Śrī Rājīva Uvāca:-
[Śrī Rajiiv Spoke]:-

[We hear that the possessor of power and the power are one and the same. But everyone says that God (Brahman), the possessor of unimaginable power, is greater than all the greatest items. Hence, the question arises whether God is greater than His power or God is equal to His power. How to correlate this contradiction?]

Śrī Datta Bhagavān Uvāca:-
[God Śrī Datta Spoke]:-

[Let us take the example of sunlight (the power of Sun) and Sun (possessor of Sunlight). This is a worldly example. The divine concept may be beyond the worldly example or may be similar to the worldly example as well.]

[Brahman is said to be omnipotent. Due to the capacity of omnipotence, Brahman can do any impossible action and Brahman can also do a possible action like an ordinary person. That is why Brahman is called the doer of both possible and impossible actions.]

[Therefore, we cannot understand the unimaginable Brahman with the help of examples in the world because in this world, there is no any item, which is unimaginable. No unimaginable item is seen in this world and Brahman alone is unimaginable. In such a case, how can we take any worldly example comparable to Brahman to understand Brahman?]

[Since there is no unimaginable example in the world, can we say that Brahman is always beyond the world? It is certainly beyond the world, but it can also act like a worldly example if it likes so. A person earning Rs. 100 can also be said as the person earning Rs. 10. Doer of impossible things can also be the doer of possible things.]

[If we want to discuss an imaginable worldly matter, we can take the other imaginable worldly examples and analyze our imaginable worldly matter. Like this, we cannot analyze the unimaginable matter with the help of imaginable worldly examples. We always have to analyse the unimaginable matter independently, keeping the omnipotence of the unimaginable God in our view.]

[You may question how we can analyze the unimaginable God because He is beyond logic. Analysis needs a basis of logic. You need not doubt like this. The reason is that though God is beyond logic, He does anything logically only.]

[Suppose a person exists with the capacity to cut anything in the world. Suppose somebody asks him to cut his daughter’s neck to prove that he can cut anything in the world. To prove himself as the most powerful cutter, will he cut his daughter’s neck? Hence, even omnipotent God does things, which are proper and logical only.]

[Based on this principle, we can infer God’s action in a particular case through logical discussion. Therefore, we can conclude that the omnipotent God always acts in accordance with divine wisdom and is ultimately consistent with propriety and reason, although God Himself transcends the limits of human logic.]

This is called the ‘Theory of Properness of Anything’. Even in literature, this is given a very high place, which means that a proper word must be used in a proper context concentrating on its suitability to the context. Everybody has knowledge of all the words, but only a talented scholar uses a specific word suitable to the context of the situation. Critics criticize a word used in an improper unsuitable context.]

[The capability of intelligence is said to be greater than mere physical capability. The Veda says that God is the highest and no item or thing is equal to God. How can such God do improper things just because He is capable of doing anything?]

[If we analyze the Sun and sunlight as possessor of power and power respectively, there is qualitative similarity between the two, but there is a lot of quantitative difference between the Sun and sunlight. A human being can stand in sunlight and can tolerate it, but no human being can stand very close to Sun and tolerate the Sun directly.]

[The light and heat in qualitative sense exist as two different associated qualities in the Sun and sunlight. But, the quantity of these two qualities also differs between the Sun and sunlight. One can transform sunlight into electricity but, none can transform the Sun directly into electricity.]

[In Sun, the quantity of light and heat is enormous, whereas the quantity of light and heat is very little in the sunlight. This example suits well to our concept about God and His power. We know from the Veda that God is the highest, who can be compared to the Sun having very very huge quantity of light and heat compared to sunlight.]

[This concept follows the philosophy of Śrī Madhva. The power of God Viṣṇu called Śrī or Lakṣmī follows Lord Viṣṇu as a servant. But this power is greater than any other servant of God Viṣṇu.]

[Śrī Rāmānuja always treats the power of God Nārāyaṇa as equal to God. Śrī Śaṅkara gives even more status by saying that the power of God, which is the source of name and form, is the Saguṇa Brahman itself directly. A husband can sometimes treat his wife equal to him or even more than him due to his excess of love. Like this, the three Divine Preachers are correlated.]

[Satyabhāmā hits God Kṛṣṇa with her foot, but God Kṛṣṇa serves her by pressing her feet. Actually, Satyabhāmā is the incarnation of Earth and is a clear servant of God Viṣṇu. God always keeps His devotee on His head!]

[By this, the superiority of the power of God is possible when God serves her (power) due to His excess of love and thus, the philosophy of the Śākteya school is correlated. More powerful item than God is rejected even by the Veda itself (Na tat sama ścā bhyadhikaśca…).]

[The Veda says that God is the beginning part of the tail (region around anus) that is the base of the seat for the whole world (Brahma pucchaṃ pratiṣṭhā…). God Narayana (Nārāṇām ayanam) of Śrī Rāmānuja and God Viṣṇu (Ādhāra rūpeṇa sarvādheyasya vyāpakatvena āśrayaḥ) of Śrī Madhva are one and the same because the meaning of both these words is the same, which is that God is the basic seat for the world. Hence, both are correlated. Both Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu are one and the same God.]

[Power is present in the possessor of power in inseparable state and you cannot differentiate it like the original inherent light and heat of the Sun. Such power is not at all different from the possessor of power. But some light and heat (very little power) comes out that are separated from Sun as sunlight.]