Guest guest Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Disciple: - Swamiji, I am not much impressed by this explanation. You say that it is only for the sake of easy conception that we accept personal Gods with forms. Will you kindly tell me why such a process is necessary? Why should we not meditate upon God without any for as truth eternal? There are various personal Gods with forms like Kali, Vishnu, Siva and others. How could men know what forms they are having? Of course we know that Rama, Krishna and Christ and other incarnations were human beings. I like to hear why these incarnations are to be accepted as objects for our meditations. Swamiji: - It is certainly for easy conception that an aspirant accepts a personal God with form as his ideal. There is another benefit also as I described above. We can love a personality much more than a principle. Our mind will find it easy to be ever in communion with such a personality with divine qualities. The object of meditation is meant for putting our consciousness into a state of divinity as represented by that object or chosen ideal. In meditation we try to get ourselves absorbed in our object of meditation and thereby attain the state of that object. Now it is clear that a personality is better object for our meditation as it is easy for us to fix our mind and to concentrate and meditate upon as our beloved ideal. If we accept incarnations or any divine personalities as our chosen ideal, there will be facilities to conceive them as our own. Personal Gods such as Siva, Vishnu and others are divine manifestations indeed. But they are beyond our conception as they are described all pervading and at the same time personified in certain forms. These forms are conceived as described by divine powers, who are said to be the divinities, who revealed all Vedas and Upanishads. After hearing from them, sages meditated upon those forms and got realizations. Thus you will see that they are of divine origin and they can be meditated upon by aspirants who are devoted to them. The difficulty in conceiving them lies in their super human nature. Finding that difficulty, ancient sages introduced a system of worship of divine incarnations. These incarnations are human beings although they are manifested from the divine power, whom we call God. These incarnations are not born with accumulated effects of past actions and they are wonderfully divine. Such divinities are our ideals and they are the best moulds to shape our consciousness as divine. You want to know if we can meditate upon the highest principle as truth eternal. It is possible only after passing through a course of meditation on some objects with forms. Meditation on objects without forms as Eternal truth is indeed the highest and most difficult. Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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