Who exactly am I , you discuss and debate?!
What does it matter to you who I am?
You are concerned about your goal,
your ideal, your experience, your effort, is it not?
Why then worry about God's Origin,
God's Nature, God's Mystery, God's Miracle?
When you cannot grasp your own basic reality,
why waste time in exploring the essence of Godhead?
As a matter of fact, you can understand God
only when you have understood yourself, your own Truth.
The gross can grasp only the gross;
its categories of knowledge can proceed only as far as that.
Fish die when they have to breathe the air above the water.
Children can learn the alphabet only with the help of
boards, slates, pencils and pieces of chalk.
Spiritual aspirants going through
the primers of spirituality need symbols, images and rituals.
You cannot discard Name and Form
until you transmute yourself into
the Nameless and Formless;
just as the fish needed water
and could not come up into the atmosphere,
so long as they did not transmute themselves into land animals,
giving up their aquatic nature.
That is the reason why the Nameless and
Formless has often to assume Name and Form,
and come before humanity with limitations imposed by its own Will,
so that it may be loved, respected, worshipped,
listened to and followed; so that the purpose of humanity may be fulfilled.
divinely sent
