Knowledge is more important than miracle

[dattaswami]

**Knowledge is more important than miracle. **The miracle gives only information about the concept of unimaginable power which is wonderful. When the imagination fails the wonder is generated Maya means wonderful and there by it means unimaginable. By this Maya, the possessor of Maya (Mayin) is inferred. Thus, miracle gives the inference of the existence of unimaginable God. But this alone is not sufficient. Knowledge consists of three components.

One is God (goal), the second is the soul (traveler) and the third is the path to please God. These three items (Triputi) forms the whole structure of knowledge. The soul cannot get the grace of the Lord unless the three components are perfectly realized. In miracle, you have understood only about the existence of unimaginable God, who can never be worshipped or served. Therefore, the real form of God is also not known even in that one component known by miracle.

The knowledge gives the real form of God as human incarnation. By the knowledge you can know that your self is not God already. By the knowledge only you can know that the practical sacrifice is only path to please the God. Therefore the miracle is useful to just enlighten one aspect of one component (God) only. For atheists only these miracles are necessary who do not believe even in the basic existence of God.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

 

[Liberian]

DattaSwami,

Knowledge is indeed more important than miracles, but more important than both is love. We do not need formal knowledge that we have been taught if we have a properly-formed conscience and a burning love for God.

In Christianity, God invites us to move beyond knowledge to faith. He has revealed certain things to us about Himself and about ourselves and invites us to accept them. Understanding (knowledge) is good, but it is incomplete; at some point we must look up from our studies and say “God, I do not understand all that You are telling me, but I trust You.”

• Liberian

 

[dattaswami]

DattaSwami,

Knowledge is indeed more important than miracles, but more important than both is love. We do not need formal knowledge that we have been taught if we have a properly-formed conscience and a burning love for God.

In Christianity, God invites us to move beyond knowledge to faith. He has revealed certain things to us about Himself and about ourselves and invites us to accept them. Understanding (knowledge) is good, but it is incomplete; at some point we must look up from our studies and say “God, I do not understand all that You are telling me, but I trust You.”

• Liberian

Thank you Liberian for your nice reply;

God is unimaginable, uncomprehendable and beyond logic. The creation is the imagination of the Lord. 1%(qualitatively) of His imagination was converted into ‘pure awareness’ and does not contain God and 100% of this pureawarness has become the universe. Thus God does not exist in the creation. The creator is above creation and is unaffected by it.

The aim of the creation was the entertainment of Lord. God enters the creation through the finest item of the creation, i.e. human being. He enters the human body for giving His presence to the world. By doing so, He is not modified into that human body or soul. He is then known as 'Human Incarnation". He gives the facility of touch, talk and seeing to His dearest devotees who really wished to serve Him. Only His devotees identify Him rest all will mock Him seeing His human body.

The identification mark of Lord in Human form is the ‘True Divine Knowledge’, which removes our ignorance without any trace. He also does miracles whenever there is an urgency, and not for ‘crowd pulling’ or ‘show’. He Himself is the founder of the rules of nature. By doing miracles He is violating His own rules, it is a violation of His own administration, thus He performs miracles whenever there is a great necessity. He should be identified by His divine knowledge.

God comes in every human generation in human form for the upliftment of Souls.

 

[Liberian]

Dattaswami,

You are very welcome. I appreciate your post, but I must disagree with some of it. It contains a deep mixture of truth and error.

God is indeed unimaginable, uncomprehendable (incomprehensible is a more common word), and beyond logic. I do not know whether “the creation is the imagination of the Lord,” but I think that is consistent with Catholic teaching. Certainly the creation exists outside of God and God exists outside of the creation, “above creation and unaffected by it,” as you say.

The Catholic Church teaches that God created us in order to love us. This differs from “the entertainment of the Lord;” entertainment is much shallower and more trivial.

God has entered His creation as a human being, once and once only, in the Person of Jesus Christ. He does not enter the creation again and again. He came once, to redeem us after we had rebelled against Him and fallen into Sin.

• Liberian

 

[corvidae]

I would add that God should not be above reason, or else we could not even talk about him. Isn’t that what Pope Benedicts speech was on, Reason and God.

We must be able to know certain things about God, or else we have absolutely no way of talking about God.

A lone Raven