PARABRAHMA SUTRAS (15-18)

15. Vidyullateva.

Translation: An electric wire is seen but not the electricity. This is a simile to the mediated God.

Explanation: When the electricity charges the metallic wire, the wire is treated as the electricity. The electric wire is seen but you can say that the electricity is seen. The electricity is seen through the wire indirectly though not directly. The electricity pervades all over the wire and when the wire is touched anywhere, the electricity is experienced through the touch of the wire. Therefore, the verbs like seen, touched etc., apply to the wire and not to the electricity. But, indirectly the electricity is experienced through the shock. Similarly God is experienced through the medium, since the medium can be treated as God like the live wire.

16. Suparnadvayashruteh Jivopaadhi Tat.

Translation: Veda says that two birds are on a single tree. This means that God enters a living body and is in association with the soul.

Explanation: Veda says that God and soul exist together in a living body (Dvaasuparnaa…). Therefore, the medium of God is always a living body and not any inert item in the world. The bird represents a living item. God is beyond living and inert items. God can exhibit any property of any item because the items and properties of the world are generated from God only. Hence, God exhibits the properties of life also, though He is beyond life. Hence, God and soul are treated as two living items or two living birds.

17. Ekshaternaashabdopadhi.

Translation: The will of God does not mean that God is awareness. It means only that the medium of God is not inert.

Explanation: Veda says that God wished to create this world (Sa Ekshata…). People thought that this Vedic statement means that God is awareness and not inert energy or matter because awareness alone can wish. This means that the medium of God is not inert. This means that the medium of God is awareness. The final conclusion is that God enters a living being as the medium and neither the inert statues nor the inert light etc. (energy). Veda never speaks about the nature of original God because Veda has already spoken elaborately that the nature of God is unimaginable. The Vedic statements regarding the nature of the medium are misunderstood to be the statements regarding the nature of original God.

18. Amnaayaat na pratimaa bhutejyaagaanat cha.

Translation: Veda says that God is not in the statue. Gita also says that those who worship the inert five elements will be born as inert elements.

Explanation: Veda says that God does not exist in the statue (Natasya Pratimaa…). The statue is only the representative model of God and God does not exist in the inert statue. Similarly, the inert energy like light etc. Gita also says that those who worship the inert matter and energy (inert five elements) are born as inert objects in the world (Bhutejya yaanti…). Hence, the medium into which God enters is not inert but is a living being which is mainly characterized by awareness. The body of the living being is inert but a living being is mainly characterized by life, mind etc., which is awareness.