IN our day to day conversations, we often use words like Ishavara's desire , wish or blessing. So what is Ishvara? The spirit of the universal consciousness differentiates as Ishvara and Pradnya , which govern the causal macrocosm and microcosm So the Ishvara is the cause of everything that we see and experience. We often talk of SAGOON ISHVARA and NIRGOON ISHVARA. The SAGOON means -one which has qualities or GUNAS and NIRGOON means one which has no Qualities or Goonas . We also talk about the SAKAAR ISHVARA AND NIRAKAR ISHVARA. The Sakaar means one which has AKAAR or form AND NIRAKAAR means one which does not have form or AKAAR. As one may recollect that the ultimate consciousness or the spirit has no limitations by DESH - KAAL- VASTU -means Location-time - identity. But when the supreme consciousness becomes Ishvara , it has a form and and qualities and also identity. Is it limited by these - the answer is YES and NO. For us with devotion it has qualities and form . But in reality it is not limited .
So we have SAGOON SAKKAR-Ishvara - like Lord Ganesh or Lord Krishna or any of the forms that devotee conceives. This form is kind and merciful and forgiving and blesses us. We can VISUALISE the form and worship it and also ask for favors and blessing. So it is SAGOON AND SAKAAR. But then we have Ishvara that is in spiritual practice -has no qualities and no form nd so that is NIRGOON - NIRAKAAR. We have one more type of Ishvara - SAGOON - NIRAKAAR. When we say things like 'Ishvara will take care of that , or Ishvara is behind us or will support right cause or our efforts ', we are talking about the spirit or God with qualities of helping devotees or blessing them etc. But that Ishvara has no form - we are not talking about Lord Shankar or Lord Ganesh or Lord Krishna. So in our mind that Ishvara has qualities but no form . So that is SAGOON -NIRAKAAR ISHVARA.
