[God Krishna did several miracles forced by the necessity of protection of devotees and He did not do any miracle for just self-exposition. An ordinary human being cannot do even an atom of a trace of a single miracle in its entire lifetime, even if we say that we will not find fault with self-exposition in its case. Even for a layman, this one point is more than sufficient to say that God is not an ordinary soul.]

[Due to the terrible penance of demons, God gives miraculous powers to demons also. Hence, the miraculous powers alone can’t decide that a human being is the human incarnation of God. If the miraculous powers are also associated with unimaginable spiritual knowledge and unimaginable love for devotees, that becomes the identification of a human incarnation of God.]

[You cannot take mere knowledge and love to identify the human incarnation of God because a noble scholar can also speak knowledge and show love to co-human beings. Hence, the Veda says that these three identifications alone can decide God in human form (Prajñānaṃ Brahma, Raso vai saḥ, Satyakāmaḥ). If you take the example of Krishna, He was decided as God by these three characteristics: i) He gave unimaginable knowledge through the Gita. ii) He showed unimaginable love to Gopikas by creating Goloka for them above Brahma Loka and iii) He performed several miracles to protect His devotees after testing their faith in Him.]

[The demon having miraculous powers is filtered out because spiritual knowledge and love are absent in him. A noble scholar having knowledge and love is also filtered out because miraculous powers are absent in him. God Krishna and human incarnations of God Datta in Kali age are accepted as God in human forms due to the presence of all the three Vedic identifications (knowledge, love and miraculous powers).]

[The similarity between God Krishna and an ordinary cowherd is the external physical gross body. The internal material is God Datta with whom Parabrahman merged. Simply by the similarity between the external gross bodies, we cannot say that a vacant box is equal to a box containing wealth.]

[The awareness or individual soul (awareness in the form of a bundle of qualities is called individual soul) exists as part of the matter with which the box (human body) is made. Awareness is the modified form of inert energy and matter is also the modification of inert energy. Hence, the substance with which the human body (box) is made contains matter, inert energy and awareness. Therefore, the awareness does not exist as a separate material in the vacant box to be called as the individual soul. It is like the iron metal, with which the box is made, contains some other two metals alloyed with it. The three metals are the materialized human body, inert energy and soul or awareness of the human being. The other two metals do not occupy any place in the box. In the case of human incarnation alone, the whole space in the box is occupied by wealth (The human body, inert energy and the soul are the three metals alloyed forming the box or the devoted human being with which God is merging to form the human incarnation. The space in the box is occupied by wealth or unimaginable God in the case of human incarnation. People wrongly think that the space in the box is occupied by the human soul, which is the third metal. An ordinary human being is only a vacant box created by the alloy of the same three metals, but without any wealth in it.).]

[An officer is allotted a new residence, which is equipped with a servant. The order says that such and such residence is allotted to the officer and does not mention about the servant attached to the residence. The servant has inert nature in following the orders of the owner blindly and is treated as a part of the inert house. Similarly, when God enters a selected devotee to form a human incarnation, the individual soul, along with inert energy, which is also like an inert servant, is not separately mentioned. The individual soul is always included with the inert body and inert energy. “God entered the inert body” - means that the inert body has inert energy and an individual soul that act as an inert servant to God. Here, body means materialized body with the inert energy and individual soul, which is a vacant box to be mentioned below.]

[The individual soul of the human being-component is also merged with its inert body. When the God-component enters the devotee to form a human incarnation, we need not say that God entered the body and individual soul of the devotee. When we say that God entered the body of the devotee, the body here means the body with the individual soul. Hence, it is told that God enters the human body (Mānuṣīṃ tanu māśritam- Gita). The individual soul is awareness (individual soul is a bundle of thoughts and each thought is a mode of awareness) that pervades all over the body like electricity pervading all over the metallic wire.]

[Even in the human incarnation, the God-component and the human being-component exist in a merged state like two metals alloyed. Even in an alloy, the two metals are counted separately as two individual metals even in the merged state. The God-component can exit the human being-component at any time like God left Parashurama after all the bad kings were killed by Him. Therefore, even in human incarnation, God and soul and God and inert body differ from each other based on the philosophy of dualism of Shri Madhva (that two of the five differences were accepted).]

[The three identification marks (spiritual knowledge, infinite love and unimaginable miracles) told by the Veda are always involved in the welfare of devotees only, which alone is the goal of these three characteristics. The spiritual knowledge sung in the form of the Gita is used to uplift Arjuna.]

[The climax love of God Krishna on the climax devotees called Gopikas is seen when God Krishna created Goloka above the abode of God. God Krishna lifted Govardhana hill by using His miraculous power, only to protect His devotees in Bṛndāvanam from a terrible rain created by Indra continuously for seven days.]

[Even a tiny trace of His power is not used for selfish purposes. All His powers are used only for the sake of deserving devotees. He is omnipotent and what can be said about the existence of any requirement for His selfish necessity?]

[God is always selfless and the soul is the incarnation of selfishness. God is the mine of all good qualities and the soul is the ocean of all bad qualities.]

[Inherently, there is a mountain of difference between God and soul. This difference may be reduced to a very small extent like an atom by spiritual efforts. But, even an atomic difference is also a difference only. However, this difference becomes zero in the case of human incarnation containing God-component and human being-component in the merged state.]

[The only shining example for monism of Śrī Śaṅkara is human incarnation or energetic incarnation in which God is homogeneously merged with the selected human being or energetic being respectively. The qualified monism of Śrī Rāmānuja also exists in very very few examples like Ādiśeṣa, when the devotee attains some divinity and God loves that inseparable devotee as a part of His body like eye, hand etc.]

[Śrī Madhva stands on behalf of the welfare of the ruled majority of public, which are ordinary souls and this is called as democracy. Śrī Rāmānuja stands on behalf of a king surrounded by a board of executing officers, which is called as Aristocracy. Śrī Śaṅkara stands on behalf of the king alone ruling the kingdom, which is called as Monarchy. The first preacher stands for ruled public and the other two preachers stand for ruling power.]

[Śrī Madhva represents the infinite number of souls to be uplifted in reaching and becoming close to God. Śrī Rāmānuja represents very very few souls, who attained closeness with God. Śrī Śaṅkara represents only the God, who is always one only without a second equivalent. All the learners of the spiritual knowledge must be the students of Śrī Madhva-preacher only because almost everybody is in the beginning stage only.]

[In the beginning, the souls must be servants doing divine service and sacrifice as advised by Śrī Madhva. Then, these souls must become devotees of God as advised by Śrī Rāmānuja. Up to this stage, the individual spiritual efforts are important. At the end, one of these devotees is selected and merged by God to become a human incarnation to carry out a specific welfare program for spiritual aspirants. In this last stage, there is no significance to any individual’s spiritual effort because the selection for monism is purely done by God. In the first stage and second stage, many or at least a few souls can co-exist. But, in the third final stage, only one soul exists.]

[The first stage and the second stage are very much desirable for any soul since the desire is only to become a servant and devotee of God. If the soul desires for the third stage, which is to become God, such soul is permanently disqualified from this third stage. One must note this most important point that monism will be given by God only and cannot be attained by any soul through its spiritual effort. If such a desire to become God exists in any soul, such soul is forever disqualified and debarred for such fruit of monism. The receiver of monism is one soul only and that too by the will of God only.]

To be continued…