The Human Need for an Object to Venerate and to Be Guided By in the Spiritual Path
For the vast majority of individuals, the idea of confronting the vast consciousness without any disce able or identifiable form is overwhelming. Anything that is undefined or unlimited breeds discomfort and fear in our being. in the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna is confronted with a vision of the Divine in a vast, all-powerful form, far beyond what he was prepared to handle. He begged Sri Krishna to return to his normal ‘four-armed’ form and to shower grace upon him. Few are those who can confront the larger forms of the universal creation, much less the vast, formless reality.
Primary topic: Spiritual Growth
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