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the human brute who has no religion, and the Paramahamsa, who has risen beyond all the weaknesses of humanity, and has transcended the limits of his own human nature. To him all nature has become his own Self. He alone can worship God as He is. Here too, as in all other cases, the two extremes meet. The extreme of ignorance and the other extreme of knowledge-neither of these go through acts of worship. The human brute does not worship because of his ignorance, and the Jivanmuktas (free souls) do not worship because they have realised God in themselves. Being between these two poles of existence, if any one tells you that he is not going to worship God as man, take kindly care of that man; he is, not to use any harsher term, an irresponsible talker; his religion is for unsound and empty brains.
God understands human failings and becomes man to do good to humanity. यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्य त्यानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्॥ परिवाचाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुक ताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे।
“Whenever virtue subsides and wickedness prevails I manifest Myself. To establish virtue, to destroy evil, to save the good I come from Yuga to Yuga.” waliofan H1 461 Higat ngHIGH I i Taastraat HH AHEITH I -"Fools deride Me who have assumed the human form, without knowing My real nature as the Lord of the universe." Such is Sri Krishna's declaration in the Gita on incarnation. "When a huge tidal wave comes,” says Bhagavan Sri
