It is said that God takes the form as per your desire. Does it not mean that He is formless?

[dattaswami]

Bismillah:


Great.. now we've started to be straight and to the point.. thanks for the quotations.


now could you please quote me <b>one verse </b> from the <b>Vedas</b> regarding human incarnation... since am not a Hindu, and i heard that Vedas are <b>the most sacred amongst Hindus scriptures</b>. then i would like to read one verse from vedas talking about human incarnation.


thanks


Wael

A sincere devotee who wish to love Lord is beyond religion, he looks for His divine knowledge only. Unless divine knowledge is known we cannot develope devotion to Lord. For this only Human incarnation preaches about Himself.






<b>THE FOUR GREAT SENTENCES</b>


There are four great sentences (Maha Vakyas) taken from four Vedas. The first sentence is <b>‘Aham Brahma Asmi’</b>
. This means that I am like the Lord externally. That means when the Lord comes in Human form He looks like me. Here the figure of speech is ‘Upama Alankara’ (Simily). One mode of this figure of speech is ‘Lupta Upama Vachaka’ i.e.; the word ‘Like’ will be missing. Then the meaning should be taken in the following manner: ‘Aham’= I ‘Brahma’ = God (‘Iva’ = like) ‘Asmi’ = Look. Now the meaning is: ‘I look like God’ i.e., when God incarnates in human form like Lord Krishna, He just looks like me as far as the external appearance is concerned, because the Lord is also in a human body. Similarly the second sentence is ‘Tat Tvam Asi’. Tvam = You, Tat = God, (Iva = Like), Asi = Look. That means you look like God. This means that Lord Krishna looks like you externally. The third sentence is ‘Ayam Atma Brahma’ i.e., Ayam Atma = He, (Iva = Like), Brahma = God (Asti = looks). This means he looks like God externally. The essence of these three sentences is that Lord Krishna looks like you him and myself when He is viewed externally because the human body is same as any other human body. The fourth sentence is ‘Prajnanam Brahma’. This means Brahma = God, Prajnanam = a scholar with special divine knowledge. The fourth sentence differentiates Lord Krishna (or any human incarnation) from the other human beings because He possesses special divine knowledge, which no body can possess in this world. This sentence relates to the internal form of the human incarnation.


All these four sentences conclude that God comes only in the human form in every human generation to avoid partiality to a particular human generation. T<b>he fourth sentence also indicates that you should recognize such God in human form by His special divine knowledge and not by miracles because miracles are done by demons also. The Lord is said to be the true and infinite knowledge by Veda. </b>
Bhagavathgita says that the Lord comes to this world only through a human body (Manusheem Tanumasritam’). Gita did not mention that God comes in any other form. People have taken the direct meaning of these sentences and thought “I am God, You are God and He is God”. If you take the meaning like that, do you mean that every body in this world is Lord Krishna? If so, Lord Krishna preached Bagavathgita to Lord Krishna (Himself) only because Arjuna is also Lord Krishna!


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami


Anil Antony


www.universal-spirituality.org


Universal Spirituality for World Peace


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