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and forgetting everything else : and you will repeat his name forgetting everything else. While you are performing that japa you will become eager to have a darshan of his holy face. Keeping away all the impediments of the body, wearing washed and clean clothes, you will go to the temple of the Paramatma. But you may say "Where is Paramatma in that temple? In the temple, there is only the stone-idol of the Paramatma". Of course, in the temple, there is only the stone-idol of the Paramatma but those who are mad after the Paramatma visualize him even in that stone-image. The desire of the moth for the star; of the night for the morrow, animates their souls and in their mad hunger for eternity, they visualize heaven in a grain of sand and eternity in a moment. The mad lovers of the Paramatma see him even in that stone-image! This is familiarity bred by love, and an introduction to love. Sri Rama visualizes Lakshman in his corpse.. According to the Jain Ramayan, Sri Rama carried about the dead body of Lakshman on his shoulders in Ayodhya for six months. What was that? That was Sri Rama's love for Lakshman. Love can see life even in an inanimate object; To a person who is devoid of love even a living being appears to be inert. The lovers of the Paramatma, who can see the Paramatma in a stone, can visualize in a mere jiva, the soul that is the very embodiment of Sachchidanand (Truth, Goodness and Beauty), or the Supreme Reality. That stone, which assumes the form of the Paramatma, becomes worthy of being worshipped and adored, in the eyes of the lovers of the Paramatma. Such people, by means of that very image, reach the feet of the Paramatma, float on the waves of devotion, and with their eyes welling with tears of joy; with their hearts thrilled by the grandeur of his face; and with a voice shaken with the sublime emotion of devotion, they meet the Paramatma face to face in their imagination and attain a spiritual communion with him.
Become lovers of the Paramatma and then there will not be any unnecessary arguments or specious reasonings. Those who do not know the meaning of love; and those who have not tasted the sweetness of the nectar of sublime love, get entangled in a tangle of dry logic, dreary arguments and specious reasoning.
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