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(murti) of the Gita (Bhagavad Gita) and made an idol of Gayatri Mata (goddess). They have not left anything alone! You foolish people! Stop making idols of Gayatri Mata. That is a mantra (sacred word), the best of the best mantra. And that mantra has to be recited as a mantra, and not be worshiped in the form of an idol. The Gita is meant for reading, for studying and understanding. But instead of that they have made it into an iconic form (murti), and now they are praying to it. And in worshiping the Gita, they have forgotten about Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna has been left behind, and the icon has replaced him. That is how they have botched things up!
Alas! The entire significance surrounding this has been lost; the meaning became stamped out! It was meant to lift people onto a good path. However, when it goes awry, should you not have to uproot it and discard it? Should you not establish a new foundation?
By installing these symbols, they have suppressed the masses. If they had just left it in a scientific way, as it is, what was wrong with that? Is there anything wrong in it? That they had to bring Brahmaa, Vishnu and Maheshwar into it.
Questioner: But Dada, it is through imagination that they have been installed, and that imagination has perpetuated throughout the years.
Dadashri: And they cannot find the real thing. And so I discovered it, and now I have started presenting it to people.
Therefore, this is just the circumstance (avastha) of the elements (tattva) which people have symbolized in this way. And this was just so that people would not forget. So the way people interpreted it was that it was these three that ran everything. Vishnu runs this, so and so runs this! So how many superiors (uparis) have you placed above you?
Questioner: Three.
