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First Brahma sutra says “Athato Brahma Jijnasa”, which means that first, the

word Brahman should be clarified before starting the spiritual knowledge

(Vedanta). Gita also says that one should clarify the word Brahman with logic

and decide the meaning in any context (Brahma sutrapadaih..).

 

Parabrahman is completely unimaginable for anybody at any time and the logic

along with intelligence, mind and words cannot touch Him. Parabrahman is the

real greatest item and can be called also as Brahman. Brahman means simply

greatest.

 

God may pervade only the soul and in such case we can say that Atman is

Brahman in the case of human incarnation only. Ofcourse, the soul of every human

being can be also called as Brahman because soul is the greatest item of the

creation due to its specialty of knowledge. Thus, the soul with or without God

can be called as Brahman. In the first sense it is God and in the second sense

it best item of creation. Sankara exploited both these senses for the sake of

converting atheists. His soul is Brahman because it is God. Every soul is

Brahman because it is best creation. Therefore, He called all the souls

including His soul as Brahman. Brahman is familiar in God only. So the atheists

thought that every soul is Brahman or God. Sankara did not clarify this point

because on clarification the converted atheists will go back. Such trick is not

wrong because it is for the welfare of the human beings. Without knowing this

point the followers of Ramanuja criticized Sankara as an

atheist. They say that Sankara says that there is no Brahman beyond the soul.

When God pervades the non-vibrated soul it is Brahman and therefore the

qualities (vibrations) have to be filtered. If the qualities are not filtered,

the soul is vibrated awareness and is called as Jeeva. Atman is included in

Jeeva and can be called as Jeevatman. When God pervades such Jeevatman, this

Jeevatman is called as Eswara. God can also pervade the gross body if required.

In such case God can be seen and touched. This is the case of human incarnation

in which God pervades these three bodies in micro scale. God pervades the

infinite ocean of awareness (infinite soul), which is separate from the creation

and is called as Brahman. Such ocean is Samashti Chit, which is not the total

sum of the souls present in the creation. The aggregate of souls is

discontinuous but this infinite soul is continuous. The soul (awareness) is not

present in hair, teeth and nails of the body and cannot be

pervading even all over the body.

 

The soul in human incarnation can be compared with this infinite soul. God is

common in both. The awareness is a drop in the human incarnation (Vyasthti

Chit). The difference is only in the quantity of chit. This quantitative

difference is also not real because the chit in both cases is actually beyond

space since God who is beyond space is present in both. The medium (Upadhi) or

chit attains the properties of God in both cases. Similarly, the vibrated ocean

of chit pervaded by God can be also called as Eswara and can be compared with

the Eswara of human incarnation as above. For clarification you can call

Samashti Brahman, Vyashti Brahman, Samashti Eswra and Vyashti Eswara. Really

there is no difference in these four items. The first one is God pervading the

infinite ocean of chit without any vibration before creation of the world. The

third item (Samashti Eswara) starts when the desire of the creation started.

When the creation is done the third item becomes Brahma,

when creation is ruled the third item becomes Vishnu and when the creation is

dissolved the third item becomes Siva. In these three states the third item is a

spectator of the creation for entertainment. The third item is separate from

creation because the third item is subject and creation is object. The first

item without God is Mula Maya. The third item without God is Maya. God living

first and third items is Parabrahman. The infinite ocean of chit is the first

creation of the God. Parabrahman is the Nirguna Brahman and Chit is Guna or

quality. Parabrahman beyond chit is the chief source or the chief substratum.

 

 

at the lotus of shri datta swami

surya

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