How can worshipping and adoring a limited form or object help us gain grace from the Lord who is beyond all limits? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today.
Many people slander image worship, but its basis is really one’s capacity to see the macrocosm in the microcosm. The value of image worship is testified by experience; it doesn’t depend on one’s imaginative faculty.
What is found in the form of the Lord (Virat-swarupa) is also found, undiminished and unalloyed, in the image form (swarupa). Images serve the same purpose as metaphors and similes in poetry. They illustrate, amplify, and clarify. Joy comes not through the shape of things but through the relationship established. Not any child but her child makes the mother happy. So also with each one and with all things.
With each and everything in the universe, if one establishes that kinship, that Godly love (Iswara Prema), then truly an overpowering joy can be experienced! Only those who have felt it can understand!
– Ch 20, Prema Vahini.
