Vivekananda Mailing List-1/30/04

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To conceive God as mighty, majestic, and glorious, as the Lord of the

universe, or as the God of gods, the lover says he does not care. It is

to avoid this association with God of the fear-creating sense of power

that he worships God as his own child. The mother and the father are

not moved by awe in relation to the child; they cannot have any

reverence for the child. They cannot think of asking any favour from

the child. The child's position is always that of the receiver, and out

of love for the child the parents will give up their bodies a hundred

times over. A thousand lives they will sacrifice for that one child of

theirs, and, therefore, God is loved as a child.