God realization is not one undifferentiated mass God is infinite
his realization is of infinite varieties but then how to explain these things so
always the Italians the Scriptures they simplify it compartmentalize it and give
it to us understand ganyo bhakti-yoga okay now I can my intellect in grasp so
to simplify it one has realized the formless and the other has realized the
personal form so Shri Krishna says Arjun they also reach me finally so if that is
the case then which one should we choose
leisure Ditka touristy Shakti Tata he got there do come they have a fear of a
beauty
now Shri Krishna's discouraging Archer from going towards Yong Guk he didn't
say it's wrong he didn't say it will not reach the goal he is simply telling
Arjun it is difficult why is it difficult worship of the formless the
first reason we ourselves have a form we are embodied Souls so we are habituated
to forms we are not Yogi's residing in subtle bodies in some Siddha hush room
in the Himalayas we are ordinary living beings living in the Bay Area of San
Francisco and we all have forms so we have interacted with forms and we have
been habituated to forms see the children when they are crying the mother
shows some chat token gonna look at this the child gets engrossed haha stops
crying so from childhood we have been trained to be attached to attracted to
diverted by forms those are the son scars of our mind our human mind that's
the son scar now that's our starting point we have to accept self-awareness
understanding of the self what are my shortcomings and strengths if somebody
doesn't have self-awareness then that person is not able to judge properly so
what is our self-awareness we are all habituated to forms for such a mind to
be absorbed in the formless is against its nature
whereas for our mind to be attracted to the farm is very natural that is why
there are devotees of the formless but knowingly unknowingly they all
ultimately gravitate to the form or some symbol or something but the foreign
creeps in somehow or the other you all may have heard that famous story this
Swami Vivekanand he in his travels around India he was in Allah and he was
the guest of the Raja of Allah al where is a state in Rajasthan so that Raja was
member of the Arya Samaj very mentally opposed to the personal form of God and
he got into a very acrimonious discussion with Swamiji refusing to
accept that God can have a personal form or we can worship God in the personal
form and even more strongly condemning the utilization of multis or deities in
worship complete rejection but there on the wall of his house was a picture of
the founder of Arya Samaj Swami Diane and Saraswathi so swami vivekanand
walked up to the wall pull down the picture placed it on the ground and
stopped it with his feet the Raja of a lure was indignant what is this how dare
you do such an insulting thing so I mean we make her and said what insulting
thing did I do this is a piece of paper piece of paper it's the picture of my
guru D ha so in that picture you have kept divine sentiments you are not
viewing it as paper you are seeing in that picture the presence of
your guru and that is why you are so annoyed when I place my foot on it so
you are also using symbols although you are so strongly opposed to keeping
deities so invariably the worshipers of the formless also bring in the form
somehow the other in the olden days the gurus of this path they will not even
give direction to the disciple they would speak to the disciple from behind
the curtain so the disciple should not get attached to the form of the Guru so
our mind naturally seeks forms so it makes the process easier for one in this
manner and there are other aspects to it all