Without the soul God cannot be perceived and cannot be meditated upon

[dattaswami]

Without the soul God cannot be perceived and cannot be meditated upon

 

God and soul are the two components mixed homogeneously to form a single phase called human incarnation. As the single phase I can call Myself as soul as well as God. Two metals acting as the components are homogeneously mixed to form a single phase called as alloy. Gold and copper mix freely to form the single phased commercial Gold. As a phase it is one but as components it is two. These two aspects are Advaita and Dwaita. Gold is the major component and copper is the minor component. This is Vishishta Advaita, in which God is treated as the major component (Angi or Sheshi) and the mixed soul is treated as the minor component (Anga or Shesha).

 

Please note the most important point in these three schools of philosophy and that is:

 

These three schools are dealing only the human incarnation (alloy) and not God and soul, which are quite different and separate.

 

If you keep Gold and copper even side by side, there is no debate because they are clearly two different and separate items even according to a small kid. These three schools deal only God mixed with a selected soul (Son of God) and do not deal even God and a liberated soul who is very close to God. When the two items exist clearly there is no debate of one or two even if they are very closely associated.

 

But when those two get mixed and appear as one, the debate of one or two or two in one comes into the picture. Shankara says that it is one because the devotee should worship the human incarnation as God only without the idea of the soul. Even the commercial Gold is called as Gold because Gold is predominating component. The presence of copper is neglected. Without copper, gold cannot be ductile and cannot be made as the chain. Similarly, without the soul God cannot be perceived and cannot be meditated upon. The angle of Shankara is correct for any devoted soul towards the human incarnation. But when God exits, the soul is no more God. Arjuna cremated even the human body of Krishna .

 

When God left Parashurama, the latter was insulted. In such occasions the devotee should come to the concept of Dwaita of Madhva. By following the middle Vishishta Advaita, the devotee should respect the soul also since it is the minor component, which cannot be isolated from the major component. It is Dwaita with the final effect of Advaita. Without knowing all this main essence and the basic contexts of these three schools, the followers are quarrelling with each other applying a particular school in another context. The wrong context is God and separately existing soul which are made the subject of these three schools. There is no debate in the case of two blocks of Gold and copper even if they are very closely associated. When the context is gone, where is the debate, which is based on the wrong context? The fruits have fallen in the drainage and the quarrel was for the useless vacant basket!

 

Neglecting copper as a trace of impurity Shankara treats the commercial Gold as pure gold. The lady who wears the golden ornaments should think that the ornaments are of pure gold. Madhva says that the copper atom present in the commercial gold is not the atom of gold under any circumstances. This is also correct from the point of a scientist who analyzes the gold and studies the properties of gold and copper separately. The views of the lady and the scientist are quite different and both the views are correct in their own contexts. The view is based on the context and here the reference is very important.

 

 

 

 

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

 

Anil Antony

 

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