Ishwara is Hidden in Brahman If you analyze the above twist from the point of scholars, to reveal the truth, you will be amazed to realize the truth simultaneously without disturbing the doctrine. If the soul is Brahman in the absolutely sense, it must be Ishwara simultaneously in the plane of relativity or creation. The same Brahman in the absolute plane became Ishwara with reference to the world. Now the individual soul is in the world and has reference to the creation. If the soul is really Brahman in the absolute plane in which the reference to the world is absent, it should also be Ishwara simultaneously with reference to the creation. When the soul fails to be Ishwara in the world, how can it be Brahman beyond the world? A military colonel is the head of the military office. He is also a soldier fighting with a gun in the war. Unless he is a soldier in the war, he cannot claim to be the head of the military office as a colonel. If he fails to be a soldier in the war and cannot hold the gun, how can he claim to be the colonel who was promoted from the rank of the soldier to the head of the military office? The colonel or head of the military office must have the hidden potency of the soldier simultaneously. Similarly, Brahman beyond the creation has the hidden potency of Ishwara, which is expressed as Ishwara in creation. When the potency is not expressed in creation, it must be concluded that the potency is absent and hence the soul must be called as Brahman without the potency of Ishwara. This means that the colonel lost the potency to act as a soldier in the war and then he is no more a colonel! The definition of Brahman in the Veda and the Brahma Sutras is only based on the concept of the potency of Ishwara i.e., Brahman is that which creates, controls and destroys the world. The potency may not be an inherent characteristic of Brahman because no inherent characteristic of Brahman can be known since Brahman (Parabrahman) is unimaginable. In absence of knowledge of any inherent characteristic, you have to take the constantly associated characteristic i.e., the potency as Ishwara to be the only possible inherent characteristic of Brahman. Although the potency of Ishwara is the inherent characteristic of divine Maya, due to the constant association of the divine Maya with Brahman, you have to take the divine Maya as the inherent characteristic of Brahman. Otherwise, if you say that the soul is the unimaginable Brahman, your soul must be unimaginable to you. If you say that the knowledge of the self exists with self since the knowledge of Brahman exists with Brahman, the absence of the potency of Ishwara attacks your concept since the scriptures says that Brahman is the cause and controller of the world through divine Maya (Indromayaabhih—Veda). Let your self also control the world through divine Maya since we have no objection to your using the same divine Maya in this world for giving us the proof. The same Brahman acting as Ishwara in the world controls the sun through its constantly associated divine Maya (Bhishodeti Suryah—Veda). Then, the soul should also control the sun through the same divine Maya in this world. But the soul is insulted by even the hot radiation of the sun in a severe summer. Written by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami website address: universal-spirituality.org
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:30:01 +0000
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