Name:dattaswami •
Title: Monoism •
Date posted: 06/02/07 12:38
Q: Monoism
Some people view the human incarnation as God in-toto. When the electricity enters the wire it pervades all over the wire. Wherever you touch the wire you will experience the electricity. The Veda says “Antar Bahischa Tat Sarvam…”, which means that God pervaded all over the human body and is present inside as well as outside the human body of the human incarnation. This view is called as monoism (Advaita) of Shankara. This exactly coincides with the statement of Jesus “I and My Father are one and the same”. The human incarnation is convenient for the sake of human beings. The vision, touch, conversation and co-living are quite possible with the human incarnation. The human body is exactly the similar medium in which the soul of a human being also exists. For any transaction or interaction, a common medium is the best. Trying to see God in the medium of an energetic form is totally unnecessary and is wastage of time and effort. A lot of severe penance has to be done for getting such a divine vision. All you are doing is seeing the same God in another medium called as energy. Is it not wastage of time and effort to try to see a person in a silk shirt, when the same person is appearing before you in a cotton shirt? The person is important and not the shirt. It is like catching a small rat after digging a big hill.
Some people try to imagine God embedded in the pure awareness, which is the finest form of energy. Such form of energy is very very subtle and can be perceived only by imagination. The pure awareness is like the costliest shirt; but it is still only a shirt. Therefore, the time and effort you have concentrated on the meditation to perceive God in this costliest shirt through your mind is the climax of wastage of your time and effort. The penance to see the energetic form and the meditation to imagine God in pure awareness are both unnecessary efforts because you can see the same God in the human body of the human incarnation. Moreover, the human body is very very clear for vision [everyone can see it without difficulty]. The energetic form cannot be seen by the naked eyes. Only by a special energy granted by the Lord, can the eyes see this energetic form. The pure awareness can only be imagined by the internal eye, which is the mind. Moreover, touch is not possible in the case of the forms of energy or awareness. Conversation with the form of pure awareness is very much subtle and unclear. The conversation with the energetic form can take place but that is also limited to just a few seconds. The energetic form is highly unstable and is subject to diffusion. The entropy of the energetic form is very low and the spontaneity is towards the increase in entropy. Therefore, a long conversation is not possible with energetic forms. The energetic form appears for a few seconds, grants the boons for the penance of the devotee and disappears immediately by the process of diffusion. Such energetic form is not at all convenient for co-living [living with God]. If you see a human incarnation like Lord Krishna, the devotees could see the Lord for a long time. They could embrace Him for a long time. They could talk with Him for any length of time till their doubts were cleared. They could even hear the sweet songs from the mouth of the Lord. They lived with the Lord closely for years together. Such fortune is unimaginable and thus the human form of God is the best. Only very very few fortunate devotees can recognize God in human form and receive all the benefits fully. Some devotees doubt the Lord in human form due to over logic and loose the golden chance. Therefore, a human being can approach God completely only through the human form. This is stated by Jesus “One can reach My Father only through Me”. Thus very fortunate devotees believe the monoism of the wire and the electricity and get the complete benefit.
