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Lord Buddha says:
A mendicant is one who has no attachment to the world of name and form. He is one who does not grieve for what is not real (asat, the ever changing reality). This is the true mendicant. (Dhammapada, Bhikkhuvaggo)
In the Ramcharitmanasa, Saint Tulsida says:
Name and form are the two obstructions to God.
All of these references from the Upanishads and the texts of the saints, show agreement with the words of the Buddha, not difference.
The Ineffable Divine and Silence
One person may say the true form of God is Nameless (transcending any human definition), a second person may say the true form of God is Soundless (nihshabda; beyond sound) and yet a third may keep silence in regard to the nature of the Divine. Is it logical to simply label the one who keeps silence an atheist? The wise person should reflect on this matter. If you say that the Divine Reality is nameless and then proceed to describe Him, are you not contradicting yourself? How can you describe something which is nameless? In thinking about this example, one might well conclude that the third person, who was
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