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What are the different problems that can come if awareness is thought to be God?

[Shri Ganesh V asked:- Swamiji, what are the different problems that can be created if we end up thinking God to be awareness? One problem you have mentioned is that the soul might think to be God if both soul and God are awareness. To negate this erroneous assumption, the concept of unimaginable God is required. Are there any more problems other than the above mentioned if we mistake God to be awareness? At Your divine feet, Ganesh V]

Swami replied:- You cannot assume God as awareness because both inert energy and materialised nervous system are required to generate awareness. God thought to create the world before the beginning of the creation of the world. Before the creation of the world, neither inert energy nor matter existed. Awareness is required to think because any thought is a mode of awareness only. In the absence of awareness, how God thought to create the world? This is the main question. This can be answered by saying that since God is omnipotent, He thought without awareness. If you say that thinking itself is awareness, then, we have to call such awareness as unimaginable awareness, which is the unimaginable God Himself because no two unimaginable items can co-exist. God is creating, maintaining and destroying the world. The worldly awareness present in a soul cannot create or destroy even an atom. Hence, God is simply unimaginable and you cannot say that any imaginable item like awareness is God.

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