Meaning of omnipotence of God

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Meaning of omnipotence of God

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Unimaginable God means omnipotent, who is capable of doing any imaginable or unimaginable work. All impossibilities are possible to Him. He can convert anything into anything. But, He follows the principle of doing meaningful (proper) things only avoiding the meaningless (improper) things even though He is able to do all things. Doing meaningful thing only is also a power since everybody is unable to do meaningful things only. Omnipotence must have this power also and hence He is not doing meaningless things. ‘Not doing meaningless things’ is a special ability and not at all the inability to do all things since He is capable of doing all things by omnipotence. This point of ability to do a meaningful thing and ability to avoid doing meaningless thing is the guiding light for us in the analysis to know what God is actually doing.

If He has not done a meaningless thing, you should not label it as incapability to do all things, which should be labeled as the power of ability to avoid doing meaningless things. As long as this search-light is in your hand, no confusion comes in the spiritual knowledge since control of use of omnipotence for everything you like is achieved. Otherwise, you may say that God is smoking due to His omnipotence since you are a smoker! You must remember that God can avoid the negative health by smoking and that you are incapable of such power. Due to this reason, you should also avoid smoking on seeing Sai Baba smoking.


He is omniscient, due to His unimaginable omnipotence. Omniscience is exceptional knowledge (prajñānam). But being omniscient without being omnipresent, is the greatest unimaginable wonder. Greater the unimaginable nature of an entity, the closer the entity is to the absolute unimaginable God. If God’s Incarnation had been omniscient because He was omnipresent, it would have been less of a wonder.

According to worldly logic, one must be present before something in order to get knowledge of it. So, to have all knowledge (omniscience), one must be present everywhere (omnipresent). If we say that God is omniscient only because of His omnipresence, we are trying to bend God before worldly logic. When it is said in the Gita that the (finite) Son of Vasudeva is everything (infinite), it is said in this effective sense alone (Vāsudevah sarvamiti—Gita). This statement can also be understood in the sense that the whole world is under the control of Vāsudeva, who is the Human Incarnation. Krishna, sitting in Dvārakā, knew that His devotee Draupadī, was being insulted in far away Hastināpuram, due to His omniscience. He protected her while sitting in Dvārakā itself, due to His omnipotence.

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