Form of God, An Illusion ?

 

Me : I don’t believe God has a form.  

Voice : True 

Me : I think most of the idols and images are from people’s imagination. Are they even real forms of Divinity ? 

Voice : How can anything in duality be real ?  

Me : Then why would the world pray to forms of Jesus, Ganesha, Krishna, Durga, Buddha, Mahavir, Zeus, etc ?

Voice : Tell me, who are you? 

Me : Somit. 

Voice : So as long as you identify your own form as Somit, you will identify yourself externally with forms and God becomes one of them. 

Just as your form is not your real identity, in the same way the various forms of God are not real. The form of God as you know, is an illusion.    

But, the form of God will be real to people, as long as their own form is real to them. 

Me : Then, why do Spiritual Masters not actively discourage attachment to forms? 

Voice : Because of your own identification with falsehood, finite, separative and limited existence, you have a reference point for God through a form. This reference is the start of a divine journey for a soul from finite to infinite, from separateness to oneness, from the form to the formless.

Divine Forms represent incarnations of love in the gross world. Thus, to ignite and propel love within people, there is an object of love for mankind to express devotion and longing. God is formless, but because of your own existence in duality, a human form of God brings relatedness, instead of an abstract understanding of the presence of divine love. 

God is pure love and when you hold His form in your heart, you ignite your entire being with the same love. And, what you hold in your thoughts deeply, is who you become. The very simplicity of gaining Illumination, seems to have become it's own impediment.     

 

Remember, the form is God but God is not the form.