KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2023
Divine in the Form and Formless
Divinity is unmanifest, but man has an innate desire to perceive the divine in
the manifest creation around him. He creates idols, breathes faith into it and
requests divinity to be present in that idol for a while, so that he can
worship, express his love and play with it. At the end of his worship he
requests divinity to go back into his heart from where divinity manifested.
This is in all puja practices.
They are not actually worshipping the idols but worshipping the unmanifest
divinity which has all the divine qualities. So, the idol worshippers of the
East are not the same as the ones in the Middle East as described in the Bible,
because they are not just worshipping different gods and different idols, they
are worshipping the ONE divinity in many different forms.
Paganism, Satan and animal worship, without the knowledge of the one divinity
is very different from seeing the divine in every form of the manifest
universe. In the eastern tradition, gods and goddesses are part of the one
divinity like the different colors of white sunlight, whereas in the Greek
tradition, gods and goddesses are in themselves different entities.
Worshipping Satan and different entities is totally different from worshipping
divinity in its various forms. Every form belongs to the divine. When you adore
the form, you are adoring the divine behind the form. With this knowledge, the
very act of worship, which is more an inner phenomenon, assumes a more colorful
and vibrant expression, indicating that both the form and the formless are all
divine.
II JAI GURUDEVII
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