Catch Him......

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From " How to cultivate love for God " by Ashokananda...

 

So you could go to a temple, but you could also have a shrine

of your own, a chapel where you have installed the object of

your worship. You actually feel the presence of your deity in this

image. And if you say, " That is merely deluding myself. I know

that the image is made of stone or metal or of wood. How can

I think it is God? " Well, you'd better exercise greater wisdom.

Haven't you always said that the God whom you are seeking,

whom you are loving and worshipping exists everywhere? Why

should He not be in this wood or in this metal or in this stone?

You think that the moment you erect something on your alter for

worship - God vacates the place? How could the infinite,

all-pervasive God vacate any place? Don't you see you have

got Him where you want Him? You have got Him by the hair?

He cannot get away from you.

 

 

Commentary:

Very humbling commentary for all of us with our heads in the

clouds -- daydreaming of divinity as Omni- this and Omni- that.....

God with form is a very real tool - perhaps a vital tool for those

of us who are serious about reaching out to the infinite. This

maturity only comes when one is no longer satisfied with

bombastic word play or mental gymnastics...........jay