Nothing and Nobody Can be Equal to God
Nothing and Nobody Can be Equal to God
You need not worry that the actual form of God is beyond your imagination. This point is immaterial. The grace of God is important. When you prove that your bond with God is single and highest, you are blessed by God forever. The knowledge of actual form of God is un-necessary in this context. You have seen the king and got full favor from the king. When you have seen the king, it does not mean that you have seen the whole body of the king in naked condition. When you have seen him, you have only seen his face, palms and feet. All the body is covered by cloths and jewels and only very little portion of his body is opened to you. Similarly, when you have seen the human incarnation, you have seen God. When you have understood the existence of un-imaginable God through human incarnation, it means you have understood the aspect of existence, which is a little portion of God. You may get favor from a Muslim queen, who is completely covered by a black mask from top to bottom. She is like the totally unimaginable God. How does it matter? Will you worry that you are unable to see even a tiny hair on her head? You have understood that the queen exists in the black mask. The realization of the existence of queen before you is sufficient to express your gratefulness and devotion to the queen. People are unnecessarily worrying on unnecessary points of God like the knowledge of actual form of God etc. You are not worried about the actual necessary points like proving your highest devotion on God etc. Generally, if you are incapable of concentrating on the necessary point, you will be engaged on the unnecessary points to cover your incapability. The point is not about imaginable form or unimaginable form of God. The point is whether you can prove practically that God is highest for you or not!
A voice from the sky came down to Abraham asking him that whether he can sacrifice his son for the sake of God. Here, God is not in the visible form. Abraham immediately proved his devotion. Jesus asked the fishermen to leave everything and follow Him. They left everything and followed Jesus. Here, Abraham and fishermen proved their highest devotion for God. In the case of Abraham, God was in invisible form and unimaginable. In the case of fishermen, God was in a visible human form. Therefore, the imaginable and unimaginable concepts of God are not important. Moreover, the unimaginable concept of God is not from the side of God. It is only from your side since it is your defect. Your imagination cannot transcend the dimensions of space to understand God, who is beyond space, being the creator of space. God is the absolute reality and the space along with consequent creation is a relative reality. This point keeps God beyond space. This point cannot be sacrificed because the creation including space can be possible and under the full control of God only, if God alone is the absolute reality. If both God and creation are absolute realities, the control of God on creation becomes impossible. If both are absolute realities, you can see God in the space itself. But, there cannot be two absolute realities. Absolute reality can be one only. Otherwise, there is no possibility of creation. The concept of creation comes into the picture only when one absolute reality exists and creates the relative reality. A real rope cannot create a real snake. A real rope can create a false snake as an illusion. Therefore, to see the absolute God, you have to make the world as another absolute reality and in such case the creation becomes impossible. All this is the technical difficulty in the process of creation and hence, it is inevitable. If you understand this analysis, you will not mistake God as a sadist troubling you by hiding Himself. All this analysis is given by Shankara.
The practical sacrifice for the sake of God to prove that God is highest is important here to get the permanent grace of God. Kamsa heard the voice of unimaginable God from the sky about the danger from the eighth child of his sister. Even though it is the voice of unimaginable God, he tried to oppose God by killing all her children. If he had faith in the unimaginable God, he should have killed his own devilish nature and should have surrendered to God for protection. Krishna was the unimaginable God in visible human form. Even though it is the form of an ordinary human being, Gopikas sacrificed everything and everybody for Him and surrendered to God completely. Therefore, the point is not about the form of God. The point is about your attitude towards your selfishness and your sacrifice to God. The essence of your entire spiritual effort is to eradicate your selfishness and develop sacrifice for the sake of God. If this attitude is achieved, there is no need of worshipping God. What is the use of worship as long as your attitude is centered on your selfishness either for Iham or Param? Even Salvation and Kaivalyam become useless, if you aspire for them for the sake of your becoming God. You should aspire for these two only to serve God and then only it is called as Nivrutti. Shankara included both Iham and Param in Pravrutti only (Ihamutra phala viragah…). He included even Salvation in Pravrutti only, if it is towards selfishness and discarded even such Salvation (Namokshasyaakaankshaa…). Even Kaivalyam is for the service of God only and not for selfish enjoyment according to Shankara (Eswaraanugrahaadeva...).
