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such splendour to Yogishwar Anandghanji with the result that he began dancing with delight and a song of glarification sprang from his lips just as buds and flowers appear on plants and trees. He said, "Oh sublime Jineshwar! I have seen your eyes today and I am seeing them and I will continue to see them throughout my life; yet I have no satisfaction. Your eyes are overflowing with the nectar of sublime peace. Enough. I keep drinking it to my heart's content."
You know Anandghanji was a yogi. It is natural that a yogi should love the sublime yogi, the Paramatma. Only a yogi can read the eyes of a sublime yogi and can probe the mysteries of the eyes of the supreme yogi. How can a bhogi (a man of the mundane world) have any intimacy with the Supreme Yogi? Yes. You must become yogis if you want to bind yourselves with love to the supreme yogi. A man of the world may not like a yogi. The man who likes a yogi cannot be a man of the world. His heart will not relish worldly enjoyments. There are some Shravaks, who are bhogis with respect to their bodies but yogis in their minds. Those who walk on the path of the Paramatma are yogis. Do not be afraid of the word yogi. You understand the meaning of the word, yoga, then the fear will disappear from your mind. Those who love salvation and who pursue the path of salvation are called yogis. Tell me whether you like to be such yogis. Seeing the Paramatma and glorifying him are such yogas. Seeing the Paramatma and glorifying him will put you in contact with the principles of the Paramatma. You must forget yourself when you are seeing the Paramatma and you should experience an emotional ectasy when you glorify the Paramatma. Love and devotion bring about an absolute ectasy in the devotee and he becomes immersed in his devotion for the Paramatma. What do you like an image to be? Do you want it to be beautiful or miraculous ?
Question: If the idol of the Paramatma is attractive and beautiful, we become quickly absorbed in it. Why is it that the idols of the Paramatma are not so beautiful and fascinating?
Answer: The idols of the Paramatma must be beautiful and they must be attractive. You are right in thinking so. But
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