Enduring Questions, Everyday Answers
ON QUESTIONS OF THE SOUL & DAILY LIFE
December 13, 2012
Fill your mind with Me, love Me, worship Me always. Seek Me in your heart, and at last you will be united with Me.
Vedanta is the only religion whose metaphysics have logical sense, since it admits both a multiplicity of gods and a single supreme principle. Vedanta doesn't get mired down in childish debates about whether there is one god or many, whether there's a multiplicity of Things or only a single divine Essence. It admits gods, a supreme God, and something beyond God—the absence of both form and limit, something wherein God Himself takes His divine Essence, something that cannot be described. By not banning all other gods—as did the cult of Aton—Vedanta frees man's true spirituality and allows its creative expression. Above all, each person must find himself in his own way, must explore himself and must know himself inside and out, and must stand on his own two legs. Not by outlawing a person's gods can this be achieved, nor by substituting a father figure as the world's monotheistic religions have done. Only by allowing people to worship their devis, their elephant gods, their dancing and singing divine couples, while at the same time teaching that "where there is One, that One is Me; where there are many, they are all Me. I am the object of all worship, its enjoyer and Lord," can religion hope to achieve anything like what it promises.
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