Wisdom by
Spiritual leader and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"When you adore the form, you are
adoring the divine behind the form." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Divinity is
unmanifest, but man has an innate desire to perceive the divine in the manifest
creation around him. He creates idols, breathes faith into it and requests
divinity to be present in that idol for a while, so that he can worship,
express his love and play with it. At the end of his worship he requests
divinity to go back into his heart from where divinity manifested. This is in
all puja practices.
They are not
actually worshipping the idols but worshipping the unmanifest divinity which
has all the divine qualities. So, the idol worshippers of the East are not the
same as the ones in the Middle East as described in the Bible, because they are
not just worshipping different gods and different idols, they are worshipping
the ONE divinity in many different forms.
Paganism, Satan and
animal worship, without the knowledge of the one divinity is very different
from seeing the divine in every form of the manifest universe. In the eastern
tradition, gods and goddesses are part of the one divinity like the different
colors of white sunlight, whereas in the Greek tradition, gods and goddesses
are in themselves different entities.
Worshipping Satan
and different entities is totally different from worshipping divinity in its
various forms. Every form belongs to the divine. When you adore the form, you
are adoring the divine behind the form. With this knowledge, the very act of
worship, which is more an inner phenomenon, assumes a more colorful and vibrant
expression, indicating that both the form and the formless are all divine.
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