message 9 (niether with form nor formless

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To Mozox: I read with much interest your explanation of " neither with

form nor formless " , and quite agree with you. This part of your message

was particularly interesting: " I think the problem is that the word

formless often gets misunderstood to mean absolute atributelessness. I

think in the statement " neither with form nor formless " the word formless

refers to a mental concept we have that we use when we think about the

absence of form and in the context of the statement I don't believe the

word formless is meant to indicate Absolute transcendent reality. Anyway,

that’s my opinion. "

One might illustrate this with the analogies which are given in Upanishads:

gold ornaments = the forms;

" gold " = the formless. But gold is always found in lumps. Lump-form is not

true formlessness, if you see what I mean.

Swami Yogeshananda