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dattaswami
03-10-2012, 12:53 AM
The absolute knowledge of the absolute God is impossible because the absolute God is unimaginable. The absolute God comes in human form to give you the experience of His existence, in absence of which, you may deny the very existence of the absolute God and may become atheist (Astityeva….Veda). The identification of the human form in which the absolute God exists is the knowledge of God (Brahma Jnanam or Brahma Vidya).

The experience of the existence of the absolute God does not reveal any trace of the nature of the absolute God and hence God is always unimaginable. The only information about the absolute God is that God exists. “Aum Tat Sat” means that God exists and no more information about God is available. The word Tat means that God is beyond your imagination. The word Aum denotes that God is the creator, ruler and destroyer of this world. These three adjectives indicate the works (Creation, rule and destruction) of God only and not the nature of the God. This is called as the information about the existence only (Sanmatra vada). God comes in human form, which is characterized by the awareness or chit.

Conley
03-10-2012, 10:06 AM
Welcome Dattaswami, interesting thoughts. I'll have to reread that.

spunkloaf
03-10-2012, 06:20 PM
It is often said that God works in mysterious ways. We have ancient texts claiming that we have physically experienced direct miracles of God in one way or another. It is curious to me why this appears to be true in the distant past, but is no more present...especially in a time where it would seem we need a divine intervention more than ever.

In terms of how limited our understanding is of everything, even if God exists it would be unfair if we are expected to understand.

dattaswami
03-10-2012, 08:44 PM
It is often said that God works in mysterious ways. We have ancient texts claiming that we have physically experienced direct miracles of God in one way or another. It is curious to me why this appears to be true in the distant past, but is no more present...especially in a time where it would seem we need a divine intervention more than ever.

In terms of how limited our understanding is of everything, even if God exists it would be unfair if we are expected to understand.
God Himself comes down in human form to give practical proof for the existence of the unimaginable God through the exhibition of unimaginable events called as miracles. Jesus told that He has come down to fulfill, what is said in the scripture. Krishna also said that He came down since there is a necessity and He said that He will come down whenever there is a necessity. The necessity is the requirement of practical proof for the theoretical explanation of God given in the scripture. Then only, the validity comes.

Science is valid since every concept in the book is experimentally proved in the laboratory. A student of science always attends the practical class in the laboratory after the theory class. The doubt about the existence of God is quite natural because there is every chance to doubt about the existence of anything, which is not understood even by intensive imagination. The human incarnation declares the existence of God after giving the practical proof. In fact, people experience the unimaginable events in their life, which indicate God. But, people do not care to analyze and remember God thereby.

Even if we dispose all the miracles as magic show without careful analysis, the existence of unimaginable boundary of universe, which can be realized by anybody at anytime, is a clear proof for existence of unimaginable entity called as God.