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( 139 ) in their hands or holding it over their heads. The Musalmans respect their Kurân very much. As a matter of fact these books are nothing else than paper and ink. But in order to recollect the knowledge of God, the murti (form) of letters is made by persons with their own hands and they are respected. As people understand the knowledge of God with the help of those letters which have been written by them, similarly with the help of idols the form of God who attained liberation while living in the world is apprehended.
The maps of countries are drawn on small and large sized papers and the teachers point to their pupils in those maps saying, “Look here, this is Italy, this is Russia, this is America, this is India etc." The pupils do not believe that the very place upon which their teacher kept a finger is Italy or Russia etc. But these maps help them to understand the real countries Italy, Russia etc. Similarly we also do not believe that an
