Parabrahman, Brahman & Human Incarnation

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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 feet of Shri Datta Swami

surya

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