Difference Between Unimaginable Power and Imaginable Power Disappears in Ultimate Stage
Difference Between Unimaginable Power and Imaginable Power Disappears in Ultimate Stage
Shri Anil asked:- Can you explain the mixed domain with more clarity?
Swami replied:- The mixed domain is a mixture of both imaginable and unimaginable powers and therefore unless you understand clearly the imaginable and unimaginable domains, you cannot achieve your aim. All these domains are created by God only. The imaginable domain is starting with the creation of the imaginable energy from unimaginable God. This process of generation of imaginable from unimaginable is again unimaginable since such process is not found anywhere in the imaginable domain. Energy along with its further modifications like matter, awareness and several other forms made of energy, matter and awareness (inert items and living beings in the world) constitutes the imaginable domain or creation. But, even in the imaginable domain whenever a modification takes place to produce a new form, the process of creation in such step is also by the will of God only and not by the inherent power or capability of any item of the imaginable domain. When the Veda says that air is produced from space (Aakaashaat vaayuh), it means that due to the power of the will of God only this production has taken place. If God wishes otherwise no modification can proceed to generate the ordained product. Fire could not burn even a dry blade of grass when God wished otherwise as told in the Veda. Hence, God is the source of not only the unimaginable phenomena, but also is the source of every imaginable phenomenon and hence God is the creator of everything in imaginable domain also.
The human being thinks that the scientific phenomena proceed by their own inherent capability. The human being is understanding the procedure of the phenomena since by God’s will it is getting such advantageous facility. Even in this imaginable domain, there are so many unimaginable secrets, not yet found by science. One of such is the knowledge of the boundary of this infinite Universe. Apart from this, so many miracles also performed by human incarnations and perfect devotees are unimaginable. Thus, the unimaginable domain is present in the imaginable domain also, which is a proof of perception for the existence of unimaginable God. The only limitation is that no ordinary human being is capable of performing unimaginable miracle due to lack of sanction from God. In the mixed domain, every energetic being is awarded with some unimaginable power by God. The beauty of ignorance is that in this mixed domain also, some times, the energetic being feels that the unimaginable power granted by God is its normal and inherent power. But, the energetic being has vision of the lower imaginable domain also for comparison to realise the fact. In the imaginable domain also, the human being shall compare itself to the lower animal for being granted with extra power of intellectual talent. Even in the energetic beings, the lower region of ghosts having lesser unimaginable power can stand for comparison in the minds of the upper grade-angels. Since the angels are blessed more than ghosts and since the human beings are blessed more than animals, the angels and human beings can have some satisfaction in their minds. Thus, the human beings need not be jealous about higher angels and human incarnations. The angels need not be jealous about the higher energetic incarnations and should not mistake the human incarnation is lesser than them (as Indra misunderstood Krishna).
The reason for the selection of energetic beings to have some unimaginable powers over the materialized beings is that the energetic beings do not contain matter (Tamas) in much quantity that induces sufficient ignorance. A human being is predominately made of matter only and hence contains lot of ignorance. When a miraculous power is awarded to materialized human beings, it shall be often exploited due to solidified tamas or ignorance. Moreover, even if some unimaginable power is granted to all human beings, the result is again the same since such granted unimaginable power will be again misunderstood as its inherent normal power only and can’t be differentiated from imaginable domain. This defect of ignorance is also present in the energetic beings, but, since the effect of ignorance is very less, there is no much danger of exploitation of miraculous powers.
Whenever, we use the word ‘unimaginable’ as adjective, it means only unimaginable God. There can’t exist two unimaginable items together and hence unimaginable God and His unimaginable power are one and the same unimaginable God only. But, our psychologies are accustomed to the difference between possessor of power and its power like Sun and Sunlight etc. Hence, following this nature of human psychology based on logic of worldly (created) items, we use unimaginable God for possessor and unimaginable power for the possessed power for a convenient and clear understanding of the subject. There is no harm in such usage. Hence, the school emphasising the power (Shaktivaada) need not be confused to differ from the school of the possessor (Vedaanta Vaada) or Brahman. This point should be kept in mind in understanding the Vedic statements like ‘God by His unimaginable powers’ (Indro maayaabhih...), ‘the power of God’ (Paraasya shaktih...) while being interpreted based on the difference between possessor and power. The ignorance of human beings is very strong due to predominating tamas (matter) to feel that the phenomena in the imaginable domain take place as per science known to them only without any reference to God.
God always tries to teach the human beings about this truth by exhibiting miracles that break such notion. A true scholar feels that even every respiration of his life is only due to the power of God only. When this ultimate stage is reached, the difference between unimaginable power and imaginable power disappears. In such stage, he will take the medicine for his illness feeling that the medicine is also blessed by the grace of God to humanity and thus doesn’t pray God to cure a curable disease by using unimaginable power. For such scholar, there is no need of exhibition of any miracle. Shri Paramahamsa told that the miraculous power exhibited by a devotee in walking on the surface of water is equal to one rupee by which one can cross the water in a boat by paying one rupee! The main point here is that even crossing the water by a boat is the power of God only, which is blessed to humanity by granting such technological knowledge.
The background of this topic can become more clear by understanding the following classification in descending order of importance:-
a) Pure Unimaginable Domain:- Only unimaginable God is confined to this, who is the ultimate source of all the following regions. The awareness of God is again unimaginable since i) it exists without inert energy and materialized or energetic nervous system in God and ii) this awareness is capable of omniscience, which is impossible for the awareness found in the energetic or human beings.
b) Mixed Domain of Unimaginable and Imaginable Powers of God:- All the superior (upper) energetic worlds containing energetic beings come in to this. The imaginable part here is that the basic material of these worlds or bodies of energetic beings is imaginable inert energy only. The inertia of the energy as matter is very negligible. Awareness in these beings exists based on a superior technology of brain and nervous system made of energy only. The unimaginable part here is that this imaginable energy is separated from the materialised worlds and materialised beings by unimaginable barrier formed by the will of God. Due to this barrier, the energetic beings are not seen and the energetic words can’t be attained by materialised beings. But, the reverse is possible in the sense that these energetic beings (including ghosts) can enter and see the materialized imaginable domain. The unimaginable nature is only in the barrier and not in the energy-material of superior worlds.
It is better to call these as superior worlds than to call these as upper worlds. Hence, both can co-exist together. Ex.:- The materialised Planet-world of moon exists together with the superior world called as Pitruloka containing departed souls in the energetic bodies separated by unimaginable barrior, which prevents us to see them. Similarly, unseen ghosts co-exist with human beings on this earth. In this region also, there are certain unimaginable secrets that can never be found out by any energetic being. Similarly, there exist some secrets, which can be found out by the energetic beings in future. Apart from these secrets, there can be some secrets, which can be found out by higher energetic beings (angels) only. Along with these, the normal phenomena (rules of energy associated with certain unimaginable powers treated as normal norms of the energetic worlds) exist, which can be found out even by lower energetic beings or departed souls in the energetic bodies.
c) Imaginable domain containing unimaginable secrets of nature, which can never be found out by human beings at any time. This is the unimaginable domain (God) existing in the imaginable domain (creation). This does not mean that unimaginable God is existing in the imaginable domain or creation entangled and affected by the creation. Hence, we say that God is beyond creation and creation is not God. This means that this unimaginable domain is not any item of imaginable domain (Neti... Neti... Veda, Maamebhyah param... Gita) since unimaginable domain is always beyond the imaginable domain. The unimaginable power is always not different from the unimaginable God. The imaginable power is different from God since the first imaginable power expressed by God is energy from which only the imaginable domain starts. The conclusion is that we have two items only: Unimaginable God and imaginable creation only. The only exception to this theory is that the unimaginable God (Sat) becomes the imaginable item of creation or human being (tyat or asat) in the human incarnation as per the Veda (Sat cha tyat cha abhavat).
d) Imaginable domain containing some secrets, which can be found out in the future by the human beings with the help more advanced scientific instruments. This is advanced imaginable region of the imaginable domain only and not unimaginable domain in anyway. Based on these, some atheists say that they will explain miracles also in the future as science advances more and more. In support of this, they say “some time back people thought that one can’t talk with another staying in another city, but, today you can talk with any person anywhere with the help of telephone”. You may touch the roof of your house by practicing high jump for a long time, but, you can never touch the sky at any time. These people try to explain a miracle through magic. Both miracle and magic are totally different subjects except one similarity that both words contain the same first letter ‘m’! Magic is a false trick in the imaginable domain involving cheating the spectators. Miracle is genuine truth of the unimaginable power of unimaginable God. Of course, there are some false God-men, who use magic to project it as miracle and for such men, the atheists are the correct examiners, who fail them in the examination so that innocent devotees are not exploited. For everything in the creation of God, there is a positive background. If you understand that, there is nothing that should be rejected here, for which (positive direction) only creation of that was done by God. The souls are taking that in negative direction so that it is stamped as bad.
e) Imaginable domain containing some secrets, which can’t be found out by the naked eyes of the human beings, but, can be found out by the human beings with the help of instruments (X rays etc.).
f) Imaginable domain containing normal phenomena and items that can be found out by the naked eyes of human beings.
Shri Anil asked:- Can you explain the mixed domain with more clarity?
Swami replied:- The mixed domain is a mixture of both imaginable and unimaginable powers and therefore unless you understand clearly the imaginable and unimaginable domains, you cannot achieve your aim. All these domains are created by God only. The imaginable domain is starting with the creation of the imaginable energy from unimaginable God. This process of generation of imaginable from unimaginable is again unimaginable since such process is not found anywhere in the imaginable domain. Energy along with its further modifications like matter, awareness and several other forms made of energy, matter and awareness (inert items and living beings in the world) constitutes the imaginable domain or creation. But, even in the imaginable domain whenever a modification takes place to produce a new form, the process of creation in such step is also by the will of God only and not by the inherent power or capability of any item of the imaginable domain. When the Veda says that air is produced from space (Aakaashaat vaayuh), it means that due to the power of the will of God only this production has taken place. If God wishes otherwise no modification can proceed to generate the ordained product. Fire could not burn even a dry blade of grass when God wished otherwise as told in the Veda. Hence, God is the source of not only the unimaginable phenomena, but also is the source of every imaginable phenomenon and hence God is the creator of everything in imaginable domain also.
The human being thinks that the scientific phenomena proceed by their own inherent capability. The human being is understanding the procedure of the phenomena since by God’s will it is getting such advantageous facility. Even in this imaginable domain, there are so many unimaginable secrets, not yet found by science. One of such is the knowledge of the boundary of this infinite Universe. Apart from this, so many miracles also performed by human incarnations and perfect devotees are unimaginable. Thus, the unimaginable domain is present in the imaginable domain also, which is a proof of perception for the existence of unimaginable God. The only limitation is that no ordinary human being is capable of performing unimaginable miracle due to lack of sanction from God. In the mixed domain, every energetic being is awarded with some unimaginable power by God. The beauty of ignorance is that in this mixed domain also, some times, the energetic being feels that the unimaginable power granted by God is its normal and inherent power. But, the energetic being has vision of the lower imaginable domain also for comparison to realise the fact. In the imaginable domain also, the human being shall compare itself to the lower animal for being granted with extra power of intellectual talent. Even in the energetic beings, the lower region of ghosts having lesser unimaginable power can stand for comparison in the minds of the upper grade-angels. Since the angels are blessed more than ghosts and since the human beings are blessed more than animals, the angels and human beings can have some satisfaction in their minds. Thus, the human beings need not be jealous about higher angels and human incarnations. The angels need not be jealous about the higher energetic incarnations and should not mistake the human incarnation is lesser than them (as Indra misunderstood Krishna).
The reason for the selection of energetic beings to have some unimaginable powers over the materialized beings is that the energetic beings do not contain matter (Tamas) in much quantity that induces sufficient ignorance. A human being is predominately made of matter only and hence contains lot of ignorance. When a miraculous power is awarded to materialized human beings, it shall be often exploited due to solidified tamas or ignorance. Moreover, even if some unimaginable power is granted to all human beings, the result is again the same since such granted unimaginable power will be again misunderstood as its inherent normal power only and can’t be differentiated from imaginable domain. This defect of ignorance is also present in the energetic beings, but, since the effect of ignorance is very less, there is no much danger of exploitation of miraculous powers.
Whenever, we use the word ‘unimaginable’ as adjective, it means only unimaginable God. There can’t exist two unimaginable items together and hence unimaginable God and His unimaginable power are one and the same unimaginable God only. But, our psychologies are accustomed to the difference between possessor of power and its power like Sun and Sunlight etc. Hence, following this nature of human psychology based on logic of worldly (created) items, we use unimaginable God for possessor and unimaginable power for the possessed power for a convenient and clear understanding of the subject. There is no harm in such usage. Hence, the school emphasising the power (Shaktivaada) need not be confused to differ from the school of the possessor (Vedaanta Vaada) or Brahman. This point should be kept in mind in understanding the Vedic statements like ‘God by His unimaginable powers’ (Indro maayaabhih...), ‘the power of God’ (Paraasya shaktih...) while being interpreted based on the difference between possessor and power. The ignorance of human beings is very strong due to predominating tamas (matter) to feel that the phenomena in the imaginable domain take place as per science known to them only without any reference to God.
God always tries to teach the human beings about this truth by exhibiting miracles that break such notion. A true scholar feels that even every respiration of his life is only due to the power of God only. When this ultimate stage is reached, the difference between unimaginable power and imaginable power disappears. In such stage, he will take the medicine for his illness feeling that the medicine is also blessed by the grace of God to humanity and thus doesn’t pray God to cure a curable disease by using unimaginable power. For such scholar, there is no need of exhibition of any miracle. Shri Paramahamsa told that the miraculous power exhibited by a devotee in walking on the surface of water is equal to one rupee by which one can cross the water in a boat by paying one rupee! The main point here is that even crossing the water by a boat is the power of God only, which is blessed to humanity by granting such technological knowledge.
The background of this topic can become more clear by understanding the following classification in descending order of importance:-
a) Pure Unimaginable Domain:- Only unimaginable God is confined to this, who is the ultimate source of all the following regions. The awareness of God is again unimaginable since i) it exists without inert energy and materialized or energetic nervous system in God and ii) this awareness is capable of omniscience, which is impossible for the awareness found in the energetic or human beings.
b) Mixed Domain of Unimaginable and Imaginable Powers of God:- All the superior (upper) energetic worlds containing energetic beings come in to this. The imaginable part here is that the basic material of these worlds or bodies of energetic beings is imaginable inert energy only. The inertia of the energy as matter is very negligible. Awareness in these beings exists based on a superior technology of brain and nervous system made of energy only. The unimaginable part here is that this imaginable energy is separated from the materialised worlds and materialised beings by unimaginable barrier formed by the will of God. Due to this barrier, the energetic beings are not seen and the energetic words can’t be attained by materialised beings. But, the reverse is possible in the sense that these energetic beings (including ghosts) can enter and see the materialized imaginable domain. The unimaginable nature is only in the barrier and not in the energy-material of superior worlds.
It is better to call these as superior worlds than to call these as upper worlds. Hence, both can co-exist together. Ex.:- The materialised Planet-world of moon exists together with the superior world called as Pitruloka containing departed souls in the energetic bodies separated by unimaginable barrior, which prevents us to see them. Similarly, unseen ghosts co-exist with human beings on this earth. In this region also, there are certain unimaginable secrets that can never be found out by any energetic being. Similarly, there exist some secrets, which can be found out by the energetic beings in future. Apart from these secrets, there can be some secrets, which can be found out by higher energetic beings (angels) only. Along with these, the normal phenomena (rules of energy associated with certain unimaginable powers treated as normal norms of the energetic worlds) exist, which can be found out even by lower energetic beings or departed souls in the energetic bodies.
c) Imaginable domain containing unimaginable secrets of nature, which can never be found out by human beings at any time. This is the unimaginable domain (God) existing in the imaginable domain (creation). This does not mean that unimaginable God is existing in the imaginable domain or creation entangled and affected by the creation. Hence, we say that God is beyond creation and creation is not God. This means that this unimaginable domain is not any item of imaginable domain (Neti... Neti... Veda, Maamebhyah param... Gita) since unimaginable domain is always beyond the imaginable domain. The unimaginable power is always not different from the unimaginable God. The imaginable power is different from God since the first imaginable power expressed by God is energy from which only the imaginable domain starts. The conclusion is that we have two items only: Unimaginable God and imaginable creation only. The only exception to this theory is that the unimaginable God (Sat) becomes the imaginable item of creation or human being (tyat or asat) in the human incarnation as per the Veda (Sat cha tyat cha abhavat).
d) Imaginable domain containing some secrets, which can be found out in the future by the human beings with the help more advanced scientific instruments. This is advanced imaginable region of the imaginable domain only and not unimaginable domain in anyway. Based on these, some atheists say that they will explain miracles also in the future as science advances more and more. In support of this, they say “some time back people thought that one can’t talk with another staying in another city, but, today you can talk with any person anywhere with the help of telephone”. You may touch the roof of your house by practicing high jump for a long time, but, you can never touch the sky at any time. These people try to explain a miracle through magic. Both miracle and magic are totally different subjects except one similarity that both words contain the same first letter ‘m’! Magic is a false trick in the imaginable domain involving cheating the spectators. Miracle is genuine truth of the unimaginable power of unimaginable God. Of course, there are some false God-men, who use magic to project it as miracle and for such men, the atheists are the correct examiners, who fail them in the examination so that innocent devotees are not exploited. For everything in the creation of God, there is a positive background. If you understand that, there is nothing that should be rejected here, for which (positive direction) only creation of that was done by God. The souls are taking that in negative direction so that it is stamped as bad.
e) Imaginable domain containing some secrets, which can’t be found out by the naked eyes of the human beings, but, can be found out by the human beings with the help of instruments (X rays etc.).
f) Imaginable domain containing normal phenomena and items that can be found out by the naked eyes of human beings.
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