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Aptavani-8
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Dadashri: “By relative viewpoint”, God has a form (sakaari), and "by real viewpoint”, God is formless (nirakari).
Questioner: Where do we go to learn this beyond-theworld (alaukik) language?
Dadashri: You learn it right here!
Your name is Chandubhai, even when you were little, it was Chandubhai, and after you got married, is it still not Chandubhai?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Then whose husband did you become? Based on what? Were you a husband before?
Questioner: No, I was not before.
Dadashri: But are you not one and the same? That is exactly what I am saying, that when you meet a nimit (a person instrumental in an event), it is because of that relationship that you are called husband. This is relative talk. That is how God becomes with form (sakaar), on account of this relationship; whereas without any relationship, God is formless (nirakari).
So if you want to worship the formless God and if you want to know the formless, then you should go to a God that has form. The formless God is not visible to the eyes, and you will not be able to understand him with your intellect (buddhi). There is no way that you will be able to understand the formless, but you should go to the God that has form, in whom the formless God is manifest.
Here amongst humans, whom can you consider God in human form? The Gnani Purush! In whose human form is manifest the flawless and the formless? He is called the manifest God (sakaar Bhagwan)!
Questioner: But if I want to imagine the Atma's form, how should I imagine it?
