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Radha’s Prem -Swami Sivananda
Scene 3
Act 1
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Murkha Raj: Swamiji, it is getting a bit clear, but I have still some objection to the worship of God in a particular form. Why should we offer flowers, fruits, incense, etc., to the image, when we know that neither the image, nor the Nirakara God behind it is in need of it or makes use of them. This sort of worship does very little credit to the intelligence of our Hindu thinkers. Jnana Dev: My dear friend, you are mistaken in your ideas. The Sakara worship is intended as a training ground and a very necessary one at that for man, for realising the Nirakara Brahman and not for satisfying the needs of the Sakara God or Nirakara God, as you put it. I will illustrate by examples. Please be attentive. Murkha Raj: Carry on, I am all attention. Jnana Dev: Now say...does not the element of water exist in the atmosphere, everywhere in the subtle form? This is physics, pure and simple. Murkha Raj: Yes, Swamiji, it does exist. Jnana Dev: Doesn’t fire exist everywhere—in wood, stone, iron, etc., in a subtle form? Murkha Raj: Yes. Jnana Dev: Does the tree exist in the subtle form in the seed of, say, mango, pineapple, grapes? Murkha Raj: Tree in a seed .......... ? Yes Swamiji, I should say it does; otherwise where does it come from? Jnana Dev: Very well. Now you feel the necessity for water to quench your thirst, or fire to cook your food, fruits to satisfy your hunger, the shade of a tree to rest for a while from the scorching heat of the sun. Please tell me what you will do? |
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