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Worship of Shakti
Datta means the unimaginable God given to the world. It is always better to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. Datta enters the energetic form predominated by rajas called as Brahma. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Sattvam called as Vishnu. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Tamas called as Shiva. If you utter the word ‘unimaginable God’, it gives lot of strain to mind because the meaning of the word is that you can never imagine Him (avyaktaahi… Gita). Hence, the Gita advises all the souls to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. In the above verses, the word ‘I’ represents the ultimate unimaginable God, who is not at all different in any way from Datta. Here, other deities mean Vishnu and Shiva. Whether you worship Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is the direct worship of Datta only. Even though the hidden Datta is not worshipped directly (avidhipurvakam) while worshipping Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is also direct worship of Datta only (tepimaameva…yajanti). Even while worshipping human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, Saibaba etc., it is direct worship of Datta only since Datta entered and merged with the medium.
But, when you worship other angels like Indra thinking that Indra is Datta, it is not direct worship of Datta. It is only worship of representative model of Datta. Similarly, you can worship any human being as Datta. In all such worships, Datta is indirectly worshipped and such worship will improve your theoretical devotion on God and hence is not useless.
If you worship Shakti like Vani, Lakshmi, Parvati, Radha etc, it is the worship of a devoted soul that reached the climax of devotion. In incarnation, God becomes the soul due to homogenous merge. The worship of such devotees is no doubt indirect worship of Datta only. But, God is a servant of such exceptional devotees. The worship of such devotees is greater than the worship of even the human incarnation since mastering is greater than equality. The worship of such devotee has merit that it is more powerful than the worship of human incarnation. The defect in this worship is that it is not the direct worship of God.
Similarly, in the worship of incarnation the merit is that it is direct worship of God and the defect is that God will bless you in the way, which is best for your spiritual progress and not in the way as you desire. When you worship an exceptional devotee, who is the master of God, your wish is blindly fulfilled by God. The exceptional devotee is near to you because it is also a soul with a body. The soul of the exceptional devotee is paraprakruti and the body of the same devotee is aparaprakruti. You are also a mixture of these two types of prakruti. Hence, the exceptional devotee is homogenous with you. Your wish is easily agreed by the exceptional devotee and gets blindly fulfilled by the God acting as servant. Hence, the devotees worshipping Shakti (prakruti) get all the boons according to their will and sometimes fall. The devotee of incarnation will not have such fall because God will grant only that which is really the best in the eternal life of the soul. To fulfill all the desires, devotees follow the path of worship of Shakti. To get eternal salvation, direct worship of incarnation is followed since your desires are always filtered by God.
: This is a good question, which is relevant to Vijayadashami the festival of today related to Goddess Durga. We can understand anything perfectly provided you know the essential meanings for which these personified names stand. Adi Shakti means the first item of the creation of the unimaginable God, which is the space. Space and the most subtle cosmic energy are one and the same because the Veda says that both are the first item created (Tat Tejo asrujata, Atmana akaashah). This cosmic energy or space is inert in nature. The possessor of this inert power is Lord Shiva, Who is said to represent Tamas, which is the inert quality without discrimination. In the final destruction (Maha Pralaya), Lord Shiva destroys everything and everybody without any discrimination. The inert primordial power or Adi Shakti is thus explained.
The inert primordial energy is modified into awareness and matter. Awareness is a specific work form of inert energy. This awareness is the basis of the power of knowledge (Jnana Shakti) or Goddess Saraswati. The same inert primordial energy is also modified into matter or wealth represented by Goddess Lakshmi. Thus, this illustrates the modification of Goddess Durga into Goddess Saraswati and Goddess Lakshmi. The most subtle primordial inert energy is also expressed as the inert energy in the forms like light, heat, magnetism, etc., which is represented by Goddess Parvati. The only difference between the primary energy or space (Durga) and the other forms of energy (Parvati) is that the former is unexpressed and the later is expressed. The ‘unexpressed’ does not mean unimaginable. It is imaginable but not expressed. Therefore, you should not mistake Durga as the unimaginable God. Due to this similarity of the original nature of unexpressed primary energy or space and the expressed forms of energy, Goddess Durga can be treated as Goddess Parvati and therefore, Lord Shiva is the Husband or Possessor of the same inert energy.
The sect of devotees of power (Shaakteya) end in the first item of creation, which is the Adi Shakti. In fact, this primordial inert energy is the creator, sustainer and dissolver of this entire creation so that anybody can easily misunderstand this Adi Shakti as the unimaginable God. This philosophy is exactly the concept of scientists also. But, this philosophy cannot be maintained because such power is inert and cannot design the universe.
You cannot say that this primary energy has also awareness because Goddess Saraswati is not evolved in the beginning state of the creation where only Adi Shakti remained alone. In the absence of matter, no nervous system could exist at that time. If you say that such system existed and awareness was present due to materialized nervous system, both Goddess Saraswati and Goddess Lakshmi should have existed as primary powers. In such case, you cannot say that Adi Shakti, who alone existed in the beginning evolved into Goddess Saraswati, Goddess Lakshmi and Goddess Parvati afterwards. Such attempt is not acceptable because the Adi Shakti representing space does not contain awareness and matter everywhere even now.
The space or primary energy is imaginable everywhere in the core except at its boundary. The space is infinite, which means that the boundary is unimaginable. This unimaginable boundary is the unimaginable God. The primary energy cannot be both imaginable in core and unimaginable at the boundary simultaneously since both these mutually contradict each other. Hence, you have to accept the existence of unimaginable God as the second item, which is completely different from the imaginable primary energy. The Veda says that the unimaginable God is the basis of the primary energy (Brahma Puchcham Pratishtaa) and also is the Creator of the primary energy (Tat Tejo…). The Veda also says that primary energy is evolved into awareness or Jnana Shakti, matter or Bala Shakti and dynamic power or Kriya Shakti (Paraasya Shaktih…).
Datta means the unimaginable God given to the world. It is always better to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. Datta enters the energetic form predominated by rajas called as Brahma. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Sattvam called as Vishnu. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Tamas called as Shiva. If you utter the word ‘unimaginable God’, it gives lot of strain to mind because the meaning of the word is that you can never imagine Him (avyaktaahi… Gita). Hence, the Gita advises all the souls to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. In the above verses, the word ‘I’ represents the ultimate unimaginable God, who is not at all different in any way from Datta. Here, other deities mean Vishnu and Shiva. Whether you worship Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is the direct worship of Datta only. Even though the hidden Datta is not worshipped directly (avidhipurvakam) while worshipping Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is also direct worship of Datta only (tepimaameva…yajanti). Even while worshipping human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, Saibaba etc., it is direct worship of Datta only since Datta entered and merged with the medium.
Datta means the unimaginable God given to the world. It is always better to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. Datta enters the energetic form predominated by rajas called as Brahma. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Sattvam called as Vishnu. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Tamas called as Shiva. If you utter the word ‘unimaginable God’, it gives lot of strain to mind because the meaning of the word is that you can never imagine Him (avyaktaahi… Gita). Hence, the Gita advises all the souls to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. In the above verses, the word ‘I’ represents the ultimate unimaginable God, who is not at all different in any way from Datta. Here, other deities mean Vishnu and Shiva. Whether you worship Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is the direct worship of Datta only. Even though the hidden Datta is not worshipped directly (avidhipurvakam) while worshipping Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is also direct worship of Datta only (tepimaameva…yajanti). Even while worshipping human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, Saibaba etc., it is direct worship of Datta only since Datta entered and merged with the medium.
But, when you worship other angels like Indra thinking that Indra is Datta, it is not direct worship of Datta. It is only worship of representative model of Datta. Similarly, you can worship any human being as Datta. In all such worships, Datta is indirectly worshipped and such worship will improve your theoretical devotion on God and hence is not useless.
If you worship Shakti like Vani, Lakshmi, Parvati, Radha etc, it is the worship of a devoted soul that reached the climax of devotion. In incarnation, God becomes the soul due to homogenous merge. The worship of such devotees is no doubt indirect worship of Datta only. But, God is a servant of such exceptional devotees. The worship of such devotees is greater than the worship of even the human incarnation since mastering is greater than equality. The worship of such devotee has merit that it is more powerful than the worship of human incarnation. The defect in this worship is that it is not the direct worship of God.
Similarly, in the worship of incarnation the merit is that it is direct worship of God and the defect is that God will bless you in the way, which is best for your spiritual progress and not in the way as you desire. When you worship an exceptional devotee, who is the master of God, your wish is blindly fulfilled by God. The exceptional devotee is near to you because it is also a soul with a body. The soul of the exceptional devotee is paraprakruti and the body of the same devotee is aparaprakruti. You are also a mixture of these two types of prakruti. Hence, the exceptional devotee is homogenous with you. Your wish is easily agreed by the exceptional devotee and gets blindly fulfilled by the God acting as servant. Hence, the devotees worshipping Shakti (prakruti) get all the boons according to their will and sometimes fall. The devotee of incarnation will not have such fall because God will grant only that which is really the best in the eternal life of the soul. To fulfill all the desires, devotees follow the path of worship of Shakti. To get eternal salvation, direct worship of incarnation is followed since your desires are always filtered by God.
: This is a good question, which is relevant to Vijayadashami the festival of today related to Goddess Durga. We can understand anything perfectly provided you know the essential meanings for which these personified names stand. Adi Shakti means the first item of the creation of the unimaginable God, which is the space. Space and the most subtle cosmic energy are one and the same because the Veda says that both are the first item created (Tat Tejo asrujata, Atmana akaashah). This cosmic energy or space is inert in nature. The possessor of this inert power is Lord Shiva, Who is said to represent Tamas, which is the inert quality without discrimination. In the final destruction (Maha Pralaya), Lord Shiva destroys everything and everybody without any discrimination. The inert primordial power or Adi Shakti is thus explained.
The inert primordial energy is modified into awareness and matter. Awareness is a specific work form of inert energy. This awareness is the basis of the power of knowledge (Jnana Shakti) or Goddess Saraswati. The same inert primordial energy is also modified into matter or wealth represented by Goddess Lakshmi. Thus, this illustrates the modification of Goddess Durga into Goddess Saraswati and Goddess Lakshmi. The most subtle primordial inert energy is also expressed as the inert energy in the forms like light, heat, magnetism, etc., which is represented by Goddess Parvati. The only difference between the primary energy or space (Durga) and the other forms of energy (Parvati) is that the former is unexpressed and the later is expressed. The ‘unexpressed’ does not mean unimaginable. It is imaginable but not expressed. Therefore, you should not mistake Durga as the unimaginable God. Due to this similarity of the original nature of unexpressed primary energy or space and the expressed forms of energy, Goddess Durga can be treated as Goddess Parvati and therefore, Lord Shiva is the Husband or Possessor of the same inert energy.
The sect of devotees of power (Shaakteya) end in the first item of creation, which is the Adi Shakti. In fact, this primordial inert energy is the creator, sustainer and dissolver of this entire creation so that anybody can easily misunderstand this Adi Shakti as the unimaginable God. This philosophy is exactly the concept of scientists also. But, this philosophy cannot be maintained because such power is inert and cannot design the universe.
You cannot say that this primary energy has also awareness because Goddess Saraswati is not evolved in the beginning state of the creation where only Adi Shakti remained alone. In the absence of matter, no nervous system could exist at that time. If you say that such system existed and awareness was present due to materialized nervous system, both Goddess Saraswati and Goddess Lakshmi should have existed as primary powers. In such case, you cannot say that Adi Shakti, who alone existed in the beginning evolved into Goddess Saraswati, Goddess Lakshmi and Goddess Parvati afterwards. Such attempt is not acceptable because the Adi Shakti representing space does not contain awareness and matter everywhere even now.
The space or primary energy is imaginable everywhere in the core except at its boundary. The space is infinite, which means that the boundary is unimaginable. This unimaginable boundary is the unimaginable God. The primary energy cannot be both imaginable in core and unimaginable at the boundary simultaneously since both these mutually contradict each other. Hence, you have to accept the existence of unimaginable God as the second item, which is completely different from the imaginable primary energy. The Veda says that the unimaginable God is the basis of the primary energy (Brahma Puchcham Pratishtaa) and also is the Creator of the primary energy (Tat Tejo…). The Veda also says that primary energy is evolved into awareness or Jnana Shakti, matter or Bala Shakti and dynamic power or Kriya Shakti (Paraasya Shaktih…).
Datta means the unimaginable God given to the world. It is always better to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. Datta enters the energetic form predominated by rajas called as Brahma. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Sattvam called as Vishnu. Datta enters energetic form predominated by Tamas called as Shiva. If you utter the word ‘unimaginable God’, it gives lot of strain to mind because the meaning of the word is that you can never imagine Him (avyaktaahi… Gita). Hence, the Gita advises all the souls to take the unimaginable God as Datta or Hiranyagarbha or Narayana or Sadashiva. In the above verses, the word ‘I’ represents the ultimate unimaginable God, who is not at all different in any way from Datta. Here, other deities mean Vishnu and Shiva. Whether you worship Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is the direct worship of Datta only. Even though the hidden Datta is not worshipped directly (avidhipurvakam) while worshipping Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva, it is also direct worship of Datta only (tepimaameva…yajanti). Even while worshipping human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, Saibaba etc., it is direct worship of Datta only since Datta entered and merged with the medium.
