Nature of the Absolute — Part 2

We are finite, and God-dess is infi­nite. We can­not limit the infi­nite with mere human thought and words. We do not want to define a God that is too small and fits neatly in our box. God-dess’ incon­ceiv­able potency tran­scends the law of con­tra­dic­tion, blend­ing con­tra­dic­tory ideas and qual­i­ties within him-herself paradoxically. 

Since the Absolute is infi­nite, every­thing exists within it. The infi­nite exis­tence of God-dess log­i­cally excludes the exis­tence of any­thing other than God-dess. All exis­tence con­sists of the energy of the Absolute, which remains intrin­si­cally related to it. Every­thing exists within God-dess, and she-he exists within every­thing. Any­thing we speak or think must exist as part of the infinite.

Infin­ity and per­son­al­ity coex­ist as essen­tial fea­tures of the Absolute. Mere denial of qual­i­ties and attrib­utes to the Absolute remains imper­fect and lim­it­ing. God-dess man­i­fests infi­nite attrib­utes and forms. God-dess’ incon­ceiv­able nature implies lev­els of being and intel­li­gence higher than our own. Nat­u­rally, the power of unlim­ited God-dess appears incon­ceiv­able to our finite minds.

God-dess remains with­out sec­ond. God-dess exists as the only real­ity. Pure self-luminous con­scious­ness forms God-dess’ body. God-dess con­sti­tutes the eter­nal prin­ci­ple, the high­est good, and the high­est bliss.

God-dess exists as an essen­tial unity above cat­e­gor­i­cal dif­fer­ence. The Absolute is one, but dif­fer­ent reli­gions call God-dess by dif­fer­ent names. For exam­ple, Judaism, Chris­tian­ity, and Islam acknowl­edge the same eter­nal, indi­vis­i­ble, immutable, and per­fect Being, imma­nent in the hearts of all, but they use dif­fer­ent names, forms, and attrib­utes to describe God-dess.

While some may say the mate­r­ial world is cat­e­gor­i­cally dif­fer­ent from God-dess, it is not self-existent. It depends on God-dess for its exis­tence. God-dess pos­sesses the expla­na­tion for its exis­tence within itself–it nec­es­sar­ily exists.  It can­not fail to exist.  It is its very nature to exist.

God-dess’ body and its owner are not two dif­fer­ent prin­ci­ples like the dif­fer­ence between the body and soul of liv­ing enti­ties in the phys­i­cal world. God-dess’ body and its owner both con­sist of con­scious­ness and bliss. The same eter­nal spir­i­tual prin­ci­ple man­i­fests God-dess’ names, attrib­utes, activ­i­ties, and abodes. God-dess is not dif­fer­ent inter­nally or externally.

God-dess pos­sesses incon­ceiv­able power to man­i­fest dif­fer­ent forms with­out los­ing his-her one­ness. God-dess remains one and indi­vis­i­ble yet expands innu­mer­able forms and man­i­fests in infi­nite ways to per­sons accord­ing to their dif­fer­ent tastes, apti­tudes, and modes of realization.

God-dess man­i­fests on three clear lev­els, as Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness, Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, and per­sonal God-dess accord­ing to the three paths of approach–knowledge, med­i­ta­tion, and devo­tion. Of these three forms, each suc­ceed­ing form super­sedes and philo­soph­i­cally speak­ing, includes the pre­ced­ing. God-dess, the high­est man­i­fes­ta­tion, super­sedes and includes Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness and Cos­mic Consciousness.

We iden­tify God-dess with the supreme per­sons, Radha-Krishna, the source of all incar­na­tions, the ulti­mate ground of being, in whom infi­nite grandeur, infi­nite pow­ers, and infi­nite modes of divine bliss exist. All scrip­tures, either explic­itly or implic­itly, speak of God-dess as the Ulti­mate Real­ity. God-dess con­sti­tutes the only real­ity that exists with­out change before, dur­ing, and after the end of creation.

God-dess, the high­est being, per­fectly man­i­fests all aus­pi­cious qual­i­ties. Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness exists as the incom­plete man­i­fes­ta­tion of God-dess, in which the divine attrib­utes and poten­cies lie dor­mant. Dr. Kapoor explains:

It is pri­mor­dial same­ness, but not a bar­ren still­ness; it is inde­ter­mi­nate­ness, but not an inde­ter­mi­nate­ness that totally denies dis­tinc­tions and def­i­nite­ness; it has dis­tinc­tions, but the dis­tinc­tions are not clearly brought out; it is a cre­ative poten­tial­ity, but a poten­tial­ity that is eter­nally actu­al­ized in its most per­fect state as [God-dess].

God-dess’ attrib­utes and poten­cies exist in him-her essen­tially and eter­nally and are not unreal or super­im­posed. God-dess and her-his attrib­utes and ener­gies remain inseparable.

God-dess indulges in spir­i­tual pas­times eter­nally. God-dess man­i­fests a spir­i­tual body, an eter­nal abode, and eter­nal com­pan­ions. Fol­low­ers of the path of devo­tion real­ize God-dess’ high­est, most per­fect form. From our per­spec­tive, fol­low­ers of the path of knowl­edge real­ize Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness, which sym­bol­izes the out­ward glow or divine lus­ter of God-dess’ spir­i­tual body. Sim­i­larly, fol­low­ers of the path of med­i­ta­tion real­ize Cos­mic Con­scious­ness per­vad­ing all.

God-dess’ majes­tic qual­i­ties include:

• sup­port­ing and pro­tect­ing the universe
• unfold­ing and sus­tain­ing the nat­ural func­tion of devotion
• lead­ing devo­tees to attain­ment of the tran­scen­den­tal realm
• con­tain­ing all beings
• exist­ing within all.

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