Conversations on Spirit Divine - 11

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Disciple: - Swamiji, I am really desirous of what is the purpose of an incarnation is. Is it not enough of we have personal and impersonal God hoods of Brahmaloka for the benefit of the followers of different faiths?

 

Swamiji: - Yes, it is enough, no doubt, for their worship and meditations. In fact, Brahman as the basic principle of all these visible and invisible universes is enough for the worships and meditations of human beings. But people are of different capacities and modes of thinking and, as such, they want various types of Godhoods for their worships and meditations. Some may be devotees and some others well versed in philosophies. Devotees want human touch in their deities for worship. Siva, Vishnu, Kali and others are divinities of a higher order. Devotees may worship them with respect and fear. Rama, Krishna, Ramakrishna and such others are human beings whom devotees can love. They had human aspects in their lives. Some of the incarnations of God were wonderful divine manifestations with divine

glories, while some others were mere ideal personalities. These human personalities are of very great help for aspirants as they find the needed divine power, spirit and determination in them for the practice of meditation. They are best moulds to put our consciousness into, to make it divine. Some aspirants do not need any of these Gods or incarnations as their object of worship or chosen ideal. They select for their meditations other objects such as flame of light or a glittering star of light or anything that is wonderfully shining. Now you can understand that both these sets of personal Gods and other objects also are needed to suit different types of aspirants.