10 Sep 2021
[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked:- In some Yoga video, I heard that either formless God or God with form present in statues and photos is referred and not God in human form. Please explain this.]
Swami replied:- The reason is that the subject “Applied Economics” is involved in this commercial devotion. If you offer some food to God and if the God is formless or photo or statue, the offered food will remain as it is after offering, which can be taken by the devotee as remains of offering. If God is in human form (Contemporary Human Incarnation) nothing will remain because the human form will eat it completely because the Veda says that not even a trace of food shall remain after eating (Annaṃ na paricakṣīta). The devotee wants that by such offering God shall be pleased as if He has taken the offered food and be grateful to the devotee to help him/her in worldly problems. The same devotee, suppose, goes to a hotel and the server serves the meal plate and offers the meals by moving hands and takes away the meal plate without the devotee eating it and further demands the payment of bill, then only, the devotee will understand the significance of his/her false devotion shown to God. Such devotees belong to prostitution type of devotion in which the prostitute offers theoretical love (wise sentences called Jnaanayoga and emotional songs called Bhakti Yoga) and snatches money from the pockets of customers (like asking practical boons from God)!
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