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Energy of God-head
Energy of God-head.
The Harmonist Magazine January 1929
It is asserted by all God-loving people that God-head being the Fountain-head of all energies displays His Eternal Manifestations both in transcendental and mundane regions. In the phenomenal existence, He is targeted as Nature or the Dependant Fountain-head of the Supreme Authority God-head. The phenomena represent her service to a sensuous agent who is sometimes considered as a part and parcel of phenomena. The different attributions that are to be found in matter have got different denominations from their essence or spirit. So, the spirit is considered to be non-transformable. God-head being the Fountain-head of all energies has had the authority of delegating an inconceivable power to retain the eternity of the Spiritual Kingdom opposing to the conception of the investigators of temporal world. In determining the energy conferred on phenomena, we find the three different phases of quality. And this quality is fully restricted in quantitative reference and liable to be intermixed with one another. The qualities are known in three different aspects, when we take into account the question of time. Prior to the existence, along with existence and after the existence are the three different stages of the said quality. This quality when projected in space, we get two dividing lines which form the four walls of a particular object. So the question of limitation is an invariable factor inherent in matter. In the Spiritual Realm the question of time and space have no separate identification to purturb the peaceful monistic view, though such monism does not prevent the variety of Eternal Manifestation. In phenomenal observation time and space prove to intercept the idea of numerical monism; whereas, in the Transcendental Region of Spirit they offer no resistance or discordance in reference to finite shortcomings. The decent or the vulgar, the ribald or the non-ribald, the high or the low, the wide or the narrow have got contrary aspects which prove detrimental to our desired facilities in this world. But on the other hand, when we are carried to the Region of Peace and Harmony, these qualitative functions offer us ample facilities jibing the frailties of natural products.
The quality of Transcendental Nature is known to us as proper Eternal Power of the Property which is identical with the Proprietor Himself. That transcendental Power or Energy is classed in three divisions: viz. the Energy proper of His own, the Energy of His physical possession and His Energy lying in the demarcated position between the former two. When we are brought to view His own, we see in Him three esoteric aspects of His own Potency viz. His All-harmonising Power, His All-knowing Power and His All-pervading and permeating Power. The All-harmonising Energy acts to keep up the relation of Existence with knowledge. His Pervading and Permeating Energy acts as the Cementor between two specified Energies i.e., Knowledge and Harmony. And His All-knowing Energy acts as identifying the equal distance of Existence and Harmony. So all energies in Him are not contending with one another, but serving as friendly dependants of the Supreme Authority. But the case is otherwise in mundane phenomena. The qualities prove to be contending with one another in order to keep up their respective properties.
The School of Pantheists differs from the Devotional School, when it cannot distinguish between the energies found in phenomena and different phases of eternal energies that create, transform and conduct the material world with that of his own where Harmonising Power brings all in monistic order. This monopoly of God-head is wrongly viewed by the fiendish spirits who revolt against the Fountain-head of all harmony. They ignore the Existence, Perfect Knowledge and Harmony of the God-head and try their level best to accommodate the All Energetic Personality into their cavity of finite but wrong observations. They are prone to reconcile the different tracks of theism and atheism into agnosticism and scepticism. Their attempts fail when they want to justify to identify the mundane energy with the transcendental in as much as the latter—the subject of their inspection is not covered up in their present predicament.
Even a most thoughtful reader is found to err when he states that even associated counterparts are in the same category with that of fettered souls. His clear idea of different energies of God-head cannot but agree with our view when we are confident of different phases of energies and their manifestations. The erring aptitude can equally chalk out his path of confounding Krishna with Karshna when he can acquaint himself with the distinctive phases of manifestations due to the Energetic God-head and His energies.
If we compare the erotic principle and unalloyed devotion in the estimation of Energy and their different graduation, we should never be led to mistake in our attempts to compare the different associated counterparts of One Integer, the Personal God-head. The amatory love towards God-head has no doubt, got a higher place than filial love, friendly love, love between the principal master and dependents as well as a love of cherishing a face of neutrality.
We are so much averse to render our service to the All-knowing Over-soul that we claim our existence in an atmosphere surcharged with common errors. The very expression ‘Absolute Truth’ is sometimes followed by a pronoun indicating the neuter conception of Godhead in lieu of His unlimited Power of initiative organisation. The word ‘Absolute Truth’ when used in neuter gender in our present-day atmosphere, is meant for the mundane bibliography and not intended for Spiritual Realm. In the case of Absolute Truth, the pronoun ‘he’ or ‘who’ should be used, instead of ‘it’ or ‘which’, as we must not deviate from the Eternal Existence of Personal God-head and His Spiritual manifestation void of any mundane discrepancies. If we ignore the Power of All-mightiness in God-head, we would prove ourselves to be aloof from the ever-existence, ever-manifested Spiritual Kingdom.