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What is this?

Why Sakar?

in Vachanamrut Gadhadā I-40, Shriji Maharaj

defines “upāsanā” almost entirely in terms of

understanding Parabrahman as having a form: “Upāsanā can be defined as having a firm conviction that God eternally possesses a form.”

DEVELOPING LOVE FOR GOD THROUGH SĀKĀR NISHTĀ

Shriji Maharaj explains in Vachanamrut Gadhadā I-68 that God has

given us eight types of murtis for worship. He explains, “God

himself personally enters those murtis and resides within them. A

devotee of God who worships those murtis should maintain the

same respect for them as he does for the manifest form of God.”

GOD’S DIVINE FORM

In Vachanamrut Panchālā 4, he further states that the divine form of God “is not like any form that can be seen by the eyes. His sound is not like any sound that can be heard by the ears. His touch is not like any touch that can be felt by the skin. His smell is not like any smell that can be smelt by the nose. The tongue cannot describe that God.”

Moreover, the Upanishads proclaim that Parabrahman is both

“smaller than a grain of rice” and equally “larger than the earth,

larger than the intermediate region, larger than the sky, larger

than these worlds.”

GOD’S HUMAN-SHAPED FORM

in Gadhadā II-13, where Shriji Maharaj describes the “extremely

luminous form of Bhagwan” present within the “extremely

luminous divine light” of his abode. He expounds, “The form [of

God] is dark, but due to the intensity of the light, it appears to be

rather fair, not dark. The form has two arms and two legs, not four,

eight or a thousand arms; and its appearance is very captivating.

The form is extremely serene. It appears like a human in shape andis youthful. Sometimes that form in the divine light is seen

standing, sometimes sitting, and at other times, it is seen walking

around.”

Is that how God looks like?

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