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There is no other way to show God directly except this indirect method

   Shankara took formless total lot of cosmic energy as the medium of God. Ramanuja took the same cosmic energy in a limited human form called as Narayana as the medium of God. Madhva took the materialized energetic human form like Rama or Krishna as the medium of God. In all the three cases, the medium is only differing but the charging unimaginable God is one and the same. In no case, the actual unimaginable God is touched directly. There is no other way to show God directly except this indirect method of showing God through some imaginable or perceivable medium.

 If you understand this, there is no difference between Shanakara, Ramanuja and Madhva. The difference is only in the media selected by them depending on the psychological nature of the then existing followers. At the time of Shankara, the public was full of atheism. They will not believe even in the existence of God and to introduce the human incarnation as God is beyond imagination. They believed only in the existence of this cosmic world.


If you take the world as God, which is seen by the eyes, the purpose of indicating God beyond this world will not be served. Therefore, Shankara selected the formless unseen cosmic energy as God, which is beyond the perceivable world and at the same time is a part of the world itself. The cosmic energy is the first manifestation as space, which is called as Shunyam. The word Shunyam does not mean nothing because even the space or vacuum is the most subtle form of cosmic energy and is something and not nothing. Buddhists took this vacuum as nothing and the vacuum is something called as Akasha. Even the vacuum is perceived by senses and cannot be the unimaginable God, who cannot be perceived by senses, mind and even intelligence.
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