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Why unimaginability of God is not stressed earlier
The real and absolute nature of God is unimaginable. The previous preachers know this point very well since they performed several miracles, which were unimaginable events only. The miracles stand as practical proof for the existence of unimaginable entity that performs the unimaginable events. When the preachers were performing so many miracles, can’t they know the existence of unimaginable item?. It is very simple and no effort is necessary for the performer of the miracles to understand the existence of unimaginable entity and to propagate the same concept. In such case, why the preachers did not say that God is unimaginable?
There may be difficulty to believe this concept by looking at others performing the miracles. But there should be no trace of difficulty of the performer himself to understand this concept, which is demonstrated by himself. Even demons performed miracles, but they were unable to grasp the concept due to their devilish nature of ignorance. Thus, demons can be excused but not the intellectual preachers in revealing this concept. There must be some strong reason for the preachers in not revealing this concept inspite of the demonstration by themselves. Such strong reason is that the intellectual level of ancient people was simply constituted by the conclusions of theoretical logic exercised through debates and discussions only. There was no experimental phase to arrive at steady conclusions. Today, lot of practical evidence is required to contradict any concept. In the ancient times mere sharp logic was sufficient to contradict the concept.
There was no steadiness in the establishment of the concept and the fate of the concept was depending on simply the intellectual sharpness of anybody. In such time, if God was declared as unimaginable, the immediate danger was the possibility of non-existence of the unimaginable items. In such case, the very basic existence of God becomes critical to be believed. In fact, before the arrival of Shankara the fast logic of intelligence ended in the final conclusion that everything is unreal including God. The theory of relativity was applied to every item of the creation with high speed. At any step, the cause is real and the product is unreal since the reality of the product is based on the reality of the cause. But the cause itself is the product of another cause.
This analysis went on ad-infinitum and the final conclusion was that everything is unreal (Shunyavada of Buddhists). In such situation, if you say that the ultimate cause is unimaginable, people would just laugh at it by saying that the unimaginable ultimate cause must be disposed more conveniently as unreal. The word ‘unimaginable’ indirectly means negation of a logical answer. With this fear, Shankara proposed God as pure awareness having no attributes (Nirguna). Later on Ramanuja and Madhva also proposed God as awareness with attributes as qualified (Saguna). This difference is immaterial because the basically real unimaginable God was not projected. Only mediated God was presented, who was the awareness charged by unimaginable God.
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The real and absolute nature of God is unimaginable. The previous preachers know this point very well since they performed several miracles, which were unimaginable events only. The miracles stand as practical proof for the existence of unimaginable entity that performs the unimaginable events. When the preachers were performing so many miracles, can’t they know the existence of unimaginable item?. It is very simple and no effort is necessary for the performer of the miracles to understand the existence of unimaginable entity and to propagate the same concept. In such case, why the preachers did not say that God is unimaginable?
There may be difficulty to believe this concept by looking at others performing the miracles. But there should be no trace of difficulty of the performer himself to understand this concept, which is demonstrated by himself. Even demons performed miracles, but they were unable to grasp the concept due to their devilish nature of ignorance. Thus, demons can be excused but not the intellectual preachers in revealing this concept. There must be some strong reason for the preachers in not revealing this concept inspite of the demonstration by themselves. Such strong reason is that the intellectual level of ancient people was simply constituted by the conclusions of theoretical logic exercised through debates and discussions only. There was no experimental phase to arrive at steady conclusions. Today, lot of practical evidence is required to contradict any concept. In the ancient times mere sharp logic was sufficient to contradict the concept.
There was no steadiness in the establishment of the concept and the fate of the concept was depending on simply the intellectual sharpness of anybody. In such time, if God was declared as unimaginable, the immediate danger was the possibility of non-existence of the unimaginable items. In such case, the very basic existence of God becomes critical to be believed. In fact, before the arrival of Shankara the fast logic of intelligence ended in the final conclusion that everything is unreal including God. The theory of relativity was applied to every item of the creation with high speed. At any step, the cause is real and the product is unreal since the reality of the product is based on the reality of the cause. But the cause itself is the product of another cause.
This analysis went on ad-infinitum and the final conclusion was that everything is unreal (Shunyavada of Buddhists). In such situation, if you say that the ultimate cause is unimaginable, people would just laugh at it by saying that the unimaginable ultimate cause must be disposed more conveniently as unreal. The word ‘unimaginable’ indirectly means negation of a logical answer. With this fear, Shankara proposed God as pure awareness having no attributes (Nirguna). Later on Ramanuja and Madhva also proposed God as awareness with attributes as qualified (Saguna). This difference is immaterial because the basically real unimaginable God was not projected. Only mediated God was presented, who was the awareness charged by unimaginable God.
Universal-Spirituality
Universal Spirituality for World Peace