrahman exhibits miracles. This clearly means that Parabrahman merged with every incarnation. In fact, Parabrahman directly merged with the energetic form of God Datta and then, God Datta merged with other energetic (including trinity) and human forms to become energetic and human incarnations. Since God Datta is already merged by Parabrahman, every incarnation gets Parabrahman through God Datta. Hence, we can call all the incarnations including God Datta (the direct incarnation of Parabrahman) and other indirect incarnations (formed through God Datta only) as the incarnations of Parabrahman only.]

[The word ‘Datta’ is not the name kept for just calling Him. Such name called ‘Saṃjñā Nāma’ means the name without any meaning applicable to the name-holder. The word ‘Datta’ is ‘Yoga Nāma’, which means that its meaning is applicable to the named person. Datta means given to the souls from unimaginable state to imaginable state so that the named person is seen and also meditated by souls. Like this, the ‘Yoga Name’ of God Datta is explained by scholars.]

[The Veda and the Brahma Sūtras used the word ‘Brahman’ only to mean the ultimate Parabrahman. In fact, there is no difference between Parabrahman (Nirguṇa Brahman) and God Datta (Saguṇa Brahman). Even then, the scholars are fascinated to take the transcendental (beyond creation and imagination) unimaginable-unmediated Nirguṇa Brahman by the name ‘Parabrahman’ and to take mediated-unimaginable Nirguṇa Brahman by the name ‘Brahman’.]

[This Saguṇa Brahman or God Datta is called as Hiraṇyagarbha by sages (sages are followers of God Brahmā or Hiraṇyagarbha). The same God Datta is called as Nārāyaṇa by Vaiṣṇavas (Vaiṣṇavas are followers of God Vishnu or Nārāyaṇa). The same God Datta is called as Īśvara by Śaivas (Śaivas are followers of God Shiva or Īśvara). The Same God Datta is called as the Father of heaven by foreign religions.]

[The same God Datta is called as Hiraṇyagarbha, Nārāyaṇa and Īśvara. These three names indicate the potential capacities of God Datta. Hiraṇyagarbha is the capacity to do creation. Nārāyaṇa is the capacity to do maintenance and ruling. Īśvara is the capacity to destroy the world. The possessor of these three capacities is God Datta and hence, God Datta is called as Hiraṇyagarbha, Nārāyaṇa and Īśvara. First, God Datta incarnated as God Brahmā and we can say this as that God Brahmā is the incarnation of Hiraṇyagarbha. God Datta incarnated as God Vishnu and we can say this as that God Vishnu is the incarnation of Nārāyaṇa. God Datta incarnated as God Shiva and we can say this as that God Shiva is the incarnation of Īśvara.]

[The souls in the upper worlds are energetic beings and the souls on the earth are human beings. For the sake of preaching true spiritual knowledge to the souls and for the sake of facilitating souls to worship God, Lord Datta incarnates Himself as energetic and human incarnations in upper worlds and on earth respectively.]

[In the incarnation, there are two components: i) God Datta or Unimaginable God or Parabrahman and ii) the external medium that is imaginable and visible human being or energetic being (including individual soul). The energetic or human incarnation appears as medium only because the merged God Datta exists as invisible component (Parabrahman existing in God Datta is not only invisible, but also unimaginable). This is a system of two components existing in one phase. The solid solution of copper and gold looks as gold only. But, this gold gets new properties, which are malleability and ductility due to the presence of copper. 100% pure gold doesn’t have malleability and ductility. Similarly, the incarnation looks just like an energetic being or human being, but, gets the new property of possessing miraculous powers attained from Parabrahman or God Datta. Pure energetic being or human being does not have miraculous powers.]

[Since the copper mixed gold looks like gold only, we think that it is 100% gold since copper is invisible. Similarly, the human incarnation looks like human being only. We think that the human incarnation is 100% human being since the God-component (God Datta merged by Parabrahman) is invisible. Therefore, the worldly people take the human incarnation of God as the human being only and insult the incarnation of God. Majority of human beings are fascinated to worldly affairs and hence, does not like God in the human form.]

[Most of the people (about 90%) are worldly souls only taking lot of care about the financial benefit and financial loss. If God is in the form of statue or photo, it is most convenient to worship because the food, which is offered to God in statue or photo, can be entirely taken back by them as remains of God (prasādam). In the case of human incarnation, God in human form will eat the offered food, which results as financial loss to the devotees. The basis for choosing photo or statue of God to worship is this spiritual economics.]