Speaking With Perfect Knowledge

It is often thought by those who not self-realized that since we cannot see the form of God He must not have a form and that because we have a form we have imagined that He also has a form. This is like our friend Dr. Frog who had never experienced a body of water bigger than his well and therefore concluded that his well was the biggest body of water in the entire world. When our knowledge is limited we should take help from those who have greater knowledge. The great acaryas such as Lord Brahma have personally seen God and have very nicely shared with us what they have experienced. If we take advantage of their knowledge, we will easily become knowledgable. A little boy may not understand mathematics. But when his father tells him that two plus two equals four and he repeats it, he is speaking perfect knowledge. Similarly, if we hear from the great acaryas what the form of God looks like and we repeat that description, we are speaking with perfect knowledge.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Imaginary Forms of God

If it is wrong to portray God as an old man, why would it be justifiable to picture Him as a boy? Surely these are only anthropomorphic images which only serve to appease our need for 'seeing is believing' and further our worship of youth. Was youth not once described as being 'wasted on the young'?

Your comments will be most appreciated.

Andrew

Answer: God's Form is Not Imaginary

Thank you very much for revealing your mind to me regarding the "God as an old man"-"God as an eternal youth" controversy.

Actually in this connection, there is no controversy. The form of God is not an anthropomorphic concoction. In other words, it is not that we concoct a form of God according to our imagination. The actual reality is just the opposite. It is theomorphic. In other words we humans have gotten a form fashioned after the original form, the form of God. Since God has two arms, two legs, etc, we also have forms with two arms, two legs, etc. Krishna is not depicted as a youth because we are worshipping youth. He is presented in this way because this is His actual form. He is factually an eternal youth who never ages past sixteen to twenty years. It is confirmed both in the Bible and in the Vedic wisdom that we have gotten forms after the form of God. It is not that we have imagined Him to have a form like ours.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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