As you go
nearer to God you see less and less of
His
upadhis, His attributes. A devotee at first may
see the
Deity as the ten-armed Divine Mother;
when he
goes nearer, he sees her possessed of six
arms;
still nearer, he sees the Deity as the twoarmed
Gopala.
The nearer he comes to the Deity,
the fewer
attributes he 5-ees. At last, when he
comes into
the presence of (he Deity, he sees only
Light
without any attribute, Listen a little to the
Vedantic
reasoning. A magician came to a king to
show his
magic. When the magician moved away a
little,
the king saw a rider on horse-back
approaching
him. He was brilliantly arrayed and
had
various weapons in his hands. The king and
the
audience began to reason out what was real in
the
phenomenon before them. Evidently the horse
was not
real, nor the robes nor the armours. At last
they found
out beyond the shadow of a doubt that
the rider
alone was there. The significance of this is
that
Brahman alone is real and the world unreal.
Nothing
whatsoever remains if you analyse.
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