The Concept of God in 'SrividyA'

The Concept of God and Its position as revealed by Srividya

     There is an anecdote regarding this fundamental question. It is said, once Emperor Akbar asked Birbal this same question and asked him to provide him a clear answer within seven days failing which the consequences would be very serious. Almost six days over, no credible answer was in sight and poor fellow Birbal was brooding over the problem. His young son, hardly ten year-old, asked his father why he was so much worried. When the young lad was told about the situation, he simply laughed at the question and said that he would answer the king if he takes him to the King’s court.  After much persuasion, Birbal agreed to take him to the Sabha and the child would answer the question in the gathering of learned men.

    When the assembly started, the King repeated the question: “Is there God? And, if there is God, where is he? And, what is he doing?”

   The court was silent and Birbal told the king that his son would answer this question if he permitted him to do so. The King was surprised that a child would answer this when the elders did not know the answer and keep quiet. He asked the child to come forward and asked the child to give the answer. But, the child chided the King for his insensitivity, showing no respect to child, and not giving him due hospitality. Soon the king realized his mistake and asked his servants to bring a chair, some fruits and milk to the child.

   Now, the child thanked the King and started, “His Kingship Emperor Akbar Badshah, the God is definitely there and He is everywhere, including this milk. The God is the unmanifest and manifests anywhere and everywhere at His Will. God is like the unmanifest pure ghee in the milk and everybody knows how to get ghee from boiled milk.”

    “He, the God, is there in unmanifest state like the oil in sesame (til), or peanut, or like the whole banyan tree in the small banyan seed.”

   Further, the young lad requested the king to come down and permit him to sit on the thrown for a few minutes. The king agreed and the child went up, sat on the throne and said, “God is very much here and playing the trick on us making the one who sat on this throne go down there and make me sit on the throne here.”

   The King was so pleased that he hugged him and gave lots of presents. Birbal was very happy. The king was proud that even a child in India knows all about God.

   This story holds good here in the case of Sri Chakra. The supreme Lord of the universe is the unmanifest Para- Brahman and manifests in Sriyantra; Bindu and trikona are the baindavasthana, the seat of Shivayuvati, Shiva-Shakti in unmanifest form here in the Sri-Yantra.

   The word ‘God’ is used to denote the divine power. It is a super-human divine mystic power. However, this English word ‘God’ is not a suitable word to describe the ‘divine power’ (divya- Shakti) and there are many a divine forces like the Devi, Devatas, Yoginis, Vashinis that operate in the universe. The word ‘dEva’ (Samsk.) is the most suitable word that means the ‘divine’ (‘div’, meaning Light).

    The term ‘dEva' is derived from ‘div’ (Samsk.) meaning ‘Light’, ‘jnyan’, ‘uncover’, etc. It also means, ‘enlighten’, ‘lift up’, show the right path, guide, spiritual power, etc. All these are relational terms or explanations. These are spiritual aspects or divine forces that do not come under the category of ‘Matter’ in Science. God is Light, Energy, Force, Intelligence yet unmanifest, but with full potency and dynamics.

    Gods depicted in Puranas, and there are eighteen of them, refer to the height of consciousness. Man only can become God by cleansing himself of all or most of his acquired Gunas; man can become god by getting rid of his desire, fear, attachment, anger, ego, etc.

   Even God is a ‘child of man’, for it is he (the Mind who is the Child of God) who creates Him (hence termed as Father) in his Mind (a Thought-Particle)! God is a 'Thoughtron' ('Thought' as the smallest digit at its subtlest state of 'Spiritual Power'- Light, Energy, Force, and Intelligence- all-in-one)!

   God is the very life-breath, prana. It is the very sustaining force of all living beings; the Atman or Soul-particle- the neutrinos (Energy particle derived from Sun) is the solar battery constantly recharged by Sun. It is 'that' (tyat) which creates and sustains everything. Whatever a person thinks of, imagines or dreams of is about some object only and that object is the product ‘created’ in his mind first as an idea, a thought-particle! There is nothing except the MIND or ‘man’ (Samsk.) and what it creates, thinks, dreams, imagines, or ideates. Everything, including ‘GOD’ begins here in Mind as an ‘idea’ or thought here, the same way as man is (just an idea!).

    ‘God’ is both immanent (object/matter) and transcendent (Spirit); at the Mind’s immanent or transcendent state (lower level), it creates everything by thoughts or ideas (ideation), images (by imagination), and objects (by objectification), reality (by realization) and fascination. Everything begins as a particle of thought, 'thoughtron', a thought particle, or idea (ideation) in the Mind (mentation) first, at lower level, the ‘Bhu’ level.. At higher levels or turiya (transcendent state) it works with spiritual or intuitional knowledge (ethereal level).