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The existence of God is realized by indirect knowledge only
   
   The existence of any item is experienced in two ways. In the first way the existence is realized by direct perception. You realize the pot existing on the floor by looking it with your eyes. This is direct knowledge. In the second way the existence realized by indirect inference. You are inferring the existence of fire on the hill by seeing the smoke generated from the fire and surrounding the fire. This is indirect knowledge. In the case of unimaginable God, the existence of God is realized by indirect knowledge only. Observing the unimaginable events generated by God called as miracles, which mainly include the unimaginable knowledge, you are inferring the existence of unimaginable God in a specific human being. Veda says that only the existence of God is realized (Asteetyeea….).

 Such realization is also due to inference only as said in the second Brahma Sutra. The knowledge of existence does not give the knowledge of any characteristic of the item. Even this knowledge of existence is only through unimaginable event, which shows the existence of unimaginable God. When you see the smoke coming from a far hill, you are inferring the existence of fire on it. Since you have seen the fire already, the word fire itself reveals all the known properties of fire. But in the case of unimaginable God, you have not seen God before and the inference gives only one property of God which is the unimaginable nature only. The word ‘unimaginable’ does not allow even a ray of imagination into it. Hence, God is totally unimaginable as recognized by the unimaginable works of God. Therefore, whenever you say that you have experienced God, it does not mean that you have known anything about God except the existence of God. Existence does not reveal any property of the item unless the item is already known. Thus, the inference also fails in the case of God because God is not known earlier like the fire inferred.
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