dattaswami
Dream of soul Vs Dream of God
You cannot say that the dream or imaginary world of the awareness can be compared to God and physical world. It is certainly a comparison, which also is limited to few aspects only. For example the dream or imaginary world is a modification of the awareness and the quantity of awareness is decreased by such modification. After serious imagination or dream, the amount of awareness is decreased and the human being gets the indication by becoming weak. After taking food, again the awareness is generated and weakness disappears. If you apply this aspect to God, God also must decrease in His quantity by creating the world through modification. Therefore, you can take the simile in certain limited aspects only and cannot extend to all aspects.
You can say that God creates this world, controls it and finally dissolves it just like the soul is creating, controlling and destroying the imaginary world or dream. You should not project this concept of modification into the case of God creating world from simile, which is the case of creation of imaginary world or dream by soul or awareness. After all, awareness is nervous energy, which is imaginable item. If you insist on the existence of special awareness, which does not need food etc., it means you have taken the help of the unimaginable component in the case of special awareness. Instead of stating that awareness creates this world or wishes by its unimaginable power, you can straightly say that the unimaginable power or God wishes or creates this world. When the physical world and imaginary world are quite different, how can you say that the source for both is the same awareness seen in the living beings? If this awareness existing in human beings is the cause for both the physical world and the imaginary world, why the same awareness in any living being is unable to create even an atom of the physical world? Hence, you should distinguish the awareness in the living beings from the awareness of God.
You cannot say that the dream or imaginary world of the awareness can be compared to God and physical world. It is certainly a comparison, which also is limited to few aspects only. For example the dream or imaginary world is a modification of the awareness and the quantity of awareness is decreased by such modification. After serious imagination or dream, the amount of awareness is decreased and the human being gets the indication by becoming weak. After taking food, again the awareness is generated and weakness disappears. If you apply this aspect to God, God also must decrease in His quantity by creating the world through modification. Therefore, you can take the simile in certain limited aspects only and cannot extend to all aspects.
You can say that God creates this world, controls it and finally dissolves it just like the soul is creating, controlling and destroying the imaginary world or dream. You should not project this concept of modification into the case of God creating world from simile, which is the case of creation of imaginary world or dream by soul or awareness. After all, awareness is nervous energy, which is imaginable item. If you insist on the existence of special awareness, which does not need food etc., it means you have taken the help of the unimaginable component in the case of special awareness. Instead of stating that awareness creates this world or wishes by its unimaginable power, you can straightly say that the unimaginable power or God wishes or creates this world. When the physical world and imaginary world are quite different, how can you say that the source for both is the same awareness seen in the living beings? If this awareness existing in human beings is the cause for both the physical world and the imaginary world, why the same awareness in any living being is unable to create even an atom of the physical world? Hence, you should distinguish the awareness in the living beings from the awareness of God.