(Posted on Facebook the day before
Eid)
Eid Mubarak, friends! I thought since it is Eid tomorrow, I would share
this comment by no less a person than Swami Vivekananda on idol worship.
#. We may worship anything by seeing God in it, if we can forget the idol and see God there. We just not project any image upon God. But we may fill any image with that Life which is God. Only forget the image, and you are right enough---for "out of Him comes everything". He is everything. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God.
Here's one link. In his books, though, Swamiji has also quoted from sciptures too, to tell people that these ideas too, are very ancient and are even found in the Upanishads.
http://greenmesg.org/swami_vivekananda_sayings_quotes/religion-oncept_of_image_worship.php
#. We may worship anything by seeing God in it, if we can forget the idol and see God there. We just not project any image upon God. But we may fill any image with that Life which is God. Only forget the image, and you are right enough---for "out of Him comes everything". He is everything. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God.
Here's one link. In his books, though, Swamiji has also quoted from sciptures too, to tell people that these ideas too, are very ancient and are even found in the Upanishads.
http://greenmesg.org/swami_vivekananda_sayings_quotes/religion-oncept_of_image_worship.php
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